... A FE W MORE FA CTS ABOUT IRELAND. PROBABLY the most effectual mode of rectifying and enlightening popular impressions upon Irish questions will be, not to attempt a full exposition of the subject, but to deal with each successive fallacy, or mis-statement, or error of doctrine, as it crops up. Much work has to'be done in this line; for Ireland now occupies so large a space in the public eye ...

... THE FRENCH LOAN. The Daily News says that as the French loan is to be covered by national subscription it will cause no commotion in foreign money markets. In spite of the lamentable experience of that Mexican loan into which they were betrayed by their own Government, there will probably be no hesita- tion on the part of the French public in filling up the subscription list. Come what may, ...

... t IN , HI'Of. i, r JIT ?? 11p ~~eting of his con. o0 ni w la- 1 hingwas receivedwith 1, se f diouioi andomunigad ?? tiothe n to te Sto jgorm Bill he ?? with the *e subject of presentation there is one topic on which I feel d bound tosas a few words now that we are entering upon a y new poihtcal era. -I have no hesitation in-saying- thai the 'e chiet danger which threatens popular institutions ...

... ?ELIEF OF DISTRESS IN THE METBOPOLlS. yesterday afternoon a special meeting, convened by the Bishop of London, was held at the house of the MVetropolitau Visiting and Relief Association, Regent- ,treetto consider the desirableness of that association thoroughly co-operaiting with the central executive for relief in the East of London. The BIsHor presided, and ,was supported by the Earl of ...

... I . (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, JAN 29. The Inman Royal Mail steamship City of Ant- werp arrived here at 9 p.m. last night, and the City of New York arrived at Halifax at 7 a.m. this morning. The Cunard steamer Russia arrived out at8 a.m. to-day. The Allan steamship Austrian has also arrived out. Closing prices:-Gold, 140J. Sterling exchange on London, 109;. 5-20 United States Bonds, ...

... CORRE SPONDE NCE. SIXTY YEARS AGO. Se ato ErATOR of/he PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR, -If you will take the trouble to read the following account of tile state of things upwards of sixty years ago in a community with which Alle \ritcr was then familiar, you will judge whether or not it will be a useful .contrilution to the discussion now going on about popular education. a he Lo'lard parish of , in ...

... SoME time ago we published a notice of Mrs. Hay Cameron's photographs. Since then she has brought out many studies, one portrait after another of well-known faces, until her collection has become a really fine and remark- able one, and has long since overflowed the modest portfolio in which it first appeared at Messrs. Colnaghi's. Mrs. Cameron is now exhibiting her photographs in the German ...

... : == ?? AL ' ^-Is ! 1sA1E7l A 4 ,I ! ?? ~ sA.h, (mos OUm OWN oORRESPoNDErn.) [A portion of the following appeared in our Eveniihg edi. tion or yesterday:.] Vio of yesterday:] PARIS, TUESDAY EVrNING. The journals to-day make facetious references to the subjects under discussion in the two Chambers, and pretend to be very much afraid to talk of them lest they should 'be again fined 1,000fr. by ...

... 1W4HO SHOULD RULE IN INDIA? THE dreary dead level of Indian administration has recently been relieved by an unexpected incident. Indian administrators, sick to death of the go-cart of routine to which they are perpetually harnessed, have for a while been released from the durance of detail-work by a somewhat startling summons from the Viceroy. They have been called upon to express their ...

... RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, 7aln 28.-It is officially announced that the General Bond of the issue of the remaining 2,500,000 of the Orel-Vitebsk Railway Loan of 4,5oo,ooo has been signed by the Company and the Imperial Government, and transmitted to Messrs. Thomson, Bonar, and Co., in London. A decree published to-day orders that the naturalization laws hitherto valid in Poland shall be ...

... BEFORE it is too late, and whilst preparations for the third portion of the Kensington Portrait Exhibition are still in hand, we would advert, hoping that some difficulties may yet be avoided, to the strange and perplexing manner in which the all-important words right and left have hitherto been employed in the catalogue descriptions. The main object, it may be supposed, in printing a ...

... MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- SBIRE RAIL WAY. The half-yearly meeting was held at Manchester yesterday afternoon. The half-yearly report and statement of accounts has already been published. Mr. E. W. WATTN, M.P., the chairman of the company, moved the adoption of the report. After referring to the generally admitted faot that this company'a form of accounts, as devised some years ago, ...