... IMPERIAIL PARLIAMENT IDY TEUGILAPH.1 HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, MARCH 12. Their lordships met at five o'clock. On the motion of the Earl of AIRTIE, a select committee was appointed to inquire into the operation of the law of hypothec in Scotland. The Marquis of CLANRICARDI laid on the table a bill for the amendment of the bankruptcy law of Ireland, which was read a first time. Their lordships ...

... PARLAMN A r - HER MIAJESTY'S HEALTH. A great many rumours have been afloat in reference to the absence of the Queen at the open- r ing of Parliament, and the Tory journals have I industrionsly spread the statement that it was owing to her Majesty's dislike to the sentiments contained in the speech, which it would have been her duty to read. The remarks on this subject made by Mr. Gladstone in ...

... WoOLF v. Ko'rni.-A case came on for hearing at the county court, before Sergeant Wheeler, Q. C., which involved a somewhat curious quetiou I as to the legality of obtaining a wife through the agency of what may be termed a 'marriage . hroker. Abraham Woolf, Dickinrs n-street, out- fitter and tobacconist, was the plaintiff, and Heinrich Kothe, licensed victualler, Pitt-:itreet, the defendant. ...

... Mr. James Greenwood, the amateur casnal,' who .Qetntly exposed the flagitious frauds por- petratedb' makers of so-called life-buoys,which instead of i.Jng constructed of cork, are astuffea with bay, straw,. and other rubbish useless for purposes of flotation, recurs to the subject in a Fletteraddressed to lke Star, ?? writes- Diligent inquiry has enabled oe to gather some sort of healing ...

... A remarkable suit to obtain the annulment of a marriage contract bas occupied seven sittings of the Civil Court of Paris. The defendant was a gentleman named Stern, a Russian subject, formerly a shipbroker in London, and the plaintiff Madame Edouard Houssaye, sister and heir-at law of Madame Stern, now deceased. The marriage between M. and Madame Stern was solemnised in 1862 after a very ...

... beyond. __ I The case of Woodhouse v. Woodhouse, jrst decided in the Court of Chancery, COntvdjJ a serious warning to trustees, the sonis and rlprs- sentatives of a deceased trustee being held liable, .53 years after the date of a tarria settleeneut, for their father's omission to enforce a coveissut against the husband. The facts are as ?? set.e1inent, which was executed in ISM, on the ...

... I I - ~~~TOXTETH. - The msntllytii' etlr DtirE lbciarriwwas held yesterday ill at thre Lave Ascociatlion Roomus, (jook-street, Mr. Hi. 3. Alpass in thu Chair. I lie ether members present were c_ MletErs, Boult, Itogers, Woodhead, Jaclitori, Harigh, and e; Nylor.-Tlo opibilon s-f Mr. TIX U. Blaylis, barrister-, list ;Z ein obtained as to the liability of certain hsuildings at thii Textoth-park ...

... At the monthly meeting of the Birlrenhead Com- minsioners, on Tuesday, there was some discussion relative to the effect of the increased contract rates. No accurate return has yet been made, but it would seem that, notwithstanding the increase, the receipts for contract tickets last month were only about £42 in excess of the amount received in January, 1668, It is expected that when a ...

... I MTUM IN PARVO. The sot asued in the lat seoito Stspend ti, t0 Habeas 0orpus Act it Ireland will expire on the 25th of next month. A.- A woman lving at Bradford, who was cans- Ue tomed to take laudanuum for the relief of asthoa d killed herself on Thursday, by taking an overdos,' Ake On Thursday night, a crowded meeting of th arod inhabitalts of Leeds was held, in favour of the t release of ...

... I I The fortnightly meeting of this board was h-311d yesterday, in the boardroom at the parish offices, Browfniow-hill. Mr. Churchwarden Satchell pre. sided, and the other members present were Mr. Cburchwflrdefl Turner, Messrs. Jennings, Scott, Syerr, Glover Owen, Hughes, Oritchley, Byrom, B. Roberts, MIartin, Peck, Blackledge Hand,' Knight, T. Smith, Aitken, Coupland, h3orafall, J. P. 0. ...

... TO COR=USPONDENTS. We cannot undertako to return communicatlion of ?? we do not nvailloureolvea. Comnmunications should always be legibly written in ink and on onse side of the paper only; length increases the difisculty of finding space for them. Whatever Is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee ...

... .Ar = . t*t; .. . --7 - ,, . -- g WJ GREAT BAND OF 11OPEE DEMONSTII MTON. A band of hope demonstration, on a much larizer scale than ever wa-s witnessed before in Liverpool, took place yeeterday evenin: at St. (eIor cc's If-ll. t It was promoted by the la lies' committeo of the Liverpool Temperance Union, ai-isteA hy tlln I general committee, and it is only doing them 4 justice to say that in ...