... I . I. r f- , -- 10, - a, ?, . - , 4A t - EI 8'T' R NB G TfIURS+JIDA, JANL ?? Y S. 1Sa0. l tlhe cit artticle off the TuMs nli Tuesday, wve whave a ?? of the evenmt of 1849, as bearing on the fillan- ?? and comnmercial rpsonrces of hec country, the range of Consuls beingg taken as the mnost taugible criterion of the I natiolonll stabiiity. The result is to inspire good hopes as to the year 1 ...

... BY IC ErniLE s l PARIS, TUESDAY. This being Sriv Year's Da-, it was kept as a strict boli- dav-all the public offices and the Bourse remained closed. The Assembly did not sit, although the members of the Moun- tain were against adjourning till Wednesday. Notwitbstand- ing the bad state of the weather, there being a cold thaw and heavy atmosphere, there were a great numberof persons out of ...

... EMIGRATrON FROM THE HIGHLANDS. On Monday afternoon a meeting of the Glasgow Section of d the Highland Destitution Relief Board was held in the Mer- er chants' House, Glasgow-Mr Hastie, M.P. presided. Mr Baird read the report of the committee of management. I The report stated, that the accounts had been examined by Messrs M'Clelland and Mein, accountants, who had passed them. The total amount ...

... ptjVBv- C~t-t ES PO.N.3ENCE. (From 0ur Seiuiu OffN~pO7dahU.) LOXDOY, TuisDtY EVENING. TThe violent though1 useless agitation ot the Protectionists to increase their rent rolls, by taxing the food of tihe peo- pie is, and1 must colntillue, to be, the prevailing topic with all classes of politicians, until Pai liatuent rteassemnbles. It must be admitted that the agricultural agitators are exer- ...

... THE EGYPTIAN CHALLENGE TO THE JOCKEY CLUE. An English sporting gentleman bas taken the trouble and incurred the expense of measuring accurately the piece of e ground laid out for the race expected to come off between his a Highness's horses and those proposed as competitors by the English Jockey Club. It is on the desert, within a few miles of Cairo, and consists of heavv sand, from five to ...

... THIE GALE OF LA.ST WVEEK-FERN ISLAND. We are indebted to a correspondent for the fullowing ship- ping intelligence. The details lie gives from personal obser- j vation -- On Tharsday morning last, about 35 sail had scught shelter under the Fern Island but, from the fury of the tempest, nard nmany nut being able to get near enough to thc island, abo| from parting, ,slipping, and driving the ...

... WEES ENDING DEC. 23. CoLEDOraN RAILwaY-160 Bliles opened. Number of passengers, 12,493-receipts for passengers, parcels, horses, carriages, &cc. L.2315 1] 9 Goods, minerals, antd cattle 3680 3 6 Total . . L5995 15 3 WEEE; ESDISG DEC. 29. EDINBSURGH AND GLASGOW RALawAr. Number of passengers, 17,27 7-receipts for passengers, horses and carriages, parcels, goods, cattle, Ic. . . L.267 16 10 ...

... The Mainister of War bas comumanded the ifruation of a new corps, to be called the Voltigeurs Algeriens. Seventeen of the persons who were arrested sometime since .i n.che Rea-Essrnfordda-oa-eharge of havnrdg o6nspirelthlfeiC. r throw the Government -of the Republic, and to restolrehliebv Bourbons, are to be tried on the double charge of having con- stituted a secret society, and oa having ...

... BLACKWOOD ON BRITISH AGRICULT AND FOREIGN COMPETITION. f (From the Times.) Under the title Li British agriculture and foreign cor- petition, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for January contains a more thorough exposure of agricultural protec- tion than any that either Villiers or Cobden could hava s devised. It is unnecessary to say that the blow is not a designed, but it is not the less ...

... THE EXPECTED IHIGH TIDES. As we stated on Monday last the high tidje prediction has proved a failure here, and excepting on the sotli and east coasts of England. wheie very- stormy weather prevaile, ?? sea hlsi risen very little if at all above the height of an ordi- nary stream tide. Tne followving addlitional particularshave reached us since our last:- The Glasgow Herald of Monday states ...

... The following letter appeared in the Times of Tuesday, and is interesting, not only as a reswind of all the efforts made to obtain tidings of Sir John Franklin's expedition, hut is a powverful appeal to the public of Great Britain to tak1e stil !neore decidcd and comprehensive measures for the relief of the gallant explorers of the Polar Seas, in the hope that Prhovi- *ience has still spared ...

... COUR LAW DECISION. I- II thlat a retici and det wont ir.n mcav acqquire a settlemert I 1¾by ittdttst'ial rcsi,l',nce iti a patisi for tite lequitite pfrioti. It itls a clairn tit liroe pitt by 1tr AlItons ilnspector of the poe ?? the civ o, r rse. v. nr*inst rhe i isector for tic lpa rish (ot St CthberC's, nit I the inspoccor for ttc palrith of Colittoet It Rtttulariicl thai in 1847 a claim ...