... I EXE COMMITTEgB OF LA MEE ON E CTI OH I - - ATE2S. , . The Committee of Laymen would now redeem the pledge they gave last summer, to offer to the members of 311 the church some suggestions on the fitting stepato bie taken, th in order to secure a satisfactory settlement of the long-agi- es tated question of chureh rates. 1. Tis cannot 'e effected without the cordial union of an those who ...

... GBlnDD 27N8 RAILWAY COMPANY OP The followinig is a report just issned by the LonAon directors of this company. To it are appended ?? from -. Blackwell, the m inagng director; Mr. Sianley, the general manager; and Mr. Mackenzie, the locoluotive superinterdent: T hike London directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canda, in referring to the annexed report of 1r. BlawckWel, the managing ...

... T2 JIC DEA TH OF AN UNKYSO W NY MI, I sinC 11 ver' tvour cm th :a1 re bledl . lllel Shina ath o sati velvet ather. bes o tm wa! .e top r by . Witt h side white smaul n. A across white [onde, violet I with It bow to and side. nauve made dered mntent Teath ,, and blon, pear- ls the a two At roint. 3mall o the de of ud is Last week a tragic scene occurred on the Floating Har. hour near St. ...

... THE WEST-4-N-DIA71D-b PAC O I~ ?? . . , UU ' 0 -OUTHAMPTONT, DEC. 3SV The Royal Mail 64mpany'a steamer Seine, Cap., tain Revett, ?? above mails, has arrived; she brinag 79passengers, including Commander Grant-RN.,fromL Jamaica; Captain B. Burton, from the Pacific; and A. G. Doorman, Hamburg Consul in Mexiep. The Seine brings specie value 1,987,315 dolm,; of which about 320,° dols. is 'gold ...

... . rXROU OUR OWX CORRESPOXWDElT.| DUBLIN, MONDAY. T1B REV. DE. CAHILL AND THE 'IMPEROR NAPOLEON. This reverend gentleman, who, I believe, has ceased to exercise the sacred functions from which a be derives his title, has for the n ce left ofl send- ing us apocryphal ?? f the condition of his countrymen in the United States, and taken to lecture and castigate the Imperial Ruler of prance, upon ...

... I. ENDL4JVT LIFBOA2BROBS. I-. .. ?? I A g ientle n 'wrting froan. ArdiniOft, on the a Aom ofWaterford, thus details the, galat services of the oflifeboat at that place,'belaoning to tho Nrational Lifeboat ..institution; Ardmore Dec 26. _eg t comuzfateacircumatance, whiclalsm sure 'wh ill afford all supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat bl 'Institution Sincere Pleasure; the lifebot of its ...

... TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE, CII INA. FOREIGN OFFICE, DRc. 30. A telegram, dated St. Petersburg-this afternoon, has been received from Sir John Cramipton, stating that intelligence had been received by the Russian government from Pekin, up to the 18th of Novem- ber, confirming previous accounts, but giving no new details. The stasts qto, which was considered to be satisfactory, had not been ...

... I _ - . . I The following are the new customs duties regu- rounu lations in reference to the new wine dutie, which come p9UDI into operation this day, viz. I h each;E The board have spin had underconsideration the inatruc- round tions which it may be desirable to issue for the guidance of of thi the officers with reference to the provisions of the Customs k Duties Consolidation Act, 1860, ...

... *1 I o - COVENTRYAR~aEP FUND. TO TME UIMTON Osr sME DAILY NEWS. em ?? piirsuaaa6e -of 'what I proposed iu a 5 Of former letr, I *1,1 now. ideavour to give some idea, of ;5gn1 thepirps n etod twbioh we are endeavonsing tournhport nneef-., gratnieed. gsoliberally ?? i1 Of I would ask leave, howeier,to stat. firt one fact WUic& kof I omitted in my previous letter and which is so creditable id.to ...

... I RIFLED CAST4RON SERVICE GUNS. I To-Tim r DlOr 0 THE DAILY MMW8 Sin, -In the review which you published some time ag0 of the printed report of the debate which took tendei place at the Institution of Civil Engineers last February on Sn1 the construction of artillery, some prominence was given to Lieut the views which I expressed in the course of the discussion be Cal as to the possibility ...

... THA FRENCH DESPATCHES RM INA. I 0., The Moniteisr continues the publication of docu- ments connected with the late proceedings in China. In a report from the commander of the French corps of operations in that country to the Marshal Minister of War occurs the following account of the plundering of the Summer Palace: After a rather difficult march we reached the village of Yuen-Mng-Yuen, at ...

... nil ?? COVENT-GAIIDXN. THB EVDIN5, TEE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE. ISIS ~ouisa Pyne.-And BBLUE BEARD; or Harlequin and Freedom a I In herIslandllomc. sssrs.Boleno, B.RPyneueildyard, Hilano, 8 1. Payne, Banes, h Tanner; Madame Boleno. Miss C. Morgam HAYM1ARXIM. Ths EVWnio, SEE STOOPS TO CpNqUER. Mr. Buck- Wc atone: Miss Fnnn Stir , . E. Fitwilham.-And QUEEN LADYBIRD AND CIELDN; or Harlequin and a ...