... MR. JA. SITiH, dIUP., ON Yp4L{dSlENIdSYf I; E1VRMV. I _ I Mr. J. A. Smith, the liberal member for Chiches- tar, addressed a cr.,wlied meeting of his constituents in the Council-chamber, on FTiday night, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Adars, who had been called to the chair, having explained that the honourable member attended to give an account of his stewardship, and also his opinions upon the public ques ...

... TEE KEWP MEABBR OF ThE COUNCIL OF INDIA. I Colonel, or, aswe must now call him, General* Henry Marion Durand, C.B., is an officer of the Bengal Engineers, and one of the most distinguished of that distinguiehed corps. His Indian service dates from the 22ad of May, 1830, and on the 19th of June in that year he was placed under the superintending engineer of the North Weslern Provinces, and ...

... I .7RE I OS3 OF TRE S7EA-4X.E, CZAR, From later inte~ligence it appears that, after the Virago lost sight of the Czar, she struck on the Voge R~ock, off the Lizard, about2.45 p.rm. (Saturdav), and alnbostimme.. diately foundered,, The crew were endeavairing to get to Faltmouth to repar, the screw tap of the engine having been broken. As the vessel parted, Captain R. Jackson lost hisa life in ...

... | A POoL1T, NBOROUGES £'OXXitT'2'EE. | This committee assembled again at the London Cusffe-house on Monday evening; J. F. BoNTrerrs, esq., in the chair. This being the first meeting since the metropo- litan memubers of parliament; were made ex olieio members, two of those hon. gentlemen attended. TLe SECIETARY laid upon the table a map of London and its environs, showing the boundaries of all ...

... NAVAL AND JIt417,4pR r (FRgOM LAST NI1GHTVS GAZETTE.) S lt Regiment of Life Gurs-agonJlsjeir i a PlIsted twenty yeare' Ilull-pay service, to be Sren,,ln 04 - royal warrant, of ?? Ocobr 185&8 Dinor, under Lst I Ld Lifet Drardon-CGreo rgte JnmgstGAlleyo gent, to be tl ou-teuea b purchase, vi ce0 Smithi , who ha n ..i re L.4 18th LiaghtonagCaptln Jhnre Artard Tisindeyroth aD otob carptain. ?? wh ...

... THE UNIVERSITY, OF LONDON AND THE CATHOLIC COLLEGES. .O THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY WEWS. SIR,-It is not regarded' as the sign of a good cause when a writer is obliged to resort to misrepresentation of the Btatemette of those who differ from him. This is what Delta has done in his letter of the 30th ult.; indeed he has even given an account ot the final issue of the question between the ...

... I 1 THE CRYSTAL PALACE. . The projeet, poetic at once and national, of the directors of the Crystal Palace, for celebrating with ; all due solemnity the hundredth anniversary of the birth-day of the great Scottish poet, met yesterday all the response that coald have been expected from the compatriots of the deceased bard. The London- bridge station of the railway was besieged from an early ...

... I THE -ROYYAL IIUMAB SOCIETY. The eighty-fifth annual general meeting of the . members of this society was held yesterday at the office, ! Trafalgar-square; Mr. B. B. CAtBBELL in the chair. 3 Mr. YOUNG (the Secretary) read the report, detailing the I operations of the committee during the past year,which stated c that the total number of cases of rescue, or attempted r rescue, from drowning ...

... TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAILY NIEWS. SIR,-SOme of us who have long protested against the merciless treatment of the houselees poor, can but feel thankful that public attention is at last directed to an evil so disgraceful to a wealthy and Christian community, and it is 3 pleasing to find that the Poor-law Board have very oppor- tunely called upon the guardians of the poor of the metro- polls to ...

... FRANCE, ITALY, AND AUSTRIA. As the plot thickens, journalists more or less in the confidence of their respective governments be- tray some of the feelings, if they do not accurately represent many of the facts, which are at the bottom of the European difficulty. The Austrian Gazette, in a tone of official blague, thus comments on The Situation : When the revolution in Servia broke out, ...

... PBISON ACCOMMODATION IN MIDDLESEX. I . _ - On Saturday, at the Marylebone vestry, Mr. Cburchwarden TArVEiNmE presiding, a question, relative to a threatened imposition of 18,0001. upon the ratepayers of Middlesex by the county magistrates, for prison purposes, was brought under the notice of the board for consideration. I'r. D'lFrizGER~itjn.moved- That the proposed ex- penditure by the county ...

... TNDIA AND CHINA. [A portion of the fo!lawing appeared in our EveningI Bavion of yesterdloyl to We have received Calcutta papers of tln 6th ult., Ib) ,,l Madras journals of the 14th ult., but the intell ba ,ence which they publish has been chiefly antici- us Pated by their Bombay contemporaries. PC The Lieutenant-Govcrnor of Bengal was absent tu from Calcut-.a. 1lc proceeded on the ist on an NW ...