... I HOUSE OF LORDS-Monday. Earl GREY moved a resolution, to the effect that the adminis- tration of the army ought to be concentrated, and brought under the control of a single and well-organised department. The chief feature of the plan consisted in the establishment of a board, somewhat analogous to the Board of Admiralty, to administer the whole business connected with the military service in ...

... i'EALTH OF L.ONDOY. I The present Registrar-General's weekly relornx shows that the high 5mortality announced in recent reports has undergone a further increase. InD the first three weeks of the curren', month the deaths registered in Londoc wers 1,404, 1,466, and 1,649; in the last veek they rOesttO 1,630. Ot males whose deaths are now rcturned the number is 791; of females, 839. In the four ...

... (Dr SVBIIAR1Nz AND BRITISKH TILI0RAvt.) PARIS, THnrsD&r. a A despateb from Admiral Bruat, dated Kasiesoh, e San. 23, states that a blockade had been notified by l commanders in the French fleet, at Odessa, Caffa, Kertch, Anapa, and Soujuk-Kal& . The fortifications of all these places were being strengthened. The Russians in Sebastopol were throwing up an embankment to connect the detached ...

... In the Spanish Cortes, on the 25thi, N. Infantt D waes electe d president by 134 votes to 90, given to M. Olozaga. Both the candidates were progressists. M. c Infante, on taking the chair, returned thanks for the honour done him. The debate onL the bases of the a ?? was thenl resumed, but, it presented no- thing of interest. The Madrid journals conttinue toa speak of ministerial mtodifications ...

... OPINIONS OF' THE MINISTERIAL CHANGES. The opinion of the country seems to be at cross- purposes with itself. There is just now no man hut Lord Aberdeen himself who stands in such a questionable position with the public as Lord John Russell-but there was not one man in the late cabinet who beside him expressed dis- satisfaction with the prosecution of the war-there was no man who gave tangible, ...

... I UNPUBLISHED CHAPTER OF GULLIVER7S I TRAVELS. The same ingenious gentleman who discovered the t MS. of Moredun, has by good fortune laid his p hands upon an original MS. of the Travels of Cap- t tain Lemuel Gulliver, which contains several pas- i: sages omitted in the printed copy. We have been 2 favoured with his permission to publish the following I specimen of these discoveries: I ...

... CAMBRIDGE ASYL UMI FOR SOLDIERS' TWIDO WS. I ?? On Saturday a general meeting of subscribers to b the Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers' Widows was held at a the London Tavern, for the election of candidates. The p ichair was taken by Colonel ROWLAND, Royal Artillery. ti . The CirAtRSmAN, in opening the meeting, slid that its .object was to elect three widows from the list of candidates j, ...

... The 'I oniteur' publishes the following as the interpretation of the four points agreed on by the representatives of the three Powers- England, France, and Austria-who signed the Treaty of the 2nd December ult. For the purpose of fixing the sense which their governments attach to each of the principles contained in the four articles, but reserving to themselves, as they have always hitherto ...

... - Before Sebastopol, Jan. 13. The weather continues very severe, and to-day it blows a gate of wind, with drifting snow. Although I have not received the official report from the officer commanding the 4th Division, the offieer of the Quartermaster.-eneral's department, whose duty it is to visit the advanced posts at daylight, has brought in an account of a sortie made by the Russians in ...

... ROYAL POLYTECHNIc INsrTITUsioN*.-Lenten Lectures.-A very pleas- ing and instructive lecture on astronomy is being delivered by Dr Baclihoffiner, on the evenings of Wednesdays and Fridays during Lent. The interest of the subject on Wednesday evening is mate- rially heightened by its accompaniment of a selection of music from Haydn's oratorio of the 'Creation,' to give effect to which a band of ...

... LONDON RAGGED SCHOOL UNION Last evening the eedond annuftl meeting for the distribution of rewards to those late scholars of the Longon Rsgged School Union who have continued in the various industrial situations provided to beht'twell I held in St. Martini' Hall. Several bsnded 't maidens, and children partook of the good things of tbs tta table, and on the platform, arnd in the galleries, was ...

... ?? ff XIl:CtzAL. * LOaeno4 Vietualem' AY[1 D;t~n~cR Jason tion. On Tnesday'evcniug,.a general meeting of the -Licensed Victual. 1ergaresideut-fi.'- Plmnbco~sjd isneighbdurhioodvw~&:eld,,at::tle Mr. Cau~c* h rpitro~e oswsunanimousily called to the chair, and opened the proceedings by br~iefly referring to the movement td dey bn ai- inaugurating. Mr. B. FoSTER, the president ,of ,the ...