... I TO THE EDI-TO O- THE DAILY NEWS. SIP,-Will you allow me in your columns to revive a scheme for a general education bill, the leading points of which I brought forward once before in 1846 ? It has, I t conceive, this advantage over the other place at present t before the public, that it does not in any way interfere with existing schools, and avoids flinging the enormous burden of the entire ...

... A TRUB BRITISH SOLDIBR. A correspondent sends us the following particulars C of the military experience of Sergeant James Hill, of the ( 23rd Regiment, a gallant Scot hloo has just left Fort Pitt General Hospital. This brave, determiped man escaped unhurt amidst the 1 terrific shower of round, Mi;iD, 24 and 32 pound shot, until EB within siX yards of a battery, when one entered the lower I ...

... I !E. [FROM A YOUNG MEDICAL OFFICER AT TIE CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, .AND ONE OF OUR OCCASIONAL le- CORRESPONDENTS.] Mlay 14, 1855. ng The weather for the last four days has been truly ld- miserable, raining in torrents, and mud over your ankles ; there is, therefore, some considerable trouble in walking. Living in a tent here is very he different to when at Suntari, where we had good ...

... EXPRES,3S FR OM.I CONST ANTINOPLE. LFaO.I OU.R owN CORRSESrONDnENT.] CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 11. It has turned out as every one expected: the Vieuna Conferences have ended in a bottle of sir Eke, and the great quarrel between the North and ?? W0est remai)s to be settled by the only effectual peace-maker-the sLword. And that it is so, few far-seeing men will regret. War is at all tinves a dire ...

... ENGLAND AND IRELAND IMPROVED I COMMUNICATION BBILL COMMITTEE. i_ 71- ?? - i --AtWA- .a Q; vN -% ..n. .~ ?? Monday, the committee received Sir Cusack Be Roney's evidene. Having traced each mail from London da to Dublin and vice versa, he described the delays, which co .occur in their transmission, and stated that he haa made the se sea voyage about 200 times in 1851.-2, and whenever the ne ...

... d d FRANCE.-The PArisian trade has not yet, it dis said, experieuced any beneficial effects from the open- ing of the Universal Exhibition. Few foreign visitors d have arrived in that capital, the greater number deeming it expedient to postpone their journey until the month of' s June, when it is to be in all its hclat. The weather, oil the other hand, has not been favourable; and, as if to ...

... THE PAYMENT OF WITNESSES, &c.- gi FoR some time past there has been a growing dissatisfaction rc among those persons who have had the misfortune to be called il as witnesses to the High Court and Circuit Court of Justi- l ciasry, on account of the manner in which their expenses have . been paid. It is unquestionably expedieit, for the ends of b justice, that the members of the social body ...

... .sC OTILRU .. EdO of iliDICATO e BiLLS. I sr4Orng to the TaI 4Y~scveiI Ih epttr of dJIO Se1Vctc(iou I~± ed:Pobi pad'yetitioca$; ;justdpnblislaed, Thr had beexpre- g.etaed to tile Houge of Commons, up to the 18th-inst.:- inst the Lord-Advocates8 Bill 409 petitions, with' 29,113 4,itares; in its favour, 44 petitions, with 1958 signatures; Rud for alteration of the Bill, 868 petitions, with 19 ...

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... Wye have received our despatches by the overland I quo mail. The dates as advised by telegraph are _Oat Bombay, May 1; Calcutta, April. 22 ; Hong Kong, ?? April 16. and The Vonmbay Tzimemcs of May 1st savs: r ao There has not been a sirgile foray on our borders, T nor squabble anywhere. From the northwest we Wet learn that Brigadier ChIamberlAnin accompanied by In,.( %sjorEdwardey, with aforce ...

... WHIT-AMONDAY. HAYMARKET. bivo instead of a dramatic novelty for the holidays, the the ?? manaigemlent replaced an old favow ite on its wt ,Whitson biords, ito the Person Of ?? Helen Faucit-s a s 5scbsitucien of which the public ec.rtstnly' will not ctomp~lain,5 Mdl Tile theatrical profession has too few members of tbe, style rp Of art to whic't Ittiss Fececit-to call her Still by her best and ...

... I PARLIAMENT has, at length, enjoyed the privilege, so wl . long withheld, of discussing the proceedings of the Con- PO ferences. To some little purpose, we think, although tio not so much as might have been expected. The ministry d have, gained by the discussions, no doubt.; for Mr wl Disraeli's motion-which preface*-ith-a-eensus-eon tb the Government for ambiguity and indecision, a resolu- a ...