... (From the John Bull.) The Pope and his friends at the council board-for ?? his Holiness has many devoted friends among her Majesty's councillors-have fallen UpOn a device, which for the interest of our beloved Queen, no less than of her kingdom, requires to be nipped in the bud. We lose no time, therefore, in nmaking the fact known to those whom it concerns. The notion now on the tapis is to ...

... REnUCT ION IN T'rE Amiy.-Orders have been issued to reduce the Ceylon Rifle Regiment to 400 men. SOLDIER7S CobtFoRTs,-The following circular has just been issued from the Horse Guards.- Troops whenproeeeding by railway during the winter months, and in cold weather at other seasons of the year, are, invariably, to wear their great coats. By command, J. Btowze, Adjutant-General. MADRAS ...

... I - . Before the following lines attract your attention, you will have seen, by the report of their meeting in the Dublin papers, that our distillers have had a gathering here; they assembled from different parts of the country, and they en- tertained Lord Naas, in testimony of their grateful feelings towards him, because of his advocacy of their interests in parliament. This may be all a ...

... CONCILIATION A HALL. I LOYAL NATIONAL CATHOLIC AND REPEAL AS- SOCIATION. The usual weekly meeting of the association was held yes- terday in Conciliation Hall. There was a numerous atten-I dance, and among those present were:- John O'Connell, Esq., M.P., Rev. P. J. Gilligan, John' Rafferty, William Cranstonf William Patrick O'Connor, w - Swiney, John Byrne, ,Blchard Nolan, Cornelius Ryan, r ...

... (HARILTABI SOCiEY P OFUST. VINCENT DE PAUL. Everybody regards Christmas as a very eventful time; by some it is spent in fond associations and happy recollectiOns, to many others it is a time for sad thoughts and solemn re- fiections; such is this chequered life. There are very few who do not indulge in some extra enjoyment and pleatares at this festive season ; and we believe there are none in ...

... We subjoin an extract from an article in the last publication of our weekly contemporary, the Irish Jurist, enforcing the view of granting to Ireland a commission of inquiry into legal affairs similar to that lately given to England in relation to the Court of Chancery. Such a commission may for the present be confined to the practice and proceedings in our Court of Chancery. This we say ...

... |b t $ree wtai r Jonrat DUBLIN: MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1850. Great disappointment has been felt in England 1x at the refusal of the President of the United States e to visit the Exhibition of Industry in the ensuing r year. The Emperor Nicholas, the pet of the Eng- c lish aristocracy-who steadies their attachment to t despotism with Ascot plates-has already signified f his intention to be ...

... Zbe 4ertaen 3Jou-imat DUBLIN: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1850. THE DUBLIN DESOLATION ACT-EXTENSION OF THE RESISTANCE. It is a cheering and hopeful thing to have men like George Alexander Hamilton joining us. It has been one of this country's greatest misfortunes hitherto that among the warmest advocates of Anglican pretensions were to be found men of high personal character, whose social position ...

... I ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Liverpool, Sunday. The splendid mail steamer, the Asia, Captain Judkins, a rived in the Mersey last night, at half-pas9t ten o'clo, direct from New York, which city, she left late on the i1 instant.. She had an excellent ran of 10 days and some! hours, thus proving her superiority for quickness. The A. brings 60 passengers, and one hundred ...

... CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE CORK CLERGY I r r2- Ar^p-r. r ^rX I-n ti. 1-IA A ^ - haps We kuors axamoener) are nappy w Jay ticiore our readers the following interesting correspondence between the Rgt Rev. Dr. Delany, on the part of his lordship and the clergy of the diocese of Cork, and that illustrious prince of th church, Cardinal Wiseman, Archoishop of Westminster:- Cork, December 13th, ...

... RELIGIOUS LIBERTY-THE DECLARATION. IThe minister will not find it so easy as he at first supposed to forge fresh fetters with which to bind down liberty of conscience. Our last intelli- gence of the progress made by the Declaration, pledging our parliamentary representatives to resist any legislative interference with the freedom of religion, reports that it has been up to this time subscribed ...

... I I ?? Y-1rk f)- 1 0 Io OF i *ew lors, sec. is, 1800. /5050tVING DAY IN NEVw YORK. -THE PULPIT ON 1Y_-TiIF MILITARY COMPANIES OF GOTIrAM.-Q, Y laut, the 12th inst., thanksgiving day, an an- :V ity in each state, appointed about this sbason by 'lation of the governor, was celebrated in New he day being fine, a thanksgiving day has rarely with greater eclat. It was a universal holiday. out on ...