... FRIDAY, JUNE 18. THE AMERICAN QUESTION. — Mr. BRIGHT having urged a query on the subject of the English squadron engaged iu the suppression of the slave trade, and with respect to our relations with the United Sta es, Mr. S. FITZGERALD said that the official iniormation on this subject was still incomplete. He had, however, just reason to believe that the recent misunderstandings with the ...

... CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL.-At the morning sitting a good deal of time was taken up in the presentation of petitions for and against this bill.-Sir J. TRELAWNEY resumed the adjourned debate on the motion for the third reading of this bill, and insisted that if the church had any rights in the matter which ought to be reserved by the the bill, it should be left to the judicial mind of the ...

... A PRECENTOR'S SALARY.-There is a shoe- maker living in Rothesay who is, and has been, officiating as precentor in a parish church some seven miles distant during the last sixteen years. Besides his vocal dudes, be ha.s to travel seven miles every Sunday to the church, and another seven miles back again. This Sunday pedes- trian exercise amounts to 728 miles of ground to be walked over every ...

... SCOTLAND DEATH OF THE LORD JUSTICE CLERK.—WE hava to make the painful and unexpected announcement of the death of Lord Justice Clerk Hope, which took place at a late hour on Monday. His lordship, when finishing a letter to a relative, about seven o'clock, was seized with paralysis, and never rallied from the attack, expiring about half-past eleven. His lordship was in his sixty- fourth year. ...

... REAL INDEPENDENCE.—A Western editor lately' offered his hat for the best essay on independence. The following obtained the prize i .National independence is easier imagined than described personal independence consists emphatically in being situated in a clean shire, drawers, socks, and a nicely blacked pair of boots, wit-1} at least a dollar and a. half and a flelq cambric in you? pocket, ...

... JEatfutg. LONDON, MONDAY, MAt 81. Only a moderate demand for Money, supply gets laraer, and rates of discount easy st 2i to 3 per cent. for prime acceptances. The market for Public Securities has a quiet appearance: Consols for money are 97$-|, and for account 971-J. Although demand for Colonial Produce is satisfaciory troUl the horne trade, ar.d on 1 he increase fur exportation, still prices ...

... MARK-LANE, MONDAY, JUNE 21. A small supply of English Wheat to-day; a fair business, and market firm at last Monday's prices. The currency for white 42s to 47s; and red 40s to 44s per quarter. At full rates a good business in Foreign, but supply on the increase, and the value from 40s to 52s; Russian 36s to 42s. Floating cargoes are not much in request. For FLOUR demand good, and supply less ...

... MARK-LANE, MONDAY, JUNE 7. Although English WHEAT in small supply, yet rates are fully Is. lower than on Monday last: millers being cautious buyers. The currency for white ruled from 42s to 48s; and for red 40s to 45s. Of Foreign, larger arrivals, and trade dull at rather lower rates. Sales from 42s to 55s and Russian at 38s to 46s per quarter. There is less inquiry after Floating cargoes, and ...

... TALK. [prom OUR LONDON COKTvESPOJlDENT. ] SIR BULWER LYTTON'S appointment as Secretary of State for the Colonies, sitting in the same cabinet with Disraeli, also poet and novelist, carries one back to the days when noblemen thought it not worth while to work, and Matthew Prior was an ambassador, and Addison was pro- moted to office for writing that very flat poem, Campaign. But Sir Bulwer ...

... COURTS OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.—It appears from a return issued to the House of Lords that the number of causes now pending in the Court of Probate Is 189. The average daily number of grants of probate and administration in London from the 8th of March, &ioce which time the numbers of grants have been accurately kept, is upwards of 51; and the average daily number o certificates, 66. The number ...

... (ffourt, HER MAJESTY returned to town on Friday. THE inhabitants of Birmingham are looking forward to the royal visit on the 15th with intense interest. Thou- sands of the population from all directions for miles round will be conveyed to the town by special trains. Upwards of X800 has been expended in restoring the fine peal bells of the old parish church of St. Martin's, and they will be ...

... A HEART-RENDING CASE.-The lievue Contcm- poraine contains an apology, written to order by M. Alphonse de Calonne, for the confiscation of the best part of the publ'c gardens of the Tuileries for the private use of the Emperor Napoleon III. Afcer stating that in con- sequence of the numerous parks and promenades lately made, or now making, Paris will have more verdure, more lawns, and more ...