... SCOTLAND SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. — The annual report to the Board of Trade just published states that in 1857, in the counties of Scotland, there were 43,432 occupants of land, and that the total acreage under crops was 3,556,572 acres against 3,545,191 in 1856, 223,1521 acres being under wheat, 198,387^ under barley, 938,613t under oats, 5,989J under rye, 21,607 under bere, 39,186 ...

... WELSH CHARITY SCHOOL.-The 143rd anniversary of this Charity takes place on Monday next, as advertised in our first page. The order to add Mr. Ralph Ormsby Gore's name to the list of vice-presidents arrived too late. It will be seen that Lord Dynevor is the president. II HOMO. -Ueccived on Friday Morning; too late for this week. ...

... We believe we may heartily congratulate our borough on the appointment of Robert Oliver Jones, Esq., Bar- rister-at-Law, to the Police Curial Chair at Cardiff. We have reason to know that the wishes of a great majority of the ratepayers have for some time been d:rected to this result, the character of this estimable Magistrate being well known to them. His proverbial integrity and impartiality ...

... COMMITTAL OF THE ACCUSED ON A CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER. On Wednesday morning last, the inhabitants of Swansea were thrown into a state of excite- ment by a rumour that, on the previous night, a brutal murder bad been committed within the immediate precincts of the borough, and that two men had been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the commission of the crime. Subsequent events ...

... Early in November last the cotton-spinning mill of Mr. GeoJgó Thwaites, at Euxton, near Chorley, was wholly destroyed bv fire. There were suspicious circum- stances attending the fire, which caused inquiries to be instituted as to its cause, but leading to no result at the tima. The mill was insured in the Manchester office for the sum of £ 2,670. It now appears that a person named James ...

... The late Right Rev. Dr. Daniel Wilson, Lord Bishop of Calcutta, whose death has been announced by a recent telegram from India, was the friend of Wilberforce and Simeon, and a person of note in his day. His father, we believe, was a respectable silk manufacturer of the City OF London; and it was in Church-street, Spitalfields, that the future bishop first saw the light. He was born 1778, and ...

... The Emperor of the French, exasperated at the late attempts on his life, is said to have blamed the French police and declared it to be the worst in Europe. The most efficient auxiliary of the English police is the news- paper press. Everything out of the common way that happens m England is photographed, as it were in the daiiy and weekly newspapers, and held up to the'gaz» of the world. Is ...

... In anticipation of the arrival of the Europeans who were so long pent up in Lucknow, the following notifi- cation was published in a Calcutta Gazette Extraordi- nary :— Fort William, Home Department, Jan. 6. Notification. Within the next few days the river steamer Madras, conveying the first of the ladies and children and of the sick and wounded officers of the Lucknow garrison, will reach ...

... PiROsEcuTION or TIE MAYO PRIESTS-The Lord Chief Justice has fixed Tuesday, the 16th of February, for the trial of the Rev. Mr Conway. A defence fund for the priest is strongly recommended by the Roman Catholic journals, and Archbishop M'Hale has already sent the sum of 691. to the ' Freeman's Journal,' to be devoted to the fund. The expenses, however, will after all be limited to the pay- ment ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...