... CANADA. TORONTO, Nov. 14. Two battalions of volunteers have been ordered to be ready for frontier duty against the Fenians. The 60th Regiment has been ordered from Montreal to Western Canada. ...

... MINCING-LANE, Nov. 28. — The Sugar market has opened quietly. About 3,000bags of Mauritius sold; brows 30s to 33s 3d; and 200 hhds. of Porto Rico, at 38s. Refined quiet, but without material change in value The Coffee market continues very firm for all colonial descriptions There is less business doing in Tea, but firm prices are paid —No sales reported in Rum, Rice, and Saltpetre White ...

... If the father of the future Frenchman be poor, it is possible that he may be born out of the home in which he has to pass so small a portion of his existence. In the small towns sages-femmes take boarders, and in the large ones there are regular establishments for the convenience of women during their confinement. Fairly into the world, and baptised in case of casualty, the infant is swaddled ...

... POLITICAL GOSSIP. THE Marshals of France are to be shortly marshalled at the Tuileries to discuss the affairs of the army. It is an annual custom which bears good fruit and plenty of big words and hard words, but it works. Something of the'same kind might be suggested to his Eoyal Highness Commanding-in-Chief. If he would hold a sort of Parliament at the Horse Guards, whore the big wigs and ...

... ■War* TSAOKS.—We hear constantly of absconding contraetors. It is not a matter of much sur- n it is Teraembersd that it is a regular busi- hesi- fellows to make ireuwes. OiT.—A person was boasting that he was axaily in Ireland.— .LeII, aaid a by. v» sfcen some of the same family so high wid not to^h the ground?1 deal of the brute in man. For ATsmpTg^ c oiatic, often puppy-ish, sometimes ...

... A SAD HCEXE FOR CHRISTMAS. On Saturday most of the sufferers in the melancholy acci dent that occurred at Gethin Colliery last week were buried. Nineteen funeral processions followed each other through the streets to the Cefn Cemetery, a great crowd attending. The contrast to the formality of English funerals was strikingly shown. Behind the coffin followed the nearest mourner, widow, or child ...

... John Hair and Charles Henry Gould, millers and flour dealers, Pontnewynydd, appeared on remand from last week, charged, on the infor- mation of Supt, M'lntosli, with having had on their premises a quantity of gypsum and alum, the latter of which was finely ground, and also with having sold meal known to con- tain gypsum. The case had been remanded in order that the Bench might fully mature ...

... ABERSYCHAN ROBBERY.—On Tuesday night some persons part of a broken pane of glass in the windotf Union Inn, by which means they were enabled tO Iseveral decanters, containing wines and spirit lalso several drinking glasses, the whole of wh'^ got clear off with. ...

... The ducks at the Birmingham Poultry Show have been perfectly astonishing this year, Mrs. Scamons' Aylesburys weighing 301bs. the three birds, that is, 31b. over the heaviest of last year—a result never be- fore attained. Mrs. Seamons also won the first prize for a white goose and gander weighing 581b., and Mr. Fowler took a first prize for a white goose and gander of 1865 weighing 3Glb. Mr. ...

... WIFE MURDER NEAR NEWCASTLE. On Sunday morning, one of those shocking cases of wife murder, which are only too common, occurred at Wide Open, a small hamlet near the Six Mile Bridge, on the turnpike road between Newcastle and Morpeth, the unfortunate victim being Margaret Cook, the wife ox John Cook, a hind in the employment of Mr. John David- son, of the Wide Open farm. The facts of the case, ...

... The commissioners appointed to inquire into the pro- visions and operation of the law with reference to capi- tal'pumshment^have issued their report, of which the following are the main portions THE ABOLITION OF —The com- missioners forbear to enter into the abstract question of the expediency cf abolishing or maintaining capital punishment, on which subject differences of opinion exist among ...

... THE FEJSlAff SQUABBLE IN AMEiUCA, The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times fur- nishes a statement of the circumstances attending the recent squabble among the Fenian leaders in America. He says:— The Senate impeaches O'Mahony with fraud, and O'Mahony charges the Senate with perfidy. The Senate impeaches O'Mahony and turns him out of office, and by kicking the 'Senate out of doors. ...