... Zo(orcjnbt0 FAMILY PAST ME.-ANSW1:aS TO ENIGMAS, &C., IN THE lNEws-LErrErit OF iTUESDAY Ltsr.-WVe have reccived several cmillnllications, cintailning selutions of some of the enigmas and charades which appeared iu our puhilioation of Christmas Dav, tile best of which arc from A Yonog Rea- der, of Belfast, and A Schoolboy, of Eye, in England; biut, as we have promised to iiiser tile ...

... AT the foot of the cataract it is possible, though hazardous, to penetrate thirty yards behind the gigantic concave sheet of the headlong flood, where a cavern is formed of about one hundred-and-fifty feet in height, fifty in breadth, and three hiuindired in length, well adapted for the hahit~ition of its present tenants-the eel and thle water snalie. The perilous path lies along tbe narrow ...

... Ebr cetatg 'outaL DUBLIN: TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1860 EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE AND I EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY. The New Year opens on us to-day. WVith what prospects ?-Are we to have three hundred and sixty-five other sunsets on division, and weakness, and famine, and slavery, or with this day's rising sun will this people arise from the lethargy in which they lay as if entranced, and, ...

... SIR r.. PEEL AND IlS TENANT8. Taru foliosvisg letter has beets adilressed by Sir Rt. Peel to the tertant-farmers onl his estate : I wvisht to cornmisnisicats with you onl the present state anil the prospects ofiagricolture sot farris they coscecri our relations (if Isssliord and tcnasst, and I know not thist I could select asty better mnode of cemlaruniealion thasi this which I have adopted. ...

... jorciga F RA N C B. A Comisoresso-r has been appointed by the President of the Recsisitlic to examine the ministerial accounts for 18.19. Tile directors of the llanis of France have declared a divi- dend of 52f. per share for the ialf-year eding the 31st De- cember, 1849. Eighlt Socialists, confined in prison at Lyons, lave effected their escape. Tihere las not vet heen anv modification or ...

... I- these days of change and progress, every year is an aneus mirabilis, and it is as hazardous to aver that the one to which we have just bil adieu has been more rc- markable than its precursors, as it is to predict that the year upon whose threshold we step to-day will be signalised. bv events which will constitute the lanilmarks of ages. Still the year 1849 has ad(lded no small nor ...

... El -3 _I . SUMNMARY OF THE PUBLIC PRESS. TIF Tiiles is full of adliration of the tewv agitationt set on foot by Richard Cobden, on the subject of the colonies, which it considers as good as Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Bill, or the Repeal of the Corti Laws, and obscrves that if it be only once granted that ?? England has now forcsworn religious, civil, and commercial monopoly, ...

... O CONCILIATION _ HAL. I.OYAAL NATIONAL 1I?1PAL ASSOCIATION. The usual weekly ineeting of tile Association was held yes- terday in Conciliation Hall. Tlhe attetleance was numerm -, and among these present ?? O'Ccrnnell, Esq, AMN.., to( Michael Murphy, ?? Peter Slevin, J. Ratsrty. P. Quan, I a Bernatd Brady, M. Nowlan, Edmolloi Doyle, H. Maguire J. ry Kelly, B. Nolan, P. Murphy, Iernard Moran, ...

... | - I DIATII FROM STAnVATIWO.- Atrut a week ago, an t. n. tortenate man inamed Jobr Donnelly was found dead coa. venient to. miiserabla abode in' the parish of Kilbar. ron. It apt.is he had been atn inmate of the Nenaih worklhtoue, 4nd,41t a fortnight previous to his death hi left it -witJ.jhliO tentiorr f -procuring work and suppor,. ing hia agezaRiiher, who kept possession of his cabin. 3 ...

... iIGN I:NTL'E. GENCE.,- (Ff 6m 1ce Lonaon papers of yesterday.) FRANCE. PARIs, FnIDAY.-The 1'incesCorrespondent, writing under this date, says:- The work of displacing the Socialists. who have intruded themselves into ministerial offices in the departments since the proclamation of the Republic, goesbraveiy on. I find in the .Monitleur of this day a list of 28 appointments Ilk the President ...

... EXTiRACTS FROM PUINCI'S ALMANACU. 1litNrS ABOUT FinE.-Itt case of fire, whatever may be the heat of thb moment, lkeep Cool; let nothing put you out, ?? flit somnething to put out the fire ; keep yonrself col- lectedl, arid then collect your famtily. After putting on yn.ur shoes alsi stockings, call out for piunllts and hose to tire fire- men. Don't think about saving your wvatcth and rings, ...

... Agriculturr, &C'. FARMING OPERATIONiS FOR JANUARY. PLOUGH ING Fort Gretrean; CRor's.-All stubble ploughinsg Ought to be as deep is possible-say nine or ten indies at least; and( to effect this it will, pterhaps, be necessary to employ three horses in the plough. The Object of ploughing land for- green crops at en early season is chiefly the benefit derived fromt eaposure of the soil to the ...