... Intelligence has been received in Liverpool confirma; iag the total wreck of the barque Lady Franklin, of Liverpool, while on her passage from that port to Maraneham. There is little doubt, also, that all on board perished save one of the crew, Charles Mat. thews, a native of the West Indies, who was after. wards picked up, landed at Cadiz, and made the fol. lowing statement to Mr. J. Mi. ...

... OUR CONTEMPORBARIES I A CnA~cc on or TE EXCEQUER'S WAu.- (Tines. )-Meanwhile we are going off at score into another Chinese war. Notwithstanding Capt. Sherard Osborn's consolatory promises, we cannot quite bring oureelves to believe that there is any great chance of being able to make this war pay itself. It will be cer- tain to have its rebound in the disagreesale form of inflamed estimates ...

... TEE SHAM FIGHT-THI DAY. In the scheme of the sham fight at Brormley, to-. day (Saturday), a division detached from an army is supposed to be on its march to rejoin the moib body on ChislehurstcomInon. Being closely pressed by the enemy, who are in force in the neighbourhood, the march has assumed the form of a retreat, in order to gain the new road leading to the common, and on entering the ...

... It is fashionable just now to eondemu magis- trates who do their duty when called upon to prevent a pugilistic encounter. The magis- trates who have granted warrants that will compel Sayers and the Benicia Boy to keep the peace in one part of her Majesty's do- ,daiops arg cemmed by gentlemen who wish to appear Rndih, by parading a taste for a brutal and degrading sport. pagilim mis said to ...

... THE IETTER WRITER. THE FMPERORI'S BDAING' ACTS. To Tar ?? mly last letter in your esti- mable paper, two events, pregnant with much to come, have caused great emotion in Eflland, acd have been, as asual, differently appreciated by the English press. I mean the letter to the pope, and the one announcing the coming freedom of trade. I need not just new discuss points that have been most ably ...

... The people of London were startled or. Tuesday morning by an account of the cDudi- tion in which the Great Tasmania clipper ship had brought some hundreds of discharged Indian soldiers to LiverpooL These soldiers are a portion of those who, refusing to be transferred from the service of the East India company -to that of her Majesty, without re- ceiving the usual bounty given to recruits, ...

... The following letter reaches us from the lower deck of one of H.M. ships. We suppress the name of the vessel for obvious reasons:- Sheerness, 27th March. To TEE EDnoR.-Sir,-Many seamen of this ship, together with several more from other ships that mingle in company on shore, give great praise to you for your strong advocacy for the aoolishing of that disgraceful act of flogging in the navy, ...

... The nortality of London, which, from 1,397 deaths in the frst'week of the current month, rose to 1,563 in the following week, made a further.;advance in the week that ended hist Saturday, in which the number Was 1,611. In the ten years 1850-69 the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week, when raised in proportion to increase of population, is 1,367. The result of ...

... ARMY STATIONS, TUNS, 18GO. lot UIfe Gds., Begent's-park 2Sth. GIbraltar Athloes. Sad do., Hyde-park nd bat., Preston. l. HosrsGlds., Winsor. 10th, Dublin; Belfast. Ist's-Mo- uarU Madras; 27th, Bengal; Buttevant. Cauterbury. - s ee-ombay; Fermnoy. 2ad, Bengal; Canterbury. 29th,New tetlc-in-Tnuc; De. 6rd, Bomay Canterbury, vonport. 4th, Brighton. B0th, Curragh; Pearkhurst. 5th, AIdershot. Slst, ...

... LLOYDON WEWmPA L0ONDN NEWSPAP While we are applauding the noble patriot- iam of Garibaldi-now master of Sicily-grave questions must arise. He has freed a nation from the yoke of a despicable tyrant at the point of the sword; he is dictator of the island he has freed; and he is strong in the affection of his partisans. Bat he has wrested the sceptre from the Neapolitan king's hand, to offer it ...

... ?? ON SATURDAY MORNIG, IN TMl[ FMRL POST. LGyus WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OFFI0 SAE1'uDAY MO0UG LATEST ELECTRIC NEWS- LATER FROM GARIBALDI. 7 GIONOA, Friday. News from Sklly states 0at 8a capitulation has been concluded berousn General Lean and Garibaldi, The conditions are not known. General Letizing who was the beares of orders to General Leaza not to treat with Garibaldi, but rather to destroy the ...

... i THE GAIALDI DESPATCHES. Lord John Russell laid before parliamner t on Thurs. day evening, further correspondence relating to the landing of General Garibaldi in Sicily. The only im portant document is the following from Commander Itlarryat, detailing the particulars of the landing of the erpedition at MaarEala and refuting the report that E British ship of war hindered the Neapolitan frigate ...