... THE' PRESS. STATE OF INDIA. (PitoM THlE TIMES.) TuE whole of onr1 Indian Informnation at tbis mo- ment niay bc comnpressedI into two broad, prognant thetts, We breve nothing in the field againrst irs lbnt we have 100,000 mlenl ill India, arid thisi tob-ce is no(t considered one mnn too many. Such z i nsliect. of affairs niay well set na% pondern vpon tlie contri'gencies' (,f Our porsition arid ...

... DISASTERS AT SEA-INCmDENTS, HOPES, FEARS, AND REALITIES. Tue history of steamships would mnakc a narrative more intensely interesting than any romance ever penned What fiction of the brain can equal this terrible reality which is furnished by one who was saved from the Austria:- An English lady who came on board at Southlmp- ton with her husband and three children-a girl abont five years old ...

... Tini usual veueldy mecting of the Board of Guardians of the 13MeIfast Union was held yestC'rday, 1hen Dr M'G1lE, Vice-Chairtan, presided. Thle other mam- bers present ?? Aloole, Surgeon Browne; David Taylor, David Ml ConncIl, JohInI 1-Hamill, J. Joyce It. Bell, Arthur Aicken, J. Iinlay, Adam ?? 1D. Cavliitk, JnTm s Haurper, George Martin, and JaMes Kavlanag1h, ESfls. STrA'El OFr 'ri1 HOUScI, ...

... PETTY SESSIONS' CLERKS. TO Till- E DItTOiR 01T TIIt 41.T.AST NEIWS-LTTrtR. Sua-I have, 'cad with satisfaction a letter fromn a J.P. for teie County D own, addressed to you on tile subjcet of the conltempliated alteration of tile Petty Sessions' districts ill Irelanld. Lord Na as proposes to consolidate several districts, in order to provide enll adequate salary for the clerc. But thids only ...

... (s'nOsr OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LOXD I.ERIIY, FRIDAY, Tui weather, which was mnild for several weeks past, suddenly changed on Wednesdlay, and °I) to the pre- sent has had more the appearance of Winter than heretofore, but the frost has entirely disappeared. Our muarktets are well attended, but prices are on the decline. I noticed in toy last letter that bread- stnffs are a drug, and shice ...

... MUNICIPAL ELTCTION-POLLING PLACES. 'J'1ii: polling ill the bootlhs of thle dirmerent NVards vill colllmflene thlis Inorning, at nine o'clock. The polling Ilflces SaIe as rllows:- SMITI)FIELD WAARD. At No. 24, Castle Street. OCIK WARD. At No. 72, Grcen Stleet. ST. ANNE'S WARD. At No. 27, Dollegall St let. SI'. uEORGE'S WARD. At thie Market )llicc, 14, Castlo Lane, CROMAC WARD. At the Tax ...

... AMONG IIarley's odds and ends of general interest one is Captain Fabey's beautiful pen-and-ink drawing of Napoleon's tomb, at St. Helena, showing the im- mortal weeping willow. This, not tile tree, but the picturo of it, was sold by George Robins (predecessor of the present auctioneer) at Barry O'Mcara's famous sale in '30, wben a tooth of thle old Corsican lion realised 7; gninens, and the ...

... UNITED CHIURC[I OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND YOUNG MENS SOCIETY. LAST ercning, a pusblic meeting of this socicty was held in the AlUsic Inl, siwhen the Rcv. Alaurien F. Diy, of Dublin, delivered a lectilre tipoi The Refor- mation and its A eent.s. The chair was ocnupied by thel LoRD Biminoi' ?? CON.YSo, the President of the society; and amuorlngst (ltosc present u'ere-- Rev. Wmi. M'llwraimu, Rev. ...

... THEl PRESS. AMER'ICAN AND ENGLISH INSTITUTIONS. (ROoM mTH TIMES.) Tiir. election for tlic new Congres in the Unitedl States hals at thijs momient an unusual intercst both fu)r the American and English public. In America it. is regarded as ain index of the probable result Of a P'residlential election of 1860. The penudulum which in 1850 oscillated so violently to the Democratic side, -(that is, ...

... THlE PRESS. THE AF'FAIRE DE MIJINTALEMBERT. (FROct THlE TIMES.) TnE Rovolution, said AVergulavid, like Saturn , is devouring, hor own children, and the Empire is lie. stroyiug the first and no~dest of its ornaments. The coup d'e'tat of December 2, 1851, successful as it was over thle Chambers and the Coustilution, utterly thi led to conciliate to thle Throne of thle new Emperor the Support ...

... TIIE PRESBIY'T'ERIIAN CHAPLUINCY QUESTION. 13B it knowni to Al whom11 it may Concern, that tie Rev. Mi'. AM'lliichi, of Dundalk, is now one of her Miajesly's Cbapilains for tile Presbyterian forces ia Irelaid. His location, we boliove is Cork. Tlis ap- poiitmoent places the allis members of tho Assembly in rather an embarrassiag position. Thoy mnst ip- pladirl it, inasmuch as they ...

... TERRIBLE STEAM1BOAT EXPLOSION AND LOSS I OF LIFE. Tuip American papers brought by the last mail men- tion the following awful catastrophe:- On the afternoon of the 6th ult., as the stearm-tlug Petrel, Captain Allen, was passing down the North River her boilet; exploded, destroying tOL boat, snd lilling all hands save one man. Portions of tho wvreckv were thrown to a great distance, some of ...