... Conic.-Duringthe last few days preparations were made against the expected high tide that was to inundate the whole city. The Custom-house authorities particularly frightened the public, by having the sugars, teas, and other commodities removed from the vaults to the upper rooms of that building. Mercbants and shopkeepers of every degree followed the ex- ample thus set them, and went to a very ...

... VI--$re e taiv 3Jonngal DUBLIN: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 150 IRISH CONSTITUENCIES-COUNTY OF DOWN. The landlord party have taken the alarm, and their organs already give note of warning that they intend to resist any attempt which may be made to restore to the people of Ireland the right of voting in the election of representatives in parlianent. Of that right six out of every seven ratepayers in ...

... EXAMINATION OF OF1l'ICERS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE STEAM ENGINE. Mey Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having had under their consideration the examination required of officers on subjects connected with the steam engine, with a view to ascertain their competency to be registered as steam offi- cers, are pleased to order that no officer shall, henceforward, be so registered until ...

... - - -; (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). New York, Dec., 18, 1849. Tenr TTUaiO ANID SLAVEItY.-The long accumulating wrath and fear of the slave power of the south, at its ap- proaching downfal, has finally found a vent in congress, in a while week of sound and fury, hyperbola run mad, and dis- union rampant. I trust no sincere friend of America at the other side will be led to attacb.'an ...

... ?? ,, , - . _ TO THE THSANT FARMERS'@P THE-eOUNTY OF' I - :I - LONGFORD.:' I' -oxhall,' December 27, 1849. mI'srzNcliE-I am indurced to.addres yotuiitncongequentle of an ?? oircularwihllt-hbae recived,-,nvitiogme- to atterid a meetingin) Sdtc1ffe',.Hotel; on Satslrday,ftBe 6th of Jeitai'3', for the purpoose of forming 'a proteetinhsecciety fortbe county Lentgfdrd. , e;-. I do 'nOt intettd ...

... I , ~ COTEMPORARY PRESS. DAILY NEWS.-Notwithstanding all the impos- sibility of a return to protection, an impossibility 8 assumed on the idea that no parliament in this s country, however elected, can quite lose its senses, t it is still requisite to obviate something more than & such a return. The very hope of it, and agitation . for it, must be put an end to; for as long as both exist, we ...

... OPEN-AIR MEETING AT TEMPLENOE-REDUC- TION OF RENTS-PETITION AGAINST A RETURN TO PROTECTION. - (Abridqed from the glee Chronicle.) The following advertisement appeared in the last number of the Tralee Chronicle.- aarENrs! RENTS ! RENTS! !-LOW PRICiSs! LOW RENTS! A public meeting will be held on St. Stephen's Day, at the Cross of Been to petition parliament to take into conside- ration the ...

... REPRESENTATION OF ENNIS-J. D. FITZ- GERALD, ESQ., Q.C. Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, Q.C., arrived in town on Wednesday evening, and on the following day announced his intention of seeking to represent the borough in parliament on the next vacancy. A public meeting of the electors was convened and held in Considine's Rooms on Friday evening, for the purpose of hearing from the learned gentleman a ...

... I)KOREIGN INTELLIGEN1 ta ( ?? papero of Nqte ,, I FRANCE. Paris, Sunday, Dec.3 . After our reporter closed ?? dispatch in the Legeis j Assembly on Saturday, M. Larochejaquelin concluded bt vocating the expediency of sending ane expedition to f Video. General La Hitte, Minister for Foreign Affairs, re as a soldier, that lie was more peaceable than Al. 'Lar5 quelin, and said that Great Britain ...

... RENTS AND PRICES-SHARMAN dItAtFORD. The following excellent letter hais been addressed by Mr. Crawford to his tenantry. Mr. Crawford not only advocates the rights of the tenant class, but recognisss them on ?? own estate, andis ias anxious that his tenantry should be independent of him as he is of tbem. In making an abate- moot of rent to his teOants, Mr. Crawford does not adopt the Squaire ...

... THE NEW STATE OF CALIFORNIA; (tsns on the Daily News) The last mail from California has brought intelligence possessing a different kind of interest from that which at- tacheas itself to stories of masses of gold picked up in the beds of rivers, and speculations on a possible depreciation of currencies by the cheapening of their standard. The Cali- fornians have not been solely occupied with ...

... - I The board met yesterday at the workhouse for the usual weekly meeting, Alderman STAUNTON in the chair. The following guardians were ?? Lindsay, V.C ; Mr. Thorpe, Mr. Callaghan, Mr. Long, Dr. Brady, Mr. M'Farlan, Mr. Baily, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Cosgrave. STATI OF THlE HOUSE,. Paupers admitted during the week, 74; discharged, 51; died, 9; remaining in the house, 2,195; receiving outdoor relief in ...