... MAIIRRIAGE A LA lIUDE-THE MATTER OF I THE DOT-TREASURE TROVE-THE DIA- MOND TALISMAN OF ALI GHALIB PASHA. PARIS, ThURSDAY, DEC., 23ftD.-Tho most fantas- tical magie-lantern reprcsentation which our follies non and then afford us has been given by the sudden rupture of a marriage wbich has long been talkedl of, aud which, indeed has become so public that the two greatest cosotrieres il Paris ...

... THlE CONTROVERSY ON BAPTISM. TO TilEll EDITOIR OF TIlE BULFAST NlEWS-LETER, Sin-llaving seen lin your paper two letters, in whicil iny inlile is mentioned, I beg to offer a fbw worids of' explanation on the subject to which they refer. I ain not aware of having taken the first step in coitroversy with lho Rev. D1). Bivce. Wheon I re- signed my fthimer ecclesiastical connexion in this town, ...

... THFE PRESS. DID YOU EVER PLAY AT AUNT SALLYT' (FROM TRR GLOBE.) Dinyou evcr play at Aunt Sally? Perhaps nine out of ten of our readers never hneard of Aunt Sally before. Nevertheless it is one of the roads to fame whichi Dr. Bleattie would perchance have found it dif'- ficult to climl, Inut which has ben~e most successfully overcome- by no less a persoinage than her 'Majesty's Master of ...

... |MR. WM. SHARMAN CRAWFORD AND IRISH I i TENANT RIGHT. (FROM TUEi TIMESM WHENEVER the season is summerly and the Weather is damp and mild, good housewives give special ten- danco to their larder. In such days there is cer- tain to be a big blue-bottle thumping and buzzing about. He bangs against the glass, hecomes to tem- porary trouble in the milk-pans. 1{o is a stingless and rather heavy ...

... I H1AD a lad of his breed (said Captain Mansfield), and there was no catching him. He had a wonderful capacity for invention, and told his stories so plausi- bly, lie disarmed all resentment. He was a Paddy too, and no handier boy on a young horse, no tidier groom ever took charge of a stable, no better mes- senger (when he liked) than Paddy Flynn; but he had his weakness, and though lie could ...

... (FmOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDONDPnRY, SATURDAY. THE time-honnured anniversary of the shutting of the gates of Derry was celebrated this day with the usual ceremonies. The annual sermon was preached by the Rev. Francis Smyth, from Psalm cxv., 1-- ,Not unto us, 0 Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory, for Thy mercy and for Thy truth's sake. A special train left Derry this ...

... THE PIHCENIX CLUB IN KERRY. NTLLAitNEy, SCNDAY.-Th xcitelilent that Ile- vailed bore in tile early part of last week, and which, as stated in a recent cou1111miiication, had, to a Con- siderable extent, caliiicl ?? Owithill tile last tfow d ays, wvas revived on Friday afternoon by the arrival fromu Keninaro of three jarvoy cars with a. strong es- cort of constablulary, halvigit hi n charl gC ...

... THE TREASURERSII[P OF COUNTY ANTRINL Tim election of a Treasurer for the Country Antrim, in the room of the late Alexander Miller, Esq., took place in the Crown Court yesterday, and resulted in the return of Captain William Verner, by a ma- jority of eightcen over his opponent, Mr. Henry Leslie. Tie mneeting was presided over by Lord Alassereene, and, of the eighty-two properly qualified ...

... TIlE P[I-NIX CLUB IN KERRY. KILLARNEY, TUESDAY.-No new arrests have been made here since I wrote you on Sunday, but two additional pi isoners were brought in yesterday morn- ing from Kenmiare, by Head-Constable Downes and a party of constabulary fromn that station; their nmncs are Florence O'Sullivan, sen., father of the young man of the same name who was arrested here on Saturday evening, and ...

... [YMAGNETIO TELEGRAPH.] AUSTRIA. The Vienna correspondent of thle Timea says that, owing to the tone of the French and Sardinian Press towards Austria., the men who were onl flarlough have received orders to join their regiments in Lombardy and Venice. 16upplies are also being sent to the fortress. Austria is determined not to be taken by surprise. F R A N C E. According to thle Paris ...

... ' SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. DESTROYING WOOD PI-13oNS. -G., County Down, ?? is the best mode of destroying wood pigeons? 'Thcedestruction last harvest by them was Ibarfn, If by grain steeped in chloroform, in what quantity should it be used?-.7 Wcan give no other mode than shooting the wood pigeons, which will be effective enough by beginning early in the season, as it disturbs them in their ...

... I - - FRHNCIINOOS8IP AND COIIT-CHAT. I -- mL,. ?? PARIS, FRIDAY EVeNINa.-Tle: Cbristmns festival is fixed on for Mjontalemibert' alpPeal, and the great lawycr; Chaix d'lst A cnT ,on lthe part of the Inipe- rial Government, will fling the weiglit of his ackiow.-I l-dged eloqumnco into the adverse scale as a counter- poise to the heavy as well as brilliant metal of Berry6r. The case is sure to ...