... THr Greek. Lent is over, and it is Easter at Constan- tinople. All night long great guns have been firing afar cff, and small arms are being discharg>ed by ex- citable persons at every street corner. You might fancy the town was being stormed, instead of holding high festival-so violent is the noise and uproar. During the day the streets are crowded as a fair, and perambulated by itinerant ...

... c~lic es5 THE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF.-THE LINEN AND SEWED MUSLI-N TRADES. (Fron the Liverpool Daily Titien.) TeHn free-trade propositions of the United States Go- vernment have excited the attention of the American press; and every.paragraph in the Secr tarv of -the Treasury's report has been revi th- utost jealousy and care. - Interests never bita heard of, and which appear to lie but tery ...

... OPENING OF TI-HE FIRSTr FREEMASONS' HALL IN CHINA. ON Thursday last, the 13th October, the brethren of the Zetland Lodge, Number 078, gave> a banqiet (n the occasion of the opening of the Flevinasots' 31ail. tile firlst temple ?? dedicated to) iasonrv in China. This building was projected bv the late able an] iiidifatigable LMJason, lirothefr S. Ravsell, ?? and by his efforts, all ?? having ...

... F It A N C E. Tuix rumour is circulated in some Legitimist or Fusiouuist circles that the Count de- Chambord has been invited to. the English Court. and that, the visit -\will take place in the month of Miarch next, when the ex- Qaeen of the French has returned from her visit to Spain, and when the united family will be received by her Britannic Majesty. It is added that a letter to that ...

... JESUITIS3I IN IRELAND AND 0N THE CONTINENT. (haros the Mnar EgHeralZd.) INs writing, a few days ago, on the proceedings of the Archbishop of Freiberg, supported as he is by the Bishops of Rotenburg, Fulda, and -Mavence, we then stated that these men were labouring to a common in- tent with Dr. Wiseman in England. Dr. Cullen in Ireland, the refractory -Roman Catholic Bishops in Piedmont, in. ...

... F Jorcgg 3.ht igel. I THE WAIR INTHE E-AST. (From the: Tames of :Ther.:clay.) The intelligenep.wvllich we anticipated yesterday has now been receivid. in a eeore distinct form, and we learn that on the .l8th inst. the Great 'Trkisl Couucil wvas convoked, an'ld-that aftge Full discussion it wias agreed tbat tlhe CollevfveR ENote-tif he Po U2' Posvets should bed acepted The Turldish'G ciernnment ...

... B E J. 1 A S T: MION1) AY. JANUARY 2. 1854. TI-lE WAR. T'Im varriols s:nets ant rauima's vllich have reachd us since our ?? hstanidiln: Certain Circamstances which might and perhaps oviih lnodi'y such an opinion in the mninds of others-impress us wxithi the ?? that a wvar betveen the Westerni powers of Europe and their mighty rivat in the East is absolutely unavoidable. T.ee, We learn that ...

... T IH E M I L K T R E E. (Felma Walbce's ?? Anosnami Rio . Negro.) WIhAT most interested us. however, were several large Iugs ot the rmasserandulJba, 'ir milk tree. On Our way thrrough the forest we haldl see, some trunks much notched by persons who had been extracting the milk. It is one of thi noblest treos of the fInrest. risin withl a strairht stem to air enormous heiiht. Thie tiniber is ...

... THE RPCEN~T FATAL SHIRWRECK. * - COstONEli a INQUEST.: i IN our last pulioiation we were; enabled .t give a bride ?? of the ielancholy oareck~ofthh baique et' from Greenock to Melhouline, offthe island of Latbaiy. Fullet! partieulars of the disaster will be fobad 'in the' subjoined report of the Corondr's. inquest, held on-theiS body of one of the sufferers, who died on board the smack ...

... Vt C Uttt U c. \Wr\:yrN Lxso.-It may riot be improper to notice the great attention Paid by the Flenmish ?? to rhu weeding of their lanla. In the best cultivated li-tricS their exertions are incessant,i itid freq uenl i fmn 211 to 30 women may bei seen emaployed in one field, ineiu for tile greater facility in seeinig andI extracting the weeds. in[ Paves de Wiaes, where the soil is li -g t. ...

... TUIS FV'-NTS OF TI-HE PAST YEATR, AIND | Ti-iE PROSPECTS OF THE NEW. I El.r-min_-;o, ns we dlo, to-dty, upon the dutius, the h~opeb,the aniieties, ?? we add 0-the rewaris, of another v ear of labour in our vocation, it is natu- ral that we snould endeavour to discern, from the events of the year tbat has gone by, the springs of impulse and inotiun which are to ?? the events of the year wh~ich ...

... ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTRH-DAY OF THE I VISCOUNT O'NEILL. DTNIfE3 AT 1LUCDMSTOWV.N Fpa in x , ?? I tilt., b tinl tti, e .1 eersitr't of thle ibirth- tlato if t hat hlighly- estt'em id ail veneratetd noble- eizin Viscount O'Neill, ins lordithiips friends end ten- anti'v, acoradii1g to usual c'ustorn, ceiebratedt the joyous occasion by lining, togethuvr at the OYNeill Aims Hotel, Randeistown. ...