... : I CORPORATION POR MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION I I'N LONDON AND THN bUBURDS. The following is the report of the Council to the Governors of the Corpoiation, to be presented at the annual meeting next Wednesday. It will be remembered that, at the second annual general meeting of tlhe coporation, held at tho Mansion-houie on the 18th of March last, the council reported that in the school established ...

... A TEXA-1T0 DZSPPRADO. The Mcscjsio Poat baa the foll swing terribslo narraflea of a depercto Who fuferst North-EeSforfl Trars.- olneuroe of-the dospersslo is usher. He calls himself I tlonel Belier, of the Confederate army;' bert It is ?? never hold a cannmisieon in Ihat erosy. He was in htO rebel servico as a privstesoldier or goeri se And, wo helove, wa7 also et oo tino in the Union army. ...

... FRANCE. PARIS. Mllrclz 13.-The Afocitezur of this morning announces that General 'de Failly has been nominated a Senator, and Admirals Reynaud and Fleuriot de Langle grand officers of the Legion of Honour. ITALY. NAPLES, MarcL 12.-A grand banquet was given to-day to Admiral Farnagut, Commander of the American squadron in the Mediterranean, by Admiral Provana, Commander of the Second Naval ...

... MR. BRIGHT'S AND THE GO VERNzvENT PROPO- SALS ON THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. MR. BRIGHT'S speech on Friday was so singularly temperate and con- ciliatory, and his proposals were so modified and were urged so suggestively, that there can be no difficulty in discussing them in a corresponding spirit. They are now reduced to this There is to be no com- pulsion, no gentle pressure even, no invidious ...

... qlji career of the late Dr. Robert Lee, of Greyfriars, Edinburgh, has ?? interest even for Englishmen in the present posture of ecclesiastical irs, Nobody can doubt that, assuming the Irish Church to be doom ed, III( Scotch Church is the next weakest in the three kingdoms, and this fact jjl Les it curious to watch how she meets the difficulties of the time. It ml :st be leimembered that the ...

... OCCASIONAL NOTES, 1 All Engineer writes to the Times to say that he has beell by a large foundry firm in the country to send them down half- LO,'Ki ?? is trimmers or fettlers f that he mentioned the matter to t of a foundry at the East End, telling him that the wages offered ?? t antd that the work was all paid for by the piece. The foremanl le tj there were plenty of trimmers and ...

... FOREIGN OFFICE AGENCIES. To the EDITOR of t/e PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-My attention has been called to an article in your paper of yesterday, in which reference is made to an opinion unfavourable to the system of Foreign Office Agencies which I expressed in the year 1855 in the House of Commons. I think it right to state that a more intimate acquaintance with the subject, and much practical ...

... ,GIANTS AND D WARFS. 'IHAT popular and exhaustive work, the History of Jack the Giant- Killer, appears to have told us all we know, or are likely to know, concerning the nature and habits of men of gigantic stature. From it we learn that they are usually clumsy, inert, knock-knleed, and splay- footed individuals, endowed with prodigious appetites and a great capacity for drink, and-with ...

... IN the twenty-third volume of Napoleon's Correspondence, which has just been published in Paris, are several interesting letters of a semi-private character, which form a curious contrast to the mass of official documents and orders concerning the Russian campaign. For instance, in Decembes, iSii, his Majesty sends the following note to Berthier, Prince of Neuchatel and Weagram :_ My cousin ...

... Frikay, 2 o'clock. Effid C-baTilrald otwd. The Lord Lieutenant and the Marchioness of Abercorn left Dublin this morning for Baronscourt, where his Excellency will remain whilst arrangements are being carried out at the Castle on a considerable scale for the reception of the Prince of Wales next month. Politicians in Tiverton have been afforded a little merriment this week. To secure pa)ment of ...

... 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 ...