... Their lordships met at the usual hour last evening. After the presentation of various petitions, a conversation arose as to proceeding with the Irish Coercion Bill in committee in the absence of the Loud Ciiief Juctice, when it was determined to go on with the Bill, and that it should be recommitted on Monday, when the noble and learned lord would be in his place. The Earl of St. Germans, ...

... The subjoined manifesto and decrce appeared & part of our impression of Saturday:— MANIFESTO OF THE CRACOW PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. The Polish nation. Poles! The hour of insurrection has struck—Poland has arisen from her slumber. Already are our brothers of the Grand Posen, of Polish-Russia, and Lithuania arisen, fight for their sacred rights, of which they were tnu torously deprived by force; ...

... on the hearing and application of the principles which had irrrcd the of the law for the Enseignement Miiyen, the Ministry had thought it their duty to offer their resignations to the King the 2nd of this month. But before his Majesty accepted these resignations, requested M. Van de Weyer to form ministry on the basis the ministry of last July, office which he undertook. After long ...

... them all wrong again. The conversation reads as if cut out of some old debate antecedent to the three years'experience. Mr. Goulburn, and Sir George Clerk, and Sir Robert Peel himself, stammered and floundered, and were at last obliged to let their tongues run in the deserted track to which they were so long accustomed. The Protectionist fallacies reappeared from their graves, and occupied ...

... INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.—MARCH 10. SIR JOHN RENNIE, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. George Turnbull, M. Inst. C. E., gave an account of the town of M iddlcsborough-on-Tees, and described the docks and the coal drops used there. The rapid rise of the town into commercial importance was accounted for, chiefly the fact of a branch having been constructed from the Stockton and Darlington Railway ...

... goodly number of credulous persons who resort to him under the idea that he can heal the wounded and restore the sick to health. From a statement in a contemporary prin\ find that he is living in the neighbourhood of Cuektield a house fitted up in a superior style ; and an account given of a visit paid to him by thc writer company with a female relative, who has for some time been afflicted ...

... ordonnance appointing Messrs. Jacques Lefebvre and Francois Delessert, both members of the Chamber of Deputies, Commissioners for the control of the Cuisse d' Amortisscment et des Depots et Consiynations. The bill concerning home-made sugars has passed by a majority of 213 to 19, after a serious debate, which the Minister of Financc objected change being made in what he called the colonial ...

... of Xavier Bichat, the deserved'y well-know .1 French surgeon, shall adorn the walls of the Historical Gallery of Versailles ; and to show how much he appreciates the value of scientitic medical men, he has been pleased confer pension on the aged brother of this celebrated anatomist and surgeon. ...

... Quackery in France. —In a recent lecture delivered Mons. Magcndic, the celebrated French physiologist, on the value of medical treatment, after mentioning various pseudomedical delusions, he observed as follows:— Itis with regret that 1 hav« laid before you this melancholy picture of the deplorable' abuses which exist in the medical world. I am afraid no laws on the practice of medicine will ...

... The Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury are expected to return to town after Easter. The Countess of Lichfield and her daughter will leave London in the course of the ensuing week, to join the Earl at Griifenberg. The Baboo DwarkanauthTagorc returned to London Wednesday night from Paris, and has taken up his abode at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street. He somewhat indisposed from the ...

... SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN M'LEOD, OF THE GREAT LIVERPOOL STEAMER. In second edition of yesterday's Daily News announced the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental Company steam-ship Queen, Captain Russell, Southampton. The account of the melancholy suicide of Captain M'Leod, late of the Great Liverpool steamer, which was so recently wrecked ofF Corunna, is the most interesting feature of the ...

... Lane, Saturday.—The general character of the market for the past week has been dull and, and less than an average amount of business done all articles except Sugar. Our summary stands thus :— Sugar.—4oo hds. West India sold at a slight advance, the quantity offered very small; brown, 455. 6d„ 4s. 6d.; midling, 485., 495.; good, 495. 6d., 515.; fine, 525., Mauritius, 15,000 bags, fold at Is. ...