... THE remains of a Roman town (thought from inscriptions to be Virunum) has just been discovered in the forest of Taltschach, in Carinthia. I HAVE been fighting up against agricultural difficulties, and endeavouring to do well what I am compelled to do; but I believe the first receipt to farm well is to be rich.- Sydney Smith. A LADY once remarked that carelessness was little better than a half ...

... CRUMLIN. MUTUAL IMPROVIDENT SOCIETY.-The first of the series of lectures for the winter quarter, took, place on Thursday evening last; it was well attended hy both ladies ard gentlemen, as well as by the workmeu of the Viaduct Works. The subiect- The mental and moral good effected by improvement societies, was veiy interest- ingly treated, and well received- The lecturer was the Rev. E. ...

... We have at lengih to record some considerable arrivals 0f Australian gold. The White Star and Oliver Lang, both ^l0tQrnI J Ihilip, have arrived in St. George's Channel. The former has on freight 85,159 ounces of gold, and the latter 71,802 ounces—making together 156,997 ounces, or about £628,000. In neither case are the dates from the colony later than those previously to hand. In- tellioence ...

... THE BRITISH ARMY- IN THE CRIMEA. (From the Sseppfemerat to the london¢ Gcreeftet of Tuse., day, Nov. 27.) WAiR DEPARTMENT, Nov. 27. lord Prnmure has thit day r. ceived a despatch and its enclosures, of w~hich the followting rre copies,i addreesed to bis Lordship by Sir William Codring- iton: SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 13. My Lord,-Having SO lately assumed the corn- I me~nd of the army, I h~ave rnot ...

... I U I A ..D TE ST OW. ER i i . ?? I - . USI AN .THE WESTERN. POWERS. (From the Timeq.) No doubt, public opinion has its abuses, but if we want to 'see the consequence of its absence, they are' exhibited to the world in the present condition of Russia. A; more awful case neverbefel man ortempite.t Russia hasith one tp advise her. Wrapt i, bis dark and solitary despotisw, the. czar has none, ...

... The Rev. Mr. Tulhill, of Ballyhenry, Tipperary, has received a threatening Rockite notice. A scripture reader has been brutally treated in Derry by two men, who met him on a road, pursued him into a house, and beat him till he was insensible. A respectable farmer named Nolan, a tenant on the estate of the Earl of Besborough, near Garryhill, Carlow, has entered on the 11Mth year of his age. The ...

... - The dearth of new incidents from the seat of war throeq- our specials` on the expedient of amplifylng old ones.' Acaordiiigty, the London papers are filled with details of the terrible explosion in the camp of the allies and speculations as to the cause of the untoward event. Little light, however, ia throwfn on the transaction by these guesses, and the impression that the uassians were at ...

... THE SELF-ACTING MINDERS I Sas, gAND PIECERS. ks utol weekly mseeting of tihe self-noting miesiders and I on1 strike wvas held on Wednesday evening, aut the b piece, joattifllte, Heyrad-etreet, at half-past seven oeolvck. Y,,chiPr hovilg been taken, thle CuAIRMiANi said he had beein ddod by one of the directors of the Institute that theyr reel ,'el;veayor to preserve order. They had made the ...

... Tuesday's Gazette ?? at series of de~spatches, en- closed by General Codrington, under date of Nov. 13. a Thle aew Commander says for himself that, Having so 's lately assumed the command of the army, I have not suf- d ficient materials,, nor dlo I consider it necessary to write c a separate despatch. leieenloses alengthiened actcouint, nt by Brigadier General Spencer, of the operations of ...

... The usual weely ;meeting of the guardians of this union was held in the Board-room of the Workhouse, James's- street, on Thursday, JoT e LIOsTAIXNE In the chair. The oeier guardians present ?? Ousely Boneall D V C; Edklond Lawless, George Q Place, Dootor Wall, Simon Ledwidge, Martin Barke, D P Ryain, J P; ?? F Dowling, 8 El Gillesppie Philip Redmond, J. T Wise, Patrick Whelan, JObn Reynoldg, J ...

... REPORT BY COLONEL SIMMONS ON THE PAbSAGX OF THEI NOUR. (] poo LAST HIGOT's OAZIXTT2. FORBIGN OFFICE, Nov. 29. The Earl of Clarendon has received a despatch from Major Simmons, her Majesty's commissioner at, attached to the army of Omer Paoha in Asia, of oil which the following is a copy: pal Camp, Sbangwano, November 7. ter .My lord,-I have to inform your lordship that be! Omer Pacha, having ...

... THE FIRE INSURANCE OFFICES AND NEW FIRE ENGINE [TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN.] SiB.-riease correct an error in your report of Tues- day's Board of Health proceedings. The Mayor, I per- ceive, stated, on tlia authority of the Town Clerk, that the 9aly offers of assistance towards the procuring gf a no\y fire-engine were from tho Sun and Scottish Mutual, of S10 each. I know of ho such office as ...