... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Corres'poondent4 wiho set any spec-ial ae.lue upqon their cor- 9mminicationas must keep copics of then, as we cannot sender- teae to aotun umused eontrintions All letters intended for publication. must be acecoipan in d by the namnes and addresses of the writers, not neeesarilh for jullkotiona , bud for the information of the Editor. A. B. C., Stourbridge.-W( do ...

... The artistic resuscitation of Madame Goldschlimidt, however satisfactorily established by her various operatic and ballad performances on Wednesday evening, could scarcely be deemed complete in Birmingham, itntil her powers had once again been tested here in that trying branch of the vocalist's art in which her most solid suc- cesses were formerly achieved; and, with good judgment, one entire ...

... THE MASONS' STRIKE MEETING OF THE TRADES .OF LONDON. An aggregate meeting of the London' Trades' Societies- convened by the London Trades' Couincil, was held:o01 Wednesday evening, in the large room of the Whitting- ton Club, Aruildel Street, Strand, for the purpose of adopting measures to assist the operative masons of London in their continued.resistance to the system of payment and ...

... TO THE E:DrrOR OF THE DAILY AS,. SIR,-Mr. Massey, M.P., appears to be backing the party who are seeking a war with the United States, on the ground of commiseration in the sufferings of the cotton trade in this country and in France. Now, I speak the sentiments of nine- teen out of twenty manufacturers when I say they want no such aid as Mr. Massey would give us. It would be too expensive, ...

... LONDON TO' NOTTINGHAM, DERBY, AND LEEDS. Gov ~ ov. Mail,Faat Gov. Feast 1 2 STATIONS 12 12 12 12 1212 1212 Mail Departure 5.A1. a Lna . a~m T.o. am. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.Eg London E.Square .. 15 6.1 0 9. 120 2 45 1. 0Si9 0 8 London K. Cross. 7.101 9.25114 III .. 30 6.40 u Rugby . . 8.30 10:11111.3111 35 2. 1 5 20 7.1[0 120 Tut Leicester.. * .. 1.1 l,8112.24 2 II 3.10 6 1? 7.50 11.f8ig c Syston * ...

... THE CALAMITY IN NORTRUMBERLAND. SHIELDs, TuESDAY, 9 A.M.-The condition of the poor women and children residing in the colliery village of New Hartley, from which I have just re- turned, is one of mourning, lamentation, and woe. This morning the fifth night of the imprisonment of the husbands and children of the women has passed away, and the sixth day has dawned, but only to reveal to as ...

... IT is appropriate to reproduce the following extract from n communication made by Mr. Seward, after a tour in Canada during the fall of 1852, to the Albany Evening.Turnal:-- Hitherto, in common with most of my countrymen, as I suppose, I have thought Canada-or to speak more accurately, British America-a mere strip lying North of the United States, easily detachable from the parent State, but ...

... CALEs IONIA.N __MERCURY. MauavRY OFrlCz, FMUAr, EUVme o'CiWMo. FRANCE. A species of panic seemed at one time to pre. vail in France' when the budget was made public. The passage of the report which was particularly ,rearhed, is that which states that the French overrnment hold the indemnrity bonds paid by Piedmont after the treaty of Zurich at a price be. low that at which the} received them, ...

... TOPICS OF THE DAY. ] THE ALBEKT MEMORIAL.—The design must be archi- tectural, and, on the whole, we cannot but think the idea of a simple but stately Palace of Industry at Ken- sington, to be used for the Museum with which the Prince so eagerly connected himself, would be the best expression of the national impulse. The need of such a hall has nothing to do with the'matter, but it would have ...

... A writer in a London morning paper says;—Under date of the 6th of November last a Victoria correspondent, in whom I place implicit reliance, writes as follows I saw the other day two men with bags containing 69,000 dollars in gold-dust,the produce of their summer's work. The majority of .the miners have returned more or less successful, and are now causing great excitement Next spring every ...

... lilTSBATITBB AHD THE ARTS. Miss SEAVJELL, the author of Amy Herbert, is about to publish her impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin. SALVERXE'S Hisiory of the Names of Men, Nations, and Places, in their connection witb the Progress of Civilisation, translated by the Rev. L. H. Mordaccrue, of Has.lingden, will be published immediately in two volumes by Mr. J. II. Smith. OF the Morning side ...

... ABERDARE COUNTY COURT. THOMAS FALCONER, ESQ., JUDGE. His Honour, on hearing the first case in Bankruptcy in this Court, on Thursday, the 16th, said :— The common law relating to debtors against whom judgment was had and who were imprisoned under what were called writs of copias ad satisfaciendum, was singularly severe. The creditor was authorised to im- prison the person indebted to him, and ...