... (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 ...

... FI I _.T:EL ?? ?? := 1 ?? Fior-EIG9 INsTEL.LIG ENxCE- FRANCES. ?? (Front tbteTiid&s' Correspen,,ICTe. ti -. ans, rdaApri' ,6PM Orders htav ljeni givent tlat at nodelL of 'the coin resltd5 by; igneenl Victorla ict.'M be catst, with a view. to0 deui imi i i in thet Imiperial collcotionl. cSaturday, April 3. Thle Mrciefttr puidlislies the followiog-: *ttriton A i;01w1mlar sidewiliity, Well ...

... THE EXECUTION GROUND O CANTON. (Fronm the Special Correspondent of the Times.) Canton, Sept. 13. Threading our way, under the guidance of some experienced friend, we came to a carpenter's shop, fronting the entrance to a small potter's field. It is not a rood in area, of an irretular shape; resembling most an oblong. A row of cottages open into it on one side; there is a wall on the other. The ...

... WARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF MALA1HOFF. ' ' TEA ~ ~ ?? ?? Dover. Riursdzy.. Thc arrival to-day of Burtili Plissier, Duke of Mal& I rkhoff, the newly-accredited Ambassador from his Imperiial, Majestytio Emperor of the renchnto ?? of-St. Jainess, i -was distinuguished with every mark of respect whllich it was possible to evince. His Exaeflencyarrived shortly after one ! *o'clock in the French ...

... LORD AfAL'NI.ISBIJP.Y'8 APP.OINTMENTS. L ?? ] . WiXCJL'i._Mijsit'JWL IJ -l S. tIJLN ±ierLjiN LO. Since the ?? of the remnoval of Lord Ilowden fromi the post of Ainister at Madrid -was loown in that eanpitl 1 hardly a day has passeil nthout hninng letters from Spalliards of every party, e ;cepting thlat ;. loch expects to he 'pceially benefited by the ltans, namely thie .(:'arhists. These ...

... - (From the Panama Herald.) Our correspondent at Callao, writing on the 12th of February,. says:- Since ny last to you I have to reportthe seizure of two American vessels by the Peruivian war steamner Tumbees-the ship Lizzie Thompson and barque Georgians-caught loadisi guano from the Government depo sits at Pabellon do Pica, the ifrst named char- tered-by the French Consul at Iquique, and the ...

... VALIDITY OF AN I 0 U. HA- S. Mar ISS - . . - -o - lt ?? _i- - - . l - ?? {ra Messrs. P. & W. MLtsIron Merchants, Glasgow, v. GEORtGr fir MlAiRNIN, C.E., there. w A quiestion of somie interest has been her~e decided, snamely, that ?? an 1 ) U. not in the handwriting of the granter is biniding 'wisere tit thle signature is proved. The following are thle interlocutors pro- irll neonlied by ...

... GLASGOW NORAIAL SCHOOL. I|I PRESBYTERInAL AXMU#IAftO2TIF. The annual examination of this large and important insti- tution, by the members of the Presb'otery of Gltsgow, took place yesterday. conmneneing at ten o'cl.ck A.)r. It May he necessary to mnention that the instutettol consists of two distinct depa~tmlenlts-one, v, of cbhies for the education and trainlingof students;* and tlhe other ...

... I t :, ,. _S ' FOI.LEICINT INTELLIGENCE. liel FRANCE. to (F rom the Glolee's Crrcspiarlence.) li P~ariq, Tiesdiay EVelum.g, ']l~~en~zrsl]].l~y i~een cyifl~l;>ly1):IS~e(I rlolilltl t,) ?? J4lS, l '[he wordl lasi been ev'idenltly I oolt ittei i the ?? mijill Of F'raice thle neev ?? of HE-elalld Jo FCez~ing Oil the ?? of i'eriro aold electinlg: a (dilraltsr in th!e 1 straits of B he-liiatnde. ...

... PORTABLE THRASHING MACHINE -.2 -- A ,I , L _ - - Yesterday we had an opportunity, on the premises of Mr. D Aidrs~kl, of Bothlwell Castle Home Farm, of seeing tried, for T the first time, a new Portable Thrashing Machine, which inr has just been finished at the works of Messrs. JohamGray & tow Co., Uddingston. This novel and valuable machine has Sit beeln constructed under the superintendence, ...

... TI EE LI(DUOR i'I:AFFlfC . . J. IL 1 /I U U/ tv 1 I Ii .1 11 LL;, 1. U I , DErUTATIONS To Till LORS) rROVorT AND aIAGISTiATTES I Yesterday afternoon a deputation froun the public ieeoethg eled i Oil Teslay evening, uad a depiitatioln irom tih ?? hle Glas- | ste gor, waitod upon ?? me Petitions in favour of a reduction of the number of public houses, CI and the closing of back doors. COD Mr. ...