... _. 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 ...

... ssBRAIDWOOD. AUGUST 17.-Tbe most favoured spot is still Major's Creek. Some are still making their four and five ounces a day in the dry diggings. About 300 ounces were sent down from this creek by the last weekly escort. At Bell's Creek little or nothing has been done. The' last three escorts have left without any gold from that locality. Tbe price of gold has been lately as low as 21. 18s., ...

... jFOREIGN INTELLIGENCES ce ITHE FRENCH EMPIRE. PARIS WEDNESDAY EvXNING.-There are very Co dictory accounts to-day from Constantinople. TheDeb0 on the authority of its Constantinople correspondent, S'ated that the question of the Holy Sepulchre has been oettled in favour of France;- and that Russia has Protestedagis it Letters from Constantinople by Trieste, in an Italirit journal, state, on the ...

... This unhappy union still continues to struggle against the fate which has so long overwhelmed it. For some time it bore its unparalleled suffering in silence, during which persons imagined that a gleam of returning prosperity had dissipated at least a portion of its thick gloom. But Ennistymon has known no pause in its distresses; and when official gentlemen make up their returns to parliament ...

... SIR GEORGE GREY AT MORPETiI. l 1 RI A 1 ?? - ?? . _. _ _ - _ . - ' . I lORPETu, DaEcusteset 29.-Sir George Grey arrived in this town this morning, from his seat at Falloden, for the purpose oF canvassing the constituency for the seat vacated by Captaia Howard. Tue right bon. baronet proceeded ti his cornmittee-room, at the Black Bull, where a number of electors, who identified themselves with ...

... MINISTER[AL DIMSENSIONS. This may seem a strange beading to an article before the Aberdeen administration can well be said to be warm in their places, but it is amply justified by the fact. Some very animated discussions have already taken place respecting the appointment of an Under Secretary for Ireland. One section. of the cabinet insist on the appointment of Mr. Anthefy O'Flaherty, the ...

... SPIRIT OFE LOND9N PRESS. I (From the limes.) t The year 1851 was pronounced eventful, for so it was by E the ordinance of man, and when it was over they who.wit- I nessed the great triumph of art and congress of nations con- a eluded that they might now rest awhile from excitement and a change. It ia true that much business was to be done in the I legislature, and sober-minded people preached ...

... TberttmaWlo~ ~otata DUBLIN: SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1863. THE PAST AND THE FUiTURE. - - ?? ?? - Another year has gone down among the coflined row, and we stand on the threshold of its successor. Men are ever inclined to look forward with hope and expect great results from the future, because they had taken so little advantage of the past. They intend to make good their short- comings, and to ...

... ?? --I ON '410000-IMP R7 - THEIIEL?Ijlib -MON.'.1 .. I.. .. . . . 0,91 . F ?? At a public dinner gi tit Lisburn to Mr. Smith, M.P., J. J icha ave the follow- ing interesting description of the progress of the linen trade. The Marquis of Hertford should be more liberal in his leasing powers, or the linen trade of Lisburn will decline still more:- I need not carry you back to the times when ...

... -4 -- TiE DASAGE TO PRcOPERTY. -The official returns of the damage to property by the storms of the 25th and 26th ult., in five of the six Metropolitan Police divisions, appeared in yesterday's FnsctEEIAN-tbe whole amounting to the estimated value of 18,7661. 12s. 6d. We have now to add, that of the sixth or E division being 4,2291. 13s. 10d. Thus making the aggregate lose of 17,9962. 6s. 4d. ...

... BELFAST AND BALLYANA RAILWAY-SPECIAL I MEETING. A special meeting of the shareholders- in the Belfast and J~sllymena Railv aywas heldonThureday, pursuant to adver- tisement, in the Belfast Terminus, York-road, at one o'clock, p.m. The object of the meeting was to consider the pro- ?? of the pr.moters of the Ballymena, Ballymoney, Cole- raine, and Portrush Junction Railway, to construct a line ...

... - - - I . , CONCLUSION OF THE JTHE nBa-CsrneasrohlAe, MA ReL- Bo130OU0.STREET CATHEDUAL.-On yesterday the con- eluding ceremony of this solemn and auspicious event took place in the Cathedral Church of the Conception, Marlbo- rough street, wherein its blessings and spiritual privileges were first proclaimed, and thrown open to the faithful of this city. Edifying indeed was the spectacle ...