... MISCELLAN EOUS. - The Brain.-The brain itself may be removed, may be s cut away down to the corpus calosum, without destroying Y life. The animal lives and performs all those functions which are necessary to simple 'italitv, but has no longer a mind : it cannot think or feel. It requires that the - food should be pushed into his stomach: once there, it is n digested; and the animal will then ...

... OBSERVATIONS ON THE GOLD AN]D SILVER MINES OF SOUTH AMERICA. (Continuzedfrem ?? Glasgow Herald of 31st DecemberJ d, The CJerro of Potosi never yielded gold, but the silver which-it id gave during a long period was so enormous in quantity. that but for .I the existence of documentary proof, it would be difficult to belieje as that originally and- during many years, the mountain afforded SO d ...

... FRA NCE. (From the Standard.) Paris, Fritday Evening.-The Assembly was occupied to-day with the election of President of the Assembly and Vice-Presidents for the ensuing quarter. Two hours vere spent in taking the votes for the sake of allowing the necessary number of members to be pre- sent. At half-past three o'clock the Chairman announced that with regard to the President, the result was as ...

... MONDAY MORNING, JANUAIRY 7. The Board of Trade Returns, an abstract ?? will be found in our first page, continue to give a favourable indication of the state of our Trade and Navigation. With this fact before us, it is not too mrauchi to expect a continuance of prosperous times, so ]ong as capital and enterprise are confined to their legitimate channels. 'WV& have received news frm6i India. ...

... C A L I F O R N I A. ?? - v s . , .. .^ ^ ,. - tol (From the Daily NCrs.) an The last mail from Califoinia has brought intelligence 1hi possessing a different kind of interest from that wvhich ali sitt it he itself to stories of masses of gold picked np in the beds of rivers, and speculations on a possile deprc- tciation of currencies by the cheapeniing of their standard. t The Californians ...

... ENGLALN. literary Pemions.-As some misapprehension appears to exist on the subject, we are enabled to state that no pension will revert to the Government through the death of r1r. Tvtler, the historian. By the last arrangement of the Civil List, the Government has no power to exceed the annual sum set apart for pensions, on account of the demise of any of the recipients on the list.-Glpbe. 2%4 ...

... ',A-7F FAI Re I CAENADA. rialt; 0,, (From thetorntng Chronicle) Oar accounts from Oanada continue to be of that etl eqnivocal apd unsatisfactorjbaracter which has marked. m every successive arrivalof intelligence since the Montreal hm ouitbreak.of last spring. Airegards the actual progress e of the Annexationist sediri'6n4 w;e have indeed no very. f precise iaformnation ;- -and ,the ...

... MATERIALS FOR THINKING, A Od Wfef.-That young lady will make a good WieewGhl r- does not apologist when you find her at work in the kitchen. bat continues her task until her work is tiuished-nriae , Begging is a shame for any coiatry, for if the beggar he an en- 5 worthy object of charity, it is a shame that he should be allowed to : beg; if he besa worthy object of charity, it is a shame that ...

... ItEIA-NI. P : 0 (Fxom the Maornia Chroeneles Cortespandtiienee 9 , STATE OF THE WEST. I have seen accounts from Mayo, and other western counties, which give a far less discouraging representation of the -condition and prospects of various districts ?? has been previously received. e Owing to the cheapness of food, a very considerable reduction has e been made in the expenditure of the ...

... . : MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE I UNITED STATES f TO BOTH HOUSES OF THE THIRTY-FIST CONGRESS, J) DECEMBER, 1849. FELLOW CITIZENSI 0F TEHE SENATE MiO A-ND Hones' OF RXPRESENTATIVES, Sixty years have elapsed since the estabiishieneit of this Govern- X mont andthe ongress of the United. States again assembles, c to legieliee for an empire of freemen. The predictions of evil of prophets, -who ...

... .- . ?? b AI-E F ?? V X^ ] . . oLAS6UiW PAROCHIlAL BSUAIJD. An adjourned meeting of the City Parochial Board wras held on n Tuesday, within the Board-room of the Towvn's Hospital. Present e. -Mr. D. Anderson in the chair-Messrs. Henderson, Cairns, ad Rennie, Hoir, Callender, Carswell, Cochran, Dick, Freckleton, ,,e Ross, Blyth, Chambers, Hannan, Morrison, Aitken, Gourlay, Kerr, - y Lamond, ...

... Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal-Highness the Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the, domestic household, attended divine service on Sunday morning in the private chapel. TheBishop of Manchester preached the sermon, the prayers being read by- the Hon. and Rev. G. Welleslev. Lord John Russell is expected to arrive in town for the season on ...