... CORRESPONDENTCE. WHAT IS A WHITEBAIT? To bie EDITOR of fie PALL MALL GAzETTE. SIR,-The interesting letter which Mr. Francis has published in your paper of Tuesday opens up a 'question of much scientific and of considerable national importance. The subject of the zoological relations of the whitebait is one to which I have from time to time given some attention, and I am glad therefore to find ...

... I (MlOM OUR OWN ComsUoSNDNT.) ERA portion of the following appeared in our Evening odtn of yeaterdsg ] ., :: flofyerda AR:ISi N NSDkY EVENING. An extraordinary councilof Ministers was held Ad St. Cloud to-d&y, in the Emperor's presence. Despatches of great importance; from Berlin are said to have occasioned this meeting. The Marquis Pepoli, who has been greatly mixed up in the recent ...

... I The following letter from Mr. Rassam has been q received Ci Magdala, Sept. 7. 6 `My dear-, Your kind and welcome note of the 2adtl of Marchwas nearlyfive months on its way here. Wherethe delay took place I cannot make out. Our affairs are sadly neglected at Massowah, and it appears that our agent there has been attending to any other matter save the wretched Abyssinian captives. Ever since ...

... THE MRTROJOLIT1AV YOOB-LAW IVBIOAL I a OFrCEReSX SSOCIASTIOIN I - . 1 The quarterly meeting of this awso iationfl was held last evening at the' Sbip Hotel, Cbaring-c5ss'; Dr. ROGERs, of the Strand Union, in the chair. The SECRETARY (Dr. Dudfield, of.Westminster) read the report of the council, a very long document, which opened with some important correspondeuce with the Commissioners in ...

... 11 A Cbibelline writes to the Time's to propose that, as Lord Denbij7s is gettinga 1' a fund for the Papal volunteers, a counter subscription should be opendc for the sick and wounded among the Italians in arms against the ?? power. He offers Jrioo to start the subscription. The United States is showing considerable alacrity in paying respect to e wishes of Msiexico. Soon after Mr. ...

... THE SECRETARY OF, WAB IN YORKSHEIA I The inaugural banquet of the York Working' MAn's Conservative Association was held in the Festival Concert-room in that city on Wednesday evening. Mr. W. P HUHBAND, presidentof the associationir the chair. Upwards of 600 members and friends of the association seat ¢.,wn t9 dinner, and about 200 ladlae were also present. Amongst ti ,uestS ?? J. Pakiglion, ...

... THE ROMAN CRISIS. The Times approves the advance of the Italian army into Papal territory as a just and wise no less than a bold step; a necessary step, which may also turn out a fortunate one. Probably the movement has been arranged with France through the agency of the Marquis Pepoli, who combines not a little of the Bonaparte tact together with the drop of family blood in his veins. Had the ...

... THE R1 OAI N DIFFICULTY. TI1E newS bearing upon the Roman difficulty which reached u's from various quarters yesterday, and again this morning, leaves olpinioon in almost as much confusion as before; and the confusion is a little more alarming. It is by no means unimportant as:- ldc~lopiijg the scope of the difficulty for one of the parties at least that a feeling of discontent with the ...

... | GBA2D TRUNATK RAIL WAY OF CANADA. ?? I_ The ordinary half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the City Ter- minus Hotel, Cannon-street, yesterday ; Mr. A.W. YOUNG in the chair. The CHAIaMAN said Mr. Watkin, the chairman of the company, was prevented from being present by domestic affliction, bat that was of the less consequence as the report of Captain ...

... FA1BNRAM WORKHOUSE. The first meeting of the board of guardians of the Farnham Union subsequent to the report of the Laneet Sanitary Commissioners, which has produced so much ex- citement, not unmixed with public indignation, took place yesterday in the board-room at the Farnham Workhouse, when the subject alluded to was brought forward for dis- cussion. Some conversation took place relative ...

... TO THE MDMIOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. S&R,-Before parliament meets permit me briefly to convey, through the medium of your widely circulated journal, a few remarks concerning the Cape of Good Hope, that the subject may come under the notice of our legis. Hetors, and stimulate them to inquiries which shall the better prepare them to discuss the interests of the colony on the opening of the ensuing ...

... is--- - _- LIVERPOOL, OCT. 31. The steamer Lagos, faith the mails, 16 pas- sengers, and a full cargo, has arrived in the Mersey. Her dates are :-Benin, Oct. 3; Fer- nando Po and Cameroons, Sept. 29; Old Calabar, 27; Bonny, Oct. 1 ; Lagos, 5; Jellah Coffee, 6; Accra, 7 ; Cape Coast Castle, 8; Cape Palnmas, 10; Monrovia, 12; Sierra Leone, 15; Bathurst, 18 Teneriffe, 23 ; and Madeira, 25. A ...