... IRELAND AND THE IRISE. I (FiOU OUR OW: CORRESPONDEIN.) DUBLIN, FRmIAY-He is a wise man in his generation who with all his wordly affairs running tolerably smooth, and having a fair mount of money in his purse, or a respectable balance at his bankers, akes his departure from walled cities or crowded and unhealthy towns, and determined to enjoy rural scenery and tranquillity during this fleeting ...

... SHALL COVENT-GARDENq BE RE-BUILT. I On a cold wintry morning, nearly half a century. ago, or, to assign the precise time, on the 31st of December, 1808, there was assembled round the vast area that is now-what it had been then the day before-a dusty and desolate space, an anxious multitude of spectators, eager to behold the ceremony of the first stone being laid of the new Covent-garden ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAME -t I 0 _ N r HOUSE 09 LORD$.-.sMonday. The royal assent was given by commission to eeveral Publica ,I bills. Numerous bills were forwarded a stage, and their loplval, adjourned. rdsh, HOUSE OF COMMONS.-onda Lord JorEN tussnm, brought up the report of the Select appointed to consider the Act of Wm. IV., 8 and 6, chap c2i ;0ouLlte oaths taken by members of Parliament. The ...

... TOWN EDITION. SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1857. Foll details, both from India and China, have followed the telegraphic announcements to which we referred last week, but merely amplify the summary already in the hands of readers. The conduct of General BARNARtD before Delhi, appears to have been most vigorous and saga- cious. He hurried onwards to the city, and finding the mutineers in position outside ...

... SECOND EDITION. SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1857. General BARNARD had not attacked Delhi, up to the 27th June, but the rebels had made several desperate sorties, and had been repulsed with great slaughter. The reinforcements were arriving in aid of the British leader, and his hands would, probably, have been sufficiently strengthened to enable him to make his attack soon after the date we have ...

... I FROROGATION OF PARLIAMENET. On Friday afternoon the first session of the present Parliament was brought to a close. The prorogation was by Royal Commission, and being simply a matter of form, it excited none of the interest which invariably attends a prorogation by the Queen in person. Soon after one o clock time Lords Commissioner, in their peers' robes, took their seats at the foot of the ...

... TRE PFE(NIX AND THE PHANTOM. Why Re-Build Covent Garden? A few years ago there was a politico-religious cry for more churches, but it has, if not altogether died out, at least become very feeble. 'ie had the cry loud in itself enough, but the wool was not equally extensive, and the progress of church extension has been regulated by that stern reality which must ever be connected with bricks ...

... :7 TOWN EDITION. SUNDAY, AUGUST 80, 1857. ?? D-D-- . _ I The news from India is again of the mixed character that must be expected until the tidings come that the British reinforcements have arrived in mass, when there is every reason to believe that a tale of victory and of vengeance will be sent home. We learn, with deep regret, that three distinguished officers have perished: Sir HENRY ...

... aALLANT ACTION OFF FATSEAN.,, I re do not envy the man who does not feel a personal exultation eading the news of our late naval adventures in the China seas. of half -expressed fear that the British navy had passed the ulrmieating point of its greatness was beginning to be entertained ?? minds, an apprehension which these gallant and spirited Iorswith the enemy's junks must have at once ...

... STREET PREACHIING. | Fvery pursuit in life is under the dictates of a fashion; even Ruery seems to have caught the infection of a special snodrus Ooerasdi, and no swindle is now considered wortby of notice snless eecuted on the fashionable model of a bank robbery or wholesale breach of trust. 1b e have been led into this reflection by what-with all respect to their Graces the Bishops of ...

... F R E Xi DI A 5 0 1 Y. Meetings for N'~ext 'Week. Monday, August ID.-Lodges 206, Falcon Tavern, Fetter-lane; 22 Anderton's Ilotel. Tuouay-adgs 16, oll Ruh, -tapstad ; 2W, Saed's Hotel,; 805, Wednsda.-Ldge 13 Quen'sArm, Wolwah;16, Three Tuns, Soutwar; 42. oya HoelDepfor; 26, tarandGarter, Kew; 762, Florence Nightingale and Freemasonry. A most intereeting ceremony took place in the Town Rail, ...

... _ A lL__ 1 Although bankruptcy now impends over this unfortunate place Of entertainment it has been open during the week under the especial auspices of M. Jullien, who has conceived a Festival of extraordinary dimensions, the precise object of which is not very clearly made out, unless it be, as is alleged, to realize a sum of money for the benefit of the orchestral artistes who have ...