... METROPOLITAN MEMORANDA, (Fromn our own Correspondelt.) London, Thursday Evening. You and I, good reader, have not had a gossip in the lobby for some weeks. We have not even noted of late the progress made in the princely building wherein the deliberative wisdom of the nation is wont to exhibit itself. There's the Committee of Inquiry, too, into the doings, mis-doings, and no-doings of the ...

... P'OLICY AND EFFECTS OF THE WAR. ?? 7l~, ~ TrlT-fl~PFP, MEETING IN MANCHESTER. The third meeting To consider the general policy andt the commercial and social effects of the present war, was held last night, in the Peace Soeiety's Roona, Nawall's Buildings, in this city. The attendance was ntumerou.I, and the interest felt seemed to be very great throughout. Soon after seven o'clock, the ...

... The report goes at great length into the questions of the management, discipline, studies, &e. of the college. Among other recommendations for the future regulation of the college, the commissioners suggest a change in the constitu- f tion of the board of trustees (viz, that a certain number of trustees should vacate their places in rotation and be succeeded by others), as likely to infuse ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDO, FERIDAY. Twice since Lord PALMERSTON acceded to office has he had to grapple with the legacies of personal questions left to him by his predecessors the Peelites ; and twice has he escaped from the difficulties which they threatened, by the power of address and the influence of compliments judiciously distributed. There is no art incident to the delicate ...

... LEOTURES ON GREAT CITIES-PARIS. I S 0 -- DELIVMRED ON PURALF OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AND I LITERARY INSTITUTE, AT THM 0ONODIT-HALt, LORD t NELMON-STREET, ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAR00 14. 1 BY J. A. PrITON, rSQ, ES.A., GENERAL CHARAOTERISTICS. The main characteristic of Paris, as it presents itself for the first time to a stranger, and especially to an Englishman, is that of life-brilliant, active, ...

... --n r - - X.. ^RlWATTnlh TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL[ MERCURY. Gentlemen,-Considerable surprise has been expressed in various quarters that the Tory can- didate, Sir S. G. Bonham, has not before this time made his appearance amongst the electors. His address has been on the walls for several days, but the great unknown has not yet been introduced to the voters. The fact is, there is a ...

... ?? .: - - k - ?? - I - 7 ~ 5 31d. 31d FRANCE. - ad th nwr f terh0nesteae o r ~z Cofr ad VIONA,-WicDNESDAY, MARCHE 7.-.Intelligonce from he Constantinople has been received up to the Ist instanlt. ay Archbishop Halleras had died from cholera. Seven! shocks rod of -earthquake had been experienced since the 28th: Feb. Ily The town of Broussa was almost entirely destroyed. Two to thousand. ...

... |. - HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. Mr. G. BOTT brought up the report of the committee on the Barnstaple election petition. It was to the effect that Mr. Guin. neas had been duly elected, but that Mr. Laurie had not been duly elected. THE ARMY. Mr. LAYARD gave notice that on Monday he should ask the Under-Secretary for War on what ground instructions had ...

... ACCRINGTO.N, TIASLINGDEN, AND - ROSSENDALE. APGTUEOARIOS' HALL.-Mr. 'Thos. Charles Law, of Accrington, passed his examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received a certificate to practise, on the ist instant, at the above-named Institution. BIBLE SOCIeTY._On Monday evening a public meeting of the British and Foreign Society was held in the Town Hall, Hasling- den. The ...

... I ? ;, ?? ?? -- ?? I I PREFEnMENT.-The Rev. Holland Lomas, B.A., has been col- lated to the perpetual curacy of Holy Trinity Church, Walton Breck, in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, near Liverpool, void by the death of bisfather, the Rev. John Lomas, by the Bishop of Chester, the patron for this turn, by lapse. Mr. H. Lomas was formerly curate of Trinity Church, llabergham Eaves. BU'NLEY ...

... IsoesaF ttoIa.L.- Another of the old melo-dramatio otvariws, Timour the Tartar, was produced on Monday tigt at ?? purpose ofintrodneiing,aft.r E iest1leof theorigial bills of theplay, Alltbe horses. This Ierraitdly! toe of the best pieces of its class, and it should cot be ?? as something curious, that it was brought ftit, It tie first it~slace, at one of our great national theatres, f ...

... THE EXAMINER AND TIMES. MANýCHESTER, VEADNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1855. WILL THE ALLIES ACCEPT PEACE WITHOUT SEBASTOPOL ? ?? There are good reasons for believing that the negotiations at Vienna are proceeding favourably; two out of the four points are said to be agreed 'Upon, and thle third-the pinching point-is tinder discussion by the Congress. This is the point which involves the abatement Of the ...