... A CHRISTMAS WEEK, AT GLASGOW. (From Fraser's Magazine for February.) (Concluded from our last.) The dinner-lour at Glasgow is six or half-past six, rarely seven. The dweller in any of the Weot End crescents is daily reminded of tih fact by a tremendous rolling of cabs and car., riages about that time. Then there is an intermission; and between ten and eleven r.,i, tho rolling reeommelees; tile ...

... ICHANGES IN THE MANNERS AND HABITS OF a \SCOTLAND. DURING LAST FIFTY YEARSS. (:Frnm i I I f (From the Scotsman.) fror ttim The Very Rev. Dean Ramsay, of Edinburgh, delivered an tion interesting lecture on this subject at one of the Ulbster Hall whc Conversaziones, under the auspices of Bliss Catherine Sinclair, first on Wednesday, last week. We can only give a very brief out-tie line of the ...

... HiOUSE.OF. LORDS-FRIDAY, FEB. 6. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five ?? o'clock..-1 Lord CAM PBELL rose to MMv for the production Ofa very ee. .vaiuable paper, which tie thoughtolight to be in thnt possession th1 of all their Lordshipo. ?? years ago a commission was Apl. .thi pited, over which hie had thle honour to preside, to consider tht thfei'law of divorce, and this ...

... . ' On Friday night auiadjourned meeting.of theinhabitants of a Airdrie was le]d in the Music Iall,'ft6i- the purpose of consi- g deringthe proprietyof establislisiga New tas Company. The t ball was well filled. On the motion of, Dr. Robertson, Mr. John Main was called to the chair. The Chiairman'calliid on Mr. J. K. PLrauLus, secretaryto tbe committee appointed at .ast meeting, who said that ...

... IL ATE ST A ?? S. HERALD OFFICE, Monday Mornting. 2 BY EL.ECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Tl*E PEN1INSULIAR MAILS, London, Saturday. The East India and Peninsular mail letters leave for the provinces at 8 r.m. (From the London Papers of Saturday Evening.) en FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SWITZERLAND. The Siisse contains the ?? Swiss journals, which entertained the greatest confidence in the prompt solu- tion of the ...

... THE INCOME TA X: (From the Times.) bohwe' The great Income-tax. question is settled-tihat iA senti to say, the war ninepence is given up--nine'mil the F lions of taxation are taken off, and a corresponding but sl relief is in store for-all tboserclasses whose suffering in the under thle pressure of thle accumulated impost found dred iecently so audible an expression. . When we acid to charg ...

... (From the Liverpool Mercury,) On Sunday morning the ancient parish church of Wallasey so well known to all who usake occasional excursions to the Cheshire side of the Mersey, was totally destroyed by fire. The particulars of the catastrophe, so far as we have been able to learn, are as ?? two o'clock on Sunday morning an inhabitant of the village, on looking througb his bed room window, ...

... it A number ?? the Times.) 3t A nuber oflettors from naval avid military-officers en- e, gaged with the Persian expeditionary force-have been placed at 1.our disposal by various correspondents, and from them we are )r enabled to glean a few additional details which may miot be un- interesting to the public. The greater portion of the fleet and transports arrived at-the first renderzvous at ...

... Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. Buchanan held his first meeting with the electors in the Trades' H1all, which waa packed in every~part; and while lsrge numbers went away unable to obtain admission, the staircase was crammed by outsiders, who growled discontent at their exclusion in i'eryr audible and dia- cordantiterms. The City Hall, the dimensions of which are so much more ...

... o- * th. lV-N-) (Prom the Examiner.) China is the count in the indictment upon which thlecl Opposition lays most reliance. It is good for all the YP commonplaces of declamation. 01 The unhappy truth, however, is that nothing is to b3 be done with the Chinese except with a high hand, lit forbearance and moderation being always interpreted ti by them as fear and weakness, and presumed upon t ...

... UNION OF THE DANUBIAN.PRINCIPALITIES. ?? ?? - ~ ~ ~ ~ ?? -- -- - (F~rom the Spectator.) FeesS The question of uniting the Danubian Principalities, rein or not, is so complicated by a curious transposition of Stoll advocacy, that it necessarily is obscured to the Eng. pric lish public, and probably to some other publics. in I the minds of many who are perfectly disinterested, Bri wvell-informed ...

... I RENFR.W~iSlIPRE ROADS. On Wednesday afternoone a meeting of the landed proprietors, proprietors of public workis, and other gentfele n resident in the eastern district of Renfrewshireo was- held in Carrick's Hotel, George Square, for the purpose of taking into considera- tion the present state of the turnpike roads in, that district. The gentlemen present ?? Polrok, Esq. of Loch- d Iibo; ...