... Intelligence has been received in Liverpool confirma; iag the total wreck of the barque Lady Franklin, of Liverpool, while on her passage from that port to Maraneham. There is little doubt, also, that all on board perished save one of the crew, Charles Mat. thews, a native of the West Indies, who was after. wards picked up, landed at Cadiz, and made the fol. lowing statement to Mr. J. Mi. ...

... We regret to learn that a serious riot took place at Aldershott o0 the evening of the 25th ult., between some men belonging to the 2d battalion of the 24th Regiment and a company of the King's Own Light Infantry (Tower Hamlets) Militia, and which was unfortunately attended by the loss of one life, besides three men being wounded. Since the occurrence of this most unfortunate outbreak a ...

... TEE POPE AND TEE PARIS PRESS. - Several of the Paris journals remark, as was to be expected; on the pamphlet just published, Le Pape et il Coegrs3. The appreciations of our contempora- ries are in general more than usually favourable, and, with the exception of the clerical and legitimist organs, the approbation expressed is remarkable for the unanimity which it proves to prevail. We sub. join ...

... The official correspondence on this subject has been published. In a dispatch dated Victory, in Ports. mouth harbour, Dec. 13, Admiral Bowles thus narrates the circumstances preceding the riot:-` Soon after her Majesty had quitted the yard Captain Baillie came to me asd reported that his ahip's company were very eager and anxious to be allowed leave to go on shore, and miuch dissatisfied at ...

... GATHERINGS PRo YEBSTERDAyS JOURNALS. - - - -O. LoRDn MACAULAY.-We little thought when two years ago we congratulated the country on the elevation of our greatest historian to the peerage, that we should have to record and lamentihis death before his voice had once, as far as we know, been heard in the House of Lords. Lord Macaulay died on Wednesday evening at eight o'clock, at his residence at ...

... As Christmas-day fell on a Sunday, Monday was ob- ii served as a general holiday, the bankers, merchants, and a traders closing their respective establishments, and thus P affording to the masses the usual Christmas relaxation. n Though the day was wet and disagreeable, the sight- a seers would not be denied the gratification of their tastes, C and the several exhibitions were well attended. ...

... D4AVAA; AsND _x-ARY INTELZ.ZGENCE. It is the intention of the Government to place the large naval establishments and dockyard at Chatham in a thorough state of defence, in accordance with the report of the Royal Commissioners OR the National Defences The present defenceless state of Chat- ham Dockyard has not been overlooked by the commissioners, and in accordance with their recommendation ...

... I FRANCE.-The pamphlet, The Pope and the Congress,' has made an immense sensation in France, as, indeed, might have been expected. The anger of the -altramontane and legitimist parties can hardly be kept within bounds. M. Louis Veuillot, who is dis- approved and disavowed by intelligent and liberal ca. tholics, and whose backers axe to be found only among the intolerant, the bigoted, and ...

... I The Pope demands the name of the author of the Pope and the Congress. Its official character must be disavowed, before his holi- ness can consent to send a representative to the congress. From Austria we learn that Count Walewski has assured Prince Metter- nick that while he-the count-forms part of the French ministry of foreign affairs, the pamphlet in question shall not be considered ...

... COBDEN AND BEGxeu.-The lManchester manufac- turer, alias Richard Cobden, in his conversation with the French Emperor, has not acquitted himself to much better advaotage than the four Liver pool merchants, who thought, with their inch and a half of understanding, to fathom the dark profundities of the Napoleon intentions. In both oases-that of Mr. Cobden and the Liverpoolians,-the most crass ...

... TO THE EDITOR.-Sir,-A case of poisoning has lately occurred here which is so instructive when con- sidered from several points of view that I am induced to forward you an authentic statement of the parti- culars. On Thursday, the 15th inst., various persons be- came seriously ill after eating Bath buns purchased of a confectioner, at Redland. Among the sufferers were six youths, pupils at a ...

... LLOYD'S WEEKLY .LONDON NEWSPAPER The year that, when these lines fall under the reader's eye, will have closed, will be re- membered in history. It was opened by the memorable words spoken by Napoleon the Third to the Austrian ambassador; its spring was given to the Italian war; its summer sun fashed upon a triumphal march of armed men along the Via Sacra of Paris; and its later age has been ...