... mbe 1w s TuiE BLUES.-The deficiencies of a certain Cornet of this regiment, who has gone to winter on the Conti- nent, are said to amount to no less a sum than £87,000. Six or seven of tho officers had become responsible by endorsing or accepting bills for tile youth, in different sums, ranging from £4,000 to £17,000, to meet which it is expected that some of them will have to part with ...

... cbr Prcs.- OUR AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. (From t1wt Times.) No more significant phenomenon. can be recorded for our instruction and astonishment than the present ulnwillingness to emigrate to the Australian colonies. Inbhabited by an Anglo-Saxon race, possessing anL un- limited quantity of fertile soil, a climate whose charms those who have experienced it tell us they can never forget, a native ...

... Ir would be amusing, if the laugh were not really against ourselves, to watch the successive rebukes which the prophets of reciprocity are receiving, and which they are obliged to stomach without even an attempt to explain the extraordinary difference be- tween each prediction and each event. When every- thing else failed, the advocates of the left-handed, one-sided policy, called F ree-trade, ...

... RAILWAY EXTENSION IN THE NORTI-I. As we expected, Belfast has assumed its proper atti- tude in respect to the great railway question w hich is now agitating the agricultural and mercantile in- terests of the Northern half of' our island-an atti- tude consistent with its own dignityas the metropolis of Ulster, and with the importance of the questions at issue in whatever determination our ...

... DISPENSARY DISTRICTS.- SALARIES OF MEDICAL O1FFICERS. ,W7 - TilE Omagh Guardians have divided their union into six dispensary districts. The following are the salaries apportioned to the several medical officers:-Omagh; £g80; Fintona, £5i0; Dromoro, £50; Beragh, £50; Drumquin, £50; Carrickmore, £50. Thle Londonderry Board of Guardians have divided their union into seven districts,.it is ...

... Jffoavigil 111trUigentn, AMERICA. Lrvnrmioor, SATURDAY.-By the arrival this morn- ing, at nine o'clock, of the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Judkins, we have received New York letters and papers to the 9th inst., but are without the usual telegraphic dispatch via Ha- lifax. The Asia left Boston on the 10th inst., at noon, and Halifax on the 11th, at ten at ...

... gviculture, &c. FARM OPERATIONS FOR DECEMBER. W1EAT.-Such wheats as have not yet been sown should be committed to the earth without delay, so as to be in before the first of the new year, after which we would recommend none to be sowed till February, unless the weather continues mild and open. Russesi BEANs may still be sown, if the ground be in a sufficiently dry state to receive them. WINTER ...

... 1 ULSTER SOCIETY FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND DUM.B AND THEf BLIND. ANNUAL MiEflI.Oat OVI Ali' r iNT SOCIElTY. YsSTErrmn., the annual meeting of the mnembers and friends of the above-named noble and invaluable Insti- tution was held in the MIusic IHall, in this town. 'he attendance on the occasion was extremely numerous, a large proportion consisting of ladies, and the greatest interest ...

... FIVE HIUNDRED PERSONs DESTROYED BY A WATER- srour. -On Saturday, intelligence was received at Lloyd's, under date Malta, the 8th inst., of a most awful occurrence at the island of Sicily,which had been swept by twvo enormous water-spouts, accompanied by a ter- rific hurricane. Those who witnessed the phenomena -describe the water-spouts as two immense spherical bodies of water reaching from ...

... THE ULSTER INSTITtJTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB AND THE BTLND. 11.r - . . WE refer, with the utmost satisfaction,. to our very ample report of the proceedings at the annual meeting of the Society to whom the Province is indebted for this noble Institution. In whatever light we view these proceedings, they afford abundant sources of gratifi. cation to the heart of the Christian philanthropist. ...

... T'Ia most remarkable man of any age or country is My Uncle. It is neither in fatuily pride, nor in a gush of gratitude for overwhelming obligations in the nature of debts paid, or fortune inherited or expected; but it is on mature consideration, and with the light of Tooke's Pantheon, Lempriere, and the Biographic Universelle, beaming from my book-shelves, that I persist in the conviction that ...

... zic Frcs. TIHE MAYTNOOTH ENDOWNE NT. (From the Morning Herald.) Tum propriety and sound policy of continuing the annual grant to the College of Maynooth is a ques- tion which has assumed a form and position in the public mind, and has given rise to so decided an ex- pression of public opinion, as to ensure its occupying , very prominent place amongst the many and serious matters of national ...