... [-7RoM OUR OWN REPORTERS.J Thursday evening a meeting of the Peace Conference was held in the Corn Exchange, Hanging-ditch, Manchester; Mr. George Wilson occupying the chair. Before commencing the proceedings the secretary read letters of apology for non-aitenrlance at the conference, but expressive of cordial sympathy wilh the movement, from M. Carnot, formerly Minister of Public Instruction ...

... ! We have received by extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, our private correspondence and journals from Bombay to the 1st March; Calcatta, 11)th Feb.; and Hong- Kong, China, 11th Feb. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 BOMBAY, MARbU 1. The news from Burmah is up to the 14th Feb. By the last mail, intelligence of an expedition of boats under Captain Loch, of the Winchester, ...

... [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING. As the spring advances, complaints of the scarcity of labourers are becoming more frequent in some districts, although in general there appears to be a sufficiency of hands when a small advance on the old and very low rate of wages is offered. But the exodus proceeds with such accelerated force, car- rying off such large numbers of the ...

... OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE ON SUNDA YS. Ans adjourned meeting of the working classes in favour of the above object was held yesterday evening at Drury-lane Theatre, when a gnod, but not overflowing, audience was in attendance. Mr. Mayhew, who was to have taken the chair, being absent, Mr. Prideaux, a cabinet-maker, was delegated to tite presidency. Representatives of various classes of ...

... lheABBA TE DE COL under PENANCE TOT11i EDITOR oF Tnts MORNING CHRONICLE. ec St is very probable your Engtiele readers may bave t eard enough about the aroh impostor who was sent to us } fN Itaiy last year, and who, after a series of frauds and w r'ere5, which have already been exposed in-your columns, sros preparing himself, by a course of discipline in the Alps, for the ghostly absolution of ...

... TRIAL TRIP ON THE IMERSEY. The Boomerang screw-propeller, invented by Sir Thomas M i'sitohell, and which was so successfully tried, in May last year, at Sydney, was tested on the Mersey on Tuesday after- noon ; the application being made to the Genova, one of Messrs. MNI'Lean and M'Larty's Mediterranean steamer. The type of Sir Thoumes Mitchell's invention is, as our readers are aware, the ...

... COURT CIRCUL.AR, WINDSOR, JAN. 25. |There was -no addition to the Royal dinner party yeq. d His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended hy Cold^¢ the Hon. C. B. Phipps anm Lientenant.Culole, p . P ey moar, left Windsor this morning by a special train oft South-Western Railway for London, and returned I the Castle at ten minutes before three o'clock, o b His Royal Highness Prince Albert ...

... i At the meetiog of the society held last night, Dr. GlaY, V.P., in the chair, the Secretary read a letter from Mr. L. Frazer, her 3lojesty's Vice-Consul at Whidah, written fronf Clarence, Fernando Po, and addressed to Dlr. Cuming. It contained some noticeof the existence of a ?? antcts animal in the interior, called by the natives Tasp-parl )o l)r whiclh is supposed by them to be a chimpanzee ...

... THE COLLISION ON T.HE GREA T -NORTRBR, RAIL WVA Y. A visit yesterday to the scene of the fearful collision which occurred on the preceding evening at the Hornsey station of the Great North-er Railway enables us to narrate with souse degree of.accuracy the whole of the attendant circumstances. The down express train leaves the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, at King's-cross, every ...

... RAIL WA YS. *KOBTH BETR1OPLITAV.'| SieX~rst' eherl aijeetiisiof ?? and sb-alreholders of~tlit~cv'cpay~ii which'htas-for its obkect':tlie bons'rwution I of a subterranean line of railway through the very heart and about the environs of London, was held yesterday at the board-goo*n4 7; Parliaroent-street, it pursu naida of',the act *O'arlihdnent recently passed to hncbrieate eto'ofany .rt ...

... DUBLIN, SATURDAY. it appears, by the return of the Irish banks, for the four weeks ending on the 9th instant, that there has been a considerable decrease in the note circu- lation to the extent of £192,540, whilst the coin held by those establishments has increased to the' amount of £30,764, as compared with the return for the previous month. This decrease in the issues of the banks is, ...

... REPRESENTA TION OF GLASGO W. On Monday evening, Mr. John M'Gregor, M.P., one of the representatives of this city, met his constituents in the City Hall, for the purpose of giving an account of his proceedings in Parliament, in fulfilment of a promise made to that effect at the late election. Bailie Macgregor pre- sided. Mr. MIGREGoR, M.P., who was received with much cheering, said he ...