... | HOUSE OF LORDS-TIuIsUDAY, APRIL 21. After a conversation respecting the convention lately con- cluded with France for the extradition of criminals, The Earl of ABERDEEN moved that their lordships agree with the Commons in an address to her Majesty, pray- ing that a commission be issued to inquire into the state of the borough of Kingston-upon Hull. The address was agreed to. A conference ...

... . PILOTAGE AMENDMEIINT ACT.. X i!, . , I ?? . . . I. I -: , .. ?? .PETITIONFROMSHOITnVOYAQ]i SHIO4 NE S.: The following petition, praying that short-voyage r. shlpowners may be exeaipt 'from, the pilotage tar, 'and that -vaternmen and others maybe empowcred'to qualify is 'pilota' 3j CE from shipowners of, the city of Loadon, rjpresentipg e either as agen tsor owners at least 300,000 tons of ...

... Ir will be recollected that Lord Derbv, in the House of Lords on ?? night, allowed the Clergy lRe- serves Bill to be read a second time pro jourtit, oin thc condition that he should be at liberty to press an inmportatst amendment in committee, wvichi would have the effect of relidering the bill less objectionable. The committee Was s.nii1one(l for Mondlay nighlt, and( the .illel)(1enlit to ...

... Caledonian stleccury. EDINBURGH, MONDAY, APRIL 25 SECOND EDITION of the MERCURY is published every Mon- clay Afternoon, containing Reports of the London Corn and ittle Markets of that day the state of the Funds and ail other The Second Edition can be intelligence received by Telegraph fe in most instances, te any part of the Countew by the of that Ey Tuts evening the House of Commons proceeds ...

... THE WARLIKE STORES FOUND AT ROTIIERHITHE. ts (Fromi the Globe.) ts Bow Street.-This morning considerable excitement was cre- le ated in this court in Consequence of its being known that William ir Hale and Robert Hale, the supposed proprietors of a house in Deptford How, and Louis 1Kossuth, were to be called up before rs M. Henry, elearged, under the Act of Parliament, with having rockets and ...

... THE WEST INDIES. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.-Thie Royal Mail Com- pany's steam-packet Great Western arrived here this day at one o'clock, under the command of Cap- tain Jellicoe. Her mails and despatches were in charge of Lieutenant Ellerman, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her latest dates ?? Town, March 18; Honduras, 19th; Tobago, 24th; Trinidad, 25th; Demerara, 25th; Grenada, 26th; Jamaica, 27th; Antigua, ...

... [FROM OUR OWN 6oRILESPONDENT.] DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING. The very high prices of laud in the Encumbered Estates Court are attracting sellers such as Earl Fitzwilliam, who are naturally anxious to avail themselves of the opportunity to make arrange- ments respecting portions of their properties. I have learned that the Marquis of Sligo, one of the most extensive proprietors in the western ...

... _ ?? The first Meeting of this Board for the ensuing year was held at the Workhoase on Tuesday last, 24 Guardians present. The meeting was commenced by f the Clerk reading the return of Guardians elected. c The rtturn having been read, Llewelyn Turner, Esq. ' was elected; chairman of the Board for the ensuing I year, and the Rev. D. Jeffreys and John Owen, Esq. l vice chairmen. Mr. Turner ...

... (From tie Daily Atews of Ionday) The portentous announcement with which a contempo- rary frightened the town from its propriety on Friday morning (week), bids fair to occupy from henceforth a prominent place in the history of remarkable Canards. On how small a basis of probabilities the Times built up its story is soon told. On Kossuth's arrival in this country a fr. Hale was introduced to him ...

... THE CHRONICLE. i PRESTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1853. ?? .. w _ THE BUDGET, Mr. Gladstone's address in the House of Commons, on Monday evening, in announcing the position and prospects of the revenue, is one of the grandest financial expositions with which the country has ever been favoured. It is worthy of being placed by the side of Sir Robert Peel's noblest efforts in finance, to which indeed ...

... IBRITISH ASSOCIATION FOP. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. RECEPTION BY H R.H. PRINCE ALBERT OF THE DEPUTATION FROM HULL. ?? Friday last, a deputatian waited upon H.R.H. Prince Albert, at Buckingiant Palace, to invite him to visit this town during the approaching meeting of the B- itish Association for the Advancement of Science. The deputation consisted of Henry Blundell, Esq., mayor of the ...

... POUR BUSY CENTURIES. Really the world i3 not greatly to be blamed for idleness, when we consider that it is, after all, only about four hundred years since the art of printing was invented. The legend of the men of Strasburg, who will have it that their townsman, Johann Mentelin, cut the first types of wood and strung them like beads, side by side, and that Guttenberg was prompted by a ...