... A SHORT-TIME BiTL FOR COLLIERS. .At4CHESTER, MAr 9. -if used to be a favourite matxim with free traders-, Get the monopoly of the landowners removed, and they willbe the first to go with you against other mono- polieF. The advocates of a restriction on the hours of lc- ?e au6re acting upon a dialar pelicy; they have all but got ?? complete ten hours bill, and they expeet-that, the measure ...

... ABERDEElN. An adjourned opecial meeting of thle company took place at Rdley's llotel, Bridgest-eeet, Blaekftriars on Wtd.*. nlesay, toneeivs the report of the commnittee eppo~id~,t . tbe meoting held on the 25th ult., for investigating the affairs of the comipanw. Mr. PaurY ia the chair,. . Mlr. WVILSO iN ?? it it w ile that Colonel Fruer had resigned his s; at the boara ?: The HI~RMAN said a ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THE CASE OF MR RYLAND.-The Duke of ARGYLL brought forward the case of Air Ryland, late clerk of the executive council of Can ada, and concluded by meovig resolutions ii favour of tlse acknowledgment of M~r Rylaed's ?? GREY moved the previous ?? Ryland's claims were supported by Lords Stasley, Brougharm, and 61 enelg; Earl Grauville being the only other speaker on the government ...

... IIPfUUAiL PARLIAM ENT. HOUSE OF CoMMDONS.-~TIURSDAS- iai petitions were presenrted agairirst Sunday labour in tile rsrii pol st-olice by, lord H-othaln, frorn the East Riding of York ole shire ;by Mr. Chiristo)llicr, from Lincolnsehire ;by tlie Alcock, fromt Senostl . Towvn ,and Wrrndsworth ;by Lor-d s0p Gaiwnv, from tire Pairish of Grove, in tila huiidred of Bia.'vt- ?? law ;'by Lord Marich, ...

... P1RIiVTEJS' PENSION SOCIETY. The anniversary festival of this valuable society, which has for its object the relief of aged and infirm printers and their w-idows, wms yesterday held at the London Tavern ; Mr. Frederick Peel, M.P., in the chair. The cloth leaving been removed, after an excellent dinner, The Queen, Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family were ...

... LONDON: M ONDAY, Al Y 13, 1860. The late intelligence from Athens will have been received with a satisfaction only alloyed by the dis- agreeable reminiscences which must always hang over this episode in the history of the foreign policy of Great Britain. We have had to wade through a good deal of mire-but, thank Heaven I we are out of it at last. Neither are we quite insensible to the ...

... ve VONDON: 9- IVEDYU2.SDA, ASSAY 8, 1850. so e- o In. the HOUSE of LonDS, last night, after the shi presentation of a number of petitions, the Indern- nity Bill was read a third timenand passed, and the tn Process and Practice (Ireland) Bill was reported. of Earl NELSON postponed the second reading of the o Foreign Chaplaincies Bill until after Whitstntbie. s The Marquess of LANSDOWNE ...

... OXFORD, 1MAY 7. The following remarks on the proposed Royal Commission of inquiry into the state of the Universities, have been ex- tensively circulated:- Cuncti se scire fatentur - sed dicere inussant. The Royal Commission announced by the Prime Minister has been already denounced in various quarters on several grounds. 1. As an insidious and ?? attempt to extort, by a kind of moral ...

... FOREIGN -INTELLIGENrEu FRANCE. PARIS, TmURSDAY. The tribunes of the assembly were crowded yesterday at an early hour in expectation of the electoral law. M. Eugene Sue took his seat and was the object of general attention. The hon. member'placed himself on the same bench with Messrs. Vidal and De Flotte, with both of whom he cordially shook hands. M. Sue is a pleasant, jovial-looking, dark ...

... THR NA VY. APPOINTMENTS. Surgeon-James J. Paul M.D. (1845), from the Hydra (6), steam sloop, on the southi-east coast of America station, to the Prometheus steam sloop, commissioned on 9th iust,, at Woolwich. Assistant Surgeon-Charles D. Shepisard (1845), to the Prometheus. Chief Engineer-George Russell, to the Prometheus. Assistant Engineers-George Crichton, William Austin, and Samuel ...

... ThiPElRIA - PARLIAMENT. -4-- - 1i fhOUSE OF LORDS-~MONDAY. t Thle Dl.ke of IBUC LE'UCHI presented petitione- from SC- C Ceral places in Scotland, fo h nioneto h SCo~ttih Foor-law, and against sund~ay labour in thle P'ost-office. Onl the motion of te Erl of CARLISLE, the Procees .,j'practice (Irelaind ) B~ill was mssed tirull ounite Lord BROUJGHAM 1tresented petitionis from Rumford, tl ...

... IBUIUID, GO. OAPTAIN J. E DWAIRDS. A very painhl ItItion was created in the neigh- bourhood of Cae046e es aesB Brighton, early en. gundoy mornirig, by n report, ich untortunately, iroyvc to be N too woll faunded, ?? John Edwarsld (I haljlyved 3 of the 19th REeginat ot Foot), had commietetdsuicide by a cutting his throat. The deceasidw'aA a widower; aboei 8 63 years of age, and the father of ...