... A Lombard telegram says that Cuxhaven is to bo strongly fortified and made into a Germ'an Sebisiopol A Liverpool woolI 9 broker has absconavd 'with 30,000 liabilities. I The lily water supply of London now aiturnts to 107jO,0,000 gallons. - - | ' M. dGuigat, following the example of other eminent Frenchmen, has pronounced 'himself' in favour of a conipulsory and secular system of niation.al ...

... - Tii CoNTcCATo OF SPO '-The hope of Oriental y.o i pred like it epideriie; arid, like other diseases, ,OlDt oneu ^I-erally diffused, it became, amrong r0 classs, ?rinilies, and connections, normal and .ta iv.-oning, where all the elements of ihieltr~ vf iilinritably value, seemied hut waste roinle arrll sc' tiples about international or indi- fjlal right e rouz, were of course regarded sr ...

... l MONASTIC A'ND CONENTIUAL B!N'(ITU- I _ T TIONS. In Lhe House of' Commons, on Tuesday nigbr, Air Newdegate obtained leave to brino in u ill *I- tr the appointment of a oinumis-S ailoD t.) iriquire into tile inceas eln carnctel: of the mo n4lic and conventual-institutioncs in Great Britain ; intc. themcondjionl under whici property or income is held by aud for such in.Aiti.os; and, wbethor in ...

... NEWCASTLE POST OFFiCE. FORI1EIGN MAUILS. Calendar, sbowing the days and hours of departure e from Nlewcastle-on-Tyne of the principal colonial and a foreign sails, not of doailydesptchl. s APRIL. e 6.-United States 'and Canada, via Cork and Now a York4 3-30 p.m. ; Bahamas (supplementary mail), 3-30 P.M. 8.-United States, via Southampton, 6120 p.m. e Brazil, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, the Falk- ...

... HOUSIE OF LORDS. -TUESDAY. TaR PASSPORT SYSTEM. The Earl of MIALME6I)URY asked whether the Gov- ermnent would lay on the table papers already pro- mised in the other. House with reference to the pass- port system, which had been reintroduced by the French Government, and was still maintained.- -Earl GRANVILLE agreed to the request. Some discussion having taken place about the rank of officers ...

... .'INEVWASTLE POST i~ri ., FOREIGN MAILS. Calendar, showing the (lays and il viiS- of ?? fromt Newvcastle-on-Tamye of the ?? odenisi snd foreign mails. net of daily dcsal foc. APRIL. Itt-United States and Canada, via Corkc a:til NtV-uV York, 3':30 p.m.n 15.-TUnited Sitates, via Southampton, 6,2011)11. 16.- -17lsited Sltates and Canada, vi:i Co'-ck and -New York, 3,30p.m1. ; West Coast; of Aft ...

... Fran the Comic Papers Ead othor soureso. | A matter of course-racing. 'aij a naive reply be considered an honest answer ? The greateA peer that England eveL produced- Shakepeare. Where should ugly girls go to ?-To Sweet Auburn, loveli.st village of the plain. A crusty old bachelor says he thinks it is woman, and riot her wrongs, that ought to be re-dressed. Josh Billings says that slander ...

... IT -AND HUMOUR . Ste C4 POp-s -ad olkar stsoae.] v t iwr John, do look at that l'dild; it 'Jr wltth in its mouth, and will swallow it.- I i bachelor brother-in-law, and very fond 0 Oh, don't be the least alarmed; I've got ti e alietin. It can't go far, 'i . - X~e~l, biini~fte, said an ?? to his tkl havc you pos ted the ledger.-? ?? Yetb, ?? zi jiffa; I've pothted the lidger; but w:ts ...

... |t I m The Indieqnt Sick Society during tbe month of be March has relieved 199 poor, at a cost of 16 4s 61. gt Tbe Tichborne Defence Fund has already reach- pi ed the aam of 450, a.d the subscriptions are coming pe in frons different parts of the country. tl The migration of the Warwickshire labourers to or the North of England hasibeen cotrmeunced onalarge di scale. nl ?? Grace the ...

... COR.RESPI&~c\ =~~P NE~ THE EiVARGE OF A;, AGAINST ONE OF T PliOPLl TO TRZ EDITORt OF THR ZIEWCA VTLI ,1. SIR.-As noastof your readcsIeW willi i'3, A exists at present in Londnj a st d t- selves ' h Pec-ili:ir Pep ' well doserrv the namie they Lave cl'o ?? *- triies anl ideaasass-9ni the foinI o'7l 1. -or I irjig h - fit teria it, Inbldness-they seuds ?? to the inlbalittljto of this plagues, ...

... Jln welcting the -Ipirit of thbs-rress, we rae &uded solely by r wish to plaeo before oar readers the :opinion of all parties, withoii. iry regurdto tle .rltiow ensuch, opiniens may sutaqin to this journa. LOOiL TAXATION. Abri-*ed from~ t4le Economist.] The facts as they stand raise a strong pre- Isyimption against ang material injubtic-P behjg ?? old cirates 'hey haye not increased ...

... | SEECT READINGS. r g F.MAGR EDUCATIOe.-BUt the true reton er , inefficiencY of woman's work is very t j hilid in ole wvord may be summed up as want . 11!,lg,. It begin4 in school ife, where teachers lot been trained send out incompetent 1 j, goes (in into horne life, showing itself in a jirmtl of disconitort ; and it appears nn- . in w,,rk and in business, stamping there Ef 3,liless aud ...