... '-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 ...

... WAGES.—Elizabeth Morgan, of Llangattock, was summoned, by John Waters, for the balance of his wages, which he alleged to be L2 2s., but on the bench examining the account, it appeared that £ 1 16s. lOd. was the amount due, which was ordered to be paid with 5s. costs. STEALING COAL.-Jane James pleaded guilty to stealing coal, at Cwmbran, the property of John Lawrence, Esq.—'Committed for 7 days ...

... Forty-six designs have been sent in to the committee for the com- petition for the Memorial Chureh at Constantinople; several of them have great merits, ...

... SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1857. THIS is just the time when rumour begins to do her worst- Parliament meets on the 3rd of Februtry, and Palmerston has summoned his faithful adherents to aid him on the occasion. Many Cabinet meetings have taken place, and the habitues of the West End Clubs affect to know what is in the wind. As all party relations are rather loose at present, the imagination is left ...

... TfHE NEWSPAPER PRESS. ~The decision of the Court of Queen's Bench in the case of Davison against Duncan, on Friday last, raises a question of great interest, and more especially interesting to persons connected with the public press. The circumstances are shortly ?? a meeting of the West Hartlepool Commissioner, one of the speakers used lan~guage with reference to a gentleman, not pre. sent ...

... The arrival of the Overland Mail brings accounts of its capture of Bashire. These accounte state that on the 4th December Karrech was taken possession of ass a military depot, and occupied by two companies of the 2nd Belocheets. No opposition was offered-indeed, our people found only a handful of ill-fbd and unpaid mercenaries, to whom their advent was rather a boon than otherwise, On the ...

... THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Hilary Term, 220th Victoria, 1857. Tuesday, January 27. Thws Court will hold sittings on Friday, the 6th day of February next, and every sucoceding day (Sundays ex- cepted) until and including Tuesday, the 17th day of Feb- ruary next, and will, at such sittings, prooeed in disposing of the business then pending in the New Trial.and ...

... MAIWHESTER 'ATIIENA?UM. itanof Tho tannmal nmeeting of the mnembers was held on Wednesday hi year. night, in the Library H~all; Sir E. Armitage, Xl., in the chair. of tin. Te SxCIElTAISY read the twenty-first annual report, of o an-whicht the following is an absraot .- tb~ uses ,of The average number of members from- tbe commencement t Ieoteprsnraeof sabscription in 1848, to thecoloce of r ...

... THE SU.PyO COTTON. y The New Orleans Delta, of a recent date, contains an 6 article in which the' writer anticipates, in most exultant tone, a e world-wide dependenoe for cotton supplies upon the southern P p states of the American Union. The Timies of yesterday has *. r. en article, called forth by the glowing anticipations of' the o Delta, fromt which we extract the following :- The 'aholi. ...

... Cjie BktJujr €elegnijit). Saturday, Jan. 31, 1857. A LITTLE while ago we passed in brief review those hopeful signs and promising incidents that marked the last year as a memorable one in our history. In that year, whose requiem we have just rung—with whom we shook hands warmly as he donned his sandals grey, and journeyed on to join the dim and long proces- sion of departed years. We shall ...

... ABEEDAEE POLICE COURT. THURSDAY.—(Before J. C. Fowler, Fsq.) STEXIING COAL.—The coal and iron masters having resolved to put a stop, as far as possible, to the practice of taking coal by their workmen, have issued notices that all parties found taking in future be prosecuted, We may therefore expect, for some time to come, parties brought up almost weekly for this offence. To day there were ...