16 DECEMBER 1854, Page 13

• Lord Rutberhinl, one of the most distinguished Judges of

the Courtof .Session in Scotland, died at Edinburgh early on Wednesday morning.

• The Convocation Of the Province of Canterbury was formally pro- rogried, yesterday, until the 16th February. . . . —

The La Plata arrived yesterday at ,Southanipton from the West Indies. The advice*, from Jamaica extend to the 27th ; and informus that the Go- vernor's new commission had arrived, ind illation the 23d November, at King's House, -Spanish Town; Sir Henry Darkly was reinaugurated. Neatirigs in aid of the Patriotic Fund were in progress; and the journals teem with ccipious extracts of the war news.