... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... The Com 1 ra.de, MARK-LA.NE, MARCH 23.—There is firmness in the marks fur English Wheat, and a fa'r demand was experienced to-day t White brought 43s to and red 41s to 52s per quarter. Of: foreign much was sold at 44s to 60s; and in American a fair business at 45s to 54s.—Demand larger for Flour, and quota- tions for town-m:lrle 455 ditto fbnsfbold 40s to country-made 32s to 3,15 per sack; and ...

... DARING RAILWAY ROBBERY. W d read in a Genoa letter of the 6th inst: Four persons had taken their places at Alessandria, for Genoa, in a second-class carriage, for the last train but one. They were a Government official from Novara, two women, and a merchant of Novi, by name Bossi, who had transacted business at Alessandria, aid was on his way home with a considerable sum of money. Be- tween ...

... Money Market CITY, MAUCH 24,-Ycsterday's rise in the funds is f.iiiy taaia ta:ncd, the influx of gold to the Bank having a good effect hi. nEst departments of the Stock Exchange bosiaess is quiet, but the general tone is firm.-The scrip of the Confederate Loan, after falling to 2 o 2t premium, is now quoted 2t to 21. Tt e letters of regret have been issued th;s morning. The scrip of the ...

... POLITICAL GOSSIP. ADMIEAL SIR W.! Ci. PELL, one of the commfssksoere of Greenwich Hospital; has retired ia consequence of ill- health, retaining 'the emoluments of his cffice, amounting, together with his pension for wounds, to £1,724 Us. per annum, and official residence. Sir Richard Maddox Brimley, K.C.B., Accountant-General of the Navy, bes been appointed in hie room. It is said that the ...

... SAM COWELL.-On the evening of Monday last, this inimitable comedian, assisted by other artistes, gave an entertainment in the Volunteers' Hall, which was numerously attended, the audience comprising members of the principal families of the town and neighbourhood, who testified the delight and satis- faction Sam's unrivalled impersonations and comic singing afforded them, by repeated bursts of ...