... I QUEEN ISABELLA AND DON CARLOS 'The ez..Queen of Spain has addressed the fol lowing letter to the Fiegaro, to explain her receni interview with Don Carlos:- IoaraUa-It is neither in my eharater no habits to have recou1rje to the press, even to de fend myself against attacks, however unworthi and unluatifiable.. But when people take unfai advantage of my name to misrepresent the mos( simple ...

... TH7IE Governor of the Cape Colony is as far as possible from being an alarmist. Most persons, indeed, who are acquainted with his public career would be inclined to say that he leans to the side of optimism in politics. He has a high reputation for tact, for prudence,. for moderation in language and purpose, and he is not in the least likely to cause unnecessary embarrassment to the Government ...

... THE ?? WAR. 1 , LJL2 4.LX t& .Cl b , fl as t . Sir Bartle Frere has telegraphed for reinforcements for the Cape, and it is expected f regiment will be ordered. i thither from Mauritius. * Affairs have taken a serious r turn, and great fear is entertained of an extensive native n war. 8 TiE: EnnEs.s OF AUSTRIA.-The Empregs of D Austria,,,accompanied by the Crown Prince, arrived at Victoria ...

... CT) h, P, t ? 4. AY ffu2t itIffl, ,, av,%, , t, Vv low IV & (EST A ILTSII..D ANNO- 1727,. ) flELFAST i TVESDA Y, JA'N 1, 187S TuEsFr are various specunllat;'mt as to the issue of the peace ncgotiitions the British Govern- ment has undertaken to conduct at the roquest of Turkey, The English Cabinet has lost no time in entering on the rather diflicult task entrusted to rt, and tbo St. ...

... TIIE 1? USSIANS OF TO-DA Y. IXXV,-SIBERIA.-ON THE ROAD. CAPITAL punishment has been abolished in Russia, that foreigners might no more be ableto call the Czar's subjects a barbarous people; and instead of it the process of doing offenders slowly to death in Siberia has been advantageously substituted. A Russian may be sent to Siberia by sentence of the courts or by an Imperial decree issued ...

... WALKING IN WIN TER. WE do not say it is wonderful that people do not indulge more in winter pedestrian excursions than they do, because we are apt to regulate our relaxations by habit and there are undoubtedly some grave objections to winter walking. No one would dream, of course, of plunging out in broken weather through mire or snowdrifts. Among the most common conditions of our climate at ...

... ,. ?? : It-HETOROUGH :Rk - ?? ' ; O TO l 3tDiTrOs OF THE RtFZlANW. IV ,- .tStR .fn~n- E M'Evpoy-¼aving ,wrltten a longs 1t6tter wtohet'iaily papersqouestionintg the estimates and ekpenditure of, the borougn rate' ?? Z 'l l 'obliged 'by 'youir ki`l- .- inserting ,the to]ivoiig 'b TO SE]DT. 11,1st Didemo 1871J.t LST- In dur rpaper, J.o. 4d voy 'il writesia lonfg.'letter orx the above ...

... jr, IT ? 6 O. b t a in 1? W6 THlE WAR. 'ICRIKISII RETKEAT FROM SOPHIIA. A Rentcr's telegram from 13elgraie 'sys ?? It is runoured here that the Tlits have retreated from Sophia after having burned the town, and that ?? are now marching towar.s the ?? Defile, to hinder a Russian ticsarcre upon T.tar-}3azardj,1;. 'I hie t/ini(,rdl publishes the following telegram from Constantinople A101hrlig!r ...

... MIISCUELLANEOUS NMWS. The London Gazette of Friday does not rootain a single adjudication of bankruptcy either in town or country, Thnu, in; said to he the second time this lias ocurevred sisice the panning of the Bankruptcy Act of TulE INDIANO PAs-rs,c Fulzr-The Mfansion House Indian Fainsine Futal has reachedl £496,201), aind tite total eulsucriptcions liejt to India front all parta of the ...

... i2,'GIND STOW ?? isi The Commiitee ot!'f ~iberal'4scai~di d 6 ii~iXks*!o: an; . Mninoghm. 1, 'prcsded; n and Entsgsi a Jettgo tives r om anhSesehster, SIieillald, LIv *%iJ3erauq .,Thaifol--b own rslutsi was u~~g11y ¶ at Use lotn eolt~n vsQis; iti~o8 thoatll eta to hold pablio ga to p0i3 F IX Ysnd Arliwizi . t~txisp ?? C6i ii'c re'ws :ietl by medir ded:t maintains the ?? o tlie $tt!$ D~a ?? ...

... cAJUJORIa. LND THE CZLYF-' - The Washington correspondent of the Yew rorc2 93 Tribfse, writing on Dec. 14, says:- The Atocr- iiey.General, by direction of the President, given considerable attention to the cuestion 0o Vro am tecting the Chinese in California. T're disc-asioa _ of this matter occupied connaderabe timne in tihe Cabiniet to-day, bat no acidon was taken neon. i. The difficulty ...

... THE PRESBYTERIN CHOL .. The Belfast Presbytery will meet to-day, at eleven o'clock, in May Street Church vestry, and will be opened with special religions exercises. NEw YEAR'S SEavics TO WINrT. - We direct attention to the advertisement iu anaother column of a united rewvyear's ser.ice in St. Encoh's Churcb to-night. Addres'es areto bpdellitele1 we uodei- stand, by Revs. X. J. L1nd, Win. ...