... LBOUR 'AND WAGEB. TH, COAL S.INEE, To THEI oEDITOB Or zYSNoL0DnSS NEwsPAPE3E Sm,-At the delegate meeting of thae miners of the eounty of Kid Lothian, held, on Saturday, 22nd instant, it was unanimously agreed that a general meeting of'the miners 7of the said county should 'be 'eld on Satorday, 5th January, 1856, attwelve o'clock, noon, in the Msons': Biall, Dalkeith, when nmatters affecting ...

... Here's merry hristmtas, and it seems To call back childhood to the breast, With kindly words and laughing screams, With leaping steps that shake the beams, With noisy games and happy dreams, And all of life that's bright and ?? Cook. If there by any possibility existed a doubt that the religion of the Messiah was one of love, and not of gloom, we should think the sunny side of the argument ...

... r MR. WADDINGTOIZ'S REPLY. -.AS - - IA - ` -1 A- r -rt Mr. Waddington, the chairman of the Eastern Counties Ralway, has'published his reply to the report of the corn.Al mittee of investigation. Herevertsbackto the spring of1801, the when he was called upon to assume the chairmanship-a perio ha( he says, when the company was 1in a state of decadence adbal disaster, They were being ruined by ...

... F r The Belfast NeWsletter of Saturday, says: For some days r past, in consequence of the strong winds blowing continuously e from the south-east, a heavy sea has been running in hle chan. . nel, rendering navigationdificult and dangerous. On Thursday it evening, at six oclock, the Laurel and Semaphore left this port, S the former for Morecambe and the latter for Liverpool. As soon as these ...

... . At the Western Assizes, a poor man is tried for attempted suicide. His son is killed in the Crimea, and, at the same time, his wife deserts him. The poor man's brain yields to the ca. lamity and the shame, and he seeks to drown himself: he was 'fortunately prevented, says the report; whereupon he is committed for trial by the sagacity and tenderness ef Hampshire justice; and after lying ...

... I TH GARDEN.-By K. GEAxd. SHASMh&BLE GARI)ENWO Cheops that have dens to 'a good deal of Dmisblef have al- ready vis.Ited us i ather sharply, and wflj have dftte many Very nicely laid pln.The rapid thaw of Sunday last5 sale nearly a creek of'alinost uextemipled severity. put the ground into a miserable state of awomY, spng rottenness; and bedsof small plants were woofy ydiasereed, many lplants ...

... . .. I ?? £¶- P-i The marshal minister of war has received the fol- lowing report from Marshal Velissier, dated Grand headquarters at Sebastopol, Dec. 11, 1855:- Monsieur la Mar6ohai,-You. have already learned, by my telegraphic despatch of the Stli instaot, the failure of the Ru~ssaos in the attack they attempted to make, during the morning of that day, on the outposts of D'Auteinarre's ...

... A CHRISTMtAS-BOX FOR THE RATEPAYERS. In these days of financial thorough-draining, when the TD outgoings of the citizens are great and their in-comings small, be when their hands have perpetually to be thrust into their coi breeches pockets to see how far the cash remaining there will of go towards meeting some new exigency, and when, however pri economical may be their rule, their balances ...

... 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 ...

... SCRAPS FROM RUTSSIA. An Am rican journal c jntains the foliowicg under the heading Scraps from the Journal of . A ,rnercan Ex-Conbul is Roossi. 1: - I P; EEP AT C5LONSTADT-1.10 first visited Croustadt,a and found this Place no strong as it lied been r, pro- ISented, but mere So from thle natural ?? than from b anything extraordinary in the defencees. He feand a there an imamense foundry, ...

... hilE KING OF SARDINIA AND THE ANTI- PAPAL DEMONSTRkTIONS. Among the numerous public addresses presented to i.e King of Sardinia during his visit to this country, was one from a public meeting hold at Edinburgh, composed ,hicily of the frequenters of Anti-Papal demontstralliotis. ILi -lie course of the duacumeut referrod to, thes King was told that 1 the blessing of God has descended upon ...

... 1' in LONDON, I Saturday, December 29, 1855.5. fit THE WNAR IN ASIA. tb bt MARSEILLES, DEC. 28. U Advices from COustantinople to the 17th have come in to band. Ths Crimean submarine telegraph is broken. fu It will be very difficult to remedy this if the present -L( stormy weather continues. ot Several Eughi3h guu-boats are cruising in the Sea of th Azoff, destroving, where the ice does not ...