... T H E CO M ING CO N GR E SS. (roRt TIHE STANDARD.) IT is usual, as the time fror opening Parliament ap- proacies, to characterise fhle ensuing session as likely to be one of more than ordinary inmportance. Con- sidering ?? tho public is always heartily tireed of the recess and impatient for business, this designation is natural enough, for there is always an accunnulation of publiecwrongsof ...

... C E Y L O N: BY Slt JAMES EMEII30:f TONN X't, ?? &C. (FRO.U T11R BRITISI1 QUARTERLY RWL'IVE)W.} IN 1845, Sir James R merson Tonnent went out to Ceylon; in the capacity of Colonial Secretary. During his residenco on the island, he enjoyedA ?? favorahle opportanities of strdying the character and.habits of the people, whichi he assiduously im- proved by joem rcys into the interior; visitin;g ...

... AFTER considerable delay, the prospectus of the ?? and Bangor Inland line has at length ap paared, but without any. mention whatever of the coast line, which would seem to be already aban- doned. The Provisional Committee, even after the lengthened period Which has elapsed since the first whisper of the project, consists exactly of eight gen- tleman apparently including the Secretary of the ...

... INDIA AND AUSTRALIA i1i2 n -l-l xt1 ital ?? 1__ f ?? uveriana ?? trings files of papers f . 2utta to the 2nd, and Bombay to Nov. 11 frot Cal. bournc to Oct. 17; and from Sydney to Oct. 1 LORD CANNING IN OUDE, At a grand Durbar held in Lucknow n the 24th Df October, Lord Calning thus addressed the Tae dars of Curie:-. Taloolklars of Oude-I am glad to find myself your courrtry arld among you, ...

... THE AMERICAN FRIENDLY ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH ENIIGRANIS. LAST evening, a meeting wats held it, thce Victoria Hall, for the purpose (if hearing at statement of the Objects of the association by the agent., Mr. John Cook~e. The chair was occupied by Will. EIVART, juni., E sq., Mayor of Belfast; aind amonigst those pre~- sent ?? Lordl Bishop of Down and Conner, Rev. Dr. Cooke, Rev. Win. Johnston, ...

... THE PROJECTED HOLYWOOD AND BANGOR I - LINE. Tau pressure upon the fifescony must be very strong, indeed, which compels that journal, in support of the Bangor and Holywood Railway project, to occupy its space every alternate day with abuse of the NLws- LETTER, In an article in our contemporary yester- terday, we are accused of having given the project the advantage of vituperative and ignorant ...

... NE H'S-LETTER OFFICE, ,'rida' AMoraibv. [BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.] THIE CONGItESS. St. Petersburg, Dec. 7. The French Ambassador and the Charge ?? of Austria communicated yesterday to Prince Gortschakoff the invitations to the Congress. Prince Gortschakoff will be First, and Count Kisseeff Se- cond, Plenipotentiary of Russia, Vienn, Dec. 7. Count Reichlberg will proceed to Paris to be pre- sent ...

... 3 THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. I The Rev T. J. Burke, curate of Shepton Mallet Somersetshire, has been presented to the rectory of Durston, near Taunton. Patron-Rev A. Gray. 7 THE REV. R. MAGUtIR, M.A., AND THr CLEPcREN- WELL PARIsIoNoRs.-Dnring the week several of the pa ishioners orSt. James, Clerkenwell, connected with ,one of the local institutions, have held meetings, as was stated at one of ...

... DIBAT'lI OF TIIOMAS DE QUINCEY. THnBE expired in Edinburgh, on ?? iuorllill`, the 8th inst., one of the most remarkable mcn of the present ?? de Quincey. Ne wns little heard of in the great world, and his works have never oeen, and never will hb, the subject of a iwide and sounding popularity; but the untanimous testimony of cultivated alld capablejaudges has pi'onioced hii ono of those mon ...

... THE EMPRESS'S APARTMENTS AT THE TUILE RIES. A CORRLSPONDENT of the Jtdtepen(jrtc6 Belge writes:- I had the good fortane to visit the other - lay t- e private apartments of tlxe Empress ut the Tuileries. Worlonen had been engaged on themu for two years, during the absence of their Mnjesties. Thcse suites of rooms. which ron in a parallel line with the re- ceptinn rooins on the drawing-roolnl ...

... Ob ? c ?? c If of 41, c tit cr* (ESTABLISII1ED ANNO 1737.1 BELFAST: FRIDAY,. DEC. 9, 1859. Oun reporter elsevlhere supplies an account of the inquest and magisterial inquiry at Dungannon. It will be seen that Constable John Holden has been foumd guilty of wilful murder by the Coroner's jury, and that the magistrates have also committed him to take his trial at the next Assizes in Omagil ...

... THE]. ARMY. Capltain C. Ellis, GOtd Royal Mitlss has succeelel Capriaii Laelrton, of tire S~ots F1 lrsil' t1rrals, nisr Aid -de-Calol(. ) to 7Major-tGenerl ?? are, cuia- moainding tile 2u(r In lrinty Briaide in D)ubilin. ROC\T, IHOSPI'TAL, C.HtitStA Captrin lilly is re covering fi on) tire etieets of' his late severe accirdnt. Caipt if D.owniln is d(oing the dhities ot 'aksisant ruiril ...