... - _ ?? ?? 'MORTALITY ON SHIPBOARD. Russian Intelligensce was receivod herel on Wednesday energy, that the ship Cherokee wad lying in Dunmasum a Bain- the Irish Channel, uninavigabef nOi~ etG quence of sickneas uaon aflt the crew. It Was reinfore understood that nine of tccrew had died, seven reserve, were lying sick in their berths, and only the 'full fligi A eter, one man and a hay remained ...

... THE UNACCOUNTABLE PURITY OF THE HOUSE.| OF COAIMONS. At a smiree in Leith the other day the Lord- on Advocate drew a sketch of the House of Com- mons which must have considerably staggered ijany of the previous notions of his hearers. HIe represented it to be exactly what the French monarch John said the breast of a King ought to ?? be-a place where honour and honesty should reign, though ...

... LOCAL INTEL'LIGE-NCE. THiE WEArTE(Ea.-Since the thaw, %hich set in on Sun- day moriiing. there Inis been a noist atmosphere, and occasionally falls of rain, with slight frost in the night. Thle temperature has been mild, considering thle season, Lind quite the opposite ef that which prevailed last week.- e AccrDEerTl.-OU Sunday, Eliza Johnson, who residtas in Regent-street. was severely ...

... . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ == NEW MASAISTBATc.-The name of Mr. William HUM. ber, of Myerscough Hall, late Mayor of this borough, ba been placed in the commission of the peace for this county. AIBITRATION..The hearing of the case between the Local Board and Mr. Welsby as to the value of his water rights on a tributary of Cowley brook was concluded yes- tevday week at Manchester, to which place it was ...

... In Sweden, a man who is seen four times drunk is deprived of his vote at elections, and the next Sunday after the fourth offence is exposed in the churchyard. What the printing press did for the instruction of the masses in the fifteenth century, the printing machine is doing in the nineteenth. Each represents an tera in the diffusion of know- ledge and each may be taken as a symbol of the ...

... For some time past, a question has arisen as to the propriety of the conduct of the overseers of the poor for the townslhp of Cheethaor, in compounding for the poor-rate with the onrsen of cottage property situate within the township. In order to test the validity of the exercise of such power by the overseers, a requisition was addresssed to them, requesting them to rall a public meeting, ...

... -UGGESTION O ' AN EUROPEAN. CONGRESS.:-- - . I U(IN UXBON.- ?? I The Times correspondent' at Paris5Tie- the iewtacs wef from a pamphlet supposed to colactdO with theove g ao the Emperor of thoe French respecting the advanitages of 'Aogae an Europsan congress. The pamphlet writer oags --The saevera Courts acting searteywill have hut little effect. Teirsevra co-operation is ioae, teen ...

... 'npomflIo. -SPAIN. Accrodingr to the Madrid papers, the Government had negotiated 20,000,000 reals !5,000,000f.) in treasury bills.. under the gitaqraittee of the bank of SnFradat 8A rpercent. Some forged bonds of the loau of 23Q,000,O0tu ' reals had been discovered at Granada. the ?? an engagement which took place at Melilla an the ,ble: 26th OILt, the Moors, commnasded by a Morocco Prince, ...

... THE NEW POINTS AND TEE PROSPECTS : ~ OF PEACE. .. te Since.we last wrote oci the subject of the preva- Ito lent Peace runowurs, the 'matter has assumed a ble somewhat mbredefinite shape, and we believe we tin 'aare now in a position to state pratty. exaetly how 6nd it really stands. It will be seen that we have had - on only too much ground for. warning the public not v be. to be over ready to ...

... -- - .. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ tte ?? r. Yesterday, the half-yearly diastribuction fpta SS h Cle Co glater lnstitutiona took place, uoder the presidency of the Lord t ?? of Chester. Thc theatre of the institution Wm, as usual, M P.well fliled. Auson,,lt those present we noticed the fellowlog :- Et f Venerable Archdeacon lones, Rev. Dr. M'Neille, Rev. A. Camp- m 0. bell, Rev. J. S. Howson, Rev. C. W. ...

... DOOK COMMITTEE. Thre usual weekly, meeting of this committee was held ft yesterday, Mr. 0. TIurner in the chair, The ether mem- hbers present were Messrs. Shand, E~vans, Holden, Langg- tdale, Palmer, Hutbback, Smiith, Rankin, Rebinsen, At th dereon, Mndel, Bouttwaite, Heline, Barber, lBrockle- t bank, Littledale, Lockett. c I The sub-committee of works recommended that the 50 tenders of Mr. ...

... are II Lord Lucan's appointment to the Colonelcy securi of the 8th Hussars is almost enough to make of go one despair of ever living to see a real army re- so we form. It is impossible, to imagine that it has time 3been dictated by any other than the merest per- Gord( asonal considerations-Unless, indeed (which would speou r be worse still), it is intended as a political quieta much rto a ...