ST. PETERSBURG, Tuesday. The Gazette of the Senate of this day publishes the treaty of commerce and navigation concluded between Russia and England, hich was ratified by the Emperor on the 10th of January last.

The Times' correspondent writes from Naples under date the 27th alt.:— The news of the health of his Majesty continues to give great anxiety. The silence of the Journal is regarded a s very ominous, and repots are creeping about that he i s far worse than is generally believed.

It is the anxious wish of the Queen that a member of the Royal family should be her representative in Ireland; and this feeling—long entertained by the gracious ladywhose domestic circle evidences that genuine maternal care which commands the admiration of all her subjects —has

CATHOLIC MIDSHIPMEN THZ UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMT.—The following letter has been addressed by the Secretary of the Navy to Mr. Huntington, of New York, in answer to a letter requesting that midshipmen should be allowed to assist at Mass :—" Naval Department, Jan., 1859.—Sir,—I

it had been the practice to tell jurymen who might .be supposed to have a bias in favour of. a prisoner to stand by, but he did not deny or expiain the fact that on that occasion every Roman Catholic- told to 'stand. by; and that-therefore the jular - * was composed Of gentlemen

THE COMING ELECTION.—REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON.' (FROM OUR PRESTON CORRESPONDENT.) "They (the Catholics of Preston) may be far from a majority of the party with whom they once acted (that is,, the Liberal party,) and com p r ise but few of the most influential of that party, but

M. Boniface replies in the Constitutionnel to an English' journalist who has stated that France has only 130,000 -men under arms which she could dispose of for aggressive purposes, and begins by discrediting the assertion that a large amount of troops is necessary to preserve or

The Quarterly Review once called the "Established Church" the "greatest of all our blessings." The people of Ireland have been perverse enough to consider it not a blessing but a curse. Even as a (pretended) disseminator of Christianity it has altogether failed. The people know

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