... THE ENGLISH ON THE CONTlNENT. With regard to my statement that £40,000 per day is spent in Paris by the English, I think 1 shall be able to startle you with a few facts tending to show that my estimate is ander the mark. I have long seen with regret the action of absen- teeism on the currency in England. I am quite sure that our legislators, economists, and public men, have no idea whatever of ...

... AUSTRALIAN COLONIZATION, AND EMIGRA. TION. OUR attention has been directed to a pamphlet recently of published on this subject, under the auspices of a Com.- to mittee of influential individuals lately formed in the metropolis for promoting emigration to Australia. Of the general importance of colonization and emigration there can be no doubt. With our daily increasing po- pulation, followed, ...

... FLOWEn GATtDrN AND SHRUBBrEnIES.-A surplus stock of bedding plants should always be provided against contin- gencies; the propagation of such things as Hefiotropes, Ver- benas, Pelargoniums, and Calcoolarias, should be proceeded with, as the general utility of the plants for decorative pur- poses is unquestionable therefore an ample supply is stren- uously recommended. Uhrysanthemums out of ...

... MI SC ELLA N ED US. A PI1ILANTIROPIST.-A gentleman who, we regret to state, was abachelorl has left the munificent sum of e3000, for the invention of a shirt without buttons 1-Punch. Mon DispERsER.-A new mode of dispersing mobs has been discovered out west, which is to supersede the necessity of military force. It is-to pass round a contribution box. REVOLUTIONARY PRIvILEUP.-Amongst the things ...

... THE MASSACRE OF THE AMERICAN MISSION IN OREGON; , > Tur, Times iontains two letters from the Governior said Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company,, containing the Particulars of the massacre by 'the Indianis of the American Mission -at WallalWalla, in the Oregon territory,.of which a notice has already been published. 'Ar 1'Bean is an oflicier In charge of a fort beloingingto the Hudson's Bay ...

... r J r No. A . l I CiSND C1, ANGB OF TlE UNIFORM FOR Timl ARMY. ff have heard, from a source upon which we can rely, t is in contemplation to discontinue immediately the tbatIt k coat won by thle officers in undress; and that a ige'e; ock Cs to be substituted, which, with the white sword shell jact s used en all occasions on which the present frock beltilss . Changes are also to he made in the ...

... INVASION OF THE DANUBIAN PROVINCE BY RUSSIA. (From the Siecle.) Russia, profiting by the embarrassed state of Europe~ the irremediable weak ness of the Porte, i abott and military possession of the Danubian pros about to' on the road to Constautilopre.' Weovances which in this movement the signal of a genotao eTerlsee tion. By the treaties of Jassy and Adraole h~ had the right of intervening ...

... wouleotic intelligence. I ENGLA ND THEa ROvAr. Ccsiair..-Her 'Majesty and her Royal Consort lIcecogi been detained icy the severe weather in Portland Roads,f cacided at' Wevinauth 'on Wednesday, where the Queen wras re-t ,-eied with ent husiasm. Her Majesty's visit being unexpected, c.preaparationis were niade to pay hler honour. Her 'Majesty,i -aith her attendants, was driven to Abbotsbury ...

... PARTICULARS OF THE' RAILWAYS o01 SCOT- LAND SANCTIONED IN 1846. Length. C Airdrie and Bathgate Jtnction. Leased to the Ediiburgh and Glasgow. Engineers, AMessrs Grain er and MVartin - - - - 19f le I Alford 'alley (Great North of Scotland Com- Ln pany's line). Engineer, Alexander Gibb - 154 i- Ayrshire and Bridge'of Weir Junction (Branch ar of the Gla-gow and Ayr Company from their line near ...

... (Frmrn the Edinburgl Gazette of Tuesday.) Walter Thorbnrn & Co. coach builders, Glasgow, and of Waiter Thorburn, the sole partner of said Company, and as an individual-Creditors meet in the writing chambers of William Gilmour, writer, there, 27th January and 17th Fe- bruary. John Marshall, grocer and urovision merchant, Glasgow- Creditors meet in the office of David Jenkins, writer, there, I ...

... WE:DNLBDS3DA, Decomber 22, 1847. JEWIISH DISABILITMES. I THIs question, which has arisen out of the return of I Baron Rothschild as one of the representatives for the City of London, was mooted in the House of Commons, on Thursday last, by Lord John Russell. On that coca-: sion, his Lordship moved that the House resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider the civil and ...

... With reference to certain paragraphs which have lately ap-I peared in this and other local newspapers, we copy the follow- ing important documents from a London contemporary. These letters were addressed to the Rev. Alex. Ewing of Formes:- Bishopstowe, Torquay, Aug. 10, 1845. a Rev. Sir,-Your letter of the 4th would have received an ear- b tier answer had I been at home when it arrived here. ...