... ?? - , liailWA W18. I Gakixf80 SOUusiam AND WscsmaN.-1turn of t Ird fr the B -week andhig Dee 27, 186t -o t . d. ae, '.Passengers,.parcels, &c.; amount £3971 12 6 o Merdbasl 15ansi eattl o 1 1518l15- 1,490 7 6 Corlespending week in 1856 (203k niles open:- i Passengersi iulsils, &c.; amount 3981 7 7 A aierohandizeand cle .. .. 16CM9 T ?? 14 9, I RISa SOUTH BASTESON (Carlow to Kilkeenny, 25 ...

... The following appeared in a Second Edition of yesterday) by Magnetic Telegraph:- The Moiiifeur of this morning announces that the plenipo- tentiaries will meet tc-day in Conference at the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affaira to put an end to the difficulties which have obstructed the execution of the treaty of Paris. FRENCH ARAY OF OBSEiRVATION ON THE FRON tIERS OF SIV17ZERLAND. It is ...

... THE RATHMINES COM3MISSIONERS. The following correspondence passed between the Lord Lieutenant and the Rathmines Improvement Commission- ers,- 31, Iountpleasant-square, Rathmtnes, Deeernber 3, 18a6. SxI-I am directed by the Commisslow rs of the Township of Rathmines to request you will kindly submit to the Lord Lieutenant the following statement of foote In relation to the office of Hieh ...

... 1- ' THE-CATiL!O 4OHUROH. * ,I id MARLBOROUGH STR8RT CATHEDRL-LAsT DAY 01 THE he OLD YAR--SO0LB I 1 TE DSDdU.1P-Yeaterdheyi the last ad day of the year, now past, was solemnieed in this ehureibby ad j a grand Te Deum and public act of thanksgivio -to God *e. for the many mercies vouchsafed during tbe pastt twelve; ,y months, and by the offering up of the prayers-of the church: for the ...

... NO}E DUBLIN UNION. - ~ ~ - - -r .. a d The weekly meeting of the guardians of this union was hbld yesterday. The cair was taken by RALPH A. CUsACK, Esq., J.P. The following guardians attended :-Capt. Lindsay, D L; J P; Major Dotnville, D L, J P; Colonel Taylor, M P. JP; Messrs Reilly, Arkins, D F Brady, V C; Dixon, J Pi Hyndman, C Dodd, sIvg, J O!Brien, J P; J Norwood, Carolas Flanagan, Nugent ...

... NEW ROUTE BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND I IRELAND. TO TILE EDITORI OF TillrE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. SIR-f beg leave to lecal the attention (of the public of the North-East aud Nortlr-West of Ireland to the able letter of Alr. Crawford, of Glaisgow, which appeared in your paper, advocatiig so clearly the clahis of hal ly- castle to a railway and harbour. No one can dispute the position of Balrca tke. N ) ...

... A CORRESPONDENT of the.o3eornig Advertliser gives tile following account of the Christmas proceeditigs in some of the London churches, which will, we are sure, be reatl with interest:- ST. ANDRE.W'S, WELLS STREPT, OXFORD STRIElT.- Evergreens weore fixed over all the arches of the pillars; under the pulpit cushion uwa. a ?? of leaves and holly, an d beneath this wrentii ?? a psisitet cross in ...

... SECOND _EDITION. rBY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,] NEWS-LETTER OFFICE, 1 o'clock, P.M. OCCUPATION OF CANTON. Trieste, December 31. From the 15th November up to the latest advices, the European factories were closed, trade being nearly stagnant. The Chinese authorities had re- treated to the interior, opposing merely a passive resistance. The English troops and marines occupy the forts anl public ...

... 7,11w ??l I THE BOM113ARD)!EN'T OF CANTON. (F'roti the Times.) (N Sunday night every citizen of this metropolis went to heil in tile profound conviction that, thouigh things mighit look squally in Switzerland and wav- like in Persia, we were enjoying, with the Celestial lt onire, at any rate, the most profound atd till. broken peace. On M eond y wc awolke to the sudden convictionl that wo hadl ...

... THE SOIREE ANI) BALL AT CARRLCK- FERGUS. TO TFIl EDITOR OF TEE BELFAST NEWTS-LETTER. Snt-You will permit me to express my obliga. tions to you for the manner in which you have re- ferred to a paragraph which some evil-disposed per- son has got inserted in the Whig of yesterday. I do not think the proprietors of the VI7Iig knew of the wicked untruth of the paragraph, otherwise they would not ...

... THE NEW YEAR-THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. THIs day ushers in the new year. We have seen the last of 1856. It has gone from us: its solemn farewell has been spoken to the world. What changes have taken place during it in domestic and social life-in families-in communities-in the affairs of men-in the state and prospects of na- tions. To many the old year brought happiness and prosperity. To them ...

... (From the London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion.) LONDON, SATURDAY EvliNuNG-Accordirig to their organs, the rattle in the throat of the dying year makes lively music in tihe ear of present placemen, anid the harmony of the spheres reigns in Downingr Street. WI)*hy dance, ye mortals, on the grave of timr? was asked by Coleridge when hle and Pal- merston welO at Cambridep somewhere ...