... I THE P.PAPE)R DUTY. I Yesterday, an influential deputation, representing several associations which have for their object the remrvsl of taxes upon knowledge, waited upon the Earl of Derby, at his official residence in Downing-is rear, to urge the neces- sity of the repeal of the paper duty.' The deputation was introduced by Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P., andai of ir ~e acyEvans, M.P., Mr. NV, ...

... THUE UNITED STATES. I LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. The screw steam-ship City of Washington, Capt. Petrie, belonging to the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company, arrived here to-day, having sailed from New York on the 29th ult. She brought the United States mails. 34 cabin and 137 steerage passengers, and 177,698 dollars in specie. On the 29th she passed the packet ship William Tell, ...

... (FROM OURo OWN CORRMSPONDENT.) , Re following appeared in our Evening Edition of yes- terday]: PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. You will have observed that the Moniteur-in drily announcing the fact that on the 22nd instpt the Pope intimated to the French and Austrian am- bassadors at Rome that he now ielt perfectly able to maintain order in his own dominions, and was ready to make arrangements with the ...

... 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 ...

... U1fE BBlT$ISl ASSOCIATION AT I ABERDE.RW. J ABERDEENg, SEPT. 17. The secetional meeling-s were resumed to-day at.1.1I 0lk. Su.CTioNx B.-CiEmiGCAL SCIENCE, Prrcideat-Dr. Lyon Flayfair, C.B., F.Rt.S. I Ak report by P'role sur Maskelyne, on The ChernicalChai- rectors Af the Photo'grophio Iinsge,'' was read. The report i stated in a muild St3 lb the lares which the various chemicals ,Iey towards ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF TRIE DAILY NEWS. Q *l _L r I ?? a few words from one who is neither an architect, builder, nor mechanic, but an occasional em- ployer of each, may not be out of place just at this moment. I It appears to me that if the mseter builders ever intend to hold their ground, now is the time or never. They have for years past been found fault with, when they sent in their customers' ...

... I PAFICAN CGIVILISATION ?SOCIBTY. Tefollowinif is a su mr o h proceeding's at Manchester, inl Bid of the African Civilisaition Society of New York, briefly referred to in our impression of yesterday. Mr. Bouaxnc said it was unnecessary, before 8. British audience, to enlarge on the subject of slavery. Although it wag not pretended that every slaveholder in America was a ' Legree, yet imany ...

... WVAT.E1UI'ORD.AND LIMtEZUCK IAlLT WAY. The following is the aubstance of the report of the directors to be submitted at the 28th half-yearly general meeting on the 27th inst.: The directors invite attention to the annexed statement of accounts for the half year ending June 30th last, which ex- hibjit, when compared with the statementfor the cmuespond- ing period in 1858, the following res.lts, ...

... I. .ABOUT AND THE FRENCH BISHOPS. I M. About, having been personally attacked by the Bishop of Orleans on account of his celebrated book . La Question Romaine, replies to the prelate as follows in the columns of the Opinaion Nationale: Schlittenbacb, Oct. 8. .MonsLigenr,-I am living with my mother ina retired . cottage in the depaotment of the Ba tbin. No scandalous t journals penetrate into ...

... THR S TA Ts OF A FF.AlS AT BUENOS A YRES. A deputation, composed of gentlemen from Man- cheater, Liverpool, London, and other places, had an inter- view with Lord John Russell, at the Foreign-office, on Thursday, respecting the state of affairs at Buenos Ayres. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in consequence of preesing repreeentations made to them by the merchants of Buenos Ayres, had ...

... I We have already mentioned the magnificent re- ception at Genoa of the Tuscan Deputation. We now give extracts from the speeches and addresses deli- vered on the occasion, which mark the character of the present movement in Italy with singular dis- tinctness and completeness. The Mayor of Genoa in his address to the Deptu- tation kaid: The grandest event and the richest in happy results for ...