... ?? CA'rFiOLIC CHURCH. . . The lRight. Rev. br. Brown, Catholic bishop of Liverpool, 1 |has ordered a solemn dirge to be chaunted in all the churches j in his dioesea for the repose of the souls of the soldiers, sailora, &c., who have died, either in battle. or with elckness, in the * present ?? Dailp Times. Toe1 SISTRMi or Mingar -On Chritma s-day these pious and most'estimable ladies paid. ...

... Ld Messrs. Reeves and Co., sword cutlers, of Char. st lotte-street, Birmingham, have lately constructed and pa- es tented a machine for multiplying a portion of the e bayonet to a very surprising extent. A pair of skiU9id, td hands were unable to complete more than five-and-twesiV in blades of the present pattern per day; while the machine 1. with the superintendence of the same number of men ...

... iROMlISII RECEPTION OF A CATIIOLIC LORtD MAYOR. TUI. ]4hbli itl POuish jOurnIlS ]hlaVe ?? , Nittllill the last few days, the progrntinme of a cerenionial which was to hiave oben canaried out-and, we ?? lot, Nv:s Carried oUt-yesteotida, ill tile principal Roman Catholic Chapel of tile Irish uinetropolis- klnown to the initiated as 'The Church of tile Im- na:elniate Conceptionn. T'e prlgla ...

... NAPLES. (raost oUR OWN COazSBPONDBNT.) NAPLES, Dac. 20. t Two. or three days since, on the 16th instant, owe had a grand field day in Naples, to celebrate the inauguration of the powder mills and magazines near f Sarno. One 'unacquainted witk Naples and the sports of Mars would be almost disposed to believe ethat we were on the eve here of some most bellicose 3affair, such is the activity that ...

... LETTERS FROM TIE CRIMEA. (From a Colour-SorJeant) a ie ?? near Sebastopol, Nov. 9. o iy MY dear WVife and Chlild,-Uhl, with what joy and pleasure e g, did I receive your most kind and loving letter, which gave me t ic groat pleasure in knowing that y-ou are both quite, well I So I pI of a appy to informi you that yobur husband and brothe Wi- RI i ha are both in the very beat of health and ...

... F ?ANOE? |IFRO M O1UR OWN coRRtE5PONDMNT.I P.ARIIS, S.ATUntD.~Y E{VnNING. Telegraphic despatches from Vionna have been received here to-day and yesterday, speaking of a conferecue wvhich took place in that city between the Co unt de Pool, Lord Weetniorland, rad Prince Gortsch1akoff, ol the snlbject of the four guagrantees. The ?? of this interview had the effect of raising the fenlds hero ...

... (From At/ens badian AfaL.) Pursuant to notice, a meeting was held at the Collector's Cutchnry, Kurrachee, on Monday, August 28, 1854. The meeting was numerously attended by most of the influential members of the community. Amongst those present were Mr Frere, the Commissioner in Scinde, the General commanding the division, the Brigadier commanding at Kurracbee, and all the heads of departments ...

... We insert in another part of the paper a letter from a correspondent, who is evidently as warmly anxious for the welfare of this noble Institution as ourselves, butwho has been induced to take a vicev of the best nmcans for promoting its usefulness different from the one we re- cently advanced. Affirming the competency of the vo- Inntary principle to furnish the requisite pecuniary sup- ...

... DESPATCH FROi LORiD RAGLAN. Official despatch from the supplement to the London Gazette. Friday, December 29th:- War Department, December 20th, 10:80o a. in. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle Lias this day received a despatobb, of which the following is a copy, addressed to hi3 Grace by Field Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.B.l Before Sebastopol, December 18. dMY LORD Duxrn-Your grace will be happy to ...

... Er I a n W. MIr Stephen de Vcre was elected representative for the county of Limerick on W~ednesday, in the place of the hate Mr Wvudham Gould. Therc vas no opposition. AaqTImt ELrCecON.-Captain Pakenham was elected en Wednesday, without opposition, to represent the county of Antrim, itt the room of his brother, the late lamented Co]onel Pakenham, who met an honourable death on the bloody ...

... HISTOi Y OF THB ARMY MEDICAL DBPARTMENT. The earliest mention made in history of the pay of surgeons in the British army is in 1667, when those em played at the siege of St. Quintin received ls. per diem, being the same amount as chaplains, sergeants, drummers, and fifers, with whom they appear to have been classed. At this early period, a surgeon was attached to each company, which usually ...

... PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE. Scarcely any change has taken place in the batteries the last few davs. The French have a number of new guns mounted, which are being kept in reserve ; for use. it is pre- sumed, at a period not very long distant. The firing in the Greenhill and Frenchman's-hill batteries has been very slack, and generally in the Russian batteries opposed to them. The Greenbill battery ...