... 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 ...

... NATIONSAL RITFLE CONTEST. en ERULLES OF T};r. ANSUAL COMPE;TITION POll TIlE l'CHLLENfJE r on SHIEILD 12ETVWEEN ENGLIND AND SCOTLAND. hle Lit. -- ! o0n It isagred between tho undersigned, who are appointed, to nleo 'p- settle the prelhiinariec of a rifle match between the Volunteers ani . Taltql aneunnall match beestablishedlUbetween the Volun- MSf lhee leers (e .tive, uloa;-cficetif, or ...

... 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. ...

... :LTET N{'L'&ESA]S- B-Y ELZB0T:AY0 TELEGRAAPH LATEST FROM 'AMERICA. -AFIUVAL OF THE AFRaiA. Qusentown,'Wednsd~y,3.30 i s. 4 The Afica ha arrivd. Shebdungsno deisive nows re.I TheKewYor Ties f. thDie. uSam- that Lord Liyons Govrnmnt AnInpresin I sid to preAU a New York that the affair maly be Amicably settled, if thW ?? of England awe couched in moderate terms. - THR AMZRIAN tFIFFCULTY. ...

... VOLUNTEER COHJANDERS iety To TMIt EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. aia. Sic-On reading your excellent sammary of the past j year's events, this morning, I was much pleased with your remarks upo a the Volunteers. In those remarks you draw e attention to a very fruitful source of discord which exists Jer- in many regiments, and which, if not put down by the (id strong arm of the Press, threatens ...

... g .- - IS a~l BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ipuro or, - -tba Oil THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY. tire rs The Tisies' City Article say-s, contradietory telegrramns fromt tam at New York announcing tchat tihere is a general disposition to do TI vt what is right, and that the general impression is that tle on :' Soothern Commissioners will, ulnder no etircurstances, be given con 'r, up. prodnlced little ...

... s- it Teins comprehensive document is at length in the hands 1 :- of the public; and not before time. It would have been 1 )h well that it bad been so some months ago. The Joint I ie Committee, on whom lies the responsibility of the mea- s, sure, might then have had a better opportunity of ex- oe plaining some parts of it, which will require a little ie explanation. The bill occupies 177 folio ...

... TO TUE RIGHT rON. VISCOUNT PAeitcRSTOSO. St. Jarlath's, Tuam, Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury, 1861. MY LORD-To some It 'may appear etirprlsing that, on behalf of the famishing people, I should chiefly ad- dress myself to one who is not known to entertain friendly feelings to our country, and whose strange selection of an Irish Secretary fully reveals his hostility to our religion. However, ...

... THE ROYAL. FAMILY OF PORTUGAL. -The 'Times, speaking iof the recent-deaths in the Royal Famcily, of Portugal, remarks :-.-There is somnethuing especially striking in these, struinge coincidences. Kjngs and- Princes~in rapid Ene- ceso r svp la by the- pestilence which is or of' the closely imniured deniizen of some dense city. The death ,is not to the old, the 'luxurious, -the rioto's',' or to ...

... A salutary Act of Parliament becomes operative Dffrom this the first day in the New Year. It is entitled s the O Old Metal Dealers Act, and its provisions were is desianed to give the police authorities power to effect Id a much closer supervision over the doings of marine- is store dealers than they have hitherto been enabled ie legally to carry out. The enormous evils which have grown out ...

... | SUNDERLAND SHIPOWNERS' SOCIETY. IThe anutinal meeting of this body was held on Monday; thte chairman. of the society (Air. JAMESs LAINGu) presiding. The Secretary read the annual report, of which the fol- lowing is an abstract: I The operations of the society during the paat year have not' been marked by much demanding speia comment. The ordinary routine of business has boen enough to keep ...

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