... followed by the French Foreign Minister the subject of the Spanish and Polish questions before the Chambers. In the last number of the Rerue dcs Deux Mondes, appeared an article, which we noticed at the time, upon the affairs of Spain and Cracow, bearing the signature of M. d'Haussonville, a member of the Chamber of Deputies. The chief part of this article is reprinted in the leading ...

... THiE SKIBBEREEN DEPUTATION TO ENGLAND.- The relief committee of this town met at the grand jusy room on Monday to receive a report from the deputatiot which went to England on their behalf to solicit sob- scriptions for the relief of the poor of this destitute district. The Rev. BMr Townsend read the following report, agreed to by him and the Rev. Mr Caulfie!d, as the result of their mission ...

... The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, arrived at Claremont, at a quarter-past four o'clock on Thursday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. Yesterday morning H.R.11. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting, attended some of the gentlemen of the royal suite. Her Majesty and Prince Albert ...

... vootoc4fpt. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9. The ' Gazette' of last nirht contains the announce- tment that a baronetcy Ilis been conferred on Sir H. Wheatle-,- Knt. lee Keeper of the Privy Purse. Tile election for North Lincolnshire will be held at Linroln on Tuesday next. A deputation from the London Association for the reduction of the duty on tea, headed by Sir G. Larpent, waited upon Lord John ...

... funds and railway shares are falling. The Bank's resource in gold has again diminished, and on the 26th of December amounted to 71,000,000 of francs only. By means of a purchase of piastres made in London, by M. Hottinguer, to the amount of 20,000,000 of francs, hopes are entertained of a restoration of the equilibrium in the Paris monetary system. The position of the treasury better than it ...

... FRANCE. NEw YEAR'S DAY-The address to the King by the diplomatic corps was read by the Pope's nuncio. The difficult question of the MJontpensier marriage was avoided by the phrase in which his Majesty was compli- mented on the renewal of the domestic joys of the royal family. After the nuncio's address, the Queen, taking the Duchess of Mlontpensier by the hand, ad- dressed some words to each ...

... Infinitely more than is in general contemplated depends the result of present and future experiments on the subject of prison discipline. It is not merely the best and fittest treatment for the convict or the outcast, that will be ascertained in these researches, but the best mode of dealing with that much larger class, at present unequal the task of selfprovision and self-conduct. If ...

... CONSECRATION O05 NEW ClluRcHEs.-During the present month three new churches will be consecrated in the metropolis, viz. St Jude's, Whitechapel, St Andrew's, Ox- ford street, and the Mariners' Church, near the north en- trance to the London Docks, all of them having been erected within the last twelve months. Miss BURDETT COUTTS' NxW CHURCH AND SCoOOLS.- It is stated that no less than 45,0001. ...

... MI SCELLANEOUS. A NEw CLrUeB-IOUSa.-The members of the Army and' Navy Club have purchased a large space of ground ad- joinibg their old house of meeting in St James's square, in order to erect a new club-house. It is their intention to offer two prizes, of 2001. and 1001. each, for the first and: second best plans of such a buildittg-and to open the competition to thie menmbers of the ...

... of alteration in our weights and measures, and the introduction of the decimal system. Few of our readers have any distinct notion of the inconveniences of the present system, or of the proper mode of discussing the balance of the loss and gain which a change would produce. We could easily fill a column with these; but not wishing to waste time, we shall only endeavour to place before them a ...

... We have received the following letter from our correspondent in the capital: Not. 29. • Since the taking of Monterey no time has been lost the authorities ; and Santa Anna has now certainly some 30,000 men at his command. On tha 7th of this month General Taylor informed Santa Anna that the armistice 1 agreed upon the capitulation had not been recognised by ' his government, and that he ...

... land in France, and its consequences, which it represents to be the aim manj liberal statesmen of the present day to introduce into this country under the guise of gardens for the poor, peasant proprietors, ana similar heresies. The writer proves, and unfortunately has no difficulty in proving, that agriculture is very backward in France, and that the land, whether divided between small ...