... THE IRISH IDEPENDENT PARTY-THE I SOIREE. l The National Festival, to which the mcnibere of the In- dependent Irish Party in the House of Co% mons were invited, took place last night, in the Round Ruom of the Rotnndo' which was appropriately prepared and brilliantly lit up for the occasion. The seats for the chairman and the principal guests were placed on an elevated platform at one end of the ...

... AtotlTIoN O, OV laE AITERTISEWT DUTY. The Bill for abolishing the Advertisement Duty received the Royal Assent on Thursday, and is now law. Henceforth, then, no duty will be levied for the insertion of an advertisement In a newspaper or in any other publication. The repeal of this tax -s a concession to the retail trading-the shopkeeping class-and to that large industrious class who earn their ...

... ?? - 0 DVY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN NEWS, PARis, Tusra&DAY.-News from Beslka Bay to the 18th states that the squadron were still at anchor there. The Paris papers, the Costiiluigosel and PaLy, semi-official journals, of Thursday contain artioles of a totally different obaracter-the former being of a more warlike tendency than haa been observed for some time back, and the other arguing that ...