NEWS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Alnerica—Report of Secretary of the Trea- Sum, 7. Correspondence between Mr. Web - ster and M. Heiserman, 34. Coloured Bri- tish subjects in Carolina,...

subjects of public discussion : there is a report of a surplus re- venue, and before the surplus is published men are canvassing the best way of spending it ; anti some...

THE commencement of "the second half of the nineteenth cen- tury," on the 1st of January 1851, strongly impresses the feelings of journalism ; and accordingly the papers teem...

reply of the Times to the Earl of St. Germans. The Leading Journal volunteers to lift the Ministry off the horns of the dilemma in which it had been placed. Lord St. Germans had...

has been much coming and going of diplomatists ; and the Conference has been sitting—but with closed doors. The understanding is, 'however, that nothing is reported because...

THE guests at Windsor Castle have been numerous. The Duke and Duchess of Nemours and the Prince de Joinville took leave of the Queen and Prince Albert on Saturday. On Monday Sir...

The annual report of Mr. Simon, the Medical Officer of the City of London, to the Commissioners of Sewers, which has been published this week, is an interesting and valuable...

The electoral contest to which candidates have been looking forward in South Nottinghamshire will come to a speedier issue than was ex- pected. Mr. Bromley, the Member whose...

The new Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Arthur Lee Guinness, was in- stalled, with unusual pomp and ceremony, on New-Year's Day. Great preparations were made for a civic pageant, but...

Onsatarrv.—From. Dresden we have the accounts of the speeches made by Prince Sehwarzenberg and Baron 3Ianteuffel, at the opening of the Conferences ; and are little the wiser....

de. seribes,thezood effects of the solioitude , of Queen. Victoria and her family for the welfare of the poor-in the vicinitrof Baluaoral- "The Qneen ; the Queen-mother; the...

to grant the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom to Major-General Walter Raleigh Gilbert, G.C.B. ; to Mr. James Matheson, of Lewis in the county of Ross and of Achany in...

morning, from which Irish Protestants expected such a vigorous and in- fluential demonstration against the Roman aggression, proved a failure in point of numbers : an extremely...

SATURDAY. The annual meeting of deputies front the Protestants of the "Three Denominations," (Independents, Baptists, and Presbyterians,) within twelve miles of London, was...

Murray, Esq. of Henderland, to be one of the Board of Supervision for Relief of the Poor in Scotland, in the room of Sir John M'Pherson. Grant, deceased. There is no foundation...

Altona. The Duke of Newcastle has relapsed into a state which "gives no hopes whatever of his recovery " ; the local papers state that tie family surgeon is of opinion that he...

Mr. Peto stated at a meeting of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, yesterday, That the Commissioners felt the imperative necessity of opening the thoroughfare as speedily as...

We have already taken a survey of the various entertainments with which the Christmas of 1850 has been solemnized; but one of them is se- very admirable as a work of scenic art,...

UNIVERSITY CAPA BILITIES. Cambridge, 2d January 1851. Srn—I may perhaps best explain a slight - misconstruction of my meaning which appears in your article of the 28th December...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTEM:00N. The English Stock Market was depressed at the commencement of the week, but has since been slowly recovering. The range of fluctuation of...

As the evils of the present system of patent and registration law are On all hands admitted, and the subject is now pretty generally understood in its broader features, nothing...

'teas, 25th December 1850. Sin—If it be not too late, I would, as-an old reader of your able paper, -submit through its columns the view which I apprehend must soon be taken of...

say a word or two in reply to your remarks upon my letter on "University B.eform," which you published in.your last week's paper.? Though I am quite aware that the " ideal...

PHILOSOPHY TEACHING BY EXAMPLE. 'THE great American Republic exhibits that stage of youth in which the stern resolves of young virtue are yielding to repeated temptation. It...

As the accident at Old Milford on the York and North Midland Railway was fatal, there was an inquiry before the Coroner ; and an inquiry into the accident at Stratford on the...

AMIDST the laudable anxiety of the public instructors to promote the comfort of foreign visiters who may be attracted to London by the great Industrial Exhibition, it will not...

COBDEN is more sure on the ground of political economy than he is on that of cesthetical economy, and when in giving his counsel to the Manchester School of Design he tries to...

AMONG the many revolutions which are vainly struggling for de- velopment in Germany, is one in the bill of fare. A Berlin asso- ciation is attempting to restore horse flesh to...

FOR some years the country has been moving, in railway phrase, on the incline ; and as the present is the winding-up season, the juncture seems favourable for inquiring into the...

Anozann blow is dealt at Christmas-boxes. They are abolished in the public offices, discontinued by certain City magnates, and will of course be dropped by the thrifty. The...

SNOW'S 'VOYAGE OF THE PRINCE ALBERT. * Mn. SNow is an Englishman - who for the greater part of his life has knocked about the world in various regions from the Arctic to the...

LIE object of these volumes is to combine a general picture of the progress of Italian literature and art under the patronage of the smaller Italian principalities, with a...

Sir Isaac Newton exhibited an unex- plained delay in the publication of a second edition of his P rincipia. The work first appeared in 1687, and a new edition seems to have been...

to- the principal older towns of the - United States,—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Wash- ington. Yet, although narrating incidents on the journey, as well as the journey...

NORTH LONDON SCHOOL OF DRAWING AND MODELLING. THIS institution, established about a year ago with the laudable object of aiding in the diffusion of art-education, thus partly...

BOOKS. Military Event8 in Italy, 1848-1849. Translated from the German, by the Earl of Ellesmere. The Lexington Papers ; or some Account of the Courts of London and Vienna at...

of ancient remains at Cirencester gave occasion to this work ; but the authors have extended their considerations to pre- vious similar discoveries, and generally to any...

Messrs. Colnaghi are about to publish a mezzotint engraving by Mr. Jackson from Winterhalter's picture, which Prince Albert is stated to have presented to the Queen as a...

A line engraving from this picture, executed by Mr. Willmore, is dis- tributed to the Art-Union subscribers for the present year. The scene, steeped in Southern poetry and...

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths...

On the 2d December, at Montreal, the wife of Captain Kirkland, Aide-de-Camp to his Excellency the Lieutenant-General Commanding the Forces in North America of a son. On the...

Tuesday, _December 31. PARTNERSFIIPS DISSOLYRD. — Britton and Darton, Gloucester, iron-merchants-- Britton and Co. Gloucester, iron-merchants ; as far as regards T. G....

WAM-OFFICE, Jan. 3.-0th Drag. Guards-Ensign G.Wardlaw, from the 76th Foot, to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Landow, who retires. 10th Foot-Capt. G. Studdert, from the 93d Foot, to...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities l3ank Stock, 8 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer...