... GERMAN NEUTRALITY AND SWEDISE Sympathy. The King of PnussiAr opened the Parliamentary session on Thursday in a speech which'will not add much to the credit of Prusia as a great European Power. He acknow- ledges that Prussia is well prepared for war, and that no country is more ready for sacrifices whenever its honour or interests are really in danger. He thus persists in separating himself' ...

... TH:EI A1IEiRIC;AN STAGE. ^BOSTON, SiTURDA:, DEC. 1-Mr.' Forrest closed a most successful engagement--here yesterday evening,' having-pliyed oat his series of-ascore nights Spartacus is spoken: of as his leading performance: .it certainly- is- an excellent one. -The twenty nights have. brought in an; average of eight hundred dollars on each occasion. Being calld- before the curtain, before a ...

... ALBERMT SMITH'S ASCENT OF MONT The grim solitude which has so long pervaded the Egyptian Hall i once more dispelled, and the Sphinxes who east in melancholy grandeur presided over the discoveries of Bullock and Belonm, welcome a gay and gladsome throng to the charming interior of the building over which they keep such solemn watch and ward. In other words, Mr. Albert Smith has re-opened his ...

... I i MANCHESTER AND SA.OllD LICENSED Victuallers' Association. (nicX OUR OWN CORErSPOlDENT.) On Thursday evening last, the members of this association held -,their annual dinner at the house of Mr. Lone, the Bush Inn Deansgatc, about 130 persons partaking of the repast, Mr. Coon- I clor Goedsey kindly undertaking to preside. The worthy chair- man in accepting tbe office remarked that he was ...

... A UB ST B A L I A.- We have received our advicas, by the Kent, from Melbourne, to Sept. 4, and Adelaide, Aug. 2o. *Th imes Melbourne'cbrrepondepnt says:- At a publicmeet- ing Eeld . a Prahren last iipary one qf the m iembers for the county in the chair, it was prpposed to memorillse Sir Charles Hoqthma. not to send home the * appropriated moiety'~ of the land fund to imipbrt more labourers at ...

... THEi CHRISTMAS, I- BURLESQUES AND PANTOMIMES. p ~ . Christmas once again I! -'and with it all the pantomimical. and spectacular devieas With which managers delight to grace the festive period-. The present season promises to be unusually well provided; every theatre in the metro- polio appears to' be intent --upon outvying its neighbour, and at the present time of writing the interior of each ...

... _ A-LICE GRAY IN BIRMINGHAM The neighbourhood of the Police-office in Birmingham was crowded on Wednesday morning with persons anxious to obtain a sight of this notorious impostor. At eleven o'clock Mr. Chailes Shaw and Dr. Melson, the magistrates of the day, took their seats upon the bench, and shortly afterwards Alice was placed at the dock. She appeared perfectly cool and collected, ...

... j3DERBY NOM1iB~OirATUJK . TO TaR ZDITOZ'..F'07E7 s k. Sir,-I am surprised to find half a hundred,borses still without .namaes in the list oY TDrby entries-for i8S', and --I take the liberty of suggesting the following for thobse hom it may concern. 18thD~mr4 ! Yours truly, ' : PITE. 18th December, 186S. .u ?? BAaP w MrBatsan'` a by Conyegham, out of Barsbara;. DiO.shde. Mr. N. Balfe's oh o by ...

... The Emperor, accompanied by his Majesty the King of Sardinia and suite, visited the Exhibition last Sunday at two o'clock. The last of the monster concerts took place on this occasion. The orchestra consisted of 4,500 executants, drawn from the bands of different regiments, the principal musical societies of Paris and Bel- gium, and the parochial schools. There could not have been less than 60 ...

... RAILWAY PROFLeIGACY ANDI - l- isma-nagemeut. At the last half-yearly meeting of the Eastern Counties '1ilway Company it was resolved to appoint a committee ;.,iareholders to investigate the affairs of the concern. Their report was issued on Thursday, and contains a series of astounding revelations, calculated to increase the ,eneral apprehension which exists as to the unsound posi- ion of ...

... PmOSTAL COIIVENTION WITH FRANCE. * The following Convention, dated General Post-Office, December, 1855, has been published In accordance with the provisions of a new postal convention with France, the entire postage, British and French, chargeable upon newespspers and other printed papers posted in ?? addressed to France or Algeria, or, when they are conveyed by the French Mediterranean ...

... WHAT BECOMES OF THE TICKET-OF- Leave Convicts P We have at length some official statements, showing the operation of the ticket-of-leave system. From its commencement, 1st July, 1854, to the 30th of September last, the number of convicts discharged on license amounted to 3,253. We have heard of many of them at the police- courts in the metropolis, and at the petty sessions in the country, and ...