... PROHIBITION OF STREET ADVER- TISING. __ .. . ?? . . . - I ?? . The meddling and muddling legislation,' with respect to home questions, which brought so much discredit upon the late Go- vernment, is apparently being revived by the Conservatives. A bill relating to Metro- politan buildings and management has been prepared by Colonel Hogg, Mr. Grastham, and Sir Henry Wolff; and has been reod ...

... TM INDIAN VAMINE. The following telegram has been received from the Viceroy, Calcutta, dated April 4, 1874:-Lieu- teuant-governor's fortnightly report states weather in fortnight singularly favourable; rain done much good early crops, enabled people to prepare ground for later crops; rain wanted in Tirhoot, where water in wells beginning to fail. Western Bengal, prices stationary; Calcutta ...

... THE FIELD-DAY AT WE6LEDON. I nhe volunteers were favoured with beautiful -weather, on Monday, for their field-day at Wim- ,Iedon. The precise locality selected for the opera- tons was between Barnes-common on the north and ?? Pettyweed Wood, on the outh. The forces were divided into two armies, Ote Middlesex army being under the command of. Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and the Surrey rmy ...

... THE GARDEN.-BY A;. God. , SSO1TABLE GARDEN1GWOR ON E W;E ';ENDING AP1UL 18 . Thiia~i a most importa~btioath foi; the alp~icua The M ?? are poalijg uipthefrrnsase of bico diCwbiqi1 be opening nil the inontb.: Tr prinoipalsho Brti'ekplce from time:2th ito the 3Oh'-btit'e1 tbbwei -the metropolis: >futher north they are later,,r, fnossb F eontempslatecultivatingthemshould araspossille all the ...

... I , FoREIGN INTELLIGEK E.!1, FRANCE--It Monday's sitting of the National assembly, after MI. %Wolowski had presented a xeso- lution relative to the Budget of 1875ithe House pro- ceeded to: discuss the Municipal$ Electoral bill. . M. Josois, a member of-the Left Centre, opposed the measure, on the ground that it was a* restriction of univeisal suffrage. Viscount d'Haucsonville, of the Right ...

... THE COMING CRISIS 1N nRANCE. The state of affairs in France has once moore become difficult, and it is not improbable that the strength of Mr. Disraeli's Government in its foreign department m.ay be shortly tested severely. M. Rouher has addressed a start- ling letter to a journal of his department, in which he refers to the power of the Septennat as limited and almost ephemeral, and hints at ...

... ClJ'FINGS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS. ,Ftrom unek,' A CoxMol- smno Vrsw.-Depressed Tiberal-BEi don' yer see. Gla'sbonv was goln' to 'bollsh th'.income-taxsh ?- Jocund Tory: 0, bother the tax) Letsh 'sve the income fnstIlI AGONISING, - Damon: Eulo, Pythias! Wbat's the matter?-Pytbiaas: 0, my deer fellow, 1've-tut-t-t-t-(Ob- Jurgatlons)-I've been writing to my tailor to give me another inch and a ...

... I|- SUNDAY MouNIN4;. THsI MORNING'S TELEWRAMS. ([THoUGH s EUTMRS A3E5Cy]. GERMANY. BERLIN, Saturday Night. The Emperor and Empress of Germany have 1c cepted the invitation of Lord Odo Russell to a gikrate dinner at the British Embassy on the 6th inst. No gold was coined at the Imperial Mint du'ritg the week ending the 21st ult. HAMBURGnStitirday Night. A numerously-attended meeting of electors ...

... I E P T n D A CoBDIIOG to the census or Japan tor 1872, vwhi has just beens published, the countryr osont2 princes, 1,300 noble farilies, 30,0r 0 priests 33,000,000 of inhabitants. ACcoeDlG to advices from Palermo, Bsronr d who had been carried off by a band of ?? returned to his family, afnte having paid a ransos ,2 63,000f. in gofld TAEE more Republican papers have just been i terdicted from ...

... BEllE NEW PARLI ET.I LST OF MEMBERS RETURNED. fhose marked e were not in the last Parliament. . J AND AND WALBS. A.shton-Mr. T a. , Andover-C&Pptln eury B!lWe4ey, . Banbary-Mr. B. SamueleoD: L. Barnstbple-Mr. T.Cav L -&fr. S. D. Waddyj . lath-006ptadi Flayter L. vror.Bousfleiljre C. ?? . durner' C;. Mr. S. Whitbread, 1L ?? p.Turner Cr. Frni Bassett, L. Bedfordahire-Colonel on PGflpisn C C r. M ...

... I LONDON SCHOOL BOAR; On Wednesday the firstmeetin after the Easterhoff- days weea held in Guidhall. Sir Charles Reed, MP4 presided. With reference to Mr. Peek's offer of 5001. w~hich was to be expended within one year in defray- insgthe cost of examinations in religious subjects, and4 in providing prizes or rewsrds forsach pupil teachers and scholars ino the Board schools as might, after such ...

... LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. Public expectation was excited to a very high degree on Thursday night when the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer rose to make his financial statement. Rumours and surmises had abounded. The enemies of the Govern- ment had industriously spread abroad the idea that all the money which prndent Mr. Lowe had been husbanding would be recklessly used by the ...