... ?? *~ ! (From the Engineer.) : In a recent letter to the Times -ir. :enwo6d his'4 made out, even on a single point, an exceedingly good case for the conversion of some of our steani line-of-battle wi ships of the past into coast defence vessels. ,48q remarks se are based on the recent sales of thb Colossusandbthe M Collingwood, 80 and 90 gun ships, of what may now be fo called late her ...

... CORRESPOND ENCE. WHAT IS A WHITEBAIT? To the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-What is a whitebait Probably if any one amongst the thousands of persons who go to Greenwich and Blackwall to partake of this delicacy ever asks himself the above question, he is satisfied wih, the conviction that it is a small fish which, when properly cooked, witlh the judicious additions of lemon, cayenne, ...

... |THE ENIAN SPECIAL COMMISSION AT 3-;N H B. . ?? ?? ;: , -. i ; . , I ?? 1, i : .~ ' . I.. The, msizes d'irected to:;b be !ioUllen at Mnhse mdrae~lcemmisiofoth tra o fte2 eis ass psoss hagea wit1 th ntoe p oic-eges Brett e idie lih Septscb~erduring n attac on thefro: prison van, which resulted ithreueofthesupposed ma ;Colonel Kelly slid Captain Deauey, opened for la I~ 10 o'clock this morning. ...

... ' - NAPiOLEON AND,'XROM;: ?? [: z,- , , ~ . ?? . ?? .. i, From the ,Spectator.) ?? e xplanation of th ?? oif incidents ?? call the . Roman crisis is the one rl ying upon the sarfaoe' A dozen; other expflanstions are possible, and are widely believed, but polificans are some- timhes too wary, ! and the. superficial is in this ease the least difficalt view'. If it is correct, affairs have gone ...

... THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. The Times believes that in his proposal of a reference of the Papal question to a Congress the Emperor Napoleon is supposed to rely on the support of Austria-a State inclined, if not bound, to advocate the interests of the temporal power. The Emperor of Austria is described as ready to accede to the proposal ; but he has gone too far in his declaration of the duties ...

... I ~HE REGIS TBAR- U ,I, , ?? ?? QFZ Rwpy The re~gisters 'of the United Kingdom show that the births of 252,370T. children, and the deaths of 142,1150 persons of both sexes, were registered in the three months ending on September,30. The recorded natural increase was 110,220 ;the aiv emgats were 45,278. The registered. marriages of the United Kingdom in the quartir ending June 30, 1857, were ...

... UNDCUBTEDLY, to conduct in safety and with commercial success a French Liberal journal under the present regime is an undertaking of great delicacy and difficulty, and one not unattended by danger. On the whole the provincial press enjoys greater liberty, or is perhaps under a less stringent surveillance, than that of Paris, but it too has had its warnings, its struggles, its defeats, and its ...

... II - j . , ?? AP RArLWA Y. i : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - ,, ' I _ _- , ,, , The nineteenth half-yearly ordinar general meeting was held yesterday, at the 'London Tavern.. - HAninsoN-WAmsoN, in the chair. The directors report that '1 the reoeiptsfor the six months eading June 30th last have 'ben 22 4951. 14s -2d against 20,'6911. 13s. 3d. for the corresponding period of last year. -The working ex Onses ...

... TO THE EDIOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. SIR,-The deep interest taken in the recent die- cussion touching the alleged conversion of the Irish bishops, in the earlier portion of Elizabeth's reign, induces ne to place before the public without delay the historic evidence of the facts of the case contained in the subjoined letter, which I have just received from Mr. Froude. If there were any two persons ...

... During the past ten days two large importations of scurvy have arrived. In one case, out of a crew of twenty-one men and officers all told, thirteen wete affected, and eight compelled to knock off work, and in the other case sixteen at least were affected out of a crew of twenty-six hands. A Board of Trade inquiry is now pending, and will probably renew the melancholy disclosures as to the ...

... It was on the 23rd that Garibaldi, after having announced in Florence that he had a mission to perform and that fie would either accomplish it or die, crossed the Roman frontier. Before he did1 su however, he addressed his volunteers, who ] amounted at this time to about 3,500, in a short speech, and with a voice that trembled with T emotion, Let those, said he, Iwho arenotwilling I to ...

... THE METROPOLITAN lTBAFFIC BSrZLATION.1 ACT. I Last evening a meeting of the hackney carriage proprietors of the metropolis was held at the Cambridge- hall. Newman-street, Oxford-street, for the purpose of adopting measures antagonistic to the Metropolitan Traffic Regulation Act, with its lamp tax, increased power, and oppression. Mr. Gower occupied the chair. Mr. Wright, the solicitor to ...