... b pl ?? ISTRAT11DON, 3d January.-Tfle closing month of the past ant Iyear has presented uts with every variety of tesuperature, fall shade, and colour, from that of a verdant spring clay to that151 of an Arctic winter, and these transitions so esedden as to vi Ssurprise the beholder onl the approach of a new dlay. Weva had a severe sneov storni during the first few days of the I Ma: mtonth, ...

... I V-Millciltl LAST week a poor crofter, named Milne, at Kin- naird; on the estate of the Earl of Southesk, lost three fine milk coiws, by disease, which cost him L.30. REPRESENTATION or Dl]TFRIESSHIRE.-So many of the principal landowners have declined the invita- tion to become candidates for -the vacancy in the re- presentation of Dumfriesshire, that it has at last been resolved to offer the ...

... I- r is s.- . April bt ;-tell 13 THE ENGLISH AND THE SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES. (FROM TUE DiLY NEWS.) We alluded the other day, to the misconceptions which prevail with respect to the Scotch Universities. The thing is not surprising, for every one must have observed that there is nothing so difficult as to uunler- stand any system of education in 'i hich the critic has not had some practical ...

... b- atilt U10 401, Hitarg WAR DEPARTMENT, Jan. 16. Soots Fusilier Guards-Lieutenant and Captain the Hon. Roger Mostyn to be Instructor of Musketry. 3d Regiment of Foot-Ensign the Hon. James Wilford HeWitt, from the 4th Foot, to be. Ensign, vice Eames, who ?? Eustace Greg has been permitted to resign his. commission. 4th Foot-En- sign Richard Fairfax Eames, from the 3d Foot, to be Ensign, vice ...

... . (TAe following appeared in our Second Edition of - . yesterday.) BERNE, Thursday.-The Federal Council of Switzerland,,considering the new propositions which' have been submitted by the Emperor Napoleon, and supported by the good offices of England, to be such as are acceptable to the Swiss Confederation, has de- cided convoking the Federal Assembly of Switzerland for the 14th January, to ...

... I-ortigil 411ttIllplue. . , THE BOMBARDMENT OF CANTON. Advices from Alexandria render it possible to ob- tain a tolerably complete and connected view of the recent occurrences at Canton. The intercourse between the British authorities and the Governor of Canton has for some time been embarrassed with growing difficulties, the result of the unredressed grievauces of British rucrchauts. On the ...

... ?? e I 1 it t Ig itCCC. ENGLAND. ILLNESS OF LORD CLARENDON.-We (Court Jour- nal) regret to state that the Earl of Clarendon has been ill. Though the attack has passed over, and the friends of the noble Earl have no longer any anxiety on his account, yet the foresight and pru- dence of his Lordship in so resolutely declining the leadership of the House of Lords has be- come apparent. The ...

... (The following appeared in our Second Edition of iesterday.) STUTGARDTT, '30.-Thee 31oniteur publishes the re- -port of the commission relative to the passage of Prussian troops. The commission, relying bon the positive right of allies, refuses the demand of Prussia as a political intrusion. SWITZERLAND. rBEnSe, 30th -The Councillor Turrer is charged with a mission to the Courts of Southern ...

... T,)mf 'Intfillglart. E.NGILAND. THE Weekly Reqister announces that Mr Okely, of Trinity College, Cambridge, one of the Travelling Bachelors of that University, has been received into the Catholic Church by Father Etheridge. ME A. W. KMTGLAKE, the author of Eoth en, and brother of Mr Kinulake of Weston-super-Mare, is a candidate for Newport, Isle of Wight, in the room of Mr Biggs, resigned. ...

... ? fortipt 111WItgate. THE PARIS CONFERENCE. The Paris correspondent of the Nord gives the following version of what took place at the first Con ference:- The first Conference was held, at. half-past one o'clock, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Count Walewski took the chair.- The second Plenilpoten- tiaries ?? Brunow, Lord Cowley, Baron de 3Hubner. Count de Hatzfield, Marquis de ...

... C O NFEREN CE S. (From the Spectator.) The Conference has closed, and wit], complete suc- cess. So we are informed. How happy ought we to feel-if we only knew what for ! No doubt, there lhas been a success somewhere, but we fail to perceive that any sensible effects of it reach so far as London. Let us try to get at a conception of the success in the abstract. Rulssia attempted to evade one ...

... POT (Concled.) ?? *th e The following tables refer ehiefly to trade and commerce. hat Itha lt may be desirable, however, first. to.sipply an omission det under a former head-that of Births. t ILLEGITIMIATE.un 1855. 185. tail St Nicholas * - 180 217 An Old Maohar 102 115 see - -. thi Total M 282 332 sar The proportion of these to the whole births is as follows: act -For 855: St Nicholas, one ...