... - WEEKLY TnhEs OFFICE, Saturday, Nine a.ms. MORNING EXPRESS. (By Elctrie and Magnetic Telcraph$s.) INDIA. BomSBAY, DEcEMBER 27.-In the Ghoorka campaign 2,000 to 3,000 rebels have already been taken, in addition to those killed, and Nana Sahib is confidently reported among the dead. The Nepaul campaign is also looked on as finished. The Bombay import market has been flat since our last ...

... LORD MAOAULAY. THE year which has just passed before us has been specially memorable for the many famous names which it has blotted out from our living literary a celebrities. HALLAM, the historian, at the ripe old age of 82, was called away in January; MACAULAY' the poet, the statesman, and historian, leaves us la December of the same year, and though at an age l which was protracted enough ...

... THE PATRIOTIC BALL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. Sin,-I have heard that the programme of dances for the forthcoming Patriotic BaU has already been a subject of discussion amongst a few young. people who purpose attending it. I hope the committee vill not forget that elderly people don't practice your polkas and schottisehoes and other whirling affairs, and I trust that we may have ...

... ; Bind3 VOELTI LUX 8U& : A little volume entitled ' Our Merchant NIipping: its Present Stato&Considered, from j tie ean of Mr. Lindsay, comes opportunely a to proparo the Legislature and the publio d awd, mo may add, tho class to which the auflth r belongs-for the discussion bf qiiestiomis n *whic h it is very desirable to bring to a definite D isue. Oni more than one point touched by a ...

... HI The weekly meeting was held yesterday. Present p -Messrs. Sheil (chairman), Crellin, Gladstone, ti Eleekwith, Avisun, Holden, Croatliwaite, Rtidley, iF iloydockc, Nickeon, IBowring, Houghton, Stitt, Bar- a toii, Vernon, Job, and Hodson. The borough engineer, building sur-veyor, and e ins-pector of nuisances reported various particularsI of the operations in their several departments duringa ...

... CALUS POPULI LBX HUPREMA. SUMMARY. - DOMESTIC I ?, ..I I Yesterday, Parliament was opened by the- Queen in person. In the House of Lords, last evening, Lord Truro, in moving the address in reply to the Queen's speech, said that the affair with China would not be allowed to rest until wye had obtained voluntary reparation or sufficient redress. To that paragraph of the address relating to this ...

... lO~iL INTELLIq R- N ..ii, - ?? -INTELLIG-ENCE, I ' ?? Acordn toa t80b ~ ~ ii4.eg'tos molasses were delivsred fro h bon~ded wkeust 'free of dnty, for distillation (der the actoe h~s -18tji and A19th Viotori1a'cap., ?? ithe wee-tddh ?? ItIrERPOOL.-The Ozco .itpa Eeaty published on Mandgy gives.a ietilin ONC~i numnber of ships-et inwards Ai: tpdsi~~ the fospjtad! Ptiapri.frth w~keded e anYI4 ...

... WIRRAB AGRICULTURAL, I M.IROVEMKNT SO0IETY. lax' ANNUAL MEETING AND DINEpR 'rhe annual meeting anddinrerof this society took Ut place last evening, at the Cast10le Htel, Cheater-' bhe street, Birkenhead. ?? dinner was of a very be ?? character, and did much credit to the xicatering qualities Of the hostess, Mrs. Glover. The led chair was occupied by Ar. R. Jason, of Noctorum Ithe president ; ...

... - II . I- - I- ? .; ; ; - FOREST INTIJIt FRA?RD. - *PA~RIS, FitDAY 'RVENX1NG.' An event ocourred at ,greater sensation thdre than anthing remembered' 'ince the suapesbiboi'f FL. Michel (euss) in, (i ~tthink) i8341 :In: the '16th chamber of coriectional, Stpohice~primfdadloverby X.Glelaln deBontifi; a aof ] pohitild breliiee on forhearing. Ki.VaahtAirtthe ~ anher f abookcalld La Demockh~teie' ...

... LoRD STANLEY.-It is again rumoured that Lord Stanley is shortly to be mani-ed to Lord John Russell's ?? Journal. THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT AND THE EARL OF DERsY.-The Earl of Derby who, like the Earl of Sefton, has not yet contributed anything to the volunteer funds ofthe district, has, we understand, announced his in- tention to arm and equip, at his own expense, such of his tenants as are ...

... A public meeting was held in the Assembly Room, Heaton-street, Blackburn, on Tuesday evening last, to take into consideration the propriety of demanding an advance of wages. Mr. WILLIAE: Ciiossun was elected chairman. He. cend the placard convening the meeting, which was headed Weavers' wages, shall they be advanced l After a few prefatory obsarvn7ations 'he said: You are all aware that at ...

... (For the Preston Crozidle.) a Why should a small and unimportant state at the north- VI west corner of the African continent excite such.a vast P amount of interest and attention in the far distant states b of Europe? Certainly not because of any danger from it * certainly not because of any immense importance to these states, whether it is prosperous or the reverse; certainly not because of ...