... (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 ...

... 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. ...

... IT A M I!L'T 0 N-A Ri H L 17, slit e a n WN ( ?? .n± l (Frotm ~our own Corrcspeldc nt) The very severe and protracted course of vwitherimg teast wmd, and hard frost inltheinerninge, yiclded the ascendancy .to a fine westterly ?? copious refreshiing showers on the morning of the1tth iinst, which already haveb bal a ,vmarked effect on the paoehed pastores anitrruuqiledlup.lmds 6-and blossoms, ...

... LETTERS ON TEE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SALMON., - .. ., (From the Field.) My dlear Fred,-! said that when the fish have~ deposited their spawln they retire from the siawning ground, and, as I believe, go bakto the sea. But I was asked by the Earl of Mansfield the other day if I was certain they went back to the sea, and might they not go up the river rather? To this I could only answer that, as ...

... T H E N A V Y. (From the Examiner.) Sir J. Pakington's speech on the Navy Estimates is on the whole satisfactory, and considering the short time he has been in his office, the knowledge he dis- plavs of naval affairs is highly creditable. We have only to object to his makilng it matter of congratula- tion that the force on the African coast for the suppres- sion of the slave trade has been ...

... THE WEST INDIAN, MEXICAN, AND PACIFIC . MAILS. g-- The.Magdalena steamship, Captain G. Abbott, arrived at P. Southampton on Saturday evening about nine o'clock, with se the usual mails in charge of Lieutenant Barrett, R.N., te Admiralty agent, and also the Gulf mails, which were de- to tained a fortnight since by the non-arrival of the Solent from Id Havana. The Magdalena experienced fine ...

... A Parliamentary paper-has recently been presented, by order of the House of Commons, upon the motion of Mr. 9 Newdegate, containing all the alterations in the Customs tariffs of foreign states, information of which has been re- ceived since the publication of the last.Parliamentary paper upon the same subject last year. The first of importance are the changes in the Russian tariff, which came ...

... 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 ...

... SC OT LAND. THE TELEGRAPH A GAmIE DESTROYER.-We have lately heard several instances of partridges and other game being found dead by the side of the railway, apparently unaccountably killed. ' The murderer is the telegraph wire, against which, in their swift flight, the denizens of the air are borne with such force as to strike them dead on the spot. The other dy a beau- tiful specimen of the ...

... LATESt LIVERPOOLI NEWS. (FRoBi oun OWN COpnRSPONwFnNm (FFOpn OUR OWN CORRfPONDENT ) Saturday, 17th April. SEAMAN'S WAGES C( sE.-A case was tried before the Magistrates this afternoon, the decision of which is of impor- tance to sailors and shiipowners. A steamship fireman, named Jamni Miller, complained that he had been dis- charged from his employment as one of the firemen on board the screw ...

... WESTERN BAINK. - To the Fditor of the Glasgof/wo Herahl. SuRi,-I have read with great satisfaction your able remarks upon ain article in the London Tintes, which casts heavy re- flections upon the Lord A dvocate for not instituting criminil proceedings against the directors of the Western Bank; but it ought to be kept in view that the law of Scotland annl the law of E3nland diff'er very nuch, ...