... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... I TEE NORTH STAFFOBDSHIBE COLLIERY L EXPLOSION. I . - a HEANLEY, THuRSM.IY EVENING. Z The inquiry into the cause of the calamitous en plosion at the North Staffordshire Coal and Iron Cor spany's pit at Talke on the 13th December wvas resunw thia mnorning before M~r. W. Hanrding, coroner. The inquer was attended by a large number of mining engineers, cc. t liery proprietors, and working miners. ...

... COUNTRY SERVANTS AND THEIR M1ASTERS. THE supposed tyranny of masters over workmen, and of workmen not only over their masters, but over each other, has attracted great and serious attention. We are so accustomed to regard men and things collectively and in the mass that it is the extent of area over which misery is spread rather than the intensity of individual suffering or injustice that is ...

... 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, ...

... DINNEB TO MB. DOULTON, M.P. I Last evening, a dinner was given to Mr. Doul. ton, M.P. for Lambeth, at the Horns Tavern, Kenning- St ton, by anumber of his supporters. About 150 gentlement Ti were present. Dr. EVANS presided; and amongst the gen- tlemenpresent were Mr. H. Chester Mr. Pew Mrx.H Cullen Murphy, Mr. Merritt, Mr. Coils, bDr. Mitchell, Mr. R. C. Barton, Mr. J. Barton, Mr. J. B. Clark ...

... I (rIols OaU own CORnsSPON'DENT.) (A portion of the following appeared in our Evenings Edition of yesterday:] PARIS, WEDNEsDAY EvENING. I am told, I hope, and I confidently believe, that ! the Moniteur will shortly publish a manifesto re-X storing the original letter of the Emperor to I M. Rouher to its pristine importance. I think I have before said that many more ministers must go to the ...