... knowledge that the army, its composition, condition, and future improvement, have formed the object of ministerial meditations, and that these meditations have already borne fruit in the shape of matured plans of reform, has spread universal satisfaction through the country, and will do so through the empire. What has yet transpired on the subject is limited to the announcements, that a medal ...

... HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Night before Easter. TO-MORROW EVENING, April 4, will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera of NINO. Ninu» (King Assyria), Signor Fonusiiri; hhispc, Sigiinr Corclli; Orotisphc (High Priest of the Temple of Isis), Signor Botclli; Fenena (Daughter of Ninus), Mdlle. Corbari ; \nna (Suiter of Orotasphe), Madame Bellini; Abigail (a Slave, supposed be the eldest ...

... THE EDITOR THE DAILY NEWS. oerreive, in your paper this morning, Sib,- 1 aro Attention to the letter of Mr. Poyndcr, ,h»t In stock, on the subject of the war thc reccss will atfordvou India; « a ' j for t he communications of correspondmore sp** ill allow the favour of adding some en», 1 the same subjcct. ****- draws a parallel between the ware of the Mr. „ awl those of the bast India ...

... OrrLEY, Monday, April 13. A meeting was held in the Court-house at this town, for the purpose of considering which of the intended lines of railway projected the valley of the Wharfe would prove of the greatest advantage to the district. Peter Garnett, Esq., was called to the chair. W. Acroyd, Esq., and John Spence seconded :— That in the opinion of this meeting the interests of the ...

... A number of the Lady Patronesses of the Society for the Protection and employment of Distressed Needlewomen, assembled yesterday afternoon, at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, to receive report of the pr tgress of the Society, and also for some arrangements with reference to the Ball, in aid of the funds, which is to take place Friday next. Lady Brownlow presided, supported by the Countess of ...

... ♦- —■— (From our own Correspondent.) The Emperor of Austria, by a decree dated from Vienna, 13th of \oril, has alx>lished the the service of .. the exaction of labour from tenants during ~*Tq .■ and it is declared that if the tenants deem ■ —i— oppressed by any exaction of their masters, they appf.,l directly to the administration of the district, or imperial authority, without appealing ...

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... HOUSE OF LORDS.—March 2. Their lordships met at five o'clock. RAILWAY BUSINESS. Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition, numerously signed, from I reland, setting forth that a strict adherence the standing orders would tend to impede *jie employment of the people on railways, inasmuch the most trifling inaccuracy in form was sufficient to throw ' jje most important measures back. The petitioners ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—March 10. Their lordships met at five o'clock. The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from Kilboy, in the county of Antrim, from place in the county of > Londonderry, and from hop-growers in the county of Sussex, all in favour of protection to agriculture. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from'thc Marquis of Westmeath, not in his capacity of peer of the realm, hut a ...

... Hoi Commons, Feb. 13. OF TIME. Report from the Committee om Standing Orders that the time for presenting petitions be enlarged in the case of the following bill :— South-Eastern Railway (Chislet to Margate)—referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. BILLS ORDERED TO BE BROrOHT IN. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (Amendment and Branches—No. I).' Report [12th ...

... FRANCE AND ENGLAND. We make no boast of Waterloo; Its name excites no pride in us; We have no hatred of the French, scorn of Yankee or of Russ. The glory that our fathers gained In bloody warfare years agone, And which they talk of o'er their cups, Gives us no joy to think upon. In truth we rather love the French, And think our fathers did them wrong ; And sometimes blush when the streets, ...

... lengthened inquiry, at the Duke of Sussex beer-shop, Cliiton-strcet, Latymcr-road, Shepherd's-bush, on view of the body of John Thomas Francis, aged twenty-three years. The deceased was a carter, l'ving at No. 8, Clifton-street, and had all his life been a healthy man. On Thursday, the 26th of February last, came home between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, and complained to his wife of ...