... ADuLTERATION Or FOOD D1IL.-Mr Scholefield, M.P., has revived his useful Bill a for Preventing the Adulteration of Articles of Food or Drink. It imposes a penalty of so many pounds (not yet fixed) on every person vending or exposing for sale any article of food or drink with which, to the knowledge of such person, any noxious ingre- dient has been mixed. More than this, the offender will be, ...

... TOWN AND COUNTRY TALIK A railway is projected for connecting the South-Eastern station at London bridge with the railways to the west of the metropolis. It will pass through the property of St Thomas's Hospital, close to the wards, so close, indeed, that the hospital will have to be removed from its present site. The shipment of horses for the continent is increasing. The Bishop of London has ...

... Sin W. G. ARMSTRONG AND MIs W ORK1MEN.-Un Monday, on the first occasion of the visit of Sir W. G. Armstrong to his works at Els- wick, Newcastle on-Tyne, after receiving the honour of knighthood by her Majesty, be was presented with an address by his workmen, congratulating him upon the distinction conferred upon him in recog- nition of his services to the nation in the construction of his ...

... jfaftsf 3niffligna. SATURDAY, MARCH 112. IMPORTANT AUSTRIAN DESPATCH. An important Austrian state paper, dated February 20, is published in the Journal de Frankfort. It is addressed to Count Appony, the Austrian Ambassador in London, for com- munication to the British Cabinet. This despatch is in answer to the Sardinian circular, which justified the contracting of a loan on the grounds that ...

... It I might give a short hint to an impartial writer it would be to tell him his fate- If he resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling; unbiased truth let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks ...

... 9,-aftst luffIligmt. SATURDAY, MARCH 5. The official Vienna Gazette of yesterday contains the following in its non-official part: As soon as the notification in writing of Cardinal Antonelli shall arrive here, it is understood that the evacuation of the States of the Church by the Austrian troops will follow; because in this, as in the entry of the troops, the desire of the Holy Father is ...

... turn'sp-mvtlya. THE ANTI-REFORMI BILL. TO THlE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Sir,-The spontaneous and general movement that has been witnessed during the past few days shows that the question of Reform is of greater importance to the country than its pre- vious quiescence in the least indicated. Reasoning from the total absence of agitation that prevailed, and without consider- ing for themselves ...

... 'HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, February 28. EVAUtATION OF Trn PAPAL STATES. Lord CLARENDON wished to know the exact inforwatiou which the government had received in relation to the withdrawal of the French and Austrian troops from the Papal ?? MALMESBURY believed that the Papal government had made its request to the French and Austrian governments of its own accord. The troops of those respective ...

... F R A N C E. OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON THE ITALIAN QUESTION. The Moniteur of Saturday last contained the following highly im- portant article, a telegraphic summary of which was given in our late edition: Public opinion in foreign countries does not clearly understand the present rgi~ne of the press in France. The belief appears to pre- vail too generally that the journals are subjected to a ...

... CuHAaGE or ROASTING A FIREMAN 'ON BOADRD THE SCRW- STEA-MER BOGOTA.-The Liverpool magistrates were occupied during the whole of Tuesday with an adjourned hearing of a charge against the first and second engineers of the Pacific Company's screw-steamer Bogota (J. Bachanan and A. Mitchell), who were accused of causing tile death of a fireman named Landor, by having him tied to a ladder in the ...

... DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE GOVERN- MENT REFORM BILL. The Numerous Pub ic Meetings which have taken place this week, in the Metropolis and other large cities of the Empire, clearly show the falsehood of the allegation that the people of England are in- different on the subject of Reform. London, Liverpool, Leeds, Devonpott, Southamptoni, Birminghams, Sheilield, Bradford, Wake- field, Oldham, ...

... TOWN A-ND COUNTRY TALK. A-rh,1--a T..-r ha- Ir A .. - -&rcnaeacon Law flas given to the inhabitants of Weston-super- Mere a town hail and concert room, tacs ohmefo ,0? The Rev. Mr Mont, chaplain 0i) at a cost to himself of 4,0001. say that the ?? County Jail, writes to will met e return of the convict, Mary Newell, to Reading Jail prisonwill e be pro fooes as having been committed from that ...