... , I a . I (From yesterday's Kpniteur.) OFF THE MOUTHS OF THE PEIHO. JULY 1, 1869. I hasten to send you a few details of the grave events that have just taken place at the mouth of the Peiho. You know that the ratifications of the treaties concluded at Tien-Tsin by the envoys extra- ordinary of France and Great Britain were to be exchanged at Pekin. The uneasiness that had been felt respecting ...

... TEE RELIGIOUS DI&SENSIONS IN ST. GRORE',Y, EA~ST. I ?? Yesterday evening a vestry meeting of the inha- bitants of St. George's, East, was held at the Vestry-house, for the purpose of taking into consideration the circumstances attending the ecclesiastical condition of the parish. Mr. Churchwarden THOMPSON presided. The CHAIR31AN stated that he lad entered into communi- cation with the Bishop ...

... I ?? ?? be HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY, FEB. 14. elf The House met at five o'rloclc. The Earl of SHIAFTESBURY presented petitions frem ' the presbytery~of Munet er for the better government of India. or The Earl of CARLISLE presented petitions from dissent ex lug bodies respecting tihe administration of trust funds. The ns petitions wore from CollumptoE, Bridgwater, Leeds, and th. other pla~ea. Spi ...

... I I.RILIVAY iNTrZLIGBNOC. I TRIM SZVERN riziiry IL WA . Thean l genral neting ofthe shareholders of the Sivern Valley Railway Company was held yesterday, at the offices, in TVictoria-street, Westminster; JOHNl PAR- soxae, Eaq., in the ithair. The report of the directors stated: That thelwpositor Of the comrpany was daily improving. There had been 2&.160 .16s. received and disbursed durn the ...

... PREPAY.rMENT OF INLAND LETTERS. I _- TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAILY NEWS. Snt,-I am very grateful to vou. for allowing my first letter to appar in Sat purday a piper. It is the only one that has been allowed to appear on our side of the ques- tion. I have conversed with a good many sensible people about it, and they all express themselves favourable to the new regula- tion wben they hear the ease ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE D.ILY NEWS. Slt,--Perhaps you will allow me to join my humble voice to the general cry of joy which sounds through England at the arrival of Poerio, Settembrini, and their corn- panions, on our shores. Even the Times, on this one point concerning Italy, writes as it becomes men to feel and express themselves. I will leave it to this paper to reconoile its invariable ...

... E7ITE V OF I HE COBN TR AJE OF THE IEEX. TI .- .. . . I During the last eight days the weather in most parts of the United Kingdom was irostless, dry and rainy days alter- nating, with s8utherly winds prevailing. Snow end frost has appeared in the more northern district-, end on Wedues- day night the wind turned northward, and frost set in also in London. Up to this time the weather las been ...

... THB FATE OF M. ADOLPHE SCHL.AGI1V- TWBIT. ?? A very fall meeting of the Royal Geographical Society Was held on Monday evening at Burlington-house, Sir RODERICK I. MunacrIsoff President, in the chair. Among those present were the iarl of Sheffield, Viscount Sirangford, the Hon. C. Murray, Sir ?? Fowell Buxton, Bart.; Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. ; Sir T. Fremantle, Baot.; Generals Alexander and ...

... 1 ITHE REGISTRA TIONS. f MIDDLESRX. Yesterday, Mr. Lancelot Shadwell, the barrister appointed to revise the electoral lists for the county of Mid. dieFex, resumed his labours at the Chandes Arms, Edgware, where he opened a court for the revision of the lists of the parishes o Edgware, Finchley, Great Stanmore, Harrow, Hendon, Kingsbury, Little Staumore, and Pinner. Mr. Albert James appeared on ...

... (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) In these days of military advancement, when old weapons have fallen into disuse, and discovery pressing on discovery thrusts in its claims to notice and acquiescence, sums, perhaps considerable sums, will have to be disbursed out of the public exche- quer for weapons purely experimental, and out of all character as to price with the permanent capabilities even of the ...

... I .B.EIGHT-ND AMOIG T.E ALPS. A letter from Interlacken coutains the following:- On Monday evening last, 29ch of August, this little town was in the greatest state of excitement the news having reached it that there were three gentlemen lost on the Har- der Mountain, a spot which had already been the scene of many fatal catastrophes. All the inhabitants of the town and most of the strangers ...

... GREAT YIRR AT WFILLINGAMI. On Thursday last, about 12 o'clock noon, the quiet village of Willinghan, in Cambridgeshire, was visited by one of the greatest calamities, perhaps the greatest, that I has been known in its neighbourhood for a very long period, t and the loss which accompanied it was enormous : the whole of the grain of every description (this year's produce), the hay.. straw, ...