International good feeling will be evoked by I the proposal of the Emperor of the French that the English and French iron-clad fleets shall to gether visit the English and French coasts and seaport*. The combined fleets aro to bo inspected by the Prince of Wales at Plymouth, and by tho Emperor of the French at Cherbourg in the course of August. Wo shall havo nothing to fear from comparison with our ndighbbut-'s neel ,♦ and iti.is' hoped that they niny never meet in' opposition,' aor need to unite iu- opposing the forces of aa. anemy. As a show, it is rather, costly though. Indian officers t will be.glad t to,observo, that. Sir Hugh Bose,,theii' lato commander-in--chief/aiid; iwho has seeh long* and ardu ! otiß'<servicoj was 1 , entertained at United Ser.tice Club .ft )Veek aoo.', Tho Duke of Cambridge presided. At the Oxford Commemoration last week he received university honours, as also did Lord ( Lyons, jthe hon. Mr. JMacdougald,,(one of the deputatioivfrom Canada) &c. -■ - - J

THE SUPERINTENDENCE

On Saturday afternoon last a publio meeting of electors took place at the Taranaki Institute, called by advertisement, to hear the views of the two candidates for the Superintendency. W. M. Crompton, Esq., occupied the chair. Mr. Brown rose, and said that as his name appeared first in the advertisement he would, with permission, follow the same order by first addressing the meeting. Before he went any further he wished to mention that he entirely agreed with the remark made in that day's Herald, that no matter what the result of the election might be, all bad feeling and personality Ehould be avoided, and that, as far as possible, good feeling and action on this head should mark the election. He would say sincerely that he would rather retire from the contest than that there should be any quarrel over it. He had now Ecarly come to the conclusion of his second term of office as Superintendent. When he was first elected in 1853, under the Constitution Act-, party feeling ran high, but ho was happy to say that it had to a great extent subsided. He would now refer to the circumstances under which he was not re-elected at the termination of his first tenure of office. 