... I PROTEST AGAINST TIE QUEEN'S COLLEGES. I We bave been requested to give insertion to the fol- lowing letter from the Mayor of Waterford:- . Waterford, Dec. 31, 1861. Ilir DsAnn Dn. WoeDnLos-1 am requested by the following magistrates of this city to ask yon to.have the goodness to append their names to the protest against the Queen's Colleges, and in favodr of a charter for the Catholic ...

... TRE ESTATE OF WILLIAM SMITE O'BRIEI. , Dublin' Gaury ,862. 1 Memorandun'-As ?? for mdoney nre ad- drersed to me day after day on the eipp6sidlon that Iam ' the owner if the eatiteswhich *ere'bequeatbied to mnbi by my grandfather, aadvab evess someof ay nearestreiatives e ai e unacquainted wfith the exact eirerumahncees iri hichd I t ain at present placed, I have caused the following state-' f ...

... I :WAR FEELING IN.CAkNADA. I The warlike feeling in Canada rus very high, as may be seen from the following:- (From the Montrea I Gazette, 'Dec. 9.) We said a few days ago that the Grsand Trank work- men at Point St. Charles were meeting the Idea of form- ing a military organieation, and that it was probable that they would organise Into an artillery battalion, or several battories of ...

... I TUBlE LOSS OP TiE IN~DIAN OCEAN. I TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE 'REEM.iN. Stu-Permit me to contradict a statement which I saw in your number of 27th instant. It is, I am sure, with pleasure that you will give publicity to the fact that the passengers and crew of the Indian Oceau, which weas wrecked at Annestown at four a.m. on Thursday last, were rorerred by the steamer Earopa, from Havre to ...

... I EI N> WS-LETTER OFFICE, *londay Morning. I | Y MAGNMTI TrELEGRAPH.)3 (Reuter's Telegrams.) PRUSSIA AND THE TRENT AFFAIR. The following is the text of the note addressed by Count Bernstorff to Baron Von Gerolte, the Prussian epresentative at Washiiton: Berlin, Dec. 25. Monsieur Le Baron-The warlike measures which President Lincoln has taken by sea against the Southern States which have ...

... LoNDO X CORRESPONDE N CE. (FRsOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) so rl LoNDomr, WEDNESDAy. OPI Tag period has now so nearly arrived for the assent Iras bhese Of Parliament that is perhaps unnecessary to hs speculate upon what communication her Majesty'is Masi advisers May make on the subject of the civil war in not Ainerica. I am, however, in a position to state that, Ti in the continued absence of ...

... THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY. (FROM THE TIMES.) It Now that the Trent affair is over, the fermentation of Yankee eloquence is rising. Until Lord Lyons had e delivered the demand nothing could be more still - than the official personages who had the power of *t making amends. The voices which did fill the air were all of most powerless personages. Judges, Go- . vernors, Secretaries of the Navy, ...

... WRECK OF THE BARQUE CRISIS, OF LIVER- POOL, ON THE EASTERN COAST. DROGHEDA, JAN. 18.-On last evening, Alderman Boylan, receiver of wrecks in this district, was fur- r nished with a report by Captain Adderley Bernard, of the coastguard station at Clogher Head, relative to the wreck of the magnificent barque Crisis, Hugh Thompson, master, the property of Messrs. F. & J. Brocklebank, of Liverpool ...

... THue diaries of the explorers who lost their lives, th el and of others who risked theirs, in pursuit of know- wvay . ledge, and 'in the seareh of missing comrades, are Autu deeply interesting. A perusal of the diaries, and tinne albaw very piiinfnl the records are in the case of Burke, the a. King, and Wills, impresses upon us some points as a.d which are not uninteresting, and which may ...

... 94e dfast JESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: MONDAY, JAN. 13, 1862. TEE America, which was to have sailed on the 1st inst,, and was due yesterday at Queenstown had not arrived up to the time we went to press. The storms of Friday and Saturday have pro. bably detained het; for it is improbable that Lord Lyons would delay her sailing. The news by i the America will have considerable interest, , ...

... T will bB -P.PnT bv san ?? in i. - IT will be seen, by an announcement in another column, that John Boyd, Esq., M.P. for Coleraine, died on Thursday last, after a brief illness. A va- cancy is thus caused in the representation of the borough; and already, it is said, there are several candidates in the field. Amongst those candidates the name of Mr. Lawson, Q.C., Solicitor-General for Ireland, ...

... crea INICOME-TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BuLFAsTr NEWS-LETTER. -Y SliR-In Tour publication of Monday last, I saw B( note beaded as above, wherein 1An rinhabitaint corn jllaineid 'of having been called'on by notice of 26th MMf December for payment of income-tax for the year TCo 1861 Iand 1862, and stating It to ba 8 preposterous I S thing that public Servants should demand what is not leal. [ ...