... - -0 HOUSE OF LORDS.-TnIURSDAY, APRIL 27. The LORD CcANCCELLOR totk his seat at b o'clock. PETITIONS PRESENTED. ADMISSION OF DISSENTERS TO THE UNIVERcSITIES.- By the LORD CIIANCELLOR, from Brentford; in favour of. PnOVISION FOR SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' WivEs.-By Lord ST. LEONARDS, from the Mayor and Corporation of Sunderland; in faveur of. PROSECUTIONS FOR PETTY LARCENY. Lord CAMPBELL inquirtd ...

... A RELIC OF ST. PATRICK IN LONDON. TO THE EDTOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sir,-May I trouble you with the subjoined a letter? which has remained over three weeks unanswered. You ?? manlly errors very powerfully; here is some- thing about which its advocates seem to regard silence as the more prudent course. May I, then, beg of you to assistX me in bringing to light tessee hidden things.-I am, &o.,n ...

... FRENCH PREPARATION FOR WAR. (BY SUBMASJNE AND EvitoPEAN TELEGRAPH.) PARIS, SUNDAY. The Mo!iteur says, 20,078 men and 365 horses have now sailed for the Levant. Tlhe Minister of Marine has received the following telegraphic despatch from Admiral Bruat:-Tou- 1 larch 31, a quarter past two p.m. The troops nave been just embarked; the squadron is now under sail with a north-west wind. The weather ...

... d TO THE EDITOR OP TE :DAILY NEWS. e SIR,-Unless I am much mistaken, Jodseph Lan- caster was the-author of the monitor system.' But l he did not contemplate the extension of monitorial . authority from the' school room tp the play ground, and still less the arming of monitors with, an, atbi- g trary power of inflicting blows. TheE monitors' of a oseph Lancaster lightei ed the labours of the ...

... BALTIC FLEET, APPROAOHING REVEL, AnPRTL 16. A steamer, the Porcupine, hasijust arrived from England with letters for the squadron and de- spatches for the admiral. None of them have been served out as yet. We have been cruising off the Island of Gottland and closed in with the Swedish shore, close to the lighthouse of Landsort, which stands out at Lea. We left Kioge Bay on the 12th. The ...

... GRAMMAR SCHOASTES - rO . - 'VTU O Wu WAt EDITOR OP TR DAIY e SIR,-The attention of parliament ha, again drawn to the subject of grammar schoal5> improper manner in which so many of them ha'ev P ducred, you willU, perhaps, not think a few r Ut timed, which are intended to show, thrt cause of the inefficiency of such tehat t, Ir attributable to the present injudicio a h electing the masters. It ...

... AtKalarash, where the Russians are preparing to me into Bulgaria, the Turks succeeded on the 1st it~ in totally destroying a bridge equipage, which .a Russians had brought up to throw across the a oube. A letter from Bucharest, of the 4th, states ] at the contest which has been going on near iarash ever since the 28th, was not then decided. ner Pacha had set out from Silistria to Rassova, erce ...

... OND ON, S TURDA Y, APRIL I ?? ~ ~ . - Ix the HOUSE of LORDS, last night Lord CLA- a, RENDON, in moving an address to the Queen in al answer to her graeious-nzessage, hoped that nothing fi would occur to shake' the opinion of Etirope in the a' unanimity of this country. He then proceeded to ti discuss the secret correspondence, showing ,the n grounds that it afforded of believing the Czar to be ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WIDDIN, MARCH 17. Perhaps in no other part of the world, at the pre- sent moment,could a greater variety of men ofidifferent nationalities meet in one place. Just now, on a t visit to Sami Pacha, in the Serail, we passed through the gateway, ascended the staircase, and entered the e long hall, illuminated after true Turkish style with ea continuous row of windows, ...

... Yesterday at an inquest held by Mr. Baker, on a Is child who had died under the treatment of a Mr. Johnson, a herbalist, the following curious conversation took place between the coroner and Mr. Johnson: Coroner-I see from the certificate that has been pro- duced that you have a diploma. Where did you get it from ? Witness-From the United States of America. Coroner-I perceive that U. S. is ...

... IARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT IIVSTI. I On Saturday evening the anniversary dinner of e this society took place at the Freemasons' Tavern-the e Right Hou. B. Disraeli, M.P., was in the chair, supported ,f by a very numerous company, most of them connected with s the arts. Among those present we ?? Dufferin, Hon. C. Hardinge, M.P., Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart., Sir Charles Eastlake, ?? Sir W. Ross, ...

... . - - ?? . . Last night a Supplement to the London Gazeffe of Friday was published, containing A PROCLAMATION, FOR A D&Y OF SOLEMN FAST, HUMILrATION, AND PRAYER. BY THE QUEEN. VICTORIA R., We, taking into our most serious consideration thejust nd necessary war in which we are engaged, and putting oar tret in Almighty God that he will graciously bless our armsboth by sea and land, have resolved ...