... The disease of the patient was so mortal, and his cure so utterly hopeless, that the melancholy event of Saturday last scarcely needs comment, much less a lengthened obituary notice. But though the mortal coil of the Reform League certainly ought never to have been assumed, its shuffling off was so peculiarly rapid as to demand attention. In noticing the last Demonstration' we found that ...

... I§MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 1: - ?? ?? , - itOU E: OF.- L.RD , TUESDAY, MARCOH20.. 'Their lordships met at fye o'ol'ock i ?? ' 'RITUA~lIE3j ' h.: L i 1ho Arobiishop of 'c rsuuunt'dtated that on a'former oooasion he bad aunouriiod that the bihops weie ' doeig- g' 0. !i!U Vili T epeot to. itualism, 6utthey bad abandoned that mntenilon, a ss they underotdod there ivaw a probability of' a royal ...

... THE- MUSICAL DIRECTOR) OF1 ; I I THE V4RIET&IS - I PROPRIETO1R OF TEE GRAPES HOTEL At the second police court yesterday (before Messrs. J. G. ILivingston sad R. Hutohison), f Mr. Edward Grifflth, proprietor of the Giapes Hotel, Lime~etreet,: appeared toaianswerann Infor.- mnation in which he; wa chargedvdwith having gesaulted Mfr. Thomas Conniolly, muinacal con- ductor at'the Varieties; Mr.' ...

... : i , ; , is .! I -I 7. , I I I-: THE, MERSEY JDOCKS AND: HAU3BOUR BOAID BILL,. In the Houee of Commons, qV Tuesday eveui t,1 M h~r. ToLL~MaCH. asked th@ 1Preooident of Te Board of Tradle 'wleth'er ' htis 'attstli had U'tke called to, a bill.introdfied(by the kersey'DocW: and HaIrbour Boar4 for raibing- a further sumA of £1,100,000 for new works, the entire bonded debt of the Mfersey' ...

... T, AILORSW COSF9NOE. I f . ; r -~ - , - .; % ' , - ,4 . l. :; al: aooiferenoei of.1delegates'. of the sd Sooiety of Journeymen Tailors of- ?? weopezed in Birmingham blut the rbsilness trausateid on that ates met Eon Tuesday under the~pres Ir. Adameon, of Meceae~ The faccounts for. the past -yea~r was read Boflnd dshaoed a balanice in ?? of ...

... THE PROPOSED CHANNEL DOCRS. MEETINhG Ih RIEDCLIF WARD. Lost night a meeting of theinhabiltantsof Redelif vward was held at the National Schoolrooms Rledcliff-parade, for the purpose of considering the importance oi the Channel Doeke as the means of obtaining for this port the share of the oeean steam trade o0 the country. Mr. A W. Warren was voted into the chair, but the attendance, owing to ...

... I TE GRAPHIC INTELLIGENC (aIrs's rRE~nAs.) FRANCE. PARIS, M.AncH 7, EvEmnos. To-day M. Thiers presented to the legislative body a demand for leave to question the govern. mert relative to the foreign policy of France. Ad Berryer complained that the Yellow Book did nut contain a single diplomatic document written be. tween the 1st January and the 1st March. e regretted, in particular, that ...

... THE SUNDAY LIQUOR TRAFPIC. A public meeting, held in consequence of a numerously signied requisition to the Lord Mayer, tools place in the Guildhall', yesterd~ay, to consider the best measn of stopping the sale of intoxicating liquors en Sunday. There war, a very large attendance. The LoRD MABOR who presided, and who was 1udly cheered in passing through the hall, said he occupied his present ...

... (FROM oUR OwN ooaassarOsNIr.) str FLORENCE, FEB. 28. - It is as yet too soon to attempt to form any ba] opinion as to the probable complexion of the new of ;chamber. And the scattered fragments of elec- res I tioneering news with which the papers and the thE minds of the politicians are filled would have FPh little interest for readers on the northern side of affi the Alps. Two facts, however, ...

... THE ENGINE-DBIVERS ANVD THEIR GBIEXANCES. The engine-drivers and firemen of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway have addressed the following reply to the directors:- The engine-drivers E and firemen employed on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway respectfully acknowledge the receipt of proposals made to them by the directors in answer to I theirUmemorial, and desire to ...

... Ie TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. LT SIR,-Allow me, through your columnrs, to thank r Sir Charles Trevelyan, for the most able and exhaustive. ,o letters I have ever read on our present army system of . promotion. it For more than five-and-twenty years I have upheld )f promotion by purchase ; not that I did not see many ;e evils in it, but because I saw no way out of it, and Le balancing ...

... TH-E -INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. 'r I . . U I ~ is By the arrival of the above mails we have advices Yfromx Bombay' to March !6th; Calcutta, February ig 28th.;. Madras,. ?? .8th; Colombo, March 2 hd ong ong,7?piwbrnsa ...