is hardly more discouraging than that brought by previous mails. The great fact is, that the prospects of disunion were loudly discussed from one end of the country to the...

CHRISTMAS has come to us this year with his old-fashioned face and garb. We have had a truly Christmas week : intense cold, a sprinkling of snow and rime ; ice for the skaters...

present—the peace Lord Elgin and Sir Hope Grant have extorted from the perfidious Court of Pekin. Although we have always said that Lord Elgin must dictate a peace at Pekin...

Tan Quinn? and Royal Family are still at Winclior Castle. On Satur- day, the Prince Consort came to town to inspect the design for the model of the memorial of the Exhibition of...

On Friday week, the,deputatiou named by the late meeting at Hano- ver Square, on the question of Outfalls, waited on the Home Secretary to urge upon him the need of some strong...

of disruption and reconstitution, if ;hat be possible. The advent of Baron von Schmerling to power seepis likely to bring with it a new home and foreign policy. He has revived...

The nomination of the candidates for Ripon took place on Friday week, before an assembly of 300 people, who patiently endured a sharp shower of snow. Two candidates were...

Mr. Adam Black, M.P., and Lord Advocate Monerieff, M.P., addressed a stormy meeting of their constituents, on Monday, at the Music Hall, Edinburgh. Two thousand three hundred...

From a communication of the Nation of Saturday it appears that the - members of the "National Petition Committee" intend shortly to pro- mulgate a regular plan of organization,...

thin 11.—The newspaper accounts of the signing of owl - new Treaty with the court of Pekin, and a narrative of the events that immediately preceded the conclusion of peace, have...

Day the coldest day recorded during the last fifty years. Mr. Lowe, of the Ob- servatory at Beeston, near Nottingham, says- " I herewith send you a report of perhaps the most...

SATURDAY MORNLBG. Yesterday morning, the usual salutes were flied in St. James's Park and at the Tower, in honour of the Peace with China. The despatches from the Earl of Elgin...

STOCK EKCIUNGE, FILIDAlt AFITRICOOK. Monday was a closed day on the Stock Exchange, and on Wednesday the market for English Securities opened firm at a slight advance upon...

subjects of discussion during the year which has just passed away has been that of iron defences on 4n4 and sea, and especially at sea. We have been told that the great , screw...

1 8 6 0. THE year, 1860, now dying away, has had a troubled and stormy life in the New World as well as in the Old. We are as far as ever from that golden age of peace which...

THREE incidents have recently happened in Germany, which re- mind us how completely the good Germans are under the thumb of a relentless bureaucracy. One is the trial of...

Wu have recently stumbled upon a curiosity in the military , line—a sort of feeling whose existence we could not have sus- pected. It is hardly credible, but it is a fact, that...

WE have reached the last act in the drama of Colliery Explosions in 1860. This year will be known in the history of the coal trade as the year of explosions. They commenced at...

MOTLEY'S 1TNITEH NETHERLANDS.. MOTLEY'S 1TNITEH NETHERLANDS.. AMONG the historians of the age, Dr. Motley °maples a distin- guished and permanent position. Extensive and minute...

11WAR are upwards of a thousand pages of miscellaneous Letters, without an index ! We know not what excuse the editors can offer for this most reprehensible omission. Certainly...

Tins elegant little volume is something more than even an artis- tic guide-book. It is a critical biography of the one supreme poet of humanity ; written with skill,...

"Progress," which has recently come under our notice. If speculation on national development were equivalent to a real advance, we should take this multiplication of books on...

-The World's Furniture comprises, in the novel before us, the .material goods and chattels, and also the station and considera- tion, which an abundance of these things gives to...

Japanese Fragments. With Fac - similes of Illustrations by the Artists of Yedo. By Captain Sherard Osborn, C.B. — Any one who has had,the pleasure of reading Captain Osbones...

Christmas has delayed the appearance of the monthlies, 'but some of the younger members have come to hand. Foremost stands the Cornh4l, commencing the second year of its career...

entertainments produced for the enlivenment of the present holidays is, of itself, a curiosity. Never did Harlequin extend his reign so far, or own so many principalities, since...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 26. Bankruptcies Annullecl. — WiLmut Bottoms, Cambridge Street, Pimlico, dealer In candles—El:mean HatioNs BowmArr, Ilighbury New Park,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Sassed. Monday Tuesday. Warw. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account Spur Cents Reduced New Spur Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 Bank Stock,...

On the 21st December, at Baldoon, Wigtonshire, the Wife of James Caird, Esq., M.P., of a son. On the 21st, at Stamford, the Wife of George Cayley, Esq., of a daughter. On the...