... T.HlE CO.LON.Y, OF VICGORIA. 11116 U UIA5IND4X, UtF V I UT I itIA. tlt (Ercen-the MAelibornie Argesofl15th Dec.) I TI The EVVP6tea 1n11 ssal'to'iciorrow with the mails, andavel pa thrfor suoiusasmnryof intelligenc-e for trans. an THlE GOLDFIELDIS. pr The interval that has elap)sed since the delparture of the of las miail Vas' bes one of 'steady prog'ress ohl the goldilelds, Ti s' raletaof ...

... ARRIVAL OF THY NEW YORK S.S. IN THE I CLYDE LATER IPROM AMERICA. The Glasgow and New York Company's s.s. New York aarrived in the Clyde yesterday, with news from New York Ito the 16th current,'having made the passage in eleven days, of seventeen hours. She left At the same hour witi, the U.S. a] mail steamer Baltic, and has performed the passage with 61 -equal speed-a result which, speaks most ...

... FRANCE. The following is the letter of the listei' Paris correspondent,. dated Thursday, 6 staf. The anagr ofthe pectateur (formerly Assernlde Nati'n aile) has addressed a circular to its subscribers, informing them. of the suppression to which it is conidemined, and stat- ing that forthle remainder of the period of subscription they: will be supplied with the Union:- Founded (says the ...

... A general meeting of the Highland and Agricultural So- Yciet was held on Wednesday, at two 'clock, in the Museum Hanll, George IV. ~Bridge. The Duke of Bucclcuch presided, and there was a very large attendance of members. A considerable number of gentlemen were balloted for and admitted members of the society.-] ELECTION OF OFFICE-BEARERS. The Noble CHAIRMAN proposed the Duke of Atlitle as the ...

... LETTrER F-o-M ~A SOL-D-ER IN --THE FORTY- SECOND. I . . - . - The following letter, from a soldier in the 42d Highlanders 1e to his friends in Glasgow, though not of late date, is inter- me estiin, as giving the personal experiences of an observant t and intelligent man in humble life :- I DerCamp at Bithoor, l6th Dec. }657. Dear Friends,-I write to let you know how we have been s-getting on ...

... EN GLAND. INDIA.-.The gross total area of the regulation and non-re-gulation districts of the North-Western Provinces of India is shown, by a late return, to amount to 117,586 square miles, and the population to 34,265,876. The number of souls to each square milewas 291; the land revenue amouitedto4, 59,86,052 rupees, the ablaree to 23,02,654 rupees; stamps to 1,4132,126 rupees, ...

... INDIA-LETTER FROM A DUMBARTONSHIRE OFFICER. The ifollowing is an extract from a letter sent recently by a young staff officer at Allahabad to his family in Dumbar- tanslire. He is one of three gallant members of that family ' at present on service in India; and we understand that this was his first engagement Staff Office, Allahabad, 10th January. Brigadier Campbell went ,.rt on the 0th ...

... I -. (From the Times.).. | It is a long time since the public have heard anything of A their old friend the Leviathan, which lately occupied so rlarge a share of their attention, and the bulletins about which 'chronicled alnost hourly how many or how few inches she bhad progressed towards her final destination-the water. IThe fact, however, is that very little has been done in the 3 way of ...

... The following letter is from a gentleman in Calcutta:- Calcutta, Nov. 24. I send you yesterday's Hunrk-a newspaper, which con- tains a report of the proceediiugs of the Legislative Council, where a despatch from ?? of Directors, in re the Black Acts, was read. It is rather amusing that the Court only now consider that the sanction already given in general terms to pass the codes is ...

... (Fromn the Times.)Qc We publish to-day an admirable narrative from our special correspondent of the first operations against Canton. The departure of the mail leaves us s~II] inle ignorance of all that followed the first two days' attack, free but there canl be no doubt that. by the end of the yea r - b 1857. Canton -was in our possession, or, at least, inl our, power. It is impossible not to ...

... (MOA ONI, MraRCH 1 MONDAY MORNING, MAtRCH 1D. On Friday evening the House of Commons assem- r bled for the first time under the new Administrationi, .-1A A. :. 1- :; ak - 1 - and, considering that it has ever been regarded as eminently a most liberal assemblage, and was pledged by a large majority to the support of the late Ministerial Chief, the meeting passed off with ex- traordinairy ...

... LONDON, JANUARY G. ROYAL S.bRILEGE.-A letter from Stocldiohn of the I 26th 'ilt. says:- The cathedral of Upsal, as is well known, contains the tombs of the Kinigs of Sweden. The coffin of King Gustavus I. (Gustavus Wasa, born in 1400, Lieutenant of the Kingdom in 1521, elected I to the throne on the 0th of Jume, 1523, and who died I *on the 29th ,of September, 1560) was lately opened, *and ...