... 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, ...

... 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 (inox Ova OWT CORREoSPaONDENT.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Jox. 29. The long promised official announcement as to the measures to be taken for cat rying out the conversion of the paper money has at length been made. It issued from the Porte two days ago, and appears in both the local French prints of this morning Though I have already anticipated the sum of its contents, and offered nearly as much ...

... Ie OCourt. WINDSOR CASTLE, Fsa. 12 The Queen, accompanied by thei Duchess of Sutherland, drove out in a carriage and four vesterday aft,, 0noon, and visited the schools at Cumuberland-lodge l attendance were Lady Churchill, the Earl of Verulant, and the Equerries in Waiting. In the evening the Duchese of Kent dined with her Majesty (attended by Lady Fanny Howard); the party als included the ...

... Tfir (Toult. WINDSOR CASTLE, PBS. 10. Her Ma1jesty's dinner party yesterday imcluded the Princess Alice, the Archbiwhop of Canterbury, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Earl of Carlisle the Right Hnn. H. and Lady Mary Labouchere, Colonel'the Hon. Sir Charles Phippe, and the Plon. Mrs. Biddulph; also the Duchess of Sutherland, who arrived on a visit in the afternoon. The band of the ...

... I (mrrom o0R OWN COaRISrMONDENT.) PARIS, SATURDAY EVENIsOG. The long talked of project of knocking down the present wall of Paris-that 'wall of which it was wittily said when it was built, Le mur mutant Paris rend Paris murmurant -and extending the limits of the city to the line of Louis Philippe's fortifications, is now accomplished by a decree in the .viizteur. I say accomplished, because ...

... THE lTINDUS STEAM FLOTILLA. 1 Means of securing an effective system of inland navigation for the ecatral di-tlicts of Ind a has long bien a subject to vhilh uhe attention of Ea-tern speculators h s been directed. The opening of the line or the Snirde Railwasy bettwenn Iurnachee and Hyderabad will form part of tbe propomed communication along ths Indus; from 'hence the At am flotilla will ...

... THE ALBERT INSTITUTION, I The foundation-stone of a new institution, under the above title was laid yesterday afternoon, by the Earl of . SHAFTESBURY, in gravel-lane, Blackfriar's-road, in the [s presence of a large number of the clergy of the district and of other ?? parishes. The locality is one oa the r most densely populated in London, and the site of the new building is about midway ...

... Tbr Datip 9 an~. DRURY-LAND. Tzrs EretL:rC, OUR GAL. Mrs. Barney Widliam;.-'BARNEY THE BARON. Mr. Barney Williams.-A.nd ROBi-b HOOD- or, Eariequn Friar Tuck and tie Marry Mlen of Sherrood Forest. Harry Holono and Dolevsati, Signori Mtbno and St. Rayne; Iladaa.e Boleno. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Tais EVErG. FR A DIAVOLO. M'isrs. F.G!overSrt. AlbynHonoy, Corri., and Harrisona; ldis'es ...

... I I BANBURY. BANBURY, TUESDAY. This morning witnessed the first step towards relieving the Banbury people from the state of electoral suspense in which they bave been placed fur the last three months. Three ?? have been put in nomination- the fourth, Mr. Serjeant Pigot, having yesterday, in ac- cordance with general expectation, withdrawn Irom the contest. The hustings were erected in front ...

... (rRom OUR OWN CORRESPOXnMT.) NEW YORK, JAN. 25. The Cuban question has derived fresh interest from the report of the debate upon the President's Message in the Spanish Corteu, which has just reached us. The opposition journals are unanimous in their approval of the tone of dignity and modera- tion which pervades it, and contrast it with the swashbuckler harangues of Slidell and Toombs, ...