... L ?? TES T 'NEWS. NAW7S3-LET'TlIR OFFICE, 3fo1,day Xorniag. [BY 3A GX F.T1 TIULISORA'51.] DIPLOATATIC RECEPTION AT PARIS. Paris, Jan. Ist, 180. To-day, at On1e o'clock P.M., tile reception of the diplomilatic corps took place in the Throne Room.- The AtiibsSad-S, headed by thle Papal Nuncio and thle first dtle/kes of tile embassies, stood round the thlrone; the secretaries and other attaciles ...

... PROMOTIONS AND EXiCHANGES. WAR-OtFFForE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 30. 82nd Regiment of Foot-Major-Gen. the Hon. T. Ashburriliam, C.B, to be Col., vice Lieut.-G.L). N. flamilton, deceased. WAR-OVIIeic, PALL- MALL, Dne. 30. 7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Assistant- Suttreotn J. N. Shipton, from the 23rd Foot, to bo Assistant-Sargeol, vice Smith, appointed to the Staff. 8tl Light DTagroons-Quartcrimiaster ...

... SECOND 1D01TION. TIIIS DAY'S NEWS. [BY MlAG NET'i'C TELISG2;APII.] iIVI.eS'-LET'7TER OFFICE, Monday, One o'clock p.m. T II E CON RESS. The Times says that at the prisent romolit it looks as it there would be no Conglress at all, and adds, so muuch thc better. All that vill then remain will be to recognise the Contral Italian State wbicli has been formed out of the Romagna and the Duchies, ...

... SATURDAY night, being the close of the year lbUY, the annual service known as ?? service was held in the different Methodist Churches, Bel- frast, and also in Great leorge's Street Presbyterian ChIrarli (Rev. T. Toye's). The services were con- eninced at ten o'clock, and, although the rain fell in torrents nt the time, yet the churches vere wvell filled. The attendance at Mr. Toyc's Church, ...

... TIIE ESTABLISHED CHIURCH. PROSENTATION TO Rrv. W. P. KRsmR, FINTONA.- The rector and parishioners of Donacavey, have pre- seoted the Rev. W. P. Kerr, curate of tite parisi, with a purie con tI ining th irty-tine guilneas, as a Christmas gift, and a tolcen of the eustimation iii which thoy holdl his zealous and efficient discharge of the parochial Aluties. PRESESTATION TO TH1i REV. J. O'HARA_ ...

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... (FR0oMr THE TliiMES.) No death which we could chronicle wvill be more deeply or more widely lamented than that of Lord Macaulay. His loss is not simply that of a great man; it is the loss of a great man who accumu- latod immense stores of infornation that perish with him. As on the funeral pile of' some Oriental poten- tate the wealth ofi a province is heaped up to bo burned, we see passing ...

... THE Bishop of Orleans, MIgr. Dupanloup, in a pam- phlet just published, says:- Shall I express my opinion? I have seldom ili the course of mny life met with pages where sophistry, flagrant conlradiction, and palpah le absurrdities were laid down as principles by the author with more con- flence in his own ability and in the simplicity of his readers Al. Dupanloup then proceeds to deny that ...

... IRELA.ND AND THE RIFLE CLUBS. WHY is it that Irishmen in Ireland have been so little affected by the rifle club movement? On the other side of the Channel it monopolises the conversation in almost every circle. The effectivos and non- effectives comprise all classes in the community. Old gentlemen who never intend to shoulder a fire- lock patronise the clubs, and subscribe handsomely to ...

... (FnRo0 TiE PARIS CORRESPONDENT OF TUE MAN- CHESTER GUADIGALi.) MEANWIIILE the preparations made by the French Government for a naval contest-some day with some other Power, are going on with incredible activity, Last Saturday a friend of my own was present at L'Orient at the launch of a hundred gun line-of- battle ship, which had been got ready for sea in the short space of flve months, Five ...

... THE CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF TIHE BELFAST NEWS-LETTEMI DrAR SirR-At the present timc, when 80 many extraordinary opinions arc beingr broached on tile subject of Scripti'ral education, it may not be amiss to recall the senthnents of a man of God who noW rests froln his labom', but who lbeing (lead, Vet speaketh. The late Rev. Uodrrey Massv thus dealt with the plea of the ...

... ON WednCsday evening, the Right Hon, Sir John Pakington, KOCB., M.P., was entertained in the Guildhall of Worcester at a splendid banquet, ?? a mark of honor and esteem for tile services which he has rendered to the county for upwards of 24 years as Chairman of Lhe Quarter Sessions, for those which he has rendered to the country at large in the respective ministerial capacities of Colonial ...