... LAen A BUILDLNG SOCIETIES. *The rapidity with which Land anid nilding Societies have sprung into existence bears some resemblance to the furor of the railway mania of 1 45. New schemes, are brought forth every. day, and some of the most recent have succeeded in attracting a larger number of members than the societies which have been in existence a considerable time. There are, at the present ...

... SUBWAY POR SEWAGE, GAS, AND Water. TO THE EDITOR OV THE ERA. Sir,-So long as the comment on, and partial contradiction of, the able aticle which appeared in your journal of the 27th ult., irelative to my proposed subway for sewage, gas, and water supply was confined to the communication of your correspondent ' C. G. Y, I was content not to trouble you with any remarks, rbecause it was ...

... ROYAL CALAM1^ITIES. Notwithstanding the antipodean distance at which fortune and caste keep the members of the hueman family apart from each other-the prince ol his throne from the beggar on his dunghill; the statesman guiding an empire from the labourer guiding a plough; the bishop in his palace from the curate in his lodging-there are nevertheless points in life at which we no sooner touch, ...

... HARLOCK'S (Lord Exeter's). Caliban The Consld Maneduff Pbaeton Dandelion JOHN SCOTT'S. Acrobat Scythian Applause Prince Arthur Apollonius The President Blight Bolardo Bracken Burlington Dervish Xoneysuehle Marley Hill Melcombe Meteora Moresca motley Ortolano BUM3BY'S (Mr. Knowles's). Baalbee Caliph Marble Hill DIarsyas T. DAWSON'S. Amalgamation B c by Annandale- Marinella Coris Merr Monk Qui ...

... ILOSS OF THEE STEAXER MIARSHALL. The fearful catastrophe wilch befell the Hull and Hamburgh screw steamer Ilarehall, and the lamentable fate of1every one oit hoard ,numberirng, it is suppoeed, no fewer than 150 souls, without one being spared to tell the tale of her loss), has excited a most painful amount of interest at Lloyd'e. In the abeence of all positive hi4i formetion there to little ...

... I ?? i' - !m ?? _. ?? : i I o A4ATOT4R - GRRAT 1 IRE: IJ U4P A ' b.. i.:THAM ?? .; : ?? S Yesterday mornio'gfthct'id'cihiffy Qioeenhdlthei in' i Ufiper Thames-street, 'ath scenei; another ver:'u dde'struuetive fire Itjtook .padein ,a. Irerg*arehouse, seven tries. in height, cf *corresponding'idepthfland frontage, at the'cprcerpf Bread-strret-hili,wvithi,~ >fe ~eet ?? St.: rb ?? 1huroh,; . and ...

... TIlE WEATHER AND 2HE PARKS. 0The low and apparently settled state of the tem- d perature yesterday morning had the effect of drawing a vast crowd.of persons to the ornamental waters of St. d James's-park,-the Serpentine, and the Long and Round a Waters of Kensington Gardens. Wednesday night was one ofthe most severe and. intense that has occsrred for several yeart' the thermometer ads shown by ...

... IIIELAND. DOuiLix, DEc. 16 | The secne yesterday rat the re-opening of the Great Exhibition building as a 'Winter Garden, was ex;- trenielV ibteresting. The Lord Lieutenant and Countess of St. Germans arrived at haltlpast two, accoinparlied by a brilliant suite, and were received| by the Lord Mayor, Aldernran Roe (chairman of the Execative Committee), Mr. Dargan, Sir Edward M'I)ouuell (Lord ...

... RUSSIA AND TURKEY. t ti A correspondent of the IndcypendanceBelge, writing Sit from Paris on Dec. 22, affirms that, on the news of di Lord Palmerston's resignation, Louis Napoleon al caused a strong note to be written to the English n government plainly stating that the Eastern question A had now arrived at such a point that any hesitation, g any compromise, was out of the question, and ...

... I lATEST FROMil ABROAD. I FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. 2 The exemption from navigation dues on grain, a flour, and rice is prolouged from Dec. 31, 1853, to July 31, 1854. 'T'he provisions of the decree relative e to the transport on subsistence by railway are also c extended to the same period. , The Dukede Bellune, senator, died yesterday. The Mloniteur publishes the address of General Count ...

... THIE WINTER TRUCE(. .- \ ?? We heard a good deal about a formal announce- ment to the German Diet, that Austria was so bent upon neutrality and peace, that she was sending her soldiers home! When shall we hear the old news, and the formal announcement, that she has're- ?? them P Who tells us athat'she needs onlv 60,000 new military suits within some fourteen days P What gazette informs us ...

... This anfortunate accident, a brief announcement of which from official authority appeared in our first edition, presents one of the most providential escapes from a wholesale destruction of human life ever recorded in the annals of railway disasters. The catastrophe has been correctly described to have arisen from the breaking of an axle connecting the leading wheels of an engine attached to ...