... E7ITE V OF I HE COBN TR AJE OF THE IEEX. TI .- .. . . I During the last eight days the weather in most parts of the United Kingdom was irostless, dry and rainy days alter- nating, with s8utherly winds prevailing. Snow end frost has appeared in the more northern district-, end on Wedues- day night the wind turned northward, and frost set in also in London. Up to this time the weather las been ...

... Parliament was OopernI yesterday by her Msajesty in Pereo. Th'q wen It r happily was line, presenting a marked conltrast to the dam1)p uncomfortable days which immediately preceded wa: the nlew sce-&~on. From an early hour of the morning the diti House of Li~ds wore an asrect of brilliant gait ?? e no one who has, witnosscd a scene of this description can possibly forgct. ?? attendlance of ...

... I Y- a HIS LFIFR C1On Saturday night last a !niddle..aged man y named Benjamin Meredith, residing at 2, Brige-terrace LSMaidstone, was taken to the police-station, on the charge of L~having bruotally assaulted his wife, and' attempting to set k5 firs to he.. Toe prisoner, it appears, has latterly been em- 11 ployed as oreman of the carpenters engaged in the erection 3t of the new railway ...

... THE WAR FORCE OF FRANCE. Galiqnani's Messeenger, referring to the answer of the CGcslifitionnel to the article of the Daily Ntrs, in which the strength of the army that France could at once march into Italy in the event of war, was valued at 130,000 men, says:- The Coenstitutioncel, it will be observed, asserts that an active force of 500,000 men will be under arms in France on the let of ...

... Sa12 71L.,A, CODRINGTOYM, ?? ON BEFOBr.| I I . I Last evening a numerously attended public meet- ing of electors was held at the Literary Institution, High- street, Deptford, to hear an address from Lieutenant-General Sir W. J. Codrington, ?? explanatory of his past ser- vices as a representative of the borough of Greenwich, The chair was oscupied by Mr. B. DUVAL. General CoDntoXoGTOrm,who was ...

... ,LORi'Tf SItAFFORDSJ11E RAILWAY. _ . ?? The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this 1ailway was held yesterday afternoon, at the London b Taen;Mr. T. Biiontucet in the chair. The report and accounts, which had been previously circu- b laewd and pub]lisbed, were taken as read. tI 1 The CIIAILMA, in moving the adoption of the report, a: commsenced by, explaining that he appeared in that ...

... REFORM M.NIEETI-\N GS. I 3IRETING ATBU11hINOHAMI. A town's meeting, presided over hr the MAT~oll, far the purpoce of coflet briar bIr, Brights 1tefurn Bill, was held in Birmieghittgiia on Tuceda L ight. A bifntc of the proceed~ings Its telk-graph appeared in' 3e5'crdlay's Dai~y Fie's. The f 'hlosting is a m~ore detailed report: Mlr. P. lI' M'IN i O too-ed the first ?? :-That, in the epinion ...

... 1l 1?RTEAL OF IHE 1APER DUTY. d l The annual public meeting of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on KInowledge was hold yesterday evening at Exeter-hall. The attendance at the commencement of the proceedings was very thin, and at no period was the room crowded. The chair was taken by Mr. MILNER GIBSOX, M.P. On the platform were Mr. Ayrton, M.P., Mr. Coningham, M.P., Mr. ...

... TBB NATIONAL GlLLERY OF IRELAND.-I LAY22VNG TUE FReST MNO&N - l (From the ?? The ceremony of laying the first stone of the Na- it tional Gallery ofc.Ireland ws performed, on Saturday after- noon, by hi Excllency thie Lord Lieutenant, ini the pre- ai sence of a numerous and distinguished company. The S ?? was very unfavonrable ; nevertheless, the importance ! of the occasion brought together a ...

... I Sbe Court. I Her Majesty received a telegraphic despatch from Sir James Clark on Tuesday night to announce that the Princess Royal and the infant prince are progressing most satisfactorily. The Qaeen and the Prince Consort left Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace at half-past twelve o'clock yesterday, accompanied by the Princesses Alice and Helena, and attended by the Countess of Desart, ...

... I - I~- 2'iE~ P?1?NCH GOVERNAIENT AND THE .PARIS PRESS. The following is an extract from the Paris cor- respondence of the Continental Beview . In spite of all counter manifestatione in France and 1 Europe, there is no doubt that the Emperor, accordirg to his t custom, will persist in his nline and in his engagements entered into with Victor Emmarnuel. Thisjenso'e s'neuauble that I have ...

... IMPERIAL PARL[AMENT. \ HOUSE OF LORDS-PlUDAY, FEB. 4. The Loirri CHA.NCELLOR3 took his sect on the woolsark St fiee orrrlek. Lord D CNOX NN ON gave nofee that on Tuesdaynext he should ask tole Archbiebop of Canterbury whetheor any mca-nre was Mely to he introduced in the pre~scnit session, wi~th the cauotion of iih' Bent',h of Bi'hops, to alter and amend the law relating in tire LE -pidationa ...