30 DECEMBER 1854, page 13

Christmas Holidays In The Papers.

FLOODS of Transatlantic " notions" swamp the daily papers of Lon- don. Take up the journal of the day, and you would infer from the face of its contents that the parent country......

A Crisis At The Antipodes.

LIKE all the Australasian group, New Zealand has proved its capacity for producing a monstrosity ; only in lieu of the ornitho- rhynchu8 paradoxus, or the lamertine ".devil,"......