... THs number of collisions that have recently been reported, and of which many have happened to vessels from Belfast and the North of Ireland, are far out of proportion to what shoul occur if ordinary care were exercised by the captains of vessels. The last accident of this character was that which hap- pened to the Lyra, from Belfast to Fleetwood, on Friday night, and of which we await further ...

... DISCOURAGMIENT TO PROTESTANTISM IN FLORENCE. The following statements appeal in the Italian cor- respondeice of the Times on Tuesday:- FLOReNaN DP1W. 13.-I Woirfmed you not long ago that the cause of freedom of conscience iad vely lately suffered at first' gentle check at the hands of the Tuscan Government. I little expected at the time that its death-blow ?? could be so imminent, Oni Sunday ...

... (FROM THU NEW YORK HERAiLD.) THE President's Message is in typle, hut only proof sheets have thus fir been struck off. It will ?? one page of the Herald. It is not as long as itis first message, but a little longer thaut the seconds it will undoubledly he the most impoutant ?? that ever emanated from the White House It will rerer at considerable length to the present Political e !xcit. mnent ...

... FACTS FOR FARMERS. WftAT TO DO WITH MANGELS AND TunxiPS LEPT OUT,- L writes- My mangles and turnips are yet in the ground. Will you be so kind as to say how I ought to treat ?? have nothing for it now hut to leave them as they arc, to talke chancc, inhless thle frost goes off, and the weather hecomes mild and dry, when you may run the plough between the turnipi, aiid earth them up, so as to ...

... TWO PERSONS Elt.LED, AND SEVERAL WVOUNDED. WE have received acconnts of three sad accirlents in, and in the neighbourhood of, Liverpool. On Sunday a servant in the family of Mr. Sharpo (of the firm of R. S. Sharpe and Sons, coffee-roasters), Wobirirohill, Green Lane, near Liverpool, was preparing dinner, wien the boiler attached to the kitchen-range ex- ploded with a tremendous report. The ...

... NE WS-LETTER OFFICE, Monday ilforning. [BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAFII.] THE WAR IN MOROCCO-REPULSE OF THE MOORS. Madrid, Dec. 23. The Moors have attacked the Spanish on the road to Tetuan, in order to obstruct the works, They were victoriously repulsed. General Prim ?? himself by h is bravery The Spanish had 4 killed and 40 wounded. All the works, and even the new fortlints, have been completed. THE ...

... I ry ?? I i, 'A'A cl f ?? t V,? ?u 15 24 ri c t t c f. 1-11 :7 (ESTABL1SlIS D ANNO 1737.) BELFA ST: SATURDAY, DEC. 24, 18'i)9. Wr, publish this morning a translation from the Times of Th ursday of the ?? pamlphllet, just issued in Paris, from the pen of M. de la Guerroniere. In our last we commented on the views put forth by the writer, as far as we were entabled to judge of them by tolegrnaph ...

... DUBLIN AND DROOF-TEDA RAILWAY. A SPECIAL ineeting of this company was lheld on Wednesday, at the terminus, Amiens Street, for tbe purpose of considering the propriety of applying to Parliament for a Bill to extend the line from Kells to Oldeastle. The chair was taken at one o'clock by JAS. WMr. MUIRLAND, ESq., ?? of the company. Mr. CUL1EiRtwErmL, the secretary, having read the ?? of the ...

... I IEPUTATION FROM THE PEACE SOCIETY TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. A DEPUTAVtON froma the Peace Society *vaited by ap- pointmeat upon Lord John Russell at one o'clock on Thursday at tbe Foreign-Olffce, to present a memorial on our present relations with China. It consisted of, the following gentlemen:-Alessrs. Wm. Janson, Wm. Allen, Thomas Binns, Richard Barrett, Joseph Cooper, W. E. Corner, Robert ...

... MONEY-ORDER, OFFICES. O; the 2nd January, 1860, money-order offices will be opened at- Bangor-Erris, County Mayo, Head-Office, Ballins. Crookhaven, a Cork, Skibbereen. I Dromore, Tyrone, a Omagh. s Dundrum, Tipperary, Cashel. a Kiltormer. Galway, Ballinasloe. t Sneen, ' Kerry, Killarney. On the Ist January next and thenceforward the I following changes In the mode of transacting the t ...

... A CHRISTMIAS STORY. I WvAS an orphan from my infanoy, vith siX elder half- sisters. A long aid persistoet course of training im- posed Upon mo the yoke of a second and diverse nature, and I grew up as much the child of my eldest sister, Balbara, as I was the daughter of mly deceased parents. Barbara, in all her private plans, as in aI) her do- mestic decrees, inexorably decided that her ...

... I3ELFAST BOARD OF GUARDIANS. YESTERDAY, the Guardians of the Belfast Union held 1 their usual weekly meeting in the Board-room of the Workhbouse, when the Vice-Chairman, Dr. M'GRE, J.P., occnpied the chair. The other members present wereW-W. T. B. Lyons, Esq., J.P., Henry liurrison. Esq., J.P., Win. Coates, Esq., J.P.; Dr. Moore, Sur- geon Browne; John Finlay, Win. Jlmstoai Huth M'Oitcheon, ...