... I MAJOR WALTER'S NEW BAROMETER. Mijor Walter, vwbo bas for some 20 years devoted his attentlon to meteorology, has shown thepraotical bent of his genius by producing a barometer which appears to be as much superior to the ordinary instrument now in use as the modern chronometer is to the ant!que water-clock. The new barometer was placed in the Exohange newsroom on Saturday even- ing lost, and ...

... NOTICES TO COBRESPONDENT& An kmw tntnd i for Pubmos must be a tcopenied by AB snams ands resas of the Writers MO ?? for pusiogwo e, bid for 0he Wwfsaoioo the EJA tW. OerrYendenta sho set any speabal vcsue upon their am. ?? muds ke copi l of te, s ?? uWi- tab te r c u uad cutios. Bebug.-Such a document Is legal. J. N,-The authorities of the oollege must advertise .their classes like other ...

... I WHEN THE NEWS MAY BE EXPECTED. The American journals brought by the Hansa, Anglo- Saxon, and Glasgow, are unanimous in asserting that the European advices on board the steamer America, which left England on the 7th lIt., were looked forward to at Washington with the greatest interest, previous to the dle- termination of the Federal Govetnment as to the demands of Great Britain relative to ...

... NATIONSAL RITFLE CONTEST. en ERULLES OF T};r. ANSUAL COMPE;TITION POll TIlE l'CHLLENfJE r on SHIEILD 12ETVWEEN ENGLIND AND SCOTLAND. hle Lit. -- ! o0n It isagred between tho undersigned, who are appointed, to nleo 'p- settle the prelhiinariec of a rifle match between the Volunteers ani . Taltql aneunnall match beestablishedlUbetween the Volun- MSf lhee leers (e .tive, uloa;-cficetif, or ...

... On Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, the con- demne ?? Brandrick, was executed in front of the cuntyprisn, a Staford.Contary o th expcta- 9an effort was being made on behaf of Maddoeka, but we believe it wast conifinied to the personal application of his solicitor, Mr. H. Barber, to the Hoe Secretary and Mr. Baron Martin, setting forth the inconclusive nature of the evidence against hins. ...

... PROPOSED STATUE OF THE PRINCE CONSORT IX EDIN.BURGH.I d h There seems (says the ,Scotsman of yesterday) to h. be a pseuliur appropriateness in the suggeetion which hits if been eloating about for some time among our leading citi- 11 zens, that Edinburgh, whatever other cities and towns may e do, should have its own, and a worthy, memorial of his late ,r Royal Highness the Prince Consort. If ...

... SPEECH OF THE KING. At tlhe sneetillg of the Cortes of the kingdom on the 23rd ult., under the presidency of Viscount de Castro, supplemnlntary president; of the Hereditary Ch-amber, the King, Don Louis I., bearing in his haid the royal sceptre, teoo his seat on the throne. His Majesty, while his right hand rested upon the holy gospols covered with a cross, renewed the oath iu thesc terms I ...

... MAY KEEPERtS TAKE D00S WITHl 'sHe'. ence At thle Stafford Assizes last week, before Mr. Baron Mlartiot, slrap Aaron [-arrison, 3S, crate maker, John Yardley, 48, miner, thle Philip Hyatt, 35. miner, and Henry Johnson, 28, no occupa- taute tiou, were charged with night poaching on the I Ith of Novem- few ber. on lands of the Duke of Sutherland, at Tittensor, Ins the A parish of Stone.-Mr. ...

... SPIRIT OF IUNCH. JUSTICE TO IRMLAND.-The O'Donoglhue ceases to be a Justice. ENOt1ND'Ms Nationa Reserve maey hang back, but Englaud's'Avral lleserve comes forward. CaiissTmAs WA'rcs.--Yes, and so does England too, and that most anxiously, for an answer from America. We trujst with all oar patriotic and cosmopolitan heart that it may be favourable and of a peaceful tendency, so that it may ...

... THENEGROESJiNJJ THEIR MASTERS. A correspondent of the New York TrSnme, writing from Port Royal, gives some particulars respecting the Sonth Carolina negroes. He says:—Their feeling of hostility to their late masters and gratitude to as is unmistakable and universal, and their ilecS-uinessto work is shown in every way. The coming of the Yankees has been watched for with anxious solicitude at ...

... The force of the convictions expressed in a numerous corrpspondence addressed to this journal, and the extent of the impressions prevailing in the public mind, compel us to recur to the subject of the illness of the lamented Prince Consort. It is generally strongly felt that an official account of that illness is due to the nation, which so deeply mourns his sudden and unexpected loss. It is ...

... Every regiment in Aldershott has been medi- cally inspected, so as to be ready to embark immediately for active service in Canada, According to some private advices from New York, the Northern government have determined to encourage as much as possible the export of cotton from Port Royal, and with that view will allow any Seathern plantet,to come in to sell it and go away again v his slaves, ...