... On Monday, this event was celebrated with much enthusiasm at Aluwick, Rothibury, end North Shields. At each of these places there was a public dinner, numerously attendled by the influential inhabitants; and, the health of his Grace was enthusiastically re- ceived. This is the first time that his Curace's birth- day has been celebrated in North Shields. That town lies under many obligations to ...

... Advices received from Japan announce the perpe- tration of a dreadful political murder. A lady and three gentlemen, while riding on the high road, were attacked by 1i djainjo. with at retinueofOQ en Charles Lennox Richfar(sonl, of qanghiil, wa t mac- dared in cold blood. The rest escaped. The ven- geance of the foreign powers for this act had been averted by the British minister, whose ...

... MB GLADSTONE made a speech at tke Den- bigh Agricultural dinner at Mold, on Wed- nesday, but it had no political interest, the speaker dwelling entirely on agricultural ques- tiOIIs. A FinRE broke out on Wedneseay evening, on board the Southern Cross, loading for i Bombay, in the East India Docks. Her cargo was nearly loaded. She was scuttled. Messrs t Stuart & Co. are the owners. ConSIErtuLkL ...

... LORD RAVENSWORTH ON OUR RELA- TIONS WITH AMERICA. In our last week's issue we mienstioned that an interesting demonstration had taken place oni the 13lth instant, in connection with the launching of a lifebeot ait Tynemnoutis, where it is to be stationed. This lifeboat has been presented by G. J. Fenwick Esq. to the Iloyal National Lifeboat Society. The boat was launched in thepresence of a ...

... I.i t c.1I SS- _ DAILY ANIDlPRI(XvWAkL PRES TIMES.-The -ountty is greatlyg indebted| to W'Osborne for ild sueo5essful-'renbwal ofl the great q4uesti6n of the-hour. - Government' -ias now fairly hclopted the conviotiQ& of the! hou-e and tsie puiblic. The works. at Spithoadi are to be suspendqd-perhaps with anh ultinate diversionof the money provided for them to the immediate organization of an ...

... On Thursday morning, the experiments, which last week elicited such startling results with the gucis and shells of Mr Whitworth, were again resumed on a larger and more important scale, in the presence of a number of officers aid scientific gentlemen, at the old practice-groundl at Ssoebaryne~ss. The trials were made in the presence of Lord Clyde, Sir William Armatrocig, Mr Wlhitworth, the ...

... EXCITING SCENE IN HARTLEPOOL On Friday evening, the Temperance Hall, Hartle- pool, was thronged to excess by parties who had as- sembled to hear the Rev. C E. Palmer, curate of Holy Trinity Church, Hartlepool, deliver a lecture on the comnparative merits of the Church and Dissent, and to refute various statements made by Mr W. Walters, the agent of the Church Liberation Society, in a lecture ...

... The annual meeting of this society was held on Tuesday afternoon, in the rooms of the Antiquarian Society, at the Old Castle; JoHN DozsoN, Esq., the president, occupied the chair. A letter from the BirminghamArchitectural Society stated that the society had considered the scale of charges sanctioned by the Northern Association, and enclosed a series of resolutions expressive of their opinion ...

... (From the London Reewls.) The spectacle-even in these progressive days--of a little university which has asked to be refolned, and has been reformed accordingly, is not one to be passed over in silence. In the year 1860, Durham Univer- sity found itself sinking into a sure decline. Its in- come was considerable, its fellowships were many, its studentswere few. Twenty-four fellows and 12,000 or ...

... THE TRANSFER OF LAND BILL The Lord Chancellor has lost no time in printing his Bill for the Transfer of Land. It is a concisely (h-awm bil of 157 clauses, and so far as arrangement and language go, it is a wvorkman-like bill, creditable to the droaughtsmen. For the puiposes of his mea- sure, Lord Westbury calls into being certain officers, called a registrar and examiners of title, who are to ...

... TV. ?? - . A T ?? The usual monthly meeting of the River Tynte Commnis- tolzers was hehl yesterdaty (Thursday), in their offlces rown Hall Buildings, the Chairmanl (JOS. COWEN, Esq.$ The reports of the Finance, liers, Northumnberland Dock, and the Dredger :Lnd Iliver Works Conmmittees were told and Conlirtoeti Withoult diseussion. There was no psult of public inlterest its any of thtese ...

... THE PRINcE OF WALES will arrive in Eng- land before the end of this week. THE PASHA OF EGYPT.-Earl Russell visited the Pasha of Egypt on Monday ; as also the Master. of the Horse.. We Thoon,, Chas. Murray is appointed to attend ths Pes'ha during his stay in England. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.-Number of visitors at the Exhibition this dlay (Thulrsday) :-By season tickets, 2,865 ; by payment, ...