... S1ALUS FOPU LEX SUFR1TA. SUIJMI ARY. DOMESTIC. 1 lhe Bank of England minimum rate of disc.,unt was yesterday reduced from i) to 8 er c ent. The alteration had been so gene- rally anticipated that it produced no marked Aisupro vement in the public markets. At . % meeting of the Manchester and Liver- p;ol A, gricultural Society, held at Warrington yeterd.%y, the Hon. A. Egerton, M.P., was ...

... wirtftlfoPlI LE tvfvA. SALVE rOPULI LUX SUPREMA. DOMESTIC. The Queen will probably return to Windsor en June tJ. 'The Prince and Princess Louis of Ifesso (the Princess Alice) will visit her M4ajesty at the Castle, where, it is understood, the approaching accouchement of the princess will take place. About 22,000 metropolitan and provincial vdlunteers were reviewed in Hyde-park, Lon- don,. on ...

... I relations between capital and labour ware nev rerdsturbedstate thoan at the present time. Tbroa. ehberanupheavingoflabotr against towns there is oi~. ;on of capital or an attempt on shil the alleged aggress.. list to deprive labour of its th atof the aph% I several thousand manina I righ t ofcombination, A ,-t are 'now idle ite various branches of inds,-. ' ao a, eio-othe from a strike on ...

... MR. SULLIVAN'S, LECTURE. There was on Wednesday night a genuine Irish row at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson- street, the occasion being a lecture by Mr. M. A. Sullivan, of Dublin, on The Emperor at St. Helena, or the last hours of Napoleon. The chair, it was announced, would be taken at half-past sevbn o'clock, but though more than another half hour was allowed to elapse the hall was even ...

... ~-jiTEST AEND ~~g~~1IAPH~rIlCt NIEWS. [IXUTEVS TELEGRAMS] FRANMCE brecontirn heavy. rentes opened at The bourse clo ed at GWt. 6e5., or 50. lower than 5esterusy.ECTION IN TUNIS. - MESSINA, MAY 3. Advices reced here from Tunis state that the Ad~isejrete becoming general. 20,000 Be- insdrrection bad5srptedthe communication between doui anbad th proviOCeSP occupied Kirvan, and a threitemnig Sela ...

... THE MERSEY DOOKS A&D HARBOUR BOARD BILL. Yesterday there was a very large attendance in conimittee room No. 12of the House of oomeinus, ?? consisting of gentlemen conneoted with verpool, for the purpose of heariug the further proceedings relative to this most important bill. Admiral Dunoombe and the other meatbers took thvir seats with their usual punctuality, but the aottuenment ?? yv thQ ...

... The accounts brought by the Persia are very unfavourable to the Federal Government. No engagement has yet taken place in Virginia, but in Louisiana and Mississippi the Federals have been defeated in two great battles, the result of which will probably be to deprive them of everything that they held in those two States beyond the fire of their gun- boats on the river Mississippi. The first and ...

... TRANMERE LOCAL GOVERN- I MENT BOARD. I Tho monthly meeting of this board was held last evening, at the Public Offces, Holt-hill, the members present being Messrs. Lee (in the chair), Liversidge, 9eitchmough,Frowoe, Legg, Peters, Mudie, Scott, Ross, Bogartb, and Dalby. Mr. Ross intimated that he had waited upon Mr. Bickersteth with the view of getting that gent emn o withdraw his resignation as ...

... --III - aElertUMM 8EIUT-WF.4EK.LY SUMMARY.. I DOMESTIC In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, a debate took place on the conduct of the Government in issuing orders for the deten- tion of the Confederate cruiser Tuscaloosa in Simon's Bay. Lord Chelmsford, who iiatro- duced the subjeot, contended that the term- porary seizure of the vessel was an unwarrant- able stretch of authority, and ...

... I On Tuesday evening, anadjourned meeting of the delegates from the different trades appointed to arrange for a working men's demonstration in the event of Garibaldi visiting Liverpool was held at the Co-operative Stores, Camden-street. There were only about a dozen delegates present, the sudden alteration in the plans of Garibaldi having probably affected the attendance. Mr. J. E. Jones took ...

... I In accordance with an address of the House of Commons, the Government has just laid before Parliament very full and comprehensive informa- tion as to the harbours of refuge already being constructed as well as respecting the more exten- sive projects of a like kind which have been pro- posed. The return made to the House of Com- mons consists chiefly of a document of remarkable interest as ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP JURA. The Canadian mail screw-steamship Jura, from Portland on the 26th ult., arrived in Lough Foyle at 10 10 p m. on Saturday, and, having transferred all the mails except those for London and Liver- pool, proceeded for Liverpool at 10 60 p~m, all well. She arrived in the Mersey on Sunday. The Jura encountered heavy easterly gales for ten days. [TELEGRAPPH COMPANY'S ...