... A . . . ?? - tent, and injurious effects of the practice, and his ex.pose has produced an abandontent of it. But the question is, may not this abandonment be but temporary, and may riot the objectionable system be re-established, so soon as the present { agitation shall have subsided? The law on the subject as applicable to Ireland is already remarkably strong, and we wvish that Mr. Littleton, ...

... l BELFAST- AND CAVE HILL RAILWAY. . .| As the public bave lately heard a good deal- In favour of the proposed Railway from the Cave Hill to Belfast, the j follo wing statement has been forwarded onl the part of the gentlemen whose properties are likely to be affected by it:- The Blfast newspapers have lately contained. repeatedl appeals to the public on the subjeot ofthe prnjeeted Railway Irom ...

... LORD ANGLESEY-SlR JOHN HARVEY_ KI. ..NG O'CONNELL: (From the Evening lfai of Friday.) A sensatlon' of no erdinary nature has been produced throughoaut' the city, by ia speech repoted to baie been made by Sir John Harvey, Inspector General of Police, to a ta- multtlous and iilegalmnob assembled at Castleomer, in the county of Kilkenny.-It is in the words following Sir Joha 'was .immediately ...

... YEOMANUY OrnCE, JAN. 13.-The Lord Lieutenant has signed commissionis hppdinting the following Gentlemen to be Officers in the arndeirmentioned Yeomanry corps-Porta- down corps, (county Arinagli,) G. '-Woodhouse, 'Esq. to be Sub.Lieut.; Colebrook corps, (comnty Fermanagh,) John E; Taylor, Esq. to be Sab-Lieut; Bellisle corps, James Moore. Esq. to be First Lieut. yvie' Moore, ?? Moore, Esq. to ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY, MARCH 14. In ?? of Lords little business was transacted be- sides the presentation of petitione, an immense number of which in favour of reform.,were presented. In presenting one from Clerkenwell, the Duke of Devonshire took o(ccilsion to express his gratitude to the Government for the reform meastire, which would, 'be said, relieve the hereditary pro- prietors of ...

... 14OUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. The ill equtis of LONDONDE RRY said, that when on | Friday last he put some questions to the Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's government, he had received an an- swer with hlich he expressed himself pertecetly satisfied, that the French goveinmelit had given positive orders to Gen., Gerard to evanuate Belgium. What then was his as- toIIishitent, when he learned ...

... BREAXFAST SOCIETY -DUBLIN. On Thrirsday there was a dinner of the fricnds of The Breakfast Charity Society. The dinner took place in Mrs. Mahony's, Patrick-street-ansubstantial repast was prepared for nearly 200. DrNlrL O'CoNNIrL Esq. ?? P. in the Chair'. ?? the cloth being removed, thle following toast was given with approprgate obstervatiorns from the chair- . William tire Fourth.-- God ...

... On Wednesday last, a meeting was held at one o'clock in the Commercial Buildings, for t*e purpose of forming an Auxiliary tu the Dublin Juvenile Association, in behalf of tile Deaf and Dumb, the principal object of which institu- tion is to provide for their edueation at Claremont Seminary near Dublin. The Rev. John Gregg, Rector of Killsal- laghan, and a young Gentleman from--Dublin, attended ...

... re copy from the Mirror Of Parliament of the 4-th inst. the following report of Sir Robert Bateson'sspeeches on presenting petitions from Derry and Newtownlimady on the 29th March. - These speeches were only imper- fectl'y noticed in the ordinary newspaper reports at the time- I have to present a petition from the city and liberties of Londonderry, signed by the most respectable merchants and ...

... The Belgians, under the command of General Daine, amounting to about 10,0:0 men. and composing the army of the Meuse, were totally defeated on Monday morning near Hasselt. The Dutch troops took them by surprise. The Belgian horses are said to have been so frightened at the sound of the Dutch artillery that they fled precipitately, anid in their retreat broke through the infantry, so that a ...

... On Saturday evening a number of Yachts arrived and came. to anchor off Cultra, among which were- The ship Princess Charlotte Royal Yacht. The Iris, belonging to Thomas Greg, Esq. Caroline ?? Marquis Donegall. Zoe ?? Do. Vampyre . ?? Rev. D. George, Thetis . ?? De Courcy O'Grady, Esq. ?? Colonel Cayler. ?? Ju u MCracken, Esq. Adelaide ?? Robert Batt, Esq. Frolic ?? Henry Joy, Esq.l All of the ...

... DLSTRESS IN TtiE WEST OF IRELAND. Monday a Meeting was convened, pursuant to requisitioD, by the Lord Mayor, irk Morrison's Great Room, Iwnso- .s8treet, publin, for the purpose 'of taking into considulrton the wretched state of the peasantry itt the West of Ireland, -and of adopting such resolutions as seemed best calculated to lead to theirelief of those districts.; the Lord Mayor, M. P. took ...