V,31- NEWS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES. America-Douglas on Cuba, 7. Slave trading 8,87, 113, 116, 203. Nicaragua transit route, 8. San Juan "outrage," 8. Mexico 8. Right of search, 8....

have partly a retrospective and partly a present interest. The extra- ordinary despatch of Mr. Dallas, describing an interview vritl/ Lord Malmesbury last summer, throws a light...

Greece. ] Wherever he has gone he has heard but one cry. His formal i and distinct statement at Corfu that he had no power to deal with the question of the Protectorate has...

Kara George who, during the Napoleonic wars, thrashed the Turks out of the country and made it independent, was forced to become an exile, and lost his life by the hand of an...

THE duel between M. de Montalembert and the French Emperor has reached another, and, we presume, the final stage- for the present. Contrary to the anticipations of those who...

re- form. A little more intensity has been given to the movement, but it is confined 'to the North. In Perth, in Hull, in Leeds, the Bright prognignme has been accepted. In...

details. In Oude Bainie Madhoo has been driven out of Shunkerpore, his stronghold ; other talookdars have been gradually coming in ; their steps quickened by threats of...

CEIRIBTM&S-DAY was celebrated at Windsor Castle, as in every other English home, by a private family dinner. Afterwards music appropri- ate to the season was performed. The...

the home- less poor. Through Lord Courtenay, their secretary, they pro- pose a scheme for the establishment of asylums for the houseless in the centres of six great divisions of...

racy in Ireland has been surreptitiously published. Notes taken at the 4 ' private" examinations in Cork have found their way into the papers. The approver, Daniel Sullivan...

THE HOMELESS POOR. The attention drawn to the subject of the homeless poor who are only partially supplied with shelter at night in the unions and charitable in- stitutions,...

A committee appointed by a board of directors of the parish of St. Pancras have drawn up a statement of what passed between them and the Reverend Mr. Pugh, their late chaplain....

At a soiree given by the Leeds Anti-Slavery Society, on Tuesday, Peter Fairbairn in the chair, Lord Carlisle spoke of the progress of a slavery feeling and the position of the...

E.EFORM. The meeting at Leeds to promote Parliamentary Reform was attended by some 3000 persons. Mr. Lueock, in the absence of Sir Peter Fair- bairn, occupied the chair. He...

THE REFORM MOVEMENT. Since Mr. Bright's visit his supporters have promoted several meet- : in Scotland, and Mr. Duncan Miaren has been very busily en- d in pushing the views...

THE GALWAY LINE. Lord Eglinton received a deputation on Thursday of persops interested in promoting the material prosperity of the new line of paatet steamers from Galway. Lord...

Lord Brougham has responded to the invitation of the Edinburgh &a to attend a banquet in his honour. His letter, dated "Provence, .:eember 18," and is addressed to the Lord...

Mr. Adam Black, one of the members for Edinburgh, delivered an ad- dress on Monday at Glasgow. His subject was trade morality, and his audience a gathering of the local Trade...

jtaltre.—The Emperor has once more pardoned M. de Montalem- bert. The following appeared in the Maniteur of Tuesday. "The Emperor ' i renewing h final decision, has remitted to...

TIIE LIVINGSTONE EXPEDITION. The Cape papers publish a letter from Dr. Livingstone. He had reached Tete, and had received there a supply of coal for his steamer— the first ever...

The Reverend Bryan King has replied to the fetter of the Bishop of London in a manner that is somewhat remarkable. Mr. King has other- wise stated that when he called upon Dr....

liabTles have acquired strength. The fact that the Paris papers are si- lent is held to be ominous. The Emperor went to the opera the other night, the greatest precau- tions...

the legal proceedings at Belfast against_the alleged conspirators. "The inquiry , into the case of the sixteen prisoners arrested in Belfast on the 5th December, charged with...

On the 5th October, at Fremantle, Western Australia, the Wife of the Hon. the Comptroller-General, Major E. Y. W. Henderson, LE., of a daughter. On the 21st December, at St....

Our change of price, with the reasons that we so briefly stated last week, has brought us communications from readers and subscribers on which we set a high value, not only for...

SATURDAY. The new year has properly commenced with the publication of the ac- counts of the revenue for the year and quarter which both terminated last night. Those figures are...

is distinguished, the most conspicuous are the pantomime at Drury Lane and the burlesque at the Olympic. Mr. E. T. Smith, the manager of the former house, adheres to the...

A French Opera company, under the management of M. Remusat, have established themselves at the St. James's Theatre. Their first per- formance which consisted of Auber's comic...

