... (Front the Daily News.) The statement of Sir John Pakingtofi, in movinig the revised Naval Estimates, was clear, frank, and satisfactory. The immediate exigency of the time is a want of men to complete the manning of our homue defences. We must have a Channel fleet in a state reasonably ready for inme- diate setrvice. We have the ships, but as yet we have not all the men. We are still about ...

... LONDON, APIUL 10. His Excellency the Count dle Persigny left the ° Fredlll Embassy on Tlhurstlay oveninlg for Paris. The iP Dulike of Malakhoff is expected to arrive in London I ( to enter on his diplomatic dluties on Mollday.-Tiim~es. |5 TrIE LAMARTINIE SUBwS.RlPTION.-In at letter to the! Conrfstittionnel, dated Florence, April 3, Lord Nor- maurby hlas requested that his name be put down for ...

... MALTA.-FORCIBLE D&TENTION OF A SE- CEDING PRIEST. WE (Record) have received the painfully interesting caso of a priest who, having had his eyes opened to the falsehood of the Romisl system, has becn forcibly seized and placetl in a3lunatic asylum, ;vhere, at the date of the lettci (March 20), h~e was still confined. His name is Joseppi Borj. About the 20th February, he had, on the previous ...

... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE, (FReer OUR OwM CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. TTil Italians have a proverb to the effect that it is a heavy burden to have nothing to do. The op- ponents of Lord Derby's Governcent, impressed, no doubt, with the truth of the adage, are working heaven and earth to bring it into disrepute. The Times, which hates the Earl of Ellenborough, because the ...

... SARtDINIA AND A U S TRIA. A LETTER, dated 10th April, from Placenza, in the Unione of Turin, says:- Austria is concentrating troops in Placenza and on the Sardinian frontier. Five hundred Austrian troops arrived this morning, and more are expected.l The garrison is composed already of 2,500 men. No one can comprehend the motive for these military movements, They have given rise to much specula ...

... T ln four great powers of the world,-England, TI France, Russia, and America,-are now acting together t in China, and appear to have resolved upon a common w course of action. This happy result seems to have al been brought about by the success of our operations tb against Canton, as M R. REED, the representative of pl American interests in China, had, previously to the cap. re ture of that ...

... rig CONTINUED FROM OUR SEVENTir PAGE. I CULLOMPTON. t of TowN HALL.-Henry Rugg, of this place, labourer,wao brought I ry up before the Rev. J. P. Sydenham, by P.O. No. 26, on Wednes. I b day last, oharged with stealing a half-quartern cake from the shop by of Mrs. Marshall, baker, of this plae. Owen Rowe, a servant to I id Mrs. Marshall, stated that on Tuesday night he observed the H8 prisoner ...

... MR. CHARLES KEAN'S K ING LEAR. Mr. Charles Kean's genius as an actor-which, in years gone by, was so roughly assailedby some critics-has been again triumphantly vindicated, in the delineation of the grand and difficult character of King Lear. Thisgreat historical play- one of ilee finest conceptions of Shakapeare-was performed at the Princoss's Theatre last Saturday week; and the ...

... A wise anii onght to hope for the beet, be pre- pared for the worst, and bear with equanimity whatever Imay happen. . Most of the French barbers in New York are Germans, who have Poles by their doors to attract cus- tomers. An astronomer of note bsing askedbyayoungster what was the use of an eclipse, replied, that It was to give the slun timne for refiection. ; Mrs. artigton has seen an ...

... INDIAN ITEMS. THE CAWNPORE MASSA ORE.-SPURIOUs RELIOS. —In another room for Wheeler's intrenchment] the fol- lowing inscription was written on the wall; it is on the larger building in the corridor, between the fourth and fifth doors, facing to the south, on the side opposite the doors Countrymen and women, remember the 15th of July, 18571 Your wives and families are here, misery! and at the ...

... MR. GOL.—Pwy oedd awdwr v detholion hvn nis gwn. Tebvo-ol ei fod yn anadnabyddus i'r rhan amlaf o ddarllen- Weich Cyhoeddiad. Gan i mi gael addysgiadau oddi- wrthvnt, hwyrach na byddai yn dramgwydd en rhoddi yn v TELEGRAPH er budd i ereill yn gystsd a'r eiddoch. Ijowlahi. G. Glan Te,fi' DYN CALONOG.-Gwel fel y mae'r camel yn goddef poen a blinder, newyn asvched, a gwres, wrth ymdaith trwv ...

... TOWN TALK. [BY A LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] No lack of subjects of serious chat or lively gossip, i, The condemnation of the Italian Lani for the Haymarket t murder; Glover, ex-M.P. for Beverley, found guilty of £ perjury; Bernard tried for an offence that recalls Mackintosh's defence of Peltier.; the fall of Lucknow, and the howl of the gagged French journals against the English occupation of the ...