... PA1RIS CORRESPUNDENCE. WEDNSDAY. Their seems to be very little doubt, after all, that th French and Dutch Governments are fully agreed on the question of the Duchy of Luxembourg, and that'the .success of the affair depends now upon the assent of Prussia to the plan. On this last point a rumour is now current in Paris to the effect. that Count Bismarck is by ao means indisposed to consent to ...

... ANAGRAM. Mr. Disraeli finds fault with the anagram of last week, W illiam Ewart Gladstone I, wise Mr. G, want to lead all, and points out that his own name furnishes one more direct and incisive— I lead, sir.—Oni. ...

... LONDON, Monday, March 25. FRANCE. Much surprise is expressed in Paris at the persistent silence of the Moniteur respecting the treaties between Prussia aud the Southern States, ever since the publication of which the country has been in a fever of excitement. On Saturday the official gazette of Berlin published the text of the trea y between Prussia and Wurtemburg, the terms of which are the ...

... The following paragraphs are extracted from the report by the directors to the forty-sixth half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders to be held in Edinburgh this day (Friday):- In submitting the accounts of the half-year to 31st January, 1867, the directors would remind the share- holders that the reconstruction of the board was only contemplated towards the end of November last, and ...

... N EW B R EWVER Y 1SN BELFAST. 1LAYlTfl TIM 2FOUflAT[OI.N-TO'I2. i - ~TEA t our O'clock, the cercemny .Lf LC tire foiralation-sturre of th Aofast and iesryat Studly Pow tonic plies iii the presence. a, hi-e l r_' all is rspecia0l-h asclubl1 up. Mc, WV. * 1' WLI. ii;:, 'rot of t18 - onitra-t-oirs forthe OCe-tio ,- rof' tli-r e~itir\ tir spienldd sik cc tic it-i. wh~ichI 1'~ore 6t.:e il no rrr~g ...

... METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWA Y. I . I The fifth half-yearly general meeting of the pro- prietors of this railway was held yesterday at the West- mninster Palace Hotel; the Earl of DEvoN, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has alresdy appeared, having been taken as read, The noble CHAIBMAN proceeded to move its adoption,1 observing that it had ...

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... OPENING 01' THE ITALIAN PAR1 IAMENT. SPEECH O&F THE KING. The Italian Parliament was opened at. Florence oa Friday by the King in person, who ,dlivered the speech as follows:- Signori Senatori SignoADeputati4-Fb pqhappi- ness of Italy, who has confided to me her.deipieis ,X. have deemed it expedient that the repiesentatign of the country should be renovated at ?? of the s iffrsge. I am ...

... LOCAL AMD GENERALo ?? LEEDS, MARCH 29), 1867. Tis WEST RtDrNo ASSIZS.-Yestorday after- noon the commission for thoe West Riding Spring Assizeo was opened at the Crown Court of the Leeds Town Hall, wheoe a large body of spectators assemsbled to witness the coreusossy, by Mr. Justice Lush, who was accompaisied ou tle heislcs by IV. H. H. Broadley, Esq., high shoriff; Mr. WV. Grny, under sheriff; ...

... Mr. II. W. Tyler, rather a high authority on railway matters, has written a letter to the Times, in which, after expressing his opinion that Mr. Watkin's Bill will not meet the necessities of the present conjuncture, he 8uggests legislation which he thinks will be far more successful. He says :— The three things which are now most required in the Interest of railway companies, in that of their ...

... House of Commons. The select committee appointed to consider the merits of this bill mot again on Friday. The committee consisted of Lord George Cavendish, (in the chair), Mr. Wyvile, Mr. Allen Bathurst, and Mr. H. E. Surtees. Mr. Vernon Harcourt, Q.C., and Mr. Clarke appeared for the promoters of the bill, and Mr. Davidson and Mr. Granville Somerset appeared for the only petitioners against ...