... CHURCE AND STATEZ--'l I In TO TIX nDrDIOR Oi THE DMY S WX ti5 SIR,-In the addresses of liberal canudidaWte4 a a seats in the House of Commons that is to b*, the tb disestablishment of the Irish Church occupies Is the first place, Education the second. The ex- pectant member I is prepared to support some cor-i prehensive scheme for the elementary education of the people, he is prepared to ...

... TIlE BERMJDA PLOATING DRY DOCK. I The huge floating dry dock, which is to be launched this day from the yard of Messrs.Camp- bell and Johnstone, at Silvertown, North Wool- wich, is the largest machine of its kind that has yet been constructed; and it has also this pecu- liarity, that it is to be despatched toits destina- tion all complete and ready for use, There are already several iron dry ...

... TV: PYRENEAN WATERING PLACES S. (orn oun owen fOW CoEIE DlNT.) FAUX-BONNES, S=E. 8. I do not know how it may be with you in Eng- land, but here, in France, the extreme heat under Wihich we were melting in June and July seems to have returned in all its intensity. The journey fro, Paris to Bordeaux, though made at night, was scarcely endurable; hence to Pau was worse still, and the clouds of ...

... THE ACCODENT TO- THE IBISH MAILI I71 NR . ,an re-: This morning BEEdw rdGEoo, waite~d upo tethe magistrates at theu ?? Waod wappited fpon h issue of a summons' ?? s ftor mather rbsat lanula 11forthat he did feloniously kill and slay of one Charles Cripps on the 20th August lest. The to gentlemen on the bench were the Rev. Thomas Williams be and Mr. Hesketh, the only other prosrentbeing ted Mr ...

... FRAN CE. _I_ I (FMOSM OUR OWN CeoMEsToNDLMT.) PARIS, SIJNDAY Eviesmes. It appears that the Queen will not return home through Germany. According to present arrange- ments she is to pass on through Paris to Cher- bourg on the 12th without resting a moment here. At this date the Emperor and Empress will be staying at the camp of Chalons. M. Drouyn do Lhu~ys returned to town a few days ago; but ...

... BLEU77ON INTvL IIllaGNVE. I Lasat niight zItr. Cizartes Ild, one of the candi- datea forte .represenation of the new ho ogh of alckney, addrese a very zium'iow, and repreeniative | meeting of oeletois resident ln the brnegh, at the Guild- hall Hotel, City. Mr. W.. Leaf occulied the chair, and thoem WaS a good attemdlioiee. The cnan uir 2 il lpening the p uceedings, read a letter which hal ...

... 2T11 EARL oF 1'f.1fBPIPY ON LOCAL IIAuX.Ay 7'10A A aewtihn of tho Norfolk Chamber of Agricul. ; 1 e was helil on Saturday to consider the difficult ques- tion of local rating, upson which an able paper had been rcad a fortnight p1ev °nsly by ML r. . 0. Howard Taylor, of Norwich. Upon the resumption of the discus- 6ion, tho following7 rozolation was moved by Mr. R. Faglsiid. nnd Secen-leIO(I by ...

... CANDIDATES AND BRIBERY. To thre EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-I happen to be the friend of two or three candidates for the honours of parliamentary membership who are now preparing to commence their canvass of the electors in boroughs and counties. I have found them agitated with doubts upon the important subject of bribery, as to what will or will not be construed an illegal ...

... OCCASIONAL NOTES, The fate of the Mogul dynasty may well make a deep impression on the minds of all classes of natives in India. A Calcutta paper tells us that of all the nobles and princes of the Court who swarmed in Delhi a few years ago, there are not half a dozen left whose rank and standing entitle them to admittance to a Viceregal durbar. Some were killed in the mutiny, others were ...

... LEIGH HUNT. The 1elegraph describes Leigh Hunt as a true and fearless advocate of popular rights-one of the very earliest promoters of cheap and healthy literature for the people-a poet whose works will always be dear to those readers who have themselves any touch of the true poetic spirit in their nature-a moralist whose lessons of contentment and cheerfulness have brought sunshine to ...

... gailtuay 6UT,&c. SUMMARY OF RAILWAY NEWS. TRAFFIC RETUPwS.-The traffic receipts of Railways in the United Kingdom amounted, for the week ending September12, on 13,355 miles, to 847,3621., and for the corresponding week of last year, on 13,039 miles, to 816,8601., showin g an increase of 316 miles and of 30,5021. The gross receipts on the fourteen principal lines amounted in the aggregate to ...

... THE TOTAL ECLIPSE1 C THE SUN. The Ayeeabsri Gazette of eptL 13 contains the foiUow- ig extract from a letter written by Dr. Hermann Vogel, who accompanied the North German expedition to Aden, as a photographer:- At four o'clock on the 18th of August we left Aden, where the expedition had established its head-quarters. Nine- tenths of the sky was overcast, and we endeavoured to feel as ...