... LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE INSTITU- TIONAL ASSOCIATION. Our columns contain an account of the annual ) meeting of The Institutional Association of Lite- rary and Mechanics' Institutions in Lancashire and d Cheshire, which was held onl Saturday last, at the ýC Manchester Athenaeum. The Bishop of MAN- ei c?aSTER presided, and the report was read by Dr. by HUDSON. Various delegates took part in ...

... Rocal antr ye Commission signed by the lord lieteif,,lr of the cotth by palatine of Lancaster :-Thos. Fairbair, Esq. to be depAY its lieutenant. nk THE M xECHNics' INSTITnTrIoN.-The first of two leicure was delivared on Mondayevening, by Mr. XV. Smith, YLR 0., on The means by which man keeps up his relation wilhlth5 re external world. There was rather a limited audience. The al lecture was ...

... (BY THE BRITISH & SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) I Pn-?isx Tu?vSDAY EVENING.-The Emperor has reviewed two battalions of Gendarmerie and a squadron of Chasseurs. Two additional regiments of Chassen's are to leave Algeria for the Crimea. The Paris funds closed to-day as follows :-Four- ?? per Cents, 94*50; Three per Cents, 69075; Bank shares, 19 95. e f VISIT OF THE FRENCH M\1INISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS ...

... .5 Mr. Smith, a chemist, of Auchterarder, is said to have Ls discovered a means of transferring the impression of If natural objects to glass with minute accuracy. a The court house at Downpatrick was destroyed by fire if on Friday night last, and next morninmI, vihen the judges it were about to open the awsizes, they discovered they had r no court house to preside in. The fire was accidental. ...

... In Canada a village has just received officially the name Sti . of Inkermau. The directors of the old gas company, Chester, havea announced their intention to raise the price of their gas from 4. to 4s. 6d. per 1000 cubic feet, from the lst of Ay 3April next. M S r. Carden, who is in very bad health in Clonmelgaol, has refused the terms upon which the government offered Da to remit the ...

... The greatest excitemet 'wa's _m-ani~fested at Oxford, on C Mlonday, to hear the trial of the Rev. Joha Allen (liles, .q1 D.C. L., for marrying at uncanonlcal hoers, and making a fales entry in the register. The court was densely It crowded. The defendant was placed in the deck,'and II appeared calm and collected. S Mlr. Heating, Q.9., and Mr. Huddlestone were counsel U1 Ifor the prosecution ; ...

... o LANCASTER AND CARLISLE.-The half-yearly meet- O ing of this company was held on Wednesday, at the 0 Limne-street station, Mr. E. W. Hassell, chairman, o presiding. The statement of traffic account, including o the sum of £111 19s., brought forward from last half. 0 0 year, showed a balance of £89,341 18s. 10d. ; out 0 of which the directors recommended a dividend to is, be paid at the rate ...

... ent The admiralty intend to employ a number of North Sea wo captains, well acquainted with the navigation of the Wi Baltic, to act as pilots to the fleet. Theyare to have one aft guinea per day. >wo Letters from Belfort state that since the melting of the of snow a great number of Swiss and German deserters had da passed throughl, gong to Dijon, Pontarlier, Basancon, and tiv Langres, to enlist ...

... I -. a The weekly meeting of this board was held on Wednes- ti Y day last, at the West Derby workhouse, Mr. Joseph Har- a y reon in the chair, and the other members present were T -Messrs. Edwards, Mlountfield, Daly, Ledger. Jeffreys, b a Kiqowles, Taylor, Kirkus, Heyes, Richmond, Davies, E3 n Clayton, R. Birch, Pitts, M'Uee, Morris, Whitby, Weiss- h d ley, Medcalf, Lunt, Horsfall, Abrahams, J ...

... NOTES ON THE VENTILATION OF THl KITCHEN I OF DOUNE CASTLE, PERTESHIRE. RrAD nErOiW THTE ARCHITECOTURtAL SOCIETY 0' LIVERa- he POOL, BOY JOHN HAY, ESQ., ARCHITECT. had Onea Visit(t the ruins of Doune Castle, in Perthshire, Me I observed a mode of ventilation in the great kitchenl fori that seemsg identical with the principle adopted by Dr. nut Arnott in the valves so extensively used in ...

... Two enormous blue-books have just been issued from the parliamentary printing-office, containing the report of the Maynooth Commissioners appointed in 1853, with voluminous appendices, and a portion of the minutes of evidence. The report itself, which is dated the Ist of March, occupies some sixty pages, and refers to the origin and history of the College of Maynooth, its government and ...

... ?? THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION, We feel much satisfaction in referring to the result of the Liverpool election. The constituency of that great tu( emporium of commerce have returned as their repre- Clil the asatative, Air. J. C. Ewart, a townsman, whose political ide principles and commercial experience eminently qualify Ile him for the discharge of the important duties devolving sbg Ing upon a ...