... I | SPAIN. The latest accounts from Madrid are of the 26th ult. It was re- ported, and to a certain degree credited, that M. Mon would succeed M. Bravo Murillo in the Ministry of Finance. The 'Pais' an' nounces that M. Zaragoza, the present*political chief of Madrid; would replace M. Gueipo as Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of the Interior, in which case the post left vacant by M. ...

... PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. THE GARDE MOBrLE. - On Thursday week, after a very confased debate, the Assembly rejected the bill relative to the Garde Mobile by a majority of 494-to 113. This result was in consequence of a difference of opinion between the Committee and the Minister of War as to the mode of disposing of the officers. It is supposed that another measure will be ...

... If I might give a short hint to an ismpatial writer, it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If be tells the crimes of great men they fall upon hsm with the iron bands of the law ; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob ...

... M I SC E LL A NE 0 US. CONVSNENTAL TRAVZLcIsN.g-Atrangements that will greatly facili- tate our continental travelling-have been completed-betwder .the- Southl Eastern Railway Company and., the adniiinistratiorsis of ?? and -Amiens and the. Northern of Prance -linesi: to come-into- operation> on-the -st!of:January, 1860. Travelles's will now be able to book themselvesithrough, andobtain direct ...

... The rmeeting of Parliament is fixed for Thursday, the 31 st of January. It is said that, in consequence of the ill-health of Mr Bromley, a vacancy will shortly be declared in the representation of South Notts. The nuptials of the Hon. Sarah E. Copley, eldest daughter of Lord Lyndhurst, and Mr Selwyn, only son of Mr G. Selwyn of Down Hall, Essex, are to be solemnised in the course of the ...

... (From an esteemed Correspondent.] The circumstances attending the recent execution at Horsemonger lane must suggest to all reflecting men, as they have suggested to Mr Dickens, the question whether some alteration be not expedient or necessary in the mode of inflicting capital punishment. Some, indeed, from the disgusting facts of the transaction in question, may be die- posed to draw ...

... .; BOARD or TRADE RETURNS.-A full abstract has been published of the returns of the Board of Trade for the month ending December 6th, which prove the gratifying fact of a great and increasing prospe- rity. The entire increase in exports during the first eleven months of the year 1849, as compared with the corresponding months of 1848, is now 9,681,8971.-the totals respectively being 44,407 ...

... FOREIGN GLEANIN4s. On Si nday Iast theOfgrqiiiS of Norm had a private audience of the President of the French Republic ihich he presented a letter fromi Qrdn Vict'driX 'annou.ci ig t e' th 6f lher hate Majeaty'the IuthS ?? Wariata coirinmaided the fornatton of a DI f Cot;n zto be Cbl1d tbf oltigeuis A lgetienst Ak letter from TOUlO of the 26th ult. announces The arrivallnt'h~l port of the ...

... HEALTZ oi? LoDOn DuRING THri WnEr.-In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were 1,053; the weekly average of this season, corrected for increase of population, is 1,162. The mortality of last week is, therefore, less than the estimated amount by 109 deaths. and is nearly the same as that of the previous week. Of the 1,053 persons whose deaths are ...

... | TnE GooErAya CAsE.-Mr Editor,-After reading the proceedings of the Gorham case, a strong feeling of wonder is left on the mind, a feeling shared in by many in this country, that in the so-called age of enlightenment and progress, persons should yet be found to believe in the eternal condemnation of infants for original sin. Having lately met with some remarks on the subject from the pen of ...

... I THE MACADANISATION OF IaraLxCT.-The more prominent men of the middle ages acted their part with an earnestness that impressed the stamp of their force on the century, the generation, or the country that produced them; different from ours, in which the sum of infini- tesimal mediocrities of intelligence is found to outweigh and overbear talent and mind in the gifted unit; how humiliating to ...

... I SIR,-I trust I have been mistaken as to the import of a passage in a communication from your eminent and able correspondent, Mr Walter Savage Landor, in your journal of the 5th of January. The passage I refer to is this- The Americans must offer (it is not yet proposed thatthe Englishshalloffer) lan asylum to whoever, rising up against oppression and indignity, shall, in the absence ...