... HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. te The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition frontte distillers of Glasgow, prayringtbepaduonhesm footing as colonial distilr, with respect to allowance for waste of -spirits in store. SPECIAL PLEADING AMNENDIMENT BILL. Lord CAMPBELL moved for leave to bring in a bill toI amend and regulate the rules of special pleading. The judges, at present, possessed the power of ...

... COURT CIRCuLlIR. The Queen and Prince Albert took a drive in an open car- riage and four onl Saturday. The Equerries in saitilig, Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel F, II. Seymour amtlided on horseback. * c His Royal llighlness the Ploinee Albert, attended by Lisut.- Colonel the Hon. C. B. l'hipl,6, presided on Saturday morning at tile Council for tile llianigement of the Duechy of ...

... 0WJJER HAMLETS SANITARY ASSO-1 CIA TION. ,5 A public meeting of the inhabitants of the Tower Hamlets It and others interested in the promotion of Sanitary Reform, was held yesterday evening, at Crosby-hiall, Bishops,, te. street, the Rev. H. Lee, rector of Stepney, ire the chair. *y it was explained by Dr. GAviN,honorary secretary, that the n attendance would have been considerably greater, ...

... The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice, took a drive yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Equerics in Waiting, Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel the iobn. Alexander Gordon, at- tended on horsebacl. His Royal Ilighness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.- Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, rode out on horseback yester- day morning. Their Royal ...

... THE, RAGGED SCHOOL UNION. The annual meeting of the friends and supporters of thie institution was on Tuesday held att Willis's Roomis,King-street, 2 St. James's ; the Right Hon. Lord Ashley in the chair. t On the platform were the Right Hon. the Lord Kinnaird, r- Hon. A. Kinosaird, Hon. P. lByng, Rev. IV. W. Robinson, d Rev. Mr. Osborne, Rev. W. Arthur, Rev. Dr. Cunningham, Messrs. Joseph ...

... THE RO YAL HOSPITALS OF THE CITY. Yesterday the annual reportq were made to the Lord \lanyor from the several floyal Hospitals of tie city of London The following is an abstract. CuIrST'S IHOSPITAL. Children put forth apprentices and discharged from Cllrht s Hospital inl the year last past 199, teu of wihomi, b-~7ug instructed in the ratiteniatics and navigation, were placed forth apprentices ...

... VRLECW OF THE, RaL STEA ML MARGATE, TrJESDAY NroIGT.-The wreck of t1 steamer, and the awful loss of life conscrinent tl lr e ie occasioned a painful degree of excitenser.t hi, thi l0i a l i tellgence of the catastrophe only reach te N I about noon on Sunday last, though the wreck t(,r. eleven o'clock on the preceding night, Within fir 5 of the harbour. It now appears that e a n i tress fired ...

... TEE BRITISH GO VERNMEN T PREPA Y- ISNG TEN B UENOS-XI IEVA AN BONDHOLDERS. To THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sin-In the parliamentary committee on foreign loans, agreed by Mr. Laboucliere to be re-appointed and to sit after Easter, and in all future public meetings or proceedings by the creditors and claimants on the Argentine Republic, the I following points of importance must not be ...

... TI-HE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. -4-- We have received advices from the Cape to the 19th January. The journals brinhg no newvs; they are chiefly occupied with speculatiolns Ol the long- expected despatches from Earl Grey, in reply to the appeal of the colonists. The Cape Tosev Mail of the 19th January says:- ?? It is probable that the vessel bringing the final decision of the British Governiment, or, ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. Lord STANLEY presented a petition fronm St. Peter's, in *be Isle of Thinet, complaining of agricultural distrcss, and praying, among other measures of relief, for the reduction of official salaries. The noble lord remarked that the call now so. lenrally made for rigid pareimoy was not a very btrone fact of the general prosperity which was pro- alis& from the adoption of ...

... POSTUIFFICE. A return brasj ltst been made to an order of ?? the House of Commons, dated the 18th of 1March, 1S80, for copies of any reports or minutes which may have been ad- dressed to the Pos tinaster-General, by either of his secre- taries, or other officers, showing, as regards England and Wales,-lst. The results of the measures recently adopted for the reduction of Sunday labour in the ...

... E n; The following memorial on the subject of the IN. up adulteration of coffee has just been forwarded to it the Lords of the Treasury ; and, from the justness of their complaints and the great respectability of the memorialists, who Comprise all classes interested in the coffee trade, should command attention :- v London, April 16. in Mayit ?? underoignel plaiters, H inmerchants, traders, ...