... ED rNBUR G H. ART MANUFACTURE ASSOCIATioN.-Last night, a full-dress promenade took place in the National Gal- leries. There was a numerous though by no means crowded attendance. LECTURIS1 ON LIFE AssunA.cn.-Last night Mr Edward Sang delivered the first of a course of four lectures on Life Aqsurance, under the auspices of the Faculty of Actuaries, in the upper lecture room, Queen Street Hall. ...

... IECOND EDITION MERCURY OFF, TrntsoAy, ELTMz OIOM NAPLES. tAs, Wednesdayv Jan. 7tb, 4 P.M.-The Nea- n war steamer Charles the Third has blown up. men arc killed. ITALY. CoN, Wednesday.-The Session of the Piedmon- Chambers was opened this morning by the King salt. s lajesty's speech was greeted with a most en- ltic reception; especially the allusions which it nired to the great national cause of ...

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... -P]aV1LEGES. FOR THE MRESS. (FROM THE rCONOMIST.) 1A behalf ofthe press, the functions of; which we estimate as bighityas any of our C'ontemporari£5 vc -muast say afew. wr 'on s G'oe O imiiis lately put forth f-r an enlargemieni of its privileges. ?? A-cise-Qf con- diermbl~interegi 'was j it Crrt of .Q i's~endb.. 'e a, meeting of the, WXes; Hartle- pool Improvement Commissioners there was an ...

... '-probinfial aultIlIpAct. PILLAR letter-boxes have been introduced into Avr. LAST week, a sow belonging to Mr Purdie, farmner, Ettrickbank, littered no less than seventeen pigs. Sixteen of them are strong healthy animals, and are doing well. The tenants and friends of Sir James J. I. Maac-' kenzie, Bart. of Scatwell, propose entertaining that gentleman to a public dinner on Thursday, the 12th ...

... (Tliefollowing appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.) The King of Naples has concluded a convention with the Argentine Republic for the reception of his political prisoners who may ?? to be exiled thither. The offer has been made to Poerio, but he has declined to go.E FRANCE. PAts, Thursday Evening.-The appeal of Verger for a reversal of the sentence, or a new trial, has been this day ...

... (The following appeared ibi our Second Edition of yesterday.) ,, 9 ViRNsA, January 19.. On the 12th inst., the T'wjJ sreasmer Asia, en her way from Trieste to Constantinople, weas lost off Valou, on the coast of ,Albanip. ,The passengers,. mail-bags, and. remittances were saved' VxaxNiT~ieiday.-The Archduke Maximilian of Austria is-appointed Governor General of the Lom- ardo-Veretian.,States, ...

... H HOUSE OF. CQMMONS-WEDNE:SDAY. The House met at 12 o'clock. X Numerous private Bills were read a second time,' among which vere.the .Birkenhead Dobksa(UoAitruAc- tion), and the Birkenhead Docks (Management) Bills. MERBESY CONSEIvWAToity DOCKS B3lL. - On the motion for the. second reading of the Mersey Conservatorv Docks Bill,: Mr. HORSFALL movbd that the Bill be read a second time that day ...

... -prtiga 4-iomt. ,liti FRANCE. The Paris correspondent of the Tiames says The proposition presented to the Council of State for the grant of a pension of loo,ooof. to Marshal Pelissier hai been negatived by tile particular sec- tion to which it was referred. The casting vote was that of the President. The objection, however, is not to the grant itself, but to the form in which it was made. ...

... problucial AlltelliguAct. A WEAJ,.TJI FAuPER.-An old man named Wil- m Cvird, who occupied a house by himself in Johnshaven, was found dead in his bed on Sabbath. fle eas believed to be as poor as Lazarus, and in the parochial Board his name has stood as a pauper for eleven years. Great was the astonishment, therefore, ]1, Sabbath morning, when, on laying out his corpse, eild stocking was found ...

... jord R luffillyt. . .; ? . I q ?? 4- FRAWCE. The Minister of War has determined that tthe Zouaves of the Line, as well as those of the Impbsial Guard, shall henceforth be armed with rnffbNdWdbre- bayowets. This measure will increase the Light vi -: f~tryby .1 batalions. of picked troops. Tre Emy eror has -decided that therejahall be a gal-; lery at the Museum at Versailles dedicated to paint ...

... ,spirit ff ttt 1Tus. THE PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. (FRos THE DAILY NEWS.) I The sort of preliminary debate which took plece last night on Lord Palmerston's motion for leave to bring in a Parliamentary Oaths Amendment Bill, though brief in its duration and limited as to the number of those who took part in it, was not with- out features of interest. The speech of the Pre- Mier was eminently ...