... 6.PECIAL MEETING, TUESDAX, AUGUST 18. (FRoM OUR REPORTh;ER.) - -On Tuesday the 18th inst. the General Synod of Ulster held its special meeting ill Cookstown, for the purpose of considering the overtures of last year, and other matters of immediate Interest. The Rev. R. Park of Ballymoney constituted the meeting by prayer. Comparatively. fewr Ministers and Elders were present at the call of, ...

... On Wednesday a respectable and numerously attend ed-meeting of the merchants and other inhabitants of Liverpool was held in the Borough Session-room, for the purpose of considering of the most effectual mea- sures to be adopted for the: removal of the disabilities under which the free trade to India at present labours, in consequence of the restrictions imposed by the East India Company. ...

... I Yesterday a very nnmerous and respectable maetting of Clergymen an ii Elders, wvtho disappro ,e of the lIte ni easa Is of the Synod of Ulster, was held ill Kerns's Hotel. The Rev. N. Alexander, of Crunilin, presided. The object of this meeting was generally to consider the existing state of things in the Synod, and what ought to be the con- duict of the dissenting partit-s in refireulice to ...

... To THZ EDITOR OF THE NEWS-LETTER. SIRt-Yoa Indulged me with a brief notice, In your Jour- nal, of the first of a series of Sermons on Missionary sub- jects, to be delivered monthly, by the several Evangelical Ministers of Belfast, and, I have no doubt, your columns will again be open to me while I send you a record of tihe second. It was preached on Monday last, bythe Rev. Mr. Edgar, in Dr. ...

... N.NElW PE.2ERTY OF NUMBE..- The following very curious propertv of umhmbrs I disco- vered at Manchester, April 17, 1S25. Its insertion in your very valuable lmiscellariy swill gratify yours, &c. JOS. HALL. Blrazen-nose-street Academy, Manchester. Talee the differerc6 between any number, and the same reversed ; then the same difference is always dividable by 9, without a remainder. Thns- ...

... LONVDON-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. I The London Gazettecontalns the appoirtment of tba Duke 'of Gordonfi it'o Seeepe of the Great Seal of Scotlutd. .The Gazette also contain the appoictmeint of the follow- Ing Commissloners for the affairs of India :-Lord aeiville, Mr. Peel, Lord Dudley, MAlr. IHuskisson, Duke of Welling- ton, -Mr. Goulburn, Lord Wallace, Mr. Sullivan, Lord Ashley, Marquis of ...

... THE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. MI'r3ISDAY-FEBRU.ARY 1-9. LEGAL REFORMSM-R. BOUGHAM'S SPEECH ti- .1~1 * I . I .. - 01) Thmisday last, itn the HIouse of Commons, Ar Broughram delivered a splefidid and powerfil speech on the general sutect of Legal Reform. It, occupied be- tween six anid seven hours ini delivery, and it was en- riched with ililstratioils drawtn from professional infor- matiouh, and ...

... TI-Il BE3; EAST NEWS-1LETT:E:R. TUESDAY-JULY L. L&)N\DONV-FRID)AY, JUNE 27. Official details of the operations of the Russian armies haze been brought by the St. Petsrsbuttgh and Berlin Ga/zettes'. The latter furnishles us with aut account of the passage of the Danube near Ismail. The Danube in this part describes. from~ ]smail by Galafz to Ibrail, an irregular angle, Galatz beirng the angular ...

... ha I THE B3ELFAST EWS-LETTER. I TUESDAY-,FE13RUARY 19. -- - - ?? thle Hou-se of Comnmons, on Thursday last, Mr. Ilobbhouse brought for ward his mnotion fur a vote or thanks to Sir: E. Codrington for his conduct at the halde of Navariti. It was introduiced with a long speech, of which wve gil-e hut ~z it outline, because it presentedl no 1feattlre of that pecuiliar interest which is likely to ...

... BELFAST GENERAL FRIENDLY INSTITUTIO$. The Friendly Society which our townsmen are now esta- blishing we consider a greater benefit to the inbablitau2 than is likely to be estimated by the public in general. Sruh so- cieties are not new, and therefore there is a want of that excitation which arise., from novelty ; but the establiihmaent of a Friendly Society on a basis which embraces awider e ...

... LONDON-FPIDAY, APRIL 18. re- E. Disbrow, Esq. Secretary of Embassy, and our Charge ?? at St. Petersburgh, arrived late last night. Despatches from St. Petersbuigh were also re- MS ceived by Prince Lieven. They were said in the city to announce the passage of the Pruth. There has not ro- been for weeks past any doubt that the Russians would cross the Pruth as soon as the weather permitted.- ast ...

... At the late Quarterly Examination held in Trinity Col- lege, Dublin, the Science Medal was granted to Meade lius., (John,) and the Classical Medal to Wade lmus., (Nugent). /At the same time were adjudged-Foe GEeLRAL AeswEe - ,tNG, Certificates to Mr. Parsons, Mr Leech, Murphy 2dus, (henr, Mlhy, re , ngsedLeslioeJun., (Henry;) .des, Allen, 4tus., (Micha k Robert,) Lavell-and Pre- mnace, to Mr ...