... -M rDrfn-ursy.-lr. Marsh Nelson has issued an address to the eleotors of Mid- Srrey, ia wkioh he says:- In aomplianoo with repeated invitations from electors and non-eleotors, I respeotfully beg to offer m yelif as a candidate for the high ant distinguished honcur of reprnsenting you in the Commons' House of Parliament. M~y politios are well knowna. For some' years I have taken an a ,tive ...

... OUR DAILY CONTEMPORARIEiS. qtv.. A Ion I'HE i. ?? AEstNx(R ratom LONDON.-The Times .has the following:-O C Monday nfght the Queeu's I'Miniisters -were twice defeated iri tie Honed df Cou- t ions. ' The adverse divisions could hbt have been quiite unxpex t d, since Mr. Disraeli and his colleigues well'knw the temptr 'of the' House of Commons,' and Xthey had before them the parliamentary ...

... MfISCELLANEOUS. Admiral Sir Henry Ducie Chads, ?? died at his resisence, at Soutbsen, Hant6,,on Tuesday. Sir John Pakington has been suffering from an attack of chicken-pox. The nvmber of patients relieved at the Royal Free Hospital during the week ending April 4 was 3,907, of which 1,296 were new cases. Mr. Justice Hannen will be entertained at dinner by tle Home Circuit, of which he was a ...

... THE REVOLUTION mN SPAIN. The expected manifesto of the Provisional Govern- ment to tie nation was issued on Monday. After detailing the events which led to the establish- ment of the present Administration, it says:- The revolution has decreed universal suffrage as the evident and palpable demonstration of the sove- reignty of the people. Having proclaimed the funda- mental principles of our ...

... ?t MR: BRIGHT -AT COURtT.4' - IR D- ?? The N~esvcaitle Cihrondce, referring to Mr. Bright's re- cotion by the Queen on the occasion of his acaeptance of ofico, says . We understatid on Mr. Gladstone mentiloning to her Majesty that ho intended, with hbr ipimission to offer a seat in the Cabinet to the hor. member for Birming- ham, the Queen was pleased. to say it wonld afford her the greatest ...

... SPE]ECH or MR. iILL. A meeting -oa3 hbed oa Weanesday evening at St. James's flall to hear addresses from the Hon. B. W. Grosvenor and Mr. J. S. Mill, the members for West- uminster. After Captain GROSvENO1 had spoken, Air. MILL (who secared an ?? reception) s1ad that his hon. colleague and himself might be bup- posed to represent different sections of the great Liberal party, but he hoped ...

... THE EXEOUTION OF THlE 1ENxAN VOs- EXTRAORDINARY PROCEUDIMGS BY f'AR AU TEORI TIES,. On Tuesday morning, in the presence of a vast Con- courso of spectators, MicholBarrett the alleged author of the Clerkenwell explosionb, was hanged in front of Newgate. In its circumstances there was very little to distingr rish tis from ordinary execUtions. The crowd was greater, perlmps, and better behaved,; ...

... ZMPGIQTANr TRADE DDCISION. Mr. James Browne, of tshe firm of Messrs. Browne and Robinson, bDilders. of Wership-street, attended before Mr. Newton, at Worship-streot, Poliee-court, on Friday, in answer to an adjoureed summons taken ont by a bricklayer named Vesob, f.r the sum of 1L. l8s., arrears of wages due for work and labour done. Mr BEseey appeared for the defence. In this case a question ...

... FGOUIGN INTELLIGENCE. A Paris letter has the following:- The war' party will read with pleasure several small pieces of intelli- gence In the papers. Several moveable ironclad towers are to ha manufactured in Prussia before the endrof the year, Intended for the Rhine fortresses. The number of ilburers employed on the great works ia the port of . Kiel has been increased by 400 moe. The needle ...

... DRUNKENrNESS IN THE ARMY. The report on military prisons shows that mn the jear 1867 1,905 soldiers in the army at home were sentenced to imprisonment in the military prisons for drunkenness. The main cause of a largo increase is stated to be that soldiers wbo were formerly summarily convicted and sentenced to short periods of imprisonment inregimental cells by their commanding offloers for ...

... UNITED KINGDOM RAILWAY OrFICERS AND SERVANTS' ASSOCIATION. The twelfth half-yearly ordinary general meeting of the above association -took place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on' the 26th ultimo, at the close of-which aspecial meeting was held for the alteration of rules 3 and ?? Mr. H. Tinaal Atkinson, serjeant-at- law, in the chair. The committee, in their report, stated that the ...

... THE A3BYSINZAN EXPEDMbON.. . ?? a 1 X X I I - ?? We have detailed news from the expeditionary army, as well as the more recent telegrami of Sir I. Napier. The 2ad of this month brought him to Anata'o, where he was half-way to Magdala, reckoning by distance, but practically much siearer that goal. The increased effi- ciensy of the Military Train, 'the order into which the force as an organized ...