... Ico. HOUSE OF LORDS.-M0NDAY, APRIL 23. ROYAL COMMISSION. sh The royalagsseit was given by comflis~sion to the follow- Sc inog ?? County Courts, the Cattle Plague and CI Contagious Diseases, and the Manchester Royal Exchange ag9 Bills. IEs Thle royal comnaissioiiers were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Blessboroigli, and the Viscount Sydney. The LoWt) CHLANCELLOR took his seat onl thle ...

... To TE EDITOR OF S EDAILY NEnS. SIB,-As a freedman I welcome, with grateful feelings, the leading article on the freedmen's bureau of the United States, published in this day's impression of l your journal. There is great need just now that English. men should write such articles, but the need is greater still that Englishmen should read them. For the anti- slavery party in America, attacked by ...

... IGEAhT YARMOUTH ELECTION COMM.ISSIOR. I The commission resumed their inquiry yesterday at the Town-hall. The first witness examined was Richard Steele, an accountant, who stated that he saw Downing at the Angel on the night before the election. Downing then informed witness that he had paid Baldwin some money. Witness expressed his surprise that a man of property in the employment of Messrs. ...

... The most extensive fire that has taken place in the metropolis since the great wharf fire in Tooley. street some three or four years since, whether as regards the large amountofpropertydeatroyed, or the vast extentof ground on which the ?? buildings stood, broke out betweenl2 and 1 o'clock yesterday morning on the immense range of warehouses belonging to the London and North Western Railway ...

... I THBKANK CHARTER ACT OF 1844. TO THlE DITOrs OP THE DAILY NEWS. SiB,-I come now to the Bank Charter of 1844 What is this Act ? What is its nature ? What are its effects? i Te obtain trustworthy answers to these questions we must look to the Act itself, and not to what is said or written about it. No statute has ever re- ceived such conflicting interpretations: it has been made the object of ...

... X-Ami BBNZDfMNL?&OF-XONTRVASMNO.? - - , I I; ? i , . ?? ? 4 ii ? ;4 ?? . :? i !r, j: , I I I I'll I I ;$ T9fl N )1:4l;-oN tB ?? nS U ., ?? Itaian Parliamenet XJ~ iprobbly soon 'about to pss a law by which all Religious Orden, in IW a will be'diss0ovd and al eclea al ptoW pbrty forieited to the astated -Judging from analogy, tid means that tl~e onlt; will beW turnet l ont bf tbeir, monasteries ...

... 4 ?? D'IEFENEB . ' - - , 7 ' 0i a )s j 1F THE DAY NMS. Ssn,-As it is very evident that at present the country will, neither adopt the conscription of Francee nor the Landwehr of Prussia, nor, in fact, any system of national defence that involves 'the absor~ption of a lage part of the population from the remunerative occupations of civil life for any considerable length of time, it becomes a ...

... |THE LANOASTZE ELECTION CoMMISSION. | LANCASTER, THUoStDAY. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the existence of bribery and corrupt practices at elections for this borougholosed, their investigation yesterday. Very little evidence in addition to that contained in our yester- day's parcel was given. ' George Storey, a painter and non-elector, said he received 51. from Mr. 'Isaac ...

... AGRICULTUBAL PBOSPECTS. The week opened with a fine bracing day, wind ?? and sunny at times. After a, slight frost, Mon, day morning was cool, wind west, thermometer 46 degrees, barometer 30.30 inches. Field-work was being proceeded with generally, and some progress has been made with autumnal tillage in all the forward counties. In the far north harvest is not yet completed, and more dry ...

... #BOSS OUTRAGE ON AMERICAN TRAVELLERS IN TURKEY. C A letter in the Levant Herald of the 17th gives e account of a gross attack upon two American gentlemen and a boy on their way toTiflis. Mr. Henry Stanley, one of the number, writes:- Wben about seven hours from Afiuna-Karabissar, on the 18th September, en rouse for Tiflis and Tbibet Aid Erzeroum, from Smyrna, I and my two comninions, Mr. H. W ...

... I | ., i, . i i ?? (REUmtn'S TELEGRAMS.) The Royal Mail steamship Scotia, from New York on the 12th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 5.25 a.m, yesterday (December 21), with 117 passengers and 272,188 dols. in specie. She landed all the mails except those for Liver- pool and Scotland, and 14 passengers, proceeding at 5.40 a.m. for Liverpool, all well. NEW YORK, DEc. 12, MORNING. The House of ...

... I i (nxUTErnS TELEGRAM.) ITALY. FLORENOE, DEc. 6, EVENING. The Italian mission to the Papal Court will be entrusted to Signor Tonello, who has received ai from his government instructions of a highly con- ti' ciliatory character. Signor Tonello will probably leave to-morrow, but will, in any ease, arrive in M Rome before the 10th inst. ar Senor Olozaga, a leading member of the pro- I gressist ...