... ,ONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANr- On Wednesday, the general ?? meeting 01 proprietors was held at the bank premises, Lothbury. .Mr. Chapman ina the chair. The following report was read:- The directors have to report that-after making provision for all bad and doubtful debts-paying the income-tax-setting apart 2,0001. towards frhe onild- ings of the bank, and presenting a gratuity of 10 per cent. ...

... .. .; Y 4 , .1 - i i. J . ItO jl*4* I z ;-jr 4., Z 3-exaiyiined;, but he hat he had extrate4v HEe! 'giei'ouely BU- 'i a greaM d'ehi'oF t vy ihd at; oze ,time.. .aa gambled at tlie ses'-therteo- were notI ' opin'ion ?? a obe very rich.; tfbim rof life gei Z able ?? to 'get ?? whole; he $o,rabls,, witM should order.Athe I 3arenta -anlaliaen- i miount. . She had ' oh; c~oiditio'niihmat Lvizg';. ...

... GABIBALDI ON THE PAPACY. General Garibaldi has addressed the following letter to a friend near London: Caprera, Jan. 3,1868. The Ottoman domination is less hurtful to Greece than the Papal to Italy. The Turks oppressthe Greeks with every kind (of barbarity ; appropriate to themselves the produce of their vintage; humiliate them by all aorts of servitude; prostktute their women I their ...

... ME JN DEMANDS AND ENGaf DUTIES. ;el ndi;*S4' a -ti itl he '8Sent we desire to con i~ce'2i inkion,~ I it ot her anethd must lbe employed tb'lin iosj irad-s of tised in 'Scourt~of justice. it is~bhzemora needful toe bear this iiimind when the xi~tioii~*.t wrhom ar e have to deal is composed of persons who, like , the Americans, have a wholesome dislike of ouib- mg bles and techhicalities,'and an ...

... AUSTRIA. VITENNA, 7am. ?? Piese of this morning says that during his recent stay in this capital General Ignatieff took the oppo rtunity of expressing himself to several diplomatists in a peaceful sense as to the policy of Russia in. the Eastern question. The same paper states that the British consul at Belgrade presented 'a note to the Servian Government on the 26th of December recommending ...

... TILE schemes of national education proposed by'Mr. BRUCE and Tr. FoNsTEv are not calculated to excite any particular clthlusiasm, but we think that each of them-for, as we understand tie matter, they form a sort of alternative proposition-is a moderate and rational step in the right direction, Mr. BRUCE proposes to give particular districts the right of rating themselves if they think proper. ...

... PARIS, J,, i6 WHILE Monsieur Thiers and his friends have been talking theol0? the French Chambers, the popular Carmelite preacher Father Hy,,,jI who is looked upon in Paris as a democratic and philosopltical C.sht), has been preaching on war and the balance of power from the plit l Notre Dame. At this moment, when the clerical party is triumnpi1v1lt in France, it may be interesting to note the ...

... flef DEFENCE OF THE CALEDONIAN DIRECTORS. IN rt ilu atiol of the meeting of shareholders on the 29th the directors and i of the Caledoniail Railway have published a reply to the charges of the liv est;', tion Commnittee. The former ground their defence mainly Upon a lettel c f Sir C. Wood upon Indian railways, which, inapposite as it woald cm at first sight, nevertheless tells conclusively ...

... THE law Journal has been calling attention to the need of a imore effective system of registration to check the practice of adoption, of whichl; there has been seine discussion of late. In its issue of January IO it Puts the question whether the regulation of the practice by enactment night not be a more efficacious preventive of its evils than even an improved register. It appears that the ...

... The following are the receipts of railways for the past week: Miles open. 18C8 186~7 Belfast and Northern Couuties ?? 100 100 Do. Londonderry and Coleraine 88 88 .S Belfast and County Down .. . 441 44 Blyth and ?? 8 Brecon and yr ?? 68 Bristol ?? .184 1841 Caledonian ?? .02 '14 Cambrian ?? ?? 178 15 Cockermouth, Ke1wlek, &2 2 ?? Cork and Bandon ?? , 0 2 Cork and Limerick Direct ?? 25 26 ...

... IWAPHOUSEMBN AND CLEBKS' SCHTozS. ';Theannual dinnoq ihi titutio4 ,foundledin d December, 1853, foi tlarphi'tatind necdei aiifohidren i-' of those employed in the wholesale trades and manu- ?? features of the Unitsd~ingdobn, .weaxield-Jast evening 'e at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street; Mr. AJ. D. IO COLERIDGE, Q.C. and.IP., inLthechair. ,The guestsin- o hluded Alderman and Sheriff ...

... SCRAPS FROM THE COMIO PERIODICALS. Ion the Tomaiuswoi WHAT IS MANSLJ&UGHTEIR? AS we go to peens, the Yollowing outrage comes under our no'ios. A sink man, his wife, and child apply for VOieW t one ef our national charitable institutien, with the fcllowtnZ resaxt. Let the skbhioined paragraph speak fcr iMSil: They went to 8i. Lake's Verkhhonae at half past itne In the mnorning, amd at ten ...