... Files of papers have been received vid Trieste, ina anti- cipation of the mail from Calcutta to the Sth of December, and from Hong Kong to the 30th of November. We take the following, from the Cale~tatc EIbgliskmnae of thle 8th of December:- The principal event which we have to record by the preseist mail is the surrender of the Nawab of Bdanda, who eves one of the leadling rebel chiefs, end ...

... MR. JA. SITiH, dIUP., ON Yp4L{dSlENIdSYf I; E1VRMV. I _ I Mr. J. A. Smith, the liberal member for Chiches- tar, addressed a cr.,wlied meeting of his constituents in the Council-chamber, on FTiday night, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Adars, who had been called to the chair, having explained that the honourable member attended to give an account of his stewardship, and also his opinions upon the public ques ...

... TEE KEWP MEABBR OF ThE COUNCIL OF INDIA. I Colonel, or, aswe must now call him, General* Henry Marion Durand, C.B., is an officer of the Bengal Engineers, and one of the most distinguished of that distinguiehed corps. His Indian service dates from the 22ad of May, 1830, and on the 19th of June in that year he was placed under the superintending engineer of the North Weslern Provinces, and ...

... I .7RE I OS3 OF TRE S7EA-4X.E, CZAR, From later inte~ligence it appears that, after the Virago lost sight of the Czar, she struck on the Voge R~ock, off the Lizard, about2.45 p.rm. (Saturdav), and alnbostimme.. diately foundered,, The crew were endeavairing to get to Faltmouth to repar, the screw tap of the engine having been broken. As the vessel parted, Captain R. Jackson lost hisa life in ...

... | A POoL1T, NBOROUGES £'OXXitT'2'EE. | This committee assembled again at the London Cusffe-house on Monday evening; J. F. BoNTrerrs, esq., in the chair. This being the first meeting since the metropo- litan memubers of parliament; were made ex olieio members, two of those hon. gentlemen attended. TLe SECIETARY laid upon the table a map of London and its environs, showing the boundaries of all ...

... I The regiltrar-ganeral's report Says:-The London Nturns again exhibitahigh rate of mortality. In the second vweek of the year (ending last Saturday) the deaths from all canmas rose to 1,429, having been 1,338 in the first week of the year. In the ten years 1849.58 the average number of deaths in the waeks crrsponding with last week was 1,215; but as the Dumber iD the present return ...

... :I - 4 - THE GAVEN.->Y Mv4 AM. 1~~ swAo;ABLB GARDBNTII1G. ,&ALzAcsA.-These beautiful fowersagrow natrallityl~te beds, have a root of nearly all fibre, and they ramify into the peat soit to ouch An extent tbat In taking them up the ball will be whole, and the sizs it Is out. Tflay are there- fore sent from the nurseries with a bail of enith to them quite sunfitaient to sustain. them for weotue, ...

... The subjoined Is a calendar of seasonable operafions:- Faowwxa GAanrm Aim Siarvaaas.-Where the turf Is at all uolevel time should be spared in. course Of this or next mouth to repair this, as if lifted In February-it mgkit-require some attention to get It to take quickly. UInlevel turf is an. eyesere the sesson round, and it makes the mowing more tedies-eand diI scult; hence it is worth an ...

... SAiORING M&AP PLrASALM. The Time hasath foe'llowing ?? In continuation of '*hat' hs beasn already' published our Malta correspondent -makes imention that Q2 nTuesday, Dacember 21, his' excellency ?? his personal stif, paidd'a;ret'ttn visitto'his royal highness 'Prince Alfred on'board th'e Eryalusd, when baxceallecy :was receivedwith the naunlhonsurs and i In ho evening his royal highness. ...

... DEATH -OF THE KING OF NAPLES. The Al o-ing, Post of Friday publishes a tolegram from Paris, anmsuncing the death ofthe King of Naples. This iutelligenc(), it adds, was received through Vienna by telegraph. We have received nothing to corroborate the tr.th of this statement up to the time of going to press; and no othor journal eave the Post mentions it. On the contrary, vwe have a despatch ...

... BANQUET TO PROFA.SSO-k WILLIAM I i-lso so Xi soF , \ i LAYING OF THE ATLANTI(C TELEGRAPH CABLE. [FRBOM THElS NOPTi DRn3SII nMs-] n - OnThursdaynight last Professor William Thomson, M.A.I LL.D,, Professor of .Natuial Pleil'osophly in the. Glasgow University, was entertained at. dinner in the Queen's Rooms, in acknowledgment of his valuable services in con- nection with the laying of the ...

... THIE BOMBAY MAIL. [line error] The letters and journals brought by the mail- steamer from Bombay, and forwarded via Mar- seilles, came to hand yesterday. These dates bring our intelligence from India down to Dec. 9. [line error] The following is principally from the summary of the Bombay Times of that date. The interest of the war may almost be said to be confined to the pursuit of Tantia ...