... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... - 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE RESTORATION OF SEBASTOPOL I The Saturday Revi4 t thinks that after the rap- ture of the Treaty of Paris it was easy to foresee that the fortifications of Eebastopol would, at the convenience of the Russian Government, be recon. structed. 'It is fortunately not now necessary to repeat the submission of the English Government or the repudiation of the Russian engagements. The Conference of ...

... SMALL-POX WARDS-SIR PATRICKTU DUN'S I ~~~HOSPITAL.I TO THE EDITOI OF 0 THE IUKEA SiR-The Dublin papers of Saturday, the 30bh March, recorded the givers of all monies (1041 53, received by me up to 20th idemn, the board day of the Institution. I have since received 991. 4s. 6d, as per accompanying list, which I ask space for in your publication, for the satisfaction of the donors, and in the ...

... I A HTORICAL CONSCIENCE CLAUSE. There baa just emerged a new educational difi- culty. As if it were not enough that the schoimg of generations has been delayed in England through the acrimonious coipetitions of rival catechisms. the battle of histories has now- begun -The Lone don School Board appointed a committee to decide on the historical teaching in the not yet built elementary schools; ...

... THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY AND THEI iROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. TO TEE EDITIOR OF H FREEMAN. Sir.-As this week occupied the attention of the agricultural community at the spring show of the Royal Dublin Society, I deem it a fitting occasion to notice through your influential journal the ques- tion of the amalgamation of the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland with the Royal Dublin ...