... HO-USE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, FEB. 24. IONIAN ISLANDS.—Earl GREY having inquired when a copy of the commission under which Mr. Gladstone had undertaken his mission to the Ionian Islands would be laid .before Parliament, the Earl of Derby objected to the promulgation of a document which might, he remarked, provoke a premature debate upon the whole question, which was not yet ripe for discussion. ...

... TAFF VALE RAILWAY. Traffic for the Week ending March H, 1859. £3J51 9 3 Corresponding Week last Year. £ 3 )36 15 7 QUEENSTOWN, March 12.-Put in, 11, the Williama Mary, from Cardiff and Milford for Tamgona (rail* way iron), through stress of weather. ...

... WERE it not a question of life and death Are should be disposed to remain silent upon the manner in which Mr. Reece, the coroner for this district, discharges the duties of his office, after the frequent comments we have made on the subject. We have repeatedly shown that he is systematically behind his own appointed time, and, indeed, sometimes neglects to make his appearance altogether; that ...

... At the Cardiff County Court, last week, the case of Ferguson v. Bagchet was heard. This was an action brought by Mr. Henry Ferguson of Cardiff, the owner of a ketch called the Devon, against Mr. Edward Bag- chet, of Langport, in Somerset, the owner of the barque Strang, of Bridgwater, to recover the sum of £14, for damage done to the Devon on the morning of the 23rd day of November last, by ...

... ARRIVAL IN THE METROPOLIS. The announcement in the papers, that the Neapolitan exiles would arrive in London on Monday from Bristol, brought crowds of respectably dressed persons to both the Paddington and the Waterloo stations, some uncer- tainty existing as to which route would be chosen. Paddington, however, was the one ultimately deter- mined upon. The exiles arrived by the quarter past ...

... NEWPORT POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. (Before the MAYOR, Ex-MAYOR, WM. L- A. HOMFRAY, Esqrs.) ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—John Horam was charged with stealing 2s. 3d., the property of his master, John Placltmore. The prosecutor is a butcher in Commercial- street, and prisoner had been in his employment. Having missed money at diffeient times, on Saturday he put sotte marked money in the till. Shortly ...

... CAERPHILLY. A DOG's GRASP.—A tolerably-sized terrior dog was sporting with boys the other day by fetching sub- stances from the brook. The animal failed to find a stone which was thrown in, but it brought out another that was 6 inches thick, 1G or 18 inches long, and weighed 241bs. How it could have grasped so large a substance and brought it out of the water, was a marvel to many who ...

... FOUR LIVES SAVED BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY'S EscAPE.-At a few minutes past one o'clock on Monday morning. Police-constable 55, of the C division, disco- vered that the premises belonging to Messrs. Dawson, No. 18, Vere-street, Oxford-street, Marylebone, were on fire. The officer immediately raised an alarm, and in the course of a few minutes several persons made their appearance at one of the front ...

... FOREIGN CLEANINCS. IRON TRAM-ROADS IN PARIS.—The carriages which run on the iron tram-road to St Cloud, Sbvres, and Versailles, and which have hitherto started from the entrance of the Cours la Reine, on tlje Place de i corde, now take up passengers in the RnP T • front of the Colonnade. order that thP part of the tire of the wheels of those carriaD-o?10' m? injure the road of the Quai des ...

... THE EARL OF DEVON.—We regret to announce the death of the Earl of Devon, who died on Saturday at Shrivenham, the residence of his brother-in-law, the Yen. Archdeacon Berens, in Berkshire, after a very short illness. The late Earl of Devon, William Courtenay, was eldest son of Henry Reginald, Lord Bishop of Exeter, and nephew of the first Viscount Courtenay, by Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter ...

... i'KOJI PLYMOUTH TO SlEliliA LEONii. BY C(EDO ILLUD. 0 CHAPTEB III. At the expiration of two days after our departure from Teneriffe, we arrived within the torrid zone, but the tropic heat of that feve ed region, tempered by cool trade winds, did not prove inconvenient until we uearedCapc de Verde, when- as if a foretaste of the horrors of the African climate—we ex- perienced the torments ...

... Before Aid. Lewis, W. Done Buahell, and T. E. Heath, Esqrs. STEAMNO COAL.—James Mc.Glyn, a boy nine years of age, from 7, Pendoylon-street, was sent to gaol for seven days. and to be once whipped, for stealing coal from the T. V. Railway. DSORDERLY WOMEN.—Mary Griffiths, a young woman, aged 21, from 1, Frances-street, charged with using obscene language in South Church-street, was admonished ...