... LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. A SECOND newspaper in modern Greek has been addeOg to the list of the London journals. lis title is Tbeg Messenger of the Byzantine 'Nations, the Greeks, tbel Slavonians, the Daci ns, the Caucasians, and the Arabs, g THE inhabitants of Penzance are going- to honour ttie memory of their illustrious townsman, Sir Humphryi Davy. It is intended- to erect a granite column ...

... A highly important diplomatic dispatch has been ad- dressed by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to the representative of France at Washington. After stating that the arrest of MM. Mason and Slidell on board the English packet Trent by an American cruiser has produced in France, if not the same emotion as in England, at least great astonishment and an extreme sensation, the minister ...

... BANKRUPTS.—FRIDAY, DEC. 20. Chilcott, W., New-street, Kennington-road, commission agent. Kingsford, S., Milk-street, Cheapside, fancy trimming manufact. Davies, S. H., Aldershott, lieutenant in the 16th Foot. Wright, G., Great Carley, Essex, schoolmistress. Ombler, Edwin, Trinity-square, Tower-hill, herbalist. Evenden, John, St. Mary Cray, Kent, carrier. Granger, Samuel, Murray-street, Hoxton, ...

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH'S POCKET BOOK. Our friend Punch is as facetious as ever in his illustrations to his favourite Pocket-book this year, while the fun which fills its pages is of course broad and graphic. In order that our readers may judge of its quality we make the following extracts :— A SCENE FROM THE LOVER'S SECRET. Nebucco Ianthe Call you love me ? Ianthe: Love ? Nebucco No other word my ...

... A PATTERN WATERING PLACE. We have 1 ad a dream, a most Utopian dream. We dreamed that some kind fairy took us to a watering- place. And, albeit it was situated upon British ground, there were at this watering-place not German bands, nor Jews, nor Cockneys dropping H's underneath our nose, nor puppies puffing penny Pickwicks in our face'as we walked forth. Neither was our landlady a vampire ...

... Now, therefore, let us cry unto heaven. 1 Mac. lv., 10. A BOLT hath fallen on the land Speechless, ailiast, the people stan ...

... THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGINGS.—A fine cake of amalgamated gold is now on view at the Exhibition here, affording the best of proofs that there is no falling off in the yield from the reefs. This weighs 1,015 oz., and is the produce of only three tons of atone, out of a claim on the Johnson Reef, in the Bendigo district,—a reef long famous for its large yields. The general returns from the ieefs ...

... BLAINA. PETTY SESSIONS. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18. [Before the Rev. EDMD. LEIGH and Capt. MARSH.] The recent arrangement of the sessions, by which they were appointed to be held on Wednesdays, instead of Wednesdays and Fridays alternately, as j before, does not seem to have given satisfaction and it is certainly the most inconvenient day of the week for the press, which finds itself compelled prepare ...

... BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT, «. Ow readers will understand that we do not hold ourselvts re- sponsible for our able Correspondent's opinions. THERE is only one subject of conversation in London now. In the City and in the West-end clubs in the omnibuses and in the chop-houses on the steamboats and in the half-dozen hunting- fields that surround London, the American diffi- culty is in every ...

... The Pope is now said to be in the enjoyment of ex- cellent health. Will there be a War with America? is a question which Mr. Horsman thus answered in a speech delivered to his constituents st Stroud, on Tuesday :—It is my ardent and sincere belief that there will be no war. I will give you the reasons for that belief. In the firs! place, it is not the interest of the Northern States to go to ...

... I CHARGE OF MURDER ON THE HIGHI I SEAS. & At the Liverpool Assizes, Captain William Wilson,! glate commander of the British ships Express and! HSevern, trading to Africa, was arraigned upon two! gmdictments: one charging him with the murder! llof William Henderson, on the 23rd of January last,! IIon board the Express; and the other with the man-1 ^slaughter of Charles Jones, on board the ...

... OUTLINES OF THE WEEK. The American papers received at the beginning of the week were more moderate in tone than those brought by previous mails. Not only was the surrender of the commissioners beginning to be regarded as a possible contingency, but the New York Tribune hoped that Great Britain would claim them. America, the Tribune declares, could well afford to surrender Messrs. Mason and ...