... The Gardens in Town Protection Bill'was referred to a Seleet Committee after a short discussion or, the present condition of Lieicestef-square. ...

... The Lunacy Bill. On the second resding of the Lunacy Regulation Bill,, a discussion, originated by Lord Chelmsford, took place, in which the details of the measure were crfricisea byttic -Erari or Drby¡ Lord Cranwortb, and Lord St. Leonards, and defended by the Lord Chancellor and the Earl of Shaftesbury; after which the hill was read a second time, and The house adjourned. ...

... CITY, MARCH 11.—The funds to-day have experienced I e- lapse of i per cent., the demand having slackened. In nearly all the other markets there ia an entire absence of animation. Foreign stocks and English railway shares are dull. Consols are officially marked 93 £ i, and iff for money, and 93 1., f, and for the account. The present quotations are 93jf and i for money, and 934 to j for the ...

... THE EXECUTION OF CAPTAIN GORDON. Oar American telegram yesterday contained the short and simple statement that Captain Gordon has been hanged. It would not be strange if, in the ab- sence of all explanation, some who read this said to themselves that that was the Captain's affair, and passed on. Yet Captain Gordon's execution was by no means an event of merely personal interest. On the ...

... Mr. HORSFALL moved That the present state of international maritime law. as affecting the rights, of belligerents and neutrals, is undefined and unsatisfactory, and calls for the early attention of Her Majesty's Government. He stated that in former times privateering and the capture of enemies' goods on board neutral vessels, were parts of international maritime law. Mr. M. Gibson having ...

... The Prince Consort Memorial.The fund now being raised at the Mansion-house for a national memo- rial of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort amounts to £39,370. The Royal Agricultural Society of England has given £100; the Marquis of Ailesbury, £ 100 the Earl of Darplev, £ 50 the Earl of Warwick, £ 50; the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, ...

... MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER. At the Oxford Spring Assizes, on Tuesday, John Hall, labourer, aged 33, was charged with the wilful murder of Stephen Moulder, gamekeeper to Lord Dillon, on the 20 th day of December last. The case commenced at nine o'clock in the morning, and occupied the whole of the day, and was not brought to a termination before seven o'clock in the evening. A great number of ...

... At the Thames Police court on Saturday, Mr. Selfe was informed that a German, named Carl Sehulger, or Friedrig Hartzman, for there were some doubts about his real name, who waa remanded from this court, on Friday, had committed suicide in the Clerkenwell House of Detention. The case was one of a most extraordinary description. The unfortunate man was charged on the police sheet with ...

... THAT a general Conservative reaction should exhibit itself at a time when trade is bad and thousands of workmen are out of employment, is a fact which may puzzle politicians, but it is one which no longer admits of dispute. Within the last few days, Canterbury has returned the son of its late member—an untried youth, and a Conservative like his father — although it was confidently asserted ...

... Blockade of the Southern Ports. Lord STRATHEDEN brought forward the subject of the block- ade of the Southern ports by the Federal States of America, and at length and from documents argued that it was inefficient. Lord ABINGEE, though not approving of any attempt to raise the blockade, thought that, in the interest of humanity, this country should recognise the independence of the Southern ...

... THE WINDHAM CASE AGAIN.. In the Court of Equity, before the Lords Justices of Appeal, March 10, Sir Hugh Cairns, Q-C., at the sitting of the court, proceeded with his opening address in sup-' port of Mr. Windham's petition in this case. He pro- ceeded to read the evidence contained in other affidavits on which was founded the original application to their lordships for an inquiry. Amongst ...

... Mr. HALTBURTON called attentions to our relation with Mexico, and inquired whether information bad reached the government that Mexican agentshad been commissioned to fit out in America privateers to operate against the commerce of this country; and whether measures had been taken, liti erin anticipation or in con- sequencetherot. He criticised the new system which had been intro- duced, of ...