... FIRES IN TaIx METROPOLIS. Down to yesterday 3b oires bad occtrred in the !metropoli9s during the previous seven days (inclauding bo four last Saturday) against 31 in the preceding week, w and 4O in the corresponding period of last year. a l SUNDAY.-(3).-lt was barely day before the brigade anem wore calsotl to 71, lGreen-lanes, Stoke Nowington-green. Here a very large file ?? brokee out. ...

... ANSWES TO CORUESPONDENTS. I P. ALBlON.-Legacies nider 201. are not charge li able with legacy duty. Lucy H-A mistress is not.boand to give a ser- vaut a character, although she may have reV ceived one with her. A;NXIOS ?? orbconre coin is onlI a legal tender to the valuleof ejapeice. You case be sued for the paymnent of the euni due i EM. L-Your remedy is to sue in the countyE court. E. S. P. ...

... | EP1TOE OF FOlREIGNAND GENERAL NEWS. Dll, J. FF.No BRBs, Q.(.,Western circuit, has been appointed to a n Indian judgeship. AN action bas been instituted in the Bomaay I High court by a 1arsece lady for breach of promhise of marriage, the damnages being laid at Xe. i 0.000. Tiiz Paris papers announce that the prime author of the post-ollice robbery in that city has just been arrested, T rs ...

... FIRES IN T1,M, ME Tplp Down to yesterdaly29f fires lh-ji °;Cred - t I ioetropolis ?? 2g thie Imnsicil sy vi.-I three olil saardayl, .agant -L ill I e lceeding week, and 3S in the corresponding period of Isj.e;lin bUNi)AY ?? blocirkel-up finu waos tul c use ofve cowsieralile lage isy fire to a Coriidesaer's Slhoi ater7 r)iiumonsd-roadl, tleriiiolidsev, a few ?? before 0 11 in the mins lig. It ...

... I ust Life 'uaid, .1 Rrosit's-purk Ist bat. R. Highrs. (42nd), Edin- 2nd ditto, IJlttbhrldeo burgh; Perth Royal Horse ,aterds. Windsor Ist bat. Gxt, L. 1.43rd), Burmah; Ist Iira. Guards, Mhaow * uan. Oxford tortunry let bat. Essex R. (44dh), Burmash; ted, dlanehesere Warley 3rd, Edinbrgh. 13st bat. Derby, R. (45th), Alder. 4th. Aldershot . shot, to move to Plymoutis 5th, Leeds Derby 5th, ...

... FRANCE.-A controversy, which has been ragiing in Paris between Le Nap2coln and M. Cassagnao's journal, over the pretenesons of Prince Napoleon and his son, Prinee Victor. closed on Wednes- day with a letter by M1. de Cassagnac. He says he is delighted at the Prince's declaration that Ihe is qualifying himself to serve his country, and while accepting as filial and creditable the Prince's ...

... | On Sunday evening, as Miss Royse was returning from Askeaton church, county Limerick, her carriage was stopped by a party of armed and disguised men, who placed the coachman on his knees and fired several shots over him. They then opened the car- riage door and asked Miss Royse whether her rents were paid, and if she had issued any writs. She was so frightened that she gave incoherent ...

... | e To TILE EDITOI-SIR,-In the Rock OfJnan. eary 27 appeared a letter above the slgaatureoi John Gretton, D.-D, secretaryoftha Lord's Day Observance society, from which Iquote the following :- The tiw has come then we s should no longer stand on the defensive b when we should demand the closing f all Government institutions which are oW opened on the Lord's Day. Thin sacludes hew gardens ...

... I. WRBSTLING 0 GOOD FRIDAY. The annual tournament of the natives of Camber land and Westmorelald took place at Lille-bridge, on Good Friday, and favoured by weather of an ex- ceptionallv sulendid character, the attendance was enormous The committee bad offered 1401. iv. prizes, divided into three wrestling competitions for Loidon (resident) 12 stone men, cauntry 1l stone, I and the champion ...

... IMPERIALI PARLIAMENT. - ?? 0 HOUSE OF COMMONS-AMotnAY. The House reasseinlied after the ..t~ter es Miniser astt(endsissc was very this, and as several oftl5 iitr %eers not hi their places most Af tile questions of whichi inotice had been given hael to be postponed. TJsi,: Amnex (ANNUAL) BILL. - Tcs ene went into ,ea medidmeets were co-mmittee on thi bil n heg~edn and moved by 'Mr. Snae ...

... THE UNEMPLOYED IN LONDON, On Wdnedayafternoon a meeting was held at dayBlnio-100 under the presidencyof thle Lord M Mayor, upon thle subj.)ectof thle icnenilloyed and With, 01 the view orpromorolilg a scheme of emigration as a an means of relieville the distreoss, In, opening the piro- ceedings his lordshlip explained at leneth the objet we they hedl inlview, ald. thoulght it better' that the ...

... Sugar and his fraternity must be credited with the conception of a new ?? tion. A prize fight in at chapel, with a rib ' made of the altar rails and ropes, and thle Communion table for the platform of the rt feree to enforce the observance of the Q(ueens berry rules-may be accepted as an entire DO, veltv in ruffianism. It is not often that theo Entlish rough hits upon a new idea. There IS ...