... Friday, 2 o'clock. TTTid obtailm'd oewd. R-EUUTER'S TELEGRAMS. AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) NEW YORK, Yan. 3 1.-The Senate has rejected the bill passed by the House of Representatives on the 22nd inst., requiring the government sales of gold to be public. Congress has abolished the American Legation at Rome. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.-Gold, i-5Y2. Sterling Exchange on London, xo8og. ...

... THE STONE YARD AT POPLAR. 'THE correspondent who supplied us with Pictures of Misery writes as follows of the stoneyard at Poplar:- In my rounds among the destitute population of the Isle of Dogs, nearly every woman, in answer to my question of 'Where is your husband ? replied, 'Away at the stoneyard.' The macadamizing of roads has introduced a parochial test of willingness to work on the ...

... MR. BRIGHT. The Times admits that nothing can be more unfair, more unhandsome, more unjust, than the private attacks of which Mr. Bright has been the object. It is only as a political character that we have to deal with Mr. Bright, and that certainly with sufficient material, without intruding ourselves into his business or social relations; but when Mr. Bright asks why it is that political ...

... THERE is much about Mr. BRIGHT that is pathetic as well as poetical. No man is more thoroughly in earnest, or more unfeignedly amazed at the opposition that he meets with, or more truly unable to attribute that opposition to anything but wilful blindness, or sheer malignity, or the instigation of the Evil One. In all this he is like the orthodox believer of the middle ages. He is, too, we ...

... LANDSEER'S LIOA Ts. THOUGH Austrian customs may generally be more honoured in the breach than in the observance, we might now and then condescend to take a leaf from thebook of the ?? of the city of Vienna. In that capital models or casts of sculptures intended for purposes of public ornamentation are temporarily exhibited on the place or pedestal which is to receive the finished work. Such ...

... I It is proposed, in memory of the late lamented Bishop of Calcutta, to endeavour to carry out the object which he had much at heart; which he had meant to have urged on the English public, had his life been spared to return; and which was cut short by his sudden death. Those numerous friends and pupils to whom Bishop Cotton had personally endeared himself will doubtless, gladly join in the ...

... TO THE EDUO0 OF THE DAILY NEWS. SIR,-Before parliament meets and public at. tention becomes engrossed by domestic matte.> I ask leave to draw attention for a moment to ti. affairs of China. A paragraph in the Times 0 Saturday mentions that a transport, carrying large number of supernumerary officers, is ulndl despatch to China. The gunboats at present la3: up at Hong Kong are, it is reported, ...

... The foreign news this morning is not of much interest. The Saronzia has arrived from New York bringing dates to the i9th ult. The news (such as it is) is thus summarized by Mr. Reuter :-The Senate has passed the bill imposing additional limits to the President's appointing power. Mr. Sumner, in a speech in the Senate, alluded to Mr. Johnson as an usurper and a monster of discord. A Washington ...

... DUHALY TRUNK CONNECTING BAILWAY.. An extraordinary general meeting of the share- holders in this undertaking was held yesterday at the Lon- don Tavern for thepurpose of appointing a committee to investigate the affairs and position of the company; Mr. F. W. RussEsa, M.P., filled the chair. The directors, ma report specially prepared by them for the occasion, stated that it was their imperative ...

... TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE I (sEUrER's T=EeoBAMS.) MR GLADSTONE'S PARIS SPEECH. 'j PARIS, JAN. 31. The s1iech delivered by Mr. Gladstone at the dinmer l f the Society of Political Economy is pub- i lishd llecre this evening. The orator declared that ihe Crelit of having effected commercial reform beloneget to the Emperor Napoleon and Mr. Cob- den. IpL the latter Mr. Gladstone passed a i, ...

... CIRCULAR DESPATCH OF THE BAVARIAN I I GOVERNMENT. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) The following circular despatch has recently been forwarded by the Bavarian government to its representatives at Stuttgart, Carlsrhue, and Darmstoadt.I Munich, Jan. 9,1867. The fundamental treaties of the Germanic Confedera- tion are virtually set aside by the events of last year, andI while North Germany is constituting ...

... It is to be feared that we have not yet seen the last of the cattle plague. The British Medical ]ournal states that it has reappeared this week in the very same cowshed in the neighbourhood of Islington market, where it first manifested itself during the former outbreak. On Tuesday forty-five head of cattle were killed to stay the progress of the contagion. WXTe regret also to learn through ...