29 DECEMBER 1860, page 1

The Intelligence From The United States Is Not...

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......

News Of The Week.

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......

. Mr. Loch Has Brought Queen Victoria A Handsome Christmas

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......