... REA]>A 'ywjI ?? OF SOUT'I STAIFFORD- SHIIRE. The death of the Earl of Dartmouth causes a -sracscy in the representation of South Staffordshire, con- sequent on the elevation of Lord Lewisharn to the peerage. Fror the last twelve years the two political parties have been content to divide the county, but the liberals have been, during the whole tirce, gaining strength, and little doubt !!oW ?? ...

... '10 THIE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sln,-In my last letter I objected to Dr. Watts's plan of free schools, professedly for the neglected bat open and attractive to all, that by the latter of these two features it raised the religious question, which he himself admits to be a great difficulty, and which I regard as an insuperable one. I Dow address myself to the remedy which, in his letter of ...

... TO THE EDITOR OP TIit DAnLT NEWS. SIR,-I have been much struck on my recent. re- turn from the Continent-witlh the contras! which the system of management of the foreign railways presents with that pursued in this country; and I have noticed with some surprise the wide variety in the remedies propesed by your correspondents for the numerous evils under which our rail- way system at present ...

... the TO TIlE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NhEWS. n DEAR SIR,-The following has been sent by me to the 1'irnes, perhaps you will oblige me by inserting it in your valuable ?? faithfully, Mr. JOSEPH it ir the TO THEE 23DITOU OF THE TIMES. rah Sir,-In your very excited article of the 22nd on Jon the Italian question you have quoted three lines of ,oal mine. It seems but faitir that you should grant inser- ...

... UNIVfESITY AND CLERICAL. OAwinuIDGE, Noy. 9.-LIST OF : PERSONS WHO HlAVE PASSIED TEEE VOLUNTARY THneoLOGIC.AL ExAmi- NATION-(lssued this day.)-Examiners: J. A. Jerenmie, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity ; J. J. Blunt, B.D., Margaret Professor of Divinity., W. Allen. B.A., St. Joho's; C. Anderson, B.A., Caius; Thes. W. Anderson, B.A., Jes.; R. S. E. Atcheson, B.A., Trio.; F. Atkinson, B.A., ...

... t THE RUSSIAN DECLARATION OF WAR. The following letter confirms the brief announce- meat which we have already published: BRUSSELS, WEDNE5DAY. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, of this day's t date, runs as follows: i; The ?? de St. Petersburg has just arrived. It contains an Imperial manifesto of the 21st ult. That manifesto declares that, Russia having been t provoked to the combat, it ...

... Annual Banquet of the Southwards Bud of Hope Lodge (No. 3,298). The eleveftth annual banquet of the members of this Lodge took place in the large club-room of the Angel Tavern (Host Srilth's), Webber-street, Blackfriars-road. Upwards of seventy members sod their friends sat down to a moat sumptuous dinner, prepared in thre worthy host~s usual erceilent style. The clotho having been removed, ...

... THE! NOTORZLOUS 33ZTZSR ZNDUSTRY .LXFZ i ASSOCZATZON. If any further proofs than these adduced previous to shk statementwhich appeared In the Black3ur 6tandrdpndwse copied into the impressien of Reynolds's Newspaper 19t week. were wanted to show the falsehoods and chicaneries practised by the agents ofthe notorious British Industry Association, we think that the county court case must have ...

... On Tuesday, a painful sensation was caused in the im- mediate vicinity of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in con. sequence of the following extraordinary explosion occur- ing in the private house belonging to Mr. J. B. Back- stone, the well-known comedian, and lessee of the theatre, at the back, and adjoining that place of amusement, in Suffolklstreet, Pall Mall East. From the inquiries iade, it ...

... I TURKISIH MEN-RUSSIAN MACHINES. Even the electric telegraph-it was to be ex- pected-in the bands of Austria has learned to lie -to lie like an Austrian inister. Hence, during the week, all sorts of contradictory reports have come, poisoned and mystified in the passage, via Vienna. At one time, the bear bad fairly broken loose, and was close snapping his teeth at the trowsers of the retreating ...

... The Lord Mayor on the 9th of November invited Mr. Cooke, the distinguished manager of Astley's, to add his best possible glory to the show. Come, my dear Mr. Cooke, and give us a lift in the City, and Mr. Cooke came. Not, however, to be outdone by the gushing hospitality of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Cooke reciprocates the invitation; Come, my dear Lord Mayor, and ride in a coach at Astley's * ...

... Ui]MLTmY QuAaIKL~nThe following affair appears to have caused a little sensation. from the rank of the parties concerned. About two weeks ago an affray of a very novel character teok place In the citadel barrack-yard, Corfa. be- tween Lieutenaut-Colonel Denny, 7Ist Highianders, and Dr. Barry, the Deputy Inspeotor-General of Hespitals, and prin- cipal medical officer at that station. It appears ...