... LO1OON ST1rT I,9PIEM3WJT S. A report giving the detrils of the various street im- provements which have been carried out in the City dnring the past thirty-eight years, has beeu issued by Colonel Haywood, the engrineer to the Commissioners of Sewere. The total number of public ways now exist- in the City is 731, nud the Commissoters had eftccted improvements in 262 of them. Fxcepting Ring Wil- ...

... ROUS!inDS Z2N KOLISORNI. -1t_ It_ - ~ _- Ia. } in X1 . a . - - . Charles William Wakefield, eighteen, John Lewis, thirty, and Daniel Regan, nineteen, Isbourers, were indicted at the London County Sessions for breaking and entering a dwelling, the property of Miss Amelia Murray, and stealing a quantity of lead piping and other articles, value .£20. Mr. A, Gill prosecuted. The prosenutrix, who ...

... CONSTANCE BELLIAMy ABRIDGED PRESS OPINIONS. As Marguerite in the final act exhibited a d power and intensity tbat quite electrified hea rannatil -Birminghanm Times, Feb. 23d, lass, audience And with Mr Turner as Faust and C. Bellamy noted soprano, as Marguerite, such a musical the never been provided for Northamptonian ret has ?? Hgerald, March id,n this Constance Bellamy ie now one of the ...

... THE I TERRIBLE HURER'ICANE OFF SAMOA. | - a-- | FaOEO OTJR CCrDflxsr'OcEDE.. |IIY TEPLL, mRDAY MaimT The Emperor has issued the following Order to the NavyN: 'A destructive hurricane has caused great losses to my ships and the craft stationed in Samoan waters. The cruiser Adler and the gunboat Eber have been lost, with part of their crews, while the corvette Olga has run ashore and has ...

... I I l -. -L . Mr, Fildes' Al fresco Toilet is a Mr. Filde', Venetirn scene; Venice distinctly I ' from the costumes, and no less den certainly from the faces, but happily the mono- be tonous accessories of gondola and canal do not tim supply unnecessary confirmation. In the court- nil yard of an old palace a beautiful young womran is ove enjoying the pleasure of a gossip with a friend dis ...

... THE LIONDON COUTN-TY COUNCIL I The usual weekly meeting of this Council teoch plitce yesterday iu the Councl Chamber, Guild- hall, Lord ItOsEaBICY Presiding. TUE E!SOflTS OP COr ITTZErrS. b The repoit of the Standiug Committec Nvas first con- sidered. It contained a number of proposed additioual etauding orders, and they were dxscuisscl at consider- able lnth The report also contained a ...

... 1OYL OCI0TY OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS. ,_The QDnnUal SUmmer eshihit~ie3 at the (lallory ~of the loyal Waeter-Colour Socieaty iu rPl- cu7l, opens for tbe privatovev tody aud tb 'clltection consists as usua, of early nu equa PooorrOn of highly-fillisied drawings and dlixt effective sketches froin h'nda long Jamiliar with their tools. The werabers of this old society do not ail at astonishing ...

... The Zdlu Vhl DntMvLTr, CtSwX&'s SOD, hase no reami to ?? Mintelf oa ?? saie to eurend to British authoity. He I 'W in safe hiding in. the Tranivad; he| sareadwed in Natal; hoe W sent, much againd bis wish, to Zululand for trial; and he h3 just been sentenced to imprisonmenit for ten yean 'With him, his unle MMADMO receives a entence o fifteen yaws, and his friend, T SEflrAIKA Of twelvO- The ...

... THE ILLUS TRATE7POTJJOE NEWJS SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1SS9. ?? ?? FLOGGING PRISONERS. Mr. T. 1 1i . 81:1 -TrLEWORTH, Clerk of Assize and Associate, exiresses the following(, VIewN's oo the subject of flogging criminals *- On the Northern Cir-cuit, admittedly the heaviest in the kingdom, in the year 1863 (when the Whipping Act psassed) 25 prisoners were con- victed of robbery3r with violence ; ...

... LOuISA AR-, ETT, a young wa oman, who stood in front of the dock with an infant in her arms, was charged with causing bodily injury to Margaret Brett, at 9,. Charlwood street, Pimlico, by burning her with a red- hot poker. The prosecutrix, a young woman, who had large sears on the right side of her neck and face, deposed that she was the wife of a stablemau,. and that she nursed the prisoner ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-XIO)ANDY. ROYAL ASSS;rT.-The Royal assent was given by Com- mission to the Consolidated Fund (No. 2) bill. Nxiv PaER.-The Earl of CROMAL,5OL', introducedby the Earl of Lathsom and Earl Waldegrave, took the oath and subscribed the roll of Deers, on his succession to t5e peerage. NEW BiLL.-The Earl of MEATH presented a hill em- bodying in the general law certain enactments which ...

... OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ON THE THAMES. That Cambridge would wiD in Saturday's race was a foregone conclusion unless some unfore- seen accident occurred to the boat. During the whole period of training the superiority of the light blue crew was manifest to everyone versed in rowing matters. and the result justified the public form of the Cantabs. Out of the forty- six annual contests betweon the ...