... THE American President's miessaae, of which we have given an ample and carefully prepared summary in other columns,. has been looked for with much anxiety,.and will be read with a corresponding interest. Like all the state documents from the same bureau, it is lengthy, and Somewhat wordy; but it is, nevertheless, an ably-written exposition of the policy of.the executive government, and of the ...

... DESTRUCTION or IRONGATE waRr. Between three and feur on Thursday afternoon, a fire was dis- covered at the Irongate wharf, an extensive range of warehouses between the Tower of London and St. Katherine's docks. To such an extent did the fire rage within a few minutes after its first ap- pearance, that a general impression prevailed that the docks were on fire. From the moment the engines began ...

... ODDS AND ENLS. RISE IN THE PmIC OF COALS.-On the 26th ult. there was a general advance of So. in the toe of coals, made by the retail dealers, throughout the metropolis, those of the most inferior description being now charged at the rate of 30s. In Liverpool, the same qua- lity are about 13s. per ?? Times. THE MALT TAx.-The committee of the Shropshire Agricultural Protection Society held a ...

... MtnEaXNoao.-What a flood of tenfder recollectionssnoy be awakened by the simplest pledge of affection,,treasured as a memnseto ef past oassciatiosn! A volume may sometimos be read from a humble frweret that happeos in our path. The rust of time may render the delicate strings of memory almost tuneless; but when some accident touches the tsue chord, it will vibrate wish cthe softened and ...

... -W EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS. The public are indebted to the energy of Lieutenant Waglorn for this anticipation of the India Mail. The latest dates are Calcutta, Nov. 22, and Bombay, Dec. 2, a fortnight later than the advices re- ferred to in our second page. The following is from the Bombay Times.-The insurrection in Cashmere is now fairly over: the Sheikh Esmam-ood-deen surrendered himself into ...

... ?? FINANCIAL REFORM. With the new year it is usual to commence good works, and origi- nate plans of reformation; and we take the opportunity of the season to impress upon the members of benefit societies the absolute neces- sity of placing their various associations upon a sound financial foot- ing. We shall never cease to deplore the fatal mistake of the Legis- lature, in affording the ...

... PUBLISHED ON SUNDAY MORNING, CONTAINING THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE OF THE W)EEK. WHAT IS TO BE EXPECTED NEXT SESSION2 We think that one of the acts, or rather omissions to act, by which Lord John Russell has damaged his Ad- ministration, has been the quiescent, the passive manner in which he has suffered the importation of corn into this country, under the operation of the new law, to take its ...

... THE COURL. The cenrt'uill remaixs at Windsor. After the eovere.*frst of the preceding week, the 4e on the lake was, oe Thursday, con- sidered to be *of sufficient thickness to jostify the Prince sad his attendant., with the distinlguished vsitorsdofher Majesty, to venture on the ice; the Griseen, with the Duchess .e Suthorland, the.Iar- chioness of Douro, and the Hon. Miss Paget, promenading ...

... The sanitary condition of the metropolis generally, and of the parish of St. Mary, IsiiDgton, in particular, is a topic to which we have before called the attention of our readers, in conuexion with the praiseworthy efforts made by a few individuals in the neigh- bourhood of Bride-street, Liverpool-road, to remove a very disgrace- fool nuisance, tbreatening a pestilenuc in the neighbourhood, ...

... :Ov ?? 1.-NLON ~ FROME Tar1 L,3NLON SwT1 Tuesday, Dec. 29. WAR OFFICE, DEC. 29. lot Regiment of Life Guards-Lieutenant the Honourable Wellington Henr3 Stapleton Cotton, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Anderton, who retires; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Hugh William Boulton, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cotton; Edward John Cornwallis Lord Eliot, to be Cornet and Sub Lieutenant, by purchase ...

... The Government, we are happy to say, has exhibited a practical recognition of those distinctive principles upon which the colony of New Zealand was originally founded. There have been published, duriog the past week, a royal charter, which is, for the most part, a copy of the statute of last session, being granted in pursuance of the powers and in accordance with the previsions contained in ...

... ZEALTZ AD ITS PBS~i3aATiON. Tcos S ours. DISEASES OF THE CHEST.-NO. X. ARSTHMA ASTHMA, in familiar language, has a most comprehensive significs. I tion, as difficulty of breathing, from whatever cause it may aris I generally described by this term. Asthma, properly so called is confined to that endition of disordered respiration in which the d'ffiL culty of breathing is temporary, but recurs ...