... i?ptrjt af t4t jprtss. THE BRITISH OFFICIALS AND THE CHINESE WAR. (Dais News.) The conduct of the British officials at Canton, in so far as the question of the Zorchla Arrow is concerned, is now admitted on all hands to have been indefen- sible. Even the Yvnes, which at first rushed headlong into a justification of this part of the British proceed- ings, has desisted from the attempt. The ...

... 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 ...

... rTEWKESBURY AND GLASGOW. Mr. I-umphrey Brown is about to vacate Tewkesbury. n When may Glasgow count upon the same favour at the hands s of Mr. Nacregor? Or is it that Scotland is so fund of the term ?? British I in preference to English,, that even a dirty tumble-on a British Bank makes a Glasgow member all the fsweeter for his seat ? f CLUD FARE. The rate at which officials are paid at our ...

... LIEUTEN1N MAIMY ON RNECETHNT 19ESEAROES I LIEU EN-IN THE NORTH PACIFIC. In his last report to thle Secretary of the Urrited States navy, dated Nov. 8, 1856, Lieutenant Mattary says :- r.Commander Rodgers, of tho North Pacifio Survoyling ExPe- ?? diition,- has furnished at fow, observations, mado on board the 3,. ?? States ship Vincennes last year, on the temperature and n- specific gravity of ...

... (From the Examiner.) Whether the grounds be right or wrong, we are at war with the Chinese Empire; and being at war, we must of course make the best use of a turn of: events, which would most probably have occurred sooner or later, judging from all we know of the recent conduct of the Chinese,'and our recent relations with them, especially at Canton. Indefensible as we have reason to consider ...

... . (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 ...

... ?? 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 ...

... 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 ...

... LETTERS OF JAMES BOSWELL, ?? ~~gard A ?? volume of D3oswell's letters,.chiefly addressed to the tion Rev.. W. Johnson Temple, rector of Mainhead, Devonshire, cerln has just beon'published. The followisng account of how pn these letters caine into the hands of the publisher is given Lori in the'preface6 :- A few years ago, a clergyman having o c- Cha easion to buy some small articles at the ...