... INTERIMBDIATE SCHIOOLS. A vERnY important ?? was hold yesterday, at the Mlusic Hall, to talko into consideration the sub- ject of Intermediate Schools, to oue elaborate report of whiche we have barely space to call attention this morning. The want of some public schools in Ire- land to take a place between the primary schools and the Universities is generally admitted, and any Intelligent ...

... 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 ...

... PI(E:NIX CLUBS AND PHErNIX FEATHERS. THiEmn is something more than meets the eve in ?? Clubs' Men-Irisilmen especianly- are not ?n the habit of forminig secret ?? with- out having a definite object in ViCw. It \las been so in every association in this country throughout its entire history, and it may reasonably be conjeteired that it is so in tho present conspiracy; and notlhing could be more ...

... Y UMTERDAY, the Usual weekly meeting of tho mem- bers of this Board was h old at the worlkhouse-Dr. ?d'GuE in the chair. The other members present were-Messrs. R. Bell, J. Hamill, D. Taylor, D. Il'Connell, J. Finlay, D. Walkerl . Carlile, R. Greer, J. Kavanagih, A. Brown, and J. Martin, STATE 0HU' TSIE 11000. Remaiiniug on Tuesday the 28th day of December, 1858-In the workhouse, 371; in tho ...

... . E ? c ?? -elf a it Iletn-fett m - (ESTABIISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: FRII)AY, DEC. 31, 1853. Oua Dublin Correspondent forwards us a report of the Lord Licutenant's reply to a deputation which waited upon him yesterday, on the subject of the Galvay Packet Station. His Excellency's speech is exceedingly gratifying. He conceived it quite impossible that, if the matter were pro- perly ...

... TIHE PRESS, THE TEXANT-RIGOUT HOWL. (FROM THlE TIMES.) TnE ohd Trish howl has,, become faint and attenuiated inl its modern instances. It lacks its ancient v~olume of voice and depth of growl. It is as empty as ever, lint it Is not so )oud. We speak fromr copious oppor- tunities Of recent comuparison. Seine iays ago wo inserted onec of Mr. Sharman Crawford's lucubrations upon his pet scheme of ...

... PROSELYTISM IN TiHE POORHOUSE, TlE system of proselytism upon which the Church of Rome in these countries has entered is carried out with a pertinacity as strong as it is audacious. In every instituition where the emissaries of ?? are admitted, the same attempts to win perverts to their dogmas are observable, and these attempts are everywhere persevered in, against truth and justice, until the ...

... (IFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, TeiURSDAY. TurE Government bave rewarded two meritorious poblic officers, Messrs. U. Thompson and Ogden by promoting them, respoctively, to the offices in the 0encral Post Ofice, Dublin, vacated by the decease of Mr. Botl, and the retirementof Mr. Banon. The Commission to hiquine into tile stato of the Registry of Deeds Office wvill, 1 uliderstlnid, be ap ...

... ' 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 ...

... - F h S AN HI: FRENCH GOSSIP AND G,HIT CIIAT. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.-The readers of the Globe must have noticed the emphasis with which that hitherto unknown term of Skuptchina was intro- duced to the British ear some months past in this part of the paper. I warned your printers that he vould have to keep the word in stereotype; the great brewhoense of Mliloach Obrenovitch was foretold to be a ...

... . .- A - iMERI C A. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. The Royal mail steamship Europa, Captain Leitch, arrived inthe Mersey on Sunday moriiing, bringing advices from New York to the 14th, Boston to the 15th, and Halifax to the 16th insttmt. The Europa brought 79,503 dols, inspecie, and 63 passengers. THE RfGIT OF SEARCHII. The Washington correspondent of the ANet York E Herald writes:- A telegraphic ...

... CONSOLIDATED CIAMBER.-MONDAY. ?? . 1>_ ?? 1 (Before Baron UituuNE.) JN RE CATIIRnNE r 1'CANN. Mr. GANUInL.t applied for a writ of lutbeas corpus to bring up the body of CatLhering l 'Cann, a young girl at present detained in the convent of Laketands, Sandvmount Ile moved on the afildavit of Mr. M'Clintock, of Dawson Grove, County Dublin, which stated that Catherine Al'Cann was engagcd by him ...