... -,qrjrif fff Q? vrtm ?? JI.- AMERICAN PARTIALITY FOR RUSSIA. l ( Timies.) Aimerica is proud of originality; her citizens delight in novelty, have a natural tendency to paradox, and find their chief excitcmcnt in surprise. They have t taken much interest in the present war, and have h their own opinions on its events and conduct. They s have read the long narratives which the English press 1: ...

... Walter George Landor addresses the following let- ter to the editor of the Examinier Permit me, Sir, to make a few remarks on your Exaniner of November 10. You say: The only question fairly to be raised would be, whether the restoration of Finland to Sweden is likely to give strength to the Swedish monarchy. That-is not the only question, and it is a question to be solved by Sweden, not by ...

... TBZFi= WAILRI THV PROTECT'I) PIRINCIPALIT.IUS. A letter from Constantinople, of the 1st instant, says:-- It continues to be affinled here that next spring an Anglo-French army e ill occrnpy tlic Priacipalities. It can no longer bh c(oncealed that the Austrian s arc very unpopular in Moldo-Wallachia, where the pDpu- lation is ever disposed to impute to thc Government all events, all urfot ...

... nalilig In all za vtmulA.. The second division of General Mouravieff's report occupies upwaid s of seven columns of the Journal de St. Petersbourg of, the 0th jlst. Tuesday's Daily News however contained the s portion possessing more especial interest for English readers,.- e the part now before us consisting of a narrative of the order of e retreat, the unavailing efforts made by the Russian ...

... fl A2 I I V.1 r JXsaLl rlkflO. Ad Paris, F1rlay. The ceremony of the closing of the Exhibiticn has been one .e of the grandest and most imposing spectacles ever seen in Paris. f The preparations for this event having been completed on the evening of the 14th, the doors were thrown open at ten o'clock. 1- yesterday morning, and the vast amnphitheatre and galleries t were speedily filled with ...

... ; (From the Examiner.) A nation, no doubt, requires a large territory and a 1 numerous population in order to be powerful, but a country by no means abounds in resources in propor- tion to the extent of its territory, or even to the num- ber of its inhabitants. Far more depends on the na- ;ture and character of both. The Russian Empire is supposed to have an area of above two millions of ...

... THE 3thLELLAN GALLERIES. I __ ?? ---e ?? An-e;- nf Xh-ar;' Rr A-n nJ Scttfli l The following is the eloquent peroration of Sheriff Bell's a, speech, delivered by him in the Galleries on Tuesday evening. The poet never gave utterance to a truer sentiment than tl when he said- a] ' A thing of beauty Is a joy for ever I d and the sentiment has peculiar application to the Fine Arts. P Hundreds of ...

... Mr James Porter, of Monymusk, Aberdeenshiro, bag an essay in the Journal of the Highland and Agricultural So- ciety, in which be shows that turnips stored in the beginning of the winter are far more valuable for feeding than the same roots would be if left inr the field and carted home as required. The following is an account of his experiment on the subject:- That experiment consisted in ...

... I a pap rWE have beard of two gentlemen who, having quarrelled, Rei resolved to fight a duel after such a fashion ns should ineg18u combine the vindication of their respective honours, one II with security to their respective persons. They painted delive a figure on a board, and took shot about at it; and the myI gentleman who put his bullet through a vital part in Syria( the effigy, was ...

... imiga ?iiftflignm. .0-1 FRANCE. THE EXIHIBITION. The Municipal Body of Paris gave a grand banquet on Saturday evening to Prince Napoleon and the Imperial C6mmission for the Exhibition. The table was laid for 450 covers, and the banquet was alto- gether an important affair. The healths of the Em- peror and Empress were proposed in a very striking and fervent speech by the Prefect of the Seine, ...

... Zs 'COND FOITIONe M l~i-NI, ?? 1'T 'F[CF., Titu RS osv%. Ii'ttN O'CLOC8. Crimrtm letters to Ntvtitliber :3 ijticluive. arrived. Briti.ih trtil)s ret tirted fritoim Kinutlti. Onli vits iall portion left itt glt id otilt tlag tliiell witves ;Vith the French froml tile rnItalialts. The fort find lieio rpazidl repmired. The lintieries on the Spdires ate to lie vltstrtivctl. Xir E. ILonm; had ...

... Si DREADFJL EXPILS0ION AT INKERMAN. o1 Lord Panmure has received the following telegraphic f despatch from General Sir W. Codrington, dated November L 16:-L A very heavy explosion of a store of powder at the French of siege train took place about 3 P.m£. yesterday. It communicat- .e ed fire to our siege train close to it, where there was no powder, as but some naval live shells, most of ...