... THB COUNCIL OF INDId. leub On Monday, the 9th instanut, the Court of Directors 8and proceeded to elect from among themselves seven members of heel the new Council of India. Their choice Is unexceptionble ath and in only one respect differs from the list we ventured to mad propos in our isse of the 15th July. T he tsole error we offes committed was in supposing that Colonel Sykes had a better ...

... THB BRIT18I COLUMBIA GOLD DIG&NG, I I . _- _ (From the 80 41.randsco News Leter of July 6.) The proprietor of the San Francic9o News Letter having determined to see the Elephantg to beat the centre of the present excitemnentof the Dbrado and to judge for him- self, or rather to solve the problem of how much gold, how many Indians and how much huabug, went on board the P. M. S. S. 6ortes, ...

... FRANC]L i , 1 (FROM or OWrt 001 a om r.). . [-h follow~ng appeared in.a o- -VesinEdo'l I The ?? ofU o Consultimm, by .virtne; of- which iises gad officer, of the- rown, knights grand croems of the legion of honour, Prefich s-VbadsdM Bsenatisa.d councillorsa Of itate are t: enoy' thet priilege of bing tried for crim e and se neo by uasp cial tribunal, called a High Cotof J'fse, inte cf by jury ...

... 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. ...