... .I NON-PAYMENT FOR, A CHILD IN THE REFORMATORY.-On f Saturday last, Mr. Allison, Superintendent of the Borough Police, attended at the judges' lodgings, and produced instruc. tions from the Rev. Sidney Turner, inspector of Reformatories, to rapply for a summons agaist a roan of the name of Robin- r son, residing at Catton, to chow cause why he neglected to pay I the amount ordered hy the ...

... IMplRTAN' RAILWAY CAsSE.-On Tuesday at the Ormnskirk Cntv CourtJ Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes, of Hyde, Cheshire, sued ohn esii, out-door porter at the Southport railway station, fr Xo the value of a box containing dresses, jewellery, ic., wbi clb lad been lost while in his charge. From the evidence it peared that in July last Mrs. Barnes visited Southport, and 2aterher address had been written on ...

... H:OUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY. 2-he Speaker took the chair at one o'clock Mr Ayrton took the oaths and his seat for the Kirkealdy Burghs, in the room of Colonel Ferguson, resigned. The hon. member was introduced by Mr. Brand and Sir W. Dunbar. PRIVATE BILL LEGISLATION.-CoD. WilsON PATrEN, in moving the consideration of thereportoftheseleetcom- mittee for the revision of the standing orders ...

... RUSSIA. The official journal (orteler-a Post) of the 20th -of JuT, publishes a despatch from Dunaburg, a city on the line of railway between St. Petersburg and Warsaw, which an- nounces that a great conflagration, in which more than one hundred houses were burned, took place on the 18th. FRANCE. Paris, Sunday.-The Moniteusr of today publishes a decree suppressing the journal L'O1Uaagais. The ...

... AGL{ICUI1'URE & GARDENING. SOLDIERS' GARDENS.-In the late encampment at ft Chalons, which has been broken up during the past week, ti we learn that the soldiers have been encouraged to rear al and cultivate vegetable gardens all around the camp, on a i w plan tried experimentally on a limited scale s'mo two r( years back. So successful have the preseut arrangements proved that they are to be ...

... | __ _ _ _ - - ir BLACKPOOL. w I = TO THE EDITOR ON THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. c Srn,-1 -Wish to call your attention to the breaehes of the by- E laws at this watering pace. The regutlatiOls; respeetin - bath. e lug without a proper athhig dress aue not stritly eorced, e iand refuse from some Of the Plublic-houses is placed on Athe sands at low water, in such a way as to disgust pasae s. A a word ...

... New Brighton College was destroyed by fire on Monday evening. Prince Napoleon and the Princoss Clotilde arrived at Southampton on Saturday. The death of Mir. J. G. Stapylton Smith, judge of the Lincolnshire county courts, is announced. The colonelcy of a battalion of the 60th Rifles is ren- dered vacant by the death of Lieutenant-General Sir Wm. G. Monre. A lady from Odessa, finding, it is ...

... B>LACKBURN. CLAYTON-LE-DALM-On Monday, a meeting of the inhabitants of Clayton-le-dale unanimously resolved not to odopt the Local Government Act. DEPRAUDING THE RELIEF COMMITTERt-Yesterday, before Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Parkinson, Martha O'Con- nor was summoned for defrauding the Trinity Ward Relief Committee. It was proved that the prisoner bad ropre- sented to Mr. Beaty and others that her ...

... Latest Jitellig-enie. MONETARY. City, Friday.-The stock markets to.day are firm. The funds are quoted at a further improvement of 1.16 to 3 per cent. There is also a slight upward movement 1In En,'ltsh r4lwatys. Shortly before the close of business on the Stock Exchange this afternoon, considerable excitement prevailed on the an. nouncemenut that the arrival of the Persia,* from New York, had ...

... PUBLIC DAY AT THE GRAMMAR 11 SCH4OOL,. On Thursday last, the annual distribution of prizes took place at the Grammuar School. As usual, the Mayor, accom- panied by a number of members of the Corporation, and other entlemen, woent in proossion tothscolpreddbte 'orporat e officials, besringtl aphmlao dignity. On arriving at tho school, thle yanh greedii Worship with a round of hertcheig ...

... HOUSE OF COMDIMONS.-WEDNESDAY, MAY 14. || The Sper her took the chair at five minutes past twelve Svevral petitions were presented against the unconditional aboli tion of church rates. CHi'actr ?? J. S. TPnzLArWNY moved the second reading or his bill for the abolition of church rates. The hen, brronet attributed the result of the division on the third read- lg, last year, to the expectations ...

... RENT NIOIITS.-On Tuesday night last the tenants of J. Peel, Esq., partook of their annual supper at the Poel Arius, Burnloy-road,Aceringtcn. About]100personssat.down. The health of their lasdlord and steward, Mr. John Moore, was given and rceponded to by Ar. Moore. The proceedings were rought to a close soon aiter 12 o'cloek. On Monday night, Mr. William Dewburat's tenants had their annual ...