... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (BY TELIGBAPH.] HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTBRIDAy. Their lordahipe met at five o'clock. in reply tothe Marquis of Clanricarde, The Earl of DERBY (Premier) atated that ano awer had been recelved from the Spanish government, in answer to the last despatch of Lord Stanley, with respect to the Tornado. It waa dated the 2nd Inast, and had been . ferred to the law officers of the Crown ...

... The committee for promoting the working men s ex- cursion to Paris are desirous that some practical good should result from the visit, and have, therefore, pro- posed that a fund should be set apart for the purpose of awarding prizes to those excursionists who furnish the oest essays and reports on the subject of their visit. A selection of these is to be published in order that subscribers to ...

... RHYMNEY. r Jerusalem Chapel, Rhyrnney, has been duly registered for the solemnisation of marriages therein. ...

... For several years an old mansion called Penllwyn- mawr, the property of the Llanarth family, has been used as a chapel for the Roman Catholics, and lately some Sisters of Mercy have taken up their abode here, and we have heard that several more are coming. These ladies are very active. They visit the sick and needy, and they are to be seen as early as six o'clock in the morning on some errand ...

... DREADFTL ACCIDENT AT THE NEW i BLACK1RIARS' BRIDGE. A very serious occurrence, which it is supposed will result in the loss of at least one life, took place en the Southwark side of the new bridge now in the course of construction at Blackfriars. It ap- pears that at about 20 minutes to 10 o'clock on Sa- turday forenoon a number of men, acting under the orders of Mr Bryant, the engineer of the ...

... Fl)nld?!TRGH, - TOWN COUNCIL. At a meeting of the Town Council of Edinburgh, held ?? Falshaw presiding-it was unanimously resolved to petition Parliament against certainpro~isions of the Public Health (Scotland) Bill. It was unanimously agreed, on the recom- raendation of the Lord Provost's Committee, to ask the co-operation of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland in obtaining a ...

... . . .. .. ,. I .This district meeting commences in this city 'to- day, and will be held in the John Street vestry, commencing at 10 o'clock. The Synod is mainly composed of ministers, and is not pen to the public. It will probably last until arid a, and dringo its sittings all the affairs of Methodism in Scotland will undergo a thorough investigatign. This Synod meets regularly once a year, ...

... The usual fortnihtly mceting of this Board was held ?? ?? presiding. N-UMBER OF LAMPS IN THE CITY. The minutes of the Watching and Lighting Com- mittee bore that the Inspector of Lighting had re- Ported the number of lamps tunder his charge at 31st March as follows :-7183 public lamps; 3145 lamps in private streets and courts; 2058 lamps in common stairs; 223 private lamps in public streets; ...

... AMERICAN DEMOGRACY AND CORUETION. i(rom the amesm) .Some of the American-rnewspapers are dis- cuslssing what they -declare to be a great and growing evil in their.country-the corruption of members of the SlateLegislatures, and even, it is said, of Congress. I-n England it would I beiimpossible for the asserion that members Iof the Lords and Commons le-,ied black mail to Alnd credence even ...

... VITAL sZATISTICS. 'the following is the ?? retium of .the.b;rths, deaths, and marriages registered in the: eight principal towns of .ecotlxed, for April, 1867:- Duing the month of April,,1867, there were regis- tered in the eight prindipal towns of Scotland the hirths.of 3580 children, f wcm.1866 were males, and 1714 females. Ofthese3236ierelegitimate, and344 fllegitinate; giving a pro ortion ...

... l1,PERIAL PARLIAMENT. BoUSlE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. Tieir lordsldPS met at five o'clock. THE FENIAN SENTENCES. T lFFoRO presented a petition from Glasnevin, h ?? lilit praying forthe remlission of thle ,1aidbur et i el the Fenian prisonors. The pe- epl , Lch isively signed by members of the De- (,ion : w who had all been ready to support !,ace lIritie. in the late disturbances ; and he ehl- ahe aur ...

... In a new publication called Echoes from the Clubs, an old story of a fracas in the lobby of the House of Commons is retold, with certain particulars which were not published at the time. The world outside is. now given to understand that traitor and scoundrel were the exact epithets applied by one honourable member to another, and further learns that a gallant general, to whom the noble ...