... DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-15O,OOO DAMAGES. A fire of a most destructive charactor broke out about nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, at the mill of Messrs, William Bashall and Co., Farington. There are about 900 operatives employed at the works, and on returning from breakfast they betook themselves to their respective rooms. The mill is five storeys high. Shortly after the machinery had been set in ...

... u0 ON DEDION8IATION. - - rv f 1yattenaadmactingwaa agftO f ufly attendedimeeting was t Iirciltiado Hall, in reisponse rhe ?? and Salford TAd lng thsred the slirrblage for the purpose th~ t s of the operative trades' de rI otoentse the Sheffield to t mg t the Srespc ting iciade'wo S e r -h t'had aviterests of their orde Tv beor S the of thie CoUicil, took the ha 'te prest At b on Othe. 9,ae ...

... IMPERAL PARLIMENT. JBY TELEGRAPH. I HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY. Their lordships met at five o'clock. r THE ROYAL PARKS. The Earl of DERBY suggested that the Meetings in the Royal Parks Bill should be postponed for a week, in order to see what was done with a bill for the same objectia the House of Commons. Earl GRANVILLE thought a bill of this kind ought to be brought in by the government, and ...

... LATES T NEWS. PARIS, TItURSDAY. ThiO fni~teitr de 'A rune sayVS A report of Marsha' Niel, daled April 4 laPst, pinted out. tiiha the returnr of the foreign legionl fron, Mexico woulf ilncrease the aumber of officers without elflployniest.A anld thus previrlt promlotioll iln thle infantry corp.s In order to remedy this evil Marslrtl Niel proposed that ill everly infantry reginiclt tho two ...

... It - lldu fstoo. The famous ¶ rede gar ironworks are in fl blast near Richmond, employing 400 men Jntelligence from the Britih embassy at St- d Petersbur states that 452 men of the orews of.shipwrecked ?? been brought into Archangel. The transports Brenda and Montezuma arrived off .AohangelJuly 17. 'The publication of income returns in the United States is almost ended, and throughout the ...

... THE SHEITIELD n ADOS I I COMMISSION. 0i CONFESSION OF THE ACORN-STRP p Great interestwasmanifestedlinthelprocedil morning, as it was understcod that what s is Acorn-strect murder was to be the subject of inv asj This outrage was committed in tle autuinll of 1igtI the folowing circumstances. A dispute 1861 t between Mr. H. E. Eoole, of, the Green Lan his stove grate aid fender grinders, the ItD ...

... ILiAsT X S T N E w S. FRANCE ?? Tatr'nv. The MEendard of this evening says ?? Generd DImont's mission to IRome is occasionedt by Uc circumstance that the French officers of the Romn legion have retained their rank in the French army. Their inspection by General Dumont ha no gignificance viewed in connection with the con- vention po the 5th September, which admita ad J favours the organisation ...

... A PIEOSECUTING SPIRITUALIST. At the Bow-strcet Police Court, on Tuesday, John Parker, dealer in old jewollery, 10, Long Acre, who had been ?? front a previous day, again appeared to answer the charge of having purchased stolen pro- Verty with a guilty knowledge. Mr. BI. Williams de- tended the prisoner. The prosecutor, Mr, E, Garroway, commission agent, of Gower-street, had his watch snatched ...

... Oil Sunday afternoon his. highness, attended by Nebar Paclia and accompanied by the Earl of Dudley aind other distingutished personagis, left Paddissgtocs at three o'clock by special train, en sonic for Taplow, in order to visit Clieveden, near Maidenlsead; the beautiful residence of the Dowager Duchess of Suthesland, which overhangs one of the msost picturesque portions of the Thames. ...

... JIMPERL PARL . HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY. Their lordships met at five o'look. , WITHDRAWAL OF THE ROYAL PARKS DrLL, L Lord REDESDALE, who had on the paper a motion for b the second reading of the Royal Parks Bill, moved that the order be discharged, and withdrew the measure. ; e THE ENZCUTION OF MAXIMILAN. L Ph arl of DERBY appealed to Lord Strstford de Red- dliffe not to bring forward a ...

... I I On Tuesdaynight, anaffraytookplace ?? Inn, Dale End, Birmingham, in which a man named John McNally, a striker, living in London Prentioe-street, Birmingham, was. shot dead by the proprietor of the house, Morris Roberts. About ten o'clook deceased, in company with two other men, entered the gin s'op of Roberts, in which were a number of persons drinking. These persona asked to be supplied: ...

... .00 - . gogal, and a,-iotdd# . I FALAC JT TOA CEILD.-A oroner's~inqsuest ,Mm h~eld en Tuesida tioitebody 'if a little boy, namned .anin~inuris f wic beson ?? jury returne uNIVER~iTY OF LON~oN-PRO I?1OsAL ExAMiaNA. 71ONS.-Th frtBAfrt.Scand Preliminairy M Scientific B.. examintos fte Uiersity of London C4 commenceed on Monday mrngin Owens College, under, the superintendenlce of PoeorMorrisa, ?? ...