... IRELANDS THER NATIONAL MONUMENT.-It is estimated that the collection of last Sunday will amount in round numbers to Isome 15,000; no very insignificant Sam, considering the appalling prospects of poverty contained in the accounts from all parts of the country. !The amount collected laS Sunday at the chapels in Dub- !Inn for the O'Conell monument was) in round numbers, el1300. The Eveni7ng ...

... THE ENGLISH ON THE CONTlNENT. With regard to my statement that £40,000 per day is spent in Paris by the English, I think 1 shall be able to startle you with a few facts tending to show that my estimate is ander the mark. I have long seen with regret the action of absen- teeism on the currency in England. I am quite sure that our legislators, economists, and public men, have no idea whatever of ...

... it Adl -.- - AU r ComOctosadatclesa oitelec, ntendedi -o publication, require to leb, athenticlaed fyrhe namec and address of the writer ; and unless thee diy rections are rigidly adhered to, Correspondents ma rest ssred that no attention will be paid to their co-aunicatin *.0 T. *A. will require to authenticate his communication -'1ture, and to become responsible for its cc- beqleTsceb . T ...

... BULs FnR Forxcr.NG.-How frequently do we hear com- E plaints about bulbs doing badly at an early season! Now we must freely confess that it is much more difficult to force bt bulbs into blossom through December and January. than in March; it is altogether a very different affair. Still, how- ever, by a strict attention to first principles, the thing will I by no means be found insurmountable. ...

... It is rumourel that the v ommittec on railways, appointed at the instance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, have agreed upon some inportant recommendations, awiong t which are the enlarging the period of complethin railway works, thereby enabling the respective boards to defer (-Uls, and the empoweringcomupanies who have passed the standing I orders this session to proce~d next session ...

... PARTICULARS OF THE' RAILWAYS o01 SCOT- LAND SANCTIONED IN 1846. Length. C Airdrie and Bathgate Jtnction. Leased to the Ediiburgh and Glasgow. Engineers, AMessrs Grain er and MVartin - - - - 19f le I Alford 'alley (Great North of Scotland Com- Ln pany's line). Engineer, Alexander Gibb - 154 i- Ayrshire and Bridge'of Weir Junction (Branch ar of the Gla-gow and Ayr Company from their line near ...

... (Frmrn the Edinburgl Gazette of Tuesday.) Walter Thorbnrn & Co. coach builders, Glasgow, and of Waiter Thorburn, the sole partner of said Company, and as an individual-Creditors meet in the writing chambers of William Gilmour, writer, there, 27th January and 17th Fe- bruary. John Marshall, grocer and urovision merchant, Glasgow- Creditors meet in the office of David Jenkins, writer, there, I ...

... WE:DNLBDS3DA, Decomber 22, 1847. JEWIISH DISABILITMES. I THIs question, which has arisen out of the return of I Baron Rothschild as one of the representatives for the City of London, was mooted in the House of Commons, on Thursday last, by Lord John Russell. On that coca-: sion, his Lordship moved that the House resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider the civil and ...

... COMMITTEE ON COMMERCIAL DISTRESS. TRhn motion for the nomination of the members to serve on this Committee, on. Monday week, led to a rather pro- tracted debate, which, however, was not attended with any practical result of much moment. The opposition to the motion was chiefly manifested in two ways. Some objected to the motion altogether, as a mere ruse, on the part of Ministers, to shift the ...

... !I PA1ROCHIAL BOARD OI' SM NICHOLAS. - The first meeting of the newly elected Board for the I Parish of St Nicholas was held, in the Girls' Hospital, on Saturday last, for the psrpose of electing a Chairman, tointing committees, And otherroutine duties incident to e aeb meeting. I The members of the Board having taken their ylaees9 -I Mr Ruzcmi in a few words moved that Baille Forbes be ...

... *7zace. Some alarm was created in Paris on 'Wednesday by the in- telligence from Greece, received via Malta, and which repre- sented matters under an unfavourable aspect. The only menacing feature of the affair is, however, that M. Coletti's reply to the Porte announced the determination of the Greek Government to make no concession to M. Mussurus; but, with the addition, that to any successor ...

... INDL4. THE usual monthly mail has arrived, with advices to the following dates:-Bombay, M3rh 2d; Calcutta, February 20; Madras, February 22. The news, as might have been expected, is by no means of a stirring character. The most satisfactory feature of the intelligence is the continued tranquillity of the Punjaub, under the new arrangements which have recently been made in that quarter. All ...