... The following is an extract from a letter written by hf. de Banneroi, a French physician, in the service of Msussur Rajah, and published in Le Pays (Paris paper) under the date of Cal- cutta, Oct. 8:- t i give.you the following account of the relief of Lucknow, as described by a lady, one of the rescued party:-' On every side death stared us in theface; nohuman skill couldavert it any longer. ...

... - It AM B U It ?? |(Front the Titne Correspondence.) (|rom tirell Iianiburg, Dee. 6.8 ( The Assembly of tle Hereditary Freehold Burghers eon tinned their discussion on the question of the grant of 30 millions up to 8 o'clock lest evening, without having conie to ony definite conclusion. The majority is in favour otfgrantrirg ti tire som demandoed, under tho present circumustances, but as the w ...

... C 11 INA. Tile Ti7VCs' spjCi.4 ?? at Canton llaviln6g nothing else to d~i, devotes Coumnlli, ?? infuinlationl (,I, Uhilla-its )opu- lation, ri'de, rebourues, &e. Wu n111ke extntets:- TA'l'lI W lE V'E1'1 iXCIAZ(15D. At thlc ead of' thlu comturueial year 185-1 the balance of trade betwocvia China anld (UIrot 131 itai oin \s LstilantOd at soven mil ions nline hun dr4,d thioiuiasd dollars. or two ...

... .EN GLAN D. ?? Th/e MaIrler andt Sotiri(le in Druemmond Street, -t T'te police up to Tuesday eveninig were unable to G obtain any clie to the identity of the murderer. Not .; so as regards that of thie murdered woman. From A' inquiries iotttituted onl tile spiot it appears that among P the nutiaerous applicants at Mr. Harper's on Tuesday t was a young m1an1 itamed Hlelders, who stated that he ...

... ARMY PURCHASE C(MMISSION. - (Frolm tle Timee.); When the Report of the Arinv Purchase Commis- Bion was published Sir De Lacy Evans appeared to be the only dissentient; but it was afterwards known that a portion of tile Commissioners differed from their colleagues on entirely opposite grounds. Mr. Ellice's great experience in public affairs, and warm interest in military administration, entitle ...

... WRECK OF THE STEAMER EARL OF CARRICK,, AND LOSS OF FOURTEEN LIVES. . (From the Ayr Advertiser.) It has rarely been our duty, in chronicling events of spelial'f local interest, to record a more mournful disaster thats that which, 'on Sabbath morning last, overtook the screw steamship Earl of Carrick, belonging to this port, and her hapless pagaen- r gers and crew, on the passage from Ayr to ...

... G REEN &C AIND, C'O&aST N MTSS;. (Fromn thosmeonock Ahvertisera ogYesterday) '75ar, SAsLE-01) I,1unday thle vind: veered towavds dNS-. i and theme wvere several hail sho0wers,. while the tops oft-lic Argylishivic hills wereclad-with scnw.. A change wliG thoughto to hive eeturred, buct 'tho descending hwronieter fsretildrimos- rains. aid during the night the wind shifted baoic- to ?? . 'Mi'Ab ...

... W( FURTHLR PARTICULARS OF TIHE FIGHTING. gr The following lespatch from the Government of Bombay was wl received on Thursday at the India House:- gr Bombay, Deo. 4. it Lucknow was taken on 17th of November. Sir Colin th Campbell reached Alumbagih on the 12th of November,.and fis began fighting the next day. On the 13th two gans were taken Ti from the rebels, and the fort of Jeilabad was ...

... BILLY TH&E; CRACKSMAN'S PETITION. MDW HE HAS DKINl UNFAIRILY 31iIDLED, WHI'2OTHiER CiEmJSGOW SWELL& IMOAPE: I Unto the light Honourable Sic- G. Grey, har Mbjesty's Secretary of State. for. the }Home Department, the- Petition of Bill ,the Crackasmau, at present 2effering sen- tence of Transpirtation for 2L.years,- Humbly Shslctli,'. la That your petitioner's namaie Billy the Craaksmau [Billy. ...

... (From the ftxaminer.) A patient in a fit of delirium tremens is saved by a dram. An outcry is raised against this treatment, departing from a strictly sober regimen when things are at the worst, and administering a stimulus in the case of a disease caused by excess of stimulus. The only answer is that the patient has been carried safely through the dangerous paroxysm. But this fact will not ...

... _ b~; . ~il1 _I ., AWEDNESDAlY MORNIN(, DECEMBER 9. By a Governmellt despatch which was received on Monday evening at the Foreign Office, there is intelll, gence from Calcutta to the 1st of November, ?? Madias to the 6th. As usual with the telegraphic messages forwarded to Government, this one is at once brief and inexplicit. Two convoys of provisions haid arrived at Lucknow. Gcneral Hlavelock ...

... S COTLA ND. ?? 2Wddliary ilfovetne&ts.8- It will doubtless be matter of Is lregret to many to learn that the admirably ?? t iud well decorated Ist battalion of the Rifle BrigAde ie has been, after a comparatively short stay in this j? city, ordered to other quarters. It arrived in Edin- ie, burgh so lately as tile beginning of August last, on tb the departure of the 34th Itegiment, which, ...