... 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 ...

... The following letter, from a correspondent of the Times, dated ' Camp. Deccan, Sept 20, regarding the abolition of Suttee. under the administration of Lord Hardinge, will be read with interest:- Probably the most remarkable feature in the rule of Lord Hardinge will be the cordiality which has been exhibited by native Princes in regard to the abolition of Suttee. During the past two months the ...

... NEWt' Biras ANT) THE STANDING ORDERS.-How will the applications for new bills be affected by the early meeting of Parliament ? is a question that has been asked, and some dif- } ficulty has been found in giving an answer. The standing orders run thus:- That in the months of Oetober and No- vember, or either of them, immediately preceding the session of Parliament in which application for the ...

... PHTLOSOPI-IICAL INSTITUTION. ?? Westroacoti delivered his second lecture on sculpture on Friday evening, which compriied a general andL interesting history of the practice of the art from the earliest ages down to the time of Alexander the Great. Thze lecturer said hie would not attempt to prove in whet nation this art bad first arisen, was it was to be presumned that the faculty of imitation ...

... UNIVERSITY OF EDINJ?URG?. CotM5ENCitMl5T O0 TriE stesstox. The wvinter session of the University commenced on M;son- day, wvhen, as usual, the very Rev.* Principal Lee delivered an opeiing address in the Chemnistry Class Room. There wvas nearly a full attendance of the professors of the different facul- ties, a-nd the blenches wore all closely Ocespied by studen~ts. We also obaserved several ...

... COM.MISSION OF ASSEMBLY. The stated mneeting of the Commnission of the General As-| semtbly wvas held yesterday, when the attendtance of membersI wfas very numuerous. The 11ev. Dr 1'anll, Moderator of the General Assembly, presided. Aofter the disposal of eonue unimportant business, the Comz- maission proceeded to consider a reference from the Presby- tery of Edinlburfgh on the subject of THE ...

... EGYPT IAN AFFAIRS. (Flrom the Timeas Correspoe lidm e.) It e Alexandria, Oct. 299. f N Mis Tlighiness the ViceroIy, who has been staying in Alexandria *t all the smmer, left for Cairo yesterday morniog onl the approacil of winter, tile col)d wecther nt being so mtuch felt in the c:eipital asit is hors. The USUall. salutes frl o all the seippisiaL in time liar- e bou~r al the forts in and ...

... TII1 AMEiUCANS IN 2E KiCc. ['rmi 1ip Th'im es. It is verv diffiCL. t to inlil'e tliitt thire ino lie na cnss of iet'nrsi'S whll, cud:1 lroal A itl> sittisfoCintl) te from tl~e se.Ct if oar it) 7ii'xie: . TheV who owl'; % iis to see sucl) bootless carnt c Tltu' I grtith a to atermiiatioll will findl no hitdl of suhestroti l iliitiattgegcl-eit for thi1, Iil~mps. 'T'ev et who ioxoluotariy sy i ...

... INHABITANITS OF WESTERIN AUSTRALTA. 300, (rmF V e irs)nl ti. rher- The native inhaboitants of Western Aus;tralia are only sirperior adr inh~aeo mnbigs to the Boejemnans of bo uthern Africns. rest Their intellectual neapioli appeals to he very small, ansi tk eir ~)v a physical structure is extremely feeble. In somerespeocs the AUs- tralian peculiatrity assimilates to two of she five varieties ...

... ?? CIVIL WAIR IN S wITZE ,LAND. Pro i -, I - tt } The FI esse pubiisibes a 'l ier frloi ?? of tiue 1th 1 istant, rilrnt a(ilt t :wil It1o citmr iS ,II Ie T irl Iegaciu t1ad] 1 'I Ii i c 5.o1 ?? on tat :s I ,v 1( tt Bob-lc-Con; -te Ii mci !Vl uol depar, iffor tla!t ito fit, I r, t eiiul 'rile 11motive of tile ! eterminacion adl)ted b% t71le p iie L1 -liaister,' sf-s the conies- tpoonl-rl ii 0 ...

... GLASGOW, NOVEM33BER 26. - We learn that James Dewar, the party suspected of having broken into the house of criminal officer Mack-ay. on the night of Thursday wveelk, was apprehended on Ved- nesday by one of the watchmen in Anderstun, and identified e s traham, nightseerjeant, and two other individuals, who e. sawY the stolen property in his possession. f Assea7t-Serious C'ose.-On Monday a man ...