... WEDBNESDAY, MARCH 4,1863. More disasters appear to be looming in the future for America. Notwithstanding an unprecedented accumulation of military, financial, and commercial disasters, the Federal Government still professes to have confidence in the notion-although all the rest of the world disbelieves it--that the South will be subjugated; and the Union re-constructed. Acting upon this ...

... STAFFORD SHIRE. - M BURTON-tiN- TRENT. TowN ComistissIoNsES.-On the morning of Wednesday last, the above corporation held their monthly meeting, when the following gentlemen were present, viz. :-T. Poyser, Esq. (in the chair), Messrs. Worthington, Bell, Nunneley, Simnett, Grace, Newton, Baxter, Robinson, Lalibury, Townsend, Greaves, and Stratton. The preliminaries having been gone through, tie ...

... On Tbursday night, at eleven o'clock, the Royal fo yacht, having on board the Princess Alexandra, with co the Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark, and wi other members of the Royal family, arrived at Margate. in All the vessels of the squadron lay off the town at but a pi short distance from the head of the Jetty, and, with the of advantage of a magnificently moonlight night, were ce ...

... LONGFORD. hkmgst those who attended the Royal Levee on Friday, w tba Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Coke. WESTON-ON-TRENT. W* understand that the aum of 101. 7s. 6d, has been re. ixsd to the Central Relief Committee at Manchester, being X amount of collections made at the parish church of W4Dn-on-Trent, on the first Sunday of the year, after two ?? preached by the Rev. Thomas Farebrother in aid of 1il ...

... Blackwood's Alaagazine for March contributes another popular essay to the political literature of the country, under the title of The Opening of the Ses- sion, in which the position and prospects of the Go- vernment are ably reviewed and smartly criticized. It commences with a notice of the defeats which Ministers have sustained in the House of Commons, and at the pollinig-booths of ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY. METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS. On the motion for the second reading of the Great Eastern Railway (Metropolitan New Station and Finsbury Extension) Bill, 'T'he Earl of SHAFTESHURY moved that it be read a second time that day six months. Earl GRANVILLE said that the Board of Trade had directed an inquiry to be made into the various schemes submitted for railways in the metrolis ...

... ASHBORN E. PETTY SEsSIONS. CBefore Fn~iN5cia WrssosT,J. Goouwiz;JonNsoN,J. WRIGHT, and RoaExT HAYSTON FRANK, Esqrs.] Mr. R. Massey charged Joseph Plant with having on the 10th inst. absented himself from his service one day and one night, without just cause or excuse, and said this was not the first time he had so committed himself. The defendant pro. mised that he would never do the like ...

... WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18,1I863. Parliament, like the people, h4s been so much absorbed with the celebration of the Royal nuptials, that it has not given its attention very industriously to general topics; but it resumed business, on Wed- nesday last, with the discussion of a subject which has excited some interest, both from its nature and result. Sir JOUN TRELAWNY, that persevering agent of the ...

... Sxw`AGo AND Pnorrr.-One of the most conclusive expe- riments recorded in the evidence given before the Select Committee on the Sewage of Towns is that of air. Philip Skinner Miles, of King's Weston. an old gloomy house that once belonged to the Lords de Clifford, and built by the cum- brous genius of Vaubrugh. The architect, however, lived in the days before house drainage was discovered, and ...

... I al On Friday afternoon last, a number of the members of he this society assembled in the Grand Jury Room, Town. he hell, Derby, for the purpose of listening to a paper by heMr. CAmpixoN, oif Aiderwvasley. Subject:- hotation of ii. Crops. Dr. HITCHaSAN occupied the ciair, and, in afrew of h. appropriate remarks, introduced thle business of the y- meeting. Mr. CAaesO'oS' paper was as ?? ...

... NbEw YoCh, Feb. 14. Mr. Mercier's despateh of the 13th :of April, 1862, to AXE. Thouvenel, published in the French Lime Jautne just received in America, has created a great sensation in this city and Washington. M. Mercier states that Mr. Seward had expressed a desire upon the part of the Federal Administration for the re-establishment of peace, and implies that his visit to Richmond during ...

... IANCIENT AND HONOUIRALE FRATERNITY I OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. | To assist in the removal of prejudice, is one of the obliga- tions incumbent on honest journalism; it is a claim recog- nized by the wisest and beat of men. Believing that the most erroneous ideas have generally prevailed with respect to the science of Freemasonry, open as it has been to the specu- lations of men, we ...