... 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 e ...

... 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 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 ...

... R i Tbe Spring Show of this society, now in its fiftieth year, was given yesterday under canvas in the Rotundo Gardens. The weather, though bright and sunny, was very cold, owing to the keenwind which was blowing from the N.EL, and made the temperature in the shade as low as in the first week of January. The spring show is re- garded as the most attractive of the season, a it is given at the ...

... Another endeavour to crack the remainder of the nuts given out by the editor of the Chronicle on the Alliance question was made by Mr. Fothergill, of Kes- wick, on Monday evening, in the Temperance Hall. Mr J. J. Cockshot occupied the chair. The LECTURER, after admitting the correctness and fairness of the Chronicle's report of his last lecture, said that the part of the subjeet that lie ...

... I EveLning iditioll I THE flL OT. wling ito, the aefect of Mr. Lef~thblu'e 1mtl~nonnthe 4th ,clotsel, of Th~rdX~ay night, a special meeting of the Ballot Society'5 Committee is announced for Monday next, at two orceak. WHITE BLAaRso naster f a blach- bird's nest was tefor ?? ne bourthod of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, an migtt eyon oesweto with white pla of the se ie adteoer is now in fine cod ton ...

... STRIHZ OF BRICxItZuS IN SITTINGBOUENE -On Monday morning about a hundred briehmakers at Sitting- bourne struck work. They were engaged at three and. aixpence per thousand, and a fortnight ago the masters gave an advance of a penny. Oa Tuesday morning the gange demanded twopence more, which the masters conceded conditiora ly on the market remaining at its prenent height, and the men leaving ...

... GENERAL SINOD OF THE CHURcH OF IRELAND. [Foxz OUr, SAECLL fr1'pORTEfl] DUMIN, MONDAY. Tes Synod re-assembled at one o'clock. The Archbishop of DUnLrs presided. Prayer was read by the Bishop of KILMORa . The Rev. Mr. NoRMnA read the minutes of the previous day's proceedings, which were confirmed, Mr. SPAIGHT presented a petition by 500 laymen of the diocese of Limerick. The deanery of Limerick ...

... LATEST NEWES LEasunen A:~~RzsAssocISIXOY THE ALLEGED> CoMPLICATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY. Pnus, ?? Coast tbtcztionef de- nies the existence of complications between France and Germany. BsaaLrL, THUR8DAY. - Nothing whaever has transpired here respecting the ultimatum alleged by a London paper, and to have been sent through Count Arnim to the French Govement. The statement is entirely ...

... IIMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, I LAST NIGHT'S PARLIflENT. I [SPECLn TELEGRAM.] LONDON, FRIDAn EVENING. TFHE Lords have had a good deal of work this evening, and all the working peers, both Episcopal and lay, have been there to do it. Even watchful Lord Redescale looks after the Breadalbane case. The Royal Park and Gardens; at present handed over to Mr. Odger, have been formally introduced to their ...

... I ? LATEST N, EWS. _ oconrfed to interrupt a controversy of xrhicE the eonviecirg that it regrets arything should have | result was so ?? doubtfuL_ :,7RIdA:S SSX17ii;EN TCli 3ELARIz GI1a 57ILTE'S SECOh7D NOTEW- the 3azZy Wews ?? the ansnver 3f tlie hrnerical: Go5tern^7llent ta EawFl Granville's eecond dbspaich w&s ?? OfS last Wedataday, Jo . lEl::Z+TZB tS-D rBEsS ASSOCIATION l TELEGRAMS]. FP t ...

... DONCASTER WATERWORKS BILL, Housr OF Comrstoes, Thursday. The Select Committee on lhis bill resumed ith considera. tion to-day, Ltrd l: mrv in tlte chair. Mr. D ?sfsoN, QC., replied on the whole a se for the promoters. The room was cleared, and, alter a deliberation of one hour and ten minutes, strangers were admitted, when 'Ie CHIAIRMrAN ?? Csmuitte3, aftsr a very careful consideration of the ...