... We extract the following from the .Foihid of China, Feb. 27:- Affairs in China are in the process of development, and though we have little of an extraordinary nature now to tell of, next mail, it is probable, will carry home news of important events, That the braves are mustering in large numbers around Canton, de- termined on an attempt to retake the city, is a fact of which some of our ...

... I ~ TOWN AND COUNTRY TALK, In consequence of the retirement of Lord Monek as a candidate for the borough of Portsmouth in the event .of a general election, it is the intention of Rear.admiral Keppel to offer himself in the liberal interest. Amannamed Malone, employed in Portsmouth dock.- yard saw.mills, wasatworkatthecireularsaps, and by some inattention his hand proceeded too far, and the ...

... THE CAPTURh OF LUCKNOW. The telegraph assures ns that Lucknowv has fallen. On the 17th of March it was completely in tile possession of the English and their native auxiliaries. The loss of the defenders of the city is estimated at 2,000 men and 117 guns. The casualties on ocur side are not given, are not, in fact, even alluded to. Seine people deem this an ominous omission, and draw from it ...

... V. arc haYpPY to helar that a subsceiption, limited to a maxiillaiy of 51., is on foot for presenting a testimonial to Alderman William Margytts, nho has been Chairman of the Wcordstoek Union duing nui years, an)d who is not re- eieted a Guardian upon this occasion At the last meeting of tle old Board of Guardians, on Tuesday, a vote of thanks tD Mlr. 31argetts, for his long and zealous ...

... (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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE Vienna correspondent of the Times reports that Sir Hamilton Seymour, before relinquishing his post, has expressed the opinion that in such a critical moment as the present there ought to be a truce to the jealousies and bickerings of Austria and Prussia, and that it should be their aim to make of Germany a power which could, in case of need, enforce the respect of the neighbouring ...

... gatip ?Ilfdliyllm - 4-- FRANCE. The Paris correspondent of the Globe says:- The long-vexed contest between Professors BrewsteX and Wheatstone as to the first discoverer of stereoscopy, has been judicially set at rest by a sentence of the Civil Tribunal of Phris, in the lawsuit of Dabosque versus Gudin. The date of Wheatstone's first inti- mation of that natural phenomenon to the public, ...

... THE PAPE R DUTIES. DEPUTATION TOt LORD DERBY YESTER- DAY, AND MEMORIALS TO GOVERN- MENT. Yesterday a deputation from the Association for Pro- mioting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge waited on Lord Derby at Downing-street, for the purpose of drawing his attention to the hardships and anomalies arising from the paper duty, and from the security system. The deputation was introduced by Mr. ...

... I A .DIA OF LtUCKNOW. Br~lj g -FLIGHIT OF 50,000. J,00 FOpS-IT oF THE FUGITIVES. f lor which lnglisimen have no long pe 'and watched, has at laat arrived. epjlrbvfsllen, Tbeeentralpivotof therebellionhes htoc' aoalelt uat atl ?? leialbear of I'ZD teicd; a~da 6ueri igooitwarfareinthe swamps ;c'hrt~e7 50fBObi Twundelound Two thousand ?? jc~ilt were 81ais, the principal landowners have do,8t, ed ...

... THll CE UBRO-AN2R Q.UESTION. I I DEPUTATION TO THE EARL OF DERBY. Yesterday afternoon a deputatiou, cousieting of members of parliament and others, waited on the Earl of Derby, the First Lord of the Treasury, at his 'official reei- deuce in Downing-sereet, in deprecation of the bill now before the House of Commons, introduced by Sir John Trelawny, 3 for the abolition of church rates. The ...

... Fuj The steamer Vanderbilt arrived off Cowes yester-PO day morning on her way to Havre. She left New th York on the 10th inst. off The Vanderbilt brought no mail; but she had on dec board 206 passengers, and 358,600 dollars in specie. giv On the 11th inst., in lat. 42.0, Ion. 58.10, she ex-the changed colours with a large screw steamship, sup- S posed to be the City of Washington. On the 14th ...