... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... 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 ...

... GI 1), t Cf f a 5 t c it), ?, - 1, ??l c tt c ?r, mIsrABI9IISHIj.) AXNNO 17:17.) Ii E1, PF A, S T: THURSDA Y, JAN. 1, 1857. THE French and English Cabinets are acting in concert with a view of procuring a pacific solution of the differences between Prussia and Switzerland. The Swiss Confederation has agreed to make the following ?? of the Neuf- chatel prisoners in exchange for the formal renun ...

... IfOrdgiv SPAIN. Our accountq from Madrid are of ilie 25th instant. The JlMadrid Gazette puiplishes a Royval decree aln- tholot'ill thln freO importatinn of Wilient, barley, maizr, anil flour, ilo the p(a ts of the Asturias at tile reqnast of t he Governor of Oviedo. The reli gies mneoarchciil party are organising themselve. in the provinces in order to tsaie pkrt h)i the forthoominig muiici ...

... LAT EST' INTTELLUGEINCE. YESTERDAY'S DESPATCHE S. LBY MAGNETIC TELEG RABPH.] THE PARIS CONFERENCES. The Moniteur of this morning announces that the Plenipotentiaries will meet to-day in conference, at the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to put an end to the difficulties which have obstructed the execution of the Treaty of Paris. FRENCH ARMY OF OISERVATION ON THE FRONTIERS OF ...

... (f(doWtiall NuteMylva. TlIt ESTABLI SITED COIURClt. The ImLod Bishop of Kilmmre hns been ?? to appoint the Rev. Julius Henry Griffith, A.B. ?? son of tile Rov. James Grilfith, of Dublin, to the cutrac'v of Killenumery, in his lordship's dincese. NRw DEAN Or CAsIM.L.-Thi Rev. Gov,,!e Ogle Moore, Roetor of Bleshiton, has been appointed by hli! Lord Lieutenant Dean of Cashel. The new Dealt has, ...

... [T has been stated that great sensation has been caused by a lady having brought an nction against a lieutenant-colonel of the army to recover 100,000 francs damages for his refusal to marry her accor- ding to the civil form, after being married to her ac- cording to the forms of the chulrch-and the princi- pal circumstanets of the case have also been related. On Wednesday t he matter was brou ...