... FRANCE.-We are still without any fresh reliable news respecting the congress. According to the latest intelligence, Austria still insists on the disarming of Piedmont, as a condition precedent. Unless she gives way upon this'point, it is said that the other powers will meet without her, bat in that case a peaceable solution to the difficulty would be all but hopeless. The Isipendsncre gives ...

... ITALIAI( GRATITUDE. TO THE ITALIANS RESIDING IN GREAT Birn.m FellowCountrymsn,-Surely there is none amongst us who will not feel grateful for the demonstrations made by the British people and the subscription open ill behalf of the Neapolitan exiles ! All this shows unmistakeable how the great nation sympathises with free institutions and their noble victims, to whatever country they may ...

... The returns for the Last week indicate a favourable state of the public health. In the week that ended March 5th the deaths registered in London were 1,215; in the three weeks that followed theyaveraged about 1,160; in the week that ended last Saturday they deelined to 1,067, of which 603 were deaths of males, and 464 those of females. In the ten years 1849-58 the average number of deaths ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... EXPRESS FROM PARIS, [FROA OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PAR[S, TnuRSDAY EVENING. To-day, at one o'clock, took place the first meet- ing of the Conference. The inew Plenipocentiaries 'were presented to their colleagues, and then Count W-alewski opened the session; after which M. Mussurus, the representative of the Porte, ex- plained that Government's motives in asking for the assembling of a ...

... I TELEGRAPHIC , DESPATCHES. [THROUGH MR. REUTER.S AGENCY.) INDICT51ENT OF SENOR COLLANTES. MADRID, WEDNESDAY. The Congress has approved a bill of indictment C4 - . !tem- A,. ?? againss eenvi vollantes by 178 voices against uv. Senor Collantes was forthwith lodged as a prisoner in the Hotel of the Civil Governor. CONFERENCE ON DANUBIAN AFFAIRS- THE CONGRESS. Pinis, THuRSDAY. In yesterday's ...

... [A pressure of matter compelled us to exclude the follow- ing ifrom our First Edition. A notice of the arrival of the steamer appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.] I THE WEST INDIA AND- SOUTH PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, TauRsDAY EvENING. 'tFRO OUR OWN CO0RESP ?? The Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata, Capt. Weller, arrived at Southampton, yes- terday morning, from ?? Indies, with ...

... FRO'M TILE NEW YORE IIERALD, MUrL 5.] Among the passengers who go to California in to-day's steamer is a corps of surveyors and civil engineers, en route to Oregon to open a noew line of communication from the Missoiri to the Columbia. This route is represented as passing through a rich and interesting region of country, and when completed must open a new gate to the redun- dantly populated ...

... THE LATE CAL AM ITOUS EXPLOSION AT HIOUNSLOWTO WDER ITLLS. | Ysoterday afternoon Mr. Wakley, the coroner, and a jury of sixteen gentlemen, assembled at the Prince Blucher Inn, T vwickoenhar-comtaion, for the purpose of resuming the in- quiry relative to the circumstances of the late calamitous explosion at the Hounslow Powder Mills. The names of the jury having been called ever, the learned ...

... ?? INTELLGENCE' -CITY OF LONDON. r The election of members for the city of London took place fir yesterday in thb Guldhall. There Wvas ?? o displayed on the occasion, and the hall wvas bat little more re than half filled. On tie platformi were Alderocar Sir Chip- 1, nian Marshall, Alderman and Sheriff Hale, Alderman and le: Sheriff Conidor, Alderman Husophery, Mr. Secondary in Potter, Mr. ...

... F IFTAL ACCIDEN' ON THE BIST ZENTI I BAILWAY FORKS.| CANTERBURY, MONDAY EvENIF-G.-BetweOn ten and eleven o'clock last night a fatal accident occurred at the works in the course of construction for the: East Kent Ex- tension Line toDover, in the parish of Womenswold, situate about seven miles to the south-east of this city. Here are a number of cuttings, and it appears a slip of earth took ...