... 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 ...

... THE ROYAL. FAMILY OF PORTUGAL. -The 'Times, speaking iof the recent-deaths in the Royal Famcily, of Portugal, remarks :-.-There is somnethuing especially striking in these, struinge coincidences. Kjngs and- Princes~in rapid Ene- ceso r svp la by the- pestilence which is or of' the closely imniured deniizen of some dense city. The death ,is not to the old, the 'luxurious, -the rioto's',' or to ...

... Uult I'mb Dstint 0sBoaYE, Janny 4. His. Majesty the King of the Belgius and their Serene Highnesses the Princess pohenlohe and Trince Iouis of ?? at Osborne. ?? Divino setwice was performed this mneftiing blythe Rev. G. Prothoro lefore the King of the Bergians, the Prince of Wales, the Princcss ITel6na, Princes Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princ'ess Hohenloeo. PRO BONO PUBLICO. MEETINGS, ...

... CALtE DO NI2\ATN__ERC URY. SECON~D EDITION. M[ER.CtYEY OFF1EE, THrRSSUA.Y, ELEVE.N O CLO(%K, THEIl AMIERICANS DIFFICULTY. The Tim~e~s, in a leadler, ?? the Africa has brought is of a reassured character, but thinks it a duty to dlissect impartially the aewvs as it arrives, and to check any too violent exhilaration as p romp~tly as too strong a depres- sion. We all hope for peace, and we all ...

... SUMMA1RY. Tho Eturo)pa, which arrivod late IaI-t iiglit,| 1 rin 'ei notbiing Cidfmlite respueting thO T~iL h dt S 1 difliwul ty'-al telegran frotn vi i| we infer th it at tile dante of her dpaitinrl tIII, ~a~;lot'o U;.l:nct ilaad not conie to a A motiou liad beets made in Congress Bar t4htprod~uetiinrL d g~ond d~ e the'! demand of e Vita Governmni an. a matter of Course, sek~a dtrs splt q~ist ...

... (FROM TME DAILY NEWS' TORONTO CORRESPONDRNT.) 'hat the Montreal district will be the theatre of the principal operations, in ease of war, there is little doubt, but that Upper Canada will he at- tavkgd is as cer'ain, BEpcrience haa l ace that the most important point for defence is the via gara frontier. Accordinig to Sir Archibald Alison, the Duke of Wellington has recorded it as his opinion ...

... CHANGES IN TlE HdUSi OF COMMOI.S,, *Many changes hav~e tl place int the rep~e- sont~jtions since, the commencement of the year Wihich is asonv dm½rwing tD 'al'close. New members have been durinog the, period ?? ~for~the fol- lowing places :-Abcrdeenshire-. .Willirnn Leslie, Esq., in the room of :Lord 'Hadd,: i*h'o became the Eiarl of Aherteen. Andover-H~enry Beau- mont Coles, Esq., -in the ...

... DESTRUCMiVE FIRE IN FORFAB. One of the most destructive fires that has taken place in Forfar for many years occurred on Thursday morning at the east end of the town, About four o'clock in the morning, flames were seen issuing from a dwelling-house in that quar- ter. A large crowd soon collected, buit, most unfortunately, being the mnorning of the Nocw Year, very few of them were able to render ...

... 611cral ?Iltdligvla. I A proposal is talked of officially to collect ai army of 50,00 men at Aldershott, during the in E-;iibition of this year. The personaltv of the late Mr Thomas Broad- A wood, the well-kno vii pianoforte manufacture, ar has been swvorn uetdler £350,000. o A telegraphic despatell states that, on 29th t December, a train passed over the whole line R fromt Iiomc to Ceprano on ...

... VOL'iNTEJiRING AND BMIL U ARY PRlEPA- 1RVEONS INT CANADA. I Tile Canadian papara brought ly the American Imdil are fall of mrilitary news, Propilelati uls for sear are r beig IiCde on: all hands, and( volnilteer- ing was Cw1'ir l Oil %Vitli aaidmirablje spirt. 'Tithe Xonurevrl Gaettc rlports soUIC volunteer evWs. We saitl a few days ago that thu. (raild nirnk workmen ?? Plint St CIarlis wvcre ...

... The fourth annual gathering of the natives of Sanquhar was held on the evening of New Year's Day, in Mr Johnston's Hotel, Waterloo Place- Mr Robert Johnston in the chair. In justice to the meeting and to those gentlemen who had the responsibility and labour of furnishing so splendid an entertainment, it is but right to say that the gathering on New Year's Night surpassed any of former years in ...

... tg I1? t0t . :1PAVING BOAIRD. IW>MESlSS MILNE.;S . ?? -,4t Sthe meeti~g ot t~ Mereh nt ,Compa~y. I:. '~neutioune the reut'nl of the nganufactunrng prexnlses Ir of Mesars' Jaraes' Milne ' riid ' Son, 'en0;heeii' snd' ltr'ass.i 'fouiidewr ?? C,'Ci~ouate, as large en loers J of labour, and as an example of tie injustibbthatt'¶vo61J F. ; be deneeto'the flaniifactulring h~d' stercantile initereists ...