... S3fituftenrwt, axc. 1211 I to tea CREIV3 op THiN WOnoDSIow STRAM1ER.-Afl effort is being made to present some substantial articles of Warm as;teamers. This generous testimonial is by way of acknsow. 2 ...

... ! 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 ...

... CALUMNIES AGAINST KOSSUTH I The following letter, we are informed, was lately forwarded to the editor of the Tynwed: ir' SIR,-There appeared in your paper of the 25th, a be calumniout statement, aftctcing the character of a 'I public man and of a gentlewvoan of tspottless reputa. ad tlOD. Many weeks must 4eeessarily elapse, ere M. hie Koasuth, or Countess Demublaski's husband, or the n. ...

... CALIFORNIA.-PROSPECTS OF THE GOLD WASHINGS. (From the Scotsman.) The geological analogy of the new gold-land of America, with the majority of similar regions in both the rid and new world, fornrs the surest ground for forming an estimate of its future prospects. Eyman conjoins this vrith a gemeral accrunt of the geographical distribution of gold on the globe, illustrated by a map and table of ...

... THE HIG*LAND DESTITUTION BOARD. [From the Sotsman.] A meeting of the Edinburgh section of the Highland Destitution Board was held on Thursday, when another book, of 200 pages, was produced, purporting to give an account of all that he. been done and spent during the lest six months. The prresnt volume differs little or nothing from the previous parts of the same voluminous work; and, ther fore ...

... The season is suggestive of question :-HoW I ar stands the Europe of 1850 P In any coup d'wil bi at the general position of European politics, our th attention is naturally first a ...

... SOCIETY FOR TEr-lE REFORM OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. T T-n r 1.- -e- i>,l -- - - . A i;_ . Ar I_ . A Under the above title the following prospectus is about to be issued:-. The general object of the society is to aid in obtaining for every dependency, ?? a true colony of England, the real and sole nnnge f all local affairs by the colony itself, including the Iis~l of the waste lands, and the ...

... ? . . ?? : o(orict vlffv?. , -1. ?? I ie, : ALTRINCHA . r itchl E~ORktl55 SiOnRs~kii-COn Clifisfinus Day,. a, party' of I nite young. menl turned out with at gdn: in' Ash1on- upon BMersey, I ned which Wfas carried'by a yogiiaoi3naiised Johbn BostocLk of 5 Sa~ie 'aSd ,Who' was to have ilei irst shot, they travelled I ven some distnnce, and nothiug appearing to sl6ot at, thd'spbrlts I soft mbn ...

... THE DENS OF EDINBURGMH. It'rom 6Day and Night, by Dr. Goo Blell.] OWThe deo. inhabiterl by e'ut-donir paLUPers, beggars, are 'vagrants, the parents of raggat-scoboal children, dci., die., aty &o., are in cbixure planes. Th.y are hidden aniong, the wbt masses of rotten, rat-haunted buildings behind the Greass- ~te market, Cowiate, West Port, Cationgate, &o. They are as the repulsive as t a ...

... THE LATE MR. PATRICK FRASER TYTLER. [From the Rdinburgh oaveuraot.) I Our obituary of Thursday reoorded the death, at i Great Malvern, in Worcesstershire, on Christmas-ova, of Mr. ?? Patrick Fraser Tytler, the well known author of the '1 is I tory of Scotland. A love of letters may be said to have been part of Mr f Tytler's inheritance. Hie grandfather, Mr. William Tytler - of Woodhouselee ...

... SPIRIT OF THE LIVERPOOL BROKERS' ANNUAL CIRCULAR&. ked t a. late hour last night we (Liverpool Stindard) uld succeeded in getting copies of the annual eirculirs of tome 'Our of ourleadtiing brokers; awl we now proceed to g ive their Ye:. sotanthe pubbahed ubtnce., refer ring our readers for the witsstaistis pblihed i the tabular forms at the foot of this Ion article. We take first the cotton ...

... I RE TOL UTIOINS at R OMFE and PALE, ?? Such is the title of a pamphlet not exceeding one hundred pages, written by the noble earl, who w'as fortunate enough to witness two of the princi- pal acts of the Italian revolutionary drama of the year 1848. But our author was more than a mere spectator; he can exclaim, like Pius .Eneas, or like Pius IS. ?? l u Quaeqie ipse miserrima vidi. Et quonrm ...