... 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 ...

... TE18 EVEN~ffe, LIVING TOO FAST.-And TEHZ MERCHANT YNYICE. Mr.E1rsca. 0. Keaa.-Open at ba-paet a. LYCEUM. Txls EVENIN. EXTREMBS. kess. Emery. flarrett, n Ioers; Mm 0. Young. Mr.. and Roies .-Saommn-oAtd THlE DANCING BARBEft. Mr. JaMeS ElIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDU. ruos DAY-Moranlng Sh. 20m.- Aftermoon. 6a. 40m. To=mouow-.1orning. eb. ?? fternon, Ca. 29,. LONDON MONDA, AUGUST30. THE mission of ...

... NAVAL AND MILI7ARY.I LAUNCH OF THE SCREW LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP WINDSOR CASTLE, AT PEMBROKE. This event, which had been exciting such an S interest throughout the neighbourhood for some time past, RI came off most successfully on the 26th instant, at 6.40 p-m., Lc Lady Pskington, having named the splendid vessael, out the cord which liberated the dog shores at the above hour, and immediately ...

... D UNIXB A21X1 PERTH -ALL WAY. The half-yearly meeting of the Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company was held in the company's office, Dhndee, on Saturday afternoon, at one o'clock; Lord ELANiMD, chairman of the company, pre- siding. The report, which has already been published, having been held as read, The CHAIRMAN rose to move its adoption. In doing so he said-I belibve there ...

... MAIL ROUTES TO ?? I~ ~~ - -AUTLa. ?? to the gvrmn n f mails government to try' the PaciAa, - rout for mails to Atrali are signing all ovrheknldgom The ueus route hes been tried end found wanting. Tw0 L years ago, a company of enterprising and intelligent Mar. )f chants undertook to convey the mails between Soutl,,p to t- and Sydney, via Saez, in 56 days. The governmentgave te them their own ...

... The following is a copy of the message sent by the - Governor-General of Canada to the Home Govermnent: Toronto, August 17. To the Secretart of State for the Colonies. The Governor-General of British North America presentb his humble duty to the Queen, and respect- felly congratulates her Majesty on the eompletion of the telegraphie communication between Great Britain and these colonies. ...

... SECURITY OF PERSON AND PROPERTY I IN IOMAGNA. (From the Opsinone, Turin journal, of August 26.) We have received a letter from Bologna, accom- panted by a document showing the outrages which are com- mitted there, and the annoyances and dangers to which the owners of property there are exposed-feats which are in themselves the most emphatic confirmation of what we have already asserted. The ...

... F'RANCE. (FROX OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) , PARIS, SATURDAY ETvNIRO. pr The reason alleged to-day for the postponement of Sp the Imperial trip to Biarritz is not that there is all cholera at Bayonne, but that the small-poxi has th broken out at Biarritz, and that it is not thought F' right to expose the Imperial Prince to the risk of ini catching it. lam The inference which I drew the other day ...

... NVBET SZIZEBT IN BDINBURGH. It is now two years since a proposal was first mooted to supply a more direct traffic route to the railway termini at waverly-bridge from the south than was afforded by the North-bridge and Princes-strest; and when the New Railway Access Company was then pr(,jected the scheme met with a most favourable reception, It was not until the last annual meeting of the ...

... I.POSTAL 6H~31uffIUCATIoVy WITH I -~~AMUTRAZA8&4. ru md THE PANAMA ROUTE. ndi Yesterday afternoon a deputation representing a LI. large number of the bankers, merchants, and other persona be interested in the welfare of the colonies of New South Wales, ad Moreton Bay, and New Zealand, waited by appointment upon by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, at the Colonial-offioe, for the purpose ies of presenting ...

... I The ordinary half-yearly meeting- was held yester- torday, at the office of the company, in Moorgate-street; the Lotin MAYOR in the chair. The SEcRPTARY read the report, which has already appeared in the Daily News. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the usual formal resolution that the report be adopted, expressed his regret at the absence of the chairman (Lord Sondes) and the, deputy chairman (Mr. ...

... BEPRBSBNRTTI0N OF GREiENIWICK, Mr. Townsend, M.P., has forwarded a commu- nication to the secretary of the local political assecia- tior, designated the Townsend League, in whioh he states- I have invariably promised that I would re- sign my seat as a member for the borough-when I found it impossible to represent the interests of my constituents-and, moreover, that such resignation should be ...