... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... fRECUTRR'S TELEURAflS. I THE CONFERENCLE MAIRSEILL}ES, FEBRUARY 15.q Count Charles Waleseski arrived here at eleven o'cleck this morning. PARlIS, FBIRnUAstY 15. The Opficial Josarl of this evening says that Count Walewski is expected in Panris to-morrow. AccordiWg to the F'rance. the Conference wiU meet either on Wednesday or Thursday next, to receive the cons- myujnication of the reply of ...

... HARROW SPRI' HEt IN, . YESTJ9RDAY.*. SnELLNG STrEP~t.TdAS1E of 3 sovs each, Wih2 -ldd weotgi -for age;wnit be lid for 50 sore; selling allowanceos;abu two nowinner. to ?? Mr.T Bitti's Savannahs, ae,(. h ogine istbre U S M .list 215 (230.) K,,4, . ~, Danislh 2 Mr. ?? Brd laS tionecA ?? Bib .. J. Potter 0 Bottng: II to 4 ascet Pette0nee, IToU ?? and, Ito '2 agst Savannah '-'Pus trio carne over ...

... r Oa Monday, Mr Edward Watkins Edwards, offi- bcial assignee, attended before Mr Commissioner e Holroyd, at the London Bankruptcy Court, for the purpose of explaining certain portions of the evidence e which he recently gave in the Overend and Gurney case, before the Lord Mayor and Sir Thomas Gabriel 9Mr Edwards was required to state whether the i newspaper report of his examination was ...

... ASSOCIATION FOR AUGMENTING THE SMALLER LIVINGS IN THE ESTABLISHED CHU.RCH. I ~ -- s A MIETING in connection with this Association was held in . the Parish Schoolroom, Llumsden, on Saturday, Gth Feb., v at 12 o'clock us0o1. Early notice had been given of the meeting, and as it was well known that J. Sheriffs Gordon, : seq. of Craig, wvas to take the chair, and that Professor Milligan, of ...

... WEDNESDAY, FErR.UARY 17, 1869. TrIE QUEEN'S SPEFlChII. I I ?? I . . . -1 ' .. I A ,- 11 - - 4 The QUELN has declined to make herself the 'I mouthpiece of Mr. GLADSTWNI'S (ConfisCatory polic). ti The Parliauient-to ?? is entrusted a work of a almost immeasurable inmortanle.s was opened yester- n day, and the Royal Speech. delivered by C'omniis- t' sion, appears in another column. As the shadow ...

... tSAST HXA.RpOUr, COMMISSTONERS. ?? at eleven o'clock, the usual weekly ESTER - ody was held in the Board-room of Vr. J?mES HAMIILTON, J. P., meeting of thn, '-her members present the Harbour COfice-. irrie, 3.essr. Chairman, presiding. Thu ou. -. * RoUt. ?? :&dward Cjoev, 1). L ; Dr. - James Girdwood, J.P.; Charlus Duffin, J.- Patterson, J. i.; J. MacaLuley, IbtoH. Henderso. The SEcRsTxAvl ...

... FA4TES OF THE VICEROY OF EGYPT. . The Viceroy of Egypt celebrated the anniversary of his accession, on January. 18, byea series of festi. vities, A new palace, which is said to have cost about one million bterling, has been built by the' Viceroj at Gezireb, opposite the more ancient part of the city of Cairo, and on the other bank of the Nile, It is designed partly in the Saracenic style, by ...

... TEE BURNSFERGUSON CONTROVERSY A Scotch minister, of' wbich 'denomination we know not,.has been preaching a sermon against the great poet of his country, Ropert Burns. Scotland, which is renowned for an austeie'piety of the Cal. vinistic type, is reniarkable also for : large amount : of jollity and bonlwmmie, which unfortunately betray themselves sometime in a highly reprehensible fashion. ...

... On Monday Mr. Edward Watkin Edwards, whose extra- ordinary evidence in the Overend, Gurney, and Co. case caused such excitement, attended in Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's court to make his explanation. Mr. Edwards in the beginning said there were many circumstances-especially a severe illness which affected his memory-to prevent him giving such answers at the recent inquiry as he otherwise would ...