... , a The pomp and circumstane of war are So glorious that men have never been wanting to exclaim, in tfle langage 'of the ancient Roman, It is sweet to die fior onie's country. This her6oi and patriotic spirit still lives amongst us, and the British people are as 'fearless as tbeir forefathers in courting the dangers of the battle-field, It' rises with the dire character of the emergency.: In ...

... PEACE MEETING AT OLDRAA. The Manchester Peace Society, whose head-quar- ters are at Newall's-buildinge, have been exceedingly active of late. Mr. George Thompson, who was formerly one of the Anti-corn-law lecturers, is now the principal lecturer for the Peace Society, and has been delivering a series of lectures in Manchester and the surrounding towns; the ob. ject of the meetings apparently ...

... (From our Special Correspondent.) Mystery still hangs over the extraordinary footmarks which were observed in the snow in Devonshire the week before last. No probable or even plausible explanation has been offered. A cautious correspondent of the Illustrated rews, who sends a sketch of the marks, declares that he has for many years been in the practice of winter hunting in Canada ; that be is ...

... THE TuRKISH CONTINGENTr.-Major-General Vivian, of the Madras army, who was for many years Adjutant-General of that Presidency, has been appointed by Lord Panmure to command the Turkish contingent. The officers will be selected principally from the Indian army. Lieut. E. B. Ramsay, of the Madras army, has been appointed aide-de-camp. General Vivian will leave London next week. The contingent ...

... NE WS FROM THE NA V VIES. Further accounts from the Crimea speak not only of the ?? progress of the railway at a rate that has outstripped the -expectations founded upon the first hasty survey, but also in of tbe progressive cheerfulness and coitentedneass or all a engaged upon it, and of their daily growing popularity with , the military and civil authorities at Balakiava, and all with b whom ...

... * UMIoUR. AND 'WAGES., .: C ?? -. TO TE MINERS or NOUTHUMSERLIND Boh AUD .D[ND DURH. .L Brother Miners,-We appeal to you for *support and aid to help forward the great measure of .an extended. Mines' Inspection Bill.. The government. have promised'toliring, before parliament .this session a Bill more stringent in its character than the present one, and thereby more likely to- to prevent ...

... - L ME0 LAsYARD ON TH WAI . 'On Wedneid' ay, 'a -public meeting, convened by re- Iisition~w~slseid in the .auntytll, Aylesbury, for the purpose of enatibtg lC. Layard, the representative of that borough, to address his constituents ln expla. nation of his views on the war. r. Lsyard, after explainingjthe circumstances con. neetedwith his letter to the Titses respecting Admi ral Dundas,.imade a ...

... IRS OF THE UNITED STATES. (FROM OUR SrECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) NEVW YORK, FED. 3, 3 O'CLOCK P.M5. During the last few days five ?? free- oil senators have been elected from five states to the United states Senate-Mr. Trumbull, from Illinois, i jtheplace of General Shields; Mr. Wilson, from t ,slassachusetts in the place of Mr. Everett, late nister to England; Mr. Harlan, from Iowa; Mr. parklee ...

... THE SOUTRAMPTON DOCK COMPANY. Y Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this company i wae held at their offices, 1ishopagate-withia; Colonel I B~LUOW in the chair. ?? report for the last half-year showed that .The accounts to the 31st of December last, and the statements now t submitted to theproprietors, exhibit an iscrease amounting to l,3601s.t over the earnings of the corresponding six ...

... ROME, FzB. 28. In looking over the continual accounts of lament- able deficiency in the supplies of fresh meat and warm clothing for the British troops in the Crimea during the last three months, we residents in central Italy cannot but feel that the resources of this country, which might have been made most available both from their abundance and their comparative proximity to the seat of war ...

... UNIVERSITY INVTELLIGENICE. OXSFORD, FEB. 28. ELECTION OF PrOCTOIRS. The societies of New College and All Souls' College this y elected the proctors for the ensuing year; the former ccted the Rev. John Murray Holland, M.A., Sulb-Warden c Fellow of New College, senior proctor, and tbe latter the ev. Arthur F. Stopford, M.A., Fellow of All Souls College oior proctor. These gentlemen will enter ...

... LONDON- lI'BDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1855. In the HOUSE of LORDS last night, A very irregular discussion arose upon the ques- tion of Lord Lucan's recall, from the result of which it appears that the noble lord has beeu refused a osurt-martial. Ia reply to Lord BiENEIRS, who introduced the subject of the Russiau trade, Earl GRANVILLE observed that the Government had no intention of changing the ...