... IMPERIAL PARLI-AMENT.j ?? HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JULY 14. BOARD OF HEALTH, The Earl of SHAFTESBURY replied to the accusation brought by Lord Seymour against the Board of Health and bore testimony to the indefatigable zeal of Mr Chadwick and Dr. Southwood Smith. The Bishop of London, Lord Carlisle, and Lord Brougham followed in the same strain, after which the matter dropped. COLONY OF NEW ...

... B ISH T E M PERANCE ASSOCIATION. The twentieth annual conference of the British Asso- eiation for the promotion of temperance throughout the United Kingdom, has been held in this town during the present week, commencing on Sunday last, when addresses on total abstinence were delivered in the saloon of the Mechanics' Institue, by the Rev. Robert Gray Mason, better known as the Father Matthew of ...

... The Recorder, Samuel Warren, Esq., Q.C., ?? visited the gaol of this borough on Sunday last, in accordance with his usual custom, and spoke in a kindly maiuine t o many of the culprits incarcerated therein. TH1E -'COOnDER 01F HUnLL AND JusiEs.-At the Town ! ell on Tuesday last, in the Venire Court, during the pr1:-ress of the trial Shelburn v. Valiance, the Elect der. addressing the jury, ...

... FRANC0E. PARTS, WEDNESDAY Evr,:aNG, JULY 5.-General Bara- firi guey ?? %will leave Paris on the day after to-mnor-' woc row. He embarks with a division of the army under big bet command for the Baltic. England will provide vessels for die transport. the THE SPANISH INSURRECTION. a Advicos from Madrid, received by way of Paris, state ca that a sanguinary combat bad taken place' between the in ...

... fat, A public meeting was held in this town on Fri- ing day last to promote a National Festival to cele- \, brate the union between England and France. Upi The proposition emanates from the corporation of yar, the metropolitan city, and it has been so well no entertained here, in Manchester, and in other 'ev, great towns, that but for the opposition raised in I one or two organs of public ...

... I gL' or .Io' COURT, &c. On Monday (yesterday), her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Prince of WVales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the rest of the royal family, together with the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household in waiting, were expected to leave Buck- ingham Palace for the royal marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Queen gave audience on ...

... Lord John Russell's scheme for Parliamentary purification has at length emerged from the Select Committee to which it was referred, and is being b discussed in the House of Commons. In its o amended form this Bill is a very neat piece of v patchwork, to which Sir Fitzroy Kelly and Mr. ' WalDole have each contributed a few stitches, and we suppose, in some shape or other, it wvillc become law. ...

... TOWN COUNCIL PROCE EDINGS. or z3osday, Jl,3. The usual monthly meeting of the Town Council was held 'e this day-the Lord Provost presiding. kt PRESENT:-BailliesSim,LediughamnWitson, and Smith; it th Dea of uild theCity Trea'surer; Mesers Laing, Webster, Henderson, Gibb, Berry, Bothawell, Duncan, Gordon, Jamieson, and Leslie. Mr William Cruickshank, Bookseller, was admitted a Bar- ~.gess of ...

... BRISTOL G RAMMAR-SCHOOL. The following are extracts from a circular drawn up and dim-r ?? by Dr. Evans, Betting forth the claims of the school to fa greater support in the shape of endowments:- ee Bristol Grammar-Sohool, June 1854. t The Head - Master feels assured that the parents of all his 8 pupils will take a lively interest ia any plan which tends to promote the prosperity and usefulness ...

... I 311WEM~~REEMA :.N ?? Meetings for Next. Week. Monday, July ?? Nos. 206, 228, and 80.. TusdayNee105and 27 Wednesday-.acommittee of Royal Benevolent Institution at three. Lodges Nos. 13, 15,22,172, 205 752. Thursday-Quarterly General Court of Female School, at twelve. Lodges os. 248 and 778. TiEs FrEMnsoes' QuVa ?? AOZmM. Bro. George Boutledge and Co., Farringdon-stre t. This part is a very ...

... | I IaeRovZD RAaLwAX AccOnXcODATION-We are glad to perceive that Edmund B. Lockyer, Esq., a gentleman favourably known to the public from the great interest he has taken in advocating a better system of railway management, is at the present moment making great exertions to carry out what is so much wanted to improve our railway system, by giving increased advantages to the public in improving ...

... TIR. JOHN REA SHOWING THE NVIRTE FEATEJ iER. IT will be recolected by our readlers that, on the very evening on which Mr. John Ru-a bad been ejected from the Assemnbly-room of the Commercial Bui!ldings, by the police, on the order of our present popular Mlayor -the occasion being the second adljoernod public meeting- in reference to the i3laclcstaff noisanco-the su-id 2\r. Rea served the ...