... An employer of labour, In a letter to the Times, says :— We daily read in your columns letters from ursf-rate officers, but we never read in them any fault attributed to an officer in command. According to them, admirals and captains are ever in the right; seamen, marines, ami letter-writers ever in the wrong. Look at the so-called mutiny on board the Princess Eoyal, at the harsh and fatuous ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are sorry to be obliged again to hold over the lines British Volunteer. The Bold Volunteer (Abergavenny) also held over. No anonymous communication on the subject of Roger Edwards' charity, can be inserted. ...

... TOWN T A L E. BY OUR. LCKJTDQU CORKE3FOTOEST. Car ttaden will understand that we do not hsH ovtehis rj- tpcnrZle tQr eur able eomspondenps epinicn*. THE no of psaca with China, Tvlth all our demands satisfied, and Pekin, which had been occupied, evacuated, was as startling and un- expected as satisfactory. The way in which it came, too, was extraordinary-by Russia, by the line of telegraphs ...

... IN Italy, things remain in an unsatisfactory state. Advices from Rome state that the bombardment of Gaeta will recommence, in consequence of the refusal of Francis II. to accept the conditions pro- posed to him. The King has issued a manifesto, calling upon the Neapolitans to support him. He promises an amnesty, and distinct Parliaments for the Two Sicilies; and intimates that, even if at ...

... MAITX MONDAY, DEC. 17. Purchases were readily made in English WIIEAT to-day, and prices still on the advance: white selling at 4Rs to GGs; and red at 44s to 62s per quarter. Many parcels of foreign sold, and at still prices, ruling at 5Ss to 70s; Itussian 53s to 6bs; and American at GOs to OSs. Demand for FLOVII increases: and quotations range for town made at 57s; ditto household 50s; country ...

... (For the ensuing Week.) FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. — Valuable plants, as varigated hollies, rhododendrons, &c., if not growing as freely as it is desirable they should do, would be benefited by a liberal allowance of rotten manure or well-decayed leaf mould being applied as a top-dressing, covering it with a little fine soil and working it into the ground around the ball towards the ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. THE DRUM AND FIFE NUISANCE. Sir, In deviating from my rule of never noticintr anonymous letters, I am actuatcl by the position I hold in respect t) the Volunteer Drum and Fife Band, (he members of which are aggrieved by the letter of .A Vic- tim, which you published last week. They feel rather victimised and somewhat sore, because they think that they have been misunderstood ...

... In the coming volume of Bancroft's History will appear the following portrait of Catherine n. of Russia: — The affairs of the united colonies Wfite then under discussion in the heart of the Russian empire tLe ancient city of Moscow, at the couic of Catherine the Second. The ruling opinion in Russia demanded the concentration of all power in one hand. From the moment the empress set he* foot ...

... ACCOMMODATION PAPER. The mysteries of money-raising are becoming gradually clear. How to live on nothing a-y'ear is a mere joke of a problem The modern feat is how to be rich, generous, influential, and benci-o- lent with nothing a-yefir; how to carry on a splendid lusines-v exhibit large profits, and emulate the grandest capitalists out o this slender stock. Does the reader wish to know the ...

... The New York Times of the 9th says:—Lady Franklin, yesterday, visited the Rutgers' Female In- stitute when she was introduced to the young ladies by the Rev. Dr. Krebs, who made a short address. Remarks were also made by Dr. J. W. Francis, after which Rev. Dr. Asa D. Smith, in behalf of the young ladies of the Senior Class, presented Lady Franklin with a. richly illustrated volume. ...

... At the opening sitting of the new session of the Society of Arts, Sir Thomas Phillips, the President of the Council, took cliaiv. In the course of his speech, lie said:— The International Exhibition of Works of Art and Industry, to be hold,en in 1862, has largely engaged fha attention of the numbers of the council, and occupied much oi their time during and since the close of the last session ...

... On Sunday evening a meeting of an extraordinary character was held in Exeter Hall. It had been announced by means of advertisements and placards that Exeter Hall would be opened on Sunday night for a service, to be conducted by three laymen, Mr. Reginald Radcliffe, Mr. Richard Weaver (formerly a prize- fighter), and Mr. William Carter. The promise was kept, and at G o'clock the doors were ...