17 DECEMBER 1853, page 5

Scotland.

• :A - publk-meeting of the friends of national education is to be held in • Ediriburghin-tlie beginning of January ; Lord Panmure in the chair. The flrst winter exhibition of......

Ireland.

The report that "a large body of troops is under immediate orders embark in steamers at Cork for the Mediterranean" has been again Or' rent at Dublin. "The 1st of January is the......

Fortigu Ant( 6niuniti1.

FaAxez.—The number of political arrests forms the chief feature of the French news. On Friday many persons were apprehended; among - them twenty-two journeymen tailors belonging......