... R E B AS A ON 0 R Y. Meetings for Next Week. Moodo, anuay 2.-Logee Robrt orA (25)IFreemasons' Tavern; Boys Juilee(81, Adertn'sHote; S. Jhe's (107), Radley's Hotel;' St. ukes ~88l ComerialHal, Celea; oppa (223)i, Albion TFavern, Unio (58),Fremasn'sTaven; reson i~oe~,star And Garter, Patny. baptr.-td Kng' Arm (0), reemasenno Tavern. Toeeae.LodssAibon ?? reenosos'Tavern; Old Dundee (18), Londn ...

... At a meeting lately held at Queenstown (Cork), the Rev. Mr. Fielding, a Roman catholic priest, used the following language:- The government knew very well the people of this country hesitated very little, or would not care much, if Napoleon Ill, should step into this country any moment; the government knew verywellthat the governmentof France would beas ac- ceptable toithelishipeople ...

... THE PAST AND COMING YE-R. We slip into a New Year as imperceptibly as the sailor crosses the Line, and enters another hemisphere. One moment we are in 1859, and the next we are transported into 1860, and none of us recognise the difference; never- theless, whether we look backwards or forwards, the dif- ference is really great. Another notch has to be cut in the stick of Time, and every human ...

... THlE SPANIARDS IN MOROCCO. l If the results of the incessant passages of arms be tween Spain and Morocco are as creditable to the for mer state as the official bulletins of the court of Madrid affect to describe them, why is the Spanish army ?? repeatedly upon a defensive attitude ? The whole official information which Europe obtains from the seat of war in Africa is from one belligerent alone ...

... XENT--ArPTrnrENSlOe OF A RUrAWAY PRUSSsrNc OFFICIAL-On Thursday last, a young man, named Martin .Horst, aged twenty-threewho has very respectable connexions in Prussia, was apprehended at the Maidstone Cav alry Depot on a charge of absconding with 500 thalers (1201), the property of the Prussian Post-office anthori ties. Tie prisoner, it appears, bad for some time been employed in the Post ...

... OUv CONTYMPOIBAIRIES, I POISONOUS ADuLT.TIONS.-(TAmes)-Dr. Griffin tells us that many of the obsacre chronic and dyspeptic complaints now so prevalent are due to the systematic adulteration of artiles of food with un- Vholesome or slowly poisonous materials. It is only when the customer is poisoned outright and off-hand that any fuss is made about the poisoning. Dr. Griffin's suggestion by ...

... The cold weather which set in with severity on the 11th of December, and continued till near the middle of last week, has produced an increase of mortality. The deaths in London, which were about 1,300 in each of the four previous weeks, rose to 1,548 in the week that ended last Saturday. Within the period to which reference is made the mean weekly tempe- rature of the air fell 12 deg. In the ...

... LATEST SUmmAY. A man, about thirty, destroyed himself yesterday, a Thames Bank. On getting him out of the water, Ile was found to be quite dead. An accident occurred on Friday, on the river Mersey, of the most distressing character, by which twenty-three lives were lost by the upsetting of a boat. The Rev. Mr. Reed, curate of St- Sepulchre's, alleges that he has discovered a cure for cancer, ...

... This page woill mostly be found interesting to iienesed Ticetuallers, and the operations of the IJYITED TOWNS' ASSOCIATION AND LICENSED VIC- J,1yELLES DEFENCE LEAGUE are published under their own sliert1ntedtdence. The Late Dinner and Testimonial to Mr. Robert Bamford Williams. The above interesting affair took place on the 14th of pecember, a short account of which we gave in our publi- tion ...

... 3DRr:EDWuz sEZrWRCX ZSN. fII CHANNEL. Several French fishing-smuacks having brought into Calais karbour a large number of cases of wrecked goods with the name of Blervie Castle painted upon them, it was at once supposed that they bad come from the ship Blervie Castle, Captain George M'Hardy, commander, be- longing to Messrs. Duncall Denbar and Son,'the eminent shipowners, whjih clared out ...

... THE SOLDIER'S PRIVILEGE, BY MSLUS W3AX*Z. I left England in 1855. as second in command of seventy picked men, employed as sergeants to in- struct the Turke in the laboratory. As they were engaged at a high rate of pay, I may fairly assume that a strict investigation had been made into their character, and as they were all rated as non-commis. sioned officers, that they would support their ...

... The North British Daily Mail of Monday contains the following accounts of several disasters which have occurred in the channel, attended, we regret to say, with loss of life:- Greenoclk, Dec. 25.-This morning there was no less than four large steamers and a schooner just ar- rived, and are lying at our quay, connected with each of which we have to report disasters in the channel. These are ...