... 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 ...

... HISTORY will contain few epac l naore memorable than the years which close the first half of the pre- sent century. No convule en so universal has taken place since the religious outburst of the Reformation. We do not augur for the present a course so long and so ?? as that great struggle. There is not the same stubborn element of difference in political as in religions creeds. And government ...

... T-hirl-AG OF ESSEX PROTECTIONISTS. _1F.OE, MVNDAY EvENINQ,-Tlris after- too tere ,cIts a great gathering of gentlemen holding Petcitt1ri~rilS at the Maid's Head-inn, in this 'vIe mneeting was convened for the purpose of afford- ,ag tire rfaioers, arid others of the southern division of the csuaty, an opportunity of expressing their opinions upon or, present aspect of agricultural affairs. Sir ...

... The official Ga.ette of Canada, of the 8th of De comber, announces that His Excellency the GO- vernor-General, has been pleased to discharge the under-mentioned gentlemen from the coinmissioll of the peace, for the district of Montreal :-Jclob De Witt, of Montreal (a member of Parliameut); Benjamin IHolmes, of ditto (a member of Parlia ment); Michael M'Culloch, of ditto la merchant); Hon. ...

... LONDON: TUE8DA Y, 4tAA (.'UAY 1, 1850. To those who love to find or fancy a certain artificial roundness and finish in each succes- sive volume of the world's Annual Register- who would like every year to be a separate chapter of history complete within itself, and, d fortiori, every century or half-century to coin- cide at both ends with some great era in human destinies-to such curious ...

... ! 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 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 ...