... That stupid, anti-British system of voting by ballot C still Continues in vogue here at our municipal elections, e though each year's experience demonstrates its absurdity . and inconvenience. We exposed the evils of this method ; of selecting our city coucillors last year so thoroughly.. that we are almost surprised that it has not ere now re-t ceived its death blow. But, as the matter is ...

... CONDUCT bOF- ENGLIStiEN51 I I I IN PRUSSIA. I The Berlin correspondent of one of the London daily papers writes under date January 16, as follows :- Another ' Ieadonald affair has taken place iu Ger- many. The occurrence, which caie off at Stuttgart is termed by the German 'Apera; 'a 'enJis' ofl-tfe'vell- known'brutelities which the hugliqh a6ltV thern'1eds to indulge in at that town. I take ...

... HOLDERNESS WARD MEETING. A meeting of the ratepayers of thisward was held on Tuesday evening, in ?? sohool-room. The chair was occupied by J. Wright,_ Esq, and there was a large attendance, including Mr Ald. Moss, Mr Ald. Samunelson, Mr Aid. Witty, Councillors Waller, Beni. ter, Chapman, Reckitt, Bellamy, Field, MacMillan, and Story. After a few introductory remarks from the CHArRMAN, Mr ...

... AMERICA. (From our Correspondent) LIVERPOOL, Molday. The Asia's despatches, &c., were landed this morning. THE SITUATION. The most interesting news from Washington is the re- signation of Ml: Simon Cameron, Seeretary of War, who has accepted the mission to Russia, from which Mr. Cassius M. Clay is about to retire, in order, it is said, to take a command in the amly. Dir. Cameron's successor is ...

... -XimEpoPl JXX B t + SALUS POPHI Byx SOpERA. DOMESTIC. The address in reply to the Speech from the Throne will be moved in the Upper House by Lord Dufferin and seconded by Lord Shelburne. Her Majesty's Commissioners have notified that the International Exhibition will be opened on Thursday, the 1st of May. On the occasion of the inauguration, only holders of season tickets will be admitted. It ...

... PARTS, January 20.-The followine is from the) Moe dinel I VicK CRTnE, December 20.-Therm is reas'-u to thioke that the orderly tind quiet part of the population would fiavoerably receive cayT measuire which, roopeetiug their indeedeneIn t not woundinrg their self-respect, would tenti to settle Mexican affairs in a durable manner, and restore order cud security. INDIA. Tule report Of the ...

... THE LORD ADVOCATE ON THE AMERICAN A F FA.IE. .AT the anual'dinner of the Angus and Mearns Rifle Asso- .on at Edinburgh on Wednesday, the Lord Advocate was l present, and when the health of Her Majesty's Ministers was proposed, he responded :- You may well believe, he .' said, that those who had the guidance and responsibility of public affairs during the last six weeks or two months ...

... A pastoral, by the Bishop of Mfontreal, from which the fbllowiag is an extract, was read in the pulpits of the Roman Catholic Churches ill the diocese of Mon- treal, on Sunday, the 29th December:- In arming for the defence of our government it is clear that we arm for the defence of our property and for the honour of our families and country. Nay more, We render unto Cwesar the things which ...

... I THE ASSOCIATION YOR THE PREVENTION OF| I STEAM BOILER EXPLOSLONS. The seventh annual meeting of this avvooiation was held of in tho Town Hall, on Tuesday; Mr. W.Fairbairo, LL.D,, in ?? the preeident, in ihe chair. ThOrO were preront o- Mcesre. Bazley, M.P., llugh Mason, 1,dnmund Ashwocth, t Ji H'Cnnel, T. Scholcod . W. Harman, T. Taylor be (Wiga) J. B. Booth (Ptaton), W. Booth, - Bowmasi Int ...

... The sad tragedy at Hartley Colliery was revealed in all its horrors on Wednesday evening. 'rho cloth brattice was coin- pleted during the afternoon, and cleared the shaft to seine ex- tent of gas. Three pitmen (volunteers) went down, pene- trated the obstruction, got into thc yard seam by the ?? drift. and found men 14'ing dead at the furnace. They pushed their way through. 'Ihe air was had. ...

... T THB MASONS STPJKB. mmeING OF THE TRADES OF LONDON. An aggregate meeting of the London trades' so- cieties, convened by the London Trades' Corncil4 was held last evening in the large room of the Whittington Club, Arandel-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 engage- ment by the ...

... I THE CLEARANCE OF THE PBRSONS. THIE QUEEN'S PRISON. IN RE MILEL.-THE PRISONERt FOR DEBT FOR FIITT! YARS At the visitation of this prison by Mr. Registrar Hazlitt yesterday, Captain Hudson, the governor, having reported that Mr. William Miller, the aged prisoner, who has been incarcerated for nearly half a century for a debt which he maintains he never contracted, was too ill to attend before ...