... DUBLIN, DEc. 7. k [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] k TUE POTATO DISEASE. b The few reports received to- day are of a favourable ten. , dency, inasmuch as they show that the disease is not k further spreading, in some districts at least. From the v county of Galway, which has suffered so very severely, the 7 following report has been received:- I GALWAY, DEC. 6.-During tile present week we have h ...

... ,Eplalor tO e q r u io THE CORN LAWS. (From ?? 31orniny Advertiser.) A rumour of great importance reached us yesterday namely, that Sir Robert Peel had, at the Cabinet Council of Tuesday, threatened his resignation. We are bound to say that subsequent inquiries have not tended to confirm this rumour. From the particular circle to -whichl it may he traced, the wish may be expected to be ...

... MEIORIAL OF TIHE WESTMEATHI MAGISTRATES. The Magistrates of the County Westmeath have ad- dressed a representation of the fearful state of thatnoigh- bourhood, to the Irish Executive, and especially with reference to the recent attempt on the life of Sir F. Hop- kins. The following is a portion of the address- It is, however, but too evident, that the existing powers of the law cannot reach ...

... THEI OVERL AND MIAIL. dr_ 5rs The de-sItcInCS, ill ?? of' the India 3- Snail, reached town ol Friday morning. The dates r- arc, Iloinbay, November 1 Calcutta, October y 22d; aid China, September 30th. O. Nothing new had Occurred in the nffairs of C Lahore. The correspondenat oL the Harald writes Td. lse lunjaub itself' seems a good deal more d, tranquil than usual ; and the licentious soldiery ...

... STAFFORDSHIIIE POTTERlES. (FROMx A CORRESPONDENT.1 The active and Intelligent population of this important district are at length fully alive to the necessity and ad- vantage of the free trade movement, and are preparing to take their legitimate position with regard to it. Two cir- cumstances have hitherto had a tendency to cramp the efforts of those anxiously willing to assist. Firstly, the ...

... CsMlN'AlM7UN IIAIW3OURT JiUS'T. a\. ?? .I .. - Oi Tuesnday last, the monthly inieti og of this trust, vvas ?? over byW.Y II.1I.oly, I'sql,, r, mayor of the borough. Hd aving been ealleudto the chain, he, assisted by !d T. H. ELans, Esq., the lato mayor,'auditel tlt' clric's accounts for the past month. Ou the bill ior the manauremlient and carecof the s fire engine being called ovCr,. icd It ...

... ACCIDENT ObN THE GREAT WESTERN RAILAW AY.-FEARFUL COLLISION'. i I~~~ nts During the night of Saturday last, and up to a tnd late hour on Sunday evening, no less than ten als, express down trains left Paddington, Uiidthleeup ur, express trains arrived at that station, conveying Ink parties connected wvith projected lines of railway, ?? who were charged, some with the necessary plans ,Vth to be ...

... GENEVA, DEc. 4.-The affairs of the Canten of Vaud get worse and worse every day. You have heard that two- thirds of the regular clergy, rather than obey the orders, illegal, as I believe them to be, of the Council of State, have thrown up their ministry. The government, with Druey at its head, in no degree daunted, has obtained frem the Legislative Council unlimited powers for alltbatregard5 ...

... FOuR THE OUTPOURING OF THE 110HY SPIRIT, ON THURS. LDAY, IST OF JANUARY, 1846, IEINOG THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR. DEARLY nEL.OVED IN THE LoRD-The privilege which I have enjoyed for tire last nine yearsi of inviting you to ecmmence the new year by uniting in prayer for the ont. porhingt of the Holy Spirit, is, by the kind providence of God, again vouchsared to me. And it is with a heart ...

... Jyoreigfl__Entrfligrilce. OVERLAND MAIL. JINDIAL AkND ChNINA. (rrom the Times) We have received by our extraordinary express, In an. fiicipation of the Bombay Mail of the 1st of November, our dispatches to that date. The affairs of the Punjaub continued in the same disturbed state. The Ranee or Queen Mother continued to be the nominal bead of the Government; but she had since the assassination ...

... APPOINTMENT OF DR. IIENRY TO THE PRESIDENCY OF T11E NORUTEILRN COLLEGE. Dublin Castle, 29th N'ov., 1845. S9i-ITer Majesty's Govertmctit having bdetrined. in car- rying o It the pr visiono of the act of' the lost SCSsibOI of Parlia. nient for ?? ?? Colleges in Ireland, to erect a College in tlhe town if Belfast, I nm directed by thoe Lord Lieu- tenant to offer to you theo Presidency of that ...

... CONFERENCE EXTRAORDINARY BE. TWEEN ENGLAND AND BUENOS A YR ES. [The following minute has been furnished to us by a special reporterj:- E. What are you (doing here in the neighbourhood of Monte Video ? B. A.: I am helping my friend Oribe to get back into his government, which Rivera turned him out of. Rivera and his party have always behaved badly to me. In 1833-40, when the French were trying ...