... Offenbach's operetta, Boule de Neige, has all bat beWn. a flasco at Berlin. WhIore than thirty new railways are In course of beiu chartered by the Saxon Chambers. The .Publique Framucise,. M. Gainbetta's daily neow- paper, Is threatened with prosecution. The Municipal Council of Lyons has voted P4,000. more in aid of the Exhibition which is to open on May 1,1872. In Bohemia the Conservative ...

... A GERMAN ACCOUNT OF SIR CHARLES I DILK'Vs NIGHT. Tb.e London correspondent of the AUgemeinre Zeihtug wrote on the 20th instant :-The member for Chelses yes- torday attempted to justify his presumed Republioan agitation, and repeated in Parliament his Newcastle asser- tions concerning the reckless eipenditure of the Civil List, which he supported by certain statistics. . If the question had ...

... THE : LOIIG .FIR3.t TRANSA CTIONS AT WESROWW BOKWIOIL. I 'The recent long firm' transactions at Carter'c Green uimne before the Magistrates, Major Williams and Mr. J. A. Kenrilok, at the West Bromwioh Petty Sessions, on' Saturday,.*then Frederleok George, alifts George Frederick Nurse, and John Ward, alias Wood, were oharged with' obtaining goods under false pretences, John Green said: I am ...

... G E'TBAL WE W S. [PRESS ASSOCIATION T'l 1iRANS.] ALLEGED EMBEZZL MENT BY A BANK * R ~MNAGER. . At Brampton, CumberlendL on Saturday, William Holmes, manager of the bank of Mesal Carrick, lee, and Sons, was charged with embaziling sums amounting to £3,C00. Prisoner had been in the service of the bank from eoyhood. Ho was remanded. .hiYSTEEIOLS DEATH OF A YOUNG WO fMAN. On Good Friday evening. ...

... STUI ATTACKE 1Y A WHAIK An unusual, though by no means unprecedented, occur; renee (says an Australian pauer) is reported by Captain Lookyer, of the barque King Oscar. Hia account of It is much as ?? barque sailed from. Hobart Town for this porb on the 12th instant, and on the 15th, when thifty miles to the eastward of Cape Howe, sighted a large sperm whale, distant about 300 yards, and ...

... THE CouRT.-VaiLA .DELxAa, BAD~m-BA.Dot?, Thurs- (Tay, March 28-The Queen psys daily visits to tier R49jesty's sister, Frince's3 11ohenloha, at her Serene Eigh- nesa'sresldence, Villa Frei.3senbeig. The Queen has also taken' several wsaks and 'drives In the neighbourhood. The Marquis of Hartington is Minfiter ln attendance on her Majesty, The Marchines3 of 'Ely has arrived at Vills - lonel ...

... TEE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' UNION. I ma 7I._ be raxT ?? M. To the EHDros of the DAILY PosT, Sir,-A great deal has been said by the farmers and agriculturibts of South Warwickshire concerning the con. dition of their labourers. I see in your issue of Wednes- day that A Parmer would lead -ds to believe that labourers are a well-to-do class, from the piture he has drawn-the wages they receive, ...

... . [From Satlurday's Pall Hll Gazette.j Our speoial correspondent at. Brighton telegraphs thii ?? was a great disappointment to the holiday makers; the weuther only cleared up long enough to entice the people out of doors, and then therain soaked them before they got home again. Very few volunteers are to be ssee yet, 'and thosei who haie ariived have comel the longest distances. The Liverpool ...

... 1i ?? TelckramA, per Pres Associalioa.] FRANCE. THE NATIONAL, ASSEMBLY. SPEECH BY M. THIERS. VERSAILLES, MARCH 30 (Evening). In to-day's sitting of the National Assembly, M. Thiers requested leave. to address a few observations to the members before separating for the recess. He said that public order was in no danger of being dis turbed; public order was secured, thanks to the fidelity of the ...

... : THE PENALTY OF VOTING FOR A - - oSCHOOL BOARD. The following letter has been received by the Rev. AithurO'Nelll, Hall Road, Handsworth, and sent by him to us for publication. The statements contained In it will show that the protection of the Ballot, in 'all eases of exercising the franohise, is most urgently nesded:- 13, Raven Lane, Ludlow, March 28th, 1872. Rv. and dear sir,-lHavlmt~ ...

... THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES - - .. IN ROME. A A correspondent of the Swis Times, writing from Rome on the evening of the 23rd ult,, says:-s The Prince and Princess of Wales were expectod at lislf-past five this eVening, but In consequence of the Alto.- Italia train being an hour past its time at'Florence, the. dleparture of their Royal Eighnesses from that city was delayed, and their ...

... I ILONDoii, Saturday. EASTER has brought with it the usual Parliamentary recess,. It may be profitably occupied by two poli- tical partied. The Government will have a brief breathing apace, to get themselves together, and concentrate their energies upon the measures which Parliament may reasonably be called upon to pass during the present session. If once you begin to sprawl, you are lost, ...