... THE CLASSICAL HRMONISTS' SOCIETY. TinE third concert for the season of this society was given last evening at the Victoria Iall, and nttraeted a crowded attendance. We presume this was the closing concert of the season, and it certainly was in seale respects superior to its piedecessors. The artistes engaged included Miss J. Cruise and Mr. It. Smith, of the Dublin con- certs, who are both too ...

... J2-- ?? (5fural ?Iltflfiyllm fi THe Ist Beitalion of the 15th Foot is to proceed to a the Channel Islands-six companies to Jersey, and al four to Alderney. All the artillery in the barracks st at Sheerness are to go to the Channel Islands. h TuE salories of the Roman Catholic bishops and it chaplains in India are to lie increased. TheaGovernor- d General has determined that there shall be a ...

... A Paris correspondent, writes on Saturday that the officers of a division of the army of Paris were summoned on Friday to the quarters of their re- spective colonels, and informed that they were to hold themselves in readiness to march, as the division was to for^t part of the army abont to enter on a campaign. The Governmeni have in- quired as to how many men could be trbasporte| lper day by ...

... SulcIDE IN BLENHzi PAUL-On Thursday week the Spanish Consul for Australia, Don Antonio Arrom de Ayala, committed suicide by shooting himself near the Home Farm in Blenheim park On his person were found three letters one addressed by him to the landlady of the Bear Hotel, Woodstock, where he has been staying since Tuesday lest, end another addressed to the Duke of Marlborough. The third was ...

... Carnspubtart. THE BALLOT. TO THE EDITOR Or THE EXAMINER. Sir,-As every arygument for and against the ballot has been advanced again and again, may I be permitted to give one prac- tical illustration of its necessity which has come under my own knowledge. I live in a country village of some five hundred inhabitants, and at a reading room in the same often meet and converse with them. Many are ...

... I I . iWL.L GLASGOW ELECTION-Mite J; -A. C:L-MPBELL, r . Iaoil. 1.7A 7- 11 tOIA..{L A . ?? - A ?? , To tite editor of the Glasgoqv Berl-ad., Sli,-Thre Government of the Queen are about to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the *lectoral body, on the broad ihsue of how far they are prepared to-support Parliatitentary Governruent, in accordance u ith those great party lines, 02 which foundation ...

... of FRANCE. in (From the Times' Correspondence.) aed - Saturday, April 9. ite If all the Governments were resolved to treat the Italiane 1li- question in a spirit of good faith and moderation, and with ity a serious anxiety to avoid war, it would not be difficult to' Ite find a solution honourable to all parties and satisfying all le- .ng gitimate requrements. An attempt in that sense is now ...

... Is the question which many a Merthyr elector is sorely puzzled with at the present time. The great majority of voters would like to give their voice and interest for the Ballot, but then the Candidate of most local influence is an anti-Ballot man and then comes the question, which each one asks of himself or puts to a friend, What am I to do ? We fear that there are a great num- ber who have ...

... fEatftets?-, LONDON, MÓRDA'Y,'MAf:CH 28. Purchases are made with more, readiness in Colonial Produce supplies are, moderate, atid this currency rules ftrtfifer. ltatiftnd has tenfoishwi fbr RMsiM Produce, arid lower term# accepted i MltJjPB&h spooks arc not Jarfre. Prices ere fully 9s bighfut articles •nwd to Manufacturing Purposes, and there-are greater-trafisoc- itfcHS. Metals have been ...

... [From Bell's Weekly Messenger. ] The weather during the last few days has been thoroughly April in character—sunshine, rain, wind, heat, and cold, intermingled, and succeeding each other with incessant changefulness. The rains have been very acceptable; and the young seed crops .which had been checked by the previous dry weather have come up in full vigour. The transplanted trees and shrubs ...

... gfetopt Jutal nttlligttttt. Mr. James Vaughan, a barrister of note, on the Oxford circuit, presented himself here on Saturday last offering to stand for the boroughs in the Liberal interest. A brother-in-law of John Bright, and of the same political creed, it was expected that he would be supported, but we learn that one member of the council, and the chief leader of the opposition, refused to ...

... iSpttotnect Neto. Advices from Auckland, New Zealand, confirm the statements of the discovery of good coal in that province. The death of Mr. W. J. Champlain, so many years chairman of the London and South Western Rail- way Company, is announced. The Paris correspondent of the Globe says:— Emile de Girardin is coming out with a Letter to Benjamin Disraeli on Universal Suffrage, recommending ...