... Un L vU jt n% U. SALMON.-The river Southesk has been swarming with the salmon tribe of late. No doubt the spawn- ing season is the cause of so many making their ap- pearance at the present time. Numbers of them are found dead and in a sickly state, arising doubtless from the impure state of the ?? Standard. UNIVERSITY DEGREES.-The Senatus Academicus, at their meeting of the 27th Nov., ...

... ANo;HEa letter from n the Tlrnees' Correspot ent dent in British Columbia gives us the opportunity of in laying further information before our readers on this nig very interesting subject. It must be admitted that as eve a gold country this colony still offers fair prospects. exc The sum of ten dollars a day given as wages on one of the the bars may fairly indicate the average yield of gold ...

... | LATEST INEWS GREAT SOIREE TO th MESSRS. BRIGHT & GIBSON ~ii AT MANCHESTER, LAST NIGHT. H ?? ~~of (By Jjrjiti and IrishaMagnectic Telegraeph.) Bi th [Fr~ose OUR OWN REPORTER.] th Thle great soiree for the purpose of congratulating in! the Hull. Member for Birmingham, Mr. J. Bright, on his (A restoration to health, aod to celelirate the return of himself qu and his late colleague, the Right ...

... KNARES BRO'. .A Esirith IBoAiw Or GOUADIANS.-Twelve Guardians attended the weekly meeting on Wednesday, H. G. Chrlisian Es}., presiding. It was resolved to advertise for teduo r i for provisiolris to the Workhouse oD tile 22nd inst. The ?? business merely related to muatters of a routine character. For the Cweek eiding Dec. 7th, this year, 576 pereoos received oit-door rel ef, at a cost of £47 ...

... II' PORTSMOUTIH TOWN COUNCIL. A special meeting of the Ilorough Council was held ait the Sessions'-roomn, Portssnoethi, on Tuesday last-the t Ma or in the chair. V 'ieminutes of the last meeting having been read and v confixnsed, the TIown Clerk read the following t REpaST or THE FINtANCE AND PARLXA~aXTARY COMMITURE WITSI REERENsCcE TO THE ?? DOCK AND TPLMWAX. 1Your committee. having been ...

... ;tern level OFFICIAL DESPATCH. ring, Oile The foiloIG3 telegram wa~s received at the Foreign- ~ ffice, frolm Acting Consul-General Green, Dec. 141, 1858, thbe t*oup.1.- ALEXANDRIA, Drc. 10, 1858. )the The steamer Ganger, ar-rived at Suez from Bombay 11yesterday, ivith dates to the 25th November-. ?? Queen's Proclamation has given general satisfac- Ir the tion throughout India. Isthe Inl Oude, ...

... LATEST NEW S. . By ruist and rand IJfagneia TslegrapA.) ?? ?? s FRANCE. The Emperor and Empress will return to the Taileries on Thureday. The Timwt, D aily News, and Express were seized at the Paris posetoffice on Tuesday. FRANCE AND ITALY. Lea ProuwG, ia replying to the Miitary GaCzette, of Vienna, on the cession of the valley of Dappes to France, says, let Austria be reassured by the thought ...

... NAVY STATIONS, DEOPMBEFR 1, 1558. l Acorn, B. lndles. Eek, ii. Indies.; Pyladoa, Pacific. Acsron, E. Indies. Enryalns, par. ear. Princess Charlotte, Adventure, B. Ild. Exeellent, Fors. Hong Kong. Ajax, Coast Guard. Exmuouth,Devospt. FrinaessRoyal,Uft- Alarm, Pacific. Fairy, par. ser. diterranean. Alecto, C. of Africa. Fisguard, Wooiwio. Encer, Davenport. Alert, Pacific Formidable, Sheer. ...

... ?? Lord Bishop of Oxford will hold an ORODINATION 1elyi Christ Church Cathedral To-rnorrowu AIor'niig, the 19th lyinstant, ' n Cogegto Oeldo Friday, Dec. 10, at two O'clock en- aino the ClMichele Professorship of Internetional D` Law and Diplomacy, by All Souls' College, was promulgated; and at thre samle itime a forns of statute, silightly altering thle - fee statute as regards (lees to ...

... THEr RE-OPENING OF THE PARISH CHURCH. To 0 THlE EDITOR OF TIIE OXFORD JOUIRNAL. Sstt,-The object of your correspondent of Saturday last, in his wish to compress us into an individual, as a tailor or a weaver constructs one garincut out of various pieces of cloth, was to induce the public to believe that one indivhidal only had cause to complain of the grievances connected withl the church, of ...

... M1 SCFLLANEOUS_ It is rumoured that Sir John Pakington, the First Lord of the Admiralty, will be selected to fill the vacant place in the Trinity Corporations by the death of the Caonlif ?? was caused in Exeter on Sun- day night by the report of the death of Lord Poltimore tra inlamatin o th lugsaftr ashort. but very isevere illness, at his seat, at Pol~imore. '[he noble lordwas72 ear ofage ...

... A MOTHER AND DiUGHTER BURNT., On Monday morning, shortly before three loek, a fire, attended with fatal consequences to two -pron, occurred in Old-esreet, 8t, Lukes. The building in which the misfortune originated was in the oeeupa- tion of Mr. H, Pound, a coffe6-ihop and lodging- house-keeper, who carried on the business at No, 128, .three doors from thepolice.station. Theescapestarted as ...