... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... : [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] - - THE BRAZIL MAIL, LISBON., SUNDAY, The Royal Mail steamship Oneida, with the above mail, arrived, here to-day. At Rio Janeiro, on the 9th Rust. exchange on London was quoted 25k, 26, Coffee, good first, 6t6OO to 6$800 per arroba- Shipments, in No- vember, 181,024 bags, and. in December, 27,332 bags, including 41,237 for the Channel. Stock, 220,000 bags. Freights for ...

... WEiEKLY RETURzV OF BIRTHfS AND DEATHS IN LONDON. I S ot mth [FROM TIHE REGISTRAL-GEtNER&L'S REMURN.i ] tred G Ineral Rsgister offloe, Somerset House, the December 30,1861. In the week ending last Saturday (December 28th) 1,148 deaths were registered in London, of which 234 oce= red ia tho pepulatior of the age of 60 years and upwards, 304 r. between the agee' of 20 and 60 years, and 610 in the ...

... ;, Tiss, forinightly meigo hsbadwshl THE; VAGRANTT SHEIDS. . The cord firmtion of the proceediosm of the w orhue nouse comumlttee having becn moved, Mfr. Peak s~ald he hoped that the ?? in the number of personsi relieved in the vagratb shedsea deorease of ssS ai compared with last weekr, nd ok 73 as OMPaMi4 Ith 'the correspondipg week ofi'nblt year- was bt entailing auy hardship upon a lalss ...

... EUROPE AT THE BEGINING I - O)F 1862. I The events which during the last few . months have been so rapidly succeeding r each other on the other side of the Atlantic have naturally diverted the attention of Englishmen from the politics of their own hemisphere. Yet the European history of , the past year, with characteristics less pro- , minent than those distinguishing 1859 and 1860, records ...

... I TaOOPS FOR AMERICA. LiavER'ooL, Saturday. To-day another embarkation of troops took place here. The Cuasard mail steam-ship Canada, which left this port for it Halifax and Boston, took out the 7th battery of the latht d brigade Royal Artillery (Captain Child's), six officers and 117 n men, to Halifax; and the 8th battery of the same brigade a 1- (Captain M'flea's), six officers and 117 men, ...

... (From tire Gardeners' Chlroaicle.) CONSERVATORY, &C.-zWhile frosty weather continues be satisfied with as low a night temperature in all plant houses as it will be safe to keep, taking advantage of bright days to increase the temperature, and using a little fire heat, in order to be able to admit fresh air to dispel damp, &-c. The proper night temperature for conserva- tories very much depends ...

... T HE LEEDS MERCURY. THE latest facts of which we are placed in possession by the Bavaria steamer, lead to the infer- ence that LORD LYONS had not received the despatch of EARL RUSSELL on the 18th ult. If this be the case, the detention of the Africa for two days, as alleged, would be a delay insufficient to bring back the reply to the despatch forwarded from Englaud by the Europa. Within the ...