... WEDNESDAY, Decembeb 28, 1859. Christmas has come and gone once more, and right glad are we to note the fact, that throughout our own district it has been celebrated with all those becoming demonstrations of religious joy, abundant charity, generous hospitality, and domestic mirth, with which its ancient records have ever been illustrated, since angels chanted to the wondering shepherds of ...

... At the Birmingham Police Court, on Thursday, two men named Woolf Barnett, Steel house-lane, shoemaker, and Thomas Green, of Lower Temple-street, hawker, were placed in the dock under the following circumstancesSerjeant Went, of the Staffordshire police, stationed at Tamworth, stated that about two o'clock that morning he received information that the two prisoners, accompanied by a third man, ...

... Wednesday, two American seamen, named John Steinraitz and James Kelly, were drinking at the Three Tuns public-house, North Shields, when they quarrelled, and turned, out into the public streets to fight. While fighting among a crowd of people, Steinmitz was observed to pull out a large Spanish spring knife, and before anyone could prevent him, stab Kelly once in the back and twice in the chest ...

... HOW TO RAISE AND ORGANISE VOLUNTEER CORPS. With the object of facilitating the volunteer movement, we publish the following suggestions, prepared by person who has had experience on the subject. We wotfld particularly observe, that where a place or district cannot furnish company, a sub-division, numbering from 30 to 60, should be raised, to which a lieutenant and ensign would be appointed; ...

... Government, inch * nature as defy the utmost powers of existing ordnance, and which will be capable of throwing with accuracy seven hundred explosive sheila per hoar into any dockyard time mile* distance.—Obterve. ...

... There «u but small supply of fat beasts to day i the price asked was high that the animals was quite out of the reach of buyers. The number of sheep was unusually small and better sold. The supply of pigs was very limited. Beef made 6Jd. to 7d.; mutton, 7d. toBd.; veal. to Bd.; pork. SJI. to 6d. per lb.; rough fat, sa. 3d. per stone, commencing CVc. 12. Hides—9s and 85 to 94, 5Jd; V> M. s*d.: ...

... For some time past controversy has been going on between His Grace the Duke of Rutland and the Editor of the Economist in consequence of the latter having commented in strong terms on the preservation of game on the estates at Che*eley in Cambridge, and alleged that it must be productive of crime in the district. The Duke took the trouble to procure a return of the game convictions in the ...

... KILLED BY A TOBACCO PIPE. At the Liverpool Assises, Michael Burn, was charged with the manslaughter of Thomaa Daniels, Wigan, on the 9th October. On the night in question the deceased left pnblic-house in Wigan about twelve o'clock. The prisoner and some other men were standing in the street. The deceased went towards them, and said something to tbem, when one of them, who was stated to be the ...

... RELIC OF THE ROYAL CHARTER. A piece of the Royal Charter has been exhibited in the Underwriters'-rooms, Liverpool, consisting of a plate,, about }-inch thick, cracked across, and in the centre was the half of a solid ingot of gold, about three inches square, crushed into the plate, the other half apparently having gone through the iron when broken off the pressure. The word Bank was very ...

... many large towns suitable arrangements have been made at this season of charity and benevolence to provide the necessitous poor with assistance, and in the midst of the severe weather which has now set in, we are tempted to ask, 44 Why are the Derby Soup Kitchens closed ? w At this bitter time the scantily clothed and scantily fed poor demand some consideration at the hands of their wealthier ...

... SCARSDALE V. VERNON. In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Monday, special case was stated, in pursuance of the act passed to diminish the delay of proceedings in Chancery, and its object was to obtain the opinion of the Court upon the true construction of the will of the first Lord Scarsdale, who died in the year 1637, and also as to the effect deed of settlement executed by him as the first ...

... AFFECTING CASK. At the Middlesex sessions on Tuesday, Sarah Dyer, aged 40, wu indicted for stealing some pieces of ribbon and braid from the shop of Messrs Schoolbred, and Co., of Tottenham Court Road, London. She pleaded guiity.and seemed overwhelmed with grief.—Mr. Knight, ofNo. I, Gray's Inn Road, said the prisoner bad lodged with him about.eleven years. She was a widow, hardworking, and ...