... BIONALs I ~~~MEETINGS. : - On lest evening the Bft meeting of the session for 1866 was held in the boardroom of the Royal Dublin Society, Kildare-street. The chair was taken, at eight o'clock, by JOHN BAILBY, EqG. Prof esor Davy rad a paper on the ?? ?? properties of charcoal and .uncabrred peat- He stated that he had made several expernmentS in charred and uncharred I ts or.; the purpose of ...

... t I I- - . - .- I ?? I I 1 ly h.Uhi ?? .lecd k Telegraph.) hai d, FRANCE. agu D- The Moniteeer publishes the returns of the corn aim 't trade in the different French markets during last o'cI to week of October, and first fortnight in November, int ig from which it appears that the lowest price was at an as Hennebon,. 28 francs 40 centimes; and the highest car' to at Bergues, 42 francs 40 ...

... ?,,Dtnj S; faimilancoug P;swo. ?J ECCL SIASTICAl NTLTLLIGENCE.- The LT El Bish p o Idanche'Ster, On Tuesday, tit the ])iocesan ltiegiatry, St. James's Squlare, licensed the. Rev. John Mashcdcr-, B.A. to thle stipen- dicarycurar'y of St. John's, Bury; that :ev. Charles Richard riifling, BA.,. to the stipienditiry cur-soy of St. James's, Roch dale; and the Rev. Joh n Price tO: tile stipendisry ...

... GOING TO AUSTRALIA; OR, WAITING AT THE STATION. WE are amongst a number of people waiting for the Black- wall train, at the Fenchurch station. Some of us are going a little farther than Blackwall-as far as Gravesend; some of us are going farther than Gravesend-to Port Philip in South Australia, leaving behind the patrice fines, and the pleasant fields of Old England. It is rather a queer sensa ...

... We find the following in the Moniteur FRANKFORT, Nov. 20. The letters received here by Russian or Polish families from the interior of Russia all agree in affirming the existence in Poland and Russia of a profound discontent, provoked by the war, and the endless miseries which it has caused through- out the length and breadth of the empire. The militia were assembled under the promise that ...

... [TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN.] Sis,—In reference to the case of assault tried 'before the sitting magistrates, at Pontypool, on the 24th instant, ■and headed in your paper of the 28th, Pebbles or berries. I beg leave to remark, so trifling a statement did not contain the substance or nature of the offence. I make all invariable practice of entering into the commence- ment of every subject or ...

... GENERAL NEWS. APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.- We understand that the preliminaries of a matrimonial alliance have been arranged between Sir Robert Peel, M.P., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and the Hon. Miss Hay, youngest daughter of the Marquess of Tweed- dale, and sister to the Duchess of Wellington and the late Marchioness of Dalhousie. Tun MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—We have every ...

... a3rjolu ENGIGAND. -4 MARRIAGE iN HIon tiFE.-It having been an- nounced that the marriage of the Marquis of Win- chester with the Lion. MiAs Montagu, eldest daughter of Lord Rokehy, was ?? at the parish church of St Jamnes's, Piceildilly, on Thursday at an carly hour the ?? of t~ hurch were besieged lfj' a large number of ladies, mbny of them of aristocratic familes. At half-past eleven ...

... BXPULSZON OF REFUGBEE FROM JRRSRY. On Tuesday night, a publi.imieeting As held iii the City Hall, Glasgow, Coancillor Korn in the chair, for the purpose of protesting against the recent expulsion of the refugees from the ielsaaa of Jersey. The hall was about balt filled, the assembly being composed almost entirely ot. the working elsases. The CGAiHmAN briefly introduced the busiaess of the ...

... THIE CONDITION OF RUSSIA. most No doubt, public opinion has its abuses, but if we was want to see the consequesces of its absence, they are to do exhibited to the world in the present cendilon of a had Russia. A wore awful case novel betel man or empire. s their Russia bee no one to advise her. Wrapt in his dark '5 ble to and solitary despotism, the Ctar has none with whom scenes he can divide ...

... DOTMESTIC. On Wednesday her Majesty anA Prince Albert paid a visit to Fort Pitt Hospit'4, containing about, 00 patients-to the military hospitals in the garrison, and to Brozapton, w ...

... T H E W A tv. TI! EXPLOSION IN 'Hu' CRIMEAj_, ON NO'VEYiBEI? larr. he~ DESPAflTCH~ PFiOM- GlEN. CL'DRtINGILTn?; In , AVA DEAnanT')ilNTi, aVer. 29. is r1 Ialinjulre hias ibis day reoeiv' cl a dispatech and it enel~iicsili of which thle following are copies. ddeliissed to ivhis 'sirdship by General dijr iV. Cou riitcteo, Rep.: - Sansr ,o,aer. 17. *li Mv I Lu ?? ti'~ In lst., ahouilt three it.,. ...