... TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAILY KEWs. SIB,-The quotations made by yourself and other journals from the Twelfth Report of the Commis- sioners in Lunacy have been felt. An attempt is made by friends of the Commissioners in some of your contemporaries to diminish the pungency of your commentary on those quotations. It is asserted that these quotations only apply to single patients, over whose keepers ...

... THE ATLAANTIC TELEGRAPH. TO TR EDITOR OP THE DATLY NEWS. SIR,-Has anything occurred within the last cen- tury to compare, for one moment, with the importance of the successful laying of the Atlantic Telegraph ? I appre- hend everv Englishmzan who values the blessinge of peaceful hommercial parsuuta will heartily ouiwer- Nothing eom- parable to tbis great faot. Wel, then, let all the people ...

... 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 ...

... RAILWAY TRAOPIC. rnash MR-Oope2IOII Recelpt8. .yborg 335 357 6 8. 187. Ibrail Redale and Leyburn ?? 10 10 £E81 As, Wiebee Blelfast and 6 6 as Mj4 O lo ?? 17.. it I 36189 Yorks 0hlackbrn 23* 261 ?dt h ?? 20 1 490 14 9 mdt heaeran ?? reline. ?? s9 2 7 333 sangel Cr lcyc.ad1aog * 6 0 8 Dwalla ?? 386 2 Unfir B~ ?? Yato .8 8179 N1 M1CCbe uli and Droghseda ?? 63 ISO84 1630 D~lnand Wicklow Inc. ...

... 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, ...

... NAVAVL AND1 MILIIARY. I ADM.ITRALTY, AUGUST 1 9-ArPPONTMxENT.- Clerk ?? II. Chowrn, to tho Madagasicar, store-ship, at Rio de Janeiro. Liciutensot-Gvet ral Sir J. F. Love, ?? Inspector- General of Jrfauwry, arrivitl at Cork fromt Fermrty, on the PI 16th Auntrust, lie inspected and dined with ColoiaelFarren'si 0 C.B.. D3,I (nt Battalion on the following day.,I Hter Mlaj lty' 0'1i leimirueit, ...

... RALWAYS IN TURKEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. SIR5,Having been shown an' article in Chabers's Journal on Turkish Wailways, plan- sibly enough written ,but which is,through the medium of that publication, calculated to mislead the mind of the English public, I shall therefore briefly resp6nd to it for there ought not to be two opinsions at this stage of proceedings on this great ...

... 1 (FROMe OURP OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Mi (The following appeared in our Evening Edition of ?? yesterday] :th PARIS, THusiSDA EvmxctN. ins The Emperor has decided that all France shall toi join in a 2'e Deum at the moment when he and the mil Empress are prostrate before the shrine of St. Anne pa of Auray on August 16. The imperial commando vis are promulgated in the following circular, addressed ...

... PRINCESS'S. Tnis EvrNqtN LIlVING TOO FAST.-And TER MERCHAXT 4)F VxA O. jar.RadMr 0. Kean.-Openct hafpwt6. DI1URY-LANB. Tara EvrnV!NG, INQOHAR. Mr. Jamies Anderson and Mi.s Elsworthy.-And HEN THlE BOATSWAIN. Messrs. J. Douglas Md W. Smith; Mrs. B. Honner and Mrs. T. Dow ?? LYCEUM. THis Evrnmo, EXTREMES. Mesrs. Emer(. llure.t. E. Falconer. and Jamsxn ltoaeer; Mrs. C. Young. Mrs. Weston, cmd Miss ...

... THE BA67STN AND WESTERN LINES OF [MAIL COMM UNICATION WIIH AUSTRALIA I (FROM A CORRE5dP02eiNNT.) The late Australian Mail company were fined 27,0001. during the first six months of their contract. From April 1857, to last January, their ships were behind time in reaching Melbourne 43 days, and once during that time 1 one of their ships arrived there a day before its time. During that period ...

... TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAILY NEWS. SIR,-From a statement before me, which I have every reason to believe is accurate, I extract the fol lowing facts: In the ?? of Nov. 26 it was announced that the state prison of Belle Isle was suppressed, and that among the prisoners those sentenced to a lengthened penalty would be sent to Corte, in Cor- sica, whilst the others would be removed to Mont St. ...