... ?? - ?? - - ?? -A. Fss~n TAEBLE D'H1OTES, AT FrUNY'S MERCHANTST'DINING MRh ROOIIS, SLATEri-COURT, oil the general fast day, to-morrow tie (Wednesday), the 20th instant. Charge Is. 6d. each, gen commenlcingl at one o'clock. ord Commission signed by the lord-lietitenant, of the county ?? palatine, of Lancaster :-Montalguu Joseph Fielden, Esq,, tot and T. B. iHorsfuli, Esq., M.P., to be deputy ...

... - -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 ...

... 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 ...

... Sir G. H. Seymour, lately our Ambassador at St. Petersburg, was at the Easter dinner this year, given by the Lord Mayor of London, and addressed the CCn, pf.-y2 at some length. On his health being drunk, he said that the compliment belonged rather to the system under which he had been brought up than to himself indivi- dually. That system was a remarkably simple one. It was in fact, nothing ...

... (.From tie Portsronuth Guardian.) In our last we gave details of th. powerful fleets which have been designated for service in the Black Sea and the Baltic.- We dO not suppose it likely that they wvill prove in any degree inadequate for the hot wolk they will have to encounter; but, even suppose they (1o, we have ample material in our home ports to supply their places. From our ships in ...

... :I LABOUR AND WAGME. ~1 M~~~ow ali- D I 6 it so THE PRESTON LOCo. rP The following letter haa been addressed to the &Iitor of' the rices, and inserted in that joettnei / ?? ,Sir,-1 amn desired by. tie gommittee of te .sjpinnes d self- actin miiaders fourmerly egiul oyed -in tae mpi of Frestan to so iclt your attention to thg folbowinihfact,.rehn drel necessaryjtbey conceive, ?? article in~u ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGNCE. The English military guests have left'Paris, but their temporary sojourn in that city, an their way to the seat of war, has affarded an excellent opportunity, of which the Parisians were not slow to avail themselves, of show. ing the friendly teeling which exists between the allied countries. On Saturday, the emperor, aceompaniedby the Duke of Cambridge, went in an open ...

... J s, DuBLrtw, APRIL I1.-The Cork Constitunion says, that in addition to the three vessels, the Courier, Timanodra, and Star of lCe South, which arrived in Queenstown last week to await t orders for departure with troops forl the east, five other vessels are daily expected to arrive in the harbour for the a transport of troops to Malts, enl route to the east. Their names are the Gomnalzo, ...

... The first meeting of the newv board was held on Tuesday last, at the offices, in Browillow-hsil. The following ngenebers were present:-Rev. Rector Campbell (in the chair), Messrs. Blaob, WVhitby, Caroe, Bradley, Denton, Chesney, Clarice, Gardner, Luff, Hughes, Mellor, Hand, John Jones, Nickson, Meacock, Crawford, Whitty, Rawle, Satchell, Braneker, Win. Jones, and Troughton. The minutes of the ...

... The following is the form of pralyer tob sdi l churches and Chapels throughout those parts of the United Kigdm ?? and lreloaidl, to-morrovw (Well- Fi li esday), being tile day appointed byprceattnfr general humiliation and prayer before Almiighty God, in order to obtain Pardon of our slfl, anod in tile most devout tr yand solemin manner sclud up onr Prayers and Suppilications 39 ?? imploring ...

... LONDON, ' . i Wednesday Aprl' 19 1854 ;y , Erl- E 185 = * ! : ,: The Queen held a Privy Council on Satuirdaysa~fter- P noon at Windsor Castle, wben a proclatnation was I ordered appoin~ting Wednesdaythe, 26th inst.. to be ob- t served as a day of hunailiation. 'Henry Inwin Adding- ton, Eq., by commuand of the Queen, as svrorn one of.! er D1ajesty's most honourable Privy Council, and took X his ...

... .IL I2WH8T. ,- S'it* PA'.ii IM )Vii h K -N C)18 ca NOr.9)B a ~ ~1l~e4 ci;oQ 1nca e$M t U[-iv ' wheat seiori; s doubts are beginin enltertained as~to . th'e et vhich may be produeedot the crops of. spring -. B 4~ coX, i~'iulisi &.r5s, fw$ y the protrcetsd drought, hot gunagF L'5 ,.diSB Wrd j onights,; ideedE ff my .bo regarde.d4 asi . R nea-ly'rtlsin *tlat~ more or ?? Ics-isiehief has ' ...