... AvPoINvTsrs;TS.-The head-mastership of Preston Grammar School has been conferred upon the Rev. William Hart, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, curate of Walton-le-Dale. The Bishop of Ripen has licensed the Rev. Richard Frankland Dent, M.A., of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, late curate of Sefton, to the incumbency of Coverham with Horsehouse, near Middleham, on the nomination of the ...

... Saturday, 2 dclock. I Thiq ?? otb3d. REUTEA'S TELEGRAMS. FRANCE. PARIS, Allarrc/ 23.-M- de Lavalette, Minister of the Interior, has issued a circular to the Prefects, dated 2Ist inst., with reference to the late workmen's riots at Roubaix, in which he says, The Government is firmly resolved to maintain the public peace and respect for individual liberty. SPAIN. MADRID, Afarcih 22 (Evening ) ...

... ( THEE official reports of the Inspector-General of Musketry which have been furnished to the House contain little or no information on the subject of the Snider rifle which will be new to readers of the Pall Mizll Gazelle. But they afford ample justification of the opinions which we have from time to time expressed as to the value of this arm. There are five reports in all, of which only one ...

... SOjjrt four months ago we announced the appointment of an artillery committee to consider the advisability of reverting to muzzle-loading guns for field use. The Armstrong and Whitworth Committee had already expressed a decided preference for muzzle-loading guns, and the Ordnance Select Conmittce had distinctly recommended their adoption in the field. When a third committee, composed of the ...

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... A Paris letter contains the following in reference to the somewhat nufriendly relations said to exist between the Courts of Berlin and Par's:- The boldness with which Prussia proclaims her in- tentions of incorporating at least the whole of the mili- tary resources of Germany, North and South, under the Prussian Crown, is creating much indignant susceptibility on the part of the French ...

... ARRD PEACE. - | The Begianwvar-oflce, havinginstitutedafninquiry respecting the armaments which are going on in Europe, thefollowing information has been obtained: FI ANcz.-480,000 ChassepOt rifles are in course of manufacture, the greatest portion to be finished be- fore the Iet March, 18a8. PBussza-The needle gun' and rifled cannon sys. tem to be Iiiaintained. i The gun manufactories are ...

... NAVY' STATIONS, A3H4,' 1867.I Abodfdr, ?? :Pricess Alice, De- Achilles, Channel BisgardWoolwich vonport' . - VAcoru,.Sisanghci .FersAscereion: Princess Charlotte, Active, Sunderlaud Forccter,'Chlha.: Hong Kong 'Advautuco, DChia F~ormidable, Sheer. PrAcas.PwoyL,Cblua Advice, Queenstwn Forward,:~ac~lic'., Psyche, dediter.C. Alberta, Portecath. Fox, par: ser .- ,Pyladea, payingoff,' Alcrtij ...

... I IMPERIA PARL NT. -- HOUSE OF LORDS. 'AY. Rftualfsfio PJeotifcao in the ?? a bill fr 9a 6t 1, dvihheepie moats In tbe offles o e r, .oeadapas as intended onlyto giv efect to a oncnt usae as opposed to modemr InnovationS tho cflavetog the canons or the ?? ArchbishOp ' Canteb re- WArring tea remark of lord S atesbury; said the [ot vestments had 'been under the conslderstlaf e bishopa, but it ...

... THE MINISTERIAL RESPITE. The Times has no doubt of the wisdom of the decision arrived at. The Reform Bill in its present shape is altogether inadmissible-it has the gravest sins of omission and of commission. But it can be transformed into a measure which may be satisfactory both to Parliament and the nation. The evidence taken before Lord Grey's Committee on the effect of the Small Tenements ...

... I CORK, Stlhlrelay A7,Ygit., WE did not leave Dundrum till nearly twelve o'clock yesterday morning, so I amused myself by walking about the village, chatting with the peasantry, who were all on the alert to catch a glimpse of the army, as they, with much courtesy, dubbed our formidable force of sixty. I found them ready enough to talk on any possible subject, from the weather to Fenianism, ...

... AN APPEAL. To lhe EDITOR of //ze PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR.-NOW that the weather is so cold and food so dear, and evert what we well-fed people admit to be the necessaries of life so costly, there: are many little nests where the birds cry for food in vain, and to which the old birds return day after day without anything in their bills. At Lanark, in Scotland, this is terribly the case in a nest ...