... 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 ...

... iTO THS RIGHT HOO. EARL RUSSELL, FORTIGN OFFICE, LONDON. Shipowner' Association, Jan. 13, 1862. My Lord,-It has come ,to the knowledge of the Liverpool Shipownera' Assoolatjon, through the public prints, that the Federal Government of the United States have sunk a stone squadron in the ?? Harbour. Thisprooeed. ing cannot fall seriously and permanently to injure the entrance to that harbour. ...

... THE TUSOJRORA AND THE NASHVILLE, On Thursday afternoon, an Amnerloan man-of-war, flying the Federal flag, was observed from -Ports.: month passn through Spithead;.and intelligence tah ey strortly baonveyed to the portoadmairal thab thestangr adanchored off Osborne. This could not be endured ; so Sir Heniry .Brnoe despatched the, Figmy, his ateam tender, with civil instructions that' ...

... tBY DRTIS AND IRISH MACNErX TLtGnAP.H.] PC RtEUTER'S TELEGRAM. M Pt THE TRENT CASE. hi in vi ANOTHER ALLEGED OUTRAGE at ON THE BRITISH FLAG, b. DESTRUCTION OF THE FORT OF it C1A1RLESTON. ci T TEE ABOLITION PROBLEM. T QUEENSTOWN, WETDXSDAY. A The Liverpool, New York, and Philadel. ga pbia Company's screw steamer City of Wash- cc ington arrived here this afternoon, with dates el, from New York ...

... I TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET.3 Sip, -I shall be glad of a little apace to notice B. B.'s very remarkable letter of January 4th. I notice it to show your readers how B. B. deals with evidence which diaprovea every assertion he bo311made. I gave three piecee of evidence tosahow how fooiiah hia ataternent-was, that Dissent did 5pastoral work. Ono piece of evidonce was by a well-known 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 ...

... MISCELLAN OITS. Ono of the Marine Insurance Compasuies is said to have netted about £60,000. by takicg war risks during the late short period of excitement arising out of the case of the Trent. We hear that a company is being formed, one of the objects of which is to make arrangements for the recep- tion of foreign exenrsionists to this country during the Exhibition time. Mr. Layard, and ...

... PRI VATE CORRESPONDENCE. MARRIAGE OF THE HON. S. J. CALTHORPE| WITH MRS. CREWE. LONDON, TucEsday. I have been respiring an atmosphere of orange blossons. Relays of fashionable clergymen at St. George's, Hanover Square, have been marrying more or less fashionable couples all the morning. The sacred edific rustled with the moving sounds of silks and satins. Pale and tearful brides in veils, one ...

... AMERICAN CONTRACTORS AND THEIR DOING S. home pleasanit exposures were made il the House Of Representatives, at Washington, on tho 1oth, by Mr'. Dawes, a member of the committee appointed to investi- gate recent Governmenit contracts. This gentleman sanid- The ver lirst eontract entered into by this Govern. tuent, after the troops had left their homes, in April last, to defend the capital-a ...

... 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 ...

... BILSTON. STEALING COAL-At the Petty Sessions, yesterday, Bridget Burns, of this town, was committed to prison for twenty-one (lays, for stealing coal, on Thursday last, the ?? of fessis. Sparro$, coual pruirictOrs, of BiltuOit. WOLVERHAMIPTON. THE CASE OF STEALING WEARING APPAREBL-At the Police Cocut, yesterday, William Jones, who stated that he was a glove maker, of Worcester, was brought up ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Corres'poondent4 wiho set any spec-ial ae.lue upqon their cor- 9mminicationas must keep copics of then, as we cannot sender- teae to aotun umused eontrintions All letters intended for publication. must be acecoipan in d by the namnes and addresses of the writers, not neeesarilh for jullkotiona , bud for the information of the Editor. A. B. C., Stourbridge.-W( do ...