... 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 ...

... MR. ELLIOTT, THa WBEDON DEFA ULTER. [FROM THE NEW YORK HERALD OF DEC. 28.] An application was made to Judge Russell, on the 8th of this month, for a writ of habeas corpus on a petition of James Sutton Elliott, who is detained in the Eldridge. street Gaol on a civil action growing out of a charge of embezz!ernent, preferred by the English Secretaqy of State for the War Department, nhd was made ...

... SiCOND EDITION.4 I Tuesday, 1 p.m. gaejGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. MR. REUTER'S AGENCY.] 11EkLTEI OF THE KING OF NAPLES. TuIESTE, MONDAY EVENING (VIA GiBMk&NY). a. just received here from Naples an- &ouf e the continued improvement of the King' health heuest who have arrived here from Naples *ltto Vienna, in pursuance of an invitation bald'°jve~ the Imperia Courkt..l THE SPANISH PRESS. MADRID, SUNDIY, ...

... LOCAL BEFOR.RM. A public meeting took place at Richmond, in the New Lecture Hall, on Tuesday evening, to discuss the merits of, and to adopt such resolutions as the meeting may think proper in reference to, the abolition of the select vestry, and the other objects of the ltichuond Improvement Bill. Tile parochial affairs, it would seem, are now conducted by a select vestry, a body of some ...

... LORD DERBY'S ADMINISTRATION I A NECESSITY FOR PEACE, The INdependance Belye, an excellent authority on foreign politics as its peculiar circulation com- pels it to view all matters with the most studied jmparfiality, expresses as follows its conviction that the peace of Europe turns on the undisturbed con- tinuanee in power of Lord Derby's Administra- tion:- As for ourselves, without denying ...

... MR. FARADA YS LAST LBCTURE.T 2ATTHE RBOYAL INSTITUTIO1. I , aturday, witnessed the close of Piofessor Faraday's interesting course of juvenile lectures, The experiments made with tbh-voltaic battery constituted the great attraction of this, the sixth, lecture, and many gentle. men distitiguisbed for their scientific attainmentu were loud in their expressions of delight. The production of ...

... aI. S. C. HAWLS LECTURE ON TBE AUTRORS OF ToE AGE. . When one of the authors of the age stands before the pub- lic to speak of other authors, men whom he has known in literature, in society, and in their own homee, it would in- deed be strange if that large body of men and women in the metropolis who are either directly them- solves authors or authoresses, or who are deeply in- terested in ...

... [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. LIVERPOOL, FRiDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Screw Steamship Company's screw steamer Kan- garoo, Captain Jeffrey, arrived in the Mersey about Isoon to-day, with the United States mails. She left New York on the 1st instant, and has brought, besides the mails, 162 passengers and 1$1,850 dollars in specie. The Pacific steamer, from Galway on the 9th ...

... , ?? The subjoined log of the Paoiflo, whioh arrived from New v 0 Tork ?? on the 23d inst.' shows what a vessel of I the Galway Line can ascoopliaih in very ?? and trying fl weather. What has the ZLivepel ..lbion to say to this ? 02 We ale glai that this lo, has beenpublisbed in the Shipping a nd. 3fercaitiLe Gczette, as it furnisbes an eloquesut repli to aS the enemies of the Galway route. qi ...

... THE MORNING CHRONICLEi LONDON: FITDAY, JANUARY 21, 1859. It will not be forgotten that about a year ago the report of the Commission on the sanitary state of the Army disclosed sonie startling revelations in reference to the physical condition of ?? soldier. Everything was looked into, and every- thing, or nearly so, was found to be bad., The re- gulatiou13 of the Army Medical Staff, the ...

... FOREIGN INTELtIGENCB. ?? ?? b ITALY.. ,b DAtrian aazette has the following notice The correspondents of the English journals have spread the news, that the French Government opc to the Austrian to take steps in con. cert for bringing the Government of Rome to make oncess;0os and reforms in that country, and to .-thdrioi' the French and Austrian troops from the r tificl States in case the Holy ...