... LETTEBS OF BOSWELL.,* (rrom the Athenemun.).m The letters in which Boswell is here once again'introducpd Ge to us range over the period conmprised between the dates 1758 Da and 17955; and they present us with an ?? in no asli degree inferi~or in interest to the writer's , aangism opus, ashe T calls it, with honest conviction-the 1Live of Johnson. They the are addressed to his early friend, ...

... , a PRtl.SSIU AND SWITZERLAND. Vienna, Sunday Evening, Dec. R8. T- The Austrian {Ministerial) Cbrrespondeac says that the Aus- )f trian Minister at Ierne did not give iis support to the repr-o Y sontatives of England and -f the United States, beeause Aus- a tria cannot enter into any moral engagements calculated to in- a fluence another Power to renounce its legal rights. ! The Siecle contains ...

... i'F0REIGN iNTELLIGENCE. * r~~~R AN OE. The Moniteur of Monday publishes a report from M. Bi1- lault, the French Minister of the Interior, asking a credit of -,000,000r. £120,000) for public works in the provinces. The report is followed by an Imperial decree approving the report and granting the moneo. The report is as follows - Sire,-This year's harvest was a better one, and the im- . ...

... E G ( L AN D. IN 5. U t AIN 1 . I__ __ _ tl The Bullion Robbery and tiee Great Northern Railway t] Fraud Cases.-Arrangemernts similar to those which o were made in the Palmer case, and which gave such M ,general satisfaction, are to be adopted with respect to v^ tile gold dust robbery case and tile trial of Redpath - for the great Northern Railway frauds. An applica- a tioti has been made by ...

... _vl.1 . .~ v l ?? 1iJs n slt31(VA UINIi ?? JJI. Here in the seventh week after the butchery of Mlr. Little it f wouldappear that the efforts of the police to tracehoume the crime have have been utterly paralysed, and that the only effect of 11the casting ofsuspiu eall the solemn investigations has been tecshgosupicion upon parties against whom there was not in reality a shadow ? of ground for ...

... THE PISHES OF THE FRITH OF CLYDE.I th LECTURE DELIVECRED BtY MIR. JOHNt EATON REID, bil * ?? )&ILLPOIIT, CU5LRA.AE. is] No. 111. th The Coal Fish or Seethe.-This fish has perhaps as many nfl different Dames as any which swims in the sea. In somneplaces flb it is called the sillock, in others the piltock, the cooth, thle mn bsarben, cudderi, thle soethe, say, and grey lord. In Edinburgh in and ...

... ?? Coast Mission.-A soiree in connection with this excellent and important mission was given on Monday night in the' Upper Hall of the Scottish Art Exhibition Rooms, 93 Bath Street. The' Rev.'Mr. f Blytb, who occupied the chair,'opened tlepproceediings with a solemn and impressive prAyer. The company, r which was both numerous and respectable, having partaken of a substantial tea, and joined ...

... - - -x I. -r ro - - a.1 * To the Erc'itor of the Glasgow Herald. EAR,-It is a source of surprise and regret to many, that, whilst almost every town in England, whether large or small, are expressing their disapprobation, in various ways, against the- present oppressive and unjustly.modulated incometax, that this powerful city does not speak, and give the tone, if neces- eary, to the rest of ...

... t (Freom the Tines.)I The following are the' chief points of the protest of the depu- ties of the Chamber of Wurtemberg against the concentration or passage of Prussian troops on Wurtemberg territory Aceording to public report the Prussian representative is f said to hbae declared to the Germanic Diet onl the 18th of De- cember that'all that now remained for his Sovereign to give . force to ...

... MISCELLAXN8 OUS. a __ _ - The slave of pleasure soon sinks into a kind of vo- a luptuous dotage; intoxicated with present delights, and e careless of everything else, his days and his nights i glide away. in luxury or vice, and he has DO care, but t to keep thought away; for thought is troublesome to F hinn who lives without his own approbation.-Dr. i Johnson. Col. Cunynghame tells us, in his ...

... - opr Ali FRI-DAY MORNINGT, JANUARY 2. * -We see;by the morning papers of yesterday that the long talked of Conference is now really to take place. News from Paris, dated Wednesday, says that 'the r Plenipotentiarices wereto assemble on that day at noon. e If it be, as ixpected, that one or two meetings will e settle the disputed portions of the Treaty of last year, we will not have very long ...

... T1E RESOLUTE. 'Ir - tlea Ti ,c. 11 ?? alf D fls X JU jiu-.t (From the Times.) Portsmouth, Tuesday. is To-day this celebrated ship has been bodily given over to her s original owners. Is About one o'clock Captain G. H. Seymour, C.B., the Flag- ie Captain, went on board to inform Captain Harttsein that the t American flag would be saluted with 21 guns prior to being struck on board the Resolute. ...