... The following is the thirdnreport of this inportant Commission:- I' To T31E QUEEN'S 'MOST B XCELsENT MAJESTY. 1. IIn this third report, which wo haveI now the honour of presenting to your Majesty, wo desiro humbly to offer our recommendations on a separate but highly important portion of the work which your Majesty lias beeo pleased to assign. to us. 2. In your Majesty's Commission we wero ...

... lTHE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF DECEMBER NEXT. I (f)lons .Ncsfenv.) On Frixday last Mr. Lassoll, the president, broughtbefore the Royal Astronomical Society the subject of the total solar eclipse of December next, with a view to eliciting infolnsation as to the steps necessary for observing ik. A most interesting discussion ensued, in which the Astronomuer Royal, tha mresident, Messrs. Du la oue, ...

... The Board of Trade have received the sworn l idepositions mado by the oincers and crew of the Mary (screw steamer), as also of the survivors of the Normandy steamer, relative to the circumstances of the collision, and the means taken to save life. Captain Robert WV. Strasack, master of the Mary (steamer), ?? Mary (steamer) was owned by Messrs Ed. Jordan iougl, o± Nortli Shields. She was throe ...

... The tenth annual dinner of this Club took place, last night, under tire presidency of thle MAYOR, 'at tire Great Northern Parillvrry Stationl Hotel. Amiongst thogu occupying chairs to the right arid left of his Worsh ip were, Mr. Aid. Carter, M.P., Mir. Wreelliuone, M.P., Mr. Aid. Oxley, Mir. Aid. Barren, Mr. Aid, Addyirsair, Couwseillorre Puice, Croft, Higgins, Dixon, larker, arid Hiarlanid ...

... I LeonoN, Monday Afternoon. The Irish debate which will take place this even- ing will unquestionably be a somewhat warm one. The Government, it is probable, will find opponents on both sides of the House, the Conservative landowners of Ire- land objecting to the measure as being inadequate, and the Irish Liberals opposing it on the ground of its exces- sive stringency. Nevertheless the bill ...

... fPlR3IAL PARLIAAMENT. I ,By TELEGRAPH.) 110USE OF LORDS, YESTERDAY, Their erislips met atfv o'clock. THE COINAGE BILL. Onl thle n;tio that the House go into committee on the C JC~illC oRI MOND asked heow it was that silver, The~55iselsdedintie bill when it was brought into thle iclic had ilse been omnitted V and whiother or not, ned sieulrs~~snsigned by C. Al reatoad0 ~tvc' Wlson saary ftl ...

... flIPEPRT JALPAtIAMENIT. IIP01St OF COMNIMONS, YESTERDAY. _ Sly CFN:ULL took the chair at five maillnutes past twelvo 6cjlQt, PlRIVATE' DUINNTiESS, ,llo uill'EIA Tere read a second timo,-DhluC- ~ follolil;n Imrl-ovelliellt, Cobilnla Railvwa, Dart- bete ' ii . -(l Borougth Improvelliont, Halifaxt siseth s>. ITbd~t BriLge Gns, Lincoln City Coi- I a, ILu, ?? and South Wales RaIl- lt ri-i Charities ...

... LATES- _NEWL.I I IlREUTrI's TI anmra I FRANCE. PARIS, Maroh 31. The PrVssc of this evening states that Prince Pierre Bonaparte ombarked at Havre this morning for America, The Princess and children have goli to Switzerland. The situation of Crouzot is unchanged. The miners are gradually resuming work, but the efforts of the. agitators continue. THE PAPAL COURT. PArIS, March 31. Advices iron ...

... WEEKLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS, 2ND WEEK, 1870. In the week ending last Saturday 4,050 births and 2,096 deaths were registered in eleven large cities and boroughs of England, including London. The births exceded by 147, and the deaths by 177, the average weekly numbers in the tenyears 18-51-60, corrected for increase of population to the middle of this year. The ...

... THE LIEED.S M.ERCUJRY. TrEES Ftenians have crossed. the fronltiers, have b)1een defeated by C'aiiadiall ohti11eeL'~,, their Corl- . j arander-in-ehief, GrrmuAa O'NEILLr, has boon seized by the United States' Marshal, nard the whole maovement ,.has proved, so far, suchI a miserable fiasco, that -Irs- e nom~s, the President of the Council, declares the raid to ohave been premature and ...

... I THE LEEDS MERCURY. IT is now known that over 7,000,000 afflirna- I tie votes wero givce during the plebiscite in France btlU 1- UZ t ?? - D - on Sunday, and that the negative vote exceeded a million and a half. Both sides are reported to be satis- fied; the Government, that the ' Ayes are largely in excess of their calculations; the Opposition, that the Noes show atnarked advance on the ...

... PRIMITIVE METHODIST DISTRICT MIETING AT DARLINGTON. The meeting of the Sunderland Dis:rict meeting of the Primitive Methodist body concluded yesterday at Dar- lington, having continued from Friday. Yesterday'8 pro- ceedings consisted almost entirely of the stationing of the ministers. The following is the final drtft of the aproint- mnents:- Sunderlmd, L.D., Esaph Slhields, Win, Clomitson, Geo ...