... [THE PROSELYTISERS AND THE FRENCif ARAY. 4 correspondent.of the Catholii Standard gives-tbe follow- ing explanations -with reference to some recent boastingS of certain Irish Protestant organs: : I htI iu' tell yoa that the statement of any disagrec- .eneut arn ithes' bishops o n thp dogma of the Immaculate co~nceptii~l is'iereinverntiOn, ibs only debate being upon the forni i'thedecree ...

... LTTE?*rRS FROM T'11E CRIA/E, The following is a copy of a letter fromi a corporal of the 38d Regiment to his friends in Lincolusahire: Camp, near Sebasiopol, Nov. 22. I now sit down on the cold ground, just to write a few lines to you to let you know thst I am still living, thanks be to God, although since!I left you I have had many nor . row escapes of my life, but God has been kind ...

... iRELAND. The COMMERsCIAL POSITION. Fi h our'se of trade during the past week pre- esenlts no feature either of novelty or of particular t- initerest. Business has certainly continuled quite e as dull and inactive as we have been of late report-. hn sug it, no edmuch ?? be anticipated d until the cturrenlt holidat's shall he passed, and!§ th te uew year shall have been fairly entered on; -but, ...

... We have been favoured by the Admiralty with the following:- No. 19. President, at Saa Francisco, Nov. 15, 1854. Sir,-As a sequol to CaDtain Sir F rederick Nicolson's letter of the 19th Septomber last, addressed to mre, the duplicate of which was forwarded hence on the 16th Ult., I beg to transmit lists of the names of the seamen and rma- rines belonging to hsr Mgjesty's ships who were killed ...

... The folloving letters have obtained publicity without the sanction of the distinguished correspondents:- j.M.S. Britannia, Nov. 11, 1854. a My Lord,-Onthe 30th ult. anaide-de-campof minehad n the honour of informing your lordship that, after being confined to bed in my tent for nearly two days, I had a hsevere fall on my head, my horse partly rolling over me, d which, added to previous ...

... L0J[J $r'cillcatW 40'ttitat DVULIN: TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1W6 T11E NEW LORD MAYOR -PROSPECTS FOR TUE CITY. -The ?? of a new Lord Mayor has from time immemorial been a day of rejoicing and merry- making with the: good citizens of our iancient city, and on the accession of Lord Mayor Boyce yesterday the good old custom was maintained with all the honours. Our learned friend Mr. Gilbert has given ...

... jIS1rGBEMNT OF THE CRIMEA. (From the Twies).; It will not be denied that if the Czar, by, a personal in- spection or otherwise of an army, ascertained it to be in the condition of our army before Sebastope,, be would instantly put it into entirely new hands. Even were the case not co bad it will not doubted that rebukes, peremptory orders, and other measures of rigour would soon be beard of, ...

... | TO THE EDITOR OP TEE DAILY NEWS. SIR,-The interest you manifest in the noble cause of benefiting between sixty and seventy millions of the f human race is no small encouragement to me to persevere I . in the arduous work which I have undertaken, I feel also v ,persuaded that, with your powerful aid, combined with that n )of other able and sound papers, the efforts of the Society g ifor ...

... ha Tha ,net amount to be anticipated from the Irish income Rid, tax wa originally estimated by the chancellor of the ied, exchequer at £450,000. At the.close of the last financial LePt year; toe results, sofar as they were then known, appeared m- to warrant the expectation that as much as £480,000 fere would be received; Bad as a parliamentary paper, hen pra.arvppr ling which has just been ...

... DOMIESTIC INTELLIGENCE,. M1r. William Oweii,'son of Professor Owen, the distin- guisthed comparative anatolnist, is appointed to a juuior clerkship in the Foreign-offieo, Downing-s4tvtv, I FLOOD AT C0NJSTON.-flOUVS WASRED DOWN, AND MIRACULOUS OFcarg 05 TliE INl5T.0sxt3. -On Tisura- day and Fr'.day last, Coniston and neighbourbood were visited *.ith a heavy fall of r:in, which continued with- ...

... Thae subjoined ootnmunication gives the basis upon orhich the goverfnent of the Equador to stettle thei foreign debt of the republic. EWant of K* space compels us to omit a few paragraphs of minor : importanace.o dI Art. 1. The Republic of the Equador acknowledges in - favour of the holders of Colombian Bonds of the loans to I Colombia in 1824 and 1826 the sum of 1,824,0002., being I- the ...

... TLEE WAR. (FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Dzc. 20. The extraordinary activity which now prevails in every department of the military service gives great plausibility to the widely circulated report that Russia is secretly and quietly concentrating her forces and determined to bring affairs in the Crimea to an immediate issue. It is said that the Czar has sent rthe most pressing ...