... I DEATH OF' AN ECCENTRIC I WO.MAN IN GLASGOW. For the last 45 years anld upwards there has lived an ancient Inaiden dame, Miss Agnes Nicholl, who, during nearly all that tims, has'resided alone, occupying but one apartment of a five-roomed house in Moodie'3-court, Argyll-street, Glasgow, and bearing an almost isisail- thropic hatred to her s pecies. For thle last fifteen or sixteen years she ...

... ! MEMBERS RETURNED. MtElER. PLACS. Ma1EixL Adair, B E psawich Goderich, Lord W Adans. W H . . Boston Grace, O D J . .Re Adderley, C B. Staffdshire, N Graham, SirJ .. Ca Adoo, H r J * . Camubrdgshire Gray, ?? Agunei. Sir A . Wigtonshire Greaves, E ?? .Wa Akroyd. E ?? Huddersfield Greene, Capt ..Kil Alcock, ?? Surrey, E Greenall, G ?? Aisxandier, J . .Carlmv Greenwood, . .-RI Althorl), Lord. ...

... IT . THEC B}ALL.oA HINeaT FROM THE ATIw'PODES.3 . I a The colony of Victoria has just obtained the c .~ royal assent to certain electoral provisioo3, form-. ,ing part of the new eonstitution, by which votec - by ballot Is formally legalised and reoognised as an Institution of the British empire. T~his is a. be great fact which remains a fact, in spite of the eimitation or remoteiaea of the ...

... MULTUI IN PARVO. vith- ?? ' bee The Sultan is labouring under an attack of ophthalsnia.hi 6nks When is beer not beer ?-When it's a1 little trt. a hi ?? Malice, the dirty road on which Revenge travels. Ch le ?? should the male sex avoid the letter A ?-IBecause hlis i~ tmakes men mean,.aete ol i te If a woman would haetewrdrespect her husbandir she must Bet the example.' T A Frenchman says ...

... IEMCR I - - J- ujs TRE IERCURy. tb rulofad s eour sheet, It 9s insdequate to the G tlfana on OUr space, even upon o 0ceaaionl but the pressure is most el there is sitting, or when hi a COincident influx of Looal, Domestic, T d threiganews of an interesting character. o our atte' rtion of the less pressing claims on s1 nur ttento and by rigorons condensation, we I ighe majority master or elude ...

... THE BIRKExaEAD GAS AND WATER BILL. The committee to whom this bill has been referredl The committee to whoni this bill has been referred reassembled on Monday morning, the members present So . being Mr. Packe (chairman), Mr. W. J. Garnett, Mr.tr Diliwyn, Mr. Slater, and Mtr. Montgomery. re The couf sel for the bill were Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., re Mr. Monk, and Mr. Webster. The bill was opposed ...

... THEI HALF-HOLIDAY MOVEMNT. THEs movement for a half-holiday seems to have been gene- rally successful. OnSaturdayafternoons,imost places of bust-w ness are now abut at an early hour. The onlyoceopations in which we hear of any serious differences having taken place, Fur are the grocers, and flashers; and it w IlIbe readily understood a di that in these there are difficulties in the way, which ...

... F, I One of thle most daring and violent burglaries, perpetrated ltai ...

... A BUBBLE BURtST.-TIEi TENANT RIGHT AGITATION. TilE agitation in regard to Tenant-Right has long since ceased in Ulster. The tenantry of the pro- vincC in the enjoyment of great prosperity, at peacc with their landlords, and thoroughly sick of Teuauit-Right meetings and Tenant-Right mob orators, gave up nll interest in the wild ?? that, previous to 1852, convulsed the country. But the Tenant ...

... ?? [BY MA(GNETIC TELEGRAPH.] HOUSE OF LORDS-YEsTERIDAY: LORD CAMPBELL moved for a Select Committee to consider whether the privileges of reporting in Courts of Law might not be extended to the reports of Parliament, and other assemblies ; and also for a Select Committee to consider the expediency of changing the method of examining witnesses before that House. Both motions were agreed to. Lord ...

... DUB LI N GO S SI P. (Froom our zoam Correspondent.) SATURDAY, MAY 16. LORD PALM ERSTON AND THlE IRISH GOVERNMENT. IT is currently reported, through town that Lord Pal- merston has recently expressed himself as not being perfectly satisfied with the ?? ten- dencies of the Irish portion of the Government, and that thojadicious Premier-seeing plainly from, the results -of the Irish elections, ...

... SECOND DAY-WE DNESDAY. XiOREINiG SEDERUNT. Tills morning the Synod re-assemnbled at seven o'clock, and the business was commeinced with prayer. The CLERK read the minutes of the last sedefriet. TUE ARREARS DUE TIHE LATE, CLERK. The CGntk read the report of the committee ap- pointed to examine into the arrears due Rev. Mr. Reid, the late clerk, to consider what ought to lie done with regard to ...