19 JANUARY 1856, page 8

President Pierce Informs Congress, That The Government Of...

States and the Government of Great Britain " differ irreconeikably as to the construction" of the Clayton-Bulwer convention. Such being the case, one of our correspondents......

We Announce With The Greatest Satisfaction, That Lord...

obtained the sanction of the Crown to a measure of vital importance to the success of recruiting for the Army. A warrant will, immediately be issued, granting to soldiers the......

At A Meeting Of The Metropolitan Board Of Works, Yesterday,

Mr. Woolrych, formerly Secretary to the old Sewers Commission, was elected Clerk to the Board. The first proceeding in the election was to strike out the names of all candidates......

Several Names Have Been Mentioned Of Likely Candidates...

re- presentation of Cambridge University in the room of the late Mr. Goul- burn,—Mr. Spencer Walpole, the Marquis of Granby, Lord John Man- ners, the Honourable George Denman.......

The Committee Of Investigation Of The Eastern Counties...

issued their statement with regard to Mr. Waddington's answer to their ori- ginal report. After reviewing each of Mr. Waddington's pleas, the Com- mittee reassert the validity......

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MERIT - wnstr jerare.-The Gazette of Tuesday contained a dopy of a convention, concluded on the 14th October 1854, between Rear-Adnitted Si? James Stirling on the part of the......

Postscript.

SATURDAY. The spirit in which Austria undertook her pacific enterprise at the Court of St. Petersburg may be seen from the following despatch from Count Buol to Count Valcntme......

Births.

On the 11th September, at St. Paul's Parsonage, the Red River, the Wife of the Rev. John Chapman, Chaplain to II.H.B. Company, of a son. On the 23d, on the way from York Factory......