... LATEST NEM8 W BY BYll O AID IsrsnsNAmlOleAL TELEGRA Onvcus, TEaMPm BumnlDGs. NNw &UM . BR50'fZP8 !'ZLNgF4JI AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, 2 A.m. A steamer reported off the harbour. ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND AMERICA. PARIS, DECEmnDE 31. The Patrie of this evening says:- In the ?? of the reply of President Lincoln being unfavourable, Lord Lyons will provisionally entrost the interests of Mis countrymen ...

... TME qUEEN'S OP L TIHE QUBXMN's ZOSPITAL. ANNuIAL MEETING. The annuial meeting of '*Ie governors and subscribers of tie -Queent Hospiial ?? held yesterday, the REsv. Dr. Miller presiding, IAmongst others present were Sir John Batcliff, Alderman Baldwin, Counoillors Phillips, Walsh, Marks,.Briggs, Walker, Wiggin, and Cornforth, Dr. War- den, Messrs. W. S. Cox, P. Gem, J. H. Hopkins, M. Banks, W. ...

... DIBBTIOT NEWS. T2HE DISTRESS AT KIDDERmhXINSER, PUBLIC MEETING YESTERDAY.- In sccordance with an invitation frorn the Mayor (P. Talbot, ?? the ijhabitanteof Kidderminster met at the Guildball, yesterday, to consider means for alleviating the great distress existing among the workpeople and artisans of that place. At first there was but a meagre gathering, hut afterwards th e numbers were ...

... t ' ' OTIdES TO CORRESPONDENRTd. ?? jeendol fe.r pbawiceti - mur 6c a tcom edd IV 6 ns/dh cs ?? of 14j0riter ss neces#,4r4 for gu e tfo r 2 4of1ont5O/s the Eegifor Ti~e contrlbutien o£ J. T. is declined. We tbink Xhe lotter' of 'A Blstbnia ?? do' no gda. J. D., Stourbridge.-The four men were disehargod.' We believe that the letter of C. F. would only create ill- feeling, wthout ...

... HER MAJsTY.-Os1oaEeN, I December 30.-Sir Hoewy Holland and Dr. Watson arrived at usrorne to-day. by command of her Mhjesty, to receive her dtjests's acknow- ledgments for their care and attention during their attend- ance upon his Foyal Highness the Pririe Consort. Sir James Clark arrived yesterday. Dr. Jenaer remains at Osborne in attendance. Twenty-fii e smerican trotters have just arrived ...

... Iftioal Vilg- go as I O WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1862 NEWS OF THE DAY. iTHERE is little to be said to-day about our diffi- c~lty with the States, so far ,as home matters are ctncerned. The first bustle attending the despatch: of reinforcements to Canada and shlps to the Aimerican coast being over, the attention of Govern- nment has been turned, to tha formatlon of a ?? of 20,000 men; ready to be ...

... TEE ROYAL FAMILY OF PORTUGAL. . (Front, the 7'?iee ) Quick upon the untimely decease of the young King of Portugal follows the death of another Royal victim of the same House, dying in the same Palace and of the same mnalady. To-dday's telegram informs us that Prince Jofto, who was tlso third son of Dona Maria II. da Gloria, and whose death had been for some days expected, has expired.- The ...

... THE- NEW 'YAR. ItlIs often lat 'In life, before we discover the wisdom whioh underlies the sentiments and onstomsVu1. th1' old, world. The young fresh from tho studies of the school areo tpt to treat as superstitious many of the opiaion' whioh the pest ages have bNqueatheO, ids, and to look with pity and contempt upon those who cherish them as part of the ltith-, of their ancestors ?? but ...

... THE FIGHT BETWEEN BRETTLE & ROOKE, YEB~TERPAY. * {(Fom our Correspondent.) The encounter between Bob Brettle and Jaek Rooke, of Bilmirghsm, for £200. a-aide'and a bet of £300. eaoh, has for many weeks paest beez the topic of conversation in all the spoiting circles in London, and the last day of the year 1861 was anxiously awaited by those fond of witnessing a pugilistic display. Yeaterday was ...

... News had'reached New York that the Southern steamer Vanderbilt. had run the blockade, and landed at Havannah messrs. Hunter and Soule, who were sent to Diurope-by the Confederates, in the room of Messrs. Slidell and Mason. They were about to be conveyed to St. Thomas in the Royal M ail steamer Clyde. If this is true those two gentlemen may be -expected to arrive in the steamer which is now ...

... LATEST NiWfs. By BEorEJo AND INIRATIONAL, TLERAPS, Op maa, TIWLH BmuLDGs, RLW SBx. BRUTZ~r' TELZGRAM& IMPORTANT FROM AMERICA. G. The following despatch appeared in a second edition of yesterday's Dally Post:- QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY. The royal mail steamer Africa arrived at 2 a m. She brings 49 passengers, 191,384 dollars, lauded 96 sacks of mails, and 6 passengers. Pro3eeded all well at 2.45. ...

... DISTRICT NEWS- 'WOLV~ Ita&PEfO'T. VIOLENSTLY AB&AULTIUNG THES COUITY Pouros.-At the pounty Petty Sessions, on Hqnday, before Mr. Efeisry ?? and Mr. R. H. Brissce, 'Thomas Steadnman, labourer, of 0Ae s3,11. who is well known. to the police, wan chargidl With assaulting Job Corbett, j olice omnatable, of Ghe same place, Dteharly drunk, and Corbelt ordered bln ohf. Steadmn left, huewite ntestet ...