... 3I ~TH UNITED 8TATE , i - - : - ' ¢wYORKS COMB 9.- New Orleans-has during the last week been the scene of. bvent;_omoewb.waenmb hese mhih took place in San Franeisco two years ago. tA viA i lance committee Tpr el dly and: Wedneosay. tookpoaseeson kitiheoralr and Ad &te aran - ;-ere ar d conbirtl candidates for public offices; they will 'ot go to the poll and vote; they will not serve on juries ...

... | ,les ~ MR. PARK'S NARRATIVE. We have been favoured (says the Manch~ester Ie Guardian) by a gentleman connected with this city -with the ad Ifollowing -narrative, taken down by him from the recital of lhe Mr. Park, the 'second engineer of the Cagliari two days tin after Mr. Park hoad been set at liberty by the k'eapolitrsn ile- authorities : the 1Shortly after leaving Genoa, on our voyage to ...

... THE WESTERN PROVINCES OF TURKEY\. Ia . . A . . . A letter from Ragusa, of the 4th, gives the follow- ing account of the meeting between the consuls and the Christian insurgents of Herzegovina: The meeting took place in the plain before Kloluck, a for- tress built on the top of a high rock, and garrisoned by 1,000 bashi-bazouks. When the consuls were seen approaching, the chief of the ...

... FLOATING BATTERIES AND BOMBEPROOF I BATTERING ROCKET APPARATUS TO THtE ZErTOn OP THEl DAILY NEWS. SlPr,-The discovery of the principle upon whieh the Misting floating batteries are made bomb-prooftis mmvo.. ooily ascilbed to the Emperor of the French. In ISM, while visitirg steel manufactories in Sheffleld I noticed with great interest the effect produced ugona etal by hammera of enormous ...

... THE POLICY OF CONFISCATION, TO THE EDITOR CT TRE DAILY NEs.S SIR,-On the result of the pending debate pro- bably hangs the fate of our Indian empire. If the House V should condemn the policy which her Majesty's government to has adopted and publicly announced, it will be responsible to I futurity for the loss of the most splendid dependency which 01 any government in the world has ever held; ...

... TO THE EDITOB OF THE DAILY NEWS. ;tre SIn,-Public opinion on the subject of M. de !t Montalembert ' trial is setting so completely in one direction, roa that it will not be easy, I fear, for any one to obtain a hear- the ing who looks with some coolness on his claim to be conei- of ti dered a martyr. I have always held one opinion as to the the for character of Bonaparte and the means by which ...

... I TO THIE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. 1] SIR,-In your excellent article exposing the mis- representations of the Times, regarding the Scotch Univer- f Bities, you have allowed several of its assertions to pass un- challenged-assertions which, in Scotland, have excited-con- t siderable indignation. Now, as it is important that the subject should be fully discussed before the introduction of a ...

... THE ROYAL ARTILLERY IN I-NDIs. TO THE XDITOR OP THSE DAILY NEWS. and SIn,-In your paper of the 4th inst. appearsa, ,b In letter from a correspondent signed J.B. This gentlz essed rerollection seems to be remarkably lively; it is a pit it there not accuratelso. Pty i leon. J. B. bas drawn somewhatorhis imgin tion, as well ee is Dsde recollection, as regards theoccurrence he alludes to as having ...

... TO THEt EDITORh GP THE DAILY xZWB Slit,-As you have given insertion, as'a matte of fairness, to my letter of the 8th, m I a s atI e I as a matter of fairness. to give a Place in aou Cou, lia to this reply to your article of the 12th your colee I am no partizan of tho Midland, or any Other company; neither is my maxim Whatever is, is rhter t., do I view all railways couleur de rose. ...

... SCOTCH UNlV'Bl.SITY BILL AS IT AFEECTiS I I ~~ABERDEEBN.; (From the dlberdeen Herald) The second reading of the Aberdeen Universities Lo Bill has been postponed from Monday till Friday next, So str wel that ere a week is over the fate ot our double college will be no sealed. If the Lord Advocate's Bill is carried, with its fusion clauses, Marischal College, as a school of arts, is extin-V ...

... A supplement to the London Gazette, issued last E night, contains the following list of officers killedand wounded e during the siege and capture of Lucknow: a GENERAL STAFF. C Lieutenant F. R. S. Flood, extra aide de camp to chief of staff, wounded severely. ARTILLERY DIVISION. d Lieutenant 0. D. Thackwell (15th ?? assistant baggage master, Divisional Staff, killed. Acting Mate Henry O'Gar- 1 ...

... THE CHILDREN OF BRITISH SOLDIERS IN INDIA,. TO THE UDITOE OP TUB DAILY, NEWS. SfIt,-You have lately been doing good service by drawing public attention to the frightfulondition of soldiers' baracks in England. The question involves even fir lmore than c atlons suggested by humanity. The rvolting atmosphere of the soldier's only home drives him to ?? house, and places of worse resort-the moral ...