... Alas! poor Ireland. It is said that those who sow the storm shall reap the whirlwind. Experienee teaches us that this divine anathema is as much a natural law as the revolution of the planets in their courses. How, then, can the Irish landowners wonder at the impending gloom-the harbinger of the coming storm-which now hangs like a funeral pall over their devoted island? Have they not for years ...

... FOREIGN i:NEWS, Fr1ANCE. DIPeoLtATIc AarP-seNotIMENTS -It is said thrat a high personage, enjoying the confidence of the Court and the Cabinet, is to go to London, to endeavour to re-establish the entente csrdisl, and to propose to the British Govesn- a new treaty of commerce. TIhe Duke of Monte-bello, ambassador of France at the Court of Naples, has arrived in Paris. This diplomatist, it is ...

... confined to Turkey, but shared in less lively assents, in all the principalities of the Danube. In Walachia and Moldavia, the struggle which had been maintained between the Boyards and has been suspended by the sense of the common danger which threatens them. In the fall of Cracow they see foreshadowed what may be, ere long, their own fate; and they have desisted from internal differences, ...

... members ef both chambers. Before the Christmas vacation, a leading member of the opposition, M. Delfosse, gave notice that he would move for oH-cial information from ministers relative to the number of religious communities in this country, the number of inmates in each, and to other subjects respecting those congregations. Yesterday, the Minister of Justice stated, in reply to the questions, ...

... Windsor, Wednesday.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert took their usual early walk this morning. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Royal Family, and attended by a small suite, will take their departure to-morrow afternoon, immediately after an early luncheon, for Clareinont, where the Court will remain until within a few days of the meeting of parliament, on the 19th inst. Her ...

... LANCASHIRE. Lord Lincoln's Visit to Manchester.— Everything about the much talked-of requisition to Lord Lincoln from the electors of Manchester —about the number persons who have signed it—about when ®r how it is to presented—is involved in the deepest mystery. Whether ft has been actuallv abandoned or not is not known. All that |>nn learned from his committee now is, that, instead of Lord ...

... congress had not yet been constituted; the question of the presidency of the representative chamber was still unsettled. The meeting of moderado deputies which, had been convoked for the evening of the 11th, had been adjourned. The ministry was desirous of suspending the definitive constitution of congress, and all other active measures, until the arrival of M. Martinez de la Rosa, whom they ...

... impatience, sorrow, and dismay. When the wolf so ea-ily devours the shepherds, is the reflection, surely he will make but light work of the sheep. The sheep, however, seem in no danger; the she-wolf of Home, very dexterous for the moment at running away with shepherds, is without power or taste for preying on the flock. Your great founders of religion and of sects were wont to come forth ...

... THE American President's miessaae, of which we have given an ample and carefully prepared summary in other columns,. has been looked for with much anxiety,.and will be read with a corresponding interest. Like all the state documents from the same bureau, it is lengthy, and Somewhat wordy; but it is, nevertheless, an ably-written exposition of the policy of.the executive government, and of the ...

... EBeiioving, as we do, that anything which tends ts impress the putblie maind; with a sense of the real character of the House of Comilnosn, as a xr-PRE5SNTATIVL ASSEMBLor, must tend, in the satnedegrec, is excite a strong feeling of diasatistactiost with it, arid a strong dostre to effect a sweeping refsnn in its constitution, we insert, in our par- Itarmentary reports, immediately alter the ...

... IAMB3LING,: GAMIBLERS, AOND I GiAMBLING : EHOUSES . BEING EXTRACTS FROM TflE 1NOTEiBOOK OF THE LATE RALPH ROULETTE, ESQ. CaTER IV. ?? rail at gaming; 'tis a rich topic, and. affords noble declaration. Go preach against it in. the city; you'll find' a congregation in every tavern>; if they should laugh at ?? to my lord, and sermonize it there;* he'll thank you, and reform.-TaE GAxmEsTza. - - ...

... Next to uniformity of gauge, there is no one sub- ject to which the new Railway Board and' the Legis- lature can more usefully direct their attention, than to enforce some uniform system of railway ac- counts. We have before touched on this subject. Day by day does its extreme importance more imperatively demand attention, and we trust that the following observations will be received by both ...