... FIRE ESCAPES-MEETING OF PETER'S PARISH. I I . .. - I .. . . . ?? A meeting was held yesterday in the vestryroomn of St. Peter's parish church, Aungier-street, to consider a compiunication which had been received from Tie Royal Irish Society for Protection of Life from Fire, and also to consider and adopt measures best calculated to assist the society in protecting their desirable under- ...

... LAT E$ST N:EW S.- cie NEWS-LETTsER; OFFICE,- :. s .at Y E STERDB A Y 'S .D E-S-PAjLT C E . 'a *1\ t [nY MAGNETio TFLEGRAIH.] ; Ei DEPARTURE OF THE fRENCH FLEFT FROm in * GAATA._ -i * ?? Turin g Monday Evening. i n The report of the departure of the French fleet v from Gaeta bha been confirmed.. .ii tit THE FRENCH ADMIRAL'S .POSITION AT r GAB'TA. . Le Nerd statos that the Cabinet of St. ...

... THE YEAR ANI) iTS DiVISIONS. (Floos L COURESPoDlENT.) IT was thought, in ancient times, that the sun moved round the earth, and the period of the ap- parent revolution was termed the solar year. 'Ihe Egyptians, according to the authority of 1lerodoLus, were the first who approximated to the true length of this ytar. They divided it into twelve months, of thirty days each; and the people of ...

... w,- PS ?? lb TUESDAY MORON6T, -JANUARY 1. Tur, rate of discount bas been raised by the Bank of lpnglaud to 0 per cent. Iltelligenee has been received from Pehin, via St. ' Petersburg, to the 18th November, which confinms the previous accounts, but contains nothing new. The status quo had not been interfered with, aid -wasr considered satisfactory. I A play, by M. Mocquard, the Private ...

... GBlnDD 27N8 RAILWAY COMPANY OP The followinig is a report just issned by the LonAon directors of this company. To it are appended ?? from -. Blackwell, the m inagng director; Mr. Sianley, the general manager; and Mr. Mackenzie, the locoluotive superinterdent: T hike London directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canda, in referring to the annexed report of 1r. BlawckWel, the managing ...

... I EXE COMMITTEgB OF LA MEE ON E CTI OH I - - ATE2S. , . The Committee of Laymen would now redeem the pledge they gave last summer, to offer to the members of 311 the church some suggestions on the fitting stepato bie taken, th in order to secure a satisfactory settlement of the long-agi- es tated question of chureh rates. 1. Tis cannot 'e effected without the cordial union of an those who ...

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... LONDON CORRESPONDEN CE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)nil LONDON, SATURDAY. jo TnE weather in London, and indeed all over the so kingdom, continues extremcly severe, and almost h without a pirallel in this part of tho world. We read Pr of experiments male with thermometers of all sorts, ell self-registering and non-registering, of all makers ha from Negrette & Zamba, of Hatton Garden, to Mr. ...

... LATEST N;E WSo D! RkWMO AND INURNATIONAL TMEGApe. O ffA TEmoo BmDnas, KuW STEI BZUr2AR'S z'EFJPAMB. CHINA FOREIGN OFFICE, DECEMBER 30,1860 A telegram, dated St. Petersburg this afternoon, has been rec ...

... L~A;TEST NEWtS.A: K: ily 0 :iL.'i;0 iek M~ctnetic Teleg1'r,]ap.) FRANCE. ..i epl' oruqtioi of s nielo draitna at. Paris entitled ' thie 'hdassacre~s of SJ-rir, irom the peln of M. MN[oCe. qu:ard, is re~ar(le& cstS a political event.; Te Em- peror weontalmost in stzte to -witness the first repre- 1 se/ntatiosi of his ?? -cciretar s perfornvaece. re: sat 7uost, conspieiogludy in. the front with ...

... (VROM MACMILLAN'S XkGAZINE FOR JANUARY.) *TaE entire area of Pekin itself, not counting its suburbs, is said to be about twenty-seven square miles and the population to be over two millions. That the population is not greater, considering the great extent of the area, is accounted for by the fact that there are large vacant spaces within the walls. These walls. are all of Pekin that the ...

... THE WEST-4-N-DIA71D-b PAC O I~ ?? . . , UU ' 0 -OUTHAMPTONT, DEC. 3SV The Royal Mail 64mpany'a steamer Seine, Cap., tain Revett, ?? above mails, has arrived; she brinag 79passengers, including Commander Grant-RN.,fromL Jamaica; Captain B. Burton, from the Pacific; and A. G. Doorman, Hamburg Consul in Mexiep. The Seine brings specie value 1,987,315 dolm,; of which about 320,° dols. is 'gold ...