... , - I Fll.ANCg. I iTe .Pis Maliteu)' of Wednesday contains an article on the Noufehatel question, the details of which it explains. The Frenh Government intervened with wise counsels; it asked for the liber- ation of the Neofehatol prisoners, so as to prevent any armed conflict, and to obtain a final settlemcnt of the question. Swit. ;zerland would not follow these counsels. The Menfeur ...

... 7;~iADAG -CAR TEEare few, countries which have been less viiited by' m6odern travellers, than the. island of Madagascar. Thosef who are~interested..jinthe history of this couintry, -its natua 't :productions,, and its Dnumerous inhabitants, will be glad to c6 -earn th'at the Rev. W aiamEllis who left 'England last ' Mshireb, at, the expres8 invitationi of the Quieen of MiadagAS- I .Gar and the ...

... N A S 0 N 0 M A B 0 N L 0 D G -E S. ST. MACRA'S LODGE, . ce ELECTED 27Tn DEcEmBFn, 1856. Robert Beveridgo, Surgeon . W. Master. ha William Rannage, Architect . P. Master. W William Jones, M.D., London Pto ry Master. . inl James Rettie1 Jewellet .. : Senior Warden. saa Charle Gordon, Banker : . Junior Warden. pe .Rev. Charles Cordiner ...

... BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. A - ~~~~~~~~~ture PAnIs, Monday.-The explanations requre ffomsre Russia, which were looked for in order to the corn- Ix mencemont of the Conferences, have not arrived.. If Per they should reach Paris during the night they will ha- Rot mediately be communicated to the representatives of and the other Powers, and the Conferences will commence Diel to-morrow at 1 o'clock~ ...

... STATIONS OF THE BOMSH AIY. lWheere tcw races are meentiones, the last naned is that at ichici the Depot of tie Begsiment is stationed. LIife arcls. 44th-Shorneliffe, Wahner Ist-windsor 45th-Cape of Good Hope, Chat 2a-Regenth Park ham Royarl Hose Guards, 4t'h-Corfu, Enniskillen Hyde Park 47th-Malta, Fermoy Dra~5oi Gsrefa, 48th-Malta, Fermoy 1st-Exeter 49th-Shorneliffe, Walmer '2d-Dliblin 50th ...

... 9?,t Qjmftou of itt P i1g. TEIE CANKER AT TIE CORE. (Globe.) If a moralist needed, alas, al illustration of the canker that lies in the heart of man and his works, if he wanted proof that care and sorrow, guilt and dan. ger, are often concealed under the mask of prosperity. where could he find a better than in the condition of the United States? Abmitdantly gifted by nature, with an ...

... ART MANUFACTURE ASSO-IATION. She exhibition of the Art Manufacture Associa- tion, in the National Galleries, was thrown open to subscribers and other privileged individuals on Saturday night for what is technically called a pri- vate view-; but, in point of fact, the company was as public as could well be, and the idea of getting a view of the articles exhibited was quite out of the ...

... -fj Dreip ziliffliplut. SARDINIA. A letter from Turin says-lach attention has been excited here by the precipitate journey to this city of the Marquis de Villamarina, Sardinian Minister to the court of Paris. It appears that his object was to have precise instructions, in case a coolness between the Western Powers should make any change in the rela. tions which bind the Sardinian Coart to ...

... (The foljowjing appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.) DnESDNX, 22d.-There is a talk of an approaching visit of the Grand Duke Constantine to Paris, on his return from Nice, from which place he is to conduct his wife on a visit to the Empress Mother. PRUSSIA. PLAISs, Tuesday.-Prussia has requested a passage for its troops on the 15th of February. PERSIA. MARssItLEs, 23d.-Rather ...

... TnE CRIMEAN BANQUET.-The committee bave awarded to Mr James Sinclair a beautiful medal benring an appropriate inscription, in token of the very able manuer in which he discharged the duties of Master of Ceremonies on occasion of tbe recent banquet. AIIrIANOGEENTS FOR FORtWSARDING MAII. TO CAxADA.-Letters for Canada, unless specially ad- dressed to be sent by any particular route, or by any ...

... to Di II th pt e II14cure. MISSIONS IN CIIINA.-The Rev. W. C. Burns has, for some months, been preaching in the towns and villages in the neighbourhood of Swatow, some of which had never before been visited by a Protestant missionary. This is the fifth locality in China in which be has laboured, and the fourth . dialect he has mnastered. FIinding the foreigner's dress a great hin- drane in his ...

... fo r Ug Ilitt l.tu Iute. FRANCE. it is very generally steted in the German and I French papers that several matters are to be discusser at the Conference, but the only thing connected with the Treaty of'thc 30th of March now to be settled is the Bessarabian frontier question. As soon as Russia has promised to cede New Boigrad, and to withdraw her troops from that part of Bessarabia which now ...