... I Saturday evening, about six o'clock, a tremendous ex- I plosion took place in an arched vault, under the pavement the High Street, close the entry to Blackfriars' Wvnd, the cause and means of which are yet involved in mystery. The explosion tore up the strong and firmly built arch beneath the pathway, carrying with the large flag stones, raising a dense cloud of dust and lime, and opening up ...

... DUBLOIN, DEC. 30. We are at a stand still here, and in the provinces they seem to be no better. Politics would appear to be at an end; they are unheard of, forming neither the topics of declamation nor she basis of contentious disputation. The politics of the repeal journals are confined to attacks upon Lord Clarendon and the whigs-attacks almost all personal; those of the conservative press ...

... PROVINCiAL. lANCASHIRE, THE CHARGE OF ARSON AT LIVEItPOOL.-On Wednesday and Friday the examination of Mr. W. C. Demaine was continued before the magistrate, Mr. Rush- ton, and on Saturday the accused was ordered to be brought up that the depositions might he read over prepara- tory to his committal for trial, The additional evidence ad- duced was aa follows: Mr. M'Gowan proved cautioning the ...

... TBE PENINSULAR MAILS. t F7.- f - m (From the Times.) Southamnptnn, Friday, Dec. 29. The Peninsular and Oriental Stenm Navigation Company's 1 ship Pacha, Captain John Weeks, arrived here at an early hour this morning, bringing the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails, I in charge of lieutenant Peter Rainer, R.N., Admilalty agent.. Her dates ore-Gibraltar. Dec. 19 ; Cadiz. Dec. 20 Lisbon, Dec. 22: ...

... RESOLUTION OF THE MINISTERS NOT TO. RESIGN ONXTHR VOTW OF -YESTERDAYAT. PARIS, FRIDAY EvLErNe.-The Assembly met to-day un-: der considerable excitement, in consequencie of the vote of yesterday. M!. Grandin opened the proceeedings by asking for an ex- planation relative to the decision of yesterday, as it' did not appear plain to -him whether the reduction of -the salt duty was to date from ...

... Captain Banbury, the 33d regimeut, is to succeed to the staff appointment of Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General in Dublin, vice Major Draper, promoted, and who proceeds to Bom. bay with his regimeut, the 64th. Major-General Thomas James Wemyss, C.B. is placed upon the list of general officers who are in the receipt of the unattached pay of L.l per day. Rotal Artillery—Woolwich. Dec. 26.—Captain ...

... EXPRESS FRO31 PARIS. lySloM OUr. corlESPON'DENT.] PARIS, SUNDAY MORNING. Last evening, after a Cabinet Council held at the Palace of the Elysee National, M. Leon Faucher, the new Minister of the Interior, took possession of that department. M. Lacrosse was also installed in the department of Public Works; and M. Buffet in that of Commerce and Agriculture. The proilmo- tion of M. Leon Faucher ...

... TWEA TXEANT OPl L UNLA TiCS, . TTHE FIsIIPO ND'bS L UNA TICA SYU M I. OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION. t. [Coutillced f'tso5 the Mo072iniis Chraonicle of Satiidaly.] TIIt'RSDAY. o The procceodings wcre resrnmcd ait eleven o'clock. Ic Dr. Wilhoit Wood was; swor e ad xanmined by Mr. it1 Kcatinig Is the resident medical Ioffi cer of B~ethlehemci, 2s Londion, and has the Sole Charlge3 Of it. Is also ...

... Wrbe F$rttman~ 3oa . .. . ?? THE POOR LAW-THE BALLINROBE UNION. In our paper of Saturday appeared a letter from the Rev. Mr. Conway, an active and intelligent clergyman of the diocese of Tuam, in which he states facts that have fallen under his own observa- tion-facts free from doubt, for, in almost all, lie was himself personally andprofessionally concerned- and cites the authority of public ...

... FRgaNC. Our Paris express of Friday and Saturday has reached us. M. Passy has been induced to recall his determina- tion to resign in consequence of the vote of the cham- ber on the salt tax. M. Birio seized the opportunity also to resign. He was identified with the majority of the chamb~er and the moderate republicans, who. have not rallied to the present government, hut remain in opposition. ...

... F R E N C H It E P IT B L I C. [FROM OUR CORRSESPONDENT.] PARIS, SATURDtAY. The new President of the Republic has already had an opportunity of experiencing the embarrass- :r nients of governing a great country. Not only have his Ministers been already left in a minority in the e National Assembly, but the Cabinet itself has gone L to pieces. Wheln I wrote to you yesterday, it was thought that ...

... morning, Christmrts Day, the Rev. Dr Fletrh.r delivered his annual addrea the youug, Fin.bury Fin-bury C reus. The attendance was great as on anv of previous occasions during the la-t fifteen years that we have noticed in our columns the rev. gentleman's the voung. The number of children could not have l> ...