... 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, ...

... Parliament was OopernI yesterday by her Msajesty in Pereo. Th'q wen It r happily was line, presenting a marked conltrast to the dam1)p uncomfortable days which immediately preceded wa: the nlew sce-&~on. From an early hour of the morning the diti House of Li~ds wore an asrect of brilliant gait ?? e no one who has, witnosscd a scene of this description can possibly forgct. ?? attendlance of ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, FEB. 8. The dissensions in the democratic ranks increase as the election of 1860 approaches. The tremendous rise in the annual expenditure since Buchanan's ac- cession to office is now exciting a good deal of mis- giving. It was all very pleasant to have the money passing round freely in the early days of the admi- nistration, when the day of reckoning ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ,LORi'Tf SItAFFORDSJ11E RAILWAY. _ . ?? The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this 1ailway was held yesterday afternoon, at the London b Taen;Mr. T. Biiontucet in the chair. The report and accounts, which had been previously circu- b laewd and pub]lisbed, were taken as read. tI 1 The CIIAILMA, in moving the adoption of the report, a: commsenced by, explaining that he appeared in that ...