... P ARLIAMENT. ! IMPERIAL ROUSE OF LORDS. Monday, Marek 21. The business was entirely of a routine charaoter,- The indictable offences (metropolitan district) bill passed through committee.- The mutiny, marine mutiny, and county courts bills were severally read a second ?? convict prisons abroad bill passed through committee. Tuesday, March. 22. MARRIAGE ACT AM1sSDNENT BILL. LordWODEHOUSE moved ...

... THnE FUND.-A meeting of the general committee of this fund was held at 118 Pallmall, on Saturday last, which was attended by the Earls of Shaftesbury, Carlisle, Granville, and Ripon, Viscount Palmerston, Lord J. Russell, the Right Hon. E. -Ellice, M. Gibson, W. E. Gladstone, Sir B. Hall, V. Smith, and Sir D. Dundas; the Deans of Westminster and St Paul's, the iEon. A. :linnaird, M.P., Mr W. ...

... Tim CounT.-The return of the Court to the metropolis is fixed for the 29th inst. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe.-Cobourg are expected to reach London in the early part of April, on a visit to her Majesty. Their arrival will be succeeded by that of the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia. THE CHuRcH DiSPUTE IN BEnIoeVIo.-Tmr REV. ALFRED POOLE'S CASE.-The Court of Appeal assembled on ...

... ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.-At the evening meeting next Monday the papers read will be: 1. Notes of a Voyage up the Yang-tse-Keang from Woosung to Stankow; by L. Oliphant, Esq. Secretary to the Earl of Elgin, with a chart of the river by Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N. 2. View of the Great Valley of the Yang- tse-Keang, before and after its occupation by the Chinese Rebels; by Sir J. Davis, ...

... Trnn IRISH: CATHOLIC UIoevoRsITY.-A deputation from the Irish members on behalf of a charter to the Roman Catholic University of Ireland had an interview lately with the Chancellor of the Excbe- quer. Mr Maguire, M.P., stated the objects and wishes of the depu- tation, and adverted to the large sums of money which had been raised from voluntary sources to support the University, and he de- ...

... DRuNnENNEss ON TIE TYNrE.-On Saturday night great alarm was caused among the shipping in Shields harbour by flames bursting out of the cabin of the brig David Owen. The engines were not long in reaching the scene of conflagration, and in about an hour an d a-half the fire was extinguished. Upon getting into the cabin the fire brigade made a sad discovery. Resting on his knees were the charred ...

... F RA N C E. PROPOSED CONGRESS FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ITALIAN QUESTION. The first indications of the forthcoming Congress at which, it is hoped, the Italian question may be settled, appeared in the Times of Monday last, where we read as follows: We are happy to state that a Congress of the great Powers will meet either at London or Berlin to take into consideration the state of Italy and ...

... IbMPROVEn;ENTS IN THE INSTRUMENTS OF WAE.-Mr Sotheron Est- court and the Secretary of War have brought in a bill to enable the inventors of cannon and other warlike implements to obtain patents without publishing the details of their schemes. They are first to submit the invention to the Secretary for War, and if he considers the invention of value, he may at once buy it of the inventor, and ...

... faftst ?? SATURDAY, MARCH 26. The Moniteur of yesterday confirms the information previously received by telegram to the effect that the Cabinet of Vienna has consented to the proposition of Russia for a Congress. The report that Cournt Cavour had left Turin for Paris, on the invitation of the Emperor, has been rapidly followed by the news that the Sardinian statesman has arrived at the ...

... War office'M Tuesday, Marcha 22. l:r~ig March 22.-The following appointments haeo taken piece in 'lhe Order of the Bath: Maj.-Gen. J. Michel, C.B., to be a Kfnigbt Commander; Cot. C. S. Stuart, C.B., of tire Bombay Infantry, to be an Extra Hnicht Commanoder. ro be Extra Companions of tbe Order: CoL St. W. Smnith, ltd Dragoon Geards; Col. J. A. B. Rtineet, 95th Stag. t Cot. A. I. Lockhart, 92ed ...

... TEE POLITICAL EXAMINER. If 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 unbiassed truth let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. It he tells the eimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtnes, when they have any ...

... ifr Charles Dickens has communicated to the Literary Fund the noble offer of a friend of literature to give 10,000. in money, and 17,000 volumes of books, to the corporation, on condition that certain reforms calculated to increase the utility of the Fund were adopted. Thp Queen has been pleased to exercise her right to appoint one Roval trustee for the British Museum in favour of the Rev. T. ...