15 DECEMBER 1860, page 5

/limp Nub Crolunial.

,f t AU rt.—The French public has been occupied with the proceedings of M. de Persigny, the new Minister of the Interior. The one con- spicuous omission in the decree of......

Pauiurial.

Mr. Disraeli met the clergy and laity of the rural deanery of Amers- ham, at Prestwood, Bucks, on the 4th instant, "to consider the present aspect of the Church-rate question,......

Ireland.

Mr. Smith O'Brien has declined to attend the Brigade banquet at Limerick. In his letter he says "the words Ireland for the Irish is as applicable to Italy as to Ireland;" he......