... SO1UTHE OPINIONS ON THE WAn. The Southern journals received by the American mail cositain various articles and communications on the posi- tion of the Federal States, the war now in progress, and the feeling meanifesled in England. The special corre- spondent of the Cdc,'estoe Comurer, writing from Rich- neid, Dec. 9, says:- W hilo calm yet prevails along our lines, from Win- chester to the ...

... -1 l not-lest Sor vveeks. AllU o'ut'6f door~ 'ork,.but nooVIO$ mueck '3bon isis speqtedl'o WeLat'ehgi,'ltll~thf weathet~ ?? Thr e'eehv;xr, ?? us. from mnaitegr~a'hotbefr, nerfroezjptepsrng'dstfg; mekae~hemj~th. rthose ?? ale 'plgcslgr phudeI pots ,mipse .se.liberal in the .aEphcn ttnon hot deep.dn. Ass alq quantityr willi noon be cooledi and this rntst ot,bie..,ThneJ w~ho are proof aksln4't' ...

... AMERICAN AFFARS. Our intelligence from NOeW Yoxk isto the l1th. The leading articles of the reas 'relpecting ffng- land contain nothing of Importan~e. The Ricmorng Wheg, expreing the hopes of the sessionfsta ri. fenbg to Mr,. ewrpd's despitch bupon the Trent quesdton, thinks England ill renew her demand for an apology, or for suck avowal5 55 w g tee th; Brrtish flag from further hnaul The same ...

... j BRITISH TROOPS AT HALIAX. A correspondent of the lkornitg Ster, writing S.a Halifax on the 6th Inst., ?? 'Nlagara, Aus I tra3asLan, Asia, Adriatic, ?dagdalena, ?? stesmshlps arrived in port, 'and all, except the latter, emptied their living. cargo of troops on our Inhos. pitablr-looking shore.. The weather. was very tem! pdstus and bitterly cold, with an almost cojistnt fall of snow. As ...

... LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. Prophets of evil.are never wanting, but this journal has had more than its share. We have seldom been atl the pains lto answer our enemies. We have worked, not quibbled, to confound them. We answered them last week with Our Thousandth Number! We put forth this fact in no boastful spirit, but only with the reasonable pride which is the just due of all who ...

... JIA BXM DRO I :, \ - W ie te the folloing sad acc&antfrout lig Wes. tsrcs -Dei, MercV ?? very melancholy alccldet- occn'ed In. 70louthoi flltdr'dayrporaig by 'which fiver .or ix men-ma ine -sellrs ad -watermen-lost their lives. On-i the sad-news be. -eomfng'knowls, a' most P~alEe3hl 9 ~Icreat I in'the thred towns, buta 'peuklyj a Davinport,- .with--whlch-piaoe some w -ths Persons-were -more ...

... TuE COmrEDERATATE ARMY ON THES POTOMAC. The Riclmmd Fxiner of thu 2nd hist. gives a dismal accoutnt of the condition of the Confederate army ea the Potomac:- The present condition of our armny is a eause of severe and painful anxiety. The eourage of our troops is not abated, the eiagarnets for the fray is not relaxed, and yet demeralication is creeping in, eo fully believe, from the insane ...

... 7THE PROVuxES. DEVONSR ?? IX PLYMOUTH. -About nine 'o'clock on Saturdaybevening. smoke was seen to issue from the south-weatern side of the Plymouth llbay'ioap'work6, folrmeily bhe proper of the late Mr. 'Thomas GOill and now belnugg to a limited lLabilitbycompany. These works are W- iso. mediate contiguty to the Fropertite of 'the South Devon 'railwayX compaiv;' 'thiePlyznouth! Great-wZdS- ...

... It .1 siAT o. 'LONDON. Tbe .f qrtality pf rndon Jn' the: 'week that ended lq Satrli lay,*d, the 19th, Inst., exhlbiteX * satisfactory astef:.ieg eo rtjerfeer lornida~ble,.return of. the ~pre- .'elQ!p reek re3G deaths§ wblch:h kd rise utot1,si614 4 *e11Iat week to 1,*391 Si; !-t ri; j- .-Tbe deathi rons pulmonariY dlseases (ex;auSv6 of .phthisi) ,were 341 ln the previous week; they de olled to ...

... I TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. S' D I * ~MELBOURNE, NOV. 21, 1BG61. thr-auldnesh reigns supreme in the Theatrical ?? and the cloulds that hang over it seem impervious to any light that I ca see at present. TEi LIrBB OPERATIC TRoupE finished at the Theatre Royal, Ifter a soessefl O Season, as I am told, but judging from the houses I witnessied onseveral occasions, I ahould say anything but a atir- ...

... got Ta POOl MLAN~ IN ENGLal)D TgIAY BcOlE WEALTH:Y ABROAD, ,ro 'r11W B-DITOU OF MeUTNMI2}eS IMaWsPeAIL S1,._What is to be done with the hundreds of thou- ri:e f wtorkrpeoplc throvw out of emrployment by the itoppage of our cotton supply? There is assuredly no s t of ?? ietir at hand. An immense stock of the r - material, which ought to give broad and work to the Lancashire eperItivs', is ...

... A PRISORER OF FIFTY GEAEs. .1 __ ?? _ v _ £ . -1 _ n i T Captain Hfudson, the governor of the Queen's Prison, having reported that Mr. Williamn Miller, the aged pri- soner, who has been incarcerated for nearly half a century for a debt which he maintains lie never contracted, wag two ill to attend before the court, the registrar proceeded to hear the case. Mr. Miller, on being asked to take ...