... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... FREE lI'RESBYTERY GF DINi31URBGIL Thde coccit mc :y Hcrarly icc Fra? Sr. Ga~crge's. RBr-c Mr David'o, 'tud 5, tI CICaT tCl. M~ Lreicl~tn hi 1xiti t ch.! ulnisl for the ercetica ?? :I; cle.w ciuccci hisc C O-tu .101 3O Topr ) Iicig to lcc~itW. fice LI ~lt Cure-sttioi) ir-; til' lirs fcoo lic',oc-i See;,: cite ccit cs in :1: c Prosc; le-rvt; qc a I rc: tlitr c o:: f wor- sli3t,, 11111 wvas tic- ...

... EDINBRGEH GAZETTE. SROruETRARTIONS. TnOI'As BArLOW., or TroM^As Co00an BARLOW, firework artist, wine and srlirit dcaler, grocer and victualler, Mazenpa Tavern, Pinnieston Street, Anderston, &olasgow-Creditors Meet in Whyte's Tenmpueranrc Hotel, Melville Place, Trongate Street there, 3th January an 1 6fh February, two O'clock. JAM:ES LaUrIE, of Millhganton, in the county of Dumfries, cattle ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Some misapprehension exists respecting the new Post Office Sunday duty arrangements. Those provincial offices which have been made forwarding offices have not had any additional duties imposed on them, since they merely transfer on Satur- day night the bundles of London letters which they receive from those offices which do not now make up bags for London to their own London bags, and transfer ...

... THE IMIPAITIALITY OF FIREE TRADE-LETTER FROMK r.R COBDEN-. The follow- ,Ig letter. ad3drcsed hy llr CoLden to a gentle- rnein in Devonsilire, wili he found interestine, Wetbourne Terrace, Dec 3 I49 Pratt Si--I send yca the papers you vanta. Dy referrin, to tsle impttrts. vou xxiil see tihat I lave marked certain ar- ticles elich are almitted frce. Neov there is n1othing upon |shich there is ...