... We are requested by Sir Robert Peel to state that the Prince of Wales has informed him that the assertion which appeared in a weekly paper on April 12, that in consequence of Sir Robert Peel's recent speech in the House of Commons, several members of the Royal family have de- olared their intention never to take any notice of Sir Robert Peel ior the future, was inserted neither by his Royal ...

... An American Committee has been formed in aid of M. Loyson's (Pere Hyacinthe's) new chapel at Paris, of which the Hon. John Jay, of New York, is the treasurer. Bishop Herzog, the Old Catholic Bishop of Switzerland, has written to M. Loyson expressing his warm sympathy. He offeret to ordain for him such candidates for the ministry as shall recommend, and approves his applying to mxe Anglican ...

... The Duke of Portland has intimated his resolve to remit the whole of the half-year's rents due at Michaelmas. This applies to the whole of his estates in Notts and Derbyshire. We believe this favour extends only to those farmers who have not sent in notices to give up their farms. At the present time the Duke has upwards of thirty farms on his hands. In connection with this subject we might ...

... Lady Truro died on Sunday night, at Falcon- hurst, Shooter's Hill, Kent, the residence of Lord Truro. ...

... At Walsall, near Birmingham, on Saturday night, a ooach furniture fitter, named Lines, furiously: sttacked his wife with a cleaver and poker. She escaped into a neighbour's house, and he thereupon beat out the brains of a child she had given birth to on the previous day, which he alleged w&s not his. They had been married six months. The woman has been severely injured, but is.expected to ...

... FBIDAY.—The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS. In answer to Mr. F. H. Harrison, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that a memorial had been presented to the Treasury containing grave charges against certain persons in connection with the acquisition by the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company in 1869, and asserting that by the ...

... On Wednesday the Bishop of Bath and Wells, dfnonnced the Engligh Church Union as a menace to the authority of the Chuch. 1 ...

... The spring Assizes for the six counties of South Wales were opened at Swansea on Wednesday. There were six prisoners for ...

... In view of the expected compromise between the German Government and the Vatican there is serious talk of the establishment permanently of a Papal Nuncio at Berlin. Prince Bismarck is known to favour the idea, believing that the presence of a Nuncio at the German capital will materially assist in maintaining an understand- ing on leading political questions.-Pall Mull Gazette. ...

... At a conference of workmen engaged in sugar mdustneson Tuesday, it was resolved to send a de- legate to the \V est Indies to investigate the con dition of the sugar cultivation. The Bishop of Manchester has written a letter to the secretary of a committee formed in South- wark to agitate the cat question. The bishop, who has been invited to attend a meeting on the subject, says he is hardly ...

... The Rev. W. Muncaster, who has won golden opinions in the black country, where he was stationed some years, and who has latterly been travelling on the Bristol circuit, has resigned the ministry under peculiar circumstances. It ap- pears that he contemplates marrying a lady who has obtained a divorce from her husband for mis- conduct and cruelty. The Wesleyan Conference not approving of this ...

... The following is the address of sympathy from the wives, mothers, and sisters of Capetown and vicinity:—To her Imperial Majesty the Empress Eugenie.—Madame,—We, the under- signed, wives, mothers, and sisters of the city of Capetown and its neighbourhood, whilst reluctant to disturb a grief too sacred for any words of ours, desire earnestly to express, with the deepest respect, our most ...