... LEEDS, SATURDAY, JAINUSARY13. ANOTFIeR eventful year has passed over ; and another year's obligations are laid upon us. to al body of friends as numerous, as steady, and as kind as ever Editor had the honour to possess. We hail the opportunity of again offering them our heart-felt thanks, and wishing them, in old English fashion, a happy New Year. re never glance over the list of our ...

... 1 I \ . . , a . . I . i Our anticipations of last week that the election of members to serve in parliament for this borough would be made without a contest, have not been realized ; for there are already four candidates who are likely to stand the issue of a poll. On Monday evening, a number of persons met at Smith's, the Albion Hotel, in pursuance of a circu. lar, requesting the attendance ...

... sortgil Einttelhgeke. UNITED STATES. By private letters information of an interesting nature is conveved from the United States. Up to the 2nd. ult. it appears that an increase for goods of British mani- ?? had tkein place. A quantity of brandy was about to be imported from Great Britain, itbeinggetie- rally believed thati until the claims made on France tsy' the Americans were arranged, the ...

... (From the British Magazine.) It was a clear breezy Sunday eveninm bright masses of clouds, looking like thrones for angels, were sailing along the pure blue sky; the young wheat was beginning to make the gentle falls of the hilly grounds of the softest green. and all along the hedge-rows were gathering that sweet and gay company which come to bid us rejoice in the mercy of God, who, though ...

... thototript. LONDON, THURSDAY, Jalluary . HERE is a piece of intelligence in the Paris Paper., 5 which, though it was repeatedly stated before, is really too extravagant to obtain credence from any rational eing, It says, that theXRtussian courtihas put forward a ciuin amounting to more than five millions sterling, 'cia Franc, for contributions raised by the latter in Poland during the late war ...

... Ulagoban'0 11300r '1HE PortugueseMinistry have succeeded in ?? T of Peers, in carrying the law for the sale of na- tional property, to the extent of ten millions sterling ap- piable to the extinction of the internal and foreign debt.. I The opposition disputed the ground inch by inch, but th ultimately the Ministers had a large majority. A The German papers contain, under the head of Rome, tA ...

... TO THE LOYAL AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF EDINB URGI-I. GENTUDEr'X, Deeply impressed by a sense of the extensive importance of the present crisis of affairs, and of the urgent necessity for wisdom, experience, aisi sound judgment on 'the part of the people's representatives, I offer myself with confidence as a candidate for the honour of representing the metro- polis of Scotland. I ...

... ?? LONDON GAZEMTh, Friday, Jan 2. i IOFFICE OP.TIE LORD VhAMI3EilLAIN TO THE QUEEN, QUEEN'S HOSE ST JMS'S, JAB. I. is erby ~vn, ha the iuen il hold Drawing-rooms St. Jli ss Paareon te folowig da s:- brt-a Aprl 2 Ap1150,May14,Ma 25 beng orthe celtbrtlon of the Wlli'ki' AL#t, ,tA5O I. The kink~ has been ul'eased to diretitt letters patent to 1) psd r Orthe. Gea Real 6i t e U~nited Kin m, ...

... TO; T:fE . : , 10 w-E :f~4 . u eWO2 30; Dee 018i34 lt,.was my igtetition, ,to ,.dgre~ss, ~i~s week, a seeornid-teato S i PsEL, containing some remarks on his speech at ,the- M9ansion-house py bii£,vii an ?? 1&d in -yotiru paer of estra;yusea ?? ~i'h nmore flainy, $ utd mra..ly tbat Il prefer the addss f wyself t you; and I shall, Xwith greattrespbee£.orN yougr talents, ~aad-with . vig~.o full1 ...

... ?? AIDj E ,, ?? I . ?? ?? c t a.teni orival our Tory cofl~ sall lot 11 the sctrrility of their Bil ortilesseuthirity o ir n the mystic metaphors of Oare ?? t scaely intelligible style. hall ow lY say, hat the charges which are efshllon wery Y Gibson Craig and his c muadle an 25y anid scandadously false: larc ors Opp to point out a ingle we defy ?? or corruption on ?? ?? of 0intIetc ?? IIMAr ...

... We our years as a tale that is told. How has the past year been hastening from us, and we hastening in it from the world! Where are the days fled ? They are gone to be numbered with the years beyond the flood; and we are now standing as on 'he isthmus of time. Friends arc dying aroftiid us, we are dying our- selves—the world is dying, and the eud of all things is at hand. in this state, well ...

... IRELAD. TITHE SLA UGHTER? A T RA THC ORMA C. The Dublin .gnorrespodent of the 71nmes describes very forcibly the dss IvhiCll O mCcinnell made of the siaughter at Rathcormac, sheut ^lldresgjjg his zIudi'ence at the Corn * Exchange, VI~blin, on the 19th, The orator commenced in an unusually calm voice-; he spoke Chfew sentences about I English Clanrceldrs for Ireland; gave some details rcspect- ...