... FRANCE. (From the Times' Correspondeneo.) Paris, Sunday, Jan. 28, 6 P.M. The rumours that circulate to-day are rather of a pacific kind, but on what ground they rest it is difficult to say. I have, however, seen a private letter from Brussels which sneaks very much in the same sense, and moreover mentions tie more than probability of Prussia at last giving her adhesion to the Allied Powers. ...

... S N D N SECOND:. EDITIO)N.0 HoJ2 wJ s.. iL. .a.ZALJ ..L -5} ?? -s - HERALD OFFICE, Fiddaoy Mordin.- BY ELECTRfC. TELEGRAPH. MINISTERIAL CRISIS. LONDON, TuuaSDAY EVENING. The F7erald says that up to a late hour last night everything was progressing to the formation of a Inew Ministry in the most satisfactory maimnr, and no doubt in the course of to-day the Earl of Derby will have succeeded in ...

... ?? n--rCP .TA- 2W 1OacloN OrIFIO, JAN. 26. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Joaquin Pnrdal as Consul at St. Johi's, Newfoundland, for the Queen of Spain; Mr. F. D. Wells as Consul at Bermuda for the United States of America; and of Don Adolfo Patxot as Consul at Gibraltar for the Oriental Ropub- ic of the Uruguay. WAR OFVrCH, JAN. 30. nr.EvET. Iu condequonco of the deaths of the ...

... ARRIVAL OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE . OF CAMBRIDGE..' . I (From the Times.) His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge landed ?? from the Crimea, on Tuesday. Nothwithstanding the ex- treme severity of the weather a great number of ladies had assembled, and their greeting formed not the least interesting of the demoiistrations that were so generally displayed. A post carriage had been provided ...

... LETTERS FROM A COLOUR SERJEANT IN THE 79Th, TO HIS WIFE IN GLASGOW. 7UTT1, TU 1HIS WiEL IN 1ULA;UU W. I Balaklava, 29th December, 1854. My' dear Wife,-I take the favourable moment of the mail leang for England to send you a few lines, etting you know that I am still continning'to enjoy most excellent health, trust- ing that it may find you and the children in the enjoyment of the samne ...

... FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2. I The4 debat oil Mr. Roebuck's motion for a Coln- mittee of Inquiry closed on Monday night byr a :majofity of. 157 against Ministers, and with it' virtually terminated the career of the Aberdeen Cabinet. It is needless n6o to enter upon any lengthy review of the substaiid f the deAbt6. .'Th e vote has made that un- necessary; and all! that now remains-for us to do, ...

... EN GLAND. Govcrnmeint of Ceylon-Sir Henry George Ward, ?? now Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, will succeed Sir George Anderson, ?? in the government of Ceylon.-- Globe. Duration of English Minishries.-The following account of the names and the duration of the various Administrations which have governed England since the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 may, at this moment, be ...

... AUST:RALIA.- . ?? tU a 1: f itJ, A A.. (From the Times.) . . Southampton, Jan. 29. The General Serew Company's steam-ship Calcutta, Capt. Blackmore, from Sydney and Melbourne, arrived this morning, having touched off Plymouth yesterday, en route. . The Calcutta brings on- freight 98,845 oz. 13 dwt2 19 gr. of gold dust, and £80,789 in'specie'; total about -X450,000'sterling; besides 150 bales ...

... HIOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, JAN. 29. . ?? ?? #h 1 The LpoeD CIANCELLOIt took his seat on the woolsack at five -o'clock. Lord LYNDIIURST intimated that he intended to postpoiie his motion on the neglect and mismanagement of the expedi-. tion to the Crimea, which stood on the paper.for Friday, till the following Monday. On the motion of Lord BRtOU tHAM, the Bills of Exchange' Bill was read a second ...

... LETTER FROM A SOLDIER IN THE SCOTS GREES TO HIS PARENTS IN GLASGOW. Scutari, Jan. 6,1855. Dear Father and Mother,-I take the pleasure of writing you these few lines to let you know that I received your kind letter, and was happy to hear that you were all well, as this does not leave ma very well at present. I have been badly this some time with dysentery. It comes on you, and it is not easy to ...

... IVYIN VJU ?? an A Meeting of Council wac held yesterday-the Lord Provost8 is the chair. . I The minu tes8 of the last meeting were read and approved of.I UR5, STRANO'S STATISTICS. Mr. MITCHELL, the Convener of' the Committee, laid on the t table a copy of tho 1 Social and Economic Statistics of Was- gw, with Observations on the Mortality Bills and Cholera of lS54, by Dr. Stag teCtanelin. Dr. ...

... G:LASG.OW, FEBRUARY ?? The Law Professorsdhp in the University of Glasgow. __.We understand ?? Allan A.h Maconochie has intimated his intention to resign the chair of Civil Law in the University of Glasgow. We hear that Mr. Sheriff Skene has made application for the vacant situa- tion. We cannot-learn that any other is proposed for the important office, and tlie probability is, that the ...