... Wljt ejoitrt, &t. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce, and Major Teesdale, arrived, on Saturday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Ilardwicke, at Wimpole-hall, near Royston, from Cambridge. A small circle were invited to meet his Royal Highness, including the Duke of St. Albans, Mr. Adeane, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. ROGER EDWARDS' CHARITy.-In condensing our re- port of the meeting, last week, a few inaecuracies'occurred. In Mr. Baker's scheme, the word paid is twice inserted instead of fixed; and Mr. Blower and Mr. Jones only sanctioned that part of the scheme which related to the school. I he gifts to the poor, was a proposal from the Vicar, Churchwardens, and Guardian of Usk. With ...

... SEVERE WINTERS.—The Nord gives the fol- lowing details on the subject of rigorous winters:—In 1709 the cold was excessive throughout the whole of Europe; the Adriatic was completely frozen over; a general and destructive famine prevailed; food for the first necessity was at exorbitant prices; at Paris bread made of oaten flour was served at the tables of the rich and of princes. Cattle ...

... lamented gentleman were interred on Monday, at Kensal- green Cemetery. The funeral procession, consisting of a hearse drawn by four horses, with three mourning coaches, and a great number of private carriages, left the deceased's late residence, in Queen Anne-street, at half- past twelve o'clock. The occupants of the first coach were Mr. Shipp, Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Bridell, and the Rev. E. Monro, ...

... DEATH OF TWO CHILDREN FROM EAT- aNa POISONOUS CONFECTIONERY. Last week Mr. Serjeant Payne, the coroner for London, held an inquest at the Angel, Webber-street, Blackfriars- road, on the bodies of Thomas Carroll, aged 4 years, and James Carroll, aged 3 years, brothers, whose deaths were occasioned, as alleged, by eating poisonous confec- tionery. John Carroll, father of the children, said the ...

... THE UNITED STATES. QUEÊNSTOWN, FEB. 10. The Royal Mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott, from New York on the 30th ultimo, arrived here at 6 a.m., landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and pro- ceeded at 6.15 p.m. All well. She brings thirty-seven passengers. The steamships Etna and Arabia had arrived oat. The AYashington correspondent of the New Yo-Tk Herald- state, that, in consequence of ...

... One of the most important documents in connection with this subject has been received by the Rev. W. Fremantle. In a letter, the Archbishop of Canterbury says:— I have taken the opportunity of meeting many of my episcopal brethren in London, to lay your address before them. They unanimously agree with me in expressing the pain it has given them that any clergymen of our Church should have ...

... COMPLETION OF NEW KING-STREET, Co- VENT-GAitDEX.—During the last week the short street leading from the bottom of Long-acre to King-street, has been .opened for general traffic. By means of this new thoroughfare tho narrow and inconvenient New-street will be avoided by passengers and traffic between the Strand, Coventry-street, Leicesteprsquare, Piccadilly, or Holborn and Oxford-street. The ...

... On Saturday night a shocking murder was perpetrated at Huddersfield. A few minutes before twelve o'clock a man named Joseph Smith, 31 years of age, was proceed- ing towards his home in Upperhead-row. On his way he entered the Black Lion passage, when three men, named John KilJarney (a private in the 81th regiment of foot), — Norton (a dye-house labourer), and — Iredale (a cloth-dresser, of ...

... THE young women of \Vaynesboro Georgia, in fierce convention assembled, resolved—That we, tha young ladies of Burke, reject with haughty scorn and proud disdain all civilities from any gentleman who re- fuses or neglects to join the ranks of any Southern State that shall in her sovereign capacity withdraw her alle- giance from this unconstitutional confederacy; holding it to be self-evident ...

... COMMISSION FOR ESTABLISHING UNI- FORMITY OF MEASURE AND WEIGHT IN GERMANY. This commission has recently made & great advance towards the attainment of its object, all its more essential determinations having been adopted with perfect una- nimity. The metre is to be taken as the unit of linear measure under that well- known name, in preference to the German monosyllable stab, which had been ...

... A letter from the five Englishmen who were sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a Neapolitan gaol, ha3 beer forwarded to this country, and appeared in the Western Baity Press. Their names are Messrs. Pictcn, Morrell, Walters, Vallance, and Coleman, and it will be rem-mbered that, having been dispatched with some of Garibaldis troops, for the purpose of intercepting the enemy, then supposed ...