... REFUSAL OF A CLERGYMAN TO BURY A I , ?? TO THEB EDITOR OF TILE DAILY NEWS. t SIR,- have to-day read Mr. Randolph's letter et you, which is Certainly a most unaccountable production. aI his first letter to me meant anything it surely meant this: Your child has not bean validly bsptisee, and therefore I shall not bury it; go to the clergyman of jour own parish, and see if you can get him to ...

... I &CO8TT1SH NORTH-EASTBERR RAIL7 AY. I The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at Radley's Hotel, Mr. STIRLUeG in the chair, The CHAIRMANe, in moving the adoption of the reOrt, which was taken as read, said the oxpenditure on capital ac- count during the past half-year was very small. When they looked at the increase of 4,4001. in their revenue for the Fast half yearas ...

... On Tuesday morn ing a fire destroyed the premises of Mir. Terman, leather dresser, Grey-court, Snow's- fields Bermondsey- a building upwards of o0 feet long Ly 30 feet wide. Mr. Rowland Hill, in answer to a question from clerks in various post offices, states that he has no ob- jection whatever to the servants of the Post-office en- rolling themselves aa volunteers. Lady Mary Thompson, of ...

... | A return of royal commissions issued from the year 1856 to 1858, both inclusive, and the total expenses thereof, has been published by order of the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. Massey, M.P. The total expenses of commissions as shown in the last re- turn (No. 415, of session 1856), amounted to the enormous sum of 768,4381.; the further expense of commissions in former retorns ...

... I The regiltrar-ganeral's report Says:-The London Nturns again exhibitahigh rate of mortality. In the second vweek of the year (ending last Saturday) the deaths from all canmas rose to 1,429, having been 1,338 in the first week of the year. In the ten years 1849.58 the average number of deaths in the waeks crrsponding with last week was 1,215; but as the Dumber iD the present return ...

... :I - 4 - THE GAVEN.->Y Mv4 AM. 1~~ swAo;ABLB GARDBNTII1G. ,&ALzAcsA.-These beautiful fowersagrow natrallityl~te beds, have a root of nearly all fibre, and they ramify into the peat soit to ouch An extent tbat In taking them up the ball will be whole, and the sizs it Is out. Tflay are there- fore sent from the nurseries with a bail of enith to them quite sunfitaient to sustain. them for weotue, ...

... 1 o7 R~0 CONTEIMPO1L A ilE & , FRlND 0F It-(Ties.)-It is no im- . alert of Lord John Russell's discretion to ob- 00lthat he has selected the most arduous post in s world' .a that be is the man in whose case its tields, assun e the most formidable character. A;John Russell has long been the friend of rti other statesmen have taken up particular It lY. ?? and exposed the iniquities of this Or ...

... I -No TEYOR ARIES. sE ByGoNxs.-(Times. )-Englaud ?? now for two entire months the rejection s5l 'trt1ial reform bill. So let us forget and like bands and be friends. With a little _ieltle worst scandals may be blown over. It d (id odd things when we were young, bit :edifferent Men. Lord Derby has grown , rIfoernir, and Lord Malmesbury has pro : li' lessons in diplomacy. That is the minis- Wd e ...

... ENGLIS SND THaU.m GOVVENIM. The following despatch has been published ia the columns of a Contemporary, and since furnished matter for discussion in Parliament, to our reports of which we refer our readers:- Foreign-office, 22nd June, 1859. My Lorde,-Her Majesty's government sees with great concern an indication manifesting itself in Ger. niany to take part in the war which has broken out ...

... PUBLSED ON SATURDAY MORNQG, IN TIWE FOR POST. POSTSCRIPT. LLOYD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OFFICE, SATURDAY MORNING. THE WAR IN ITALY. THE ALLEGED INVASION. A telegram from Turin, received yesterday, states that up to the previous evening the Ticino had not been crossed by the Austrians. The only foundation for the story appears to be that a few pickets did cross in order to survey the ground, and ...

... FRANCE.-We are still without any fresh reliable news respecting the congress. According to the latest intelligence, Austria still insists on the disarming of Piedmont, as a condition precedent. Unless she gives way upon this'point, it is said that the other powers will meet without her, bat in that case a peaceable solution to the difficulty would be all but hopeless. The Isipendsncre gives ...

... ITALIAI( GRATITUDE. TO THE ITALIANS RESIDING IN GREAT Birn.m FellowCountrymsn,-Surely there is none amongst us who will not feel grateful for the demonstrations made by the British people and the subscription open ill behalf of the Neapolitan exiles ! All this shows unmistakeable how the great nation sympathises with free institutions and their noble victims, to whatever country they may ...