... COLONEL GREATHED'S SERVICES.-It will gratify our readers to learn that the services of the gallant Colonel Greathed have been recognized by the Commander-in- Chief, and that on the arrival of Sir Colin at Alumbagh (.November 9) he immediately gave Colonel Greathed the command of the Infantry Brigade, consisting of the 8tb, 75th, and two regiments of Punjab Infantry. At the same time Sir Colin ...

... LOWER MAUDLIN-STREET. Founded A.D. 1810. Admission -Days-Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from Half-past Eleven to One. [Number of Patients attending this Week 220 I Fresh Cases I Surgeon—Mr, BABTI ...

... The greatest activity is being displayed in the construc- tion of the branch of the Geneva railway which is to unite it with the Yictor-Emmanual line. ...

... JBarfcfts. LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 4. Although demand for Money is larger, yet rates of discount continue to give way, and prime Bills are done at 7 per cent. Arrivals of Precious Metals are yet considerable, and the mail for the East Indies and China of this day takes out nearly all Silver. In the market for Public Securities there is much firmness; Consols for Account are 9a to t; Three per ...

... LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4TH. The steam ship, Europa, which left New York Dec. 23, has arrived, bringing 51 passengers and a large amount of specie. She passed the Persia on the 24th ult. The Adriatic arrived out on the afternoon of the 21st; the North Star from Bremen, on the 19th; and the Borrussia from Ham- burg, on the 21st ult. The Kansas question continued to excite discussion in Congress, ...

... The Daily News Naples correspondent says (Dec. 29):— After a silence of several days, as if to give some ease to the; mental sufferings which all have felt, the Gior- nale, on Saturday last, again commenced its reports. It describes the two awful shocks as having been at Potenza of equal duration, accompanied by a fearful rumbling. The first shock was undulatory and perpendicular, but that ...

... A meeting of the Newport Town Council and Board of Health took place at the Town-hall, on Tuesday morning. The following members were present:—The Mayor (W. Williams, Esq.), in the chair, Mr. S. Hom- fray, Mr. Latch, Mr. J. Davies, Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Townsend, Mr. Harrhv, Mr. Burton, Mr. J. Lewis, Mr. W. Graham, Mr. Hyndman, Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Brown. The Town Clerk was also in attendance. The ...

... [Before R F. Woollett, Esq., and Wm. Evans, Esq.] BURGLA.Ry.-Daniel Price and Joseph Turner were charged by Henry Austin Williams with having stolen certain articles of jewellery. The prosecutor stated that in the Tredegar Cattle Show week, he established a bazaar in Commercial-street. The prisoner Turner, who was his weekly servant, was with him in Newport at the time, absconded on Thursday, ...

... The business of the Quarter Sessions of Cardiff com- menced at the Town Hall, on Tuesday morning last. The magistrates present in court were T.E. Thomas, Esq., chairman, H. A. Bruce, Esq., M.P., vice-chairman, C. C. Williams, Esq., mayorof Cardiff,M.Moggridgc,Esq., T. Falconer, Esq., Howel Gwyn, Esq., M.P., G. Fother- gill, Esq., G. M. Traherne, Esq., H. Lewis, Esq., Walter Coffin, Esq., R. ...

... [Our attention has been drawn to the fallowing article in the Copenhagen Morning Post.] It is as well to call attention in a few words to the Russian operations in Norway. We know that the Rus- sians have always had a liking to possess a harbour in the North Sea, partly to be frea of the passage of the Sound, and partly to be nearer their natural enemies, France and England. Such harbour could ...

... On Tuesday afternoon a variety of rumours were circulated respecting adverse intelligence said to have arrived from India. In the extremely sensitive state in which the news from Lucknow received by the last mail had left the public mind these reports produced consider- able impression, and a morning contemporary went so far as to publish the following announcement in an evening edition:— „ It ...

... TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION.—An accident, attended with fatal results, occurred on Tuesday, at the Ebbw Yale Company's Works, Aberaychan A large and massive boiler, situated at the top of an incline, near the Peter's Old pit, and belonging to the winding engine, exploded with terrific force at half-past twelve o'clock. Not long before, the engineer who had it in charge in- spected it. and turned ...