... ghttst Kdo. . 6 13Y ETM AWD DITNATIONA COMPANY's TGmonEQ Ofices. Teqnplo Buljdings, New Street. THE FRENCH SLAVE TRADE. There is no doubt that the Emperor will not renew the contract for supptying the French colonies with negroes. - FIRE AT THE DUKE OF PORTLAND'Si At the Dake of. Portland's, yesterday, a spirit lamp upset in his bed room. The Duke was moved unhurt, but the house steward was ...

... - i- ?? 0 s, THE THEA SHING MACHINE AND THE STEAM Ld ENGINE. Tess Scotch Thrashing Machine remains, at this day, in al- : most precisely the same state in which it was left by its in- ie venter, Mr Andrew Meikie, in the year 1786. This is a re- snerkable fact. It certainly shows either that the mnachine ',must have come from the hands of its inventor in a etate of Itwonderfual perfection, and ...

... ci fast 7j'ces-ettt't4 (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 1857. WViIE- a change takes place in a Ministry, it is invariably attributed to anything but the right cause. Urgent private affairs, illness, anything but Cabinet differences, are assigned; and so the retirement of Lord Harrowby from tih office of Privy Seal is stated now to be not from any poli- tical difference witlh ...

... jutign ?Iltflliqnrf. PRUSSIA. The very unmistakeable signs that have manifested themselves at Charlottenburg of the total insuffi- ciency of the King's cure, as at present attained, have compelled a renunciation of all idea of his resuming power fer a long time to come. It is stated that the King of Prussia and his sister, the Dowager Empress of Russia, will go to Italy to- gether in the month ...

... THE MIIAFFIES. - To the Editor of the Bcottish Guardian. Sir,-:.My attention bas been direected to a letter addressed to you in Friday's Guardian, by Win. Ml-aflie, sear., in which he says you most unwarrantably introduce the name of M'Ilaffle'c(Vii, his son, the notorious Michael M'Haffie) with that of Macdonald and Monteith, &c. I suppose every one at a glance will see that in giving ...

... joanhon. Y mae y nwydwyllt yn fdangellu ei hun a chwipiau o'i _ waith ei hun. i Trwy ddyoddef yr ydym yn fynych yn gochel pechu; ond trwy bechu yr ydymo yn sier o ddyodde. - Chwilia rai ereill anm eu rhinweddau, chwilia dy hum e am dy feiau. v Pan wnelych gymmwynasau, na chyhoedda hwy Yn yin- c ffrostgar; a phan dderbynibt gymmwynasau, na chuddia hwy yn anniolchgar. i Boddlonrwydd yw careg yr ...

... THE NEW STAFF COLLEGE AND DISTIN- I GUISHED SERVICE IN THE FIELD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. SxR,-I have just read your excellent leading article on the rules for the new Staff College. I quite agree with you that the hypercritical remarks on certain passages of the memorandum are veryunnecemsary. Incompetenoy will be swept away from the personal as well as from the general staff, for ...

... PROFESSOR FARADAY AT THA ROYAL INSTIZ UTION. THE CHRlSTMAS JUVENILE LECTURES. For many years past the lectures of Professor Michael Faraday, ?? ?? in the noble hall of the Royal Institution in Albemarle-street, have formed one of the Christmas treats of aristocratic schoolboys. A dreadful rumour, however, has brought anxiety to many a Tom Brown at Eton or Rugby during the past year, that the ...

... I .1 I i Although we have never concealed our own im- r pressions as to the undesirableness of forcing on a s scheme for a change of government in Indiq during z the course of the present session, yet we have t never denied that such a scheme may possibly e prove worthy of all the support claimed for it by n its promoters. For our own part, we should cer- tainly have deemed it wiser, on such ...

... - From the Economist.) The series of calamities which has led us to recon- sider all our legislative machinery with regard to India is now, we trust, at an end, but its influence on that legislation has scarcely yet begun. With this week's announcement of the relief of Lucknow and the successful withdrawal of all the women and children of that garrison to Cawnpore, we may feel that the high ...

... SCOT LN- . S COT LA ND. Presentotion.-We understand that John A. A len lEsq. of Errol, has presented the Rev. Mr. Graham, of Aberny te, to the church of Errol, vacant by the re- moval of the Rev. Mr. Caird to Glasgow. The M1ilitia Disturbance.-On Monday a sergeant and four privates belonging to the picket of the Stafford Militia engaged in the disturbance on Friday night, were brought before ...

... (From Smith & Elder's Homeward Mail.) The following translation of an Urdu laper, found in the house of a vakil of the Sadr Court, nmay interest our readers. The original was sent to us by a valued correspondent, and is thought by many to give a clue to tile oriein of the revolt: Extraot from the Lakhnau newspaper, printed oml the 28th of March, 1857, under the slperinteisdence of All Klida, ...