... .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 ...

... LA telegraphic summary of the following appeared a in Se Morning Clronicle of yesterday.]t LIVERPOOL, D Ec. 30. a The Royal Mail steamer Europa, Captain E. G. t Itt, arrived at Liverpool this evening at nine f o'clock, with the usual mails from the ng nited States and Canada, and 23 passengers. The Hibernia arrived at New York on the 18th. The 0v Xuropa left Bostoma on the l0th, and Halifax on ...

... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... 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, ...

... THE, COUNTY BA TES IN flDDLESEX. This subject has been treated in an able manner, in a n pamphlet, issued within the last few days entitled Ob- at servations on ?? of the County of kiddlesex for the so Pi'isoi'v 'sd M1anagement, by a Magistrate of the County. id little work, which is written in a clear anll succinct style, points out the reasons which have, within the lest few e ars, led to ...

... 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 ...

... THE J'VEA THER AND THE PABKS¶. Yesterday forenoon the thermometer, which during the night of Sunday had fallen to 27, rose as high as 48 degrees, w ith a bright clear sky ; but at six last evening the mercury had again fallen to within one degree of freezing point, and from the rapid fall of the glass within so short a periodjtheio seemed every probability of the frost continuing for some time ...

... 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 ...

... ?? The exaistination of our newspaper files arnd corre. e e fpondenee, received by the Europa, adds little to I he s brief abstract of ?? contained in the telegraphic gdespitch from Liverpcol, which we published yester- dasy. Some gleanings from the journals and detailed reaccounts of commercial matters are given below. l- On Dec. 17, the House of Assembly adjourned n ?? balloting 51 times far ...