... .FOBEIGN o -COBRRE OONDBNCE. Our New York correspondent writes:- NEW YORK, DEO. 1,8. S:noe my last communioation, the House of Repre- sentatives, at Washington, has been daily engaged in endeavouring to elect a speaker. A great number of votes has be-n taken, but without success up to the moment of writing this letter. Two cireumstances rather interesting have occurred. The one, was the ...

... DUBLIN. Dec. 31. of Of all the protectionist meetings yet held in Ire- in land, that convened in Galiway, last week, by requisi- as tion to the High Sheriff, resulted in the most ridieu- in- lone defeat of the high rent party. The meeting was L's held in the Court-houes; the High Sheriff took the he chair in due form, and, among the gentlemen present oen were the two borough representatives, ...

... i Yesterday a meeting of commercial travellers took t place at the London Tavern, Bishopagate-atreet, for the a purpose of arranging the necessary preliminanries relative to t the formation of an establishment, to be called The Commercial Travellers' Club-house, Mr. A H. MOORE, of Gray'&-inn, took the chair, snd in explaining the objects of the meeting, stated that, although the number of ...

... 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 ...

... I ~e Tlhe 1nrdependtrnce Belge contains the following ex- I 61 tracts from the atatement of the motives for the pro- ve jeict of law for a commercial treaty between Fiance ae- uand Belgium : or Our cominvtroial relations with France embrace questions of their reality. The solicitude of the government has been directed to all these questions, but the chamber will under- 86stand that the ...

... th 1NO5{EBTErt, Dao. 81. li To-morrow benug Now-yeat'e-day, cur principal la trade market war held to-ay, instead of on Tuesday. There I was not quite such a full attendance as on the usual day, but At-tiUl there was a fair muster of manufacturers and mar' chants, and a fair business done, especially in yarns. Prices ohhad again an upward tendency, consequent on the advance in l cotton at ...

... 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, ...

... (From the Gobe.] We were enabled to make the following important aneounoement in the greater part of Our impression on Saturday: We understand that additional measures will to-morrow be brought into operation for diminishing Sunday labour at the Poetoffie. By (1) a partial discontinuance of the pre- sent Sunday morning delivery between the 3 mile and the 6-mile circle in London, about 100 ...

... 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 ...

... BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. 8 CANADA. Our dates from this colony are to the 15th of DEc. s They contain little of moment. The storm widl burst e when the legislatune re-assembles. Ministers are F preparing a measure relative to the clergy reserves, V and from all we can learn are prepared to deal with - that subject in a fitting spirit of boldness. e The official gazette of the 9th inst. announces ...

... CANADIAN AFFAIRS: BY A CANADIAN CONSE RVAMVE. B We published lately a letter from a Canadian n annexatitoist. We this day publish a letter from a L Canadian who ?? to be of conservative leanings, ae and friendly to the British League. We believe that it is by allowing all parties in Canada an opportunity . of submitting their views to the British public ir f turn, we shali beat enable our home ...