The Place On The Bench Which Has Become Vacant By

the resig- nation of Mr. Justice Williams in the Court of Common Pleas is to be filled up by the appointment of Mr. Montague Smith, M.P. for Truro, to succeed him. It is a good......

The Issue Of The Conflict In Prussia Is Still Uncertain.

The King, it is said, is so irritated by the demeanour of Austria that he is half disposed to compromise with his Parliament, and has invited Herr Grabow to Court. Herr Grabow......

The Illinois State Senate, By A Majority Of Five Votes,

•has re- - pealed the law prohibiting the immigration of free negroes into that State. This is a very important sign of the anti-slavery spirit of the North. Illinois had always......

General Thomas Has Sent Heavy Reinforcements From...

and Grant. It is believed that simultaneous advances will shortly be made from Savannah, Beaufort, Fort Fisher, and the James River, on Augusta, Charleston, Wilmington, and......

A Joint Committee Appointed By The Benches Of Each Of

the four Inns of Court have decided by a majority of one (12 to 11) that ordained clergymen shall not in future be excluded from the Bar. The great authority in favour of the......

The Correspondent Of The Times At Richmond Writes On The

27th -of December, between the two attacks on Wilmington,—after the failure and before the success,—a letter in which he speaks of the loss of Wilmington as almost a " blessing......

The News From America Is Scarcely Important. Of Course The

Blair mission came to nothing but Blair's Rhetoric, and the - only news from Richmond is that Congress has decided, and Mr. Jefferson Davis es :smelted, to appoint a......

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The Correspondence On The St. Alban's And Lake Erie Outrages

has been laid before Parliament. It is, on the whole, very tem- perate and conciliatory on both sides,—the only monstrous sugges- tion made by the North, and that not as a......

A Perfect Fend Is Raging In Paris On The One

question which few study, but which drives a large proportion of those few mad,— currency. The Conseil Snperieur du Commerce have been directed to inquire into the present......

Reports Have Been Current All The Week Of A Cession

of Mexican territory to France. The provinces of Sonora and Chihuahua in particular are said to have been ceded in return for the great services rendered by France to Mexico.......

The Court Of Aldermen On Thursday Was Inundated With Peti-

tions praying the Corporation to take the gas supply into its •own hands, complaining of Dr. Letheby's analyses of the noisome vapour now sold, and demanding that the price......

Several Members Of Parliament Have Already Given Notices...

motions. Sir G. Grey will bring on his bill for con- solidating prison discipline on Monday next ; Sir J. Pekington moves on the 28th for a committee to consider the appointment......