... THIE PLEASURES OF LIFE AT HONG KONG. Vi'lla 6r-,*tet nAA- - 1 i - ?? - - .- MA -A :_ .. ?? nast ?? few who are daring enough to go out in the sun, try to escape from themselves by a voyage round the Island of Hong Was Kong, or a trip to ltacao. I have accomplished both these was Pohievemests. The voyage round the island was performed in vvel a private pleasure steamer, and, notwithstanding ...

... To ?? Editor of the Galasgoo Herald. SIR,-The lanioutations heard on all sides over the disaster to the Polytechnic indicates a state of public feeling that re- ouires ML outlet, while the dishear tening harseter of the acei- dent on tho proprietors of the Institution-if they are ordinary mortals-must be such as to make a stimulant desirable. That the Polytee.nic offered the most excellent ...

... TR 0 OP S F OR IND IA. Is (From the Times of yesterday.) In the last two months we have despatehed 26,000 soldiers on a voyage of 15,000 miles, This brief but comprellers6ive t observation is not ill calculated to place the energy and re- sources of the country in a creditable light before the eyes of the world; but it would be unwise in the extreme to presume dl that the actual work before us ...

... of id I I(From t I- D Tm. (From' the Times,) The Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata, Captain 0. G. Weller, arived at Southampton on Sunday, at 5 P.M., With the West India, Mexican, and Pacifie mails, in charge of Lieut. Scriven, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are:-Tampico, July 31; Havana, August 9; Jamaica, 1- Iayti, 12; San Juan (Porto Rico), 14; Demerara, 9; Tobago, 7; Port of pafin ...

... ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. (From the Calcutta Papers of July 20.) TIlE JHANSI MASSACRE. A correspondent in the Upper Provinces gives the following account of the Jhausi massacre, from a written deposition of one present:- For some time since, the gentlemen were in the habit of passing the nights in the fort, and spending the days at their bungalows. Captain Burgess and his establishment had ...

... AMERICA, (F'rsm the TImes' Correslitndence.) Southampton, Septf 22. a The United States steamship Vanderbilt, Captain Edward L Higgins, arrived off Cowes early'this morning with advices from New York to the 12th inst., being two days later than Ithose received by the Canard Steamer. Tlirouglrout the voy- i. age the Vanderbilt experienced strong winds from south tor g south-east. She has made ...

... THE. INDIAN MUTINIES. (FrAm #I,. Tim-e.) (From the Times.) FEBIZAWUR . The following- are extracts from letters from Lieutenant. Colonel Edwardes,-C.B., dated from Juno 21 to July 6;~ 11As yet we have made no impression on Dehi General Read's, or rather General Barnard's force wias tooe weak to be. sieg~e Delhi, anld bas had to stop and wait for reinforcteeale.ts just as General Whish had at ...

... (From the Times.) The following is a copy of a telegraphic despatch from Colo- r el Phipps to the Lord 'Mayor, dated Balmoral, Sept. 9:- ' You may announce subscriptions to the Furnd for the Indias Sufferers of £1000 from the Queen, £300 from the Prince sConsort, and £100 from the Duchess of Kent. Lord Palmerston has subscribed £100. The following statement has been drawn up by an officer l, ...

... I JA1iULflt1fl.±t XAnriCUuflD lU L (From the -Times.) Speculations upon the ability of this country to cope with the rebel Sepoys of Hindostan must surely be somewhat premature. It is perfectly natural that other nations should not regard the suliject with that absolute confidence which we entertain ourselves, but there cannot be much rooni for a comparison of two forces when one of tltem ...

... F'iJA (IN 1NT LAIGENCE.,a :, . .. i ,, ?? , FRANCE.. (From the Globe's Correspondence.) ?? ' . ?? aL'Par.s, Tuesday Evening, 'Pihe failure and flight of the barker, Charles' 'lhurueyssen, of Paris, uhichqe cuired s'ome~ mondis ago, will not have been forgotten ,by die public. There appeared in your columns at the time a leiiding ar~ic iii which that disgraceful. bankruptcy was partly ...

... JY§ATE __ _ __ ._ _ _. A_ I -- He K ng IHERALD OFFIC?, Monday Morrnig. ed 21 BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 03 34 AMERIC.A. Liverpool, Sunday. The Royal mail steamship Asia, from New Tork, arrived )9 about 10.15 A.se. Hfer advices are to the 16th instant. She L;S bring1 45 passengers and 55,000 dollars in specie. No general t- nows of importance. By commercial advices to tile evening of 15th inst. ...

... LOR)D JOHN RUSSHIJi AT SIHEFFIELD. (F. sin oile Tilsies.) I Lord and Lily Jihnlli R i-sel, wli three ?? their children, ?? iii tlli SP o11 'I ThIusday eveoitie, his Lordihiip having o ace 1 t ,1 e1n1 ilivilatioll ti p ?? at thle anualtlt 1lileetilig of ?? ( rigged serlools *o11 flh e t;,lb, il n (I dy. Ihe Noble Lord met witil s a very hearty recvltioni. tn Fridlay' Lord John received all i ...