... 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 ...

... IN)IA. Bombay papers to the 12th Deceinber have been re- ceived. Lord Canning had decided on leaving for Eng- land before the close of that month. He had abandoned his intention of visiting tho CGodavery and Burmah. His remaining in Calcutta would expedite the inauguration of the now councils and the high courts. Mr. Laing had arrived in Calcutta on the 30th November. The Kurrachee papers ...

... The ducal family Saxe-Coburg and Gotha has long held a prominent position in their patronage of the fine arts, as vell uts of those of a domestic character. The grand-father of our late much-lainented Prince Consort give all early impetus to agricultural improvements in Saxony, aided, it is said, by the advice of the then Earl of Findlater, who lived for many years in that countsy. He was also ...

... The British andi Americanl vessels in New York harbour, generilly, hoisted their colours half-mast on the 24th tilt., on account of the announcement of the death of Prince Albert. Taill SPANISI PRISONERS FOR THE GOSPEL.-The secretary of the Protestant Alliance has received informa. tion from Spain that Matamoras and Alhama have beei sentenced to seven years' of the galleys, and Trigo to four ...

... BY HLEcTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEORAPIL OFFICES, TEmrLE BUILDINGS, NEW STREET. BEUTEli'S TELEGRAMS. THE AMERICAN QUESTION. Tho New York Hlerald of December 24-the latest date of the journals brought by the Europa-says:- ' Nothiing new has bcen developed in Washington relative to the Mason and Slidell difficulty. It is thonght that General Scott has brought out some pro- positions which may ...

... A LOCAL MEMORIAL TO THE LATE : PRINCE CONSORT. M-EETING YESTERDAY. Yesterday, at noon, a meeting of gentlemen desirous of aiding in the erection of &-memorial to his late Royal High. ness the Prince, Consort, convented by the Mayor, was held in thle comnmittee roomn of the Town falal. His Worship the Mayor (Mr. H. Mhanton) presided, and among the gentlemen p esent were Sir John Rateliff, the ...

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... Colonel Eugene O'Reilly, one of his companions in mtms in 1848, now an officer in the Turkish service, has written a letter to Mr. Smithl O'Brien, in which lie says: i I tell you iliinly, then, that you should not have written that letter to Mr. Seward, in the first instance, because you owe your life, your liberty, and the posses- sion of independent means to the clemency of that Government ...

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... FArih RUSSELL'S DIESPATCH. (Tru, til~e NMle 1or/k (re-s~poadceilt of the London (iF et rican.) I should be criminally ?? ill candour and common honesty did I inot adliit, that the public were completely udisaned, and equally sUtj)rised, at thle whole text of Earl Russell's deepatch to Lord Lyons. Measuring the tone aqnd tclipvel of what was supposed to have bsen the official (leni)aids of the ...

... A deputation from the departments of 'the House anl the Vosges waited lately ol the Prince Imperial to offer him bonijons and comifits, for which those departmniets are famous. The persons who brought the offering were exceedingly well received by the prince, and they ven- tured to ask what they should say respecting the sweet- meats to the parties represented. Tell them, said the prince, ...