... A FACT FOR THE POOR-LILV COMMISSIONERS. A FEw days since a young lad, aged seventeen, whose father was transported some sixteen years ago, was taken fron a Southern workhouse, where he had been fiom his infancy, by a rev. gentleman of the Estab- lished Church, in order to be sent, as an act of charity, to the United States. The child had been admitted into the Union as a Protestant, and was ...

... . ( b Ije w ip, df mq, I TT c ?? cf f m ?? - - - - - - (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: TUESDAY, JAN. 11, 1859. IT is stated that the French Commission appointed to inquire into the working of the French negro emigration scheme will only report the facts which they have elicited, but not any conclusions from them. Prince Napoleon, it is added, will recom- mend the abandonment of the scheme. ...

... AUSTRIA AND ITALY. TuRIN, JANX 4-As the day npproaches, the in- terest excited in expectation of the King's speech be- comies stronger, and conjectures are hazarded which are, I need hardly say, mcre conjectures, occnsionally very preposterous. Somoepersonssecemitoimagine-that the speech will contain what will be tantamount to an announcement of coming wiiP. Such a declara- tion would be ...

... TIHE PIIGENIX SOCIETIES. (FROMc TIME 1OTININtG POST.) TII more wie read touching the arrests in Ireland the more firmly we are convinced that the Govern- ment wvas neither'precipitate nor ill-advised in its proceedings. Lord Egliuton is a shrewd, sensibic man, full of generous and kindly feelings towaids the country of which he is tie Viceroy. He is about the last man who would rush into a ...

... TunE recent victory obtained by two of the ratepayers over the Corporation in a battle which should never have been fought, and which, to 'say the Icast, bas not resulted and cannot result in anything of benefit to the victors or the ratepayers, was, the, occasion for a special meeting of the Town Council yesterday. The whole subject was considered, and the decisions arrived at were, we think, ...

... SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL- . THE NEW RATE. YLeSTER DAY, a special meeting of the Council was held in the Town Hall, the MAYoR (Wm.Ewartjuu., Esq.), in the chair. The TowN CLERK read the minutes of last meet- lug, and announced that Mr. William Booker had X been elected Councillor for Smiithfield Ward, in the room of Mr. John Moore, wh11o had resigned, Alderman M'CAUSLAND moved, that ...

... T HE LEVER LINE-NON-ARRIVAL OF THE cmR- CASSIAN-.GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT IN GAL- WAY. GALWAY, SUNDAY NIaHT,-A feeling of bitter dis- appointment baa been excited here by the non-arri- val of the steam-ship Circassian which was annonneed to sail to-day for St. John's, with tile Newfoundland mails. The very flit of there being more goods and passengers for this ship than there have ever been since ...

... [BY MAGNETIC THLEGRAPL.3 RESIGNATION OF BARON PENNEFATHER. LEGAL APPOINTMENTS. (FROM THE DUBLIN EVBNING POST.) Dublin, Tuesday Evening. At length the venerable Baron Pennefather has re- tired. His resignation was not forwarded to the Government until yesterday. The Lord Chancellor this day, at the meeting of tile Benchers, announced tle fact. ; Judge Cramupton has also determined to retire. It ...

... STATE OF TI-IE COUNTRY. COUNTY OF DONEGALI-RIBBONMEN. TuE constabulary have been very active in and around Letterkenny since Sunday night, the 2nd inst., when the brigade assembled on Kuhneedy Mountain for drill. On these nocturnal depredators separating, a large number of them well armed were seen calling at a houso in ?? town of Ardahee, where they'ap- peared to feel at home. Sub-Inspector ...

... RAIILWAY TIME- TABLE. [AeRANGED FOR THE NEWS-LITTER.] TRAINS W ill leavo for the undermnentioned places from and to Belfast, on week days, at the following From Delfast. To Belfstm. e, D 20 am; 2, 4 30 pm Antrim r 58, 10 27 amn; 2 58 6 40 pml. 8 am; 12 ii; 4 S0 pm; Annagllmoso 7 25 illm; 12 n; 4 55 pm; 7 15 pml 7 40 pan 7, 8 am; 12 II, 4 S0, Armagb 7 20, 9 30 mn, 12 a1, 7 16 ?? 4 61) Pml 1 0, ...

... (FROA1 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, TUESDAY, JAN. 11Tf, 1859. I Alf enabled to announce, on authority, that the Right Hon. Baron Penrefather forwarded his resig- nation of his seat on the Bench of the Court of Ex- chequer to her Majesty last night. His lordship did not takc his seat with the other Barons at the sitting of the Court to-day. There are, of course, many con- jectures in the ...

... GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. * PLANT DJ)PART1IENT-Conservatory, &c.-Where the twiners for covering the roof are grown in boxes or have but limited root room, as much of the sur- face soil should be removed annually as can be done without seriously in uring the roots, replacing it with some good, rich, fresh material, and this cannot be done at a better season than the present. The con- ...