... CALCUTTA, MARCH 1G. (Six days after the departure of the mail.) Outrages by the ryots of Lower Bengal have taken place. The Lieutenant-Governor has issued a notification which it is hoped will be effective. ...

... THE PROVINCIAL CORN TRADE. The corn markets have exhibited a further slight improve- ment in prices during the past few days, though the increased demands of holders tended to restrict business. The weather, although favourable to out-door labour, continues to check vegetation, and while this check continues the requirements for feeding purposes must be large, tending materially to reduce ...

... BOMAIOSM.—-A lecture was delivered in the Borough Court on Thursday evening, the 26th instant, at 7 o'clock. The attendance was rather numerous, and the subject chosen by Samuel Bosanquet, Esq., to dilate on was, what the Roman Church requires of Men for their Salvation. This was one of a series of lectures which will be deliv- ered in different places, and will be continued during the ...

... The Boston Courier of the 2nd mentions the arrest of a man named James Johnson on board the ship Brewster, Captain I essenden, from Calcutta, November 30, on a charge of murder- ing three seamen belonging to the British man-of-war Retribu- tion, from Calcutta, about five months since. The facts in the case, as near as can be ascertained, are as follows Johnson is an Englishman by birth, and ...

... I am tired of hearing about the good old times, which some foll- who ought to know better, are so fond of casting in our teeth (says the author of an in- teresting paper in the Leisure Hour). When were they ? Where are we to look for them ? I fear, only in the imagination of these well-meaning but silly and mis- guided people. The old times were comparatively bad times; this much-abused ...

... An enlightened foreigner passing along the Strand on Tuesday afternoon must have been strangely puzzled. Crowds thronged the streets, and pressed against the doors of the newspaper-offices, where the sheets, wet from the press, were distiibuted to eager buyers. On every countenance there was an expression of excitement, violent discussions were going on, and triumph or chagrin was in the air ...

... THE CONFERENCE ON THE SAVOY QUESTION. VIENNA, AIUUL 24. Austria and Russia having proposed Paris as the place for the assembling of the European Conference for the regulation of the question relative to the neutralised dis- tricts of Chablais and Faucigny, and Prussia having agreed to this proposal, it appears certain that the Con- ference will assemble at Paris. As regards the Powers who will ...

... Jiabal and THE GOVERNMENT GUNBOATs.-In a notice of these boats which appeared in the Times of Saturday under the head of Naval and Military Intelligence and which referred in terms of condemnation to the majority of these vessels, it was stated, In the midst of all this decay there are two boats which have been examined and repaired which are declared by the autho- rities to have been ...

... TEBTOTALIsH.-The friends of the Temperance Society of this town met in the Providence Chapel, on the 3rd instant. Mr. John Evans proposed that Mr. H. Jonee should take the chair and Mr. John Francis seconded the proposition. The Chairman brif-ny advocated the principle* of the society, and introduced Mr. Charles Carr to deliver his farewell address. The lecturer, af er passing a few re- marks ...

... It is not yet six years since we saw a war which com- menced with proud fleets of line-of-oattle ships end in one of gunboats, mortarboats, and floating Datteries, sheathea with iron. The former very nearly captured Sweaborg; the latter destroyed Kinburn. He would have been a bold man who would then have asked for the public money to build screv\P three-deckers. Time has, however, rendered us ...

... Scientific, ALLEGED IMPROVEMENT IN THE PREPARA- TION OF STRAW FOR PAPER.—A London physician, Mr. R. H. Collyer, of 8, Alpha-road, St. John's Wood, in a letter to the Moriiiiiy Star, states that the process by which straw is now got ready for paper making is of a very imperfect character. He adds I have satisfied myself that the fibre from the straw of wheat, oats, barley, and rye, when ...

... Jiabal and fBtittavg. TitE MILITIA.—There is no foundation who- ever for the statements copied from the military papers that the remainder of the Militia is to be called out into, active service. On the contrary, those battalions which are now out are ordered to be immediately sent to their respective counties, where they ate to be discharged without delay. The quarters now occupied by the ...