... A religious procession unusual in Ireland has just taken place in Kilkenny, the occurrence of which was explained by one of the Roman Ca.holic clergy- men who took principal part in it, along with the Roman Catholic Bishop (Ossory). During recent excavations in the cemetery of St. Calistus at Rome, in the Catacombs, the body of St. Victoria, a young Christian martyred in the time of the ...

... THE MARKETS. MARK-LANE, MONDAY. There was an increased supply of English wheat on sale here to-day, coastwise and by land carriage As very few millers were in attendance, and as there was a large quantity of foreign wheat on offer off the coast, the trade was in a most inactive state, at a decline in the quotations compared with this day se'nnight of from 3s to 4s. per and a clearance of the ...

... PON TNEW Y~S Y D DT On Sunday and Monday, the Wainfclin Cahinistic Methodists (or Pri sb\ terians) held their Anniversary. Most able and impressive sermons were preached in English and Welsh by the Rev John Dwies, Newport, and by the Rev Thos. Phillips, of Caledonia, America, who bas: recently returned to this country to see his old friends. Although advanced in years, his voice, like a bell, ...

... At the Derby County Police, court on Friday, before a full bench of magistrates, a gentlemanly-looking man, named John Shaw, stated to be an insurance agent, residing in St. James's terrace, Litchurch, Derby, appearlid to answer a summons taken out against him by his servant, a girl of fourteen, named Elizabeth Highton, for cruelly ill-using her, on the 14th inst. From the evidence of the girl ...

... On the 14th the following order of the day was issued from Nerola :— Companions in Arms,-Yesterday we were victorious, volunteers should be, especially when they are fighting for a cause like ours. The victory has occasioned us some losses The blood of the martyrs should be an example to us. We ong-ht to he proud of having put to flight the enemy which disputes with us our own soil; but you ...

... The Times has a leading article on the above, from which we extract the following :— We should have no objection to see these old favourites a little more everlasting than they now appear to be, but, as to the main question, there is certainly no visible reason for excluding horseflesh from our butchers' shops in aid of other supplies. The horse is a particularly clean animal, and a very ...

... FRANCE AND THE ROMAN QUESTION. The PatTie of last Thursday eyening published the follow- ing arti ...

... The question whether household suffrage is likely to cause an infusion of working-class representatives into Parliament was raised incidentally by Mr. Baines towards the close of his speech at the Leeds Reform Banquet and discussed, from a different point of view, by Lord Derby (remarks The Times). Judging from present experience, we see little reason to antici- pate such a result. There are ...

... ST. JAMES'S AGAIN. SIR,—It appears to me that your correspon- dent of the 19tii inst. i ns fallen into the same of error that he charged his opponent with :11 a#previous letter, viz., occupying a consider* n';lc space in your paper to no purpose. To my ¡..inci he has no desire to meet the question in a fair and straightforward manner, substituting abuse argument, and earoasm ridicule of the ...

... A SPORTING RIOT IN GLASGOW. A riot of a very alarming nature occurred on Satur- day evening in the Stonefield Recreation Grounds, South Wellington-street, Glasgow. It seems that a match that has created a good deal of excitement in pedestrian circles throughout Scotland for the last five or six weeks was fixed to take place in the grouncls on Saturday, between Hugh Dunachie, of Glasgow, and ...

... Sir,—I have no particular desire to enter into the controversy at present carried on in the pages of your journal in reference to this subject, but may be pardoned for observing, that whether com- petition in preaching engenders strife, vexation, and discord. or not, it certainly would appear that competition in writing on the subject is produc- tive of that result fsa far at least as your ...

... AN AMERICAN ON THE RUSSIAN COURT. Iark th 8pecial correspondent of the New York Trib une, was one of the party of Americans lately entertained at the summer palace of the Emperor of Russia, and gives a very minute account of what he saw there. The Emperor had on a white cloth cap and white cloth coat and pantaloons, all of questionable fineness. The Empress and her daughter wore simple suits ...