... ifI I( a !t l (ESTABLISIMTD ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1858. THE news by telegraph since our last possesses no feature deserving of particular notice. Our Dublin Correspondent, by special tele. graphic despatch, enables us to give elsewhere the appointments consequent on the resignation, by E. Tickell, Esq, of the Chairmanship of County Armagh. We publish in another column a ...

... TIL1, PRESS. TII1 STATE OF THlE COUNTRY. ArSimi all that ]has linen said by people With till tnaitt icr of Views ab teit tile causes oftt tle1it tle emtliy o robvllioti Ill Irelantd, the generall stii'ptiiso remains p Uotv mnuch whiat it wais. TIine idea of voting nen, fromt thle towns, arid] from the noiglihotlitood or tle. K ihlarliey Itot els., leaving thie colint er tond thle office- deslk ...

... ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION OF PROTESTANT I CHfILtDREN. A ckstn came before tho Birkeuilhead nmagistrates, on Saturday, which, had it been fully gone into, would have excited great attention and interest. The case involved a charge of attempted abduction, by a Ro- man Catholic mother, of two children, hiho have been educated in the Protestant religion, and who are at n frosellt in thle school of the ...

... 01jl21s,lYIA s D A Y. Saturday ntext being Christimas Day, the NEms-LETTER, accordilg to usuanl customti will not be published o07 that day. Adevertisenienbs shoudt, therefore, be, fori'oaded onl Thursday for FPriday's publication. Those intended for Mfonday's iulpressioii should be sent by post, or drol)ped in the Letter-box at the Publishing qgfice, TIE RECE'NT DEATHS OEPPRISBYT*TEANM ...

... JUDGE%, JURIES, AND AUNT SALLY. (FROM MIETROPOLITAN GOSSIP OF LIVERPOOL ATeBION.) LONDON, SATURDAY EvEcxmxo-Tllis ought to be cainival week in Pandemonium, considering how Becizel)ub's chaplains, the gentleien in horse-hleir wigs hlave been enjoying tilemsllves. Such harvests of fees and, such disclosures of what the fees have been for, havn't been witnessed in modern tiniqs; andl the ...

... [BY MAGNETIC TELZGISAP4.2 M. DE MONTALEIMBERT'S APPEAL. The Times explains that, M. de Montalenibert having prosecuted his appeal to an issue, thle resuilt has been that the original sentence is in great part coni- flrncdalthouglih the penalty has been somewbat modi- fled. The actual decision is, that he stands acquitted of the chiarges of ?? the principle of universal suffrage and the ...

... THe first concert for the season of the Anacreontics, given at the Music Hatl last evening, was in all re- spects a decided succoss. Notwithstanding the dreary character of thre weather, the room was crowded to excess; and, indeed, considering the alartaing expan- sion of tile fashions, not to spealk of the vcry attractive character of the concerts of the society, a general feeling seemed to ...

... 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 ...

... TIHE DRAINA0E OF LOUGII NEACII AND LOUGH BEG. 'YI.STEM1DAY morning, the Comomissioners5 of Public Works in Irelind, Sir RICHiARD GtRiuvvirn and Lieut.- Colonel MKtutook their seats in~ thle Crown Court.', shortly beforc cloven o'clock, and p)roeeded with thle hearing of' appeals against thie Surims charged ill thle darat award agaitist proprietors of land around Loughi Neagh iuid L~ough Beg, ...

... MUD)! MUD! AIUD! TO THlE EDITOR 01F SAUNDERS'S NEWS-LI(TTER, DUBLIN. Smn-Will nothing induce our Corpotation to (10 anything towards correcting thle daily increasing, nuisance of accumulating filth in thc streets? It is impossible to pass thlroligh town now~withloit being completely bemuddecl from blead to foot-tho newly inventeri dodge of permitting tbe mud, when sweplt to ono side, to lie ...

... AImtuANa \,,nNTS arO being mtade for commencing Ope- rations under tbho Gcneral Valuation Act, and we t ist that the public will do every thing in thcir powoer to facilitato the valnators in their task. Every tene- meint *vill bavc to be valued, and it will be necessary for occupiers, when called upon, to point out boun- dlaries, and afford whatever information may be re- quiired. Forms, also, ...

... At this port, on the 22nd inst., the Walnderer, Patter son, from Odessa, with Indian corn.-Hlamilton, Megaw, and Thornpson, consignees; G. Etoyn, agent. At this port, on the 23rd inst., the Argas, from Marian- opic, with wheat, At this port, on the 23rd inst., the Sagitorius, from Odessa, with Indian corn. At this port, on the 23rd instb. the steans-tug Conqueror, from Liverpool, to towv the ...