... FRENCH GOSSIP AND OI1IT-OHIT. PARIS, MONDAY Ev NING,-The firstnumber ofthe new Austrian organ at Paris, Le 3Ifentorial Diplonza- tigue, wvbich I announced last weel, is just out, and embodies all the tendencies and syidpathies I ascribed to it. It is full of mattcr, and the style and tone rather better than was expected from such a quarter. In point of ?? the leading interest of po- liticians ...

... CORRESPOND ENCE. P MI 0 T 0 G R A P IH Y. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. Sit-With tile execption of thle Loidoi, A thenitrw your paper was tile first wvhiose coluinils wvere tile mnedium of commnlnicalillg to the public the wonders of that art, which now is of wivlew-word flame, and- thje fruitfril applications of which is ?? ; to every subject, to enrich Or orntauent thc dlomestic ...

... INAUGUR'ATION OF MAYOR OF CORK FOR 185._1IR. MAGUIRE AND RELIGIOUS TOLE- RATION. Tarn installation of Alderman Joui ArnNOTT, Mayor Elect, into tile office of Chief Magistrate for tile pre- sent Iyear took place onl Satill'day in tihe City Court- house. Tho day being a Romisli holiday, and tile gient majority of tile lower orders ol that denomina- tion consequently not being tit work, an ...

... FARMING OPERATIONS FOR JANUARY. (FPont TtrE IRISH FARMERS' GAZETTE.) WIsATMVEIul NWinter plonglimig remains unione should be delayed no longer, so that the land may fully en- joy tilh aipcliorating iffluuctle of the alternate frosts and thaws which must be naturally cxpected about this period. The action of frosts on heavy, clay soils renders thema looseand friable, but they should not be ...

... [raY IAGNETIO TELEGRBAPHt.]I (11PUTER'S TFaRG~ReAM.) ]REINFORCEMEN OF THE AUSTRIAN GARRI. SON IN ITALY, Viennn, Wedne!sday, Jan. 5. Thle semi-official OessOreierisacdc C'errespondenz of this evening announcedl the reinforcement of thle Arrs-, trian garrison in Italy. This has beend(onci adds the Corrssyondenz, as a measure of prccaution, and for the protection of peaceful sulbjccts, but was by ...

... . BY the arrival of the Bombay snail we (TiMes) have received our private correspondelnce and papalrs from Bombay to the Dth of December. Th1e following is tlho lotter of our Bombay corres- pondent:_ . ]0BomniuY, Duo. 9.-The unfavourable 11eWS wvice I have to report will, doubtless, hlave been made known to you by telegraph. I learn by a telegram from Agra, of thlo Gth inst., that on tie 5tli ...

... FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT THE POLYTECTINIC INSTITUTION. FURTitER PARTICULARS, LAST evening one of those terrible catastrophes tlat become all tile more melancholy in their characteris- tics owing to their occurrence nt suchi a festive period as the present, ?? at that popular place of amusemient., the Polyteclnic Institution, about one thousand persons having been attractcd to tihe enter- ...

... I [BY liAGITETI1 TELEGBAPH.] THE ITALIAN QUESTION. Thle continental journals and correspondence re- ceived to-day abound with details on the state of the pu1blic mind in Italy. At Paris yesterday, according to the Correspon- dent of the Daily News, there was a rumour that Milan was in a state of siege. The impression at Paris that we ale on the immediate eve ot a general war gains ground. Ile ...

... . . PARIS, TOESDAtY EvNItrN.-Wbill the venerable Jerome still keeps a firm grasp on tile keys of his brother's tomb,. under the dome of the Invalides, a lecree is out to-day, and is embodied in Le Bulletin les Lois, declaring tile old abbey church of St. Denis to be the place of Imaperial sepulture, and the Dean andl Chapter thereof to be tile custodians of ?? future ileposits therein. The ...

... RAILWAY TIAIB-TABLE. [A11RRANGED FOR TllE NP'ilS-LErTER.J TnA1l2'8 will leavo for theo undormontioned ?? frolml and to BoAllist, on wcck days, alt the followvin:g hours :_ From Bellilst. 6, D0 3 m; 2, 4 S0 1pm 7, 8 nl 12 n, 4 10, 715pin 6, 2 1u IlI; 2,4 30 pin 7 am; 2 N'1; 31 in G, 9 :J01 WtI; 2, 130, pm] 6, 030 Il] 2 pill 9 ,2 1111; 415, 7p15p t iml -; p1 pil 6, 7fill) Do 3 3n 12pil 2, 4 5, ...

... A GLANCE AT ' THE SITUATlON. (FROM BENTLEY'S USCUELLANY FOR JANUARY.) Is Tehe Situation so very bad? There are two ways of answering the question; the one, by comparing it with what it was a year ago; the other by direct examination. Besides the claim which every New Year asserts, we are obviously compelled to fall back a whole t'ivelvenionth in instituting any comparison, by the well ...

... : pe ',elfatrjf 31ehlus-c t4er. (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.1 BELFAST: FRIDAY, JAN. 7, 1859. WVE learn from the Dublin journals that Mr. Morris has declined to accept the Professorship of Law in Galway College offered to him by his B.Ecellency tha nlrul Lioutonant. The plea on which the learned gentleman excuses himself is a fair one-that his professional avocations would be too seriously ...