... 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. ...

... LONDON TO' NOTTINGHAM, DERBY, AND LEEDS. Gov ~ ov. Mail,Faat Gov. Feast 1 2 STATIONS 12 12 12 12 1212 1212 Mail Departure 5.A1. a Lna . a~m T.o. am. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.Eg London E.Square .. 15 6.1 0 9. 120 2 45 1. 0Si9 0 8 London K. Cross. 7.101 9.25114 III .. 30 6.40 u Rugby . . 8.30 10:11111.3111 35 2. 1 5 20 7.1[0 120 Tut Leicester.. * .. 1.1 l,8112.24 2 II 3.10 6 1? 7.50 11.f8ig c Syston * ...

... TIHE CURE FOR CRIMINALS. - - 4- . V aa*AAT>- r..- . The report from the Reformatory Committee for the County of D)erhy, presented to the Court ot Quarter Sessions last week, was a very suggestive one. During the year just dead there have been twelve juvenile offenders sent to various Reformatory Schools from this county, and the total amount paid towards the maintenance of juvenile criminals ...

... THE CALAMITY IN NORTRUMBERLAND. SHIELDs, TuESDAY, 9 A.M.-The condition of the poor women and children residing in the colliery village of New Hartley, from which I have just re- turned, is one of mourning, lamentation, and woe. This morning the fifth night of the imprisonment of the husbands and children of the women has passed away, and the sixth day has dawned, but only to reveal to as ...

... IT is appropriate to reproduce the following extract from n communication made by Mr. Seward, after a tour in Canada during the fall of 1852, to the Albany Evening.Turnal:-- Hitherto, in common with most of my countrymen, as I suppose, I have thought Canada-or to speak more accurately, British America-a mere strip lying North of the United States, easily detachable from the parent State, but ...

... CALEs IONIA.N __MERCURY. MauavRY OFrlCz, FMUAr, EUVme o'CiWMo. FRANCE. A species of panic seemed at one time to pre. vail in France' when the budget was made public. The passage of the report which was particularly ,rearhed, is that which states that the French overrnment hold the indemnrity bonds paid by Piedmont after the treaty of Zurich at a price be. low that at which the} received them, ...

... 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 ...

... BOAltD OF HEALTH.—The monthly meeting was held on Tuesday, the members present being Messrs, Toms, (in the chair) Coleman, Jones, Geake, Cornish. French, and Francis. After the minutes of the pre- vious meeting had been read and confirmed, Mr. Geake said in comptiance with the resolution of the previous meeting, Mr. Toms and himself had taken measures for the filling up of the open ditch ...

... feentl ftefog. The number of wrecks during the past year reaches a fearful total of 2029. The three Federal vessels destroyed at sea by the' Confederate war steamer Sumter included the Vigi- lant, the cargo of which was insured at Lloyd's about three weeks since. This is the firist loss the room has sustained since the present war risks have been acted upon. About a month ago Mr. Gr. Riddiford ...

... TOPICS OF THE DAY. ] THE ALBEKT MEMORIAL.—The design must be archi- tectural, and, on the whole, we cannot but think the idea of a simple but stately Palace of Industry at Ken- sington, to be used for the Museum with which the Prince so eagerly connected himself, would be the best expression of the national impulse. The need of such a hall has nothing to do with the'matter, but it would have ...