... Progress of Bills. The Transfer of Stocks (Ireland) Bill was read a second ^The Exchequer Bonds ( £ 1,000,000) BUI was read a third time and passed. The house then aÖJomned. ...

... TOPICS OF THE WEEK. REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SOUTH.-Our seDsitive cou- sins in ttieNorthern States, unable to comprehend or appre- ciate sincere neutrality, are in the habit of classifying English journals under the heads of Unionist and Seces- sionist, the immense majority of our contemporaries being denounced as organs of the South. the Southerners themselves do not appear to be conscious of ...

... The Register of Voters Bill. On the motion of Lord LYVEDON, the Register of Voters Bill was read a second time, without a division. The House adjourned early, ...

... Progress of Bills. The Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill was read a second time; as were the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill, the Lunacy (Scotland) Bill, the Weights and Measures (Ireland) Act (1860) Amendment Bill. The Moveable Property (Scotland) Bill, and the Public Works and Harbours Acts Amendment Bill passed through committee. Leave was given to bring in several bills, and the House ...

... Gunnery Experiments, Woolwich.-Repea.ted experiments which have recently taken place at Shoe- buryness tend to show that the iron shield invented by Captain Inglis, Royal Engineers, is so effective as to re,. sist the shot from the most powerful ordnance yet intro- duced. This shield is composed of strong wrought-iron planks, crossing each other in alternate layers, and by this means any deg ...

... We extract the following particulars relative to the capture of New Orleans from the columns of a morning contemporary:— All doubt of the capture of New Orleans has been at an end for the last two days. Corroborations of the fact, though contradictory as to the details, had arrived frum so many quarters that the natural incredulity of an often- deceived public had yielded to the accumulation ...

... HE'S DRESSED LIKE A GENTLEMAN. A working-man is before me, well-dressed, and booking every inch a gentleman. Says my neigh- bour, who iswalking by my side, He's dressed like a gentleman! How is it ? He's only a work- ing-man. I reply, there is nothing more natural. Why may not a working man be well-dressed ? I do not see any hindrance, provided he has been a care-taking man. The notion is a ...

... THE BODY OF A CHILD FOUND IN A RAIL- WAY CARRIAGE. On Wednesday, an inquest was held at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, on the body of a male child, which was found in a second-class carriage of a train from Woolwich on its arrival at the South-Eastern Railway station at London-bridge on Sunday night last. It appeared from the evidence of William Clark, who is im the employ of the South Eastern ...

... The following appeared in our SECOND EDITION of last week] CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. THIS DAY. R. Jones, Esq., in the chair. The master reported that there had been 47 persons admitted, and 57 discharged during the week, leaving 388 in the house, of whom 101 were in the refuge, being an in- crease of 85 on the corresponding week of last year. The committee to whom was entrusted the duty of ...

... TOPICS OF THE WEEK. M. MIRES,—After sixteen months' imprisonment, au sec?et, in the criminal prison of Mazas, after judgment pronounced against him by the Tribunal of the Seine, after more personal obloquy than usually falls to the lot of even his own long-suffering tribe, after every support had been cut away from under him, and public opinion as well as what is called justice in France, had ...

... On Thursday, the 22nd inst., at 3 o'clock, p.m., a pub- lic meeting was held in the Town-hall, Dolgelley, for the purpose of presenting Capt. Hallowes, R.N., of Coed) ?? this town, with a magnificent Silver Candelabrum, manufactured by the celebrated firm of Messrs. Savory & Sons, London; on his leaving this neighbourhood (where he has been a constant resident for upwards of 40 years) for ...

... I . ?i ? :, .1, ?? ; . O. ? ?? ! plorellultraoi I Seventeen of the Great Grimsby election rioters have been c6mmihitted to the assizes f(ir trial. CEscAPE or TmtEE CONVICTS.-On Monday morning, three convicts5one under sentence of transportation for life, the other two for 14 years-made their escape frorq Milbank prison. by breaking through the top of the building, after which, by removing ...