... LATEST LIVERPOOL N:EWS. g (From our own Correspondent.) 0 Saturday, 5th May. Ir SAMLING OF riTH- NLGAIA.-The British and North American Royal mail steeamnship Niagara sailed to-day from e Liverpool, for Halifax asid Boston. Besides the nsfal mails, y and a.fair aiount of cargo, she took out 108 passengers and e £4400 in specie on freight. The incoming steamer of this line is the Africa, from ...

... MR. A. HI. LAYARD ON. INDIA. On Tuesday evening a public meeting tns held at St. James's Hall, for the purpose of hearing from Mr, ASt. Layard an account of his tour through India. Viscoant, Bury,. ML?., presided. Mr. A. H. LAYAIVD rose and said he had been requested by a number of members of Parliament and, friends of his, in whose judgment he placed great trust, to attend.a meeting like this ...

... ACTION FOR. DAMAGES AGAINST A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST. I* The consideration of the case Coehrane v. Donaghue was Id resumed on Monday before Sheriff Arkley, at the Sheriffl e. Court, Edinburgh. This case, as will be recollected, came n before the Sheriff a week or two since, in the shape of -an it action brought by an Irish labower named Cochrane against at Priest Donaghue for damages, ...

... g rvala anl t kifitnail-4- -Mr ( WAu-OFricu, PA.LL-MALL, May 7. Mr Royal Horse Guards-Lieutenant Owent Lewis C.Cop Williams to be Captain, by purchase, vice Billington, the cor who retires. rath Regiment of Light Dragoons-Edward Pul- Cf3tl leyne to be Cornet, without purchase. Mric 7th Light Dragoons-The Hon. Auheron William Co a Edward Molyneux Herbert to be Cornet, by purcasmuchC vice Carden ...

... 9 m v e r i it I V, a t; I., i a, live'll I ; -4-- HOUSE- OF LORDS-TuESDAY. The Royal Assent wasigiven by Commission to the Exchequer ?? (I20;00.0,OO sterling) Bill, Exche- quer Bonds (2,000,000 sterling) Bill, Customs Duties (No. 2.), ill, Excise Duties Bill, Customs Duties Bill, Cambridge University Matriculation and Degrees Bill; and numerous private Bills. THE INDIAN DESPATcM. IThe MARQUIS ...

... BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHO 1, . FRANCE. Orders are said to have been received at Brest I to-place six ships in commission. AMERICA. t * SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.-The Saxonia (S;) arrived from New York with dates to 1st May. She brings 355 passengers for Hambnrgh, and 95 for Southampton. The mails from California of 5th April arxived with 1,500,000 dollars.t The Kangaroo and Borussia steamers arrived ...

... IPHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF SCOTLAN'!. Themonthly meeting of this Societv was hek5 1! their hall, 51 George Street, on Tuesday evering lth ?? Ross, Esq., Vice-Presiden?. n the chair. John Walker, Esq., publisher, was ba!')-te.l;n ordinary member. PICTURLS ON ALBUMENISED PL.ATES. M. OR.ANGE read a paper descriptive of his aekt.. I of taking pictures on albuminised plates, and w.ent through the ...

... THE LORD ADVOCATE'S BILL ON THE UN-t VERSITIES. t LAST week we laid before our readers the sul stanee of the report of the Royal Commissioners on the Aberdeen I Universities. To-day we publish the Lord-Advocate's c Bill, at present before Parliament. If we had no great t reason to be satisfied with the one, we have every real- son to be dissatisfied with the other. The Commis- i sioners have ...

... TIME OF TRAMS LEAVING EDhXBURo'E FOB UNDERMENTlONED PLACES. MlAY 18bB. *.s The abbreviations within parenthjesis-(CaL), (S. C.), ( and G1.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.)-aignify Caledonlan, Scamisb Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British, ,,d Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways respectively, and intimate that the trains start from the termini , these railways in Edinburgh at the hours ...

... I %511 SCOTCH COUNTY FIRANCHISE.-T he following (18) : Seotch members voted in the minority on Thlnrsday night in C t favour of Mr Caird's motion for leavo to bring in a bill to C ofSctadwttatod uf assimilate the county franchise of Scotland with tlat of d e- England:-Sir J. Anderson, Mr Baxter, Mr Black, Mr B il Bouverie, Mr Buchanan, Sir EB Colebrooke, Mr Cowan, Mr C l Craufurd, Mr Dalglish, ...

... |A FRANCE. b PARis, Sunday.-The retail trade has got im- d proved. A few English visitors have arrived, but h not in proportion to the numbers previous to tbe d passport nuisance. There are not four shops va- cant in one of the most commercial streets in I Paris, where a shop had not been to let for some w time. Accounts, however, from the agricultural G districts are more cheering. Corn crops ...

... glu ttlil u arti a Iten1. HOUSE OF LORDS -MONDAY. CONDEMNATION OF GOVERNMSSENT. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY gave notice that, on Friday next, he should move a resolution condemning the conduct of Government in publishing their des- patch to the Governor-General of India. He would lay on the table to-morrow the terms of the reso- I lution. The Earl of ELLENBONOUGH said, it might he for the ...