... 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 ...

... If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer It would be to tell him his fatz- If he resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipiceof telling nubiassed truth let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks ...

... Tuesday, April 5. Unar-Otticoe, Pallmall, April 5.-Royal Artillery: Lieut. J. L. Clarke to be See. Capt.-RI. Engineers: Capt. and Brev. Lieut--Col. C. D. Robertson to be Lieut.- CoL, vice Brev.-Col. James, placed on tbe Supernamerary List-Capt. and Brev. Maj. C. Fanshawe to be Lieut.-Col., vice Brev.-Col. Yorke, placed upon the Sn. perarnmerary List.-Capt. and Brev.-Col F. E. Chanman, C.B., to ...

... LONDON MAECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-A public meeting was held on Monday at Willis's Rooms, in aid of the fnnds for the purchase of the premises in Southampton buildings occupied by the institution, and the release of the trustees from their liabilities. The chair was taken by the Earl of Carlisle, who said he was there to make an appeal to those now present, and others beyond the limits of that ...

... The following address from the nou-electors of the borough of Kendal to the non-electors of the boroughs of the United Kingdom was adopted at a meeting held at the Working Men's Reading Rooms, Kendal, and is issued by authority: Brother Non-Electors,-The undersigned, authorised by their fellow non-electors, feel it to be their duty to you and to themselves to draw general attention to the ...

... FROM THE LONDON &*AZTE. Tu4eidap, A4pril 19. Admaialty, April 14.-Corps of Royal Marines: First Liets and Qrt e cesoers dwar M~rhur nd Hnry radly Roberto to be Capts. ; First Lieut. masterd Edward Mo Atehr and teory Brati .; First Lieuts. to be Capts.: Henry. and Adjutant John YaBe Hollad to be Caetour, Arthur John Stuart, and Charles Hewitt, James Shute, John Busteed St~e~nta m er Frni Gaels ...

... TuEn Coura.-The Queen held a Privy Council on Tuesday at Buckingham Palace, at which the Archbishop of Canterbury was di- rected to prepare a form of prayer and thanksgiving for the recent successes in India, to be used in churches on Sunday the 1st of May. At the Court Sir J. Hudson, the British Minister at Turin, had an audience of the Queen upon his arrival from thence. The Queen held the ...

... 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 dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth let him preclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fall Upon him with the iron hands of the iaw; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks ...

... - Tom CNuRcit DISPUTES AT KNIGITSERIDGE.-The inhabitants of this district assembled on Tuesday to elect a churchwarden for the coting year. The Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell, the incumbent, tookE the chair. In opening the proceedings he said his business in con- ?? withthe meeting would be very short. His first duty was to nominate a churchwarden on his own behalf, and he therefore nomi- nated Mr T ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, April 18. THE STATE OF EUROPE. Lord AfALMESBURY, in calling the attention of the house to the state of affairs on the continent, said it would be fresh in the memory of the house that in the beginning of this year a conversation had occurred which showed that the relations between France and Austria were not on so satisfactory a footing as could have been desired, while ...

... 91 afat SATURDAT, APRIL 2. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. On the question of dissolution or resignation,-the real facts respecting which can only be positively known on Monday evening,-the Times of this morning hts the following: The Conservatives met yesterday morning, pursuant to notice, at the Carlton Club, and found themselves exceedingly unanimous as to the impolicy of a dissolution. To ...