... FRANCE.-A duel took place at Pau on the 8th inst. between M. L. L-, merchant, and M. R. L-, advocate. The former was shot near the heart, and died instantly. PAmis, Dec. 14-.A French cabinet courier leaves Paris to-night with despatches for the ambassador at Constanti- nople. He receives orders to proceed by the shortest route, to employ the most rapid means of conveyance at the dis- osal of ...

... - ma _ §_a2 USE AND ABusE._The cab and the driver,-Pwuch. TOAST WrEcoe..T BuTTER.-The following is described r a neat toast:' Woman I if we may have her for a toast we won't ask for any luther. MAGNA CAueTA NEARLY SiaprD._It is stated as afat that Sir Robert Cotton rescued the original Mfagna Chartafron, thle hands of a tailor, who was on the point of cutting it up fag measures. , PRETTY L ...

... A committee of the cabinet have for some time been b Witb the, details of the coming Reform Bill. This F 'runittce inclides, it is said, Lord John Russell, Sir r James Graham, the Duke of Newcastle, and Lord i .,lmerston. Dr. Merle D'Aubign6, the historian of the reform- tio, has arrived in Dublin. Itis computed that the produce of iron in this country .is vea' will be 3,000,000 tons. ...

... AiAN ISt At BOULOGNqE. THnE custom Which our fashionable Englishmen have of flying to the coast of Franoe,, when debts and the like milshaps renderI their own country somewhat too hot to held them. comfortably. I causes Boulogne end other towns forming the chief places of rendezvous on sncb occaeions to present. for the most part, aI strangely assorted society, and to witness, at times, very ...

... ITHE shareholders of the South-Western Railway Corn- gulr pany have shown to proprietors generally that boards of iUsi11 -direction are capable of being resisted and subdued. The theiT directors had given a pledge to a parliamentary commit mtit tee to make a line of railway fromn Dorchester to Exeter othe -within a fixed time. The company recently met to con- neco firm or to dissent from that ...

... T ne-vws rom the East has been seriously varied this week by the intelligence that the Turks have suffered disasters both at sea and on land. The progress of the war in Asia, near the Caucasian frontier, had become important, and the Sultan was sending reinforcements to his army there. Troops and ammunition were em- barked on board several transports. They were escorted by Osman Pacha, who is ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCt. BY ELECTRIC TZLEGRAPH_ BANKRUPTS.-(Froin last nihts Gae' Claudius Alfred Scrivener, Old 'Change, milliner Thomas Archer, Braintree, Essex, woollen-dra Edwards and Bishop, Hartland-road, Camden {er Daniel Antrobus, eanchester, sharebroker. O bulle18 PARIS, Thursday Night.-Constantinople lett Deo. 4 state that an English and a French steaiaer b ie0 T OF Sinope; two others ...

... CHRISTMAS FARV. WHiLE Christmas continues-was to the end of the world le we trust it wll-~to, be. regariled as~pre-emintently a 1Morries Ms season, so long, we ?? in this country atleat 'Will colossala exhibitions of oo cheer that 'maketh gldtehato aG be held as indispeasable accompaniments to its outward ?? bration. it is at stich a time, when looking around at thleB ...

... RUSSIA AND TURKEY. IM It is stated that on the 18th inst. thle great Turkislies council was convoked, and that after, full discussion it was G agreed that the collective note of the four powers shool11l 20 be accepted. The Turkish government consents to nanie ;% vs plenipotentiary to proceed to some neutral capital, not behux j VTictmna, to treat for peace. It accepts the declaration oft the ...

... PAPAL ENCROACHmENTS. WUirax the Papal government continues within its own dominions to be so weak that the Pope is little better than a prisoner in his palace, the Romanist priests are urging forward ecclesiastical pretensions on all sides with as great activity as ever. In England, America, Prussia, and Holland the aggressive spirit develops itself in bishop-making ; in Spain it frowns upon ...

... A -IV -eeting of the merchants, bankers, and other emJ inhabitants was held on Monday, in the hall-of the Merchanmt ' Vetrr,King.stre0e, for thle purpose of proposingi-~) 3O0. 1 lutions and adopting a mumoarial to ih. postmnaster..Gemmeral n relative to the present unsatisfactory state of the postal ar be rangements of this city and district. Timers was a numeous gu t attendance, comprising ...

... Weasu. FROMN OUR CORRESPONDENTS. PFUCKLECHURClI.-COalPit Accidents.-On Saturday last Aaron Jefferies, of Siston-hill, was in his usual employ, heaving coal at the new engine-pit belonging to the Old Company, when suddenly a large mass of stone and earth fell upon him, and I seriously injured his abdomen, thighs, hips, &c.; and on Tues- c day last, at the same pit, a boy, named Gibbons, was ...