... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... RATES OF FREIGHTS AND CHARTERS. (From Mitchell's Maritime Register of Saturday.) Arrivals of tonnnge have been light, but there is less firmness in the Freight Market, the number of vessels offering for engagement being still in excess of the de- mand. A contract for 20,000 tons of coals for Aden, to be shipped at the rate of 5,000 tons per month, has been taken to-day at about 62s. per ton, ...

... THE DUTY ON SERV ANTS ,-Last year the assessed duty on servants amounted to £ 192,760; and on carriages to £ 300,597. THE GREEK LOAN.-There is a balance due by the Greek Government on that part of the Greek loan guaranteed by England amounting to £109,428. ...

... NEWPORT, ABEEGAVENNT, AND HEREFORD RAILWAY. —The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at the Loudon Tavern, the Hon. W. E. Fitzmiurice in the chair. The report stated that the total revenue from all sources for the half-year amounted to £ 34,233, the total expenditure to j615,865, leaving a balance of £18,368, which, with the balance of dB862 from the previous half-year, gave ...

... mluested by Mr. Williams, of the Albion Hotel, Bute-street, to correct an error which ap- peared in a paragraph last week, stating that nine bagatelle balls had been stolen from his house. The robbery took place at another Hotel. Mr. Williams states that lie never had a bagatelle board in his house. ...

... The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the suf- ferers on board the Black Eagle, took place in the Grand Jury room, on Wednesday afternoon. There were a number of gentlemen present during the inquiry, amongst whom we observed Captain Crewa Reed, commander of the naval coast guard for South Wales, and Messrs. Clements and Tomlinson, engi neers. Mr. Ingledew appeared on behalf of ^|r' Elliott, ...

... A capacious museum for the display of the productlo.to ef India is to be provided in the new Indian Offices, h if, the late Dr. Forbes Royies's labours will be worthily played, j* In the Holborn district there are six persons A tain their living in the sewers, snjne by catching rats» the others by seeking for property which has made it* into the sewers. 1 he christening of the twenty-sisth ...

... By C Æ DOl L L U D. CNAPTKR I. In the spring of 185 duty demanding my presence on the western coast of Africa, I reluctantly prepared to quit my quiet English home, and embark fur that deadly region, so justly dreaded and associated in the mind with every hot ror. As no alternative presented itself, and the call of duty is im- perative, I seated myself in the train for Plymouth, my anti- ...

... FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE | BANKRUPTS.—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. J. G. TURNEY, Mount-) .lace, Walworth-road, Surrey, grocer. W. IRELAND, Plaistow, Essex, licensed victualler. B. LOVELL, Northampton, currier. J. A. MUNDY, Pulborougli, Sussex, coal merchant. J. llAtcDwiciiE and J. JONES, Gracechurcli-street-chamber merchants. W. G. HORNCASTLE, Hif>-lvstreet, Poplar, auctioneer, S. H. SPLATT, Strand, ...

... THE ROMAN CATHOLICS are about to build a church in this neighbourhood. The site selected is situated about midway between Neath and Briton Ferry, aud is intended for the accommodation of the increasing numbers of that persuasion now resitting in this locality. AN AGED PAUPER, — A centenarian, named Mary John, who lives with her daughter at Waun Llesir, applied last week to the Naath Boar,l of ...

... SATURDAY, MARCH. 5, 1859. THE REFORM BILL. SIGNALLY failed, will be the verdict, we should think, which the country will pronounce upon the measure so lengthily introduced on Monday night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A full house, both of hon. members and of strangers, together with the semi-official leader of the Times of that day, tended to exhibit the interest which was felt in the ...