... The season is suggestive of question :-HoW I ar stands the Europe of 1850 P In any coup d'wil bi at the general position of European politics, our th attention is naturally first a ...

... THE IRISH S lATE PRISONERS. tioni, The following has been published, as a 1 specimen of boi dent the journal of Mr. PatrickIO'Donolite, onl ?? way to ant exile, on board, H.M. Sloop of war, Swift. It is ca- ala tainly a curioua record:- an( E.- Thursday. 12th Jusly.-4th ?? rough. Greet w y. in rain, a stiff' breeze all night. After breakfast, Air, ,i ?? rend aloud the book of Judith, Mly sea ...

... THE NATIONAL SOUlr'lIY AND THE COMI- MITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION. . ' The National Society has closed its correspondence with the Committee of Council on Education, and krt rejected the condition's which that committee have k; sought to impose on Church schools. Their letter, a nwhich we subjoin' will be read with greet interest: National'Soicity's Office, Dec. 1i, 1849, Id Sir,-I am ...

... ril C11RoITRN ICk TUESDAY. JANUARY l 1850 One bumper at partinrg to the year that's aoa W.I-of Irore 11bead for Daddyr Timces ?? speed the hall old pilgrim on his ;,t~r~elart~s tltroogh 1850 ! '49 is done and c'.tbrced with the things o'erpast-let the be. openi and tlle sum and substance of IIs beqacsts made kInoIvwn. In vhttt light does 'Iurnison place him with regard to his pre- ors-has he ...

... 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 ...

... Sv~~ ~ ~~ ~ ?? - =n ,1 LLAURoHZ DD RE&DPG. ANID LITERURY I to SOCI,,, ETY;:. > ,. .; ?? ?? Anniveritary af thisss:oiiety Wets hldpi on -A the 013th Deecember (tStephen's Day),-nnd to coin- tnt mt'moraitt the ca1iublishirent bf-so usekil' anl Instittil lot tion, evff ii ?? ommnittpe 'and other of 'friends of WVC1qb literaiture reqolvedl to open a suh- 10.ecliption list flls the, purpos;e of ...

... 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. ...

... S3fituftenrwt, axc. 1211 I to tea CREIV3 op THiN WOnoDSIow STRAM1ER.-Afl effort is being made to present some substantial articles of Warm as;teamers. This generous testimonial is by way of acknsow. 2 ...

... .FOBEIGN o -COBRRE OONDBNCE. Our New York correspondent writes:- NEW YORK, DEO. 1,8. S:noe my last communioation, the House of Repre- sentatives, at Washington, has been daily engaged in endeavouring to elect a speaker. A great number of votes has be-n taken, but without success up to the moment of writing this letter. Two cireumstances rather interesting have occurred. The one, was the ...

... 5, i- us ;FThe Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert he remain at Windsor Castle. re. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her reai- of ?? Saturdaymarning, ka f ...