... 0 C (From the Morning Chronicle.) We are glad to find that, although the check sustained by this national undertaking through the loss of a portion of the n cable, owing to the too sudden application of the brakes con- d nected with the machinery at a time when the stern of it the Niagara was down in the trough of the sea, has had the r effect of disappointing for a time the hopes of the ...

... PAROCHIAL SCHOOLMASTERSt SALARIES. The following is the bill, as brought down from the Lords 'to the Commons, for continuing the recent Act regarding the salaviis of parochial schoolmasters. The portion from the ti bracet[ fin the middle of clause: I to the end is proposed to be v 'added lii Committee:- - fA (After reciting the Act of George Il . under which the sala- t] ric are~regulated by ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE OVEULAND MAIL. (From the Times.) 'We have roceived fromn our corresponentdit Doml- the; following admirable description of thle ste o far nIdaI .at the date~ of the Overland Mlail, wljii~i arrived late lest ' night:- '41 ~~~Bombay, Juno 28. 9The departure of thle mail, whbihwee ie frystra aftenooi, ha alrady been pbstponed till to-morrow morning, e and will very probibly be ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-FinDAY, AUGUBT 7. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his ?? lO hew ,olsack at five O'clock. eod id Trhe Barial Acts Amendment Bill was read a second time after some remarks from the Bishop of LONDON respecting some recant controversies in the diocese of the Bishop of St. David's. The Militia Bill, the Charitable Trusts Acts Contlnnanee Bill, and various other measures, were pamseed ...

... ]iOIISE OF c)MINIONS-WHI.NESDAr AuGUST 19. The SPRAKERt took the chair at ten rmilitteS Past twelve ry Major EDwARIDEs took the oaths and his seat for Beverley ih the room of M~r. Glover, Unseated. 11e was introduced by Sir WVm. Joliflb nod1( Sir Win Heatbeote. Si The Lortse' amendments Ito the Eastern Bengal Railway Comp~any, and the tgoinde Railway Company bills were ounsi- dered anti agreed ...

... A Cabinet Council was held on Monday afternoon at the official residence of Lord Palmerston, Downing Street.- Globe. A maritime conference of various European Powers is about to be held at Paris, to consider the subject of collisions at sea, which of late have been so numerous, ,and to adopt measures for their future prevention.- T2e Times (Paris Letter). The Re Arrest of Spollen.-There is ...

... L O N i)N AU GU ST 19. The. chaplaincy of the House of Commons will become vacant at the close of the present session by- 'the'resignation of'the'Rev. 'Thomas''Gariiier, ?? The appointment is in. the gift of. the .Speaker. Applicants for.Service in India.-We understand that numerous applications for: employment are re- Ceived, almost daily, at the India House, not'oily from I Eniglishmen, but ...

... HOUSE OF COMMI(ONS-WEDNESDAY. r..Arn M.1k ftA 01hnir At. f.WAIVA n'flln.Ir The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. Capt. Hamilton took his seat for Falkirk. 'On conideration of the Snraoke Nuisance (Scotland) Abate- ment Bill as amended, ' r: BUCHANAN complained that the operation of the bill would materially interfere with the manufacttire of malleable iron, and moved that the bill be ...

... IL'A.T E S T N E WS. IERALD OFFICE, Friday Morning. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA.-At a meeting of the shareholders of the Royal Bank at Vienna, if was proposed to raise the rate of discount from 5 to 51 per cent., leaving the interest on advances at 6 per cent. CIRCASSIA.-It is said that Schamyl is again in possession of the fortified villages in Daghestan, not long ...

... LJA*1110 ur VI irr AT z LI Some time back the Admiralty appointed a committee of naval officers to consider the expediency of altering the system p of lights established for steam and sailing vessels. It consisted p of Admirals Chads and Beecby, and Captains Sulivan, Ellerby, v and Hairris, and it examined several witnesses, and finally ar-g rived unanimously at the following conclusions:- C L ...

... mISGELL A NE 0 US. Charity is more akin to justice than many choose to acknow- ledge.-T. C. When we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone; and death, though perhaps they receive him. differently, yet treats alike the fool and the'philosopher:-Blumne. The footsteps of Time may not be heard when he treads upon roses, but his progreis is not lees certain: we need not shake his h'our-glees ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5. ?? r . _ _ . . .. . . . . .. . The SrEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. SALE OF OBSCENE BOOKS, &C., PREVENTION DILL. On the order for the second reading of this bill, Sir E. PERRY hoped the bill might bo read a second time, in order that some amendments about which the Lord Chief Justice was anxious might be inserted before going into corn mittee. Sir ...