... d.art W Ofucial. The Queen held a Privy Council at three o'clock on Tues. day afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by the Prince Consort, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Mat- quis of Salisbury, Lord President; the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Privy Seal; the Earl of Derby, First Lord of the Treasury; the Right Hon. Sotheron Estcourt, Secretary of State for the Home Department ; the ...

... (From the Gazette of Tuesday Night.) Wa.nI OFFICE, APmr, 12. The Queen has been graciously pleased to confirm the grant of the decoration of the Victoria Cross to the under- mentioned officer and private of her Majesty's Army, which decoration has been provisionally conferred upon them by the Commander-in-chief in India, in accordance with the roles laid down in her Majesty's warrant insti- ...

... giottict ?;Rtws. DUDLEY. THE LATE -.CICDENT AT BlSNS' LANE u oLcAErtY.-COo- 3aITTAL OF THiE ESGINEER FOR MA'SLIJGHTEE.-At thle New Town Hall, yesterday, before Captain Bennitt and W. Mathews, Esq., Charles Bridgewater, late engineer at the Bunn's Lane Colliery, was pilced in the dock on a charge of having, by uegli- gence, caused the death of Henry Dickenson, a lad seventeen years of age, on ...

... NEWS OF TaE DAY. SOMEn gossip regardingll, the motives of the Minis- try ill dissolving a Parliament ecarcely two years old, has oozed out in the Dmetropolitaiii clubs, and has been thence conveyed to the0 colum1ns of a con- teuiporary. The story about -Mr. DISaAEMI being anxious to secure a retiring pension to which he would be entitled at the end of this month, and all the thousand and one ...

... ,lordo ?? 1, . 0 c W. * FRANC E. (Pr-e thec Dat'fay News, PiRs, Wfe'dnesday Evening. LUitle or no news of the CongrezA but umeh talk of pre- pgaration for war is the charaetereitin oi tlno situation. The Minister of Marine is combinir,g his efforts will thinse of the Miuister at War to bo rc l'3y ' lwhenever the signal may be given. Orders have be dit sent to Touloxi that sixty- eight ?? ...

... DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT THE HIOUNSLOW POWDER MILLS. [From the Timies.] One of those terrible calamities which from time to time seem fated to occur in the hazardous process of manufac- turing gunpowder, took place on Wednesday morning, at Messrs. Curtis and Harvey's works, at Hounslow. The lives of six persons were instantaneously sacrificed, a seventh sufferer has since been added to the list ...

... (Farnn the Times.) The following painful statement has been made by John Elliott, mate of the Dromahair,- The British bark Dromuasir sailed from Quebec on the 20th of November, 1858, for Greenock, Scotland, loaded with lumber and manned by thirteen persons, including the captain and mate. She carried no passengers. Her officers were: John Hutohison, captain; John Elliott, first mate; and ...

... Jrdq'R. btflliylla. THE WAR CRISIS. FAINT HOPES-OP PEACE. BE 11rIT Monday, A pril 11. The offioial Prussian Gazette (PT-enssische Zeiitng) pub. lislies a leading article of which the following is a sum- inary:- *Daring the last few days urreasbiess has taken posses- sion of the public mind at thro -lews-that the assembling of the Congress has again becomei doubtful Tle anticipation of a near ...

... LORD DERBY AT THE MANSION- I HO USE. The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, according to time-honoured custom, gave a dinner in the Egyptiau- hall of the Mansion-house on Monday evening. The usual loyal toasts having been proposed and duly honoured, The LORD MAYOR then gave The Army and Navy, to which His Eoyal Highness the Duke of CAM!BRIDGE responded. Sir JOHP PARINGTON responded for the ...

... THE QUESTION OF PEACE OR I WAR. The amounts from Vienna, Paris; and Berlin, received yesterday, still leave the question of Peace or War in uncertainty. hsrom Vienna, a portion of an official article has been received (by telegraph), in which the Anutrian Government states that it has shown its anxiety for peace by the manner in which it received Lord Cowley's thissioti, and by 1 accepting the ...

... WORKROUSE COilDlITTE4 The weekly meeting of the workhouse conmnjitte of the select vestry was hold yesterday, in the board room of the parish offices, Brownlotvl1i3l Mr. Cropper presided, and the following other --iti were also present:--Mcssrs. Owen, Scett. ?? iinen Peck, Syred, Byford, Dentonc, Broocne, W J Critchloy, and 9mith. *, Mr. Carr, the governor of the workhouse report that the ...

... LIVERPOOL SYMPATHY NEAPOLITAN EXILES. rhere e,o 1r3 Yest~erday, a meeting convened by the Mayor, IIalam saveral magistrates, and the leading merchauta of kand Liverpool, was held at the Town Hall, to consider catl the propriety of origiating a splbsoription in this Iota t town on behalf of the Neapolitan exiles. His 1)51 Worship the Mayor (William Preston, Elq.), pie. 568.j sided, and there ...