... I WIT1i this most suggestivO title, a lecture of great value, especially in the cars of a commercial anlld manofacturing commnuity like this, was deliverd by the Rev. Henry Cooke, DD., LL.D., on yesterday evening, before a very large and intelloctuttl auditory, assembied in the Victoria Hall. We insert, elsewhere, a report of the practical, philo- sophic, and beyond all, truly Christian ...

... THE FAILURE OF MESSRS. FOX, HENDER- SON, & CO. (Froin the Tihee.) TaI proverbial wealness of example to teach that which people will not learn for themsolves receives daily illustration in the annals of commerce. HIMro we see coming tooether, like a weddrilln and a fu- neral at a church gate, the beginnitig aid the end of imprudence-the seedtime and the harvest of folly. At the very moment ...

... (91tv *rood Grulitioll of lleItadq, A M E R I C A. Liverpool, Sunday, 0 irm. The RovRn mail steamship Asia, Coptain Lott, ar- rived in tle Mersey at 6 r fr., Iron New Yor-k, witl adnices to the 12th Nov. She sailed aL twso Pat. oil ?? day, and has bionrght n0 paisseuliers aid 363,367 ounces of' gold, in slecie. The Asia, off Satnvhook spoke the screw stea:ner New Yorrk, from Glasgow for New ...

... (Li 1) C t I I -? O'j) ?% I ? I f , ?? f ?? Ul ?? T c it) ? -, , c f f c r, ilsSl'FAAlt~SlIIKD A.NNO 17:J7.) r. E L F A S '. SATURLDAY. NOV. 29, 1S5C. TuERE are still slighit expectations entertained of the release of the mnaty shiips which are detained by the ice about four miles from Cronstadt. There is a decline in the demand of silver from China. NeLvs of a fresh rise at Paris has ...

... CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM-PACKBT I CO 0 1 P AN Y. TuE half-yearly Imeeting of this company tople place on Friday at the office, 15, eden Quay, Dublin, Sir John K. James, Bart., in the chair: when tile report, of which the following arethe mostimportant portions, was read and adopted nem. con.:- BEPOLIT. The Djirectors, in making their fifty-seventhl half. yearly report to the propl ietors, submit ...

... YTnritoAr, the usual w eikly meetinm of the Water Commissioners was held at their office, Commercial BuildingS-JASMS CAMETION, Esq., presiding. The other members of the Board present, ?? DiTfin. John, Lindsay, John C. Moore, Esqrs.,and Dr. Stevelly. A Ft er the despatch of some routine business, MIr. DUFFIN said, perhaps tile chairman could give themn some information about the ensuintZ rate. ...

... LATEST INTELLIG ENCE. YESTERDAY'S DESPATCHES. [u3 MAGNETIC TELEGRIAPl1i. AMERI CA. ARRITAL O THE ATLANTIC. Liverpool, Thursday. The Atlantic arrived here at three P.M. She brings thirty-six passengers, and 650,000 ounces of gold. Buchanan's election has been confirmed. Buchanan, 163; Fremont, 125; Fillmore, 8; Bucha. nan, majority, 30. It is stated that Buchanan has declared in fitvoar of ...

... PAUL DELAROChiE. .TiE greatest modern painter of France died since s tire week came in, full of honours, not full of years in Q the patriarchal sense of the word, his age being only fifty-nine. H-i'e was followed to the grave by some of tthe most notiable illustrations of l iteanure and Art- famoing others by the ?? French painters, L i. Ingeis; Dnd he hats lift belhind him a European ...

... LAubS INTELLIG INCE. YESTERDAY'S DESPATCIIES. [BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPll.I THE ALLIANCE CONFIRAIED. The Paris correspondent of the Timnes says that, on the whole, the Emperor's reply to the Russian Ambas- sador has produced a good (affect, from the certainty that the alliance with England has not been wealened. It is rumoured that the French Government is also in complete accord with England, ...

... THE WATER COMIMISSIONERS' BOOKS TO TIHE EDITOR OF TilE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. Snli-In referience to observations that appeared in tire Neto-Letter of yesterday, and which were therein attributed to Adam Duffin, Esq., permit me to say, that access to the Water Commissioners' So- called ' old books (all writton, bA it remembered, since tire year 1839) was not only refused to mile, in the fitst ...

... LATVES'T' IXELLIGEINUCE. YESTERDAY'S DESPATCIHES. [tBY MAGN'eTIC 'rlG hA 'III A 1 E ItICA. Liv'erpool, Sunday. The royal mail steamn ship) Arabia, Captain Stone, arrived il ihe Mersey Iast night at 1i-lu '.IAi. from llaliliaxand Boston. Silo left on the 4th, and1s brinigs dates from Neiv York to thiat (lale, aiso SiXLy-foiil' plasseilgs, and 758,9:36 dols. Ili specie. The Prcsi'itual election ...

... [Bi M A GNfl TIC TEL L G It AV II.] NEW'S-LETTER OFFICE, 1 o'clocl:, I._N. THE SCHLESIVIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. Copenhiagen, Tuesday. Thie IPcder'landet states that the Geruman Powers desiro that the State Assembly should have commu- nicated to tilem the constitution which governs Holstein. This is to be (1one, oil ail of the iflter- vention of tie Germanic Confederation. CIRCASSIA AND RUSSIAt. ...