... PARLAMN A r - HER MIAJESTY'S HEALTH. A great many rumours have been afloat in reference to the absence of the Queen at the open- r ing of Parliament, and the Tory journals have I industrionsly spread the statement that it was owing to her Majesty's dislike to the sentiments contained in the speech, which it would have been her duty to read. The remarks on this subject made by Mr. Gladstone in ...

... A remarkable suit to obtain the annulment of a marriage contract bas occupied seven sittings of the Civil Court of Paris. The defendant was a gentleman named Stern, a Russian subject, formerly a shipbroker in London, and the plaintiff Madame Edouard Houssaye, sister and heir-at law of Madame Stern, now deceased. The marriage between M. and Madame Stern was solemnised in 1862 after a very ...

... beyond. __ I The case of Woodhouse v. Woodhouse, jrst decided in the Court of Chancery, COntvdjJ a serious warning to trustees, the sonis and rlprs- sentatives of a deceased trustee being held liable, .53 years after the date of a tarria settleeneut, for their father's omission to enforce a coveissut against the husband. The facts are as ?? set.e1inent, which was executed in ISM, on the ...

... I I - ~~~TOXTETH. - The msntllytii' etlr DtirE lbciarriwwas held yesterday ill at thre Lave Ascociatlion Roomus, (jook-street, Mr. Hi. 3. Alpass in thu Chair. I lie ether members present were c_ MletErs, Boult, Itogers, Woodhead, Jaclitori, Harigh, and e; Nylor.-Tlo opibilon s-f Mr. TIX U. Blaylis, barrister-, list ;Z ein obtained as to the liability of certain hsuildings at thii Textoth-park ...

... At the monthly meeting of the Birlrenhead Com- minsioners, on Tuesday, there was some discussion relative to the effect of the increased contract rates. No accurate return has yet been made, but it would seem that, notwithstanding the increase, the receipts for contract tickets last month were only about £42 in excess of the amount received in January, 1668, It is expected that when a ...

... I MTUM IN PARVO. The sot asued in the lat seoito Stspend ti, t0 Habeas 0orpus Act it Ireland will expire on the 25th of next month. A.- A woman lving at Bradford, who was cans- Ue tomed to take laudanuum for the relief of asthoa d killed herself on Thursday, by taking an overdos,' Ake On Thursday night, a crowded meeting of th arod inhabitalts of Leeds was held, in favour of the t release of ...

... The annual meeting of the supporters of the St. George'l Boys' Industrial School, West Dorby road wao held yesterday, in the council room of the Town Hall, Mr. T. S. Rsfflos, stipendiary magistrate, in the chair; and thera were also present the Very Rev. Canon Fisher, D.D., Rev. James Nugent, Major Blundell, Lieutenant-Colonel Bidwell, and Messrs. E. Sharplen, C. J. Corbally, G. Patterson, F. ...

... AN UNFINISHED HOUSE BLOWN DOWN IN WINDSOR1 In no part of Liverpool apparently was the storm which prevailed on Sunday felt with more severity than in the southern division of the town, and particularly in the neighbourhood of Parliament- fields, across which the wind blew with tremendous violence. An evidence of this was furnished yes- terday morning. About half-past two o'clock a house in ...

... 1BY TELERUAiR&.] Lord Derby goes to London to-morrow. THE MINISTRY. With only three exceptions, all the members of the Cabinet were present at the banquet last night. The Laily ?? says the gathering last night had all the dignity of a -great political demonstra- tion. The Daily Telegraph alludes as a most significan t announcement to the statement made by Mr. Gladstone that, in carrying the ...

... THE ABERGELE ACCIDENT. END OF THE LOTTERY SCHE ME. At the Stafford borough petty sessions, on Thurs- day, William Greey and Rowland Churchill, law stationes, were charged with keeping a certain house, in Stafford, for the purpose of carrying out a lottery. The particulars of the case have already appeared. Captain Congreve, the chief constable said that the defendants a fortnight ago undertook ...

... I A young man, who gave tbe' name of Robert Fuches, by birth a German, was charged at a, London police court with b.ving attempted to commit self-murder. A poi.!ice constable proved being called to the public baths in Whitechapel, where the prisoner was given ihito his custody on a charge of attempted suicide by Stabbing himself in the arm with a knife, Pridounr had a wound in the arm from ...

... I THE IRISH CHURCH, I- The Irish Church Eli]tabhshment is ?? I This act of political justice has hbeen donu, aftrsL grave deliberation and elaborate debate, by - Par. liament, aud the frienld of religious freedoi a~y rejoice. It is trie thjat thiose who h2abve gcconipliehed this swetping change a,, nt the lioliticias who legielate in St. StC'pilren's but it has been done by a body Slrtwt ir ...