... FlEt) iU E-S1- .' Id' LEFICESTUERSH IRE. ; (From our own Correspondent.) t ULCIsTUa, Monday. The old prediction has been fulfilled. Winter has had another fight over us since Candlemas-day, and has left us weather more wintry than before. A snow-storm of con- , siderable duration, succeeded by frosts still more severe, have . been the characteristics of the weather during the week. In e the ...

... 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 ...

... TH E PRESS. POSITION AND DUTrIES OF THE CON-i SEPrATIVPE PARTY. Wi- (10 not re-ret the failure of' Lord Deorhy's at- tenmpt to ?? a Goveriittent by mlto'1WII Lorid P'tlinerstoxl. Tihatt attlempt was dlictatted. by, a siense of PobliiC duty, tran was made inl Cot~liiflKID' 'lwlitil te wis.h Of a eutilsiderahlc mnimber of Conlset' valtive mnmner' i f t 1 L etzzislattwe. T1hrough th a. setusal ...

... l'ORtEIGN INTELLIG,+E. N C, A ME RIOC A. 'furs advices fromI New York, vtile~ Baltic, are to tb' 24th silt., eight days later 'than, pre-viously to 'Ihei Ion. J.1L. Kennedy, tihe bearer of' special de- siratchees for the United StaItes tegatonl fin London, ar- rivred in tile Bait ici Tbir clippereship Groat 11`jIubiO, after having, hadl her' upper dlock taken oft', has leen fitted for' sea. ...

... AR 13 0 RICUTTUII. PRUNING OF FOREST TREES. (Written for thei Newis-Letter.) Tur, varions opitions, aitd, as I tlhinol, tie many errors which prevail. in reference to the prosing of forest trees, induce tme to say a few words oni the sutlject, However simple the teatter appears to ile, it is not exempt from mitch misconception; and erroinetois notions, tilhough tp- ?? inteotsidletlaule, often ...

... L.LATEST . NEW S. | BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHR) Lonoiw, WEDNESDl EVsENING. THE 'WAR. No later foreign news, and nothing positive respecting the French Emperor's visit to the Crimea. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 501. No tidings of the Pacific, steamer, from New York, which 'was to sail on the 7th inst. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Afternoon. Arrived the Iberia, steamner, -with the peninsular mails. A Cabinet ...

... 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, ...