... LA TEST NEWS.I [Resu's Telegrams, per Press Associatian. THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. KAPLES, AmIL 28 (2 p.m.)L The flow of lava Is ceasng. The activity of the ernp.- tion has rncmh slackened. A now crater has opened near Terzigno, and a great shower of ashes fell this morning, darkening the heavens. The rain of burning scorlas reached as far as Scafati and Palleno. At the former place the ...

... CORRESPOND-, I NOTIOM To 0OORESPOcRIMM, 00V4,icidentz WMh Rdt any specisa stlue upon £Psefr Con. ?? to rettnrls uee ieJuti4 Cano under. AU ~ees~tndo ulcs ube ocmpanidd bpi thenam ant ad~'~s f te er~e, we Swcar~p foe' ?? 6 ...

... - The first fortnightly meeting of the new Board ?? held at the Workhouse, King's Norton, yesterday morning, when there were. present: Messrs. D. Archer, 111. Grove, J. Docking, J. Worley, A. Greves, T. Biokley, S. Booth, C. Cartwright, A. Stokes, E. Tunnstd4 J. Stones, J. M, Todd, G. Follows, and T. Millington. ELECTION OF CHAIRMAW, VICE-CEHIRMAI!, AND COM- ?? the motion of Mr. Taunstall, ...

... EDUCATION MEETItG AT ALCESTER. On Monday evening, a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, AlcoEter, to take steps for complying with the requirements of the Education Act. The MLarquis of Hertford presided, and there was a good attendance of the principal ratepayers of the parish. The noble Ohairman, in opening the meeting, pointed out that there were two coum ves, by either of which ...

... The forty-seventh annual meeting of the Ladles`-Nogro'a Friend Fociely was held yesterday morning, at Mrs. Joseph Sturge's, 103, Wheeley'sRoad, The Rev. Dr. Wil- kinson presided, and there was a large attendance, chiefly of ladies. After a few remarks from the CAirRmAi, who expressed his hearty sympathy with the movement, and his utter abhorrence of the slave trade, Mrs. H. J. STURGH read the ...

... FARLIAMENT, LAST NIGHT. ' PMM ASSOOITION TALEAMS.] HOUSE OFf LORDS. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack a few minutes after five. INTERNATIONAL PRISON CONGRESS: The Earl of DARNARVON asked whether the Govorn- ment had been applied to to defray the expenses of printing the necessary papers In conneotlon with the Interna. tional Prison Congress to be held in London, in July, at the ...

... SEVERN BRIDGE RAILWAY (No. 2) BOrG I The House of Commons Select Committee on this blg resumed its enquiry yesterday; Sir Hedworth Wllialns5O \ the chair. Mr. Granville Somerset, Q.C, slummed up the eoddeno3 on behalf of the promoters of the bill, who. he resTarkod, were g'entlemen of great weight and Influence in tbe ocality. Among them was Mr. Marling Al.r. for the Western Division of the ...

... LATEST NEWS,', (&euter' e lTvira, per 'fess Amociafion.A _. ?? FRANCE. VERSAIFLE%4 APRI. 16. live mift meeting of the Permanep,l Committee was bela 'under the prekaiency 'of m. G',vvy The Minister of the Interior was pi'celet, BrA in reply to M. de Mornay, expressed fet thWA 'the German Govern- ment'should have e'*cled rnaztes of Alsace choosing1 V rench naiionality - but 1'e hoped that the ...

... iT a U XX J: i N X V _ DV i. ru- S(al li Specidl Tdene-an..) lid EDINBURGH, Tuesday. ,he In the case of Michie and others against Lyall Grant, the jal Lord Provost as. representing the citizens of Aberdeen and on others, as to an encroachment on the public street at Flour es, Mill Lane, Lord Gifford to-day pronounced interlocutor in of favour of the pursuers, finding that Grant had no right or ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. Pmuss, April 19.-Marguerite Dixhianot still romaine at tile Profecturo of Police. She cannot be taken to En land until the BelginuGo~vernimenltliasoissedan or erforher exi~adition. The- Government has decided that Rochefort's senteuce cannot be a collimated to transportation to a fortress. el x .Therae~is correspoindent of the Tinmestelegraphs asfollows ~~ ~ The ...

... DilRsarG a sojourn of some weeks in the quaint old city of h Weuringen, I wa3 very fond of visiting the cemetery, which with its secluded walks, its cool, shaded alleys, adorune with Roawers, and its grand old trees, foslaed a pleasant place in s which to dream away the leisure hours of a quiet summer eve- k iog. It was interesting, too, to watch the other visitors to that ti quiet place- ...

... DR. LIVINGSTONE, At the monthly meeting of the Geographical i society last evening, at the University of London, Sir EL VArl1NSON in the chair, letters were read from Dr. Kirk, on the subject of Dr. Livingstono's prolonged absence, d tbe obairman prefacing the reading by the remark that they contained nothing absolutely new. The first letter A was dated Zanzibar, 16th January, 1872, from tho ...