... By advices from America we learn that the financial indications in that unhappy country continue to be- come worse on all sides; and the worst features of the present, as in previous advices, consist in the demon- stration that the majority of the political leaders seem to consider that almost every member of the Govern- ment avails himself, as a rule, of the opportunities of his position to ...

... On one occasion, when she was travelling in a Lon- don stage-coach, in company with two gentlemen to whom she was an entire stranger, the conversatioia turned upon Cromwell, whose character and conduct were criticised with much acrimony by the two gentle- men. Impatient at hearing the indignities done to the honoured name of her grandfather, she, after her usual manner, took up with great ...

... The following true and pathetic otory, quoted by a writer In A li the Year Round, in an article upon Love and Mar- riage in Persia, forms such a remarkable exception to the general rule in that country that it will doubtless be read with interest The ex-prime minister of Persia was married to a sister of the King. All accounts concur in represent- ing the ameer as a man of a most princely and ...

... In his talented Sketches from the House, in the London Review, the Silent Member thus describes the opening of the Parliamentary campaign :— While we are waiting on the first night of the session to give our Noble Viscount a cheer for his double vic- tory over the Trent difficulty and the gout, how loud is the buzz of conversation! To the outsider, the Parliamentary soufflee may seem as ...

... SAVANNAH, Wednesday, Jan. 29. The city is comparatively quiet. No immediate attack is apprehended. The object ef the Yankees appears to be to cut off communication with Fort Pulaski. There were six Federal gunboats at Wall's- cut, and seven at the head of Wilmington Island, com- manding the channel of the river yesterday. Commo- dore Tatnall's fleet convoyed two steamers and a fleet towards ...

... detracts. ONE ASPECT OF FEUDALISM. Not the less true is it, however, that when I, Ralph ierley, commenced my apprenticeship to chivalry, feudal Ife in England no longer presented the gloomy aspect which it had presented before the Plantagenets began to ^gn. Assuredly it would be vain and foolish to deny that, before the time when Henry II. was crowned at Winchester-which, up to that time, was ...

... Advices from New York to the 21st January state that the news of a battle having taken place in Kentucky is confirmed. It raged with great fury from 6 a.m. until dark, when the whole Con- federate force fled in confusion to their camp. All their cannon, stores, tents, and horses fell into the hands of the Federals. 275 Confederates were reported to have been killed. The Federal loss was heavy. ...

... OCht Cardiff Citites. FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1862. LOCAL TOPICS. IF Nature abhors a vacuum, we have great liking for the task which involves the re-dis- tribution of ideas scattered through our broad- sheet to-day, so as to make them fall equally and usefully on the intellects of our readers- Anon we are to guide, direct, and correct public opinion and as multifarious subject have been ventilated by ...

... FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. A new writ was ordered for the election of a member for the borough of Great Grimsby, in the room of Lord Worslev now Earl of Yarborough. Sir J. IRELAWKY gave notice of a bill to abolish church-rates On the bringing up of the report of the Address, in answer to the speech from the throne, •M« GtKEGOE,Y' referring to the state of affairs in America, and i i„5 5' n~l,'e Pe°P ...

... (From the for- February.) In glancing over the daily papers, our readers will have, no doa'ot, observed an announcement that the public are not expected to remain in mourning for his Royal High- ness the !ate Prince Consort after the. 9th of this month. Our readers will, therefore, be able to resume, after that day, their ordinary colours. For the last few weeks, as none but half-mourning ...

... From a distance the sight was most magnificent. From the crater there rose majestically a column of smoke, spreading out at the top like a huge umbrella, 5,000 feet high. From the lower mouths above Torre del Greco rose Mother huge umbrella, with a handle not less than 10,000 feet high. The brightest and fiercest lightnings flashed harmlessly among these clouds, which at night were of a fiery ...

... THE WAR IN AMERICA. WE have received New York advices to Feb. 1. The New York Times refers to Mr. Seward's dispatch of November 30 to Mr. Adams not having been made public in England, and sees in this fact a determination on the part of the English ministry to put England on a war footing. The New Yorle Times adds, that with such evidences of illfaith and undisguislied hostility, we may put a ...