... -'FRIDAY, DEC. 31. fahristmee , wih it .,happy associations and reunicsoI' has come and gone, Long wyas its festival Cui~p t -?h a bow tmansient piovea %hraitbj dhow'sooh, ý'P. te IL wt5u 6a Wbii 6 sdji'M bi:eathdd arnd the me su'she oo olr remoriee newed? tan that 1einecrablo ec ?? farewell h0 to be* ruing. ?8P e Passing on to district go?sip, I may 10'ntiou that the me ,e Wednesday of ...

... FRESH DISCOVERIES AT FOM?EII. of neaw ,te A correspondent, writing to the Athenaeum, under date Mr. ai. December 18, says :-b Op Artistic and antiquarian news is brought up to me from Gre n Naples by our southern winds. It is not much, but will in- wee no terest your readers who may have visited Pompeii. Only grer & i fortnight has eolapsed sines I reported important die- men ks coveries that ...

... The monthly meeting of the board was held yesterday. 0 The Mayor presided. Aldermen Pride, Reece, Alexander, and Bird, and Co'dncillors Nortli, Bird, Lewis, Evans, Flint, M'Connochie, 1di,-en, 'Jones, and Elliott were-also present. The minutes were read and. confirmed. CO LLECTORS' STATEMiENTS. The collector for St. John's repoided that the amount col- eacted to the end of November was £1,265 ...

... t-ATEST INTEILLIGEN?CE ROUMANIA. T1 BUCHAREST, Dm. 30. M. Zulanfauscl'ial, diplomatic agent, h an- nounced to the Government of Prince Charles tue that Austria has proposed to the Porte the recog- th nition of the title - umilnim Prineipalities. Ji In the Ronumnian Chambers an exciting debate W ,rose on the ?? in reference to the oti Jewish quest'o, and the Goveinuient declined of to adopt ...

... OA.Uh1TARTEJBN, FAwcy Ditm BALL--Ater the lapse of several .ear A I Z fancy dress ?? held at ?? on Wednes. Id4y night, which was quite as successful, as its prede- Job cessbrs were wont to be, and created no emell amount of OriL ,tmipqt,MO? 0 tyqj, : T Q 9wVany (including the dlito Ohe of Carmartbenshlre anA several lames and gentlemen from BrE adjoining counties) began to asseeble about nine ...

... A WESTERN HIGHLAND LEGEND. The following legend-hithorto unpublishod-was given to me (Cuthbert Bede) by an aged, native of Argyleshire, t who took it down in writing some five. and-twenty years in ago, from iihe lips of an illiterate peasant, who lived in tj one of the smaller islands of the South Hebrides. He pro- p bably hadneverheard the English story of the Blind br Beggar's Daughter of ...

... COZLIF~I=34Y AZ2 FU'LIBRS' WAGES. 'TO THE IMITtOle Oi0 TeTM WE9TExT'.4 NIAM. in ?? ooinxepondeni,. 'Audi ritiieam pai§m?i .Ze a ietii of ends iem'imug, by stating knownifacts, to eintro'- ?y Ieýt my letter,? suyaý I make' unfair andi incorrect 2tute- et =ots. Let hira. prove this. ht Imstead of caým?nsinunent eo momentous asui'Mjee?, .) -be, descends to abuse--a frequtuistresoures of the ...

... 1869 will hereafter bememorable for three eventB )w, the disestablishment of the Irish Ohurch, the comptetion of the Suez Canal, and the opening of, the so-called (Ecumenical Council at Rome. :.N(ne of these events can be said to be concluded. The' t. Irish Protestant Church has indeed been disestab- Ct lished, but the new body which is to govern it 0 ?? has not yet bean formed, and serious a ...

... LjUN.DUU. W-I. (mrO eour. oW n orl ?? . j pe, As we approach the end of the year, we n te.Gi rally take a retrospect of the pst tere monthsdive At the best, our thoughts ar',e .m1Ahled wih it CO lS certain,.regr.t, but when r nthe ti. are out of P jOimit:' then men feoo doubly -so- wnful TThe year Gla . -3 asse ?? has tiltr been one Of clodI O ldS an d ow.Imposture andhis fraud, clt11ig ,1 ...

... PENINT DINN1ERS. 1.LWXN I .UDI.N.WS, rests are Playing t ,Heaven still sands moat, mid the old diffi l Y) continues there isV Swith the cooks. it would li a good 20 pqr cent added to trick-, ant he wages of the working ochuces in England ifU, soiisebody disereatio C lid Dilly teach their wives sad daughters how to Cook a trick in As gsoralilu meat. No man withit penny in h pockelt exhaustet ...

... r ! ¶ ? MyIT L 'The' Westor iP mtic, d?st?,blis~l? , Niagara by Miss Of Ryeo as ain asylumfor orphan ohildren- from :Britain,l has hs bees recently opened.' ?? large, number of person% of 131 was present, includilg snaii?y from a distance, Te tral re. procoodinge comnalihced by a, prayer appropriate to the unf occasion by the .11ev. Dr. M:Murrny, after, which Mr. .. of 110 Ball; in a short ...

... INTERYLEWING AN AMERIOA I 81JNA~TO1R. A reporter for the Nell York' WOr1gIivCes a long RecOunt' Ine of a visit to Mr, Sumner on the 10th of December:-Thq the Senate not being in session, I found Mr. Sumner at homoe Lsum this afternoon.' Entering the hull of his house, at tho porti corner of Vermont-avenue anti l-I-street, hard by the ne?y Thor Arlington H-lotel, I was at ?? strock, while ...