... A meeting of Protestants, summoned by the committee of the Dublin Protestant Association, was held last evening in the Theatre of the Mechanics' Institute for the purpose of adopting addresses to the Qaeen and to the Lord Lieute- nant on the danger to the throne, the constitution, and the liberties of the subject involved in the present assumptions and constantly augmenting demands of the ...

... I FOREIGN INTEILIGE THE FRENCEI EmPRE PARIS, MAY 26, 6 P.M-In its sitting Of to.day th Corps Legislatif adopted, without discussion and Uorat. e the bill which extends the jurisdiction of the prefectofb 0USly police to the communes of the bantieu. The asset a discussed and passed the Lyons and Geneva littil, 840 The numbers ?? the bill, 200 ; agalost it, 18 ay bll To-day the Emperor and ...

... We have already declared our disbelief of some of the evi- dence given before the Cork election committee to be so utter and complete, that we refused to give insertion ia our coflinns to tbe proceedings altogether. It may, however, have reached some of our readers through other channels that amongst other curiosities of evidence laid befure the late committee was that ofsa womanwho swore ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... DUBLIN: FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1858. PROGRESS OF OPINION-LORD STANLEY ON | -RELTGIOUS EQUALITY. The London journals speak with considerable sur, prise, favour, or hostility, according to their several political leanings, of a pamphlet just published by Lord Stanley on the question of church rates. We have not yet received tbe pamphlet, and are, therefore, compelled to draw all our conclusions as to ...

... ORDINsATIONs AT COALOW.-On PeGticoet Saturday a general ordination took place, as usual, in the Cathedral.- On the following day, tbe Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, a particular ordination to subdeaconship and priesthood, was holden ia the chapel of the college, in favour of some who had received the previous orders only on the preceding day, and who were dispensed with in the observance of ...

... BY ELEiCTRIC TELEGRAPH. W. H. Smith and Sons' Newspaper et- t9l, No. 1, Eden-qoay, A2ay 26. LosDON FUNDS-STOCK ANDSOAntE DIARKET.-7breat- ened renewal of hostilities in Buricab, and contidued nneasi- neee4 in continental affairs caused a decline in funds at openirg from which there was a recovery, and after some fluctuiatica pries were finally supported at highest. Foreign news had a ...