... FUNDS FOR FREE PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND IMUSEUMS. The following is a list of sums of 1001. and up- wards, subscribed as a guarantee fund for the Great Exhi- bition, but never required to be expended. These sums are now in the hands of the Surplus Committee, awaiting proper disposal: Metropolis: £ B. d. C£ 6. d. City ?? 24,110 3 6 Guernsey'. 271 19 6 Westminster., 5,381 12 0 Halifax ?? 608 10 3 ...

... DUBLINi, APRIL 3. You were informed yesterday, by electric tele. graph, of the significant fact that Dr. Cullen was placed at the head of the list of three whose naies are to be transmitted to Rome for the selection of a successor to the late Archbishop Murray. The elec- tion took place with all the usual formalities, which were invested on the occasion with the utmost pomp. The sombre ...

... .-ITED STATES. e AELRIVAL OFC1 THE PACIFJC. r A portion of the following appeared in our late a erlltiod yesterday: . . edio ye. a LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, 6 A.M. , The United. States steam suip Paoifie, Capt. Nye, s has:just ari ved, with, thiee days! later.adniees-from e New York; which port she ieft on. the 3rd inst. She c' brnng4104 passengers and 2,0006 dgls. in specie.. a There is,a gain a ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE ORINOCO. pi A portion of the following appeared yesterday in fit our late edition: The Royal West India Mail packet Orinoco, Capt. w Chapman, from the West Indies, &c., arrived at nl Southampton yesterday, and lauded her mails C1 under the charge of Lieut. Geo. Heathcote, R.N., Ad. 9t miralty agent. Her dates ?? Cruz, March CQ 8; Tampico, 6f; Chagres, 11; Carthagcna, 12; Ja- t ...

... i-ii. FE RG S OCO NO A AI F -EAEGUS O'CONN03R AGAIRq. Shortly before M1lr. Beadon, tile sitting magistrate Haminersmitb, left tbe bench on Tuesday afternoo5, atr Dunford, of High-street, Notting-hill, printr ?? I agent, applied to his worship for advice under tile fol5 lowing extraordinary circiuistances:- The applicant stated that Mr. Fearaus O Co inn bad until very recently resided at ottinn ...

... THE DERBY TRIAL AND THE Agriculturistsl. The course which the great National Conserva- tive party is about to adopt at the General Election is perfectly in accordance with the opinions which we have for a long time consistently entertained and advocated. Without concealing tor a moment the disastrous results and dangerous tendencies of the policy misnamed Free Trade; without under- rating ...

... SPIDT OF THE LONDON J)URNALS. I : 1 THE KAFFIR WAR -(F'own the 2'os.) * Apart from the deplorable catastrophe which has given a fresh darkness to the fatality of our South African campaigns,, - the rports from the Cape contain little information of int- rpbrtance, and the progress of affairs is to be gathered rather from incidental allusions than from any circumstancial nar- 3 rative of events ...

... I :FRANCE. PARIs, TUESDAY EvNsiG,.-The Prince do Canino has returned to Paris. Since his return he has had an interview with the Presidtt of tbs Republic, in which be Is said to have reproached 11ri with having failed to uphold the rights of his fanily. The Prince President replied that his cousin was much mistaken if he imagined be would ever put his personal interests, or those of any member ...

... SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNA.LS. The Morning Chronicle, which has been, remarkable for its unvarying and uncompromising hostility to the Derbyite administration, has the following severe comments on the double dealing and insincerity of some of the Protectionist candidates:- it is, we fear, a grave question whether the judgment of ,posterity will-confirm Lord Derby in the possession of ...

... I ROYAL IRIS ACADEMY. I An ordinar sectional meeting of the members of this body was held last evening at the Academy House, Dawson- street, The REv. DR. RoBisoN, President, in the chair. The Secretary read the minutes of the last meeting, which were confirmed, and the new members admitted signed the roll, and took their seats. The Rev. Dr. Todd said he had to present a bronze fibula, found in ...

... I I M On NUFACTURE MOVEMENT. mau onday evening there was a very full meeting of the t members at No. 2, Essex- bridge. Mr. I&THEw COffFEY, leather merchant, of Back-lane, in the chair.- t Mr. Coffey said he felt it a high honour to fill the chair of the Parent Board of Manufacture. That board had-marked out for itself a holy missionu-the organising a system of in- a dustry, which would prop ...

... THE LATE J. DE JEANFRjZER-MEETING AT A numerous and respectably attended meeting of members I . of the institute and other citizens, friends of the late J. De Jean Frazer and admirers of his genius, Assembled lest even- ing at the institution for the purpose of devising means 'of carrying into effect the arrangements already commenced for' 2 the collection of a fund to be applied for the ...