... I MILITARY PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES, WAIR OFFICE, oCT. 10. _ 5th Dragoon Guards-J Fort, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchasec vice Bridge, promoted. 4th Light Dragoons-W F Burton, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Ilarron, promoted. 10th Foot-Ensign J W Medhurst to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Lysaght, deceased; Ensign J T Chondler to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Taylor, who ...

... THE DISEASE IN POTATOES, We regret to find that the accounts we receive tend to confirm the apprehension that there is a considerable failure in the potato crop, and that the disease which has t caused it is not on the decrease. A gentleman in the neigh- 1 bourhood of Dublin, on the north side, observing some c time since that his potato fields showed sonme indication of i' the approach of the ...

... An article, in the Constitutionnel, gives an account, re- ceived by way of St. Petersburg, of the retreat of the Russians from the Caucasus, and the second engagement between them and the Circassians. The account published by the Constitutionnel states that the Russians were the victors, but the accounts received by way of Constantinople are more to be depended on, as the Russian Government ...

... THE RECENT DISASTEBS IN ALGERIA. I 71he Moniteur.0sgerien completes the account of this terr ible disaster. Colonel Vourjolly had, it Bays, entered the t erritory of the Flittahab punish some Arabs who had plunm lered a caravan, when he found, to his surprise, the whole- tribe in a state of revolt. After a sharp engage. ment 3 he succeeded in reaching the camp of Ben Atia, but found the whole ...

... 7TO THE EDITA, OF THE FREUA I.M Y7, Uork-etreet. 8th October, 1846. SIE-Your kindness in inserting mny former letter, and having read in Saunders of the 7th a OPpy of a trinoute of the police commissioners relative to the removal of the late superintendent O'Connor, I am again'induced to solicit - space in your journal for the following sketch of the his- tory of the Detective Police. I ...

... I -- -- - A ta IA - AL , - . _b. 35, Eccles-street, 10th October, 1845. DEAR SIRI was a delighted witness of Father Mathew's labours in the chapel at Kingstown on Sunday last, and among the many pleasing indications of the steady advance a] of teetotalism given on that occasion was the presentation o: of the address I send you herewith, and which I hope you ai will kindly publish for the ...

... TIHE LATE INSURRECTION. The organ of the French government, the Journal des Debuts, professes to have received letters from various parts of Italy, which supply correct information as to the insurrection which has just been crushed in the Pope's do- minions. The attempt, according to its information, has been made by a party of Italian refugees, whom only two or three Spanish refugees had ...

... BA14TRY BAY AS A PACKET STATION. . _ .. . . . i. ?? (From the Mining Journal. Our announcement of the preference given by the Board of Admiralty to Beerhaven Harbour, on the south coast of Ireland, as a transatlantic packet station, seems to have created quite a sensation in the sister country. Some of the Irish journalists, however, appear disposed to doubt the confirmation of our ...

... I Is KERRY DEMONSTRATION. d Our columns to-day attest the enthusiasm with 3. which the people of Kerry have pronounced for the 3t national movement. The south has unequivocally and almost unanimously, proclaimed that Irishmen 'It shall make laws for Ireland. Doubt is no longer p -ossiblehesitation is thrown away-apathy exists n4 not. From the immortal mountains which arrest the to billows of ...

... MENACES OF THE MORNINP HERRALD AGAINST REPEALERS. In a long, ill-written, and irregular article, which was published by. the Morning Herald on Monday that journal, in the midst of a mass of other gross ab- surdities, has ventured a threat against the Irish Re- pealers in terms more precise than the vague and stupid generalities in which it has so long been its cherished habit to indulge. In ...

... The important news from Paris which we publish-d yl terday has 'nabled us to anticipate the most important p jr-- tion of the intelligence brought by the regultr Frrlch mail. Tne 12,000 troops now under orders for Alaeraare believed to be destined for Lalla Maghrina, the neighbour- hood of the late frightful massacre; and should btd-el- Kader again , etreat within the Maroquin territory. hi ...

... PROGRESS OF THE LIBERATOR-ARRIVAL ITN I TUA.rI (raeso OUR OwN REPORTER.) Tuam, Sunday Morning. The Liberator (accompanied by J. R. Duane, jun.,) left Loughrea yesterday morning at eleven o'clock for Tuam, where he arrived abont four o'clock. On entering the town he was received with acclamations by the crowds as- sembled in the streets. A large body of the inhabitants attended by the ...