... ADuLTERATION Or FOOD D1IL.-Mr Scholefield, M.P., has revived his useful Bill a for Preventing the Adulteration of Articles of Food or Drink. It imposes a penalty of so many pounds (not yet fixed) on every person vending or exposing for sale any article of food or drink with which, to the knowledge of such person, any noxious ingre- dient has been mixed. More than this, the offender will be, ...

... TOWN AND COUNTRY TALIK A railway is projected for connecting the South-Eastern station at London bridge with the railways to the west of the metropolis. It will pass through the property of St Thomas's Hospital, close to the wards, so close, indeed, that the hospital will have to be removed from its present site. The shipment of horses for the continent is increasing. The Bishop of London has ...

... Dlering the two years' internecine struggle, which has cost us millious of pounds and torrents of blood, and has desolated so large a portion of our Indian empire, there has been a great difference discernible between the opinions of the Press of Bombay and that of Calcutta. The first has been always full of hope, and sanguine of speedyvseeress; the second, fearful of the present, and overcast ...

... - 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 ...

... (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 ...

... 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 ...

... THB FATE OF M. ADOLPHE SCHL.AGI1V- TWBIT. ?? A very fall meeting of the Royal Geographical Society Was held on Monday evening at Burlington-house, Sir RODERICK I. MunacrIsoff President, in the chair. Among those present were the iarl of Sheffield, Viscount Sirangford, the Hon. C. Murray, Sir ?? Fowell Buxton, Bart.; Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. ; Sir T. Fremantle, Baot.; Generals Alexander and ...

... SARDINIA. (FoRM OUR OWN CORaESPONDENT.) TURIN, FEB. 26. I cannot refrain from sending you in baste a few considerations respecting the announcement made yesterday in your Lower House of Parliament by Mr. Disraeli, that in a short time the French and Austrian troops would retire from the Papal States with the consent of the Pope. My observations are not abstract, but based on my positive ...

... (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 ...

... (FROM OUR. OWN CORRESPONDENT.) 1A portion of ihi following appeared in our Evening Edition of yes erda]: PARIS, MONDAY EvENING. The .Sijl/e contains a warlike article, signed by M. Havin, which has excited a good deal of atten- tion. I have reason to believe that the present de- monstration of the Selce is viewed with great cotl - placeney in the highest quarter. The remarkable feature of the ...

... I &CO8TT1SH NORTH-EASTBERR RAIL7 AY. I The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at Radley's Hotel, Mr. STIRLUeG in the chair, The CHAIRMANe, in moving the adoption of the reOrt, which was taken as read, said the oxpenditure on capital ac- count during the past half-year was very small. When they looked at the increase of 4,4001. in their revenue for the Fast half yearas ...

... THE GARDEN.-BY MR. GLaxNqy. FLOWER SEEDS FOR AMATEURS. A correspondent writes:- In raising roses from seed when is the proper time to sow it, and what treatment is necessary ? As I have very often got flower seeds, which have turned out actually no better than as many weeds, I should feel greatly obliged if you would enumerate a few hardy annuals, biennials, and perennials that are worth ...