... LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1859. In the HousE of LoRDS, yesterday, Lord CAmrRELL, in moving the second reading of the Vexatious Indictment Bill, explained that its object was to provide that no person should be indicted for conspiracy to obtain money by false l pretences without previous investigation before a magistrate. After some remarks from Lords Wensleydale and a Brougham and the Lord ...

... TriE usual fortnightly meeting of tie Belfast Harbour s Commissioners was held yesterday, in the Board- I room, when the Chairman, JOttN CLARKE, Esq., J.P.,f presided. The other members present were-E. Coey, James Hamilton, William Muilan, Thomnas Sinclair, J Robert Ilcnderson, Robert Patterson, James Carlisle, and Ja mes Mlacauley, Esqrs. The SCiRETARuY read the minutes of the previous ...

... IMPORTANT 'CAPrURE. The Birmingham Police have just succeeded in making a most important cipture. For six or seven years Mr. Glossop, Super- tntendent of the Dstective Force, has been avvaretthat a person named John Griffitse, who kept the Royal Exchange pablic-house, at the corner of WVell Street and Hockley Street, was the receiver of thle property stolen in many of the chief burglaries ...

... aes rola LUX adu SU-lER.I The House of Lords was last nigbt, during i a short sitting, 'entirely occupied with the dio- z Oussion of the Vexatious Indictment Bill, of f which the object is to prevent ?? E being preferred in cases of conspiracy or ob- i taining money under false pretenses until the I ,ccsed person has been before a magistrate, and wliclh on the motion of Lord Campbell, I was ...

... I PIEDMON-T. TURIN, TrESDAY. In execution of the law concerning the loan, the official Piedmontese Gazette publishes a decree by which the Minister of Finance is authorised to alienate by public subscription 1I million francs of the Five per Cent. Rente at the price of 79. THE BRAZILIAN MAILS. LISBON, FEn. 28. The Tamar has arrived with the Brazilian mails, having leit Rio Janeiro on the 7th ...

... La Yesterday morning the election of Borough and Ward e Assessors, took place at the Town-hall. There was no L contest, and formal votes baving been recorded for each h candidate, the polls closed at ten o'clock. The following r. is a return:- ASSESSORS FOR THE BOROUGH. William Turner Shaw, solicitor; John Beard Pike, printer.- AUDITORS FOR THE BOROUGH. W William Wallace Wallis, Thomas Crump. ...

... MUSCETiRVUOF THx NOTTS MILITIA.-The Inspector General of Musketry has recently sent in his reports of the result of the last annual course of rifle instruction. It must be highly pleasing to our readers to know that the Royal Sherwood Foresters, or Nottinghamshire Militia, has gained two corm- pany's prizes above any and every other regiment in and out of the line. In common with a long list ...

... aftfptnnn A m . a Yedkrday afternoon a meeting of the acting committee -o tba Vatioual Wallace Monument was held in the Reli- c Yzs I~titution Rooms, for the purpose of reconsidering I 6rrZ&terniination as to the plan for the monument. ( Ntsid Sir Archibald Alison was called to the chair, and I .euLined the object of the meeting, t Mr. Wn. BuRNs drew the attention of the meeting to the 5 ...

... (PRiOX ouR OWNe CORRESPONDENT.) CALCUTTA, JTAN. 22. COde is at last clear of armed rebels. Oa the 26th ult., Lord Clyde took the fort of Burgudiah, capturing six guns; and on the 29th, after a rapid march, he succeeded in overtaking the Begum's armiy, which he drove across the Raptu in precipi- tate flight, taking eight more guns. Ten minor chiefs and a large number of Sepoys laid down their ...

... I . - - . . cid It is with much regret that we have to record the 'i demise of William Jenney, Esq., of Drayton Lodge, who rag expired about two o'clock on Wednesday morning, the 16th inst. Mr. Jenney was the representative of an In- ancient and honourable family, which, as we learn from ane Burke's English .Commoners, was seated in Suffolk as ble early as 1385. For more than two centuries ...

... I ? . - --- .- 11 - - - - - MESUR MR. WALPOLE AR Y DRETE EoLWYS. a (O'r Daily edwij) Fdl y mae yu effeithio yn uniongyrc4ol ar yr o Eg1wys, y mae mespr Mr. Walpole braidd yn ddyrys. a Mae yn eadw y dreth eglwys; ond ar yr un pryd, yn n trefnu llwybr a fydd yn effelthiol, gobeitbio, i gpdi Y trysorfeydd i ddiddymu yr angenrheidrwydd am dani, u ac yn y diwedd i'w llwyr ddiddymu.F el hyn, ei d ...

... LATEST NSEWS. (By Elecolie and Internletu.al Telegraph.) on'icz, TEMPLN BgzLDWNGS, -NEW ATaR. TEE BRA-ZHJIXN MAILUR. (Reuter's Telegram.) LisBoN, Feb. 28th. Tho Tamar has arrived with the Brazilian mails.. S left Rio on the 7th of February, and leaves. Iax-ttorrotv morning for Southampton on her voyage. AS: reached Rio from Southampton on the 2nd February. ' X0o political news from the Brazils ...