... DISTRESS IN NORTH WVARW ICKSHIRE. to TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. DoD SIR, -Iii the absence of the Lord-Lieutenant of the u county, wvio is choirman of this committee, I am desired to request that you will have the goodness to allow this state- ir- meaut of the circumstances under which this committee has a a ?? its present form to appear in the Daioy Nltcaw, The North Warwicksliire ...

... I I (nEUTER's TELEFGRAMS.) I SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 30. i! The Royal Mail Company's steamship Shannon, Captain Abbott, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 147 passengers, 6085,3601. in specie, and a cargo consisting of 3,731 packages of merclandise. The Shannon left St. Thomas's on the 15th inst., and had a fine passage throughout A public meeting was held on the 9th inst. at, ...

... I TiE LOSS OF T2b STEAMBR LIFEGUARD .I r s BETWEEN FIFTY AND SIXTY PERSONS DROWNED. o The hopes of the most sanguine as to the safety ! of the steamer Lifeguard are now utterly extinguished by the melancholy intelligence which we have to communicate. The inevitable conclusion to which all must now arrive is, i that the ill-fated veseel has succumbed to the fury of the l hurricane of Saturday ...

... (reoMf OU OWN CORRESPONDErT.) (The following appeared in our Evening Edition of yes, terday. LPARlIS, SUNDAY EVENING. M. Fould's financial report is more unpretending than last year. So lately as last October he clung to the hope, as le then stated in a report to the Emperor, that the budget of 1862 would be wound up in equilibrium. Now, however, that the ses- sion is about to open, he is ...

... (From the Bengal Hur~aru.) We publisl)ed last year some official correspond- ence (which had been placed at tke disposal of the press) I between the Military Finance Departmentand the Govern- , meat of India, originating in a suggestion made by the I former to introduce the machine for making ice into this l Presidency, with a view to supplying that luxury, or, in I thie country, necessary, to ...

... V THg Exp2rRA TIO OP. AUSTRAIA. l I~~~ I I A public meeting of the citize na of Melbourne Was held on the 14th of October, at the Exhibition Build- ing, in honour. of the ?? Of thle Queensland end South Aus;traliali Contingent Exploration Expeditions and their parties, and to testily the admiration of the inhabitants of the colony at the successful and heroic manner in which those explorers ...

... THE EMBANKMENT OF THE TRAMB.& I~~~ . (From the Obeener.) The Thames embankment seems very likely once more to give rise to a good deal of discussion in the coming session, It will be recollected that during the last seven or eight weeks of last session the House of Commour was a good deal amused with sundry passages of arms between several of the members of the committee to *hom the sub- ject ...

... {(FROM5 O0R OWN cORRESPONDENT.) TURIN, DEc. 24. n This nioriing ttwo curtaius of black cloth, enm- brdered With silver, were hung in front of the e ut,,ntre of the old palace of the Azeglio family, the follorilcg words being inscribed upou them pray for the soul of Robert Tapparelli, Marqulis fiAceglie. This funeral emnblem is an indication that tlhe marqulis belongel to the religious order of ...

... I THE DISTRESS IN LA.NCASHIRE. THE MANSION-HOUSE COMMITTEE. -In the course of yesterday the sum of 1,000/, was received through Messrs. Mathesou and Co., being the balance of the first instalment from Hong Kong. Amongst the other amounts which have come to hand during the lest two days were-10H1., being a seventh instalment from Bermondsey ; the pasiihes of St. Swithin and St. Mary Botbaw, ...

... I KMNAVAL AND MILITRY (FROM LASr NIGHT'S GAZETTE.) WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 30. 7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Captain Peter With. ington to be major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant, Colonel Asloiphue William Desert Burton, C.B, who retires; Lieutenant Edmund Prideaux Chichester to ti captain, by purchase, vice Withinglon. 6th Regiment of Foot-Captain Richard Thomnpson tobe major, without ...

... COVENT GARDEN. THIS EV5ENIMO 2nd and 3rd Acts of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL-kild the grand comic Chi istnias Pautwnhne, elitttl d HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.-COm155c15C at 7. DRURY LANE. T111A4 VEV3IXO NEXTV OF' IN.-Asid the I'antojnime, 'ITTLE GOLD\' TWO SLIIOS or, ?? Cock Robin. Messrs. Bolcno, C. Lauri, D.Johnisoll,'I'aiifer, Corma~ckt.31nise, Madame Boleno, and the Mllsses Gul1is. HAYMARKET. ...

... The returns issued by the Registrar-General ex- hibit a further decrease on the high mortality of November. 9 In the week that ended on Saturday the number of deaths was 1,292. The average number for corresponding weeks in the ten years 1852.61, with a correction for iocrease of popu- lation, is 1,560. The deaths last week were fewer by 268 than they would have been if the avenge rate of ...