... STEAM COMMU ICATION WITH THE WEST INDIES, MEXICO, AND THE PACIFIC. r | TO TSU HDITOR OP TIHE DAILY NSW5. t SIR,_hA very lengthy article on this subject appeared in the Timies ot the 10th instant, and as the P Post-office packet service has now become a matter of a considerable importance to the coantry, both in a con- I mercial and financial point of view, it ins right that the r public should ...

... (From 2aft's Mfagixne,) The franchise will be the framework of a debate in the next session of parliament. The feeling evoked by the National Financial Reform and Complete Suffrage Associa- tion is not strong, but it is respectable. The noise made by the agitation is not deafening; but the claim ia substantial, and is pressed by parties of some weight-by men with votes and inifluence, to whose ...

... The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the London Docks was held yesterday, at the offices of the Company, in the New Bank-buildings ; Mr. Cotterell, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. From the report read by the Secretary, it appeared that the number of loaded ships from abroad entered into the docks for the six months ending the 30th November last was 730, measuring 200 ...

... In a memorandum, dated the 3d of December, 1849 the following was given as an approximate statement of the expenses and collection for the month of October, 1849, in compariion with the same mouth in 1848: Expended. Collected. Daring the month of Oetober, 1848 I 914,oat £188,876 Daring themonthof October, 18i9 . 98,180 181,235 Difference on the month ?? 17,5V 1 859 The bulk of the returns ...

... SARDINIA. Letters from Turin, of the 25th, state that the Go- vernment has succeeded in inducing the Ministry to annul the election of M. Mamiani. M. Lanza presented the report of the committee, It stated that some members of the committee had expressed some doubt as to the eligibility of M. Mamiani, and that one of the members remarked that a report was in circulation, which appeared to be ...

... To THF EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWvS. SIP,-Nlach has of late been written upon the sub- jut of improving the dwellings of the p or, and ,trrrlC but truthful contrasts hauve been made be- tween the celar and the model lOdgirg.house. Toat one half the world don't know how the other balt live still holds good, and is equally applicable to the common lodging-houses of London. But very few ...

... The following letter, addressed by Mr. Cobden to a gentleman in Devonshire, Will be found interesting: Westbourne.terrace, Dee. 3. Dear Sir.-I send you the papers you want. By re- ferring to the imports, you will see that I have marked cer- iaiD articles which are admitted free. Now, there is nothieg upon which there is greater ignorance amongst the agricul. turel classes than this. They are ...

... HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEl E K. [FROM1 TIHE REGISTlAnR-GOEERAL'S RETURN.] In the week cndingr last Saturday, the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were 1,653 ; the weekly average of this season, corrected for increase of population, is 1,162. The mortality of last week is, therefore, less thtan the esti- mated amountby 109 deaths, and is nearlythe same as thatof ilse ...

... Tle LONDON GAZETTE of TUESDA Y, Jan. 1. ThWuen IHITEHALL, DEC. 29. TeQenhas been pleased to direct !etters patent _to be passed under thle Great Seal, granting the dignity of is Knight, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto William Jefficott, Esq., Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Cooke, of Abiug- don, in the ...

... TIlE PEAT T.ER AND TilE PARKS. The thermometer yesterday rose, at one period, as high as 41 degrees, whilst, during Monday night, it sunk as low as 2 degrees, considerably below freezing point. The ba- rometer, at six o'clock last evening, stood at the Royal Hu- mane Society's receiving house, in Hyde Park. at 30.32, and the wind remained in nearly the same quarter as it was the previous day. ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF PIIASEUS MAGAZINE. e is Sjii,-tour last motith'd nurnb~r orntsins a spoech )ng against the rights Of negroesl .the doctrines and spirit ot wh which ought not To pases withoust remonstrance. The author ling isue hi opnos tha rather ordinances, under imposing pics noles tanthose'of the 1immortal gds. ' The dare p~'es1 the doestinies,? annountcei through him. not only sut- ...

... STEAM CO' MMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA. TO TnH JEDXTOR OP THE DAILY NEWS. Sia,-The observations which have recently ap- peared in the paperi relative to the proposed lines of steam esmmunication with the Brazils and with Ausl rilia, and in'which the comparative merits of the screw and paddle wheel have been more than once alluded to, have induced me to request your attention to the following ...