... IMPERIAL PALIAMENTI,,) ?? I to the House Of Lords last night, Lorillfn mnounced (in answer to a question from Lord ?? ' AirliO) that there is to be a join~t Committee of ail One two RHouses ?? the question of railway ho Amalgamation. The conversation which took Oh place upon this subject~ afforded Lord Salisbury an OppOrtunity to defend railway companies from the accusations cnmmonly urged ...

... SMIROVE TUESDAY IN PARIS 'AND VERSAILLES. - (now 01M OwVN OORn3P0oNDla.) - : T~~~UM8AY NLORTr. This Mardi Gras has been 'kept without any re- joicings beyond the going abroad of holiday- makers,.glad to enjoy a fine day. The Boulevards and the Champs Elysies were very crowded. It' has long been known ?? the traditional proces- sione fm-the euf Gjreswould nog take lace, the cityhnvingtdecided ...

... I - : (5trdm the Weekly tevi ew.) - 'An article ?? Cooke's Life, remarkable a alike for intolerance and blunders-which can- N not, 'indeed, be read in Ireland without provoking asmile of iontempt-appears in the lasuinumber of the IVatwhuiord. Its sketch of national eda- v lcation, and Dr. Cooke's relation to it, is about as v thorough a piece of fiction, though not entertain- ing fiction, as ...

... Co URSIN. TJIU WATERBLOO CUP. ht seventh anniversary of the WV'aterloo d ibe t13' Derby, as it has been called-will pr~t'5° J-tro rro5V over the Earl of Sefton's l MineflC itr coursing meetings are in conse- 10teat at ended all over the country, and the I qpience 5t'6 1 are m hailing in great force at 0 ors Of the leit5 I rendezvous in and around fc the variou) Fhe sudden death of Lord ...

... INTERESTING PRESENTATION.—On Saturday afternoon, the members of the 1st Bible class of the English Baptist Sunday School, presented their teacher, Mr. Alfred Curtis, with a very handsome family Bible, together with an address, beautifully engrossed, in token of their affec- tion and esteem, and as a mark of their high appreciation of his faithful services for many years past, as their ...

... This Bill, consisting of seventy-eight clauses, was issued on Thursday. While following the main lines of the English Act in many respects, it differs from that Act in several most important particulars. For example, the election of School Boards is made general and obligatory in and for each and every parish and burgh. The electors are to be owners or occupiers of £4 annual value and the ...

... BURGLARY. At the Town-hall, on Monday last, before Messrs. J. Davids (Mayor) and J. Chivers, John Benja- min, an employe at the Kidwelly Tinworks, was brought up charged with feloniously entering the Bull Inn, on the morning of the 17th irist, and stealing therefrom seven spoons, one watch, one bottle containing whiskey, and another with brandy, and some beefsteak (which could not be ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S AND PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.] FRANCE. MURDER OF DOMINICANS.—SENTENCE OF DEATH. VERSAILLES, Saturday.—The military tribunal has sentenced Scrizer Boih, alias Bobechi, Lacipia, Pascal and Boredville, to death, for murder of Dominicans. Four are sentenced to deportation to a fortress, three to ordinary deportation, and one to two years' imprison- ment. The ...

... In a case of breach of promise tried at the Bail Court-, the plaintiff, a domestic servant, obtained £250 from a brewer at Paulton. Viscount Bury has declined the office of Vice- Chamoerlain to the Queen, vacant by the elevation of Lord Castlerosse to the peerage. The Earl of Moray has died suddenly of apoplexy in Elginsnire. He will be succeeded in the earldom by his youngest brother, the Hon ...

... j ■' ■ DItfAS. ]S 1: A FQOLISH FKEAS.—NARROW.JJSO^PE.—Four ,^ANILE-, men of this place, who came up in a' trap from pridd, had a narrow escape on Saturday. They met the Dinas dentist opposite.the^iijas hou&e coal level. Tliey were,all precty hilarious^ and one suggested that, the iftare suffered from top.th-a>die, and asked tjie dentist to extract her tooth. That gentleman being anxious to ...

... vlast res-utxfI A=== ?? some of those who supported the Governmentthough in a ?? way. Trae, it is said by i that there was ;echnically an evasion of the Act of Parliament; but then, before the Govern- ment appointed Sir Robert Colliers they hasda offered the position to one judge ?? ?? on the bench, and it was systematicallyrefused. The office should, thereiren remain lra¢anl;, or else the ...

... ?? :ESTABLI w0ANO 1737.) BELFAST: MONINDAY, FEB. 19, 1872. THx funeral of Lord Mayo took place in Calcutta on Saturday. The Government have few friends in the awkward plight in which the appointment of Sir Robert Collier has left them. Even their i own familiar friends have not a word to say for them. The Spectator thinks it has been proved beyond all possibility of question that the ...