... (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) HONG KONG, Nov. 14. Truly one is never too old to learn. It required a voyage to Hong Kong and a Chinese difficulty to teach me some of the rare virtues of gunpowder. Int no other part of the world do I think could one so well learn what an important element that same gunpowder is in diplomacy. Now, I don't mean in war, which is either the parent or offspring ...

... orr o g t eCt. HO.McEO PATCHY. TO THE EDITOR Or THE CALEDONIANM ERCUIIY. SIR, - While reading a London paper the other day, I happened to meet with a little anueedote on homeopathy, which appeared to me so good and so arnusing that I think it mseay not be amiss to give it a place in your columns; for while it completely illug- trates the maxim, Similia similibus cnrantur, it at the same time ...

... Bombay, Dec. 4. Ascending the Doab, we find the garrison of Agra recalling its little force from Muttra, and strengthening with it, under the command of Colonel Ridhl,1l, its other outlying party nuder Major Eld, at Alyghur. This was rendered advisable by an appearance of renewed vitality among tile ill-affeoted near Bo- lundshuhur and by the attitude of some of tile Rohileuaid mu- tineers, ...

... The resignation by the Earl of Ilarrowby of Qse ?? ot Privy Seal, and a seat in the Cabi- met, has given rise to rumours that the ministry lbanobecome divided in opinion respecting the Parliamentary Reform BiT which Lord Palimner- *4dn intends to bring forward after the meeting df the legislature in February. The reason publioly assigned for Lord Harrowby quitting omece is, that of ill-bealth ...

... TME- I M-HfTY D:EAD' OF THE YEAM:lB.7? (FROM 'rtWsIV.) More than' half of the' nineteenth centwry: hhs-. pessed'away,.-mnlthe men wiw-'aehieved an lEsnourn- abl6 reputation-icearlier years,.are now rapily re- tsinogs from thxe stage of li&etP;- theatre, leai'ng. a yGsnger' generation to inherit, the 'result of their works, the glory.-of their nzsnes,.ansl the ben.t' of thsir exatmples.. Many ...

... IS7'EAM BOILERS iN 1.hVOR NAWT AY.Vt)S. [ The rdjuurned inquest on the bodies of the three parsons killed by the explosion of the Iroiler of a portable thraqh- l. g machine on the farm promiss3 of Xr. Ridgill, of Thorn. .moor-ends, near Thorne, Yorkshire, on tire l1th ulb., was 3 reaumed at the White Hart Ion, at that town, on Trie- day. Since the last inquiry another of Mr. Ridgills sons, ...

... . obin, ' t-, . . ; SUSPEQTED MonRDE 'icr., oasneiu;A.- Christmas nea-nin g an old man, riamed Robert Irving, was found deadi On the roadside near Fenton' He had left home ab'ut six o'clock in the morning for the psrpose of attend- ing a prayer meeting, and nothing more was heard of him till between seven and eight, -when he was found by the roadside dead. He had received a 'compound fracture ...

... The annual general meeting of the members of the Art- Union of Glasgow was held on Wednesday in the Fine Art Gallery 119 St. Vincent Street. The Hon. Andrew Gal- braitlh, Lord Provost, occupied the chair, and on the platform were the Lord Dean of Guild, Rev. Drs. Ruachnan and $ Gillan, Councillors Allan and Dreghorn, J. W. Guild, Esq., Alex. Harvey, Esq., and other gentlemen. There was a ...

... THE NEW PROCESS OF BREAD- MAKING. The process of breadmaking does not appear to have altered much since the time of the Pharaohs; and such improvements as have been made England has been the sloiest o' adopt. English bread is 'the astonishment and despair of foreigners, continental bread the con- stant theme of trioveilere' praiso; 'while as regards those collateral prcparatnB of wheaten and' ...

... SUP WEY 01r TVIE IST'IDIUS OF DARIEN. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH NEW GRANADA. [fROMr THE V;EW YORKi HERALD.] Tihe Garccta Ojitial of Bogotr, of the 'Gth of Septemn her last, publishes a correspondence which took place between Grneral Cass and General Herran, the Minister- Plenipotentiary at washington. The Government having determined to send out a 'ew conmeeisfsal to eamline anew the ...

... We have received Cape Town papers down to the end of October, but they contain nothing important. The Kafirs, compelled by starvation, were still migrating in hun- dreds to the colony, and relief committees were formed at Graham's Town, King William's Town, and elsewhere to aid them with soup kitchens, and other charitable esta- blishments. The Cape Town Mail of Oct. 29 says: We have no news ...

... EMANCIPATION OF THE SER1FS IN RUSSIA. ?? (Fromn the Daily News.) We have already given utterance to the impression made upon us by the step which the Czar has lately taken towards the emancipation of Russian serfs. Nevertheless, we believe that our readers will peruse with interest the following view of that measure from the pen of one who has long and atten- tively studied the politics of the ...