... if f- A Cabinet Council was held on Friday afternoon at ir the Foreign Office. The ministers present were the ,0Earl of. Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord a 1 Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmer- ti ;e ston, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the tl 11 Duke of Newcastle, Sir Jaimes Grahamn, Sir Charles v WoodEarl Granvitle, the Right Ilon. Sidney ter- n bert, and Sir ...

... Hit th. (Supplement to tbe London Gazette of Friday, December 29.) m- - War Department, Dec. 30, 1854, 10d o'cloek A.M. t to NiB Grace the Duke of Nenveastle lan thli day received a despatch, t ,as of which the following Is a copy, addressed to bi6 Grace by i leld Marshal the Lord Itaglan, ?? Before Sebastopol, Dec. 13,1854. nd My ILord Duke,-Your Grace will hoe happy to hear that the won- 3d, ...

... TIUE NEWSPAPER POSTAL STAMP. (Froui the Inverness Coarier.) The society for promoting the repeal of the so-called taxes -on knowledge appear to have matured their plans and fsiniliar- ,ised the Government and public with their views, so that the question of abolishing the postal stamp on newspapers, and substituting a chnage for each transmission by post, will soon ie brought before Parliament ...

... F OR E IGN IN TE LLIGENC E. B FRANCE. St - ?? the Times' Correspondence.) w a ~Paris, Thursday. a] f The Jfoniteur of this morning publishes satisfactoryaccounits ti r of the state of the Allies to the 18th. Reinforcements continued tl to arrive, and the Napoleon had that day landed 1100 men and tl matiriel, embarked at Constantinople. The Turkish troops p' from Varna were arriving. el I Paris ...

... The Patriotic ?? £2000 have been sent from New York. £90 from Copenhagen, £70 from El- I sinoie, and small I sums fromi Cologne, Coblentz, Bonn, &c. Alexandria has sent £570. Syanderlannd Election.-It is said that Y7ice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier is about to try the strerigth of Mr. Digby Seymour in this borough; but the general im- pression appears to be that the learned gentleman is pretty ...

... -. MISCELLANEO.US. bt An Historical Fact.-Wheat whas first* sown in the c, B North American colonies in 1692, on the Elizabeth fr °d lsltnds, in Massahusetts, by Gosnol(1, athe time lie E ,tj explored that coast. That has been just 252 years 0i i, ago, and since that time so great has been the increase st re of this cereal, that in the year 1840;according to fhe st er census of 1850, the ...

... Railwvay Accidents.-Foim a P.arliamnentaryp;llper just Mrited V it appears that there vero 100 persons killed and 119 inijered by £] accidents on all the railways in the united kingdom during the St balf-year ending June 30, 1854, there being 81 killed and 102 - injured in England and Wales, 14 killed and 13 injured ill Scot- ] land, and 5 killed and 4 injured in Ireland. Of those killed, 22 ...

... Shortly after eleven o'clock on the evening of Saturday last, Mr. IRobert Smith, spirit merchant,151 ospital Street, closed his shop, and, in company with his wife, proceeded to make sonic purchases previous to returning home. On passing their Shop a short tihn afterwards, they were astonished to observe the front door open, and four persons, two men and two womren, standhig inside. They at ...

... rs Late News.-By the loss of the Chevalier and id Islhy steamers, the inhabitants of Stornoivay were fifteen days without news from the south./ Theyvwere Ktat length relieved by the kindness of Captain Sickle- le more, of her Majesty's cutter Prince Albert, who pro- d, ceeded to Portree, to make inquiry regarding the de- e- tention of the mails. 'P Scottish ?? a meeting of the Scottish e ...

... THE TIMES ON THE CONDUCT OF THE. WAR. . . . ?? .1. . .. ?? . I kf Are we, or are we not, to publish the letters that pour inI '0 from the Crimea ? The question no longer concerns the graphic narratives of 1our Own Correspondent, for in this *~respect, just now, thanks to some amiable. eccentricity of the le pot eaerte ejuhn.Tequestion now concerns leterslon en may, omeoriina, fom serjeants ...

... TIlE MORNYIG CHRONICLE ON TUE MANAGE- I IENT OF THE AIAMIY- - -, n::l ii MWLI'2.lJ IJ V S--I*AL Biis I The dlawic of thcs present year has discovered the Brits at nation hit a condition of doubt, if icot of actual despondenicy, 'N which is utterly at variance with the ehsractcr of the Anglo- si Saxon race. When thle fortunes of the first Napoleon were at ar a their Zenith,' when lialf Europe ...

... _ to *.7 . I .Is ?? .- a _ _1 ?? 1. n The United Seraice Gazette explains the reasons of the late - attick on Lord Raglan in the following article:- d - The public mind, thalit very fiery article, bad a narrow r escape of being snuffed out cby an article in the Times of Saturdav last. The leading jorirnal has been lately seized with e a morbid antipathy to everything connected with the ...