... , GENERAL KEPW.- I . - . i, FIcR ON AN IN MAN STEAMER.-A fire occurred yes. a5 terday on board the Inman steamer City -of Rome, at re, Liverpool. Only trifling damage nvas done, but one work- et, man was suffocated. . . . l 1st A HORRIBLE DEATH.-At an inquest at Manchester inm yesterday, the jury returned a verdict of Accidental dceath in the case of a man named Francis Cox, tripe ir ...

... IIAIDEN SESSIONS,-Yestorday was fixed for the Easter Borough Quarter Sessions, but there were no prisoners for trial. The Mayor met the grand jury, thanked them for their attendance, and said the absence of crime was very creditable to the borough. BUUTAL ASSAULT ON A WIFE.-At the Police Court, yesterday, Charles King, cab proprietor, Queen's Square, ivas sentenced to two months bard labour, ...

... APP-r-AIZU 1'0 lL41J^7v1,. *e ('letitta correspon dent of tile imea. in a telegrcm ¢it I5Y ,laste, ?? chacigo in the b In~t Oovsriorsitip of Bengal is the p Incipal item in i I a Deof thir week. Sir Ashley £(ldea completed * c years' temiro of office last Jaiuary, but lie had 7 ?? of his term to October in ordor to ?? ..,r timc spent by him upon the Army Commis- ll~owevcr} for some timo past, ...

... RAILWAY AND CANAL TseAFFIC.-The President of the Board of Trade has received a memorial from the Asso- ciated Chamber of Commerce in favour of emancipating canal traffic from the control of railway companies. THiE TAUNTON E ?? official return of the excenses at the recent by-eloection at Taunton hbs justbeen putlisfed, as follows :-MIr. Aliso PP, DLP., the successful Conservative candidate, £5 ...

... WEATNER FORECOASTS. Thle followin report was iessed from the Meteoroisg1c Oepartmehit nt 7 p.m. yestcrda~y: D~rssmos~. FonucAsas. 0, Scotland, ?? 'ISsouth-easterly winds, falling light 1.cotland, -E . weth 2; E°langd, ?? Improving for time. S. England, E. 'Westerly and isorth-weoterly breezes; fresh 3 E}ngland, E. ?? (to moderate; some sbowers, then flner. 4. Mile. COUTIU Is KNorthlwesterly ...

... LORD SALISBURY AND -SIR STAFFORD I ,.1 NOPTHCOTE AT LIVERPOOL. The series of Conservative meetings which will take place in Liverpool duriug the present week was inaugurated at Ormskirk last evening, when a cordia reception was givan to the ?? of Salisburyand Sir S Nortisote who arrived in Liverpool shortly after five b'clock and proceeded by trai:s to OrmE.irr. Sir R A Cross, M P. and. ...

... : I'VARWICK.' Tan SCIrOOL BOAan.-At- a meeting of the Town ?? yesterday, It was announced that the Department 7in London had decided to direct a School Board to be 3formed and it wvas arrarsged that a special Council meeting should be held to consider the subjact, .WOLVERH A.MPTON, FOUND DROWSED.-An inquest wan hell yesterday, at the Stag Inn, Horseley Fields, on the body of William E Yates, ...

... A LADY ON THE SITUATION. An Irisl lady, whose husband is an official, writing In the Timns yesterday, syn:- Slncs the commencement of tho agita- tion from which that infaimsous League sprung, I have never, loft. the house in company with my busband wlthout being armed, as he will not have a police guard. When any one of thb lower orders approaches to speak to my husband, or to get him to sign ...

... . THE, NEXT-OF-MIN FRADS. _ ?? ARREST OF RQGEBR8.. Yesterday afternoon J. S. Rogers, wh'ose name has been brought Prominently forward in connection with the next-of-kin frauds, was arrested in Lobdon. He wes taken to the flaokfriars Polico Station, where he reihained during the night, and this morning he will be brought up at the Mansion House, together with thb man William Evads, who was ...

... | BIRMINGHAM LIBERA5L ASSOOCIATION, | THE RETIREMENT Or MR WV. HARRIS. i The. annual meeting 'of thii General Comnnitteo (the q, ?? Hundred )of thei Firminghain. Liberal Associa- tion was lieldl last eveiiing, at tile Town Hail, 'Alderman el B~akei Presided; and acuocg at those Present were Mr. ft. PI W. Dale, Mr. G. 'Dixon Mli. J. T. Bunce, Mir. WV. Holli- a' day, Aldornien Mantonc, Baker, ...

... THE UDlUntetOf at Rrorigull-th II GENERAL ZD!.1 Ir has been taken for granted by all recent purveyors of alarmist militasy literature, from the author of The Battle wf Dorking to Captain Barrington in England on the Defensive, that if our fleet were either destroyed by torpedoes or decoyed away, a foreign foe would most probably choose to effect a landing on the coast near Worthing ...

... ?? THE GOOD FRIDAY AND EASTER SUNDAY SERVICES at the various Metropolitan places of worship were well attended. On Good Friday the morning preacher at St. Paul's Cathedral was the Rev. J. H. Coward, in the afternoon Prebendary Dyne, and in the evening the Rev. W. H. Hutchings. At Westminster Abbey the preachers were Canons Prothero and Dean Bradley, while at Holy Trinity, Clapham Common, the ...