... BRITISHI COLUMBIA. A LurTETP from Victoria, Vancouver's Island, appears in the Tinies. Its correspondent writes:- The all-enlgrossing subject in thiu part or tho world is the present state and future proli~pptC of the new gold mines in the British territory on the mainland. There has been no great development as yet, owing to the high state of Fraser's River, caused by the meltin- of the snow ...

... SCRAPS FROM PUNCH JORIOCTOBER 30. POLITENESS BETWVEEN OLD FiE1NDs.-Just as the conmet was wagging its tail for the last timne in the purcsence of 'tills'gattlh, JqIn CQrtper :ospettfully took off his hat, and witli til6 greatost solenipity, said, saiuitingly, ' An# Reoi!' SociAL QuEsTIoN.- If social science is independent of parties, what ?? of scientific roiree. 1 ]EccLEsrAsTIeAr4 INTEL rr ...

... TIIE HOLYWOOD AND BANGORI RAILJWAY. .. - .. ?? ~ ?? :n Tim, project for connecting Beliast with the beautiful wvatering-place of Blangor, by a line of railway fronl tile Counlity Down Railway Company's lin1e at lHoly- Wood, is now fairly launched, and little doubt can be entertained that withill a very short timlc sullicient capital will be subscribed to enable tile new company to lodge the ...

... SHANNON TRANSATLANTIC PACl EEr STATION. ONr Saturday last, the Mayor of Limerick, Jamnes Spaight, Esq.i M.P., F. W. Rlussell, Elsq., M.P., and John Long, Esq., C.E., had anl interview with Mr. Cunard, at his oflice in Londoii, which interview con- tinued for nenrly two lhours. The depiiitation stated at great length tile ol0ject for which they had waited on him, and explained the advantages of ...

... ROMISIT INTERFERENCE WITI-f PROTESTANT PATIENTS. TO ''IE EDITOR OF TRlE OALTEDONIAN MERCURY. Sn-Love for truth and integrity induces me to address you in the hope that, through the columns of your paper, tho Protestant public may be enlightened as to the iniqulitous and systematic attempt at pro- sel]ytism pursued by Romish priests in the Royal In- firnuary of Edinburgh1. It will yet be fiesh ...

... ROMe, OCT. 2.-General Count de GOyoD arrived in Rome on Thursday evening, and held a grand re. ception at tile Ruspoli palace on the following morn- ing, attended by the officers of both armies in grand uniform, and enlivened by the strains of the 40th regimental band in the courtyard. The General re- turns with tbopreseige of an addition to the military under his command, in the shape of the ...

... D U S T It r ! TO THIE EDITOR OF TIlE 1 LBEL.FST NEWS-LETTER. SIR-lIalf-blinrd and ?? Ieris 1hoked(l. I take up my peon to call votir attentiont to t1110 state of our streets, Tle amnmirnt or misery endured by pocs- trians jnst at li'esent is smonethin , awful. TIhu wind is blowi ug a good romd gale(; the road ways are more than usually stored with an airmuinable componind ofr dust, the ...

... LAT T'.S T NEWS. YESTERI)AY'S DESPATCHES. L (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) w LORD CANNING'S REPLY TO THE E*LLENBOROUGH DESPATCII. In Lord Stanley, having directed that tho whole of sr the daily Press should be supplied with the above dlocumient, it is published in this morning's papers. E Lord Canning commences by complaining tflital- though the despatch was written in secret corm- mit toe, it wns ...

... fLONDON CORRESPONDENCE, (FROMx OUR OWN CoRwPONlENTn) , LONDON, SATURDAY, Tue unusual circumstance of two contested elections within a wecek naturally suggests a passing observa- tion on the state of parties in the Lower Houso at this moment. Contrary to tile expectation of the Radicals, who fondly imagined that the Ca- binet of Lord Derby bad within it the seeds of pre- mature decay, and that ...

... * F 'A t R S .: i . . .l. I I I1mr.INW F.un.-Aineeal)Ily to the. 6ene'ally1 ex- pilessed wishl of tha8 guitly anid frarn(iel bf ;titra, it> iastioeen resolved to ?? a I.ijaf) ful in eon. ncxion yitli'tl e nlentlhly. fours to bel h10ld ?? ?? ..verber Iand A4y. Th4q . trsatbiy place Will. be at the Shan ble Squqare Lowe'r English Strcet, a must suit: able locality, ft1W (lie [hLAt Ilh ing famir ...

... - . .. I. ._ .. A MEETING of tile Committee of this Association, recently established under the auspices of the Irish Institution for thd Promotion of the Fine Arts and ts the Improvement of Taste in Ireland, was held at the W1 committee room of the Art-Union, Grafton Street, on Tuesday. There were ?? Talbot de llala- 2 hide, V.P., in the chair; the Right Hon. 'Maziere t, Brady, V.P.; John ...

... WESLEYAN AIfslIODIST IHOME MISSION. EISTERDAY etettitig, according to previous announce- sent madte ins the coltuius of(the Xeivs-Leter, a public. seting was held in Frederick Street Wesleyan 'hurch in aid of tile Wesleyan Methoditit Home hlis- ion. Owing to the inelesuency of tile weather, the ttendance was not soI large as it wiould otherwise iave been. On the platform, we ?? nlullan, ...