... BYt the arrival of the Etha, we have New York intelligence to the evening of the 10th inst. No important military event had occurred, but two expeditions were ready for starting, from each of which great results were anticipated. GENELtAL BURNSIDE's expedition, bound for an unknown destination, had left Annapolis. and would rendez- vous at Hampton-roads. It was stated that several divisions of ...

... -17 _ - 11 7) ?? . . ?? yr XUJJ UUAKJ~b. We (Plymouth Journal) have received the fol- lowing letter from a Sergeant-Major 1st Battalion Grena. dier Guards, on board the Adriatic, tosa friend in Devon- port, which will, no doubt, prove interesting to our readers- Halifax, Nqva Scotia, 3rd Jan., 1862. Dear Old Friend,-After encountering the dangers of the deep for eleven days and nights, I find ...

... 'LEEDS, JANUARY SL3, 1862. CORGRYAATIONAkL CoNVEhSAZION2E.u-1l Wed1eS- day evening, the seatbolders of 1elgrave Chapel, together with their famiies, met in response to the invitation of their pastor, the Rev. (4. Wf. Conder, to hear front him some account of his Continental journey in 1859. Various circsunstances have combined to prevent the Reverend Gentleman fromn complying at an earlier ...

... BLOCKADE O THE SOUTHERIN- IPORTS. A LITTLE more tlha a monutlh ago everybody cried out that America, was forcinyg us into a war. And nowv it seems that somel people are trying to induce us to force America into a War. MR. MASSEY, Chairman of Committees, and the Globe, the supposed oracle commissioned to give forth oflicial responses, have both done their utmost to test and to excite public ...

... Louis Napoleon has had a rather singular American difficulty on hand. It arose from the pretensions of American Ministers to introduce an indefinite number of their countrymen and countrywomen to the balls of the Tuileries. It appears that M. Thouvenel objected to the crowding of the imperial salons by Americans, without beingpreviously made aware of their social rank and character ; and, as ...

... TO THE EDGTORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GENTLEMEN;-As the Cotton qutestiol'? is likely to become an all-absorbing one, it lwas with great pleasure I readyeuradmiirdblev ?? Mlet~csry; - giving, as I think, a right direction to public opinion respecting it. You say truly, it is a question of life and death to thousands-almost millions of our countrymen. I consider it almost impossible to ...

... ,n FRIENDLY ADVICE TO THE POPE.- Stand not 'upon the order of yosu going, but go at once.'?t 76 THE- READING-RooM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. -Facetiously known as T'he Author's Crib. STYLES OF CONSOLATION,-A Man's: Well, I'll d tell you what you must do.-A Woman's: Ahb! I told you ., how it would be. NEW AMERIeAN WoRK.-Just published, Dr. e Darwin on the Extinction of Specie, dedicated to the ...

... TRE COTTON FAMINE AND THE SOUTHERN BLOCKADE. BLOCKADE. (From the Tifwes.) While in America they are biirning cotto)), sink- ing cotton. using it for parapets and ships' sides, leaving it to rot on the ground, and neglecting to sow it, Manchester shares the troubles of the great American cities, and is starved of cotton. Many thousands are out of work, and the remainder are only Working just ...

... i. YESTERDAY'S number of the O)inionc of %tTurin contains an important article on the Roman t question. According to that generally well-informed ., journal, there is at present a question of substituting Italian for Pontifical troops in the Patrimony of St. 3kPeter, or at least of establishing mixed garrisons of e French and Italian troops on the frontiers, while ar Rome would remain in ...

... 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 ...

... / a I A . A 4 . ^ . ah A . . . _ A . . ^ 2 d ?? . v [ (From our Corcspondcnt.) or The Lynn Magistrates were occupied soice time tu , on Monday with an extraordinary illustration of the credu- WI i lity and infatuated belief in necromancy which yet lingers 1c sniong many of tile lower classes. A man nianed Tbohnas dcj 1 Wright, who described himself asea reader of the planlets WI was ...