... 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 ...

... SOCIETY OF4BSW THE NTITE SIN US V4.Jl.6 (FEnox DO Locusoir RlanoarTt.) The 16th annual oonfercnoe-bctween the Counacil of the Society of Arts and the representatives of the Insti- tutes and Local Boards in union was held on Wednesda~y, in the theatre of the See jety of Arts, the Bight Hon. H. A. Bruce, M.P,, in the chair. Although the council had made a special appeal to the loca-l authorities ...

... 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 ...

... PARLIAMENT. I (Lip Tdcgrap/r.) ]IIOUSE OF LORDS, YJ5STINDAry. Thi Lodsbipe met eat fveo'clock. he L THE RITUAL COMMISSION, Ingel to Earl lttb55E~, Ine Erl Iof SUIAFTESBU ItY said that he hstd deolined to be ?? f 05 thu Ritual Commlission oue the ground to o ?? piio9,or who was held to be that no one of eixtrem opigt obeioamrbro htt O soxtem and fonr thi's re~s5,0 he also objected to the conati ...

... 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. ...

... THEE IRISH RAILWAYS. DEPUTATION TO THE GOVERNMENT. I[Enoet OUR LONDON REPORTER.] LONDNo, Thursday. This afternoon a large and influential deputation of Irish peers end Members of Parliament waited an Lord Derby, at his official residence in Downing-street, to urge upon him, and through him on the Government, the len- poctance of taking the Irish railway system under its control. The deputation ...

... 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 ...