... The Montreal correspondent of the Times tells us the following story, which can only find a parallel in the prison records of the Neapolitan Bourbons On Wednesday, the 8th January, Mr Shaver, of Belleville, Canada West, a Canadian gentle- man, who has been imprisoned in Forts Lafayette and Warren since the 15th of October, returned to Canada, having obtained his release through the exertions ...

... FRANCE. The T'ies says :-Lt is a fact that great misery prevails in some of the large manufacturing and commercial towns, and is likely to increase if the war continues. We hear of disquieting reports of the prefects to the Government, not only on the destitution of the working classes, but on that which generally accompanies destitution, deep discontent. The Government encourages the ...

... Aberdeena_-A. & n Milnc. lawlek ?? 131ach. ) Do. Tlsoa Menzies, Do. ?? Dalgleish. 3 _ Castle St. innerlcitlen _Itobert Small. Do. ?? & J. Smith. tnverkelthing.31isi CampbelL. Do. --D. Wyllie & Son. Jedburgh_-_A. W W. Easton Alloa___J. Lothian. Do. ?? Small. Do. ?? N. Morrison. JuniperGrcen Mrs 31eikle. Da. ?? Wiligate. IKinross--G. barilett. Anat ruther --L. Russell. Do. _.P. Ewinp. ...

... SPIRIT OF.PUNCII. Tnim WAY Tinii WonRD GotS,-You k-now a gentle- man by his g~it, and a ?? by hiis;Billingogate. An 0V0 USQUE AD DoNUMr.-Amiong the persons who, following A&' Punch's example, have sent appro- priate presents to (Oaribaldi,. is a gentleman of a pis- civorous character, who has forwarded to the Italian Liberator a great quantity of salmon's eggs. We accept the omen. May it ...

... BY ELECTRIC [G TEl EGRAPI. [REUTEr R'S 'T'ELOGRA BS.] war. FRANCE. leng PARIS, Jan. 28.-The A1lonitem, of to-day an- nati, noances that the Government will make a com- se(. mullication to the Corps Legislatif to-day. argu ThoeParis pa6pers contain the ?? is tile asserted that the Archduke Maximilian has ac- cepted the throne of Mcxico, on conditioll that the Allies agree to maintain the ...

... ARRIVAL OF MESSRS MASON AND : SLIDELL . A correspondent of the Pimep Vep~orting the arrivalof: Messrs. Mason and Slidell, says :-A more literal restoration of the statu,8 quo could scarcely have been effected, so far as the four passengers themselves are concerned, as by a singular coinvidence .they have come to Eng- land inl,;.the very steamship in ?? they would have made the Atlautib yoyagge ...

... 1I11h1tI FI 1 1ITI N (ALEDOMIAIF NECURY OFFICI, I ltBEE O'CLxCE. ?? SHEEP AND CATTLE M1ARKET. January *29. As compared with last week, the supply this noring was onsiderably larger, there being 4554 or 1152 mere. &ales were slowly effected at a reduction dly 4d t~er lb. Top price. Sd: current, for the W~sorts, from 7jd and 74d; ewes and inferior fromn 6d to id. The number of cattle was 704, ...

... Fees tx fit (9otrn. TFIR HEAVENLY HOME CONTROVERSY. I SIR,-If your editorial decisions are not,; like the. .laws of the.Medes and Persians, unalterablie, may I ask you .t admit one or two lines e*kpteisingg the e opinion of a poor afflicted reader of the Sa61 contro- 3 versy. The publishers and authors then of these r books, I think, owe an ample apology to your readers g before they leave ...

... PROS¢OpTIONS OF CLIJB-HOUSES AND SHEBEENS. of )f A SCENE IN HIGH STREET. f. ;Y SEIZU1lE OF EFP1-'lhl OF SPIES. y Yesterday, at the Edinburgh Justice of Peace [- Court, before Sir John Forrest and Mr Baillie of r Falahill, h James Thomnton, a club-housekeeper in South ;h Bridge, was charged with selling spirits on the l 13th November last to persons not members of his club; and having been ...

... SECOND EDITION OF YTSTERDAY. Ti'na FE MC u EM1'EROR'S SPEECHL-The Titnes considers the Emperor's speech as manly, mode- rate, and reasoning The Post thinks it fall of peace. Thle Dail'y News says that peace and (I pros- perity are the two promises of the speech. The speech is generally favonrably criticised by the London Press. 'r CUiT EXauIITIOrN.-The style of deeoea tioa is decided. The ...

... DISEASED ANPI UNIWOLESOME MEAT - AN1,' MILK. Yesterday afternoon, Professor John Gamgee, of, the New Veteriniary College, delivered a lecture in the Masonic Hall on the necessity of co-opera. tion for the tirevention of diseases of animals, and the suppression of the traffic in unwholesome meat and milk. Dr Douglas Maclagan occupied the chair. Professor GAMGEE, after a few-introductory re. ...

... . ! *. i' , . , I , 4 1 EARL RUSSELL'S RELY TO MA i E- - SEWARD. - - Cepies of ,correspondence with her Majesty's' Minister in the United States:- I EARRL RuSSI5aL TO LORD LYONS. Foreign Office,;January 23, 1862. My Lord,-I mentioned, in my despatch of. the 10th instant, that her Majesty's Government differed from Mr Seward in some of the concla- sions' at which he had arrived; and that I ...