... IMPRISONMENT FOR TWELVE YEARS IN A I DARK ROOM. A painful case of constraint and confiement of a lunatic in a private house has, says the John ?? Journal, just been brought to the notice of the authorities by Dr. Arthur Mitchell, deputy inspector of lunacy for Scotland. From inquiries made regarding the case to which attention has thus been drawn, the following facts have been elicited, which ...

... GO SPORT. An extra number of 50 boys were taken on to work at. I the laboratory at Priddy's Hard on Monday morning last. Our volunteers, to the number of about S0 of allranks, attended divine worship at Trinity Charch on Sunday morning last. Afterthe service the depot battalion formned in front of the volunteers, the band of the bth Hants playing them to their barracks at the top of the town, ...

... A special meeting of the Leeds Town Council was held yosterday. The business transaotod ?? cllic fly to the ?? of contracts, and was for the most part of a formal nature, ST. JO1eN'S olltuOll. On the motion of Mr. Aid. Luccocir, the Mayor was ?? a trustoe (ecx officio) of the church ox St. John the Fvangelist.-Mr. Ad. Luccocir also moved that Mr. Ald. Blotterill, Mr. Pollard, aund Mr. Price, ...

... ITALY. ADDR:ESS OF THlE ITALIAN SENATE. FLoRENoE, Dec. 29. The following is the address, in reply to the speech from the throne, voted by the Senate at yesterday's sitting:- Sire,-Extreme sacrifices, magnanimous designs, such as only the consciousness of right and the firm will to snake it prevail could inspire, have guided Italy to the glorious secomplishment of her destinies, which has been ...

... . d ?? PALL MALL, Duo. 27. is T'he Queen lass appoinste ' Steplhen Hewvitt O'Bryen, j:~ ,e esq., to be Collector end Receiver of Hler MAlieety's reve- t a nfues at Gibraltar. 5:EBn 8 D~~~cEMBER ?? g The Queen boas beert graciously pleased to command cw y that the 45th ot Nottinsghamshire Regiment may in future as obear the title of 1Sherwood Poreeitero, wvith reference to O tbe~traditionfs ...

... ROME, Dec. 26. YESTERDAY the Pope officiated in the Basilica of St. Peter at the High Mass solemnized with all the pomp and ceremony usual on this grand ~occasion. He chanted the mass in magnificent style, his voice revealing no trace of the weakness of age; and during the service he blessed the sword formed like a cross, and the red hat, edged with ermine and orna- mented with a silver dove, ...

... PERE CHICARD. THE Paris papers chronicle the death of one who was for some years notorious in a particular section of Parisian society. At break of day following the last opera bal masque a strange-looking figure was seen to lean for a moment or two over the parapet of the Pont des Arts, and then to jump into the river. A fisherman who witnessed the incident after long searching brought the ...

... ?? BerksLhire Chronicle states that the following note ,respecting the wearing of the surplice whilst preaching rhas been communicated by the Acting Chancellor of the ?? of Oxford's Visitation Court to the churchwar- dens of a neighbouring parish --It has been presented at the Bishop's Visitation that regret is expressed at the appearance of the white surplice in the pulpit. If the dress be ...

... - MURDER- BY' FRENCYI SOLDIERS. . The first military tribunal of Paris has just been engaged in the trial of two voltigeurs named Ciosi and Agostini, both natives of Corsica, for murder at Champerret - LevalloiR, a commune in the environs of Paris, during the night of the 2nd November last. The two accused had been spending the evening at a wineshop on the Boulevard Beneau, kept by a man named ...

... I 3LIVEPOOL aYMYASIlUf. Ii The members of the ladies' classes and -their fricads of tbe fairer sex mustered in great tnmbers at this institution on Saturday, to witness the exercises, which were to be followed by the fourth annual distribution of, prizes. The interior of the building was tastefully de- corated, and made to assume a more than usually festive air in honour of the event. The body ...

... -a Id T Pm- Cd i Agent-MeSsrs. KNIGHT & SON. PENNY IEABDiNEs.-The third of the series will take ?? evening next, on which occasion the president, the Hon. Sir Lawrence Peel, Bart., will take the chair. Signor Roman has promised his valuable assistance on the pianoforte. IsLc OF WanxT PHILOSOP'HICA ANeD SCIENTIFIC AssoclATImN.-A lecture was delivered on Thursday even- ing last, in the hall of ...

... A WARNING TO NAPOLEON. The Times remarks that Napoleon thought he could reconcile France io her military sacrifices by the annexation of territory, and this 'led to his first blunder-the acquision of Savoy and Nice-a blunder which lowered FFrance in her own estimation, and exposed her to unappeasable mistrust. The influence of France was, however, unbroken, and up to this last spring the ...