... I Y- a HIS LFIFR C1On Saturday night last a !niddle..aged man y named Benjamin Meredith, residing at 2, Brige-terrace LSMaidstone, was taken to the police-station, on the charge of L~having bruotally assaulted his wife, and' attempting to set k5 firs to he.. Toe prisoner, it appears, has latterly been em- 11 ployed as oreman of the carpenters engaged in the erection 3t of the new railway ...

... THE WAR FORCE OF FRANCE. Galiqnani's Messeenger, referring to the answer of the CGcslifitionnel to the article of the Daily Ntrs, in which the strength of the army that France could at once march into Italy in the event of war, was valued at 130,000 men, says:- The Coenstitutioncel, it will be observed, asserts that an active force of 500,000 men will be under arms in France on the let of ...

... 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 ...

... TO THE EDITOR Or THE DAILY NEWS. Slt,--In the various suggestions for the beat means to man the fleet, the writers in some of the daily papers carefully avoid touching the plague spot of the ser- vice-the articles of war. -They imagine that the seamen Will enter the nxavy if jlan itncreaseofay Pies ered him; but an in the arbitrary laws for the government of the navy. That get rerssrogritevacs ...

... 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 ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) [The following appeared in our Eventng Edition of yes- terday3: PARIS, THURSDAY EvENING. The very general impression in Paris this even- ing is that Lord Cowley's mission has substantially failed. There may be Austrian counter-propositions to be considered profornia, but I hear from a good private source that the Emperor expects the nego- tiations to come to ...

... - We have received letters and journals from Hong he Xang, dated Felb. 15. In the summary of the C/eina n- Mail of that date we read: ed Lord Elgin arrived here from Shanghao, in his Steam- yacht the Furious, on the 2ad instant, but departed next day cefor Canton, His excellency was to start from that place last Bs- might or this morning to make an exploration, similar to that he he has made ...

... 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 ...

... POL UAVTBERI RIFLE CORPS MO EALrVT. I ISLINGTON.-Arrangements are being entered into in the parish of Islington to bold forthwitin , public nse'ting. of the inhabitants to consider the propriety of forming a volunte-3r rifle corpsafo~r the parish. 'A circuar has been issued announcing, that the temporary local quartlers for the present have btee tilkee at Caronbury Tavern, Islin'sn It is ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, AUGUST 1. ROYAL ASSENT. The jord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and Lord Wansley- dale, sat as commiesioners and gave the royal absernt to tL e following bills: Consolidated Fund (7,000,0001.), Public Health, Baguel- Etovn and Wexford Railway, Dublin and Drogheda gail. way, Newry and Armagh Railway, Norwich Corn Ex- change, Gloucester and Cheltenham Tramway Abandon- inent, ...