... PO- On Tuesday last the gentlemen connected with On the Commissions of Sewers for the City of London mnot tit the Guildhall for the transaction of business. Deputy ly Peacock presided. in The ordinary preliminary business hiving been 'gone O- through, the commissioners proceeded to receive tenders for 4ut lighting the public lamps within the City with gas, for the is- term of one year, and ...

... TO TIE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. SIR,-In Sir F. Kelly's speech in the above suit on behalf of Lord Guilford, when he alluded to Car- dinal Beanfort's endowment for 13 decayed gentle- men, he said that the visitor, Bishop Waynefleet, had reduced the number to 2. At the same time the learned advocate added that the lands were now, no doubt, of considerable value, I am afraid the learned ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. LIVJIUtPOOL, )o0NDA.T. The British and North American royal mail steamer America, Captain Leitch, arrived in ihe Mersey this morning. She left Boston on the 27th, and Halifax the 29th ult. She had 115 passengers and 127,000 dollars in specie on freight. The America has ex- perienced strong easterly winds with extremely cold weather during her whole voyage. The steam ...

... MILITAR Y. REMOVAL OF TROOPs.-Her Majesty's steam fri- gate Stromboli arrived at Southampton on Saturday with 300 troops, 100 women, a number of children, and a large quantity of baggage. These troops werex a portion of the 3 85th Regiment, which for the last three months have t formed part of the militay ?? at Newport, in the Isle l of Wight. The troops left Newport at nine o'clock on n ...

... The Linwood Gallery, once the famed repository of pictorial needlework, is about to be thrown open to the public, as a kindred exhibition in the more extended field of dioramic illustration. A Captain G. Hill has, it appears, been travelling through the Basque provinces and the Cas- tilles, and visiting the famed cities of Granada, Cordova, Seville, and 6o o01 down to Gibraltar, and in his ...

... COLLIERK.#XRLSION IN STAFFORDSHIE. I ' , NINE LIVES rost. . I Another of those fatal occurrences which are so frequent, and of such disastrous consequence in the mining districts, occurred on Thursday evening, at a pit known as the Old Park Colliery, the property of Lord Ward. The colliery is at Holly Hall, about one mile from Dudley 'on the road to Stourbridge. The explosions which was of ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-TurSDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the ?? at five o'clock. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from the congregation of Southgate-road Chapel, 1Kingslaud, against the opening of the Crystal Palaoe on Sundays. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petidoin from a place in Ayrshire, against the grant to the Roman Catholic College of .Maynooth. ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-FIIDAY. The following bills were read a third time and passed Allendale Road Bill ; Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine, and Portrush Junction Railway (No. 2) Bill ; Edinburgh Water- works (No. 2) Bill Hnslingden and Rawtelistall Water- works Bill; Limerick Corporation Bill ; Lundonderry, Cole- raine,,saed Belfast Junction Railway Bill ; Waveney Valley Railay Bill. The following ...

... THE COMMITTEE ON DOCKYARD APPOVUMENTS AND PIROMOTIO0NS. NINTH DAY. Yesterday the committee, Lord Seymour (chairmian), Lord Hotham, Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir F. Davie, and Mr. Beckett, re-assembled for the ninth time. Some new and important evidence was given by Mr. J. Beer, solicitor and election agent, of Devonport, with re. ference to the existence, at evory election since the passing of the ...

... UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGENOB. OXFORD, MAY 24. THuI PROPOSHD NEW MXsuux.-A meeting of Convoca- tion was held this afternoon in the theatre, to receive the report of the delegacy upon the projected new museum and lectare-rooms. There was a considerable attendance of the Heeads of Houses and resident Masters of Arts. The Vice- Chancellor presided; and amomgst those present we observed the Dean of ...

... The ceremony of distributing the scholarships and prizes for the last session to the students in the r edical department of King's College took place on Saturday. His Grace the Arch, bishop of Canterbury presided. Amongst the nnunber of visitors present were the Marquis of Cholhuondeley, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Nova Scotia, Lord Radstock, Sir R. R. Inglis, ...

... ICANV LERB UR Y BRIBERY COM4MISSION. II [FROM OUR ONw E nPORTER.] e CANTERBUtRY, WREDNEsDAY NIaFhT. ?? commissioners met again this morning at ten o'clock in the Guildhall, and continued the investigation. Mr. Wm. Elumptre Gipps was recalled, and stated, in reply to questions put by Mr. Commissioner Anstey, that rthe £500 farnished to him by Mr. Forbes Mackenzie came to him in two sums through ...