... i fortion ?Mflligtnrt FANCE. TEF EXECUTIONS AT SATORY. PAus, Tuesday. The following are the most interesting and authentic par- tioulars concerning the last moments of Rossel and Ferrd:- These two leaders of the Commune were executed this morning, together with a sergeant of the 46th Regiment, named Bourgeois, who had been sentenced to death for hav- ing deserted his regiment and gone over to ...

... BIRTHS & DEATHS IN LIEROOL. .\ ?? t., t, no. ?? , . a FORTY-EIGHTH WEEK, 1871. .3 .e In the week ending last Saturday, 4351 births and 373B deaths were registered .in 17 of the largest English towns, including London. The -births were G6 below, while the deaths exceeded Lt by so many as 643, the average weekly numbers i- in the ten years 1861-70, corrected for increase of o population to the ...

... WHY LADY HORNIBURY'S BALL WAS POSTPONED. Corlt Journal, April 12th:-Lady Hornbury's ball on May 2nd, is unavoidably postponed. Wlhatistbehmatter! said all the world and his wife. On this occasion the world and his wife were very easily satisfied; Sir John must have had another stroke, and Lady Hornbury would soon be the most beautiful widow in ?? of her age, while her daughter Edith would ...

... -VABIETIESe Match-lessr ?? a pipeful of tobncco and nothing to light it with. Thu man who popped the question by starlight got hisweetheart' consent in a twinkling. A Mr. Tease recently married a Miss Cross, Ho Teased her till she promised not to be Cross any more. Y.-ung women often keep their lovers by tears. 1 ees said E}rmnwig, love, like beef, is preserved by brine, Mrs (Gubbins ...

... . q. L_- The December fashions are very fully described in Le Pei Follet. Nothing is more fashionable than a toilette com- on posed of black enlivened by colour. Two or three combina- trc tions uiiy thus be arranged from one dress. Coloured China In crepe is much worn with black velvet; the dress itself is to made without the introduction of colour. An elegant little an fichlu of crape, ...

... . LrTJi RS TO TH EDITO& *, Letters to CIOe Editor cantnot bitnsertcd except w hen thrp arc athe atet .by the name and Le address of the woiter-not neeseritp for pigb- - tication, but as agi~an1.ce of aood faath. g Corrco0ndcnte aire s-c cited eo ie-te. only j T oas.suc.of the paper. . We cannot undeirtakc Co etlris seiected Con' . rt' ?? - . of CALEDONIAN A3WD-NOR.TH. BPITISH er AMAD LGAMATION ...

... PHILADELPHIA. December 4.-Congress met to-day. The- President in his Message says that the past year has been one of prosperity. The President has endeavoured, without inquiring into the wisdom of laws, to learn their spirit and intent, and enforce them accordingly. The friendship of foreign nations as shown in our calamities by fire and storm is alluded to feelingly. The American re- lations ...

... MR. BROGDEN, MX., AT DARLASTON. On Monday evening, Mr. Brogden, DIP., addressed a large cad influential meeting in the Wesleyan School Rooms, Darlaston, the occasion being the annual tea meeting in connection with the Wesleyan body. Mr. Brcgden, who ovcupied the chair, stated, in a speech of considerable length, that he had come a very long journey in order to be present with them that evening ...

... The following are extracts from letters from members of Parlianment and others who are unable to attend the Conference in Birmingham to-day. It will be seen that they are prefaced by Ed extract from a letter by Mr. Bright, written in 1869:1 Extract from a letter written by the Right Uon. Joni Bov, hP., to his constituents, July 16, 1869:- It is a grief to me that the House of Lords does not ...

... Menday, December 4. A.I A. SPECIAL general court of the President and Managers ofTp the Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum was held to-day. On thece motion of the Dean of Guild, Beillie Urquhart was celled to but the chair. byt Baillie UnqUHlAnT then said-Gentlemen, I regret very br much that I am obliged to take the chair in consequence of rat. an accident which has most -unfortunately happened to ...

... WEDNESDAY. December so 1871. - . E TErr financial world has a serious matter for its eon- o sideration in the state of French finances, and the a] course which it is expected the Government will adopt. Nv Another increase is about to be made to the issuing hb powers of the Bank of France. As its paper has c been inconvertible since the increase to its issuing c powers last year, when the ...

... WE.ST B GOL DELIVERY, I-V~Dj TOWN 11ALL, TuliSnAY. (13eforo Mr. lDaron PIGOre') '1ril CHARIGE OF MU1IWEIR IN LEEDS. ANN LAND (31), a nIcVrri~d wortt5, dasoribed as a hakerW55B~bi~5dwith the wilful senurder of Charles ljobinsofl, at Leeds. on the 2rd Oct. TINEN arsacutittg 0ooc'160l wero Mr. MMIDLET'ON aii r ~et , cuso7 and Mr. WP~y, bY rislitcnt Of bis Lordship, cochss .i thols doe):10O ...