... COLLISION UPON THE DROGHEDA RAR,.WAY. ON AMondav Rvening, a collision took place on the altove li e. T hle cirCurnstalicS unrile' kvlicL] tilo ROCj_ dent toni ; place are these_:-A ptssenr train li'aves ?? in thl eveiting, at twvuity flve m sines to Iliae. A goods train leaves Dulithilt at six in tile evening. lotht ttrailns inset usually at the ltdfast juiction-shott is, tie goods trait] ...

... TitE p4itico-social aspect of the United States at this moment presents a huge pal ados to the view of intelligent observers from this side the Atlantic. Whilst the native population of that vast republic' from the Presidolt in his chair of office down to the dirtiest and obscurest rowdy in the centre of his knot of tap-room admirers, keep up a never-ending, still- beginning strain of ...

... PARLIAAMENTARY GOSSIP. Fronm tha MletrOopotcV, Correspondent of tf e Liverpool Albion.) London, Saturday Evening. Until this morning there was toleratle hope of Bri- tannia being able to %weather the storm somewhat sea- worthily, though nobody expected there would be much ruling. of thle waves in, the old fashion. Now, however, that the man at thle belos has exhibited un- ?? s ymp1toms of ...

... -TO TITE EDITOR OF THlE BELFA'ST NEWS.IEXT1'ER. -gint-On thle letter of the 11ev. G. EdmnunlIson Of I Saivitileld, referring to anl alleged statement by tile in -thle B3elfbst Presbytery, I think it sufficient to Observe, 31-1 did Clot sRY that Presbyvterian children were obliged to hemr thle Church Catecism-ii inl the schools of the Chur-ch Education Soviety, L~2-I am not awmre that ill the ...

... IMPERIAL PAR{LIAMENT. HOUSE OF0 LOflDS-MONDAV, FEB. 26. ki L a 0 11 e e 0 t aI t;V 11 J I L)I .I I i iI I 5I I I L I I I I I I t of' France, contrasted favourably the buminees habits of th e Frbnch Jqjllister with those of the Englishi Minis- ter. In thid coushy3 Wu seemed to have 11 syst(em whatever. li-e commented upon the nature of thle transport service, and the facte that there were ...

... CHURCH METSSIONARY SOCIRTY. O,1 Friday last, ?? eaf of thle above society waqs held in thle Weling1ton almo~nt- gomery Street, at 011e o'cloclc. Owlii to the extyqme- severity Of' the weatler, the attendanoce Was very snll. The chair Nvse takenm by the .13ev. TvitoOljftLUS OCAIe. r.LL, by whomn thet proceedings wvere opened with prayer; after which, The Rev,.. J l. WeHIan0 proceeded to deliver ...

... DII NDALK AND ENNISKILLEN RAILN'AY. I IUAVIN-YrLLy 3ErO3T ON T DilD IRECTORS, ?? directors have again to report an incrcase in the traffiC on the half-year, as compared with the corre- spoidig period of 1853 'This, however, is owing in a great measure to the opening to Ballilba3, the results of which have been such ais to fortify the directors il their ortetn-repeoted opinion of tin- ultimate ...

... GREAT MEETING AT BIBMINGIMAI ON Thursday night anl important meeting was held in the Town Hill of 3lirBnirmginihm. It wvas called by tile Mayeor, on a requisitio, sigued by netrly 400 of the prircijial firms arid iiliaibitirits of the town, for tire purpose of m1niolriahisirrg the Legisliture oai the neces- sity of irosecnltiuig tire inquiry into the causes of tire disasters in the Crimea, ...

... TRE ESrAI31.SIflED CHURCH. The vicarage of rilmelashl, in thle dioceso of lis- more, is vacant by the dealt of tire Rev. Thos, Partse It is of the annual value of £i58 1s, from tithe rent- charge, alll in the gilt of the liord Bishop oi CashelI The presentation thereto will be suisperded by the Eceleeiastieal Commtisesion or, und er the provisions of the Chinch Tel'nioalities Act, there having ...

... Tim good work of purifying the administration of British affairs from tho baneful influence of Peelite councils, which ?? with the expulsion from office of Lord Aberdeen and the Duke of Newcastle, is not likely to be concluded until every one of that treacherous and presumptuous clique, to whom thc country owes its present commercial disasters, its doubled incomne-tax, tile semi-roinanising of ...

... [BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.] THE CRIMEA. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE VICTORY OVER THE RUSSIANS AT EUPATORIA. Late last night Lord Panminre received the following copy of a telegraphic despatch from Lord Raglau, transmitted through the ?? nagent at Bucharest:- Before Sebastopol, Feb. 18. A force, said to be 40,000 oif Russians, with a ldrge ?? of guns, attaehead Euliatoria at dayligiht otl the 17th and ...

... SCIIAPS FROMI PUNCH FOR FEBRUARY 24. AUM) GLOSSAaY-EXPPSDITION.- A military under- takhing on a large and expensive suale; derivinig its imnme, qiwsi hicus (t itois lucendo, fronu 'not being ex- pedited. Nuoiicn OY 1MuoTiox.-First of April-Colonel Sib- thorp to move for a committee of inquiry into the ple- sent dead lock of'aflairs in the East, and to ascertain upon what, if aasy, terms ?? ...