... We have great eatisinction in seeing it announced that the Board of Trade has e dirccted an official inquiry into the causes of the wreck of the Royal Charter. There never was a case more loudly calling for thorough and searching investigation by a competent authority. As yet we really know no more about the matter than we did on the day when the distressing intelligence of the dis- aster ...

... 'I MUOWC1PA¶LECTIONA TIE I I - VACANT WARDS. - Owing to the pro motion of Mr. John Stewart and Mr. Woodruff to tho hollsour of aldeormren, two vacactioe have occurred in the municijal representa- tion-one in South Toxteth and t ho other in ficotland ward. The election is fixed for Friday next. Mr. Clarke Aspinall has consented to come forward for Scotlanrd ward, and there is little doubt of ...

... I.. .A,. LBY ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC TELEGRPIPs.j A despatch announces that Prince Alxad second son of, tho Queen of the NetherlandE haasner suddenlyattacked vithseriousillness. ElerMa h est who was at Toulon, is recalled to the Hague sty The Mfoiasng Hcrald states that another b.o gold, valued at about £)350, has been recover oE the wreck of the Royal Charter, and it is seill hrons that the ...

... Prince Napoleon's tiny steami yacht, whichl he pur- chased from Mr. Righy at Holyhead, has arrived at Cherbourn, and is the object of special wonderment. There have been heavy feoods in the south of France, and the damnage, especially at Grenoble, has been very extensive. Troan the coast of AfricaV we learn that the Mein- phis, American slaver, hald, it wvas supposed, escaped the American ...

... I LATEST I TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. ?? ~ ~ ~ ~ - .- tl MAI, Niows.-The Calcutta and China mails w arrived at Dover at 1 30 p.m. yesterday. Il The screw-steam yacht Fox, 155 tons, recently ?? turned from the Franklin expedition, sold at Lluyd's bI yesterday, after a spirited comnpetition, at 22825. ti Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at hB Windsor Castle on Wednesday afternoon, or. a visit ...

... M. CHEVALIER ON ENGLAND M AND'R.ANCE. M. Michel Chevalier, well known to every educated Englishman as one of the aoutidest economists and political thinkers that France Ineu produced during the p-resent century, ?? Just been rendering the best servioe which any unoflicial Frenchlinan can render to the Causo of European peace and civilisation. A recent visit to this country has profbundly ...

... ?? ~A PR°5y IS I NGGTH l ?? e - _ M iso POKler Menr, Ycsterdnr, before Mr. yans` P.li r-eoP~~tsiriy-dreceed, ?? FrurtE-ioodkhla yerrfh,,nam~ed lijgo Jones, -vns;achnrged with having! !~rezid £9 , the property ~of his errspioar Mr. Georlacro, too icrcerhantb Terrnle.-ourL, T'heyr isolorr is13 years of eg, 1r, hji4 fitthermidand otlrcr being 'levi~, lie hagi resided with his isant, a respectable ...

... . TO CoRRESPONDENTS. We a:.ot 0nder'tkO t0 ?? somneair of w-c wed nce avail oarselves. C omnnunleatlons slhould alwvays ?? Othe fJcly0 f~UEcaC~cre°; tsgatb gi ~ever ,r'ict~ add for insertion u n,~t bo authontimindc 137 the1 bacts tlnd aildgtbrntei 0! the ?? dnot n damratl Sr pnibtea O' A TORY.-1Mr 0. Heyworth. n JOauPJI.-Wo are not aware of any such act. h Thle letter of Orega is not suited ...

... BAUS POPULI LEX ?UPRM&. MUMMARY. I DOMESTIC. Prince Frederick William of Prussia and the Princess Royal arrived early yesterday morning at Dover. In the afternoon they reached Windsor Castle, where they are to 1 remain for a short time on a visit to the Qaeen and Prince Albert. From diplomatic correspondence published i in last night's Gazettc it appears that the g English Government extracted ...

... LATES .T A - - - Pi r&sRiAL 9U:X AJ X - aiA ?? KMAL NEWS. Tire l lm nmonia lrrr3 arrived at Son titliatpton with iaili troa New York for HaImrnburg, and adviecs to the lot sirsbant, She brings in specie $192,000 for s Englan,1, and $200,000 for .Ermuce. 1 3oUT1IAxAwoX, SUNDAY EV£;SINul.-The Tiagus ?? arrivcd, with the Peuinsular mialls, £,000 in 1speoie, 18 passengers, and a general cargo. ...

... Lieutenant-Colonel Maude, royal artillery, has been appointed crown equerry in place of the late Major Groves. The Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy, first commissioner of works, has been for several weeks confined to his bed by severe indisposition. The Globe says that after the 5th of April the assessed and income taxes are to be collected by officers of excise. Mr. W. J. Wilkinson, connected with ...

... CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER i AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. I Mr. W. E. Gladstone, in replying to the toat The House of Commons at the Lord Mayors banquet, said-I feel confident that the position which the House of Coinnions has attained by cen- turies of noble exertions in the estimation of England nnd of the world is not likely to be forfeitel and lost. (Hear, hear.) It may happen that those ...