... 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 ...

... LOSS OF TWO STEAM 0 SHIPS INS ' C ?? hanniel. The gale of wind which prevailed round the coast at the Cloe of last week, involved the loss of two fine steam ships in the Channel- one the Faith, formerly belonging to the African Steam Navigation Company; and the other a large Spanish vessel(paddle-wheel), called Indepondiente. The Faith, which was a screw-steamer, and had beon employed in the ...

... 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 ...

... I . .. I-- ?? I A N CIE PARIS, W6NEs6DAy Evrxiw4-OChiistmas-day was kept a close holiday by most of the journals, and as a consequence only the: Desats, Siecle, Constitutionnel, and Caorivai, made their appearance this morning. For any news they contained, they might, however, have followed the example'of their colleagnes. The despatch from Marseilles andoincing that Kutais had been evacuated ...

... IT U :FF MI S C E L L A N rE A. I fly TOUCHESTONE:.;: Having reviewed at some length the leading Meetings of the past season, we now turn, by way of climax, to the performances of the chief winners; and the rides of the various artisote in the pigskin, whose fehts are worthy of a passing notice, at a time when their Ciristinas accounts are, sent in, and fresh engagerneuts dontracted. Taken ...

... Tnesday, December 25. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.-_. DANKS, Groat Bridge, Stafford. shire, timber-merchant. BANiKP.PTS.-G. HASSE, Railway-place,Fenchurch.stret,tmerchant. -J. WOODStOFFE, Leatber-laue, Holborn, licensed victnaller.-J. T. MURBAY, Lower James-street, Golden-square, pianoforte-maker.-. H. WETTONE, Oxford-street, bookseller.-,C. SHARP, Albion.road East, Stoke Newington, wholesale ...

... . THE CRYSTAL ;PALACE. Foremost amongst 'the' places of amusenient that should ppovej attractive to the Lbnd6i sight-seer'at all timies, no less than at the' present holiday seaison of the ?? the Crystal Paface Bdt' i to be:teared that the public ar' beglihinito regard this gigaittic attempt a, national education in 'nuch tbh6same lihhtas thsy havs long regarded the British Museumn, that is, ...

... DIARY FROIX THE CAMP. * CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Dac. 11. The monotony of life in this huge military colony has been broken slightly by the appearance of the Russians on the heights of Oar- lbousta, and by some demonstrations of an intention o0 their part to try the strength of the French positions in the Baidar Valley. It would be of great consequence to them and of some detriment to us if ...

... ,O WN EDITIO M- LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. RETREAT OF OMAR PACHA. t is said that despatches have been received, which state that ar l'acha, in consequence of the fall of Ears, has found it esx :jst to retreat upon Redout-Ealeb. R U E S I A. t is fully expected in Russia that next year the principal seat of war swill be transferred to the north, and the greatest icxertions snaking for an efficient ...

... Im~l :, . i l . I I RUSSIIA OFFICIAL REIPORT ON THE Bzunrender of Ram. The Lonvalide Rusvse putlishes eneral Mouravieff's detailed report of the 4grrender of Wars as follows:-. EXTRACT FROM THE R aPOnT Or AIDE-DE-CAO P GENERAL MOUEAV:IFF, DATED FOMERELY FROM TEE CAMP OF :.TCHPLI-TCEAT, BUT TO-DAJY TROS QUARTERS AT VLADI EARs, Nov. 29:- After tbit assault upon Kars on Sept. 29, the' Turks took ...

... An American journal contains the following, under the heading Scraps from the Journal of an American Ex- Consul in Russia:w PEBP AT CRONSTADT.-lHe first visited Cronstadt, and found this place as strong as it had been represented, but more so from its natural position than from anything extraordinary in the defences. He found there an immense foundry, 600 feet long,, which had remained ...