... J; 4- J OUR RELATIONS WITH AMERICA,—On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. ROEBUCK moved that an address should be presented to the Crown, praying for the production of all the correspondence that had lately passed between the governments of England and America respecting the conduct of Mr. Crampton. The recent explanations given by Lord Palmerston respecting the apology offered ...

... TUESDAY, FEB. 19. ARBITRATION BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EM- PLOYED.—Mr. MACKINNON moved for the appointment of a select committee to consider the inconvenience now felt in the country from the want of equitable tribunals, by whose means any difference's between masters and operatives might be satisfactorily adjusted and also to ascertain whether the Conseils des Prud'hommes in France have answered ...

... UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.—The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH pre- sented a petition complaining that seamen were now compelled by law to serve in unseaworthy vessels. The noble lord enforced the prayer of the petitioners by citing many instances in which sailors had been sent to prison as deserters merely because they refused to sail, according to articles, in ships which were utterly unfit to keep the sea. He ...

... MONDAY, FEB. 18. LIFE PEERAGES.-The Committee of Privileges met at two o'clock, and heard evidence concerning the precedents which had been found in the ancient rolls of Parliament having reference to the question of life peerages.-The LORD CHANCELLOR read a letter from Lord Wensleydale, stating that he declined to attend, by his counsel, before the Committee of Privileges.-After some ...

... Communications should be forwarded by Thursday morning, to instile insertion. ...

... Lord Clarendon had an audience of the French Emperor on Sunday, as did also Count Buol, who had arrived at Paris on the previous evening. On Friday Baron Brunow had a long interview with Count Walewski, and on Saturday Count Cavour had an interview with the same Minister. Ali Pacha left Constantinople on the 12th, on board the French steamer Le Sane, and is expected to reach Paris by the 22nd. ...

... There was a fair supply of ENGLISH Wnr.T FEB' quality and condition somewhat better tllls da-vs market; the realised Is advance. Wl te s ld at IL' to Wf and Prime quarter. t0 3; and Bed, 59s to 72s per Although FOREIGN was in plentiful supnlv vet THP RAFO* m some cases rather above last- Mondav a ond were ruled as to quality at 70s to 88s per quarter^ 6XlStmg' Prices In consequence of heavy ...

... acctbentfj and AT Chelmsford, on Tuesday,°an encounter took place between the gamekeepers of Sir John Tyrrell, and a number of poachers, in the preserves at North Boreham, near this town. One of the keepers— a tall, powerful man, named Hales— was shot dead upon the spot, while attempting te arrest one of the poacner3. The keepers were armed with life preservers, and their opponents with guns. ...

... The nut-tree is now in blossom, and its long pendant catkins hang in profusion trom the boughs. This well known shrub belongs to the 1/innaean class monoecia, that is having male and female blossoms on the same tree. The sterile blossoms are the long drooping cylindrical catkins, whose flowers contain about eight stamens each the fertile blossoms from which the fruit is produced, are very ...

... THE COURT, it is expected, will return to Windsor Castle, for the Easter vacation, a week earlier than usual—about the 19th proximo—when the Princess Royal will receive the holy rite of confirmation. THE QUEEN and Prince Albert went on Tuesday morning to Woolwich to inspect the trophies captured at Sebastopol. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness, with the Countess of Desart, the Hon. Beatrice ...

... THE official inquiry into the recent loss of the New Zealand emigrant ship Josephine Willis has been concluded at the Thames Police Court, before Mr. Yardley, the magistrate, and Captain Robertson, R.N., the accessor. Their report will be sent in to the Board of Trade. No communication can be inserted unless authenticated by the name and address ot tIle writer. ...

... An American Congress was organised on the 2nd, by the election of Mr. Banks as the speaker. ON the occasion of the grand ball given at the Tuileries on Shrove Monday, the Grand Chaplain of the Palace was desirous of seeing, not the ball, hut the decorations of the apartments. Accordingly, he was in the rooms at a very early hour, some time, indeed, before that at which the guests were expected ...