... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... SINGULAR iDISCOVERY OF SPANJSI-I COINS NEAR WEST HAlRlLEPOOL. (SIUJECT OF ILLUSTRATIO N The severe storms that have lately prevailed on the North-Esetern coast have in many placoes washed '%way, the sand from the beach, and on the Durhamncoast, between Seaton Carew and West Hartlepool, disclosed a submerged forest of considerable extent, acommpnied by a formation of peat of great thicknees. ...

... OPINION IN THE WEEKLY REVIEW S. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. 'IThe JExaindner observes that if ever a Minister had an opportunity of inaugurating his accession to office by a graceful act, Sir John Pakington had it, and that on very easy terms; for, whatever his own opinions may have been. he must have known that the feeling of the country and of the atury was strongly in favour of abolishing ...

... 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 ) ...

... 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 ...

... The King of Prussia's birthday was kept yesterday. A Parliamentary banquet was given in honour of it, at which members of all the political parties in the North German Parliament were present. The Health of the King was proposed by Herr Simson. Congratulatory telegrams were received by the King from nearly all the European Courts, including those of Paris and St. Petersburg. According to ...

... The Prince of Wales has accepted the presidency of the. Society of Ancient Britons, vacant by 1th resigttioiof L-0d;'Dyneveor. Two mba h fiie~apailn and; Marnest g Ints at a wvedding ~ba~in: FBIi . Bdnday, ?? and ,fought. a pinthreceived a blowwhicheae u hi .death a sho~t tim Aa. te~'s lftabyou ng wie, andafamily. e: ?? t--- e bacreiy ?? to b ehle4 o Tuesday,A:p:^,[w;byh ?? styije; command, ...

... I , 9 ?? ll:.L, ,; I (REUT3W's TELEGBANS.J EVACUATION OF MEXICO BY THE FRENCH. PARIS, MKao 21. A telegram received by the government from Admiral La Ronciere, dated Vera Cruz, the 16th of March, states that the evacuation of Mexico by the French troops was completed without any accident. Not a single soldier was left behind. 'Marshal Bazaine left on the 12th inst., and Admiral Laron- ciere was ...

... NA TIONAL ARMIES. THESE are trying times for the faith of those sanguine philan- thropists who a few years back hailed the advent of a reign of universal peace. It was but yesterday, as it were, that M. GUIZOT- a cool and far from romantic statesman-reviewing the history of his generation, proclaimed the decline of the passion for conquest, l'csprit de propagande arm6f and the beginning of a ...

... If I night give & short hint to an impartial writer it would be to tell him his fate. ~it he reslved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed Ifth let him troiam war with mankid-neither to give nor to take quarter. s he tells tho criemes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of ehe law f he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks hue ...