... I (FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.) Paris, W~ednesday, January 24. There is every prospect that for some time to come the atteltion of our political men will be chiefly directed to the ?? of finances and to the paramount object of establish- inlg 5oaetlhilg approaching to an equilibrium between the expenditure and incomeo of the country. The National Asosembly made a comtencement yesterday ...

... 'GREAT STOR VLOSSOF ION TE EAST ,: tag: COAST OF SCOTA .o AnrEnnoEs, JA.k 10.-Th Aberdeen Banner Says:- Late on Sunday it blew a gale, the sea' rose to a tremendous a' b ght, and the con sequences to shippifnlg were Seritos. The 4 UnIh~ion, of Stonehaven, was wrecked at; the! month of the har- bfiur;: ~ie Mansfield, of Aberdeen, from 'Hartlepool, shared vbe~b4 fateimong the rocks at ...

... The second 'meeting of the Academy during the, present year took place last night. The Rev. Hu^xroHRY LLOYD D.D., President, in the chair. There was a numerous attendance of members and visitors. Among those present wer_ -Thomas Andrews, M.D.; A. Armstrong; John Anster, LL.D. ; Robert Ball; Charles Benson, M.D.; Thomas Bergin;- Henry C: Beauchamp, M.D.; Sir Williamn Betham, Charles Baurnes, ...

... -(From tle Limerick and Clare Exaniner.) BALLYLONGFORD.-Ballylongford is four miles to the west of Tarbert. It belongs to Mr. Blacker and Major Crosby.- As you enter the streets you are immediately struck with the wretched appearance of some of the houses; many of which are tottering to decay. Here and there you are sure to meet with groups of skeletons without food or raiment, whose forlorn ...

... I - THE COMMISSION-MR. DUFFY. At noon to-day another Commission of Oyer and Terminer opens-the fourth since the arrest of lr. Duffy. H e will, perhaps, to-morrow stand again at the bar, where he has' already stood upwards of twenty times in vain. But now we trust not in vain, but at last to be fairly tried by a fair jury of his fel- low-citizens. It is, indeed, full time. Anomalous as the cha- ...

... I IMPERIAL P.4RLIAMENT. 0 HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRiWAY, MARCHS 2. a DUBLIN IMPROVEMENT BILLS. !r Mr. J. REYNOLDS moved the second reading .of the a Dubhn corporation waterworks bilL. ` a Mr. GROGAN moved, as an amietdment, thatfthe secohd y reading be postponed till the 13th of March, when the Dublin le consolidation, improvement, waterworks,, and sewees till if would be proposad to be read a ...

... I. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. FROM GOVERNOR GENERAL THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL O0 ELGIN AND KINCARDINE TO EARL GREY. Government-house, Montreal, April 30, 1849. (Received May 15, 1849.) Mr LORD-I regret to state that rioting, attended with some consequences much to be regretted, though happily with no injury to life, or, except in one instance, to person, has taken place in the city of Mooatreal ...

... ' Tb e $rteemawsm 3owMnat I SURPLUS POPULATION. The waste of life and labour now going on in Ire- land is not sufficient for the active ideas of our eco- nomic regenerators. They look with complacency and hope on the terrible desolation which now sweeps over the countryt and discover the growth of future good in the flood of emigration which now carries off its capital, muscle, and ...

... THE ARMS.,ACT,--MEIMQR1AL.TO THE. LORD, LIEUTENANT AND HIS REPLY. Our readorls may remember an affair brought some timne ago before the petty sessions at Rahisey, in which Sugein Blackley ?? hound over to stand listiial at the next quarter session for sh'oting at a boy who lad been, we believe, ga- itering brambies for firewoid in'his shr'ubbery. We are as little inclined as the best friend of ...

... I ued The following is from the iffors'ing Chronicle, which is re, known to be the organ of the younger section of the politi- ing cians who adhere to Sir Robert Peel. The Chronicle proba- m; blY sympathises with Sir Robert, and is more identified with 'ell his policy than any other journal in England-so mnich so, e15 that it may be almost called the ofgan of his opinions. Out he readers may ...

... THE, IRISH POOR-LAW RATE lw AID. I From a passage in the Times of yesterday, and our readers are aware that the Times is an authority as to ministerial intentions, it would seem that it is the purpose of ministers to terminate the system of parliamentary grants in relief of Irish distress, by introducing a system of rates in aid, by which the general property rated to the poor in Ireland, ...

... IRISH WASTE LAND IDIPROVEMfENT SOCIETY. 0nTues.av, h'e' 'half VearTy meeting -f this Society took place at t :in, Iledd, foalte; it ?? Ienthcoate, Esq., M.,t in thn chair. ' Thie. Secs'etai r~ead the general report, wvith w.hich'. was 'sihcorpbrate'that of Colone Robinsoln, the managing director. It stated that the directors regretted thediscourginig circtlm- stances under '*hich 'thiey ...