... FORE[GN ARMIES. I T- . - A A- A , In the appendix to a report on the army estimates just issued, the following interesting facts appear:- Bavaria has an infantry force of about 43,000 men, consisthig of l6 regiments of 2 battalions each, and 4 bat- talions of Sharpshooters. The cavalry consists of 6 regi- merits of light cavalry (containing 6 squadrons each), and 2 regiments of cuirassiers; ...

... MR. O'CONNELL'S LETTER.THE SECRET NEGOCIATIONS, We publish elsewhere the letter of the Liberator of the Irish Catholics on the Charitable Bequests Act. It is a clear, powerful, and convincing document. No man not wilfully blind or unhappily misled can rise from its perusal without feeling that the act on which the honourable and learned gentleman descants is insidious in design and mischievous ...

... I TIMES.-It is seldom that we have perused any politi- cal document with greater astonishment-not to say indig- nation-than we felt on reading the extraordinary manifesto of John MacHale, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic po- pulation of the province of Tuam, which we publish in another part of our paper this morning. The document is an epistle to the Premier. It consists of simple declamation; ...

... THE lATE DUKE OF ORLEANS AND THE TURF. I f ?? I _ .. - 7 I . - . . _ .. - I (From an Artiele by Lord Ifilliam Lennox, in the Sporting Review for Janiary.) Within the last twelve years-thanks to the Sociht d' Encouragement-races have assumed in France and Belgium a more important feature than they have done for centuries; the success of Beggarman, the property of the late Duke of Orleans, who ...

... TO'ITHIEEDITOR OpF 'rmlE REEMIAN'S JOURNAL. I I- .. . .. . . .1 n . .. . *arlboroigh-1yeet Pr,.sbyterv. Friday Evenirtg, J1n:iary 24th, ti 15. M Yi M A lt Si ?? IIOw'. W. 1iol illn y return to tow n, a cr n'a I itie'o 0of' 'a e dats, I lappiti to Ih d horore File vouu pw of wtdlnesdauv l;st, in Which isa l(attdiit article Oallliig Mo!,ltiLMii to certain pious beil -sts itt thiv will of the ...

... DECISION OF' THE BOAKL)OF' TRADE ON NEW RAILWAY PROJECTES. (From Friday niiqht's London (Gazette.) Railway Department, Board of Trade, W Whitehall, Dec. 31, 1844. * otice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by tu minute of the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Collieil for Trade, of the 24th August, 1844, for the transactioaot railway business, having had under consideration ...

... MARTIN KELLY, THIE GOVERlrTrNT I . PLO(YEE, IN A NEW CHIARACTERIU _ llU I'y OF 1' aT]E SP-Y SYSTEMI. l.t is an old savir.g that *truth is ometimes stron- fiction. Tu~e oldl saying is borne out in the ilcst. are about to relate. i A man natred Martin Kelly, who, in the t'orabru:;-p the crown court, is 'yclept a crown witnes3j the common vernacular ?? a spy-a fellow W*ho ea.-: bad character ...

... T E CAT aOLTC CH.URCH. ?? .- _ . . _ At an early hour on Christmas Day the ceremonies in commemoration of-the nativity ofour Divine Redeemer were commenced in the cathedral. Three masses were celebrated in succession by the archbishop, and at 12 o'clock there was a grand pontifical high mass, at which his grace assisted, the Rev. Mr. Reynolds officiating as high priest, and the Rev. MessrF. ...

... ANOTHER INGENIOUS I)EVlCE. The followinlg extract of what ppurports to be a I at rescript of his Holiness Gregory XVI., was pub- fn lished in the Morning Post of Tuciday. The Latin Df bears evident marks of ltwhnie manufacture, and the e style and sentiments are much more those of Down- ing-street or Whitehall than of the Vatican or the Lateran. We observe tlat though the Post affects ...

... As BNEETING OF TIIE CORPO-iA'ION. .. ; AP t m a nl .. , .. ^ ?? A meeting of the corporation was held yesterday in the City Assembly House, William-street. The Lono MiNIATO took the chair shortly after one o'clock. but some time elapsed before a sufficient number of members to constitute a house was in attendance. Mslr. Kirwen said that the summonses for that day were issucd for twelve o'clock ...

... I MORN[NG CHRONICLE.-There Is a wide differ- ence, as we observed yesterday, between an attempt to ne- gotiate a concordat, and the openinsg of diplom Atio rela- lntions with the court of Rome. Rumour, indeed, says that the 1Eternal City contains at this moment a, respec- table Roman Catholic gentleman, charged by her Britannia Majesty's government with an important commission; for in the ...

... | I L, .. - O 1~ . The committee of arts and manufactures of this society met or Monday last, for the purpose of presenting an address, with a beautiful service of plate, to Sir Edward Stanley, their late chairman. The following is a copy of the address and answer:- TO 5111 EVDWARD STASNLEY, Clair.,nz of tle Comm ittee of Afolanejturtnees in the Royal Dublin Society. Ssst-We, the ccnmuittee ...