... W2- MARICO POLO IN COLLISION WITII I AN ICEBERG. [From the Xarco Rleo Obeiver.] Up to Thursday, the 7th Iaroh, the voyage of the Marco Polo had been favourable. A few davs before ice- bergs had been seen atj al distance ef several miles, but no apprehension existed that any immediate danger was to be apprehended from their vicinity. About half-past three o'clock on the morning of Thursday, the ...

... 19 ORMTA.MPTONSHIRR, AGRWIVLYWAL 560CIThY. ic- _ ~ ~ ?? _ _ - F ?? NOATHAM I'TON, TOi ItSDY EVNNG' This has been quite a gela day here. First and forenoost the annual meeting of the Northaaeptonshire, Agricultutal. Society was held on the rave-co~reie, Lit which the show of limses and' cattle was aduitdtdl~.,thetlatgest aud fituest which has ever been held in the county. Theta, in. an ...

... NATIONAL PROTESTANVT SOCIETY, At a meeting of the Cam Littee of the above scoiety, w held on November 19, 1361, Helthoota Harding, Esq, in the chair, the following resolut'ona were unanimously agreed to:- S Resolved- s That with the view of giving expression to the general a feeling amongst Protestants of respect and gretitude to 0. H. Whalloy, Esq., M.P., for his able and eminent ser- vicee ...

... DISTBESS iV I.l.MBETII. AD o paEDITOR or Tnre MORNING CHRONICLE. t' tone of your loadiog articles a few days since you at to a letter which the Rev. Mr. Gregory, the inoum- of St. Mary-the-Less, had addressed to the Tnes, P ?rh you expressed your surprise thit only one indi- b ttd could be found in the parish able and willing to I otethe distress abounding in that thickly-populated la 't hood, ...

... e FORNIGN INTELLIGENCE. Mel PARIS. E EPr~Ox OUL OWN CORRESPONDENT.] whi WEDNESDAY MOPNING. n E rea of all the speeches 'iver delivered by the b peror that of Monday bel decidedly produced the bys jeast favourable effect on~he public. Not only is it devoid of political siltoifloation, asa regards foreign policy (in which the Freneh take greater gisl interest than in their own affictr), but it ...

... SCIENLIFIO ITOTTINGS. * Some time ago a quantity of ehrimps we-e received at Paris, from Antwerp, and the singularity of their caluar, a deep red, having attracted the attention of ths polioe. inepeotor of theuarkets, thkey were eeized ard Esat toMd.' Caventore and Porrot, to be analysed at the laboratory ot the Faculty of Mledicine, where it was soon found that thg suspeoted ehrimpa had been ...

... | LONDON: * ?DNESDAY, DECO BBB 4, 1861. There are Bti1l those who affect to believe t the United Stated Gooveriment will render justice tofignd in the affair of the Trout. It is not t.for us, of course, to anticipate the resolutions of a President LigcoLm's Cabinet. It may be that the k, prior and paramount necessity of concluding his . struggle with the South will induce the Chief a- I] le ...

... I I We have now further particulars of' the great conflagration that laid in ruins a large portion of Charleston (South Carolina), on the 11th of December. The theatre of the fire embraced all the terri- tery comprised within the following streets:- East Bqy, on both sides. from Pinckney to Hazel, along Hazel westerly to Meeting-street, down Meet- ing' street on both sides to Horlbeck's-alley, ...

... JNWACU OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. TO T1ll1 EDITOR OF Tmac MORNING CRHIONICLE. Sir-l trust yoa will grant le a small space in your valuable coltats while I advert to the increusing preva- lence of a praotice alike degrading to the it..dividasl by wvhom it ia re3ortel to, detrimeatal to the interests of tta! sex which it purports to pvotect, destruce tive ot all bocial intercourse bctweeit the ...

... ALGERIIN RAILWA YS. l1 I g The ordinary annual general meeting of this company g was held in Paris a few days since. The report of the directors having traced the early history of the undertaking, I proceeds .hus to describe the principal couditions of the E law of lOO:- r The Ainister of Algeria is authorised to pay, in the name of the State, a subvention of 6,000,000f. (6210,G00) t for the ...

... IJE FRENCO IN COCHIN-CHINA, Jo Pb Ot Intelligence received through Singapore (states se] YV the flonieeur of yesterday) announces a fresh oec- pr er cess on the part of our troops. The citadel of A 58 Mytho was taken on the 12th of April by the land St and sea forces directed against it by Admiral Di 1 (Charner. This considerable result, which ensures nt V8 the possession of the Southern ...

... CI'TL I21 OF TJ1 MORE 5L4 VEPRS-TJE BlUE 1AND STORM ZING. (rltor Ti:E NE8W YOnR nTtctRT..] A despatch has he-'rt creived From Nortolk, bearing i(lte Sepletiber 26, sttill- th t ai brig, name unknown, but sup- posed to be the brig S.orma King, had e2rri *ed at that port, in chage of Lieutenant A. K. Hughes, United States Navy, thirty -one days from Monrovia. She wats captured by the steamer San ...