... 11'aht an? )Iffititaq. PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. WAR-OFFIOE, JAN. 5. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Regimental Sergeant-Major W. Joice to be Comnet, without pur- eha se. 1st Dragoons-H. St. G. Osborne, gent., to be Cor- net, by purchase, vice Raedford, promoted. 0th Dragoons-E. Napier, geut., to lie Cornet, without purchase. 14th Light Dragoons-Major and Brevet-Colonel C. W. M. Balders, C.B, ...

... HIAVELOCK'S LAST MARCIH. Toil: followinbg is a portion of the lettcr of' young subaltern oflicer in tie 1East India Compiny's service, who serveed on tile stall' of one of her Mhaoesty's regi- ments, ongaged, under Sir II, Havelock, in the first attempted relief of Lucknow, and was subsequently detained in the Residency until Sir CWlini Campbell joined the garrison:- Ltcicseow, Ocr. 21-On ...

... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE, I CRnO3 OUR OwM; COltRtSPONDZNT.J LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, True arrival of thle B3ombay, Calcutta, and American mails, within the last few hour's, has aifirded abun- dant matter for speculation. It wouldi seem that the Calcutta iukase, by which tire Indian Press, European as ssell as native, Is virtually suppressed, is beginning, to re-act 111o01 its Originators. ...

... i torso umarl, .tanuaryiv 15 The Queen hias been graciously pit'tstid to coin- illjajld thait Colonel W. B1. Inglis, Of the 32nd Regi- letilt, be0 promloteld to .tic rii u of Major-O enicria, (Iii' his fortitude aind gallantryv inl the (lefeticO of the Rie- sidlency of' Lucltn:ow for cightay-sevenildays, a'saiii4t ani over-whelllmin for1ce of tl( clie eney. TIlE, VICTORIA COS This decoration ...

... (f ccluiastitat, THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. DEATH OF AncWUDEAOON VENAILES.-The arch- deaconry of Carmarthen has become vacant by tile death of the Venerable Richard Venables, D.D. the appointment, to which is attached a prebendal stall in the Cathedral Church of the diocese, is in the gift of the Bishop of St. David's. By the death of Dr.. Venables, the vicarage of Nantmel, Radnorshire, also ...

... rBY.fMAGNETIC TELEaGRAPL] NEWI'S-ISETrER OFFICE, MONDAY, I O'CLOCK, l'.M IN D AA. A telegram to the Tijes states that Sir James Outrani has 4,000 men at Allumbagb, and th'at Sir Colin Campbell goes to Futtyglmur. The Daily ANeivs describes the military situation in India. According to the last telegrami, the British districts adjoining Oude, on all sides, are in the pro- cess of being cleared ...

... AX EVI, WITNESS writes to the Times a letter on thle above subject, fronm which we, makce tile following extract:- Not only have their schools been shutt ul in several pilaces, where for years they have been educating tho chililrn olr wvhole communes, but their chapels, which thle people thlemiselves had built for the Protestant worship, hjave stood fr, years closed until some of them have ...

... ANNUAL RETROSPRCT. LOCAL TRADB. AMIDST the crash of gigantic and old-cstablislred flrms all around us, this extensive manutfacturinrg dis- trict, and, indeed, all Ireland, hnas kept wonderfully solvent,and unconcerned, very few houses of any in- fluence having either failed or suspended; and, al- though there is still much anxiety as to the payments falling due during the next two months, wve ...

... ' , IFRO r OUR OWN COuRSPONDENT.] LONDON, S.ATUV'OAY VEuNIXG. THE latest attempt of some ?? gunnuer to bring. down the Emperor of' tbe French has exeiited at this side -of the Caunel the usual amnoqut of indignation,, but-noe surprise.; Tho wonder is that the ex-prison'er of Ilami should have contrived to keep his head on his shoulders for so long a-periol. Tlcre is, howvecr, ?? pequliatly ...

... I (FRtox OUR OWN CIORIUSPOIDENf.) Dua~xi, TrarneSDAY, JAN. 14. Trinrlegal appointmients not yet settledl Whole flecks of canards wing their fitful flight round the Hall, D~iffer-ent persons maintaintlie superior chancesoefthecir own partisans, according- as their wishes father their theughts. The Cullenite faction assert that the efibrts to launch that legal Leviathan, Mlr. Serjeant O'Brien, ...

... NEWSPAPER WVAR. Tine NXorthCYerPn IFk/p of yesterdtay, tuider the heading which we hlave quoted, has somie goneral observations upon thei poSitioII or journalism in Belrast, and makes special rfrcrence, in ternis ?? indicate 'a little natural irritation, to what it calls 'three attacks' made in our coluimns uIp[0 thle Northern IF/p As a mattel' of diet; though not of great consequence, there ...

... DIVORCE OF MISSION ARY CONVERTS IN CASE 01 POLYGA11Y. Ir is vell known that the Rev. Dr. Colenson, Bishop of Natal, published some thie since his opinion that, in ecse of a native convert being already in posses- sioI of more wives that one, the Christian system did not require, or justify, the repudiation of any of his several wives. The following eorrespondenice, which Bishop Colenso has ...