... ORIGINAL MODE OF KEEPING CHRIST. I . D M DAY.n M~r. William Lawson kept Christmas Day on his estate at Blennsrhsaset, in Cumberland, in an original manner. Mr. Lawson is a vegetarian, and be gave a vegetarian banquet, of which the Carlisle Journal supplies an in- teresting account. All musicians who intended to be present were requested to bring their instruments; and the announcement, ...

... Saturday, 2 o'clock. cht'd Obtuilyald otwq. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) NEW YORK, Yan. 4.-The public debt of the United States amounted on the ist inst. to 2,675,000,000 dols. COMMERCIAL NEWS.-Gold, 134%. Sterling exchange on London, iog9%. 5-20 United States Bonds, 107Y ; Illinois, 121% ; Erie, 67. Cotton: Middling Upland, 36 c. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Bombay mail ...

... THE MET1ROPOMITAY BOARD OF WORKS. The ordinary weekly meeting of this board was held yesterday at the office, 8, Spring-gardens; Sir JOHN THWAITEs in the chair. A report was brought up from the Finance Committee reporting that they have directed the sum of 100,0001., now receivable from the Bank of England on account of the loan of 616,0001., to be placed to the credit of the following ...

... SALMON POACHING IN WALES. For some tinme past there has been a wholesale destruction of salmon in the Wye, by a large body of poachers, banded together under thetitle of Rebecca and her Daughters, who were formerly known by their destruction of the turnpike-gates and toll-houses in certain parts of Breconshire and Radnorshire. Great exertions have been made by the Wye Fishery Conservators to ...

... TM2E HEAVY ALL OF SNOW. After a remarkably mild Ohristmas the new year bad been ushered in with something like the old-fashioneS wintry weather one naturally looks for Lt this season of the year, when in-door festivities seem to fall abort of perfection if not in strong contrast with the weather out of doors. In the metropolis there Fag a alight fall of snow early on the morning of New Y ar's ...

... SCOUBVY IN OUB M1ERCHANT SHIPS. (From the Lancel.) tr The increasing prevalence of scurvy is an un- erring gauge of gross mismanagement or of cruel thrift. bhips are finer; passages axe quicker; provisions and o water are better. In all the mnatdriel of a seafaring life i enormous progress has been made. But the sanitary con- a dition of the crew has in many vessels reverted to what it used to ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. g SIR,-I do not venture to occupy your space F with any reply to the criticisms made either by g yourself or your correspondents on my observa- ( tions on Ireland. In dealing with so large a sub- ject I cannot hope to escape all error, and I am only grateful to any one who calls my attention to what may appear an unsound argument. Your impression of the 3rd ...

... THE SWEARING MAN,' (From the Westminstew Review for January.) sever having slandered or Aattered the working man, we are free! t peak the truth about him. And the simple truth is that he is teitber better nor worse than his fellows whose lot appears to be easier bat whose troubles are as great as his. He lives in a different kind of houso, he dresses in a diferent style, hlis lsngrsgge is ...

... I ITALIAN PROSPECTS. The Timzes hopes that, sad as is the financial situation of Italy, the people will look the evil in the face, and cheerfully submit to the sacrifices in which the remedy is to be sought. Too sanguine hopes should not, however, Lbe built on Fthe natural wealth and the boundless resources of the Peninsula. The revenue, which was 26,000,000 in i864, rose to 29,000,000 in ...

... (FROM OUR OWN coRsrSPOYDENr.) EA portion of the following appeared in our Evening Edition of yesterday:] PARIS; TnURSDAY EVENING. The Pab'ie commends Narvaez's arbitrary pro- ceedings in Spain, and denies that he is chargeable with a coup d'etat, because there is law for every- thing he has done, and law made by his rival and predecessor O'Donnell. There is progress after all, says the Patrie, ...

... CARNIVAL TIME IN PARIS. (FROM A CORURIPONDEN.) How streets can continue to be so full without every house in Paris being empty, is a problem I have yet to solve. The sages who argued as to the number of angels who could dance concurrently on a needle's point might tell us how the gay crowds on the Boulevards, in the cafes, theatres, and bon- bon shops ever get there at one time, and being ...

... LAND UNDER CULTURE IN I85i AND i866. THE acreage of land under cultivation in Great Britain during the past year, as shown by two Government returns recently issued, corresponds very closely, all circumstances considered, with the estimate made by the commissiouers of the census in i85i. Fifteen years ago there were 29,213,312 acres under culture as returned by the farmers. Against this we ...