... HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY, JUNE 7. rlz A _ T .6.t A1 t ;4 t-A AA.- Their Lordships met at five o'clock. l In reply to a question from Lord PANmuRs Lord HARD NGE stated that Colonel JoLnstone, of the 87th Regiment, who was accused of dereliction of duty in anl early part of the Indian mutiny, had been fully acquittedof all the charges preferred against him. , On the motion of the Earl of ...

... WHO INU.'1NTED THE SCREW -VROMLLER? r- i _ ?? a ?? r- mi _ _ _. . to UUnder ?? Mr. James Nicol 'df this 'cty writes a i letter in yesterday's Ayr observer, from whibirhe make the ., following exttacts, premnising that c theirealnnerits of the to controversywe, of ourselves, kntow 'nothing. Mr. Nicol a My objeat 'in writing to you, as a .jourscalLronnected with: 1i the county-f Ayr, is to pave ...

... We (Tioma) have received the following telegram from our Malta correspondent:- Alexandria, June 8. The Victoria, with the Australian mails, reached Suez on the 6th inst. She brings specie valued at £113,725, and 123 passengers. Her dates are-Sydney, April 11th; Mel- bourne, 16th; Galle, May 10th and 27th. Bombay mails have also arrived, with intelligence to the 19th of May. The latest ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. I The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act Amendment Bill, and County Management Bill, were read a second time. The Ecclesiastical C(ommission Bill passed through coin- I nittee pro forna, in order that amendments might be in- serted. At the request of the Earl of MALMESBURY, Lord BROUGHAM postponed ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-TUESDAY, JUNE 15. D (SCpplenLentary to our Telegrqifs Report.) UNDER-SECRETARIY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND. Mr. BAXTER, in rising to move a resolution declaring ethat, in the opinion of the House, there ought to be an Under- Y Secretary of State for Sdotland, said that his motion was not of a party or personal character. He had the- highest admiration for the talent and highl ...

... FuNERAL or THELO.D JUSTI0E-CLERKI.-Theftifle- 01l 6 ral of the late Lord Justice-Clerk took place on Satur- c, I day. The company assembled at his Lordships'srdsi- Ii dence in Moray Place at twelve o'clock, and, after if ht service by tbe Rev. Dr. Muir, they proceeded to le a accompany the remains to the churchyard of Ormi- l-ston, near Tranent. Those who attended the funeral were the Lord ...

... The Duke of Roxburghe proceeded south on Sun- ,day evening last, and the Marquis of Bowmont left Floors 6n Thursday morning to join his noble father r at Hull, where they are to embark for Norway. The Duchess and Lady Charlotte accompanied the Mar- quis, and after taking leave of the iioble Duke and t Marquis will return to Floors. r The Duchess of Sutherland returned to London on Wednesday ...

... London, Friday. inless Mr. Locke King's ambition be very great indeed, i it must have bein 'peculiarly gratified last night when he x fobiuadhoth Houses of Parliamentengrossed withthefragments5 of reform of which he is the author; and found, too, that in I both his efforts were crowned with success I Mr. Locke I King is a bit-by-bit reformer, and if his luck continues he I bids fair for taking ...

... t~v- .wv,-k -g O . S . ?? A- AIRR1 CE A iA~~N. I 4Frsdyj4h28l shoihtn ightd 'beatfui dy'' te *;;uualy dost-t~ - oltne.;ndms i84hporta'nt, show, ; kplace onthe fast Friday of the merry month of1 1 May. Year after year we have had to record the continued 4p'ogress in well-doing of this association, which on Friday attained majority, having then completed the twenty-first year of its age. Never ...

... LIABILITY OF LANDLORDS TO REPAIR - STAIRCASES. it We sometime ago published an interlocutor by the Sheriff- in Principal, 'Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., reversing one by his *iSubstitute (Mr. Bell), and finding that the landlord of pre- x- mises was bound to keep the staircase leading thereto, and openings therein, properly nclosed, and subjecting the de- I fender, a landlord, in £150 of ...

... (From the Times.) On Wednesday night the members of the Oriental Club entertained Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson, K.C.B. at The banquet was presided over by Miajor-General Sir Robert Vivian, ?? in close proximity to whom sat the guest of ice the evening, and his three relatives, Captain G. B. '%Wilson, ies RN., the Rev. Ronald Wilson, and the Rev. Herbert ebh Wilson. Among the other ...

... GLASGOWV, JUNE 4. . ~ ~~ ~~ Ve NV A.; rq ;st U iN El 4, BoY DROWNED. -On Wednesday, a boy,- nine years. old, namcd -William Sneddon, ?? of a widow resid- ing in Great Eastern Road, was, along with another young boy, aged five years, gathering pieces of coal on the margini of an old quarry at Westrliir, belong- ing to Messrs. Robert Gray &T Co., coal-masters, and partly filled with water, when ...