... HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12. Several private bills were brought in and read a first time. The usual list of members excused from attendance on com- mittees, as being beyond the age of sixty years, was read and agreed to. The report on supply was brought up, and the committee of supply was fixed for to-morrow. A supplementary naval estimate was laid on the table by Lord C. Paget. ...

... THE STEWS BUDGET. A copy of the bill which Mr. Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works, intends to introduce into Parliament, on the subject of the Thames Embankment, has been forwarded to the Metropolitan Board of Works. The embankment is to be confided to a commission to be specially appointed for the purpose. Four members of the Metropolitan Board and two of the City com- mission of Sewers ...

... JUSTICE IN ROME. tinder the present regime, in the Eternal City, it is a matter of child's play for the rich offender to escape panish- ment by bribery, and for the Government to wreak its ven- geance on all suspected of disloyalty, and to make a show of justice by unmitigated severity towards the poor and friend- less criminal. The stories current here illustrating these assertions are quite ...

... Mr. W. Henry Scott, writing from Aylsham, says:— One of the heaviest of the wicked and unjust imputations on General Windham in this matter has been with regard to the bargaining with, and sale to, his nephew of an estate for 1,0001. Let me state the facts. This little estate is almost close to the Felbrigg-pnrk wall. When it was for sale I saw Captain J. II. Windham, of Cromer (General ...

... In the Court of Probate and Divorce the case of Marris v. Marris and Burke has been tried, being a suit instituted by the husband for a divorce, on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent, to which there was no appearance, but the Queen's Procter intervened, pleading collusion, connivance, and assistance in the alleged adultery on the part of the petitioner. Mr. Cooper stated ...

... We read in a letter from Vienna:—The inundations in .the valley of the Danube amount, in their results, to a great public calamity, and the Vienna and Pesth jour- nals are full of most distressing accounts of the misery caused by the overflow of that river and its tributaries. The evil commenced in- consequence of a sudden thaw, accompanied with warm rain; since then there have been ...

... NEW IMPORT WAREHOUSE.—This fine structure, the first of a series of import warehouses, is nearly com- pleted, and already has its utility and capabilities been put to the test. On the 7th inst. the Austrian barque Boxidar Opnieh, from New York to Antwerp, with a valuable cargo, put into Cardiff leaky. She was safely taken into the East Bute Dock, where she discharged 265 barrels of flour, 550 ...

... PONTYPOOL. DESTIOTTION. — On Monday last a forlorn-loeking object, who gave the name of David Price, was placed before C. H. Williams, Et!'lt on a charge of vagrancy. It appeared that he had been discovered sleeping in an outhouse, or cabin, in the neighbourhood, and was com- mitted for seven days, with hard labour, to the House of Correction. TUB INGOLDSBY LEGENDS.—Through the agency of the ...

... TheH-illed. The colliery authorities have furnished, as far as they have been enabled to do so, a list of the poor fellows who have lost their lives in the pit. It is the most terrible record, as regards numbers, that has been published in connection with colliery accidents in the North country, or perhaps in England. The list gives a total of 205 men and boys who were working in the pit at ...

... The Windham case is not like the supposed case to which it has been wrongly compared-a case in which a man's relatives or careful public authorities seek to shelter the person himself, or others who may come in contact with him, from the consequences of want of mental powers or self-control on his part. It is a contest between two people, who bear each other extreme ill- will, for the ultimate ...

... Colours were flying on the 8cb. inst. from the summit of the eastern dome, and in the midst of the jubilant dispiay a tall gilt spire, or fimaJ, crowned the huge ediuce. Tho flags were hoisted, not in honour of this topmost object, which had been raised to its place on the previous day, but to celebrate the removal of the timber ■ supports, from the twelve iron ribs of the dome, leaving the ...

... HOUSE OF LOBES. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. The Earl of CARNARVON inquired what wera the circumstances under which a Canadian, a subject of Great Britain, had been arrested bv the Federal government authorities, and intimated his opinion of the impropriety of the conduct of the Federal au- thorities in having sought to compel the person in question to take an oath of allegiance to their government. ...