... Costa Rica is about to despatch commissioners to Nicaragua for the purpose of arranging the matters in dispute and avoiding hostilities. During the month of December the number of wrecks reported was 167. The amount expended by American travellers in Europe is estimated at 10,000,000 dollars annually. It is reported that Vice-Admiral of the Blue Arthur Fanshawe, C.B., will succeed Admiral Lord ...

... A correspondent dfthe Morning Post at Florence makes known the fact that Sir Charles Eastlake has purchased a collection of paintings of the early Tuscan masters, for the National Gallery. In purchasing the most valuable Portion of the Lombardi collection, writes the corre- spondent, our government has profited by an opportunity Which might never again present itself of furnishing artists ...

... NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ELECTION. — The Daily News says :—The liberal party are now quite awake to their duty, and in the person of Lord Henley have a can- didate well qualified to frjht their battle. His lordship (who is a member of the Irish peerage) has taken of late years a considerable share in the affairs of the liberal party both in the town and county. In politics he goes farther than most ...

... t itH7 rFlOH?. F.0R THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—The long- a,en°. Pugilistic encounter between Thomas Sayers an enjatnm, for £ 200 a-side, and the championship of Eng an °ff on Tuesday. A special train having been engage o convoy the combatants and their friends to Stroud, a steamer was found to be in readiness to con- vey them to the of action No sooner had a de- barcation been enccted, than the ...

... PLYMOUTH, JAN. 26. J, -'■be Horth of Europe steam-packet ship Oscar, Capt. -tiawkesley, arrived here this afternoon, from the West ^jOast of Africa. She left Fernando Po on the 11th, -Hoimy on the 15th. Lagos on the 25th, Accra on the 29 th, Cape Coast on the 30tb, Sierra Leone on Jan. 6tb, the Gambia on the 12th, and Madeira on the 21st, but did notqall at Teneriffe. Her passengers are but ...

... ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ON THE INDIAN MUTINY. A meeting of the Church Missionary Society was held at Dublin on Monday, when the Archbishop of Dublin moved the following resolution:—That the meeting desire humbly to acknowledge the hand of God, both in judgment and in mercy, in the events that have lately happened in India. He said-It appears that the propa- gation of the Gospel in India, as far ...

... COURT OF DIVORCE AND MATRI- MONIAL CAUSES. The judges of this tribunal are the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Baron, the Senior Puisne Judge of the Common Law Courts, and the Judge of the New Probate Court. What is styled by the Act the Full Court will, in effect, consist of the Lord. Chancellor, Lord Campbell, and the ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE HUNT BALL.-On Wednesday evening, the 13th instant, the Monmouthshire Hunt Ball and Supper took place at the Swan Hotel, when it was attended by nearly 200 of the first families of the it was attended by nearly 200 of the first families of the gentry of the county. The supper was laid out in a most sumptuous manner, with all the delicacies of the season, no expense being spared by ...

... [WEDNESDAY, before the Reverend GEORGE GABB, 'and JOHN THOMPSON, Esquire. J CHARGE OF DAMAGE.—James Mansfield was charged by Eleanor Thomas with doing damage to an earthenware pan, value one penny. Complainant stated, that, she lived at Penypound gate, Abergavenny. On the 10th instant she left the pan outside her door. All of a sudden she heard a smash, when she ran out and saw the defendant ...

... In the present state of our information respecting our forces at Cawnpore every scrap of news is valuable. The following brier extracts-written, as will be seen, on the eve of going into action, and when the artillery was roaring its hoarse prelude-though brief, have this re- commendation, that they are written by one of the best officers in the Inoian army, and by one whose position affords ...

... A DICTIONARY OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. The technical terms made use of in the Stock Exchange are almost peculiar to its members; that peculiarity often shows itself in the abbreviation of words. Amongst the terms frequently made use of are the following:- Consols is an abbreviation of the term consolidated annuities, the prices of which rule, in a great measure, those of most other public ...

... personal. HEYWOOD THE EPIGRAMMATIST.- When the Queen once remarked to him that the priests must forego their wives, John exclaimed (and he was a very strict Catholic, too), Then your Grace must allow them lemmans (sweethearts), for the clergy cannot live without sauce, This epigrammatic turn was very strong upon him; and indeed many of his epigrams, of which he was the author of hundreds, ...