... A decision has been come to by the governmentlwith regard to the punishment that shall be inflicted upon this wretched woman, who resided in Somersetshire before she went to live in London. She is now sentenced to penal servitude for life. It has already been:stated that after the prisoner's conviction she made several statements of a very extraordinary description in reference to the crime of ...

... REES'S IMPROVED DIARY AND ALMANACK FOR 1861.- This useful remembrancer and diurnal recorder again appears with its usual fund of information. The superior manner in which it is got up, combined with its cheapness, cannot fail to recommend it to any one who inspects it. A GOOD HAWL. The Russian Government having sent over £ 40,U00 worth of old worn out copper coin to be sold in England, with a ...

... I The English press has nobly raised its voice in condemnation of the outrage on the rights of huma- nity committed in the case of Count Ladislaus Teledi, both by the Austrian government in de- manding his extradition, and the governlllent of Saxony in surrendering him. The case is too shocking not to raise a general indignation throughout the civilized world; and I think it will be a matter ...

... I -- AUSTRIA AND HUNGARtY. VIFNXsA, D Ec. 14-The ?? Ansciyer calls the at- tention of ?? von Schmerling to the following poliltil evils:- 1. The liberty of the subject is not guaran- teed. 2. The citizens are not protected against arbi- trary domiciliary visits on the part of the police. :1. The equality of the different professions has not been proclaimed. 4. The liberty of the press exists ...

... I (From the EvyrMa FRUHL&AN of last night.) Gaeta, Monday, 24th Dec. The bombardment continues day and night. The Bring is replied to by the besieged. Milan, Thursday, Dec. 27. The Perstemeranza states on good authority that the I young Qucen of Naples has left Gaeta. Vienna, Friday, Dee. 28. The official Wleina, Zeiung contains two imperial de- crees The first orders that in view of the ...

... Mr. E. J. Lowe, writing from the Observatory, Beeston, near Nottingham, on Christmas day, says:- I herewith send you a report of perhaps the most ex. traordinary cold ever known in England.-certaitily ex t ceeding every record but one, and that record being t looked upon as an error, and, indeed, thought to be an t impossible temperature in England. This morning the i temperature at four feet ...

... (From the illustrated London News.) The increasing crush each year at Baker-street makes it more and more imperative on the Smithfield Club to shift their quarters into a larger area, for the sake both of be lthe animals and the spectators, who, at certain hours of ra the day, get wedged into solid squares in the avenues. Every beast is said to have been sold to the butchers, with a the ...

... The past week opened wet, and on the first two days some quantity of rain had fallen, with a low temperature on Monday-thermometer 45 degrees and barometer 29.30, with the wind from the north. During Mondav night a sudden frost set in, and the thermometer at noon on Tues- day stood at 35 degrees, although the wind had gone round to the south-west. This change was very acceptable to the farmers ...

... BPADFl?ORLD. le THE SUICI[DE AT J3uwLiNa.-On Thursday, at 3r the Bradford Arms fnn, Bowlii , Mr. Jewisu, coroner, t beld ell inquest ol v ew of thb Lody of Joseph Graham, a {. aged thirty-five years, whose aelf-destiuction was mentioned in Thureday's Tehosri. Tie rn:scis? wve ?? dead iu a stable in Bowimg Back-lane, on1 Wednesday morning. a d The cause of his death was a dreadful gash nhich he ...

... SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29. I THE Calcutta correspondent of the Times states that |Nana Sahib is still alive in Thibet, and has between three and four thousand followers, as well as plenty of money. All insubordination in the Indian army has been suppressed, in consequence of the decisive measures adopted by Sir Hugh Rose in the case of the mutineers of the 5th BEengal Europeans. A Milan ...

... The peace we have made with the Chinese is satisfactory; its provisions are libaral. We tave extorted an humble apnlogy from hie celestial majesty for past treachery, He has conuented to bear the expenses which his enemies have incurred. Englihal and French are to have ambassadors in Pekin. These conditions, we repeat, are satisfactory, as the conditions of the treaty of Tien tain, signed in ...

... OWICIAL DESPATOHES. (MnON A IWDoM GAMT EXTRAORDIND&Y, Pus-I a S LATE LAST UHT.) 5 Yocieign-office, Dec. 27, 1860. Mr Loch Private Secretary to the Earl of Elgin J and kincardie, arrived at the Foreign-offlce this rob evening, at 7- o'clock, with despatches from his qus lordship, enclosing a convention putting an end to t lon hostilitiea writh Cias, sigedi on the 24th of Ooto- -leit her last by ...