... I A new fleet is about to be fitted out for service in the Baltic. A woman, acting as nurse in a family at Nairn, has been charged with smothering a ch'd whilst in a state of intoiication. Oa the 8th ult., the sheriff of Mid-Lithian decided that elder brothers were boned to support their yovueer bro. thers and sisters who are unable to supwort themselves. There are no cases for trial in the ...

... A XNEW REl:lIZC PVGOCMAZMED. The New York papers publish important news from Lower California, where the Mexican authority has been overthrown, ands new republin proclaimed. The ?? the offietal report of the foundation of the new state, with details of the battle of La Inz, and the choice of a president of the new republic:- Head-Quarters of the Republic of Lower California, NOv. 7. 185S. On ...

... THE NOtORZOUS 3UITZSH ZNDUSTr MIA £SBUlRA&CE jik$SocZIATION. We have every reason to believe that this concern Is now upon its last legs; bent, nevertheless, we shall not disoontinue our exposures, until the Association, Is broken up and scat- tered to the winds. We have now before no four more flagrant Instances of the dirty shuffling tricks to which tke agents of the Association resort, in ...

... APPALLING SHIPWRECK ON THE ZXISH COAST. The felowlug version of an appaling shipwreck appears in Saunrders', Newslettfe, from David Leslie, an eye-wltness:- ,At balf-past nine o'clook aa.m, thta morning, fromc on board the Dablint Steam-packet Company's boat, the I Prince,' at about twenty-five miles east of Kingetown Harbour, we saw a thip presenting a strange appearanoe. ller topmaeits were ...

... K - I TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND. DEa&R SIsTERS.-Oar sex has at least contrived to share with man one of his boasted privileges, and that with no small degree of success. I mean the vocation of labourers in the field of literature; in which, eetting aside those writers whose efforts have made no enduring im- pression, a host of female namnes, great and lasting in the records of farae, will bear ...

... | TERTOTAIISM -BY ACT OF PARLIAME1T.-(tnmes) -The gentlemen whose names are affixed to the report before us* have eombined to press upon Parliament the total and immediate closing of all publiobouses, ginshops, and beerbhops, and a prohibition of the traffic altogether, except for what they are pleased to call medicinal pur- poses, As beverage, the smallest beer is to be utterly interdicted. ...

... NOTICES TO COBEEMPONDENTS. A JornUsrvxmer( G ?? LLOYD'S, the Quarterly, Revic'v, and the fidland Flhiist, all ot the same stationer. Let it be perlectly understood that booksellers can serve erery book that is published by the 1st or 2nd of the months ii orderod bv the 25th of the previous month. .A BIsRML'sIGEAM FLnOsTr haa nothing to camplain o. Mayle and Moore and Son have turred out the ...

... AxrS~D ZINTXZITZON By OPBrA- Qv , II zvzs. The charge of lintilmidatlon towardea female. reported la t cwneek n Reyn~oidsjs Nespaper, and adjonrned.'wa.eiared en again at the petty ReAeMOns, held on lionday last, at Staleybridge, before Meessr. Joaeph Yates, J. Ctapmrae, J. Grihaw, and J. Harison, the whole of whom bad bten specially aolicited to sit on this occasion. Zcharlah Wadsworth and ...

... I OS1Z DISAST1LOUS CONSCBSZOXS io 2twsszA-T3 a ESBFx: OP COVE2S Zz. atZGUE. , . Court intrigue has again triumphed, ?? lses mnade a deeper piunge in the abyss of d&gradation Ito which foreign and anti-national influences have beon burryif'g her The allied fleets, notwitbstaciding urgent and frequent solicitations from the outraged SULTAS, bave not entered the Black Sea, nor is it likely they ...

... NAVAL Wsp WCE. iIOOLWICH, Dad. 2Z'-Avog ?? Fpsin (1847), from the ?? f, paddlewheel steala-vessel, on the North Aumiexca and W4 -'Indies station,' to the Royal George, 120, screw steam-ship at xevonport; W.. E. Bridge, to the Basilisk vice spaio1; worga Dioger (.1853), reeently priomoted from mate'bf the Exgcenr, gunnery-ship, at Pobtsmouth, Wi the Royal William, 120, at Devonport; gugh i. ...

... THE PROPTLE'S, HOP AYT Om Monday last, the shops were closed-the factocies empty-ad . th& people were bent upon a day's enjoyment. In hondon, 'how was ihis enjoyment sought P At low fairs-in pot-house Telv'ies-lnl low games of cunning? It secms ;not for have we not offibial authority to state !that forty thousand people walked through, the galleries of the British, Museum on this day- le&2ning ...

... SECOND EDITION. SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1854. L The family party sat roundthefire. The old grand- sire snoozed in his leathern-arm chair. Some of the younger children seated on footstools, and with their heads resting against their parents' knees, slept also, being worn out by the unaccustomed vigil. The middleaged gazed at the bright fire, without conversing, and seemed to be listening for the ...