... solid beneficial results, of that vast ana important series of legislative measures for Ireland, which we were fortunate enough to be the first to announce to the public in the Daily News. The manner in which that announcement has been received by the press, not only in every Irish city, but in those cities of England and Scotland most interested in the prosperity and redemption of Ireland, ...

... LANCASHIRE. Sanitory Act. —After the first of January the smoke from all the furnaces, s , eam-engiues, bakeries, and factories in Liverpool, must be consumed, or heavy penalties be paid by their proprietors. Notices to this effect have been sent out by the town-clerk to all the owners or occupiers whose premises or steam-vessels will come under the operation of the act. The act, on this head, ...

... Uproarious Meeting for Relief of the Highlanders We regret much to state that an uproarious meeting took place Edinburgh on the 18th inst., although the occasion of it (that of affording relief for the destitute Scottish Highlanders) might have led to the anticipation that a pacific conference would hare been the result. The cause of war we believe to have been somewhat as follows. At the ...

... A meeting of this company was held yesterday at its offices* Villien-street, Strand, to take into consideration the announcement the London Gazette of 4th ultimo, of intended application to parliament for power to erect a free bridge across the Thames, from or near Whitehall-place to the opposite shore of the Thames. _ W. Hawes, Esq., deputy-chairman of the company, presided. He said that the ...

... DUBLIN, DECBMBBR 26. provincial papers were published yesterday, tha hare uo information of the state the court, jt !> Dublin, private benevolence was very active duil the vttk to afford the poor one day of happiness, and -'n ill our charitable institutions provis-'ons were very libeally administered to the inmates, which will repeated New-year's Day. Parochial meetings have been ■juiieil ...

... the industry of France, itill not this next session propose to the chambers any change in the prohibitive system of the customs. Its organs in the press will endeavour to cover this shameful retreat, by attributing to it a conservative intention, bat no one will be deceived by it; on the contrary, it will be looked upon as an act of weakness. We shall only acquire the further conviction that ...

... The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, far the year of bur Lord 1847. Tk» Co.. rsanio/t to the Al-nanac ; or, Year Book of General It., runt ion. for 1847. Londou, Charles Kuight. The British Almanac, for the ensuing year to coine(to adont the phraseology of the now obsolete iu.iviwui of penny aluntiacs) is the twentieth of the series. It was the fitst in ...

... same gentlemen as composed it last y*- The only alterations hare been made in Billingsgate ward, which has returned one new member; Bread-street, one new member; broad-street, one new member; Bishopsgate, one; Cripplegate Within, one ; Farringdon Within, three; Famngdon Without, three, subject t'» scrutiny demanded; Langbourne, one; Lime-street, two; and Vintry, one; making a total of fifteen ...

... All past plans of secondary punishment have been found to make men worse. This result of them has become proverbial, and influences our very language, our most baili expression of reproach prisoner, gaol-bird, taring reference to his original offence, which must have ken greater less in different individuals, but to the one training crime to which all who have come into the of the law have ...

... communications were received from Sheffield, and other places where branch associations had been formed. Dr. Southwood Smith, iu moving the appointment of a select committee to consider and report upon the provisions of Mr. Mackinnon's bill for the prevention of interments in large towns, said that he had to lay before the committee some correspondence developing the cause of an epidemic fever ...

... LAW NOTICES.—This Dat. C haktert, Lincoln's-inn, at 10.—Smith v. Smith, iietitian. tor judgment: Webb v. Grace, part heard; parte North, by order ;In Dyce Sombre, by order. After which, unopposed lunatic petition and cause petitions. VicK-CiiANOELLoas'. I-incoln's-inn, at 10.—(Sir 1,. SnanwsLL).— Remaining causes, itc., by order, and cause petitions.—(Sir J. K. Bhvce). —Bamabv t. Macdonald, by ...

... Windsor, Thursday.—Their R. 11. the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Alice, took walking and pony exercise this morning, on the eastern the castle and slopes. 11. K. 11. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. . _ . There was no music at the Castle yesterday evenin?. i const the death of the late Landgrave Homburg, who was related, marriage, to the jloval Family ...