... HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, AParr. 26. The Earl of ALSLaHmLE presented a petition from Bir- mingham, praying for a better system of government in India, He expressed his disapproval of the plan of a government for India, proposed by the ministry. The noble earl withdrew his motion for certain returns con- nected with the Indian civil service. Their lordships then ad'ourned. . Tflesy, A P' 27. ...

... BLADOWN THE NEW INFANT SCHOOL. l On Monday last the foundation stone of a new School, and dwelling-house attached, at Bladon, was laid by the Duchess of Marlborough. Her Grace was accompanied by the Duke, the Rev. G. J. Brown, chaplain, the Rev. Messrs. Gears and Steele, many of His Grace's tenants, several ladies and gentlemen from Woodstock and the neighbourhood, and a large concourse of the ...

... . (Iy British/ ?? Ili.rh Ato/yndia Tetegraph.) de, HOUSE OF LORDS. ral Their Lordehipo assembled at five o'clock. ad THE KINTDOM OF OUDE. eat Earl GREY presented a petition, signed by 1,150 inhabit ants of Uury, in Lancashire, praying for the restoration of 3pt the King of Oude. od. ACCOUNTS AND REVENUE OF INDIA. Irs, In reply to Earl GR.1, VI LLE, The E arl of ELLENBOROUGH stated that, in ...

... | iues by LEEDS. tter SATURDAY, MAY 1, the was M He MBCHANICi5' INSTITXTTIONS.- MANohEsTER, 2t wri tuer Alrril, 1858.-At a meeting of tho Council of the ThIrii- Fri j ust tutional Association of Lancashire and Cheshire, held in oil0 In *` Manchester, on Saturday, the 241th of April, on the motion vi by gof Mr. Councillor uirucuey, Director of the Manchester te!g UMechanics' institution, ...

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... Honfton. THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—From a return just published, it appears that the total expendU^e in the year ended the 31st of March last, by the Br itish Museum, amounted to £67,772 17s. 9d. The sum in hand was 9d., so that a balance is carried to the ac- S?ofa;, 7»'185^5!, of fis,2?9 6, Th. of the sum required for the year ending the 31st March, 1859. is £ 79,275. The sum granted for the year ...

... A meeting ot the Town Council, acting as the Local Board or e Healthb was held yesterday at the ounoil-bouse. the Right b Woraliplni the-dayer, L. A. Conac5sq, prebiding. for the a purpose ofi mlting a ra;e lor paving pithling, cleauntisg, light- i lg, and defraying the other charges, under a general didtrict 2 rate. r The TOWN CLUEn having read the minutes of the last meet- r ing, and, also, ...

... T,n,Nr i,- -r t -- - P- -. *. ± tin - ' - ' ~ ~ 'r r r N~ iey LOQrUCITY IS an unfortunate gift to a ma; a of of mediocre intellect and small information; it V inspires hint with great ambition, and leads hiln into temptation, which frequently ends in of his discomfiture. An individual mnay have do the ability to arrive at sound judgment upon ho questions which may be brought under his con- er ...

... NAVAL AND lMILIT4ARY NEW8. The Sybille, 40, Comnmodore the Hon. Charles G. B. Elliot, arrived at Plymouth yesterday afternoons I from Hong-Kong, which place she left Jan. 21; Sin- l gapore, Jan. 31; the Cape of Good Hope, March 11; i St. Helena, March 20; and Ascension, March 25. The mail steam ship Bosphorus arrived at Ply. l mouth on Thursday evening, from the Cape of Good 4 Hope. Her dates ...

... - ?? PIUBLIC AFFAtIRS. b Last evening, Sir. Spooner was to bring on his a! motion for the abolition of the Maynonth Grant.- cl fjord Robert Cecil has given notice of an amend- B moiot of somewhat of a temporising character; hut Tr the late Attorney-Ceneral for Ireland, Mlr. J. D. i Fitzgerald, means to move a direct negative, his re- solution also embodving, a declaration, that it is in- e: cx ...

... lg 1FRANCE. 00 A CHANrGE.-The Constitutionlel ' approves of the t abandonment of any further prosecution of Bernard 1w the - English Government, saying that to have convicted for a .mere misdemealnor one who had been c acquitted of a crime n w ould have been but a mockery. xTIIE PAarts RIacEs.-The Paris races cams off on Sundar .on the green sward w est of the Bois do Boulogne. Tle Emperoi ...