... THjE IRISH PRIESTS AND ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. R'EN the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland relltly issued his proclamation against secret .eti'tes in Irelaud, the Times, it will be 'f'1ubered, not only questioned the policy of the act, but intimated that the Irish Viceroy should be called to a pretty strict account for affixing the stigma of disloyalty and treason upon a people remarkable for their ...

... C H I N A. LORD ELGIN'S EXPEDITION UP THE GREAT RIVER YANG-TSE -KIANG. The most important concession obtained by- the Treaty of Tien-sin, although the least popular of all its articles with the present mercantile houses in China, was the opening of the Yang-tse-Kiang. The Yang-tse is the great highway of waters that rolls for two thousand miles through the breadth of the Empire, and bears its ...

... I HtL . .RIStMAs §8f.m. I (CONCLUDED.) William Horner (40) and George Green (44) were charged with stealing thirty-seven sheets of metal .sheathing from the yard of Messrs. Humphrey, ship- buildera; and -Benjabmin Bash (62), marine store dealer, lwas charged with receiving some of the above metal, knowing it to have heen stolen..-Mr. SEYMrOUR and Mr. PZTCEIsEL prosecuted, and Mr. NEWTON ...

... | A STATED SIAM. ?? In a large room, with plain whitewashed walls, but At be handsomely furnished, Bit the Consul and his wife, duly amer attired to do honour to their expected guests. Presently bls as a rich barge, distinguished by a row of official umbrellas nong at the stern, glides to the pier, and from it steps the They Praklang, whom Europeans call Minister for Foreign moed' Affairs. ...

... A YEAR ago all true English hearts throbbed with excitement, not unmingled with apprehension, at the announcement of the arrival of an Indian mail. Then, although Delhi had fallen, the north-western provinces were disaffected, all Oude was in arms &,5itist us, Lucknow was in the hands of a vast and well-armed rebel force, and the heroic f svE:L h,. whose gallant efforts to relieve the ...

... THE WALLS OF CANTERBURY. The honorary secretaries of the Park and Recreation n Grounds Com. ittee present their compliments to the ti Editor of the Hall Pac7ect, and respectfully request the i favour of the insertion oftheac1ompanyisg paper, which o will be found to add another important instance to gi those already given of the principle which appears to t' 'alve prevailed that t he towns of ...

... The Times of Monday says:- We hear again of the . persecution of the Protestants of France. A correspon. dent, who signs himself ' Eye-witness,' states that the Prelets are shutting up the Protestant schools. A dozen Protestant schools have been shut up by the Pr6fet in the department of the Haute Vienne. l What isthe result? 'The inhabitants of those villages, with unshaken firmness and a ...

... I A private letter of the 30th ultimo from Milan, says - Here the agitation is increasing, notwithstanding L the recent measures with which the Austi an govern- ment has endeavoured to mitigate the severity of the new regulations on the subject of conscription. The quarrels between the people and the soldiers on account of the cigars are continual. On Sunday, the 26th, there was a serious ...

... (By Electric and lnternational Telegraph.) t SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.--The Tyne steamer arrived with Brazilian mails. She brings captain, chiefI officer, and 17 of the crew of the MIerso, of Liverpool, burnt at sea.-Bahia: New sugar arriving slowly, and v in demand. Freights higher. Exchange 26J. Pernam- v buco freights 33s to £2 for Channel. Exchange 26k. i Buenls Ayres exchange 68. Monte Video ...

... MASONiC FuNERAL--Yesterday the remains of the late Air. Thomas Feetani, churchwarden of Holy Trinity, were interred in the HIull General Cemetery with masonic honours. For twenty years past Mr. Feetam had been the treasurer of the Humber lodge in this ?? officers and brethren of that lodge and the chief officers of the Minerva-altogether 133 masons |-wearing their insignia, walked in ...

... ant fautt wait~et AND EAST RIDING TIES. LREGISTERED AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD.] FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 199. 1859 does not commence auspiciously. The new year is rung in amid rurnours of a continental war. It has long been known that the relations between France and Austria are not so amicable as once they were; but the taciturn Emperor has openly said as much; and so the ...

... NEW YEAR'S DAY AT WINDSOR I CASTLE. U1r New Year's-eve the Queen had a large dinner 'party. On New, Year'. morning, at seven o'clock, the band of the ~2nd Life Guards playedI a selection of airs on the terrace. Later in the noerning her Majesty'. oannual distribution of food and clothing to about 700 poor persons of the Windsor and Clewer parishes took place in the Riding-oouse of the Coatla, ...