... Sir,-As I find you have inserted my first letter, you will probably add the further account which it promised. Allow me to say that I wouldrecommend no speculation for making fortunes from the risks and labours of the poor. This is not the time for such schemes: besides improved fishecies are not likely to return large fortunes very soon to those who embark in them. Let all who long for sudden ...

... Daily News Office, Thursday lltorning. The schism which we formerly noticed among the Conservative and Ministerial organs in Paris is com- mented on with unsparing severity by the Opposition journals of that city. The Conestittdionnel of Tues- day reviews the conflict which has been carried on between the Journal des Debats and La Presse, the one exclaiming mournfully the English alliance, ...

... RA IL WA y NE WiS. The share market improved in its position yekter- day. The quotations were well supported with an active business, and in Coruwalls, Newport and Abergavennys, and Reading, Guildford, Reigates, an advance might be noted ; in the last, which for some time has been little heard of, the improvement was considerable, arising, it is reported, from the directors being likely to ...

... ml - __1 *1 1 I 1 . I . ..- The royal mail steamer Clyde arrived at Southamp- ton yesterday morning. Her dates are-Tampico, 22nd of Nov.; Vera Cruz, 2nd; Havannah, 11th; Nassau, 14th; and Bermuda, 21st of December. Advices of the 2TOd Nov., from Tampico, and of the 2nd Dec. from Vera Criuz, state that General Taylor had ad- vanced and taken possession of Saltillo; that on learning this, Santa ...

... DUBLIN, JAN. G. bThe long neglect of the Irish fisheries is at length about to be effaced. You announced the formation of r a Joint Stock Company to push the enterprise, but e beyond the announcement we have heard nothing t since, except the sensible remarks of an Old Fisher- ii man, tendering me some information. The govern- h ment, as you are aware, selected three curing stations on the ...

... THE VISIT TO NANGASAKI. The Journal des Dibhts of the 6th instant, contains an account of the visit of Admiral Cekille to Japan. The object of this document is stated to be the cor- rection of erroneous statements with regard to both the objects and the facts of the expedition. We give the account slightly abridged. The French division, composed of the Cliopatre, bearing the admiral's flag, ...

... RIO ]) IANEIRO AND LA PLATA. FALMOUrH, WEDNESDAY EvEN\NG.-The Crane packet, brings news from the Brazils, having come ir after a most stormy passage. She sailed from Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 18. This packet would, as to news, partake of the usual flatness of late of the Brazilian advices, but for a quar. rel of a violent sort which took place, and continued to exist, between the imperial ...

... LA&NCASnIRE. RUNCONr MADE AN INDEPENDENT PORT.-On Wednes- day a Treasury order was received, stating that-on memo- rials from the merchants of Runcorn and-the Northwich salt proprietors-their lordships have constituted Runcorn an independent port, as an experimental measure for three years; and creating new offices of collector and controller, each of which officers will also fill subordinate ...

... STATE OF THE COJNT.RY-. COR1C.-ENGLISH BENEVOLENCE.-The Soutlern. Re- porter, of yesterday, furnishes proofs of the unmistakeable benevolence of Englishmen, and must tend to raise, in a high degree, indeed, the national character of England amongst the people of this country:- TO TiHE EDITOR OF THE SOUTIHERN REPORTER. 34, Abehureh-lane, London, 2nd Jan., 1847.-Dear sir,-I have un- bounded ...

... Dnlvoe.roiri, JAc-. G.-Sl ift pt, Lieut.-Comn. J. Douglas, arrived from Falmouth on the 5th inst., and camle into harbour to refit.- at01tlr, st., Com11. H. Snith, arrived onl the .5th fron Lisbon, last from 1amlnonth, at which place she lalided despatchcs from VicesAdin. Sir W. Parker, on the 3l-1vseser, st., having been examined, was un- clocked on thoe 5th.-Bield6g, st., Coin. G. E. Davis, ...

... Abridged from the Letter of a cortespondent to the Tilles. ~et the country read what the Ecclesiastical Com- mission has done. The wants of the land, with respect to religious instraction, were those chiefly springing from a vast increase of population. There was a cry, an irresistible cry, for more churches, more ministers, with manses, in the midst of a new race perishing for lack of ...

... - WE are disposed to sympathise strongly with the mo feeling expressed against the window tax at the cor Marylebone meeting of Wednesdav. The tax is o unequal, and prejudicial to health. Its inequality is Be more than usually curious and complicated. We Pe should call it the worst of taxes assessed in the inc worst of ways. It has always appeared to us a tra matter of regret that in the ...