... THURSDAY. (Before the MAYOR.) YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTMAS LARKS. William Gates, barber, and Edward Hand, clerk- to Mr. Stockdale, were charged with being drunk and orderly, and resisting the police in the execution of their duty. Mr. Wilcocks appeared for the defence. t t- ^Inspector Giffard said he was at the Bute-street at two o'clock that morning, when the defendants and a rnan named Bush came ...

... Spitomrof Nrtes. South Kansas is represented as the scene of much disorder and lawlessness. House-burning, robberies, and other depredations, are of frequent occurrence. Meet- ings have been held for the suppression of these outrages. The management of the Louvre have com- menced an action against the Duke de Maille to recover a picture of St. John, by Raphael, given to his ancestor by Louis ...

... Australian papers bring us news of a new exploration of: that continent. The Register, under date of October eleven, gives the following details:— Major AYarburton, the Commissioner of Police, who has already distin- guished himself by his energy and caution in travelling in previously unexplored portions of the country, has been appointed to the command of the expedition. The major left ...

... On Monday afternoon a most distressing event, the intel- ligence of which will deeply wound the public feeling throughout the whole country, occurred in the metrupolis in connexion with one of its great places of popular recrea- tion, resulting in the violent death of 15 human beings, and injuries more or less serious to many more. Ten of the dead lie at the Lambeth Workhouse, one at ...

... (ftrrnm of Uutttb. THE PITH OF THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, TOWARDS almost all foreign nations Our outlooks ain't noways fust-rate; There's most of our foreign relations In an unsatisfactory state. With the Britishers, through our high-mettled Diplomacy, guess we have got The right of search question well settled, The Central American, not. With Spain we're in a condition, Of which we hante ...

... SATURDAY, JAN. 1, 1859. THE WORKHOUSE INQUIRY. SUCH was the crowded state of our columns last week, that we had no room to do justice, in a leading article, to the absorbing inquiry which closed on Thursday evening. There was -no ne- cessity for haste, however, as the subject is one which will bear reflection. We have two advan- tages in dealing with it. We heard nearly the whole of the ...

... ODDFELLOWS' SUPPER.-The annual supper of the Oddfellows and their friends took place at the Castle Inn, on Monday evening. The landlady provided the supper table with every luxury of the festive season, and a pleasant evening was spent by the numerous company. AN OLD BACHELOR AND HIS SPINSTER Cow.-An eccentric old farmer, known by the name of Old Bessy, residing not a hundred miles from the ...

... For some time past an unpleasant feeling has existed between the 17th Regiment and the 2nd Warwick Militia, both quartered in the Citadel. About 100 of the 17th are recruits from Ireland, and their cause is warmly es- poused by the inhabitants of King-street West (formerly Stonehouse-lane), many of whom are Irish. It appears that oil Sunday evening Sergeant Clay, No. 2 Company, 2nd Warwick, ...

... CAREEII.— Captain Ketchcalfe was convicted and sentenced to be transported for four- teen years, and m due course was landed in the colony of New South Wales. His career in Botany Bay. transcribed with minute fidelity, would warrant, perhaps, the assumption that it was the most extra- vagant fiction ever penned. There was scarcely a crjnrie of which he was not guilty in Australia, and ...

... Thb CONVIOT Mary — We ac^ requested to stale ihat the execution of the sentence of death parsed up n Mary New, It it th.. hte assi*a at Reading for ithe mu.Je, ut her infant child has been respited with a v ew to a commutation of th^ ,iapiial puuishment. Times. PNOPCSBD NCLUB. —A club, we are informed' is in contomplatioii whose object will be to give an oppor- tunity of meeting together and ...

... Mr, Bright seemed so pleased with his argument iu answer to Mr. Newdfgate's statistics about the unfair divi- sion of electoral power between country and town that we are to suppose there is something in it. The country population, says Mr. Newdcgste, exceeding th:it of the towns by uClI.dy 50 per cent., only returns half the number of mernuers representing Ihe latter. If according 10 the ...

... SUICIDE OF A YOUTH ON HIS WEDDING- DAY. The joy of Christmas morning was this year disturbed /It Kettermg by the following tragical event, which has no ttle excitement in the town:—A young man, offi?C1S axter, was, although only eighteen years e} 'n,r!ra?ce ...