... THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA. The fortifications on the southern coast are described as fol- lows There are along the coast of the Slave States, from Baltimore to Barrataria. bay, Louisiana, 29 fortifi- cations that cost the Government 15,000,000 dols. They contain more than 3,000 cannon. This is a good outfit for the Southern revolutionists, added to their ample supply of small arms at the ...

... There are still about 800 of the cc s ruler dose confinement in their cells, the whole c' are placed on bread and water for their share'in m tinous out- break of last week. About 200 of. aie eoavicts who refrained from participating in the revolt a,to sn'o^equent riot are allowed to leave the prison to resume their work in the dockyard and on the other public works at Chat- ham, and these are ...

... Last week was issued to the House of Commons a return of. the gross public income and expenditure in the year ended the 30th day of September, 1860, and also in the year ended the 31st day of December. The total revenue of the year ended the 30th of September was £70,809,976 3s. 9d.; the total expenditure was £72,145,b32 5s. 8d.; showing an excess of expenditure over income of £1 335,856 Is. ...

... myt Court, uc. ON Saturday the Empress, accompanied by the Prince Imperial, visited the new greenhouses of the Jardin ;d'Acclimaiat ion in the Bois de Boulogoe. Her Majesty was received by M. Drouyn de Lhuys. M. GeofFroy Saint-Iiilaire, and the directors. The Empress passed nearly an hour in examining the magnificent, plants col- lected there. THE Milan Gazette of the 11th states that, on the ...

... CONDIMENTAL FOOD A PREVENTIVE OF DISEASE.—At the meeting of the Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland, held at Edinburgh on the 16th of January, Mr. Poyser, of the firm of Cope and Poyser, veterinary surgeons, of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, was awarded the gold medal of the association for the best essay on the disease in cattle, known as Oma Albumen uria, in which essay he advocated the use of ...

... POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS. The following are the principal provisions of the Chan. cellor of the Exchequer's new measure It shall be lawful for the Postmaster-General, with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to authorise and direct such of his officers as he shall think fit to receive deposits for remittance to the principal office in London, and to repay the same, ...

... GAtrssiBiERE.—M. Caussidlere, j?ho filled during the regime of the late French republic the office of Prefect of Police, and woo, sincp then, lived for many years in the United States, and for- some time in England, died in Paris on Sunday morning. He hftd- but very recently returned to France. ...

... CITY, WUXMDAY, JAN. 30. The funds opened this morning with firmness, and soon ex- perienced a fresh rise of i per cent. Some sales followed, prompted, perhaps, by the high value of money, and a reaction took place. Prices are now quoted | per cent. lower than at the close yesterday, but the market is steady in character. British railway stocks have risen, but in this department also there has ...

... FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, I. ISAACS, Bristol, jeweller and silversuiltlj, d. STANTOS, Liverpool, china dealer. J. SCOTT, Stoneliouse, Devonshire. G. W. YVAKD, Worcester, publican. A, JAUXCEY, Forest-hill, Kent, plumber and glazier. J. BULFORD, Poole, grocer. G. KELLAND, JUIl., Lancaster, grocer and tea dealer. 1. COOK and lv. \\OODWAIU>, Hockley, Birmingham, iron and steel stampers; \v. li. W ...

... Trade remains dull at last day's prices. Prime meadow hav, T5s. to. 84s.; supei tor da 80s, to 110s inferior do. 40s to 57s Gd rowen, aos to 60s; clover, old, 95s to 115s; ditto second cut 70s to 95s; straw 32s to 43s. ...

... The death of Mrs. Gore, says the Times, will excite a lively feeling of regret in a great number of readers, are indebted to her for. many a pleasant hour. She died on Tuesday last at Linwooct, Lyndhurst, after a week of severe suffering. Of her personal history, little more is known to the public than that she was the wife of Charles Arthur Gore, of the 1st Life Guards; that at the time of ...

... From a Board of Trade return just issued it appears that the total receipts on all the railways in the United Kingdom for the half-year ending 31st December, 1859, amounted to £13,880,763 on 10,002 miles of railway against £12,825,826 on 9,542 miles of railway in the corresponding half of. 1858, showing an increase of £ 1,054.937 in the receipts, and 460 miles in the mileage. The total ...