... 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 ...

... ' _ ?? 51IE ERUPTION OF MIOUNT VESUVIUS. TERRIBLXE LOSS OF LIFE R kitt 8UBKA=H T5ELEOaSr.) S 0tFO2 01 ORGnh c0R01 Or n.) i it ROMA, FPUIIAY Vitrf . HI ,mforuatiion has been received in this city which leaves no doubt that the eruption of Mount Vesu- t vius has already been attended with the most l lerribid results, and there is only too much it reason to fear that more fatal disasters A will ...

... MEETING OF THR FACULTY IOF PROCURATORS. his ' to TH~~r~E riND TENREsu BIILLS, 6ir.8 An' adjourned meeting 'of the ?? of 1'ro-P ore -curators was hold yesterday, in the Library of the BF Z' Faculty, to consider and, if so resolved, approve bill of (16t) a petition to the House of Commons against bi Lad the Land Transfer (Scotland) Bill, and (2d) a peti- B eSs. dont in faivour of the Land ...

... e speaker took the chair at four o'clock. TV! -VI CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT. ask f'i gave notice that on Monday next he would tenri il 'Prime Minister whether the Government in- Session Proceed with the Corrupt Practices Bill this T A DEFAULTING STAMP DISTRIBUTOR. S r«Ply to Mr. RYLANDS, bepn1' Y1ER sai(l it was true that a loss of £ 2,000_ had -buim.00*'i?onei^ by the defalcations of the stamp ...

... | FRAUD AND FORGERY. At the Hammersmith William Hemming, an auctioneer, of Stamford-street, Blackfriars. was brought up in the custody of Mr. Palmer, chief inspector, Scotland-vard, charged with obtaining a cheque-book from the Notting-hill branch of the National Bank by false representations, and with uttering several forged cheques. Mr. Elsie Wyatt, accountant at the Notting-hill branch of ...

... FRIDAY. -The barometer has risen somewhat at all but the northern stations since yesterday. Ia tfre west and north, however, it has been unsteady, and in Scotland has fallen rather briskly in the night. The reading at Paris is half an inch higher than at Ardrossan, which gives a gradient of 006 in. per fifty miles. Temperature has risen a little over Scotland and France, but is scarcely ...

... BOROUGH MAGISTRATES' CoUrT, April 19th;-Before the Mayor, Thomas Gee, Esq., and R. Llyd Williams, Esq.-The wine and spirit license held by the late Mr D. G. Morgan, High-street, was transferred over to Messrs. Alfred and Thomas Ashford, Mr Morgan's suc- cessors in trade. PETTY SESSIONS, Wednesday, April 24th. Before P. I. Chambres, Esq,, Llysmeirchion (chairman); Major Jocelyn Ffoulkes; Rev. ...

... ReUAL DEANEItY OF LLiFoN.-A ruridecanal chapter meeting of this deanery was held at Bodedern on F'ri- day the 19th inst. After divine service bad been per- formed in the parish church at half-past ten a.m., by the vicar, the Ven. Archdeacon Wynne Jone;, assisted by his curate, the Rev. Evan Jones, the clergy and lay consultees present assembled in the schoolroom, where, under the presidency of ...

... rIIARMACEfrIvTCAL EXAMItNATIoNS. -We IAC hi ijIY Io learn tbiat ALr William Jones, late dispenst y assow'4anlt at Mr Gritliths, chemist, kc., Batigor, andl dU of ll, J. Junea, brewer, &e., of this town, bas suecetsfully psamed the Pharmaceutical Society's prelireiualy examinationa. Mr W. Jones, who was prepared for hie exasullimatioo by the Rev. BR. Thomas, W.A., is the first frorn this town w ...

... STEAM CULTIVATION IN SCOTLAND.—The Scots- man says:—During several years the leading agricul- turists in Aberdeenshire have often considered the practicability of introducing steam cultivation. The smallness of many of the holdings, however, and the uneven surface, combined with the prevelance of earth- fast stones in a large proportion of the county, operated formidably against the movement. ...

... SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1872., [HE Park-lane cook, who stands charged with T murdering her mistress, still remains in Paris; certain formalities have to be gone through before she can be brought over to this country. It would be idle to speculate what is likely tobefal herafter then. In alluding to the case of this infamous womain, the Standard says: -Marguerite Dixblanc is by no means an at- ...