... [FReom oun LoNOo BRsronTrER.] LoNDON, WOdnesdaY. GREAT GRIMSBY GAS. 'Ibis bill for tho enlargement of the existing gasworke at Great Grimsby, the extension of the com- pany's boundaries, and the increase of their capital again came before the Select Committee of the Houns of Lords this morning. Lord HAimroIcGE chairman. The chief oppontsCB of the bill are the Cleethorpes Ges Company, who ...

... UNIYER?ITY INTELLIGENCE. ?? Pnh OXpanOD, Feb. 7. III a congregaitionl holden thi8 morning, at tven o'clock, the folohwing degr~ees wvoere confrod-1&tstsr ofv Pr Seth Ward, Exeter Colloge; Hnrry Davidson, OrielC- lege; Herbeet Salmey, Christ Church; IRev, Fred,.H. Bowden-Sniitl, Trinity College; W~illiam T. Allen, St. Mary Hall; Rev. Jamos Allan Srnith, Wadham College; R1ev. ?? Jaokson, ...

... SALE OF LORD FEVERSHAK''S SHORT- HORNS. On Tuesday, at the Griff Farm, Duncombe Park, Helmsley, Mr. Strafford sold the greater part of the ra- nowned hard of short-horn cattle bred by the late Lord F6vereshm. The sale was by auction, and without reserve, and being held the day before the Great Yorkshire Show at Thirsk, attracted an extremely large company, fully l,200would surround the ring, ...

... TIHE INSURRECTION IN CRETE. Arli:izis, Marith 7- The insurrection continmes inl Crete, ?? ntor- vention in favour of the Cretaus is going on at C)nstan- tinople. The countenance which their clise Ilis received from this intervention of the three Powers is jefly cii- sidered by the insulgelnts as a gunrantee for its iiies success. Whlen the Cretans heard thit tile p10tecetaig Powers had ...

... THE ARCHEOLOGICAL INSflTUTE AT HULL I AlEOTUB SorbN. I T Ihis section m et for the first time in E ull yester- Iday morning, under the presidency of Sir'S. GLYNN, BDrt, -Archdeacon TROLLOPE read a paper on Certain Soulp- tures found in Lincoln Cathedral. He remarked that no should probably be able to throw more light upon these sculptures through the circumstance of a scaffoldaing having ...

... *. THE PACIFIC. The following is extracted from the Panama Star and Herald of the 6th instant, dates from Valparaiso being the 18th of May, and from CaUao and Lima the 28th:- IICnis.-T4he departure of the Spanish fleet to the Spanish West Indies is no sooner known than the true policy of the Executive becomes apparent, Nevor caring for cax, they never in reality prepared for it; there was the ...

... LEEDS, MARCH 14, 1867. LOCAL BILLS IN PARLAIMIENT.-The Elland Local Board of Health have presented a pefition in fatvou1r of the London and North-Westeri and Midland ltail- way companies (Huddersfield and Halifax) Bil. The petitions of Messrs. Wallace and Carlisle, George Lane Fox, and William England, and the Airo and Oalder Navigation Company against the Keigliloy Water, &a. Bill, have been ...

... I ?? ,- LEEDS, FEBRUAMY 28, 18671 LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT. -- A potitiaii prayelig to be heard hits been presented against tlse SheE- field Water (New Works) Bill, by George Radon. The petitions against the Blythe and Tyns Railway by the Duke of Northumberlaud, atid against the IIartlepool Gas and Water Bill by Henry Morgan Vane and others have been withdrawn. YnSwanIRE COMMISSIONS. - The ...

... AUTHORB AND PUBLISHERS. (reim th/ S peelater. ) A statement was made a fortnight since in onr columns, ini a notice of Mr. Spedding's attack upon the publishing trade, that it was customary for publishers, whenn muaking uip accounts upon half-prr fiis, to pay one sumI for advertisements and charge anotlir. Thereupon Mr. Bentley, apparently under some impreseein that the charge was aimed at him ...

... oPrICIAL LIQUIDAT0R?. During ties lest twelve months j? has scarcely been possible to open a newspaper without aseirso some notice either in the city article or in the law report about official liquidatore;'' that Isle. ?? has been cii- pointel official liquidator'' to some limited company which has suspended payment; or that the official liquidator to some bankrupt concern was applying to ...

... THIE BARNSLEY COLLIERY EXPLOSION. TWELF TH DAY I Yestorday mnorning the inquriry-was. resuile( ill the larrisley Court-house, before Mr. Taylor, coroner for the Wakefield district. J'didrrd &drlero, a miner, who had formerly worked at the Oaks pit, tendered himself asa witness. The CsRorNsu asked him what he wished to say? W1itness said he wished to state that he was in the mine on Thursday ...

... CONYOCAT1ON OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTEBURRy. 0cc ITuesday neorning the archbishop, bishope, deans, archdeacons, enld clerical proctors of the province of Canterbury, assembled for dispatch of business at Westminster. The Archbishop of C4KTscsEcnsvLL presided in the Upper H~ouse, and there was a large attendance of bishops. -The Bishop of London was unavoidably absent. For the Bishop of N~orwiclh ...