Non- Electors Association of that town—rather a wealthy fraternity appa- rently. Mr. Philips made a speech to them which, while it went as far as Afr. Bright in - regard to...

officers, arising out of a quarrel during a game at whist. The man who is killed seems to have been the injured party. The successful duelist appears to have fastened a quarrel...

A now comedy, by M. Theodore Barriere, entitled Cendrillon, has been produced at the Gymnase. The herione is not the damsel of the fairy tale, but a young lady named Marie...

to by any English paper. It is to the effect that Lord Palmerston has re- eeived a severe injury to the knee, and that, in the opinion of his lordship's physicians, he will...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Although business in the Stock Exchange continues to be of an unimport- ant character the market has become extremely sensitive, one or two...

1858 AND 1859. POLITICALLY 1858 was a disappointing and vexatious year ; com- mercially it was one of suspense and transition. But larger causes are constantly: at work than...

SINCE the Order in Council of 1855 instituted a new system of entrance to the Civil Service, there have been so many modifi- cations that it may be useful to take stock of what...

THE moment when the first batch of debentures is being issued in the London money-market for raising the 8,000,000/. which the colony of Victoria is about to expend upon its...

GLIDSTOICE has made a pronconsular progress through the islands of the Ionian republic. Everywhere he has been received with enthusiasm ; his carriage has been drawn by the...

Mx first and paramount subject connected with India is the great deficit. Whatever else is uncertain or doubtful in regard to the future of our strangely won and anomalous...

EVER since the war in the Crimea we have had the pleasure of reading a great deal about the decay of England as a military power. Even Spain, with memorials of our prowess in...

within less than the half of the century are more than enough to provoke the wondering comparison which is always associated with grey hairs. We have heard our grandfathers...

HARD by St. Pancras church, in the New Road, is a little shop with a frontispiece or sign which is apt to catch the eye of the j/aneur, iffl i aneurs ever take the air of the...

CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICS. Belfast, 28th December, 18.58. Sin—There is no doubt of the truth of your remark, that most statesmen and men of the world would laugh at any...

27th December 1848. Sat—I beg to assure your correspondent F. H., that I have never lost sight of the fact that a number of sea-faring men, collected together by im- pressment...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 24. Wilt OFFICE, Pall Mall, December 24.—Cavalry—Royal Horse Guards—Lieut. IV. Bull has been permitted to retire from the service, by the sale...

Sin—The Spectator has of late, more than any journal with which I am acq . uainted, powerfully advocated sound and patriotic views of England's position, and of her duties...

BRITISH per Cent Consols FUNDS. Santora. (Mains Moodop. Prices.) Tsasadap. Waists. Taney. Frisky. - - Ditto for Account I. 97 061 961 3 per Cents It-educed...

Bankruptcies Annulled. - BIMIARD IlExaT HAHEE - N, Cardiff, tanner-GEolmE HEArs jun. Leeds, ironmonger. Bankrupts. - JOHN GARDNER, Northampton, builder-JoszAH IIENRT NEVILLE,...

the County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of JOSEPH Cr,arrox, 17, BOIIN (Tie Street, in the Precinct of Whitefriars, in the City of London ; and Published by the aforesaid...

PRESCOTT'S PHILIP THE SECOND.* Tins third volume of Mr. Prescott's history contains three sec- tions, each possessing much matter and considerable interest in different ways....

JANUARY 1, 1859.

adventures alone constitute the adven- turer. Character makes the man, not condition or circumstances. • Sixty Years' Gleanings from Life's Harrest. A Genuine Autobiography. By...

THE world has already had the clergyman's narrative of the siege of Delhi in Mr. Rotton's book, and the civilian's in Mr. Great- hed's Letters. The present volume furnishes the...

IP Dr. Guthrie's Discourses have not the human character, and variety of worldly matter and illustrations that distinguished "The City, its Sins and Sorrows," they equally well...

TH:EbT Popular Tales, selected and translated from the " Norske Folkeeventyr " of M.M. Asbjornsen and Moe, have a more learned and elaborate introduction than usually heralds...

IN his previous publications Dr. Doran has avoided the form of fiction. In New Pictures and Old Panels he frequently, if not continually, adopts it in a modified degree. The...

Avrnoron the publishers, let us hope, have been keeping a "merry Christmas," they have got over their labours in that direction sufficiently to begin a busy " new year." Mr. Van...

CHU TK8 HANK REP UBLIRKED. • Keen, honest, laughter-moving George Cruikshank has been for some thirty or forty years the friend of every one, man and boy, who levee whim,...

Among the pictures of the last few years sure' to come sooner or later into the engraver's hands none was more sure than the " Home" of Mr. Noel Paton—representing, as our...