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of catching the Head Centre , wish to escape the discredit of not able being to discover him in his Dublin refuge . An animated discussion took place on the 11-th inst . in the Liverpool Town Council on the proposal of the Improvement Committee to purchase a site of land valued at £ 250 , 000 from the Earl of Sefton , for the purpose of transforming it into a public park , with a " Rotten-row . " It is also proposed to

transplant the Botanic Gardens , now too near the town , to the same locality . The proposals of the committee were warmly supported by Mr . Hutchinson , Mr . Jeffery , and other gentlemen , and strongly opposed by Mr . Whitty aud Alderman Dover , the latter gentleman denouncing the plan as a mere scheme of the " local authority to show off their daughter . " The

discussion had not terminated when our parcel was dispatched . On the 14 fch inst ., at the weekly meeting of the St . Pancras ) vestry , Mr . Churchwarden Robson iu the chair , the Baths and Washhouses Commissioners reported that tbey had , after great exertion , in the course of which the Duke of Bedford and Lord Southampton had thrown every obstacle in their way , obtained

a site on ivhich to build baths and washhouses . The site was in King-street , Camden Town . The Marquis of Camden iiad done all he could to help them , but he was only the leaseholder for 16 years , but by his influence with the Pr . bend of Cantelowes and with the consent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , they had come to an arrangement to pay £ 1 , 600 for the

leasehold of sixteen years , and then £ 1 , 260 for the freehold making a total of £ 2 , 860 . The site for whicli this was to be paid was 180 ft . long by 60 ft . wide . On the motion of Mr . Watson the vestry sanctioned this arrangement . It is proposed to have three baths and washouses in the parish—one north , one south , and one central ( that now sanctioned ) , but owing to the opposition of Lord Somers , who will not part with

an old . music hall tlie magistrates have refused to licence , great difficulty is experienced in finding sites . It appears from two Parliamentary returns issued on the 15 th inst ., that during the year 1865 , 140 cases of persons IUII over and killed in the metropolis came to the cognizance of tho metropolitan police : —1 , 707 were maimed or otherwise injured from the same cause . During the present year , up to the end of February ,

23 fatal cases have been returned to the metropolitan police , and 231 cases of injury . In the City police district , 14 persons were run over and killed last year , and 207 were maimed or injured ; 3 were killed this year and 30 injured . In 1 S 65 , 29 summonses were taken out by the City police for furious driving where no death happened ; this year 6 such summonses were

taken out . FOBEIGX IXTELEIGECE . —The Chamber of Deputies at Bucharest has appointed commissioners to treat with the great Powers . The Prince Imperial has recovered from his attack of measles . All the Powers seem to have agreed to a conference at Paris on the affairs of the Principali . es . The

Croatian Diet has agreed to send deputies to the Hungarian Diet . The deputies are to be furnished with explicit instructions as to their conduct . It was expected that the conference in reference to the affairs of the Principalities would begin to-day . It seems , however , that its first sitting- was held on Saturday . All the Plenipotentiaries of the Powers who

signed the Treaty of Paris were present , ivith the exception of Baron de Eudberg , who was represented by'M . Tchitcherine . Councillor of State attached to the Eussiau Embassy . In the Corps Legislatif , on the 10 th inst ., there was a warm debate in reference to the agriculture of the country . M . Thiers , who is a staunch protectionist , made a long speech , censuring the Government for having ruined agriculturists . The

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Government proposals , however , ivhich tend in the direction of Free-trade , were carried by 192 votes to 32 . A story was afloat last week that the French Government had consented to renew the Extradition Treaty with England . The Memorial Diplomatique of the 10 th inst . says there is no truth in the story . France and Austria are said to have arrived at a complete understanding on the question of the Principalities .

The report that Russia is concentrating troops on the Pruth proves to be unfounded . The Hungarian Diet shows no signs of yielding to the imperial wishes . A telegram inform us that the address in reply to the Imperial rescript , has been prepared , and further , that it adheres to the former demands of the Diet . A Bucharest telegram says that Prince Alexander of Hesse

Darmstadt will he nominated Hospodar of the Principalities . The Cholera Conference atj Constantinople appears likely to ai-rrive at a practical conclusion , so far as suggesting the best means of preventing another irruption of the disease into Egypt from Arabia is concerned . The Conference has agreed , on the

motion of the French representative , to stop communication between the two countries by sea during the prevalence of another epidemic . The Porte , however , terrified by the fear of an insurrection among the pilgrims , refuses its sanction to the proposed arrangement . AIIEEIOA . —The Eiiropa brings news from New York to the afternoon of March 1 . The telegram states that the President ' s

policy is generally approved in the country . It is stated that he intends immediately to declare peace firmly established in the South , and that the States willl be left to govern themselves under the Constitution without military interference , except on the part of the Freedmen's Bureau , which will be continued for a year after the proclamation of peace . Congress

is by no means satisfied with these things , and warm debates were going on . The Fenians are reported to have resolved upon a descent on British Columbia ; but the United States Government was about to issue a proclamation forbidding breaches of the neutrality laws . This would speedily put a stop to the Fenian nonsense .

AirSTEALIA AXD NEW ZEALAXD . —We have news from Melbourne , to January 25 th . The elections were the chief topic of interest . Seventeen Ministerialists and seven Opposition members had been returned . The drought had broken up . Tha shipment of gold to England during the month amounted to 77 , 750 ozs . At Sydney there has been a change of Ministry , arising out of the Tariff Bill . The billhoweverwas passed .

, , The new Ministry were opposed by the Free-traders . From New Zealand we have the satisfactory news that the war is virtually over , and shipping had been taken to convey the troops homo . On the 6 th and 7 th ult ., General Chute attacked and captured a fortified pah near Pate .

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