... A RECEPTION AT TIlE ENGLISH ANIBASSA- DO1W'S, FLORENCE. -: (From the Dodd Famiiiy Abroad, blt'rLelex) KENNV Done *writes froin Florence to his particular friend, Thomas Purcell, Esq., Graige, BIruff:_ IL drove to the Legntion. The M\inister was engaged. Called a-gaiu-he was out. Called later-lie was in conferernce wvith the ForeigTn Secretary. Later still- he was dressing for dinner. Tipped ...

... (Fromz tfr Times.) No . I V-T ETE WV A R. TiEt successive stages of the Eastern question heave been now passed.in review erorn the reader. We hare seen a contest between France and Russia for thle fa- vours oF Turkey transformed into a contest between Turkey and Rnssiat by the exorbitalnt demanlis Of thle latterj and we liase sepn thii dispute adupttbd by Europe in the interest of the Turks ...

... ZwI Wrote;. ROMAYN'I M Is MAULTA AS-D IRELAND. (From the Xorning Adrertisexr.) Tur code of Mlalta, now rendered more in unison wit' the liberal polier by which the British Goveree. ment ought to be distinguished, was one of the se_ ries of insults bh which the Jesuits and the Council of Propaganda sought, in their impotence, to re- venge the non-reception of a Papal hierarichy. That never can ...

... We have lately been considerably amused at the shifts to which the local League Utensil has been compelled to resort, in order to manufacture for itself a popu- iarity not accorded by the public voice. We allude to the egregioussystemof puffing, by which ?? Utensil represents itself as being the chief favourite in certiin rural districts, as exemplifted, by the price for which it sells, aoeond ...

... THE TURKIShI BLUE BOOKS. (From the Times.) NO. 11.-TIE VICNNA XOTZ. OUR digest of the papers on this subject has brought tile reader to the ConAjrence of Vienot-a pescies of diplomatic commission established at that capital, in which the representatives of the Four Great Powers endeavoured in the interests of Europe, to devise an acceptable ?? of the differences between Russia and the Porte, ...

... TIME LONDON, DUBLIN, AND BELFAST -. -iAILS., .e IT will be obsrrd bt c o-li that the Post-office have been, at length, indutqed by the remonstrances of our local public bodies, to grant the proposed alteration in the hours of the day mails between Dublin and Belfast:- Belfast, 25th Jan., 1854. SIR-i beg to acknolwleclge the receipt of your letter of the tlh instant, statno that the ...

... I NOT a minute is lost in any of the military depart ments in evoking the resources of the Country, a.i weC are glad to perceive that the Government appear to be fully alive to the necessity of making such a demon- stration as shall leave no chance for disaster or defeat. The eyes of the whole world are turned upon the gigantic scale ot our armaments and the alacritv with which each ...

... D; an extursion I once nmade in Brittanr. I arrived one evening at the little town of Pointavcn in' Lower Corn- wall-for Cornwall is on both ,ides of the chuannel- with all its Tors, Ties, Pans, as nell on thel: rench as on the English land, which goes filr to prove that the two countries of Great and l.ittle Britain wore once united. It was a beautiful summer. and the charmin g eoruntry in ...

... LATEST INTELLITGLAE Nc BY MA~UGXETIC TELEORAPI. THE RUSSO-TURKISH QUESTION. It is stated that the Austriia. Government purposes to send Prince Windisechgratz on a mnission to St- Petersburg. The bad wreather has alone prevented the Russians attacking Kolafat. The investing army has made a movement in advance, but operations %;IIl not begin before March, vihen the bridges for crossing the ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CO)RRF,.SPON-DENT. lIO.S'!s or CoNut ioxs, Tci:sosv)w Evci-iao. ?? Io ?? Cu1a 0J''ION 11V I P. ?? It EM li.U. TIE Rel-lse hasjust risen after a sliort h ut mos'tinterest- ing (iii;Ato- one of the inot iliterestig, indeed, ;vl i has vettaken place tlAissession. It as, of ctre'[latter of Pubile n6tarityv that 1r. 3 i1tt i tyeldefl l o bring nhder the notice ot thle folose tile ...

... MR. LAYARD, M.P., AN) THE CITY OF LONDON. ON Thursday, a Court of Common Council was held, for the purpose of presenting the freedom of the city of London to Mr. Austen HI-nvry Layard, D.CL.' Mr., agreeably to a resolution of the 3rd of last March. At 12 o'cloc:k AIr. Lavard, accompanied by Mr. BCOILoch, the late mmember, who moved the grant of that fLecdom, Alderman Wire, ir. 131alac, and ...

... ITy MAGNETIC TELEGrIAPIL THiE RUJSSO-TUIFRKISI QUESTlON'. VIEN-A, ?? for 1reace are certuiutly going on. Count Orl, ff ias again postponed 12is departure- TFie ?? ?saprri'onn has, in an att- togrntph letter. made a la-t appeal to tile good sense Of the Emperor Nicholas. \rVttl.A, J.i . 20- ?? ?? is entirely restoredt to llealth. A Willaclir n goacral, tart or throen Ailnirican ofli- ?? nod ...