... The annual festival of the Hospital for Siek Chil- dren in, Great Ormond Street was held the other day, at Willis- Rooms, when about b00, gentlemen sat down to dinner, under the presidency of the Earl of Carlisle. The-noble Chairman, in proposing Prosperity to the Hospital for Sick Children, said that the mor- tality of children under 10 years of age in the me- tropolis had only decreased by ...

... TIME OF TRAIMS LAVING ED =B a P UNDERMENTIONED P'LACE FEBRUARYX 186%9 % The abbreviationa within Parentliesla-.(Cal.), SC, G.), (N. B.). (E. P. and D.)-uignify Caledonebe,S(.tms Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, NorthB~te Edinburgh, Perth, and. Dandee Railway s h rpety~lo and intimate that the tralrns start from t these railways in Edinbarith at the hours aeermlimS Aberdeen, (S. C.), 6 30, 9 A~m ...

... The latest intelligence from the Continent is the of a more peaceful character; several of the Paris sig correspondents of the London journals, notwith- we standing, are still warlike in tone, and ready to thc believe in the breaking out of hostilities at an pO early date. sol lat By the Magdalena, just arrived with the West ste Indian mails, we have the announcement of the .capture of a ...

... forfign zntteizgaeve. SARDINIA. _ The Opinione and Indipendente of Turin both state from Piacenza that the Austrians are actively engaged in fortifying both banks of the Po at that place. We to get nothing from Italy but a repetition of the accounts of warlike preparations on the part of Austria, as well in as Piedmont. Every day seems to add to the chances C- of war. The Vienna Cabinet has ...

... The Times' Paris correspondent ?? friends of Prince Napoleon believe his retirement from the Ministry to be only temporary. The writer remarks that if this be true, M. Walewski's tenure of office will be very brief indeed. The Nord distinctly asserts that, as negotiations are pending, the Emperor Napoleon consented to the insertion of the recent article in the Moaiteur to show his difficulties ...

... LIVERPOOL, Thursday.-The screw steamer City of Baltimore, Captain Leitch, which left New York on the 12th inst., has arrived, bring- ing 155 passengers, 184,202 dollars in specie, and the Udnited States mail. On the 14th she passed the City of Washington for New Yorik. The steamer Arabia arrived at Boston on the 11th, and the North Briton reached Portland the same day, both for Liverpool. The ...

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... (From the Globe.) The discussion in both Houses on the affair of the Charles et Georges esh6ws, at all eienits that the question is very de- bateahle. The Lords have had enough of it; but the Com- mons are to' continue the subject when, as Mr. Disraeli sar- castioally remarlked, they can find some convenient day- plain. indicating that her Majesty's Government have had enough of it, and ...

... | -PUBLIC DINNER TO AMR TURNER, M.P., IN | MANCHESTER.I A publie dinner was given to James Aspinall Turner, Esq.M.'TNLP., in the Free Trade Hall;'Manchester, on Friday eveningj; aq'ais acknowledgment of his eminent services to this. cbnstituency and to the country ; and also at this impbrtant juncture of political affairs, to show to the coun- try that those-who formed the majority at the ...

... (From Punch.) Another of those unfortunate collisions which arise from our gaine-preserving system has just taken place upon some land known as reform Field, part of the preserves long held and jealously kept by the family of the Oldwiggs, connected with the noble house of Bedford. One of the shrewdest and mnost vigilant of the Oldwigg keepers, a man namued Rustle, had, it seems, been watching ...

... (From the China Telegraph.) _ ?? Chinese army may be estimated at 1,500,000 men, in- 1 c huding the reserve. The purely Chinese element may be X counted among them for 600,000 or 700,000 men. The Mant- t chous, who are all compelled to serve in the army, are divided, into nine bodies. The Mongols do not supply more than 300,000 men. - A great review by torch-light took place pre- ( vious to ...

... CALDERBANK-LECTURE BY SHERIFEP I-- -1 I .STRT&THERN. in connectio evnnteseodo h series of lecture, p inconectin wth te ClderankandChapelhall Mission e ary Society, was delivered by Sheriff Strathern, Gla~gow, inl Th the New Schoolroom, Calderbank-the Rev. John Wilkie in e the chair. if Is Subject of lecture- Popular Superstitions and Wel. 'e sions. F rom the learned gentleman's well-known ...