... ANNEXATION OF HERAT TO I 1~~ ?? . . I I I PRSA We (the Dehi; GazeUe). have received froma our Cabill e correspondent the following report of the circumstances runder which 11erab is-said to haove been taken :-There is a report circulated amongst great people and courtiers that the city and country of Rerat have fallen into the hands of the Persians by a well mnanaged plot. It is said that ...

... re STr. LuKE'S ANNUAL TEA PARITY.-We understand at that the annual congregational tea party of the mem +bers and friends of the St. Lake's congregation takes place to-night, in the St. John's school-room, Waltham- street. We heartily wish it success. No minister in bthe town more deserves encouragement in his arduous and selfdenying labours than does the earnest minister Is of St. Luke's ...

... Prom BelA's Weeklyj Mesessser.) WgAT.-At nearly all the msrketa -held on Thursday there wer ony mderte uppie, ad pice wee Wllmaintained T1 forthebes qulites, whrelowr pice wee acepedit was -di Isslorsas rovous.-her wa litleaddtio tothe tuppl gi loegwnwas not the least sprvdadthsaueadu-gI 3ness inth trade, but there was nio uotable change in th i value ofan ?? lmports.'at ILiverpgool were fa ...

... DR, LUSHINGTON'S JUDGMENT. TsrE church ornaments, upon which the learned Dr. LusruINGToN pronounced his late able and satisfactory judgment, are not things which merely involve questions of correct taste, but, as we observed in our previous notice of the subject, matters which involve, and that to a very serious extent, questions of sound doc- trine. The conformation of the Christian synagogue ...

... THr E W AR , -I . _ , THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. From the Times. CAMP 5E'rortB SEBASTOPOL, De. 15.-The week-has passed away lyitlioutb any change in the position,'but it has brorght'twith it many rumours. The fall of Kars is now beyond any doubt and it has caused a painful feeling in spite of the prophecy that it will tend to peace. fal solutions of the great difficulty, inasmuch as it will ...

... THE HUIL BANKERS AND M HROANTS TI ON THE WAR. IT will be remembered that Mr. 0OBDE)N, estimating the patriotism of his countrymen at his own low stan- dard, ventured to predict that the war would be unpopular in six months from its commencement. He had no idea, it seems, that Englishmen would he content to make sacrifices, even in a cause which they believed to be just, and felt sure that a ...

... THE speech of the EMPREOR of FRtANCE on receiving the Imperial Guard on its return to Paris from the Crimea, last Saturday, has naturally excited a good deal of attention. Rumours had been rife for weeks before, that the Emperor was sick of the war,-that- he favoured the Parisian peace-at-any-price party, -that he had disagreed with the British Cabinet, and was prepared to consent to terms ...

... I LABOUR: Irs RICHTS, IDIFFI CULTIES, DIGNITY AND CON-q$OLAT.bNS.--Q gsA LaEcrV by SAMUEL WARBEuY, Esq., Q.0, DCCr L, )r RECORD'Ds of HULL; DeliveredTl r Jan, S. lS before the Thll Meebay4a, se tesn evening the hall of the EHull Mechaniinstieuto was filled to overflowing, by a mosL attentive and deeps interested audience, consisting of nearly all ranks of society in Hull, but more particularly ...

... AND EAST RIDING TIMES. [REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFIC FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD.] FRIDAY, JANUARy 4, 1856. RUSSIAN ULTIMATUM The Post tells us, on authority, that - Count ESTERHAZY delivered the Austrian vj.> matum to the Emperor of Russia on the 27th _ ult. That the Czar has not at once given hik Be answer may surprise Some inconsiderate poj}. 3. ticians who imagined that the ...

... I PAULL4. The minister and churoliwardens of the parish churoli of ?? distributed, on Christmas-day, the donation of bread bequeathed annually to the poor'by the late Thes. Locke, Eiq., of tbis town. BEFERLEY. BEVORLEY K1N8TER SJRV1LE5._-,GPIEnANY SUNDAY. .-iMorising-Venite and psalms, Corfi in A; To Denna and Jubilate, Chants; Sanctus, Ebdou in C; Kyrie, Sale in F. After-noon-Psalms, Hempel ...

... I THURSDAY EVEYrNT7N'S TELEGRAPHZC EXPRESS.: FuNDS.-English funds continue to showr unabated heaviness. During the earlier hours a farther rise in bank rate was talked of, but as this' was generally con- sidered improbable, the intimation that no alteration had been made cansed no imaprovement in prices. In- ,creased heaviness in railway shares was apparent, with little doing. In land, bank ...

... CAMP BmFOun SEBASTOPOL, Dec. 11.-The monotony of life in this huge military colony has been broken slightly by the appearance of the Russians on the heights of trkusta, and by some demonstrations of an inten tion on their part to try the strength of the French positions on the Baidar Valley. It would be of great consequence to them and of some detriment to us if they succeeded in restricting ...