... ALLEGED ASSAULT BY A - SCHOOLMASTER. I THE TROUBLES OF VULGARFRAC-TIONS to 00 Oa Tuesday, at the second police court, Messrs. du Hyslop and Hornby on the bench, Abraham Louis AP Sanm-il. a boy about 15 years of age, summoned wf Dr. Will am R okard, principal of the Alverton sh House Ac 0demy, Upper Parliament-street, for 8r having assaulted him on Monday, the 15th instant. pr M~r. Cobb ...

... PUBLIC OPINION AS. TO PEACE AND WAR. lly One of the most'gratifying circumstances in ty, connection with' the arrangement of the 'dis- led pate between France and Germany is the ad ready acquiescence of the French and German le, people in the arrangement for the preservation n- of peace agreed to in the London'Coniference. Fr. In former times the spirit of war was widely or diffused amongst ...

... | IMiERIAL PARLIAMWT. HOUgg OF LORDS. - FRIDAy, 11AY 17. .Tlheir lordahipa muet at 'five n 'ciook THE CONDEMNED FK'TIANX8 Lqrd LiproB= presented a petitio, froma Gl.' nevifi, a suburb of Dublin, praying for the reminsion of the capital sentenosw on the iiuian prisoners.' The petition was exclusively signed by members of the Defence Association, who had afl beezt ready to supprt the ...

... The House of Commons has acted Wisel in authorizing the Chancellor of tbe E,,be. quer to continue the practice of payig of gradually a moderate portion of the &a:r0 debt by means of terminable annuities. 71: practice can never be carried to any injuricud extent, for the demand for termir,,bei annuities is always limited, whilst the demuad for perpetual annuities, issued on the elunrity of a ...

... ! DPJ)DUO) MROM )EBRmVATIONS TAKEN AT THE t ?? ?? VRPOOL OBSERVATORY. Latitude, 530 24' N. Lon~itlde, 9 ?? BAoMUa ?? TMIPEuA.uRN. 7d n b u ' ~ IV ~~ ~ ~ ~ *0 ?? Inh_ LApril | Blch ?? In eh'ue I Ionday 220 7 29, 68 29.711 ftuesday28 29.70 29.65 29.080 S~ednea2429:e4 2.068 29.687 ;Whu--te:.26 29.80 1 2Df65 W.P 882 bdsy ..'26f 29.88 29.62 29.748 8at'rday27| 29.60 29.46 20.607 undayS 2.88 20.87 ...

... I I BIuRKENHEAD GUARDIANS. , The ioitnightly meeting of this 60ard was held yesterday at the relieving offices Birkenhead, the members present being Messrs. W. Henderson (in the chair), Evans, Legge, Haughton, Theobald, Galan, and Woodcock. Mr. Redding, the master, reported the number of paupers in the workhouse on the 6th instant to be 333; admitted since, 83; discharged 88- dead, 2; ...

... *1VLP L PARLIAM--EN. .; .T. ?? ?? I IiAL T,.A IAMENT. 0 .. - 1 ~: - ; u_.. . I, se M ;USK OF 'LORDS. : MONDAY, MAY 13. Their ldrdtbips r 3t at five o'clock., VESCAPE OF LADIES lR(iM A OONVENT. - The Xarl of STIAFTESIWURY aeked if the attertion of tthe Goierenitiuefid been direoted to a state- nb et that aad bi en nede .that, two young ladies, ubo had left a E orlan Catholic convent at Gloisop ...

... COSTUME OF PARISIAN LADIES The Paris correspondent of the Mornntg Post thus speaks of the costume of some of the French ladies at Chantilly races :- The Crown Prince was gazed at with curiosity by the polite crowd; and what a crowd it was ! The ladies of the wealthy classes, thickly packed in the tribunes, wearing the most exquisite toilettes, with al trace of dust on their gay millinery; all ...

... LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. COMMIERCIAL.I LONDON, FBIDAY EvMN. Although the stock mtarkets have paused in their Improving tendency, it is generally considered that they contain the germ of increased animation. %lis week has been broken into by the Derby, and ,ihe markets will hardly bo fairly tested until Ifonday or Tuesday. Then the weather has been 'irery unfavourable to the new tone and ...

... BALUS POPULI Lo SUPRPMA. DOMESTIC. The4 Earl of Derby and Mr. Disraeli met thebr followers in Downing-street. on Monday - afternoon, and explained the latest phase of the ever varying policy of the Cabinet on the eubject of Reform. The noble earl made a --very important statement. He said that he xegarded the personal payment of full rates as a. necessary barrier against household Anffrave ...

... I; SHIPWRE CK AND LQS1 OF t 1, - I ~ LIVES. - EXTRAORDINARY SUFFERING$ OF T 5HE 13URYIY,9R5. .- A tale of unusual suffarinig ast sea is unfoled by the arrival at Arbroath of the Ilyth brig Ancient' Promise, Captain It. B. Stannard, from Memel, withacargo; of flax'for au Arbroath firm. The Ancient Promise has brought with her Captain Currie, maeter of the brig Ocean Queen, of Blyth, which ...

... -iq -O =E S - MU _ * .s SALUS POI'VLI -M SVPRMA. - ;1SUMMAR1Y. s .- DOMESTIC. : aabinet Coucil was -held on Wednesday. . 4d'.O Wdnesday, the Scotch me ersdf the House of Commones had a'long debate on the il, for abolishilg the Scotch law of hypotheo, ,wich empower~s a aiidiord to seize the pro- duce of cultivated .1aid even after it has been aci, as a set-off for unpaid rent The bill was ...