... The following particulars of the laying down of the sub- marine telegraph will be read with interest: - The English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company successfully completed their submarine line of commnnication between Great Britain and Ireland on Monday, the 23rd instant. The cable laid across consists of six gutta percha covered copper wires for conducting the magnetic current, ...

... -Last Tuesday evening a public banquet was given by the people of the Newcastle Union to the excellent chairman of the board of guardians, and manager of the Devon property, Mr. E. Curling. The compliment was conferred in considera- tion of the many services Mr. Curling has rendered to the rate-payere of the union, and the marked and unequivocal nature of the demonstration clearly showed how ...

... BY ELECIRZC TELEGRAPH. W H. m.ith and Sons' Neuwpaper OQjce, No. 1, Eden-quay, May 25. FOREIGN NEWS. (Froan the Second Edition of the Times). P4R8s ,WEDfl!ESDAY, 8.30 ?? private message from Vi>enna of 24th announced the impending departure from (eni tantinople of Prince Mensclikoff, in consequence of the ddaifve refusal of the ultimatum by the Porte. Tie Tivies correspondent at Vienna writes ...

... VIEhe Orceultw ?? DUBLIN, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1868. THE RUSSIAN ULTIMATUM. Mulready'5 beautiful picture of the Wolf and the Lamb is no bad illustration of the friendly relations between Russia and Turkey. The lamb in the picture is the tender child of a widow, and the odds are, therefore, in favour of the ferocious young savage who is about to pitch into his unprotected adversary; bat ...

... The Right Rev. Dr. Foran, Bishop of Waterfortl and Lis- more, attended in Dungarvan on Saturday last, and held a general examination of all the children of the parish in the splendid cathedral of this town; and, after a most minute catechisticsl examinatioi of upwards of five hun4red indi- viduala, his lordship seamed highly pleased with the profound 't knowledge they had of the Christian ...

... NORTH DUBLIN !IN isld on * The usual weekly meeting of the ?? Oulu a, yesterday in the jbor. room of the worklotoae, North BruntsL XCt a ptain LINskY ir`th chair. The following guardisilsi were as rsn:.4e55 Charles Thorp, Hyndolan,. Carolin, Thomas Arkins, Flanagan, Roper, Cosgrve, Harkain, Nugent, Gavacan, George Thorp, Hardy, Dodd, and O'Brien. STATB OF TItE mtOUSE. Paupers remaining as per ...

... W. H. Smitie and Sons' Newspaper Ofce, No. 1, Eden-guay, May 27. FOREIGN NEWS. TuBusEY.-(From a second edition of te Times). We have received tbe following telegraphic dispatch from our corree- pondent at Vienna, dated Thursday evening:- Prince Menschikoff and his suite have left Constan- tinople. Russian subjects at Constantinople are placed under the protection of the Danish Ambassador. ...

... IpfENSED GROCERS' AND VI[TNERS' SOCIETY. I ., W.ThereOV8 a full mnetingnofthecommittee on weanesuay, il MIr. MI5IAEL L E cARN , /itigsend, in the chair. Ikhe Chairman handed in the renewed subscription of His. 4* ' ~r. John Byrne handed in the second year's subscription | of~ Mrs. Mary Kelly, tavern-keeper, Essex-bridge; also, a year's saubscription from Mr. James Nedley, grocer, San- dymuunt, ...

... TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE FIREMAN. DFmAi1 Siu-With the many I have been astounded on reading the articles on this wonderful and mysterious phe- nomenon which have appeared in the columns of your jour- nal, and also extracts taken from the American and continental press, and must give you full credit for your disposition at all times to give publicity to any matter connected with scienr! that may ...

... Tile members of this society liet last evening at the Aca- demv House, Dawson-streat. The Rev. ROBINEY ROBINSON, President of the Academy, in the chair. The Rev. C. Graves read the minutes of the previous meeting and announced the receipt of the following contribu- tions to the museum of the ?? publications of the geological survey of the three kingdome; and the records of the government ...

... AUSTUA'..:. The following intelligence has 4 ., brought by the Atre- vida, Captain Sheare, which left Port Philip on the 23d of February. Mr. Edward Khull, bullion broker, of Melbourne, has pre- pared a set of valuable tables, containing statistics of the gold fields, &c., from which the following extracts are made.- Quantityof gold dust brought to Melbourne and Geelong: By governnent escort ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPoNDENT ?? T-- . J-londoe, Satin r7 The income tax bill was read a se ond timo last eveol and the house got, into committee on it On Monday the Chancellor of the-.Exchequer will state the h5a to be made as to the collection of the tsr i Irelad enabled to communicate to you some time since the sbob of these modifications. Besides the feandengof ale moneys paid up to the ...