... I LONDON, MONDAY. English Bailway Stocks did not hold the improve- ment of Saturday, and in mosi cases there was a decline in quotations. North Eastern Stock was 1 lower, Mid- Great Northern A and London and Norlli Western, j Great Eastern, London and Brighton, and *ouih Eastern Deferred, § London, Chatham, and Dover, and Manchester ana Sbtffield, J. United Spates Government Bonds were all ...

... d __ d An-important appeal case came before the Court d of 'Common Pleas yesterday. The appellant had rx been convicted of carrying on betting on a race- ; course by the common mode of standing on a stool 5 and laying money on horses. The court held that ,, this was an offence under the Act, and upheld the 0 eonviction. It_ y e ONE Matthew AlBride, who was recently re- a ceiving gratuitous ...

... The San Francisco Alt 'gives the following ac- count of the disastrous ascension made by Captain Barbier and [party with his Silk baloon, Le. Secours, in that city on the afternoon of the 4th of April :- The entire forenoon was occupied in inflating the monster, and when it left on its sail in the aiir it contained 60.000 feet of gas., The attend- ance at the gardens Was not as large as ...

... IRISH LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND SUNDAY CLOSLX.I. Yesterday a deputation of rcpresenta'dves of I.s'i Ijicensed \ictuallers waited on the. Scrpt>try for Ire- laud, at the Lisa Office, and opposed the Snnd-iy CIOK- ing of public-houses for the sale of intcxicf-.t-r;: lijnorp. Sir Michael Hieiis Beach proraisod his atteutio.i to i.he matter. ...

... I IMPERIAL PARLIAMEYL ?? r |PRBSS AS0OCIATION TELLGRAM.] HOUSE OF LOIRDS.-3o0NDAY. ¶1he Lord Chancellor took his seat at five o'clook. T-'!LE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUC.A- TION, Lord HAMPTON gave notice for Friday,, the 15th inst., to call attention to the oountitutioa of iho Committee of Council on E1ducation. t THISlE PEACE OF EUROPE. E arl RUSSELL moved an ad Tress for copies of ang ...

... I LI .e An action (Harris v. Obristopherson) was brought a in. the Court of Common Pleas yesterday to recover I. damages for a breach of promise of marriage. The d defendant did not deny the promise, but pleaded d that the promise had been virtually rescinded, and a that the defendant had been exonerated from the - performance of it. a Mr. Torr, Q.C., and Mr. S. Well appeared for the s ...

... The Idler. in the lour, writes --The some- e what aggressive shape of ~r. Fiarnivall's proposals s and reprisals seems to have put Mr. Collier upon his mettle, and we have been favoured with the s Bight of the first portion of a volume which he is printing for private circulation. entitled, Trilogy; Conversations between Three Friends on the Emnen- s dations of Shakespeare's Text contained ...

... Messrs. Brand and Stantoti, Liberals, I(l Messrs. Domngton and Hollo way, Conservatives, issued their addressee to the Stroud electors yesterday morning. ...

... DANGEROU3 FIRE.-The inhabitants of this town were very much excited yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, by the general cry of fire, a fire having taken full possession of a carpenter's shop in Nicholas- street. This chop is attached to and surrounded by other dwelling-houses, and within a few feet to the pine-end ot the Mount Pleasant Chapel, which was at one time very much ...

... THE HEALTH OF MR. *RTHUR PEEL 'rbe Echo states that Mr Artbui 1\ el a 1 j „ „ tomrorsry retirement, the Liberal health may induce a temporary wu- party will not lose bis ag LlberaI miP- ...

... ^fiMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE BY A PRIEST IN SPAIN. -The Tunes' Madrid correspondent telegraphs that L^est attempted *o murder Senor Pi y Margall 'f^rday, by firing three shots at him from a volver. Margall escaped unhurt. The assassin J*ards shot himself. ...

... The many mysterious escapes of prisoners from the Simg.SingPriSon,'New York, are, it is sup- pdsed, due to the ingenuity of a convict named Gustave Kindt in that establishment, whose skill in the subtle manufacture of tools of the most intricate design and elaborate workmanship is not surpassed in the Western hemisphere, and who supplies his follow prisoners with these articles on terms ...