... iTO THS RIGHT HOO. EARL RUSSELL, FORTIGN OFFICE, LONDON. Shipowner' Association, Jan. 13, 1862. My Lord,-It has come ,to the knowledge of the Liverpool Shipownera' Assoolatjon, through the public prints, that the Federal Government of the United States have sunk a stone squadron in the ?? Harbour. Thisprooeed. ing cannot fall seriously and permanently to injure the entrance to that harbour. ...

... THE TUSOJRORA AND THE NASHVILLE, On Thursday afternoon, an Amnerloan man-of-war, flying the Federal flag, was observed from -Ports.: month passn through Spithead;.and intelligence tah ey strortly baonveyed to the portoadmairal thab thestangr adanchored off Osborne. This could not be endured ; so Sir Heniry .Brnoe despatched the, Figmy, his ateam tender, with civil instructions that' ...

... POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES AND RELIGIOU'S REFORMS IN FRANCE. Th(from cE Osional Pars Correspornent; .) The present si te of France (S pace,, 1M. de i Morny and M. dbe Is Gudrronibre) may well excite the ouriosit,7 of thoughtful men. A a literature corrupt to the core, a demoralised youth, a total ableno of enthusiasm for any- 3 thing-these are melat, holy symptoms. Peace I and order, it is widely ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE LANCASHIRE VOLUNTEERS.-The following com- mission has been signed by her Majesty: -51st Lan- cashire Rifle Volunteer Corp3: J. F. W. Mullen, gent., to be adjutant. Her Majesty has accepted the resignation of the oommissions held by the following officers, ?? Lieut. C. Semple in the 12th Lancashire Artillery; Capt. E. D'Orville In the 2nd Manchester; and Lient, C. R. hilnchin ...

... I a The journals of Vienna (says the Nord) make a I great deal of the ovation which has been given at Verona by the army to the Emperor Francis Joseph, c and the singular speech which Marshal Benedek addressed to Idm. Opinion sees in these mani- festations the symptoms of a revival of military aspirations and a had omen for peace. The Oat. Deutsche Post thinks that the marshal, In saying that ...

... ITHE : ADPLpNAr -DPSATORES. I . E y ;wpso> . The folgoing is the tr xt of the inportant despatohes, a summary of which apppared in the Mercsr, on Satti~dy.. . -FROM LORD LYONS TO EARL USSXLL. i Dated Washington, Dec 31 1861 LrTe (Received Jan. 15, i8 'My LordThe Secretary of State of the o'ile States has informed me that, having learned that ideesre. 3r. W. Zacherle and T. J. Rogers, American ...

... I , TO CANON CHAPMAN. I Io. 3. He who Is ungrateful has but one fault AUl other crimes are viitues In him.-SBhakpcr0. 'Very Reverend Sir,-I love my country and her. People. Their ancient faith, with the ei pesa of its divine origin upon its teaching and ministrations- their still more ancient language, fraught with the treasures of ages, and shining in every page and c legend with departel ...

... - At an election for a oouncillor- eneral St Bsr. daux, on Suday, the Government candidates M. 1oPlong (brother of the famous President of the ekate) ?? wwith a formidable opposition. He polled 1232 votes gainst 984 given to M. Delprat, tbe independent candidate; but two-thirds of the c~tors haviun abstained from voting, Dl. Troplona's oway ?? insuffloent to validate an election 9 ?? and there ...

... I?AUGURATION OF A ;Li E VOL U ITIPER DBItl SB.ED AT.' B IK E.NBE'AD. ills The finauguration of the extensive new drill abed erocted by the list Cheshire (Birkenhead) Volunteer S. Engineers in Chtsreh-stzcees Birkenhead, took plac Ye co Monday evening with great g:flat. The imimense ~11 hellding, which Nwill bold about 5000 persons, Was in densely crowded. Mir. John Laird, MY., occupied as tie ...

... SwArtrPOl *aXrEa. SALVUS POPUM EXS B8RMM, DOMESTIC. Yesterday, a special general court of directors of the Bank of England adopted an address of condolence with her Majesty. Mr. Justice Willes and the puisne judge of the Court of Queen's Bench (Mr. Justice Mellor) will take the northern circuit at the spring assizes. The painful rumour of the loss of the transport steamer Parana, with 1100 ...

... IGARIBALDI AND THE ITALIAN I CAMPA'N. A most Interesting lecture on this subject was delivered on Monday evening, in tho Concert Hall Lord Nelson-street, by Signora Mario, the gifted Ene4lsh lady of one of Garibaldi's most brave and zealous officers-and a lady who has not inaptly or unworthily been styled the Florence Nightingale of the Italiau campaign. O~r. 0. E. Riwling, jan., presided, and ...

... BY LIEUT.-GENEDAL T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Since the apostles of the slavery of the working olasses have been recelved by something like accla- mation in England, and measures taken for getting up a war in their support, it is perhaps as useful an employment as any other to try to'lay together the history and progress of the events which led to It. There can be no doubt that the foundation of the ...