... It having been customary in this institution for an address to be delivered to the candidates at the period of the half-yearly examinations, a meeting was convened at the College, in Bloomsbury-square, yesterday morning, to hear an address from P. Kingsford, Esq. The chair was taken by the R1ev. Dr. WILS8N, Dean of the College. Mr. KINGSFORD delivered an elaborate address, having selected as ...

... BURNING OF THE 'DEAD. A remarkable meeting was lately held at cbe City of London Mechanics' Institute. The object was to form a society, which should originate the practice of decomposing the dead by fire. Resolutions were passed to oreate a public opinion in favour of this substitution for the unwholesome custom of interment; to set examples in the persons of de- ceased members of the society ...

... IlL vrbe ;Ma a VIAW t liewo* DRUIJRY LANE. Tmhts EYrNInG, ROB ROY MACGREGOR. Messrs. S. Anderson, Emery, Diddear, Itafter, and Montague; Mis Rafter, Mrs. Teruan.- And HARLEQUIN AND GOOD QUEEN BESS; or. Merrie Eng- land in the Oldon Time. Mesres. Deulin, J. Deulin, Seymour, nud Stilt; Mdlle. Theodore.-Doora optn at 6. HAYMARHET. Tnis EveNNeO, LOVING WOMAN. Mes.r. Charles Kean, WVlluck, Howe, ...

... hS PARIS, SUNDAY, 65* P.m. n- General Lv Hitte, in the name of the government, of expesed to the Legislative Assembly the policy of the t government in the La Plata question. Government a, will not send an expedition against Rows, tor will it ed ratify Lepredour's treaty, but it will nogtoiate. Such th is, in a few words, the substance of M. de Di Hitte's iis statement. It seems tbat it was ...

... Our correspondents write as follows: BERLIN, Dzc. 27. The affairs of Germany have again reached a deci. sive point. The federal commission at Frankfort attracts all eyes. It is said that the federal commis. sion intends to take up the same position towards the representatives of the respective German States as the former Diet occupied, and that it means to disregard the constitutions of all ...

... PORtSrMouJTH, DEC. 31. - The Terrible, steam-frigate, Captain Hope, C.B,, arrived here this morning from the eastward, and will probably sail to-morrow for Devonport, prior to proceeding to Lisbrn or the Mediterranean.-The Adventure, naval store-ship, Master Commander Welling- ton, arrived here this afternoon, and alter embarking a few stores for ships on the African station, will proceed to ...

... THE PHILANTHROPIC (P) RAJAH BROOKE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. _1rn-I will give you one more example of Rajah rooke's mnanner of civilising the wild inbabitants of Borreo, taken from his own diary9 published last year eider his own direction, and by a captain in her Ma- Je3ty's Navy. The incidents to which I allude, as well asthat mentionedin mylastletter, are not tobefouad 1aptsin ...

... be t, The tide in the Thames yesterday afternoon e reached to the height of 28 feet 9 inches, being lower by an inch than that of the previous day. The following letter has been addrea'ed by the Astro- n. nomer Royal to Meors. Scott arnd Hopkins, of the Tiames' ad office, Plymouth, on the subject of the Leamington letter of transmitted to him by those gentlemen: to o Royal Observatory, ...

... rFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The mails from Italy, Germany, and the South of France arrived late here to-day, in consequence of the state of the weather, snow having fallen very generally in every part of France. The intelligence brought by them is altogether devoid of interest. In Paris also there is not much news of any sort. M. Thiers has been named president of the ...

... I THE MIETROPOLITAN DISTRICTS. LFROM OUR SPECIAL CORRUSPO-NDHNT.J LETTEr XXII. Having finished with the different classes of Coal- 'abourers in London-the whippers, backers, pull- backs, trimmers, and waggoners-I purpose now dealing with the Ballast men-including the ballast- getters, the ballast-lightermen, and the ballast- heavers of the Metropolis. My reason for passing from the Coal to the ...

... THE TEMPERANCE MOVhMENT IN LEICESTER. A correspondent says :-After fourtten years of persevering and vigorous effort, the cause of temperance In Leicester has attained au altitude which distinguishes it as ret one of the most successful and useful of the philanthropic in° at stitutions of the borough. The statistics in the last yelr's freport of the society astonish the most sanguine friends ...

... ! AUSTRIA. [FROX OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] VIEN.k, DEC. 25.-Nothing of any interest in the political world has transpired since my last. The leading journals still carry on a brisk skirmishing on the subject of finance, and such is the diffuse- ness and acrimony displayed on both sides, that little space or aninams is left for the discussion of other questions. All the anxiety on German affairs ...