... lk Fox Hounds vill meet This Day, Jan. 2nd, at Elm-awell Lion; on Tuesday, Jan. the 5th, at Honington Fox; on Thursday, the 7th, Cowlinge Green Man; each day at Eleven o'clock. The East Essex Hounds will meet This Day, Sae. 2, at Moor Gardens; on Tuesday, the 5th, at Ridgewell Green; on Friday, the 8th, at Braxted Park; each day at Eleven o'clock. The Essex and Suffolk Hounds will meet on ...

... RIOT WITIH THE MILITIA. On Friday night several soldiers of the Staffordshire Militia, at present stationed in the Castle of Edinhurgh, appeared to have been drinking in a puhlichouse in the Cowgate at the foot of Blair-street, and afraces ensued among them and severai civilians who had assembled there, A verv large crowd speedily collected, and in- formation of the disturbance having been ...

... THE BOMBAY MAIL. I THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. i By the arrival of the Bombay mail private correspon- . dence and filles of papers have been received from Bomr l bay to the 4th of December. (From the Times.) When I closed my last letter our intelligence of affairs at Lucknow and its vicinity came down to the 9th of November, on which day, as we have just heard, Sir l Colin Campbell had crossed the ...

... _ DRaUY-LANC.-A larger concourse of people pro- me1 bably never assembled within the waits of Drury-lane dea Theatre than on Saturday night. The name of the new Thf comic pantomime is Little Jack Horner; or Harle birc quin A. B. C. The opening is a burlesque alle- pro gory. What part is enacted by Little Jack Horner con may be briefly told. Jack has a good and a bad demon her -Intelligence ...

... Ace bt boibir 3otutral. SATURDAY, JANUYARY 2, 1858. i, In other columns we have given the details of intel. e ligence as brought by the last mail from India. The e particulars, however, of the crowning feat of arms e at Lucknow are very defective, which can excite no i; surprise if we reflect for a moment upon the necessarily is hurried manner in which the news was dispatched. In .e the ...

... C@OM ESX 1W3 MR. WHISTLECRAFTl'S ALKANACK- :o f De Edifor of the Ipsseich9JorIaat sla,-l was 5ry to see an attack made in your Jurenal k an onubymona correspondent A Censor a u M r. Wthiatlecraft's predictions on the weather dur- ing this year. Censor says, is after the extrsordi. nary bwlder in August! ! ! '-this is a most unfortuate eotation, as August was a most splendid month, with ...

... CHURCH-R XTES. Two, months ago I addressed a letter to the parish in Shcontequenee of the opposition to a Church-rate unex- pectedl raised at a very small vestry rneeting. At a subsequent meeting, at which about twentv ratepayers were present, it was agreed that no further Church-rate , should be proposed till after two months hid espired, in order that we might have sufficient opportunity for ...

... _ At the Rotherham County Court, on Wednesday even- ing, a case was tried of considerable importance to men employed at iron works, being the first action brought under such circumstances. The plaintiff was Edward Burgess, and the defendant George Booth, the former being employed as a puddler, and the latter as a slhingler, at the Park Gate Iron Works. The action was brought to recover ...

... The Committee of the NationaliClub have issued an address to the public on this important subject. After examining the causes and consequences of the Indian mutiny, the committee thus conclude:- What, then, ought the British people now to do ? We answer, petition the legislature; express their opinions at this crisis. Now is the opportunity for establisbing the government of India upon right ...

... MR. THACKERAY AND THE COMMERCIAL I, -TRAVELLERS. The annual festival to commemorate the establish -ent of the Commercial Travellersa Schools, in which 150 orphan and necessitous children are educated and maintained, was held at the London Tavern on Satur. day evening, Vr. Thackeray, the celebrated novelist, presided; and upwards of 100 principals of leading firms in the City and gentlemen of ...

... THE HEAD MASTERSHIP OF QUEEN ELIZA- BETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL. An adjourned meeting of the Town Council was held on Monday for the purpose of receiving the report of the Grammar School Committee with regard to the ap- pointment of Head Master. The MAYoastated that circumstances of an unforseen I nature had arisen which rendered it necessary that the Committee should have further time to prepare ...

... to We regret to anlounce that a fearful catastrophe by if fire has happened to the Sarah Sands transport steamer ;hon her passage to India from Portsmouth with the head. at quarters and a large portion of the men of the 54th Re. 4y giment on board, whose preservation aid that of the )r crew may be fairly considered one of the most marvel. t. lous on record, as may be inferred from the fact ...