... AN EXAM P E. [COMMUtrNICATED.] TBEmE is a tendency in these days to secularize every work which is not of a purely religious nature. Because our countrymen profess differing creeds, then all creeds must be excluded when the object is to unite and fuse all classes in one common object. Because some parties hold that to be religious truth which others contend is religious error, then let all ...

... I I The Times Paris correspondent writes on Friday, with I reference to the probability of the intervention of Austria- I have no hesitation in affirming that, as far as human judgment can be counted upon, peace has seldom, since the commencement of the war, been more probable or nearer than at the present mu- ,went. I cannot, of course, answer for anything 1 that may happen at some future ...

... I THE TERMS OF PEACE TO RUSSIA. The Morning Post, known generally a. merston's paper, and unquestionably Lord Pal rivalled means of information on all matters Cint l, with the present.government, says_ er ' C5mectea It appears from an important despath wiil w publish elsewhere, that Count EAterhazy, tih Austricr ambassador at St. Petersburg, was to leave V.as yesterday (Sunday), for his post ...

... DOINGS EXTRAORDINARY IN THE, HULL WORKHOUSE. On Monday last the hi-monthly court of the Governor and Guardians of the Hull Incorporation of the Poor tI under the local act, was held at the Workhlouse, Anlaby- fi road, for the purpose of electing a governor, deputy- f, governor, and othert officers for the ensuing year. Als el to elect a schoolmistress in the room of Miss Caro-ick, I3 resigned ...

... : A N ADA.. ?? persons expect to find, on their arrival in Canada, a the number or description of towns which they actually , meet with in passing ou to 'their destination, whereso- ever they may chance tW 'be. , Of Quebec and Montreal e they have heard, of course, and Kingston, and Toronto, and Hamiltbu, and, it may be, of some few places besides. Bat, with the exception of these, they ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE A cabinet council will be held at the Foreign Office on the 2ud of January The Posl believes that Baron Parke retires from the bench as one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and will be elevated to the peerage by the title of Baroe Anipthell. MANCHESTER CORN MAIRKET.-Markeb exceedingly inanimate throughout, and buyers might have supplied tbemselves at rather lower terms for ...

... PEACE RUMOURS = SINCEc last we wrote On the sub rumours of an immediate renewal of ne Ject) ' tions for peace have increased in frequency at; gained in authority. The correspondents 'a the Times at Vienna and Paris have corse to the aid of the Press and the Mornung gere and a marked rise in the French and English n fundsis attributed by the city article writer to a growing belief in the ...

... MR. SKELTON'S CONCERT was very largely attended and went off admirably. Madame Clara Novello was in excellent voice, Miss Xessent sang well, and although Herr Reichardt did not impress us quite so favourably in the concert-room as in the theatre, yet he approved himself a tenor singer of no mean order. We must say, however, that we think a better selection of vocal music might have been made ...

... . | The lnvallde Busse states that, under date of the 18th I of November, Prince Gortschakoff has sent the follow- m ing despatch ?? Nothing remarkable has taken place at in the Crimea. According to information deserving of f, credit, only a small portion of the Turks have left Enpa- a] toria. The European troops have remained there, and et on every point the enemy generally is occupied in al ...

... I _ - - toe Ris Majesty arrived at Dover at 7.45 a.m. and nd was welcomed by the Sardinian Minister, Sir G. Gray, on and other officers of the household, and received by the 5ee naval and military authorities. The King was enthu. he siastically fhered y the pier to the Royal Ship tee Hotel. ra- PERSONAL APPPARANCE 05' H~is MAJESTY.-Hia see Majesty is rather older in appearance than might be ...

... ( | I On Monday night an alarmingand destructiveconflagra- Ition occurred in High-street. Shortly before nine o'clock the warehouse of Messrs. T. Middleton & Son, wholesale tea dealers, No. 70 in that street, was observed to be on 3fire, and an alarm was iminediately.raised. Fire bells .were at once set in motion, and very speedily the narrow gullet, where so much of the trade of the town is ...

... HULL TOWN COUNCIL I At the adjourned quarterly meeting yesterday, Anty. re Bannister, Esq., mayor, in the chair, his worship coin- gc ilnoicated a suggestion from the Property Committee, that Mrs. Dannatt, the housekeeper of the Mansion- house and Town-hall, should be elected to a vacant of woman's room in, the Charter-Rouse. It appeared in that during and since the life-timne of her husband ...