... PRIVATE LETTER FROM A TOWNSMAN I IN INDIA. The following is an extract from a letter received by .Mr Alfred Legge, solicitor, of Newcastle, from his brother, in India Asimgurh, 18th Sept., 1867. MY DARA BnoTHsEa,-I, as a matter of course, sup- pose you have heard all about the mutiny of the native army, and the general uprising of the people in all dis- triots where a regiment has broken out ...

... I*ONiA-STLEj DECEMBER 18. 'The short session of parliament, which com- anenced a fortnight ago, was brought to a lose n Saturday last, by an adjournment for nearly eight weeks, the time for meeting again being the 4th February. The only business really com- feted, and for which, principally, the conven- ang of the legislature took place, was the pass- ing the Bank of England Indemnity Bill. In ...

... RAILWAY. INTELLIGENoE. GREAT NORTaEm(N. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of proprietors was held on Tuesday, at the London Tavern; Edmund Denison, Bsq9;-X.IP-i in the chair. The chairman wai received with biases and cheers. There was consider- able uproar as to the question of proxies, in the midst of which ?? said he should content himself -withqasking. the meeting to receive the-report of ...

... ORBTE SHIELD5. WaDnsesDov, Dec. 2.-Wind E.N.E. A large number of vessels, from foreign mostly, in ballast, have arrived here during the last 48 hours. The Trieste, for Riga, and several other vessels proceeded to eea last tide. The Express, Walshaw, from Odessa; and the Lavinia, Starks, from Taganrog for Cork, arrived at Constantinople, leaky, on the 18th ult., and it is feared they would have ...

... NEVCASTLE TOWN COUNCIL. The Council met on Wedneiday; ihe Mayor (AN. INONY NICHOL, Fsq ) presidine. 'Ihe minutes of the lot meeting were reed and confirmed. vacances in thefosp ?? first busliness was to till up two ?? in the Jesus Hosaital, and one in Sir Walter Blackettea Hospital-all caused by death. The two eleeted candidates for she former vacancies were fary IDodd* and Sarah WVallace. It ...

... GENERAL HAVELOCK AT LtUCKNOW. VICTORY AT AGRA. The overland mail, with deepatches from Bombay toi thb9 ard inst., Cawnpoxe to October 12, 'Agra t6 Ootober S, So.nd ?? 18, arrived in Londont on Saturday night, from Marseilles. SUMMARY OF INTELLIGENCE. (PRom Wh# OverlandBOmMaYS Times, Tuesday, Noveem- bar 3, 18`57.) The force at Lucknow, believed, when they left Cawnpore, to be too weak to ...

... Although additions are still being almost daily made to the list of failed firma, they are not of very great im- portance, and they are in most instances the result of suspensions abroad. The situation of 0ommeroial affairs in Hamburg and the North of Europe generally is most deplorable. Disceuiti are almost unobtainable, and money is being sent from London to enable some of the nrinoipa firms ...

... NEWCASTLE, DEosmBER 4. The commercial crisis has, it is hoped, passed Ake worst, notwithstanding the difficulties which Sill exist. The public funds have advanced iiderably during the last week; and money, &,ngh held at high rates, is more easily to be dl*ned than it was ten days ago. On the hIa~ , the business failures have been less nierous than might have been expected. Tae general opinion ...

... NEWOASTLE, DECEMBER 11. The additional news from India does not -vary the aspect of things there very much. The dislodgement of the rebels in posses- sion of Lucknow had not taken place at the date of the last despatches, for want of -more forces. But Sir Colin C~ampbell, the com- mander-in-chief, had set out from Calcutta on his way thither, and was expected to reach Lucknow on the 6th or 7th ...

... The bill of L-ord ihafte3bury, for seauring the liberty ofe-religious worship, hs-been published.--.It enacts that no inhibition of an incumbent of any parish con- taiting two thouesand soul sball avail so as to prevent any ordained minister of the united Ohurch of England and Ireland trom conduoting or taking part in any con- gregation or assembly occasionally meeting for reli- gious ...

... OPENING OF THE FRENCH LEGISLA. I TIVE BODY. At the opening of the Legislative Corps on Saturday, M. Fould, minister of state, read the following com- munication from the Emp eror 4Gentlemen Deputies,-Aeocording to the terms of the 46th article of the Constitution the Legislative Body elected after a dissolution must be convoked within the term of six months, It is in accordance with that law ...

... DAILY-AND PEBIODIOAL PRESS. TIMES.-The brief session is now concluded. Par- lianment was called together at an unusual period to give its sanotion to an, extraordinary measure which the government had thought it necessary to adopt in: the presence. of a, great emergency. This measure was nothing less than a temporary modifioation of the law by'which the carreney of the empire is regulated. A ...