... ELECTIONT OF CGaIRsIAa.-The adjzturned meeting of the new Me- tropolitan Bo rd of Works for the election of permanent chairman, at a salary of 1,5001. a year. in accordance with the resolutions previously passed, was held on Saturday at Burlington house, when there were only three members absent of the forty-four who compose the Board, and Mr J. A, Noolsy presided, as on the former occasion. ...

... RELXOVAL1 OF TED COURT TO OsBoRNa.-The Queen, Prince Albert, and the rest of the royal family, with the exception of the Frince of Wales, who remains at the Castle, left Windsor on Monday for O- borne. PROIOGATIOq OF PARLIAMENT.-On Tuesday Parliament was for- mally prorogued until the 31st of January, then to meet for the de- epatch of business. TEnI BAN: or ExaLaD,-The 'Gazette' of Tuesday ...

... RAtcot Intelligence. SATURDAY MORNINIG, DpCEmBEn 15. THE REPORTED FALL OF KARS. From the circumstance that no official confirmation of the fall of Kars, has been received at either Paris or Vienna, doubts of the fact have been in circulation. The I Morning Post,' however, which journal exclusively com- municated the intelligence on Wednesday morning, pledges itself to tbe authenticity of its ...

... WILL OF A MILLIONAIRE.-On Saturday letters of administra- tion were issued from the Prerogative Court, under the will of the late Mr 11. Dixon, of Stanstead park, near Emswortih, Hampshire, who, during a long and honourable career as a wine merchant, had amassed a fortune to the great amount of more than 1,000,0001. sterling. The document, dictated shortly before the demise of the testator, ...

... I The memorial from the Colonels and Lieutenant-Colonels of the Brigade of Guards has beens published. It is of great length, but its principal features may be thus stated: The ?? ascribe their grievance to the operation of the Royal Warrant of the 6th of October, 1854, establishing a new system of promotion to the higher ranks of the army. Before this time they acknowledge that the Guards ...

... TEE ORxER OF THE GARTER.-The King of Sirdinia will, oi Wednesday next, be invested with the Order of the Garter. ROYvA, VISIT TO TEL MIaITARY HOSPITALS AT CRATHAW.-On Wednesday, the Queen and Prince Albert visited the hospitals of Fort Pitt and Brompton, when her Majesty inspected a large number of invalids, in all of abose cases her Majesty expressed the deepest interest. COMPLETION OF THE ...

... If I might give a short hint to an impartialwriter it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks ...

... RENEWED FIGHTING IN THE CRIMEA. The French Minister of War received on Thursday the following telegraphic despatch from Marshal Pelissier: Sebastopol, Dec. 8, one p.m.-I have this moment receive the following despatch from the General commanding the First Division of the First Corps ' From two to three thousand foot, and from four to five hundred horse, at- tacked Baga, Orkousta, and Skraka ...

... A statement of the affairs of the Eastern Counties Railway, made by a committee appointed to investigate them, was issued on the 3oth ult. The revelations contained in it are of too extraordinary a nature to be passed over, and we, therefore, give the following resuind from the ' Times,' which shows - how the Eastern Counties Railway has gone at railway speed to the very verge of ruin, coming ...

... (From the Globe.) The Peace rumours which have been so prevalent for some days are not entirely without foundation, but we should warrant an ex- tremely erroneous impression if we described that foundation as possessed of the solidity with which some capitalists and others have invested it, and upon which they would appear to have built the most sanguine expectations. Russia has herself made ...

... ITuesday, December 11. War-Office, DzcxmeRuaI 1.-Brevet: Lieut.-Col. R. P. Campbell, C.B, 90th Regiment, to be promoted to the rank of Col. in the Army, for his distinguished service iW the field. To be Aidee-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Col. in the Army: Brevet Lieut.-Co]. W. M. S. b1lturdo, Director-General of the Land Transport Corps; Brevet Lieut-Col. E. R. Wetherall, Scots ...

... TFon MEETING OF PARlIAMENT.-A Council was held yesterday, when Parliament, which stood prorogued to Tuesday, the 11th inst., was further prorogued until the 31st day of January next, then to meet for the despatch of business. THE KING OP SARDINIA. The visit of the King of Sardinia is ended, and his Majesty is now on his way to his own dominions, strongly impressed, we doubt not, with a sense ...