... TO THE E:DrrOR OF THE DAILY AS,. SIR,-Mr. Massey, M.P., appears to be backing the party who are seeking a war with the United States, on the ground of commiseration in the sufferings of the cotton trade in this country and in France. Now, I speak the sentiments of nine- teen out of twenty manufacturers when I say they want no such aid as Mr. Massey would give us. It would be too expensive, ...

... .SOcIETy FO.B PROOTrING THO AMERDMBNT I ; OF THEAW I At the genieral teeting of this society, on Mon| day evening, the 19th,, Dr. WADDILOVE, read a paper on the Conflict of Belligerent Maritime Rights, which by the meeting was ordered to be printed and circulated. After sketching the uncertainties of international law on the question of neutral commerce with belligerents, and the law of ...

... LORD CLAREXCE PAGET, IMP., AT DEiL. ?? e- On Saturday evening the members for Sandwich, at Lord Clarence Paget (Secretary for the Admiralty) and Mr. Er .E Knatehbull-Hugessen, addressed their constituents in the at Town-hall, DeaL Lord CLARENCE PAGLr, after adverting to the death of the late Prince Consort, and comparing the state of this country with that of the rest of Europe, proceeded to ...

... SIR CH[ARLES g~BRIGHT ?? STATE AND I PRGRES OF TELEG~RAPH OPERATIONS. On Saturday Sir Chariea Bright was presented ti with a testimonial on the occasion of his relinquishing his it position of Engineer-in-Chief of the British and Irish Mag. f4 netic Telegraph Company, of which in future ho is to be 0 the Consulting Engineer. The presentation took place at i the George Hotel, Liverpool, and ...

... THE WINDHAM LUNACY COMTMISSION. This inquiry was resumed yesterday for the 30th time, before Master Warren, at the Sessions House, West. minster. Mr. Coleridge, who was instructed by Mr. Davis, of Clifford-street, addressed the jury on behalf of Mrs. Windham. He said that, although he could be wel content himself personally to leave the case of Mrs. Windham, as it had been put forth by Mr. ...

... . It is stated in the ?? serdacsie Beige of Thursday evening that M. Thouvenel has addressed a despatch to M. de Lavalette the representative of France at Rome, which that diplomatist has communicated to Cardinal Antonelli. In this document the French Minister for Foreign Affairs commences byrecalling the regret which was felt by the imperial government at the invasion of the Pon- tifical ...

... T2BE HARTLBY PIT CATASTROPHE. (nmo our. OWN COsrUESPONDENT.) NEW HARTLEY, JAN. 23, NINE A.M. The sinkers have been quietly prosecuting their work in the shaft during the night, making al secure for the working parties, who will proceed as early as is consistent with safety into the workings, to bring away the dead bodies of the unfortunate men. But the public must not be asto- nished if this ...

... ARRIVAL OFANOTHEB COhPEDBERAT VRSSBIE I I ~~FROM CHARLESTON. (mnom onl )LIu POL COoMPseOwNsv.) The West Indian, a vessel belonging to a Southern planter merchant, ban arrived at Liverpool direct from Chbarleston, having successfully rim the blockade. The owner of tie West Indian and her cargo (who came from Charleston with the vessel), and Captain Foote, with whom we had an interview, informed ...

... INDIA A - . The overland Mail brings advices from Calcutta Jo the 24th December ; from Madras to the 29th Ald from Blong Kong to the 14th. The fornihtly anmmary of the Friencl of .TAia is as follows:- A dulness reigns over India, so far as news is concerned, ,Yhich is peorliapii the best intelligence that we can record. Aul important Political questions await the creation of the ,,w ...

... I RXTRA ORDIA RYCONDUCT OFA CLERGYMAN. I a Some few weeks since considerablo excitement was occasioned in the town of i'rome, by a report that a serious fracas had occurred, in a public spot,between a clergyman, a curate of the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, the er vicar of the parish of Frome, and a lady of high position 20 residing in the town. It afterwards transpired that crimi- nal proceedings ...

... NEW YORK, JAN. 11. (Per Borussia, Vid Southampton.) The steamship Bremen arrived at New York, the steamship Canada at Halifax, and the steamship Bohemian at Portland, Jan. 8; the steamships Kangaroo and Australasian arrived at New York Jan. 9 ; the steamship Hammonia arrived at New York, and the Canada at Boston, Jan. 10. A des- patch dated Halifax, Jan. 9, says the steamship Parana, which had ...

... (From the Money Afarket Beview.) In our number of January 11th we fully ex- plained that the estimates of the disbursements of the Indian government in England amounted for the year 1861-2 to 9,347,7781., and that this sum must be met either by the payments of the amounts raised by the Indian rail- ;way companices, or by remittances from India, or by the India Council here drawing on India. It ...