... 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 ...

... HONOURS PAID TO THE R E MA INS OF THE AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS, BURKE AND WILLS. The Adelaide papers, by this mail, pive us details of the passing of the remains of the two Victorian explorers through that city on their way to Melbourne. It was a remarkable circumstance that the remains of these herou men should arrive just, as the mayor and principal inha- bitants of that city were celebrating, ...

... The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on Friday, at the London Tavern, Mr. Barber in the chair. The report detailed at length the history of the ship during the last six months, and the directors had great confidence in reiterating the opinion expressed in the last report, that had the ship been enabled to complete the voyage designed for her, the result would ...

... ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. The annual general meeting of the friends and sup- porters of this Institution was held on Tuesday, the 17th inst., at the London Tavern. The Right Hon. Lord Lovaine, M.P., P.C., in the chair. The meeting was influentially and most numerously attended. The Chairman expressed the-pleasure he1 felt in taking the chair at the annual meeting of so valuable an ...

... Eiue Market LEADENHALL, MARCH 20. -Hides.—Prices R SGiba to 64tbs 2jd to 2|d; 641bs to 721bs, 21d to 3d; 72lbs to 80lbs, 3d to 31d; SOibs to SSlbs, 3d to 4d; 831bs to 96!bs, 3$d to 4Jd. Howe hides, 8s Sd to 10s 6d. Calf skins, light, 28 to 4s; full, 6s. BERMONDSEY, MARCH 20: -Sheep skins, polled, -9 to —s —d; Kents and halt-breds, 9s to lis; Downs 73 to 94; Shearlings, Is 6d. Wringing Clothes ...

... 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 ...