... en Yesterday, a large and influential meeting of the vintners 8ir of Dublin was held at 121, Summer-hill, en Mr. EDWARD DiLLON, President, in the chair. is, Mr. O'Brien (in the absence of Mr. Moffatt) acted as on secretary to the meeting. in Mr. Fortune called the attention of the Meeting to the nd fact that the amount of fis 3d., heretofore payable on a 'da boed, when renewing their license ...

... HIGCH SHERIFFS FOR THE ElSUING WEEK. DUBLIN CASTLr, Nov. 7, 18 L5b.Namns of ?? returned by the judgie of assize to serve the office of high sheriff for the ensuing year Antrim-Jamnes Leslie, Esq, of Leslie Hill. Ballymoney; The. mas Morris Jones, Eq. of Money Glass, Toomebridge, John Thompson, Esq. of iliMulamnore, Antrim. Armagh-Arthur Cope, Esq, of Loughgall, Loughgall; lax- well Crass, Enq ...

... FOREIG - FRANCE, The Patis papers are to WednesdaY Theazi. day announces the appointment of Ge'nersi S M&t~ Of0 TUam. at War ins the room of MVarshla Soa, Ib t. Yo as as President of the Counil. Theu Gnera s Peer of France. ahsbeen' created a The Duchess ?? was safely deli eereo a o l'hese journals allay all apprehension rince o closing the ports against the eaportatiors ft 'bte secesstli ., ...

... A. considerable pension has reverted to the Crown, in conse- A of the demise of John Backhouse, Esq., Under Secre- ?? State for the Foreign Department during the adminis- ?? of the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Canning, the present Earl traipon, and Earl Grey. Mr. Backhouse died at his residence, n ,,n,,.pliace, on Thursday week, after a lengthened indispo' iti. -The premises of Messrs. Cuthbert and ...

... PO LITICAL. VACANCY IN THtE REPRESENTATION OF THE COUNTY OF ANTRIM.-Jolin Irvine, Esq., M.P. for the county of Antrim, died on Monday, at his residence in Richmond terrace, at the age of seventy-eight. He had been for many years member for Bramber, and always a consistent supporter of the Tory and West Indian interests; but his high character and strict integrity commanded the respect and ...

... ' FALMOUTH, Nov. 16. [FROM OUR COORRSPONDENT.1 The Hankburg barque Laura and Louisa arrived here to-day from Buenos Ayres, for orders, from whence she sailed on the 16th September, and sul)- joined are extracts from the British Packet and Argentine News, of the 30th August, 6th and 13th September. In addition to which it would appear that Garibaldi took possession of Colonia on the 31st August ...

... GOVERNMENT COMMISSION. Professors Li ndley and Day fair, together with Profeesor Kane, of this city, will sit at the board room of the Dublin Society House, Kildare-street, on Monday next, as a commission from government, to inquire into the extent and nature of the disease, to institute a series of experiments on the subject, and to report to the government. ...

... The potator disease, and the probable dearth of food in some districts, have turned the attention of our political writers to various schemes for bettering the condition of the poor' Some suggest parliamentary loan and employment: others expect from the new railways such it demand for labour as will be more than equivalent to the loss the poor will sus- ttin from scarcity land high prices: a ...

... A WORD OF CAUTION TO RAILWAY SI A.E- HO01LDERS. (From the Leeds Mereriry.) We have, not [or a few weeks merely, hut for many months, been continually warning our readers that the railway specu- lation was quite extravagant, antd must lead to mischievous consequrences. Now that the fever is giving place to collapse, we feel it as much our duty to caution the public against unnecessary alarm ...

... THLE POTAT7'O DISEASE. I~~~~~~ I, (From the Da/blan Erven/lie m ail.) Subjoined vill be found all ini oprtaiit report, addressed to his Excellency tie Lord L]ieutenant, from the Com- mnissioners appointed by government to investigate the potato disease, &c. It gives valuable instruction for the storing of crop - I loard-lroom, Royal Dublin Society, Oct. 24. illy Lord,-We, tbe olndlelsigied ...

... A numerous meeting of the provisional committee of tbis railway was held on Thursda.y last, in the Wellingtoa Hotel, Glasgow, at 12 o'clock. The Most Noble the Miarquis of Breadabhane wns called to the ohair. A report woe made bv the sub-committec, from which it appeared that the Scottish ?? Company had, at a gene- ral scesting at their sharelholders, ratified the terms ad- jtsted hr the ...

... PIEILOUS SITUT'ION OF TIHE GREAT BRIITAIN STEAM SAIP. The folaloving is amr extract raont a Ietter written by onc of the piassengets ii the Great Britaic stelamr, it len ?? paissaitc, Ileted ?? Hole, Me-c. C t. 1 2h.: - iliO c thativr (date lufr blank) eec icad Cape Race, New- fatindland. A' that timD o r crilsesic lie, &C. a CrC icl perfert Ordcr; Onl SLlibday tIe' 12ci, shell tcr took obse'r ...