... Trnu curious fact in human history whioh would I I sorely perplex many speculators but that Scripture 0 ° proclaims it-that to him that has much, more is , given, and the converse-is as true of wealth as of 'a iay other possession. The man who begins life with t the merest trifle of cash can easily increase it; while s he who begins with nothing finds it the hardest a thing in the world to ...

... ROMAN STATES. (FROM OUR OWN CO ORRHPONDBNT.) ' ROMBE, Nov. 24. It is supposed that Mancini and the other political offenders, of whose arrest I have already informed you, wi fare hardly. Mancini must have been mad Ddeed, as well as in pretence, not to have escaped from the country after escaping from the madhouse, when he was under condemnation Ito death 'for seducing from their allegiance ...

... U.NIVERRSITY IN TBLLZGRZ9 CB UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.p The following are uiba:of the candidateswho paea the p late examiaationt respectively: b .iACJEWLO OF ARTS-1856. EXAINsATION NOR noNouas, hi Matbematies and Natural Philosopby. - Henry Mason B0mpas (seholarship) UniversityCollege; John Perkins Ashton, Utglvetalty T College; Frederick Manning Needham, University College; James pt .Keatb, ing's ...

... tHE EKING OF SARDINIA'S VISItLI (mo0t TaU tt COVUT oI LAB ) WINDSOR. Dwo. 2. His Majesty the King of Sardinia Went yesterday' to visit the Royal Arsenal and Dockyard at-Woolwivg. 'The King, the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duke of Cambridge left the Castle in an open carriage, at quarter before. ten o'clock, for the station of the South Western Railway at Windsor. The Duchese of Satherland, ...

... f MR. CARD WELL AND iMR. 1jENLP, | 1 ~ Til IWAl.I A banquet was given in the. Town-lhall of Oxlord Thursday evening, to Mr, Alderman Sadler, who hab .i fulfiled lila thud mayiralty. The company Wurrabertd I' I and included the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors andr41 members of the university, the Earl of Abingdon lion. J. W. Henley, M.P., Colonel North, M P toan, M.P., the Bight Hon. E. Cardwrll, ...

... TRE PRIOR OF GOLD. To 'ns EDITOB Oe THuu MORNING, CHRONICLE. Sisi-I perceive by a letter from Another banker (3. L.), in your journal of to.day, that he disputes my expla. nation of the price of gold, in my letter of the 29th. It will simplify the matter very considerably by defining the precise meaning of terms. J. L.,? in big first letter, considers the pribe of an article to be the ...

... E'XPRESS FRO3M PAR1. [pROM OUR OWN COunBSPONDENT.1 | the PARIS, SUNDAY MORNING. the Peace rumnours continue still to be prevalent, ha, coming, is of late, from the side of Germany. It vil is necessary for me to notice them, both from the she excellent quarters in which they continue to be esc received as worthy of attention, and from their I wonderful reiteration. There can be no doubt that ...

... V I S I T OF THE Yesterday (Sunday) his Majesty teb Sardinia left Windsor by a special the Great Western Railway, for pose of attending Divine Service at Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's-inn.fields nied by his numerous suite and several par distinction. His Majesty arrived peer eleven o'clock, and was received at thp' of the chapel by his Eminence Cardinla and the chaplains of the Embassy. Ili$ ...

... - I 11 ?? lio` , 40 64. ! ?? mBJTING III i?l ? -i , ? i?Rt, ?i,?fl i 11 Ott f ;W0n it~tO4 ^ tiieig of solicitors was ii~eid a~thie htocuse I of 41d Law Society, Cban cery-Isne. ix referenoe to the move ent at present on foot, , for a~king Saturday a alfholiday iin regard to legal ! bt'ine~ss Mr. RRSDALU, of thefirta of Rederdale and Ctsddoolo, was ealled to tble chair. Theis'O£eXzaV&N said ...

... U2N'IVBRSITY 1NTRBLL cGNCR. . OXFORD, DEO. 1. ST. ANDOEW'S DAY. The day Of the' patron saint of Scotland was as usual ce- lebrated at Oxford, by a, meeting of the Scoth members of the university, at dinner in Mr. MacLaren's Fencing-rooms, the use of which is always kindly ?? for the occasion. Thhe chair-was taken by a Crimean hero, Sir James Fergusson, Bart., M.P., formerly a member of ...

... I The feelings of the thinking and cultivated, as well as the business portion, of the population of the United States, in reference to the supposed probability of a serious difference between Eng- land and the great republic are so vividly and clearly evinced in the following extracts, that we have great pleasure in consenting to a request con- . veyed to us by an American gentleman, and find ...

... ADDRESS BI THE CZAR TO THE RUSSIAN ARMY. The Irnvalide Busse of Nov. 22 publishes the following order of the day, addressed by the Em-V peror of Russia to the army of the Crimea: Brave warriors of the army of the Crimea! In my order of the day of the 30th of August last, I expressed to you the sincere gratitude. which fills my heart for your services-services which have crowned the delence ...