... 'iUE CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDENUAM. To the nist of wars and rumours of wars the great peace In f t i5i is quietly progressing towards perfection at pir hthing seems to check the progress of the Crystal s qo matter whether it rains a deluge or blows a her- woae lVOrkls Whether out in the gardens or on the tops of tla5oo feet hi go forward with equal celerity. Yet, as ktors been expected from the ...

... . I - Q il 1 ;. : Vt r ;S SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING THE DWELLINGS OF: :~ r : AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.-: ~~. .; ;~, . , - j i - ; .. .:,: E . d- .- - qTalttehseen- done for the -improvemnt of, th oSeebS m oftewrigeessin ,oui~cities a'nd towns.' ~,T.Tb lejisli~. Ross. tnrs has made, provision for thebetter regulatiofi'of coimmon' Fd'er )a lodging-houises:; aind-there~are few populdug ~plce3- of note' ...

... TnERE is little of any moment in our foreign budget, ri with the exception of what refers to the Turkish ques- tion. The general feeling in Paris in the end of the t3 week was decidedly warlike, and the impression pre- vailed that France and England would both enter on sl active hostilities without delay, as there was no chance O of ending the dispute by negociation. It was believed el by well ...

... MISCEILANEG US1 MTINUET' DiNrcNa.-Lord' 'Chesidrfleld said-, 'on' seein' oeti Itof people dance a minuet, _Th6,yf'lool as if they, were dancing forth Ibi of hire, and were not very sure oflbeing. paid, ''-~ thenr ste CAriVINGo-A manftasked another; whom be, was aboult to he Rlpeyel er- to cbicken~ *hethsar he wisQhed the leg r viik i is 'aS 4matter odor of. pefc nifeec m, other ,' tend ...

... K-pf --' , he A5 i-Q - - alit'L; of the matti ubydthoswbwho luriUli .~en or'iu-i aelbatingW tlidil'9 i~t J6oid- I!thAku1Jtt j uifer these men, is n~either whant t~d ~~, fel O )0 feii y etmiyi 'h.f[fhinytued ad -deevn ANtl set of meblau iheini~btjea 1 . exhibi -It musti be- FAoko r iid lalllwhei ba4 ra~ftod-Lwl1- a~d g not say beyond seas* but oa~oi~ft tlie'cities of-thbt sduth fot- on the ...

... Frane-. ?Aa,18, 'Ihnrsday.-A French cabinet courier leav es Perts to. on slht with despatchos for the Ambassador at Constantinople. WC III caclyncesr to say that the despatches bd bears must for be of the highest importance, and they are believed to contain instructiccs for the military ambassador at the Soblime Porte Ly ,itited to the exigency of the moment. Their purport has notJa tronspired ...

... THE WAi t i THE EAST. . AT. id' THE theatre of var b'seems to have been transferred from me S- the Danube to the Black Sea and the Eastern frontier ofoi id Russia, for the winter months. Our last week's intelli- rec gence comprised the report of an engagement which had see l occurred in the harbour of Sinope, and proved fatal to we the Turkish squadron. We received it with' some tel * doubt; ...

... MISCE LLANEOUS. SeatiL LADIES RAVE VOTES ?-Certainly, replies a strong- an 3ninded woman of our acquaintance. Is woman made only to wil sew on buttons? An d if sbe is, you. have no right to turn or away the Needle from the Pollh.-Puenc. CIo To TltF. PnTEss GOEurALLY.-T'ho Emperor Nicholls wishes is 1 an arraetum, corrected in the next odition of our dictionaries. Cr( He begs to say that he ...

... ~~~~~~~ 3 ~~Ep~~aTA~XI POT SCOOTAxI 1e&Pnieritow%'i s in answer to the'Glassgow Town Council jittes, Uet teir mr.. mppa. for th itaio e retay f State' fipricta&dy ~~' ~ '~~~onsequeuee, ,eayts'ite.Caleide e Fas f ~frciay, o flr ner LIPP nlcations from.1 the rkting _class ror. Len.rlment, a meeting Of- the General; Committeeiof the'tion ~ I~aio~alssocationwillbe purambriaedt a 4 asuenly ...

... ii The following important dispatch has be!n 'reeeived from, IsVienna:en De fo On'the 30th of November. six Russian ships 'of the line, ie under Admiral Machbinoff, attacked a Turkish squadron at Bin. ii ope, and, notwithstanding the violent fire of the land batteries t in the roads, in an hour and a half completely destroyed seven 'e Turkish frigates, one steam-frigate,: two 'ehooners, and ...

... THE LASTERN DI4PbT. - . .: , - . !snE report to which we alluded last week, of new nego- alt ciations being in pr6gress, has proved correot;.- A pro- en, tool was signed at Vienna last week by the representa- dei tives of the Four Western Powers, pledging them to com- ra' Vine for the re-establishment of peacebetwesnRussiaand ve: TIurkey, and we find the political and commercial worlds TM once ...

... |IPROVEMENT OF SOCIAL- CONDITION.,OF AGR CULTURAL LABOURER, PTi id Stuart mninister~ of Oathlawv, pulse Yeea m~tthe ev .ag r~ pbliphed evere on.ts ao, les, T Ne~t elns ~vbq gift to antiiaeldt h nta-lie iTsisfi o ty. qerryIn' t u'o~eetf so forciblly d'- de nisetdjin tlAtadnoirable production. -Mir Stuart's appea was 1m Sr aioehrs o~rt~lc~s o ingmder the, noi XWfm nP inc Alet. aiByi ih~ immed ...