... THURSDAY, JUNE 9.—(Concluded from our last.)-Lord John Russell then proceeded to review in detail the amend- ments of the Lords. He said, that while the bill of the House of Lords professed to abolish and put an end to corporations, great care had been taken in it to preserve for their natural lives all the old officers of the corporations in their respective places. Thus the Lords' bill was, ...

... division, arose on the subject of the Metropolitan Suspension Bridge. The majority for the further consideration of the report was 79. Mr. Gully begged to call the attention of the house to a subject that had occurred some time since with respect to the challenge thrown out by the hon. member for Dublin to the hon. and learned member for Bradfoid. He accused the hon. member of having paid £20 ...

... TUB&BAY, MAY 31.—Mr. Hope moved the Gloucester 'Watef Bill. Bill passed. IRISH MUNICIPAL REFORM. The Attorney-General presented a petition signed in a few hours by 12,000 persons living in Edinburgh, praying the house to extend to the people of Ireland the same privileges enjoyed in municipal affairs by the people of England and Scotland. Mr. Robinson presented a petition from a meeting held ...

... On entering the House of Commons on nesday night, after Lord Melbourne's trial had con- eluded, the Attorney General was loudly cheered by the Ministerial Benches! Oh! shame, where i* thy blush, HOYAL ASSENT.—'The Royal Assmt was give by commission, in the House of Lords, on Tuesday, to 39 public and private Bills, amongst which arc the follow ing:-rije Bishopric of Durham Bill; the ...

... RAILWAY MEMORANDA. The Thames Haven Railway and Dock Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons on Thursday se'imight. The London and Croydon Railway JBill passed the House of Commons on Fi-idav se'tiiiimlil, as (ii(i the Leith Harbour Railway Bill. M. Iobaid, of Brussels,'has discovered a hitherto unnoticed power in steam as a motive force, by the use of which the expensive machinery ...

... Wc have received the following particulars relative to the destructive tire that, has ravaged the beautiful cathedral of Cnarlres The fire, which is attributed to the negl geOce of two plumbers, who mutually accuse each other, began at half-past six on Saturday evening, in the timber-wharf, at the junction of one of the arms of the; cross formed by the sides of the nave. The tocsin was ...

... THE IRON MOUNTAIN. Mr Featherstonehough, in his report upon the mineral and geological character of certain parts ot \!issouri and Arkan-» ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, as William Evan, a Pembrokeshire labouter, was walking up the Pennydarran inclined plane, by the side of the tram waggon, the wheel en- tangled in his trowsers, and he was dragged under the car- riage— his leg was broken in two places, and was amputated the same evening by Mr. Russell.—Merthyr Guardian. GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.— I he firemen employed at the ...

... THE QUEEN'S DRAWING, ROOM.—Her Majesty's Drawing Room on Thursday, was the last that will be held this season. It was very numerously attended: i the dresses were splendid in the extreme.—The King was attended by the Great Officers of State and the | Officers of the Household. Lord Lilford was fhe Lord in Waiting, and Sir Joseph Whateley the Groom in Waiting.—The Duchess of Kent came in State, ...

... The Quotidienne mentions the discovery at Rome of an infernal machine, which was to be conveyed to France, with a view to making another attempt on Louis Phi- lippe's life. According to the report several of the agents of the French police have been dispatched beyond the Alps to ascertain what truth there may be in the iufor-$ matlOYi communicated by the Roman gov«rnmeul to the Court of the ...

... The Death of the Old King of Saxony adds one example more to the moral of Thrones. He lived to the great age of 81, without use, and without regret. He has gone to the place where his ancestors so long awaited him. The only marked period of his lingering existence was during the French Invasions. Then he distinguished himself by abject submission to Napoleon, who made him a King that he might ...

... Forgigt 3Inteiligellre. S PA IN. er Upon the subject of Spain the 'aitecr or Sun- is day contains the following Bulletin :- Advires lit from Vittoria, dated I ith instant, state that Gen. ty Santiago Mendez Vigo, appointed Minister of e- War, had left on the preceding dlay for Madrid. Cordova waited his arrival in that capital, and 1 a-was to ltave set out for his command on the 16th.X a. A ...