... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, A.pril 4. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The Earl of DERBY, in a crowded and excited house, rose to explain the course which the government bad determined to adopt under pending circumstances. After alluding to the importance of the vote passed in the Commons on Thursday night, be proceeded to examine the conditions under which it had been carried, and ...

... TE;E LITERAnY FuND.-With reference to the nature and object of the negociation lately opened with the Literary Fund by Mr C. Dickens and the Rev. W. Elwin, the Literary Gazette of Saturday stated that the negociation in question consisted in the offer of a library, accompanied bv a sum of 10,00W. to be spent exclusively upon its maintenance, and added: In consideration of this gift of books, ...

... IMPERIAL. PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, April 11. - NEW COURTS OF LAW. Lord REDESDALE moved that there be laid before the house a plan of the ground proposed to be appropriated by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn to the courts and other buildings for the transaction of the business of the Court of Chancery, under the provisions of the Court of Chancery accommodation bill, and plans and ...

... The Bishop of London will not be able to receive the clergy, as usual, at London house, St James's square, on Tuesday next, being Easter Tuesday; nor on the following Tuesday. Complaints have been laid before the Kentish magistrates respect- ing facilities afforded by the South-Eastern Company for the convey- ance of prize-fighters and their attendant mobs, and a promise has been made on ...

... Large war insurances have been taken out at Lloyds' by foreign shipowners, and oip nearly all kinds of policies increased premiums are demanded. Sardinian and Austrian vessels can scarcely be insured on any terms, and even for English, for protracted periods, especially in the St Petersburg trade, a considerable addition is made. Hl amburg is certain to remain neutral as long as possible, yet ...

... I RELAND. Saxoy SYwTArseizrRs.-At the recent Kilkenny assizes an action was brought by Mr W. Kienesly, editor of the ?? Journal, against J~1r D. Dunlop, editor of the Belfaet Mercury, for an alleged libel published in the latter paper. The jury awarded a verdict of 51. upon one of the iesue, arid found for the defendant upon the others. The follow ing portion of the cross-examination of the ...

... MR DISRAELI AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has issued the following address to the electors of the county of Buckiugham.- Gentlemen, A Parlia- mentary majority, composed of discordant sections, has availed itself of its numerical strength to embarrass her Majesty's Government, and by a disingenuous manceuvre to intercept the discussion of their mea- sures. A year ago ...

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

... gat.c5i SATEURDAY, APIUaL 16. THE CONGRESS. No material modification has transpired in the state of affairs. The Vienna Gazette has an article in which a general dis- armament is called for, not as a preliminary condition, but as a fifth point to be added to the programme of the Congress. PA Vienna telegram of Thursday evening, on the other hand, conveys a positive assertion that Austria ...

... -gaff Pf igna. SATURDAY, APRIL 30. AUSTRIA AND PIEDMONT. DECLARATION OF WAR. The following telegram was received at Mr Re.uter's office this morning: t VIEN&u, FRIDAY, ApasL 29. The offiial Wiener Zeitung publishes an Imperial manifesto, explaining in energetic terms the necessity of war with Sardinia. The manifesto appeals to the patriotism of the faithful subjects of Austria, and hopes for ...

... REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL, Order read, for resuming adjourned Debate on Amendment proposed to Question (21st March), That the bill be now read a second time ; and which amendment was, to leave out the word That to the end of the question, in order to add the words this House is of opinion, that it is neither just nor politic to interfere, in the manner proposed in this bill, ...

... F B AN C E. Ten CoxOazsm.-The Powers have not yet come to a complete arrangement as to the conditions of the Congress. We read in the Independance: Austria, after having agreed to the preliminary bases for a ConDgess, will require, as a further preliminary, the dis- armament of P-iedmont before she herself can consent to submit to the same obligation. She will look upon this condition as a ...