... TO THE ZDITOR 02 THE DAILY NEWS. SI_,-Some nonths ago I called attention through the medium of your columns to the impertantfact that while rifled cannon had become a - etulaiton weapon in th French navy, no one in this country appeared t! be awale of the Latute of the gun or ploject'le used, end that tbee' particulars had escaped evea the ceaseless watchfulness of the Our government had for ...

... I The De6ats contains an article by M. Saint Marc Girardin, on the subject of the Danubian Principali- ties. The writer says:. Let the DVoldo-Wallachians particularly attend to thsirr army, not in order to wage war, but in order to be able to re-r sist any Turkish inroad. The Ottoman Porto must have been put out of temper by recent events, and it will not fail I to receive bad advice. It might ...

... XXTENS17E AOBBBRY OF JRESELLERY AZ I ?? A. At an early hour yesterday (Wednesday) morning the premises of Mr. Joseph Pyke, who carries on anexteneive business as jeweller and silversmith in High-street, Chat- ham, were burglariously entered, when property to the value of upwards of 1,000t. was carried off. The burglars gained admission at the rear of the premises by scaling a wall leading from ...

... I SOUTHAMPTON, FBIDAY. The Etna has arrived with the United States mails. She left New York on the 6th instant. Among her cargo is specie to the value of 75,000 dols. for Eng- land. The democratic caucus on the tariff question is. looked forward to with great interest. It is believed a resolution against changing the tariff will be adopted, with the important. under- standing that the decision ...

... I l LIVERPOOL, TnURSDAY. The screw steam-ship North American, which sailed from Portland, Maine, on the evening of Sunday, the 23rd ult., arrived off Point Lynas at 11 o'clock last evening, but did not come into the river until 10.30 this morning. She brought 18 cabin and 37 steerage passengers, but no specie. A Washington telegram of the 21st says: The Pres'dent to-day sent to the Senate a ...

... ILATEBST FROM ABROAD. ' AUSTRIA. VIENNA, FBIDAY. The official Austrian Correspondence publishes an imperial order addressed to the Minister of War. The order commands the recall of all farloughed soldiers belonging to certain regiments stationed in Italy, the districts for supplying conscripts to which lie in more distant quarters. The object of the order is to effect the gradual completion of ...

... I NAVAL AND M1LI7ARY. I I EXAMINATION AT SANDHURST. The following is the result of the examination of I candidates for the Royal Militery College, Sandhurst, held by o the Council of Military Education, at Burlington House, in 1 the month of December, 1858. D. GREENTREs, Captain, Secretary. E 1, Whitehall-yard, Jannary, 1869. C P. Walker, 5,955 marks, educated at Wimbledon School, as Surrey. T ...

... NA VAL AND MILIyARY. a STAFF COLLEGE. The ?? general order has been ?? from ie the Horse Guards al In compliance with the general order of ?? 1oo9- e te, 187, the fu I)bing ?? icr adminsion tu the tf Staff College will Le hele during the present year, viz. d IN AuoeST.-1. Examinations mr the dmlaiisin of fif- yieon ffiters-threere otwhoum may be from the itoyal Attillery is or Royal ...

... | 0 HOUSE OF LOEDS.-TnimSDAT, FEB. 17. z Their lordships met ot five o'clook. l'etiticnas 'were presented by Lord KrxNenowrc, from Glouceiterebic , ?? the3 abolition of church rstes; by Lord CRANeWOsRTH, from Newbury, praying cleat dissenters might ha eligible as trustees; to (certain trusts for which a 50 recent legal derision declared th' mn inel girls. (This petitionb was sigfned by 120 ...

... 1 (FJOx A CO0RRESPONrfDT.) tWI VICTORIA, VANrCOUVErI'S ISLAND, Dec. 20. ce In my last communication I stated my intention ea, of proceeding to the mining districts, but the un- us, usual severity of the season has compelled me to let forego the visit. From the moath of Harrison be, Rliver downwards the Fraser had been frozen we over for some days, and all communication ex estopped; bat on the ...

... BL.ELEUTION INTJLLIG.EN'E. l ,; I BANBURY. The contest at this election yesterday was an ex- citin on, and resulted in the return of the local liberal can- didate, Oby a majority of one. For some time the candidates kept pretty well together on the poBl, at half-past nine they were exactly equal, and at ten o'clock the return was as followe: Hardy ?? Miall .. ?? BY twelve o'clock it became ...

... IYSE A.D LOBS OESIX LIZVESATP1ADDLYGIO On Saturday morning, between the hours of 2 and S o'clock, a fire involving the loss of a serious amount of pro- perty, the lives of not fewer than five human beings, and serious injury to four others, took place on the premises of Mr. John Rufus Reeves, eatinghouse-keeper, Great James street, Paddington. The fire was discovered by police-constable D 261, ...