... LAST NIGHT'S PARILiA4MET., I HlOUSE OF LORDS. R.TUALISTIO OOMBUfSSION. Their Lordshfps met at 5. o'clock. In reply to Earl RUSSELL, The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said that he had declined to be placed upon the Ritual Committee on the ground that no one of extreme opinions, or who was l held to be of extieme opinions, ought to be a member of that committee, and for this reason he also objected to the ...

... ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MECHANIOSs : . INSTITUTE. - I a_ TXTr2 ,_ . I I . OnWednesdayevening the annual general meeting of the members of the Mechanics' Institute was held in the long room of the Institution, Mr. J. 1). Sollitt, the president, occupying the chair. The Chairman read the forty-second report of the committee. In presenting their annual report, the committee had muchf pleasure, and ...

... I I THE CRETAN INSURRE CTION. Telegrams received at Florence frop Athens, dated the 12th instant, assert that Omar Pasha has failed in his expedition against Sphakia and Apocorona with great loss.. His junction with Mehemed Pasha is said to have been prevented, and the latter, twice beaten in the province of Apocorona, had been' compelled to retreat to an entrenched camp. The Turkish ...

... I THE PFRIENDS OF TLH LIBERK, PARTY THE past week has been most fruitful in social surprises. The home news is* equally important and astonishing. No human being, with the materials at his command, could ! have foretold the extraordinary occurrences which began with the riots at Birmingham, and finished with the revelations made at the F3 Sheffield enquiry. It would seem that at the very ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT1 HOUSE: OF COMMONS-FRIDAY The Speaker took-the chair Pt 'two O'lock. THE ODT&ILGES IN THE STRElTS rOF ioNDO,. Mr. W. O. STANLEY asked the Home Secretary if he had read hii the Times a letter of Colonel rilsonsd, of the City of London Militia, 'stating that he was an eye witness of the grossest out. rage and robbery of respectable persons by the mob following the regiment. ...

... I , ALDBOROUGH. i. DOii Sunday, June 16th, the Rev. F. Margaretts,, vicar, preached interesting sermons at the morning - .akafternoon servioes, on behalf ?? .ropaga- tion of the gospel in foreign parts.- The collections. D amountedt £4to BARTON. NORTH LiNCOLiSiRR AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY BARTON SuOW, JULY NEXT.-A meeting of the- f sub-committee was held at the George Inn, Barton,. J. Winship, Esq ...

... AND FAST RIDLNG TIMES. ?? . -. _ REGISIERED AT TflE GENERAL POST-OFFIOE FOr . TRAIWIssION ABROAD. FRIDAY, JUNE 21. THE PROGRESS BO. THE EFORM BILL. TTHn prospects of Reform are certainly brighter now than they were at the beginning of -the week. Although the enfranchisement. clauses, both for boroughs and counties, had been passed before the Whitsuntide recess, no soper was the re-distribution ...

... THE DEFENDER OF T.HE FAITH. I. .. SIMULTANEOUSLY with the London affair, a series of riots have occurred at Birmingham. A Mr. MuRPHY, who gained the distinction, a short time ago, of causing a riot at Wolver- hampt6n, began to lecture against Popery on Sunday last at Birmingham. He made use of some of the most stupidly offensive language that ever gained the approbation of Mr. WHALLEY. Of ...

... .BRIIAT'SCLERK CONVICTS D A jgtTLLI~ OF FE~LONY. Ipjhrice illpsthall, charged with stealing several lauru' of Engla~ndlnotes from his employer, Mr. £° 13n p sfshl ierchant, Wellington-street, was lienp for his final examinnatiodnbefore Mr. Travis r0lt1own-hall yvsterday. . The first witness -was St theg Uab who depesed that on Saturday, the Mr. orf~v hI lie gave to the prisoner nuie £5 Bank of ...

... I MEMTDG OF THE METROPOLITAN WORtKLNG, MEN'S CONSERVATIVE AS. I SOCIATIO. - DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF MEMARS OF THE REFORM LEAGUE.I The suppwteor of the Reform League on Monday i committed an outrage which-, we have no doubt, will go far to render that body more offensive to thle country even than it is at present A great meeting wvasto have been-held ?? il St James's Hall, London, to celebrate ...

... SPECIAL MEETING OF THE HULL TOWN I I .- I ~, COUNCIL. On Friday afternoon a special meeting of Efull Town Council was held, under the preside, of the Mayor, for the purpose of electing an Id J man, vice the late Alderman Lambert. ald,. VOTE OF CONDOLENCE. The Mayor said he deeply regretted the a which had tendered that meeting necessary melancholy duty devolved upon hin, and that wM to propose ...