... GENERAL INTELLIGE-S~ I At a Privy Council held at Windsor Castle day week, her Majesty declared Earl Grasvge4ntr President of the Council. Lord Pamnure eg Sidney Herbert were sworn two of her Haid 31 cipal Secretaries of State; and Mr. He esty F a P sworn one of the Privy Council. A Prod tme7 ordered to be issued against aiding ad aniat55n Va Queen's enemies. After the Council, Len p t e had ...

... IDISTRICT INTELLiGENCE. I HEDON. had On Monday evening H. Munroe, Esq., of Hull, yea delivered a very amusing and interesting lecture On I the genius end writings of Hood, to the members of thri the Mechanics' Institution, in the Town-hall, which was ben filled on the occasion. The lecturer, after following the hlon poet through some of the most pathetic as well as the tow most humorous ...

... OLD MISS -HALL, THE MISER. tar Everybody In Shefiield knew old Miss Hall, the miser. 1n ry A little, thin, fussy creature, with dingy, sharp, withered u , features, and keen, restless eyes, dressed in patched and b h threadbare attire, who used to be pointed at and whispered u be about in the streets, hooted and pelted by the boys as a t sort of outlandish thing, bad employed In the natare of ...

... WRECK ce THE BRITISH BARQUE ARGYLE. a LOSS OF TEN LIVES. re The American papers las, received contain melilanchioly de. Pete Ii, tails or the lass of the Broslde barque Argyle, Catain Jamee ses Burnoan, bosand from Glasgow to Now York. a2N whih was 31 ,ien totally wrorked on the coast of Jell80Y, about I2 DiUeS south Of P o1hr Squan Inlet, at midnight on tha 20th of January. It appears activ ...

... T A 7=--s A H E L AR. a bE THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. of - se January 13.-Last night the wind changed round to the r- southward, and the thermometer roae to 34 degrees. A speedy 6i' MO thaw followed, and the roads and :camp will once more suffer n( from the ravages of our old enemy-the mud. About a-quarter fo le past one o'clock this morning the Russians inside the line of fo ie works gave a ...

... THE FIRE THAT fDEFIES THE COLD. - I- , . .,- r ' ------s frTHEY hoave had but onue comfortin the Crimea-apart from. oethe satisfaction of doing their daty.*.jou~_0br soldiers4. h good cheer,-norin pleasitnthearths; for the tattered mar- aquee and the single blanket, half-cooked. rations and' a' lebed on'the wet earth, are but cold comfortifor men who 11 return, frozen from the trenches, or ...

... TrE NEW GOVERNMENT AND ITS APPOINTMEENTS. reace it(Fromn the Vinese) unde~ CLOSELY following on the ill-advised and unpopular appoint- tors le. ment of Mr Peel to the Under-Secretarysbip of War, we have Sit to notice the elevation of Sir Francis Baring to the Chancellor- previ rd ship of the Dachy of Lancaster. If we turn from the appoint- tary rd ments of lr Peel and Sir Francis Baring to ...

... To i/is EBIORo of thse ABnsanaNr JOURNALen Por f SnR,-It is a matter of regret anti wonder to sec how much mastors and servants neglect to avail themselves of a Servant's T Register, in the country parishes. Tho alternatives arc-the 5fesissg markeste, or a most unsatisfactory and tedious system of pi pr ivate enquiries-troubling neighbours and friends in every rquarter, and often exciting ill ...

... EN L A N 0. d By command of the Queen, thirty-two of the Grenadier Pe- [W e gimnent of Foot Guards, wounded at Alma, Inkerinan, and in Secret the trenches before Sebestopol, assembled at Buckioghm Pa- out rii 'e lace, within the grand ball, at hialf-past two o'clock onl Tuesday an exi afternoon, and were inspected by her Majesty, who was accoma- sonter panied by his Royal Highness Prince ...

... It SINCE the last session of Parliament, many of th ose ale ii id who occupied its benches have gone the way of al h Mart *e- living. Some have died on the field of battle, some of le id painf'ul disease, but at least one of their number has S is- fallen in ripe and honoured age, after a long and noble` near1 ut career of active and unsullied patriotism. Mr Home is poiso ill no more. HeI has ...

... Y, (From our own Correspondent.) LEICESTER, Monday. V. During the past week the officers of the Leicestershire >-Militia have been entertained by their noble Colonel, the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle. That no interruption might be caused to the drilling of the regiment, the officers r met in two parties-the first on Monday, returning on Wed- -n nesday, and the second on Wednesday, ...

... ?? . . . - - ?? a: During Wednesday night and Thursday the inhabitants at the East end of Lorndon were kept in a state of continual excitement, in consequence of the alarming conduct of several hundred dock labourers and other destitute persons, who perambulated the principal thoroughfares in procession, de- manding bread and money from the shopkeepers, whose pre- mises were forcibly entered ...