... FORMIG IA TELLI C4 TEIE EFRENCHEMPIRE. . PTHus IaV11DAY E ire.vH .--The preparations for Ae marriage of the Emperor are On a very grand scale. .- , applications for tickets to Notre Dame have exceeded by ten to one the number of seats that can be made. The municipal commi99ion of Parii have voted 600,0001. for a diamond nocklam to be presented to the future Empress of Frace, and 800,000f; to ...

... I be treemtaw! $OlaLnW DUBLIN: TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1863. SIR JAMES GRAHAM-DECLARATjON I IAGAINST THE BALLOT. . I Several of the ministers and office-holders have spoken from the hustings, and detailed, as far as was consistent with their position, the policy by which the coalition will be guided in its administration of the affairs of the country. Two cabinet ministers have already ?? James ...

... MR. LONG'S APPOINTMENT. We confess we felt a little startled when we read the reply given in the House of Commons by Mr. Hamilton to the question of Mr. Ball as to the un. precedented nature of the appointment of Mr. Long to the Presidency of the Money-order Office, view- ing it merely in the. light of an irregularity, and quite independently of the indecency of such an act having been done ...

... Driven from Carlow-driven from the Queen's County-afraid to face any constituency in Ireland, Mr. Sadleir is said to have taken refuge in Dublin Castle. We kiow not whether the rumour be true or not, but the political gossips have it that the government, finding that no constituency in Ireland could be got to elect their Junior Lord, have resolved to put him to the desk in the Castle, and ...

... THE CARLOW ELECTION-IRISH PATRIOTISM | AND PRINCIPLES. (Froim the .Beyhst 1fercury.) If, upon party grounds, we regret that a member of the present government has lost his election, we must admit a feeling of satisfaction that a traitorous brigadier has not been able to pass through the public and constitutional ordeal con- sequent upon his acceptance of office. The experiments which the ...

... I I The recent unpleasant occurrence at Island-bridgo Bar- racks, Dublin, which we noticed in our last, ald with which two young infantry oeficers were not very creditably con- nected, has resulted in Sir Edward Blakeney's administering to each of tho officers in question a very severe reprimand, accompanied by an intimation that the Lieutenant-Goneral was only moved to take so lenient a view ...

... | MOTTO FOlS A STrEPFATIHERt- CCeSt IC Ple711;'J s I(17(i colute. IPoT--~ucF.-Th~e luck of finding a quart bottle that will hold a pint. Qu:ntv.-Will tihe board of directors of the amnal- gamated railways be stigniatised as a collision Govern- atlelit? FRINCsi USUEoS AT PAI:rT.-France has Iteen accus- ?? to set copies to Europe; but site witl hardly bo able to do so now-with no pen. but ouly ...

... THIE BRIGADE.-TREASON AND ITS AWAGES. ('eront the l~ntion.) WILLIAM Kri-not, John Sadleir, and Anthony O'Fla- herty, three chiefs of the Irish B3rigade, of which this country has heard such wonders for the last two years, have gone right over to the enemy. To he suie they have. %Vfho expectecl more or less of them? 'Tlhe mien wanted place. They agitated for place. They intri-uel for place. ...

... '1'ElR11BI3BLE EPEC'1TS OF TiHE YELLVO\V F1E\' 1R11I. I: consequenro of the awlvul mortality amongst tile Officers annd CrC' OF the laoUlide'.e, thilrtv-thir'ee. scrnw- frig te, Captain Ilaisted,at Baloradous, the letters ?? that ship alre cominpalati ely foe'; hut those Which have come to hand are heart-rending' ii the extroL e o, for, uL) to the ]Gth of December, no lesS than 120, out of a ...

... ?ovvpofl?cn?. GOSPEL PRlOPAGATION SOCIETY. TO THIE EDITOR OF TlE BEIFAST NEWS-LETTER, S il-I see no occasion to reply to the observations of Dunensis, in your publication of to-day, save to assure you, sir, and to assure your readers, that, in the letters of mine which you have already published, I did not express the feelings of passion, but of the most caln, prayerful consideration I ...

... THE CONVIuT KIRWAN. Some singular disclosures are coming to light regarding the means employed to obtain the commutation of Kirwan's sentence. A correspondent of the Evening Pascket, who writes under the pseudonyms of JJUSTITIA, in pointing out the discrepancies and falsehoods of the statements put for- ward by Kirwan's advocates, comments upon a most astound- ing fact relative to the ...

... _. I _ _. - .1 _: _ _-2 a _, _! I -. A 1 - - I The usual monthly meeting of this society was held last evening in the Board-room of the society, Kildare-street. Shertly after eight the chair was taken by Mr. ViciceRs, T.C. The Secretary having read the minutes of 'the previous meeting, Mr. Copeland read the first portion of an elaborate essay on wheat, which he proposed to consider as regards ...