... - SlhW.I.a DOCK: COM ISSION. , -. t l feats. The usual monthly meeting wvas held yesterday do (Friday) R. D. Alexander, Esq., in the chair.af The Standing Coali Committee recommended that the present scale of drawbacks, tonnage duties, and ballastpr charges be continued for three months, subject to a resolgution passed at the last meeting with regard to de coals used in steam vessels. Other ...

... There is no longer any use in disguising the fact that Manchester is suffering very severely; and while on the other hand fortunes are being made by able speculators in Liverpool, the m'ills of the North are closing, or w.orking half-times and the distress among the poorer classes, and the depression of the manufacturers, are extreme. America is coming to Liverpool for cotton. and carries it ...

... To the Editor of the Ipswich Journal. SIR.-The question will naturally occur to many thoughtful men, Shall we recognize the Southern States, or not ? and much. may, doubtless, be said on both sides of the question. I shall not attempt, in the sace you may be so kind as to grant me, to give any- like a complete answer to it, but I propose to offer one or two suggestions as helps towards its ...

... i.PSWICII3 #g?t?@Efty, Ja,,UEErY 11, 1802. the Royal Famiythe ors Albert Edward Prince of| It is officially notified in the Gazette that it is not ex- jgect Royal Hiughnessituhle Prince Consort after Sunday the 9th of February next. 1COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THXE LORD-LIZsUi'dNANTOF .T{E-COUNTY OF SUFF'OLiK-rtkSleffolk Rifle Volunteer ,Corps.-Robert Williamz Burleigi' to be Supernumerary Lieut. ...

... I IT A z- ?? - sqv- Aly ++J NoRFoLK.-On Saturday an influentially attended meeting was held at the Shire-hall, Norwich, for the purpose of giving public expression to the general sympathy with Her Majesty. The High-Sheriff (Mr. 3. T. Mott) occupied the chair, and among those present were the Earl of Leicester (Lord-Lieutenant of the county), the Marquis Townshend, Lord Wodehouse, the Bilsho of ...

... -The terrible details of the great Hartley Colliery Tragedy are now before the public. Hope has gone. Tihe men and bovy-215 in number, have perished. Never have such scenes been witnessed as those in the neighbourhoonl of the mines, where wives, mothers, children, congregated, dumb, and terror-stricken, with their dear ones beneath them in the earth-alive it might be, and that was almost ...

... FOI1EIGXINTELLIGE?CEs AM:ERIuaX h~a THCE TRENT AFFAIIL NEW YORK, Duc. 24 (EvENrn-G). ant (PEER EtlnOPA, elf BOSrON AND QUE~rNSTOWiN.) the, A motion has been made in the Senate for the npo- th rduction of the correspondence respecting the 'Irentin Several members spoke against the surrender of the in ?? Newv York papers agree that to avoid war the co demands of England would be acceded to. The ...

... PETTY SESSIONS REPOR'TS, SAMFORD. COUNTY-HALL, IPsovicu, Tuesday, January 14.-Be. fore the Hon. and Rev. F. DeGrey, (chairman); and W. Rodwell, Esq. Disturbannce (t a Beer-loouse.-llenry Tllby and Johln Smith, labourers, were charged with assaulting John Lilly, landlord of Itoydon Fox neer-liouse, onl the 8th Inst. It appeared that the assalnt arose ins consequence of tile com. plainnti having ...

... THE RIFLE CORPS BAND.-On Thursday evening the 16th inst., the members of the Band accepted an invita- tion given them by the Messrs. Stearn, of Elmsett Hall, and were sumptuously entertained by those gentlemen, who gave them a good hearty old English welcome. The Band performed a variety of modern music, which -was highly applauded by the company present. It being in the immediate vicinity of ...

... I EASTERN COUNTIE`SASYLUM FOR MDIOTS. The sixth election of the Essex Hall Asylum for Idiots was held at the Guildhall, Bury St. Edmnund's, on Thursday, last, the enth instant. The Mayor presided. Amlngst the gentlemen who attended upon the occasion there ?? T. B. Beevor, Bsrt., Capt. Rushbrooke, Capt. M'Gregor, W. Salmon, Esq., E. Greene, Esg., J. Sparke, Esq., C. D. Leech, Esq., G. Portway, ...

... PAI~S, December 28th, 1861. Decisive news from America is awaited with intense anxiety by all classes of politicians here. For my part 1 see no reason to change the opinion I have all along expressed, that war is certain. The correctness or fal- lacy of this opinion will be decided about the 6th of January next. The decision isin the hands of a mob, and a Congress which ably represents its ...

... The crowning news of the week comes at its close. W~ith the surrender of M~essrs. Meason and Slidell, wve cease to have any difference with the Citizens of the Northern Uinion of America. The general feeling is one of immense relief. The gossip of the Clubs has tended to an apprehension that the concession swill be accom- panied by no gracious and conciliatory phrases. We are so thankful for ...