... TEE UPE lCAL COMMISSION FOR ENCLISH FT1HERIES. CAR.rISLEi, Saturday. The Comnissioners resumed thoei inquiry this n'orning at lO..YO, Mr. P.ruersox in the chair, the other Ccn.rniseioners being Captain Spratt aud Major Scott. 'The Coumissioners have at length got through tbe list of claims for poke nets in the Sulway Frith and Eden. Sevcral other Claims were put in last evening after the dis- ...

... PAVIC CONGREGATIONAL CIIUROE, HALIFAX. LAYING OF THlE MEM)ORIAL STONE. Tie ni10li01o0 tillstne of the Park Congregational (butcil Mojiwood-Isnle, 1flielte, was laid yesterday by ise'lois Crossley, ?? For several years paist aL wantl ct itiereased accomumodation for public worship has boon sujttilTlY lt in the ivest and north-west parts of Halifax, is the secitibers of all denorninations. The ...

... I) I C'1'UCT INTELLIGENCE BRIDLINGTON. GUADIAS.-No contest for the ?? guardians of .the poor in Bridlington took - bt. -year, all the old ones being nomunat* chosen for the several parishes. 33ARTON. jFPo~xca, Tuesday.-Annie Wrun who -.nTuesday sustied a >thbu r assault aint her mistress, Mr, lceeby, was brought - Davy, o chrrp'lrs~h , d Q-cio of Police ser r tTlhlgF A'ithlig Mrs. Davy in ily ...

... THIE CESSION OF RUSSIAN AMERICA. Tlhe treaty -which hns just heell -alified by tho Senate of the United States, by which Russia gives uip her American poeseesions for a pecuniary consideration, tioes not appsear to have heens received on its first announlcem~ent witll tnytllitg like eisthnsinssm by the miore respectable of the New York papers. The 11CD s'o, Pt 'Tias s, which is on ithos whole ...

... WATERWORKS COMMITTEE-A CHAIR. MAN ELECTED AT LAS L. The third meeting of the WaterworkL ommittee e for the purpose of electing a chairman M vis held at the Town-hall on Saturday, under the p; eidency of f the Mayor (Alderman Loft). There Nvzic presert 9 Alderman Greshanm and Councillor.,; Boulter, I Bellamy, Chapman, Allott, Raymond, BRayzer, 1 and Willows.-Mr. Raymond proposet., andcMr. f ...

... AlR. P. A. TAYLOR, M.P., ON Tl 1F REFORM CRISI S. Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., has addressed the following letter to the editor of Lcicestcr Free Fecess:- San,-I have received various communications from LeicEstr r ill regard to tie state of the reform question, and lo me ?? pist and future, thereon; which I should lilfe, ivih 3 our permission, to respond to by frank explana- tions in your columns. ...

... i CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES FROM WOK 1-n;'-ING ME'ASSOCUTIONS AT:- LEEDS: 'I of_ - - I . . _ On Monday afternoon a conference of delegates from the various Working Men's Conservative Associations was held at the Smithfield Hotel, in Leeds, for the purpose of considering the best means of promoting the object of establisaing a National Association of Conservative Working Men's Asso.. ciations Mr ...

... --a THE RE, OLUTION I jHATI Advices received by the WVest India mail br-i full particulars of the revolution which h1. bee; - fully accomplished il the island of Ilayti, The revel- Port-au-Prance, onl the night of the 2n'd of Febraoia. having lseen quelled (as reported ?? this lat uill) ?? tranquillity restored, it appears that On the followiuw President '3eifrard resolved to abdicate : loon ...

... RAILW AY TRAFFIC RETURNS. I I I i I i in-ir WEEK THIS HALF-YEAR. Total Same lne, or Ieioelg I15WY. 1817, 18o. i.0 ear. 183. Dec. 1861 102 Briotaoi codfEzeter,, 696l 61711 90022 00211 2708 111 121 ?? -- -. - - 30 Sll Ca-nbiUDn ?? 2173 28011 30 307:11 11 180130l 130 C'Wliennfh U,08.& Pen - 600 - -- 31 - Coio Ier.ndlon, Ole Kim. 431 101 - - - 20 20 ileeside ?? - - 13 12 I LIhhes 00' Drugh(ll'Oa- ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. IT TuE EmBrmOl OF AUSTRIA LhS Written to IFhis ambassador at Washington, instructing him to askI Mn. SaWAaD to request JuA1aZ to treat the EnIERon MAsXIMelAN as a prisoner of war in case his Majesty should be captured by the Republicans. Tile end ap- pears to be near. Tiru Indians have massacred a United States garrison, tnder CoroNEL RANKIN, in Dacotah territory. Tlro ...

... TlHE ENGINE DRIV;ERS' STRIiIKE ON THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. LEEDS. There is little change to notice in the position of either party, the Directors and olliciels of the North-Eastern Company being still actively employed in orgaisising a proper stail of drivers rnd firemen to arry on the oriinary trfllic of their vast system, nud the mel on strike remaining as fixed aseverin tleir ...

... i-leVFOREIGN INT.iZLLItGENUE;: | . ?? ' . I II. . ' !, ' - . - ' - ; . I . FRANCE i. l , PANS, April 16th.-' eporta have been current of the arrest of Prussian officers by the Freno authorities at Thionville, and of the arrest of Frch officers at Mayence'and Laudan. These reports are; declared to be without foundation. i . I It is announced that the Emperor and Empress of Russia will shortly ...