... __L ---------- 13IPERI IL PARLIAMENTa. HOUSE OF LORDS-TuE Dky- their Her Majesty ope nod the third session of tse present par. bute of co lisanuent this day in PersonL tile #Tbe day was as bright and favotirable as those which the to til Qu ee usually enJoys when sho appears sn public before her cotill I - ., . . thinil loving subjects. The sun shone forth brillijantly, and formed tend a ...

... FROM SHIP WRECK. Yesterday a meeting of the geserel ci . Royal National Life-boat (late Shipwreck) I held at thle office of the inititutiunl jf hrlret . Mr. Thomas Chapman, ?? in the Ils also present Admiral Bowlies, CB., Ad~ F. WV. Ellis, ?? Mr. Montague GorA~ Herbert, K.CB., M.P., Mr. Ed3n,11 I M'H1ardy, R.N., Captain Lambert Pct.-O ?? Deptity-Master of thle Trinity-he; , ington, R.N., aind ...

... L ON DO N: TUBSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1I4. We published yesterday, in common with our contemporaries, our latest correspondence from the Crimea; and many private letters, written by soldiers and sailors of every rank, will also be widely circulated by those to whom they were addressed. From these various sources the public will obtain ample information as to the condition and hopes of the allied ...

... A YR COUNTY ELECTION. ,1 |The nomination for this county, vacant by the lamented death of Colonel Blair, who fell at Inkerman, took place on 3 Tuesday in the town of Ayr, in front of the County Buildivis. ,As the weather had been very cold during the preceding rnight and morning, the attendance was comparatively limited. Mr. BELL, of Enterkin, having paid a very beautiful tribute to the memory ...

... SCO TLAND. * DISTILLEnS AND THEIR CUSTOMERS. re In the Edinburgh Court of Session, on the 23d T instant, judgment was given in the ease Mathisoni C( v. Alison, which, it may be remembered, after hav- at iug been fully argued before this division, was, in consequence of the importance of the question, gm and the uncertainty of the law in regard to it, re- H nitted to the opinion of thewhole ...

... ,0 During the last few days there has been a eood deal of 50 unusual bustle and excitement at the palace in the getting 80 up of decorations for the Christmas fukt. If we may judge 20 from the eagerness and anxiety of the visitors, old and 20 young, on Thursday and Friday last, to watch the 10 progress of the decorations and examine the details 20 of thle stupendous festive trophy, which ...

... IIPERI IL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. Their lordships met at five o'clock. The BiRhop of LONDON moved for a return of the number of burial-grountda which remained open in the me- tropolis, and the num ber of burials which had taken place in them during the present year.-Ordered. THE MILITIA BILL. On the motion of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, the Militia Bill was read a third time, and passed. ...

... id The following is an interesting account of the I progress of the revolution in China:- g | CANTON.-As I promised to give you from time to time n some account of the state of things in Canton and neigh- I bourhood, I have dotted down a few facts that I think aen IS, be depended on for their accuracy-you must excuse me from or ergiving anything like a full or regular detail. For some time is ...

... F'RE AN BISIJOPSGATE-STREjBT Yesterday morning, shortly before two o'clock, an alarm. oing fire broke out in the carpenter's shop at the rear of No. 122, Bisobpsgate-street Without, in the occupation of Mr. Heath builder. With the promptitude characteristic of the fire brigade, several engines were quickly brought to the spot, and immediately put into play ; but, ewing to the inflaM. ,mable ...

... A.SSOCIA TIOIV OF SCHOOLMASTERS OF I . GREAT BRITAIN, 3es The proooe~angs at ktv, a~taital Meeting of this associatiou lieI were resunr~j~ Yeiterday Morning, ait St. Martin's Hall, Long- ?? Mr. T. Tate, mathematical professor of Koslher Hlall ?? Institution, in the chair. Mr. TnOXAS CRASIPTON, master Of the Breritford Public. i.school, proceeded to deliver his lecture on The Teaching of vir- ...

... RAIL WA YE. NORTHERN OF FRANCE RAILWAY. [FRoM 0t1n ?? 5EFPOURT5.] Au extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on Wednesday, in the Salle Cdcile, Rue de Is Chaus-6 d'Antin, Paris, Baron James de Rothschild, the president, in the chair. The meeting having been declared duly constituted, Ml. DELBECQUE, one of tie directors proceeded to read the report. The ...

... OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. [FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAlORDIgABY OF MONDAY, DEOEMBER 11.] War Department, 10 a.m., Dec. 11, 1854. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has this day received despatohes and enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Grace by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, ?? No. 110. Before Sebastopol, Nov. 23, ...