... The recent summary dismissals of volunteers which have taken place in the Queen's, South Middlesex, and other corps, at the caprice of the commanding officer?, have induced the establishment of a Protection Asso- ciation amongst the volunteers themselves. The object of this association is, as their prospectus states, to protect volunteers against dismissal by the commanding officers of their ...

... T O W 3sT BY OUR I .ON DON CORRESPONDENT. Our vectdtrs will understand that we do not hold ou> selves responsible for our able correspondent's opinions. WHO was answerable for sending the father and mother of the Princess of Wales to an hotel? When, in the face of the parvenu Hotel Company, Mr. Breach built his Palace Hotel, people thought him silly; he has proved himself wise in his ...

... SHOCKING TRAGEDY ON BOARD A STEAMER. By the arrival of the Arsglo-J'rench Steam Ship Company's steamer Grimsby, Captain Wharton, which vessel has just entered the pert of Great Grimsby, we have particulars of a shocking tragedy that was enacted on board that vessel on her passage from Hamburg. It appears that the Grimsby left Hamburg on Friday evening last, in ballast, and also with several ...

... FIRE INSURANCE. The advantages offered by Fire Insurance are too prominent to require much comment. By the pay- ment of a small annual premium, indemnification from loss by fire may be secured, and the insurers placed beyond the possibility of sudden beggary. It has been calculated that property to the value of about £6,000,000 is annually destroyed in Great Britain and Ireland by fire, a fact ...

... From the Potomac there is very little news, ex- cept that the Confederates have strengthened their earthworks at Fredericksburg, and the authorities have prohibited the circulation of newspapers in the army of the Potomac. The New Yorh World approves of the mediatory proposals of France, and. condemns Mr. Seward for not accepting them. The Federal Senate has resolved to call up the entire ...

... Early on Tuesday morning a serious fire broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. John Gulliver, John Bull Inn, Middle-street, Yeovil. It appears that the household, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. Gulliver, Miss Gulliver, about fourteen years of age; Albert Gulliver, a boy eleven years old; an ostler, and a man named Warr, re- tired to rest shortly after eleven o'clock the previous night, ...

... In the House of Lords. Thursday, Feb. 26,- the Lord Chan- cellor took his seat on the Vroolsack at -5 o'clock. The Prince of Wales Annuity Bill was, on the motion of Lord Redesdale, brought up from the House of Commons, and read a first time., The Gardens in Town Protection Bill was read a second time. The English Church Services in Wales Bill went through committee. Their Lordships adjourned ...

... A barrister writes the following letter in reference to the new Underground Railway, which was published by a London contemporary I think some notice in vour columns, of the mods in which the passenger traffic on the above line is at present conducted might be of service, by calling public attention to an obvious defeat in the existing arrangements of such a natuse as must eventually occasion ...

... MADAME RACHEL AND THE CABMAN. Jonn Danch, cab-driver, was summoned before Mr. Kaox, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, for taking more than his legal fare, and for misbehaviour. Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. Lewis, of Great Marl- borough street, was for the complainant; and *Mr. B irnard for the defendant. Miss Rachel Levinson, of Blackheath, daughter of Madame Richel, of New Bond ...

... The French Government has at length made up its mind to speak to the French public about the case of Glover v. Billault and Persigny, and the following semi-official article, signed Boniface, appears in the Constitutwnnel About ten years ago Serjeant Glover became proprietor of the Morning Chronicle, and edited that journal in a spirit favourable to the policy of France. Some years later, ...

... ACCIDENT ON THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. On Friday evening an accident, which, though of an alarming character, was hippily unattended with loss of life, occurred upon the Metropolitan Railway, within a very short distance of the Farringdon-street terminus. At that end of the line there is only one platform for arrivals and departures, and this necessitates the employ- ment of a pointsman to work ...

... Elizabeth Lydia Brown, scarcely seventeen years of agp, and at the time of the alleged offence residing with her parents, persons of urquestionable respectability, in Rotherfield-street, Islington, was finally examined at Worship-street Police-court, on Saturday, on the fol- lowing cbarges ;-Suspicion of having caused the death of her illegitimate male infant and of caicealing the birth. The ...