... 110 UME OF 0OMfONS. The house met at twelve o'clock. QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICE. Mr. HADFIELD moved the second reading of the Qualifi- !cation for Offices Abolition Bill. Sir M. PETO seconded the motion Mr. NFVDEWEATE opposed the bill as introducing an uniecessary innovation, conceived in a spirit of hostility to the Church of England, and moved that the bill be read a second time that day six ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Corres'poondent4 wiho set any spec-ial ae.lue upqon their cor- 9mminicationas must keep copics of then, as we cannot sender- teae to aotun umused eontrintions All letters intended for publication. must be acecoipan in d by the namnes and addresses of the writers, not neeesarilh for jullkotiona , bud for the information of the Editor. A. B. C., Stourbridge.-W( do ...

... MR.. ROEBUTJCK, M.P., ON POPULAR EDUCATION. (From otr Reporter.) SALISBurzY, Friday. Least evening, Tvr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P., delivered anl ad- dress upon ?? Populatr Education in the Assembly Roosin of this city to the members of the Literary and Scientific Institution. Mr. Marsh, M.P., occupied the chair; and amnongst those present were the Right Rev, the Bishop of Salisbury, Archideacon ...

... DISTRICTNEWS. BROSELEBY. NIGHT POACHING.-Late on Friday night, or early on the morning of Saturday, as one of Lord Forester's keepers and two watchers were out near the-ash cappice, they eja- countered a gang Of poachere,' about seventeen in nuoeb Te, in the lane leading fro~mth~b bttosmsof the, Belt IHel The numbers were too formidable for the keepers and watchegs to encounter, but some ...

... The artistic resuscitation of Madame Goldschlimidt, however satisfactorily established by her various operatic and ballad performances on Wednesday evening, could scarcely be deemed complete in Birmingham, itntil her powers had once again been tested here in that trying branch of the vocalist's art in which her most solid suc- cesses were formerly achieved; and, with good judgment, one entire ...

... THE MASONS' STRIKE MEETING OF THE TRADES .OF LONDON. An aggregate meeting of the London' Trades' Societies- convened by the London Trades' Couincil, was held:o01 Wednesday evening, in the large room of the Whitting- ton Club, Aruildel Street, Strand, for the purpose of adopting measures to assist the operative masons of London in their continued.resistance to the system of payment and ...

... MR STIMPSOJ'S CONCERT. Two serious drawbacks militated against the financial success i of the congert given in the Town Hall on Thuradaynight-the first being thel unfavourable weather and the other the virtual novelty of the chief personal attraction upon whiel the belil- ficiairc relied and we need scarcely remark that novelty is by imo means so popular a recommendation in a musical celebrity ...

... BY ELECTRIC AND INrERNrIONAL TELEOGRAPIL OvFICES, TumtIwI BUILDINGS, NEW STREET. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. .RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Fiuin 0u.tY 6. The folloving are the estimatc(, exi-indlitnrc and income of the Russiall Empirc for the ensiuing year, as set forth in the Budget:- Expenditure ?? '254,000,000 silver rouldes. income ?? 234,000,000 ditto POLAND. TILLSDEN, FEBRUARY 6. The offieial ...

... THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.-Sir Culling Eardley, Bart., has resigned the presidency of the Evangelical Alli- ance, which he has held for a long series of years, and the duties of which he has always most energetically discharged. Failing health is one of the reasons assigned for the step this taken. Last year there, were 970 criminal lunatics-750 males and 220 females. In the year forty-nine ...

... By ELECOTPI AND INTERNATIONAL TEL29RAP11, O mES, TEmPLE BUILDINGS, NEW STrBEET. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. ITALY. THE ITALIAN QUESTION. MARSEILLES, JULY 30. Letters from Constantinople of thle 23rd state that Sir H. Bulwer has announced that England has in- duced Austria to sit at the Conferences oln Servia with the Italian Ambassador. The first sitting was occupied with the affair of Belgradc. The ...

... Sir Charles Eastlake has just bought Gainsborough's portrait of Mrs. Siddons for the National Gallery, from Major Mair, the husband of Mrs. Siddons' granddaughter, for 1,000 guineas.-Express. As an acknowledgment of the distinction and munificent hospitality with which he was received on the occasion of his recent visit to Liverpool, his Highness Said Pasles, Viceroy of Egypt, has transmitted ...

... BURSTING OF THE COFOFER-DA&L. LYNN, WEDNESDAY. It was determined that the attempt should be made this afternoon to complete the coffer-dam sufficiently to stop the water. The fourth row of ianels were dropped on the flood tide, and the tidal waters were actually stopped. Of course the stoppage caused an accumulation of water on the outer or sea side of the dam, on which side alone there were ...