Tits New Year begins with announcements preparatory to the marriage which is by a fresh link to join the Government of this country with Lutheran Germany. One consequence of the...

No business appears to have been transacted at Windsor Castle in this festive season. The Queen has gone abroad little, but taken horseback exercise in the Riding-house. The...

Christmas festivities have been celebrated with more than ordinary vigour in the Metropolis. Not only were the usual places of public re- sort, the theatres, galleries, and...

Lord John Browne was elected on Wednesday for the County of Mayo, without opposition. He promises to be an " independent s4- porter " of the Government. Mr. G. H. Moore made a...

The Liberals, as was anticipated, have triumphed in Buckingham- shire. After a spirited polling on Saturday, during which Mr. Caven- dish never lost the lead he obtained at...

The question of University "reform" or "improvement," long a stir- ring topic in the Scotch newspapers, has made its way to the platform. On Wednesday a meeting on the subject...

c f rant e.—Paris has, like London ' enjoyed a fine healthy Christmas season, and the streets and public walks have been crowded with holi- day-makers and venders of all kinds....

The wedding-day of the Pgincess Royal, the names of most conspicu- ous guests, and a programme of the after-festivities, have now been put forward in the official journal of the...

SATITRDAY. The Chinese question has again revived ; and the Leading Jourhal this morning ventures an opinion, that "by the present time probably Canton has been attacked and...

On the 234 October ' at Bolarum, Deccan, the Hon. Clementine Maria, wife of Captain William Rose Campbell, of Ballochyle, Argyllshire, and daughter of the Viscount Arbuthnott....

On the 25th November, at Bombay, Lady Yardley, of a son. On the 22d December, in Grosvenor Square, the tonntess of Lichfield, of a s - on. On the 230, at Howick Grange,...

Ilammond Gosset, M.A., of West Tisted, Slants, to Lucinde Elizabeth, daughter of Rear-Admiral Symonds, of Yeatton, Lymington, Hants. On the 24th, at St. Alphege, Greenwich,...

After making a tolerably careful survey of the dramatic amusements provided by managers for the special gratification of the holiday public, we arrive at the conclusion that the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds opened on Monday with great firmness at an advance of 3 per cent upon the quotations of Christmas-eve, in consequence of the...

I. The following is an Abstract of the gross Produce of the Revenue of the United Kingdom, in the undermentioned periods, ended December 31, 1857, compared with the...

EPOCHS. [Arnoros OF THE OPENING OF TIM 'YEAR OF GRACE 1858.] Tun grandest growths of history are not always those of which it is possible to trace the origin or determine the...

TUE system of promotion in the Army by purchase, to judge from the mode in which it is defended, is the citadel of the Army Con- servatives. You may make many innovations in...

IF two of our most eminent statesmen were to be judged by the position of their followers at the present moment, we might pro- nounce Canning to be the immortal, Peel the...

WITH the 1st of January, says a fair correspondent of the Morn- ing Post, " the Florentine season will commence : the usual carni- val gayeties are already in preparation—the...

ENDEAVOUR.S have been made in London to soften the announce- ment that the Crown Jewels were to depart; but the softening assurances are not confirmed by what is said at...

has dawned upon those who are anxious for the economical redemption of the West Indies • or rather, two ideas ' have been put together, and a third has been struck out by the...

CURRENCY AND CREDIT. London, 2816 December 1857. Sul—We are gradually learning wisdom. Each successive decennial dis- aster brings to light some source of danger, before...

AT the trial of Madame de Jeufosse, a French jury decided that if a person be found to enter another person's house clandestinely, not with the intention of committing a felony,...

WE are somewhat uneasy about an intelligent daily journal frightened from its propriety by a casual expression of ours. Adverting last week to the position of Lord Palmerston in...

Writx a man sets himself up as a teacher in order to give advice, it most commonly happens that all he says may be taken as a con- fession. He presents to us his beau ideal, his...

Lanrumney, Cardiff, 29th December 1857. Sus—Will you allow me to go through the process, perhaps some may say half-egotistical and half-adulatory, of asking your readers to...

Edinburgh, 28th December 1857. Sin—I have just read your notice regarding the Western Bank headed "The Public and the Banks." While perfectly agreeing with you upon some of the...

San-There will be many objections to details of the proposed Educational Franchise. Will you permit me to dispute the principle ? The present system is based on property, a...

Wan Orrice, Pall Mall, Dec. 29.-Caralry-7th Dragoon Guards-Gent. Cadet A. H. Vincent, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Weaver, appointed to...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 29. Partnerships Dissolced.-J. and T. Strut, Petersfield, Hampshire, coach-wheel- wri g hts-Ilu g hes and Fletcher, Chancery Lane,...

BBITI8E FUNDS. (Closing Pieces.) 3 per Cent Consols &turd. Monday. Tuesday. Wanes Mors. Friday. shut Ditto for Account 94 ex d. 931 931 931 941 3 per Cents Reduced...

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JANUARY 2, 1858. BOOKS. BAYLE ST. JOHN'S MONTAIGNE TICE ESSAYIST. * As it is not always the most meritorious men, morally and intel- lectually speaking, who are most...

correspondent, bids fair to do the world. Within the limits of the Vanity of Human Wishes —" from China to Peru"—he may be said to have done it al- ready, including Japan. He...

Dean Trench towards philolo g y has not only pro- duced several attractive books on words and. sentences, but bids • On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries : being the...

his way," much more wilful poet. Mr. Arnold still maintains that a proper subject for poesy is Classi- cal rather than shall we say Christian times, or beyond any doubt our own...

Tax number of publications keeps up, but the opening week of this year exhibits no greater promise in novelty of subject than did last year's close. Mr. Dyce's " Shakespeare "...

The author of this book is of opinion that the Rhine has long enough engrossed the admiration of the tourists in that part of the Continent, and that it ought to be the turn of...

THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY. It is not often that the affairs or principles of action of a provincial art body come prominently before the general public. An exception has now arisen...