... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, I HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY, FEB. 18. Their lordships met at five o'clock. Petitions were presented by the Duke of NORPO'LX, from Horsham, in flavour of dissenters' trnstecship; by the Bishop of Rio'o, from several places, ?? the abolitionof church rates. THE CLOCK TOWER. Lord CAMPBELL, when presenting petitions from Lin- Colnshire in favour of the dissenters trasteeship, ...

... I . SARDINIA. (momu OUR OWN CORU55PONDMMT.) TURIN, FEB. 15. The Sardinian Government presented to the Chamber this day an act for prohibiting the removal of forage and corn across our Lombard frontiers. This is in retaliation of Austria's forbidding the exportation of- horset. IXi a few days Count Cavour will also give notice to Austria, that he does riot intend renewing the treaty concluded ...

... i THE LEADER OF THE LIBERAL PARTy. TO THE EDITOR OP THE DATLY N-PWs. Sin,-It has always been usual for the Ministerial and Opposition Leaders of the House of Cominos to entertain the flower and hope of their respective parties on the evening before Parliament assembles Their banquets on these occasions have consequently a political significance. In accordance with this practice it has been ...

... A petition from the Ionian Assembly to her 3la- jesty Victoria I., the most gracious Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and Protectress of the United States of the Ionian Islands, &c., has just been l made public. The following is a close translation: May it please your Majesty,-The People of the Seven Islands having always retained in full ...

... I .H The weekly return of births and deaths in London I 6 issued by authority of the Registrar-General for the week. Pe ending Saturday, Februtry 19 'states thet the returns for dif London exhibit a ?? satisfactory state of the h public health. The deaths registered, which in the previous week were 1,274, declined to 1,166 in the week that ended let last Saturday. In the ten years 1849-68 the ...

... CONYOCATION OF THE CLERGY. - - I The Lower House of Convocation assembled yes- terday, in the Jerusalem Chamnber, under the presidency of the Deorn of BIIttSTOL. A great phrt of the afternoon veas occupi-d in the disuos-ion of s-scding order-, by which future proceedings were to to guidei. The memberd then proceeded Li tttc consid ration of the report in referenec to omec and fcreign missions. ...

... NAVAL AND MJLI7A. E I I WOOLW[CH, FlEa. 10. The utmost activity now prevails at this garrison in consequence of the numerous companies of Royal Artil- lery ordered to change stations and proceed on foreign ser- vice. The compaaies ordered for India will be augmented, and etch will form a field battery. When the whole of the contemplated alterations are carried out only two battalions -and ...

... I (NOM OUU OWN CORRS8POINDSNT.) NAPLES, FEB. 2. The affair of the projected line of rail from Salerno to Taranto, for the construction of which a conces- sion was granted to M. D'Agiout, has almost ceased to be an individual and a private question. M. D'Agiout entered into a contract with the Neapolitan government to construct a road which would have connected Naples with the central ...

... PIEDMONT, FRANCE, AND THE p.wp GOVERNMENT. r LETTER X. TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAtIY NEwS, SIR,-I have taken pains to show that the E e peror of the French may, in perfect consistn with all his former conduct as regards the Papaj s government, and especially with the course be adopted when President, in 1849, exert the influe of his imperial authority to effect a reform of the Roman States. That ...

... r pnOU Ox OWN OORaII5PONDENT.3 CONSTANTINOPLE, Fzn. 9. The Danubian elections have finished in a most unexpected manner. What France and Russia could not do at the Paris Conferences, the Moldo- fc Wallachs have achieved by their own resolute will; for the nonce, at all events, the Union is an accom- plished fact, and the convention turned into waste h r paper. Of this sufficiently unforeseen ? ...

... (PROM OVR OWN CORRESPONDENr.) LISBON, FaB. 7. The change made by the Peninsular and Oriental Company in the route of their steamers, whereby they lie at Lisbon instead of proceeding to Gibraltar, is everywhere considered a very advantageous h arrangement. Under the old system, it often hap- pened that large quantities of fruit, which is very perishable cargo, were left behind, in consequence ...

... 0 THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NETw' SIIt,-While agreeing with a great deal of YOer article on coast defences, I can by no means come to the conclusion that nothing but field artil'ery is avail able for thie defence of the vulnerable seaboai d of our southern coal~t. All the instances you have supplied of the value of lortifications, the checks of armies by even a single fort, tend in my mind to ...