... THE QUEEN'S COTLEGES.-INTERMEDIATE I EDUCAT1ON. WE recently copied from a local cotemporary a report which purported to be a special account of the late interview between the Lord Lieutenant and a deputa- tion, consisting of the Presidents of the three Quteen's Colleges and other gentlemen, relative to the Rev. Drr. DtI'Cosb's plan of Intermediate Education, on which report we commented as ...

... GREAT MCNSTER FAIR AT LIMERICK. I nn - b LIMERICK, FRIDAY NieITT.-The annual spring fair. opened this day, and was in every respect highly satis- factory, as the quantity of horned cattle and sheep ex- hibited upon the Green exceeded expectation, while the attendance of buyers and sellers. was numerous, not- withstanding alarming rumours circulated-enormous in point of magnitude-respecting the ...

... . Tiiz usual monthly meeting. Of this rev, body took- place yesterday, in 'the Session-Room OF' the Maiy Street Presb-vterian Church, the R~ev. Professor Gme- s0N 3Mo&cater, in the, chair. Ther was a large at- tenciance of the mnembersi of PreAbytory. After somne introdtuctorv business, The report of the committee on intemperance wras read hrv tie -a ev.r War Joirxs~o0y, -who moved. that it ...

... |NBEiV&L 7 rrT nP. OfrlrCzE Betrkst, Mmoday, Ove o'cloce. BY INAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. THIS DAY'S ON D ON NEWS. LoxDox._1Vind S.W., very dull, and likely for more ,rain. . __ _ BOMBARDMENT OF ODESSA. . Vsr.,c, So.Snsr EvnzSe. - It is offcially stated that the only practical harbour of Odessa was attacked on the 23rd by nine steamers, when a battery of four guns were destroyed, and one Austrian and ...

... Zi-e Wtrse (FronM ths 310o'ni);g HeralcL) Itr there was one duty paramount to all others which it was essential for those to discharge who had the!: managemnent of the negociations wiith-Russia, it was; to ensure that the Czar should-never he misled as to the course which this conntrv would pursue in the event of his making and persevering in hostile ag- gressions on the Turkish empire. St was ...

... THlE NWAR ON THE DANUBE. (Prorn the TiVes' Speha Corraespedemnt.) SHllUtA, Aprni S.-It is now evident that if Omar Pacha ever had any idea of acting on the offensive he has abandoned it, for the present at least, and resolved to collect all his available forces and make a stand within the intrenchments of Shumla. until the arrival of the allied army; and, although this delay will give the ...

... Lrtr P.TZ55. THE BALTIC AND ITS DANGERS. (From the Spectator.) TnosE w'ho anticipated a dashing blow at Russia in ?? Baltic would do well to read the first paper in Fraser's Magazine for May, which simply describes the naval and military geography of that twisted sea. The paper, indeed, is much more than an ordinar nagazine article. Comnposed' by one who has an intimate and detailed ...

... .foreign 5intrugencr. INDIA A NTD CHINA. WE (vforan-g Eeoafd) have received, by Extraordinary Express, our dispatches from India and China, in anti- cipation of the Overland Mail, bearing the following -dates:-Calcutta, March IS- Madras, MRarch 23; Co- -lenbox March 25; Bombay, March 28; and China, -March i1.- We subjoin extracts:-_ CALCUTTA, MARCHR I8.-There is no news at this Presidency. ...

... THE MAINE1 LIQUOR LAW. PUBLIC LECTURE. YFST'r,:r&Y evening, according to public announcement, a lecture, on the subject of the Mlaine Liquor Law, was delivered in thle M1usic Hall, by the ?? Dr. Lees, of Leeds. The room was crowded in every part, princi- pally by the parties most imrnmediately interested in the movement. On the platforn and in the body of th e Hall we ob- | served the Mayor, ...

... COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL, AND LOSS I OF ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY LIVES. Till Favourite sailed from Bremen for Baltimore on 23rd inst., and at 2, ?? on Friday, when off the Start Point, came in contact with the American barque Rester, Capt. Jones, from Charleston for Antwerp. The Favourite was struck on the starboard bow, cut down by the water's edge, and had her foremast carried away. The ...

... Os Tuesday evening' last, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., 1Pdelivered thle following address to the members and frienlds of thre St. Albans Literary and Scientific Instituition:-tM~y Lord Vertdai-n, ladies aud ?? the opening of Parliament, her Ma- ,jestv's Administration put forth a crop of such exu- berant and variegated legislation, upon, all matters, foreign and domestic, Church and St-ate, ...

... p 'I ID :31111 efla - ar-lianivat. I-USE OF COMMONS; 'WEDNESnAY; MAY 3. The Sprziasc took tiae chair-at twelve o'clock. Several private bills were advanced a stage. Several petitions were presented for and against the Lord Advocate's -BilL and the Medical Registration Bill, and-in tavour of the admission of Dissentersto the Universities. Petitions Were also presented against the sale of in- ...