... MEETING AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. ON Friday last, in pursuance of an advertisement signed by J. F. Ferguson, Esq., vice-president of the Chamber, calling a meeting of the iniabitants of Belfast to take isto considera- tion the best mode of receiving the Lord Lieutenant on his intended visit to ibis town, a numerous assenmblage of bankers' merchants, and uthers, tet il the Cbamber of Commerce ...

... AIR. NAPMER'S LECTURES ON KNOWLEDGE' AND I L A, 13 0 U R. I LECTURE 1.-A rL9A FOR KN'OWI.EDGl7..-lTS ACTION UPON LABtOUR. YF.STrErv0AlY evening, according to announicenient, the formier of a se ries of Ino I eel ares9, inl nil of time Lilirary Fonld of thle B~elfast Worviog Classes' Asaociai 00, ttpoit tie ahove-nancd aslij!c:, was deliveredl hi'v Josoph Xnpier, Esq., Q.C., MIP., lin !lie Mnii ...

... liftperial lparliammt. HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, July 8. The house met at five o'clock. POST OFi'trCE. Lord llATlITrTON presented a number of petiti ns against thc recent alteration in the regulation of the Post oflice. The noble lord exprcssed a. hope that the members of the other torsc would have the courage to express their oawn opinions, anrd to rescind tire resoliotiir. Lord( BIROUGIIANI ...

... T No i3rlfimst fuw!cs,:::3Uttrr. ii E l. F A S T FRIDAY, SEPT EM BEIR 13, 1850. PROTECTION- THE ASSERTION OF THE RIGHT OF THE LABOURING POPULATION TO LIVE. ONE of tile h0ollowVest of tile FIre-tradle fallacies is tLhis -tlhat the systemi of Protective duties is nothline less tlian a ticostrouis sellewe for the benefit of tlie landllords, to the proj ui i ce an I Opipricssi on o f tihe labouri ...

... TIIE NATIrONAI, SYNOD. Ixs conclove of Rom an Cotholic in prelates,'' to wthich the Rloetisti jouirilaii liaVe given thieC a1) s e prestll ptlolns Oite, wvao annotinced to assern itc at T'hJIrics on yesterday, for the piirpose of receiving Dri Cuillin's budget from lloie. So importan~t are the contciits of the said hiiilpt sutpposeei to lie, and, ii reality, so mowiotimous to (he i vecests ...

... E.rje ur5. WILL THE LAW BE VINDICATED. (From. the Morning Herald.) WE have waited some time in silence to see what steps her Majesty's Ministers would take, in conse- quence of the open and insulting violation of the law by the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops. At the assemblage of bigots which met at the Dub- lin Rotundo, on the l9th of last month, the law by which Ministers determined ...

... I JPUEADFUL ACCIDENT AT BALLYCLARtE. THREE PERSONS KILLED, AND GREAT NUMI- BERS INJURED. IT is to-day our painful duty to record one of the most serious disasters ever known to occur in the peaceful rural districts of this favoured Province, by which the lives of three persons were lost, twenty-six persons badly (some of them it is feared, fatally, injured by fractured limbs), and upwards of ...

... Loot Kiltelligence. THE LATE ACCIDENT TO VISCOUNT DUNOANNON.- From letters received in town yesterday, we learn that the accident which his Lordship lately met with, and which will prevent him from visiting Ireland for two months at least, is not of such a serious character as it was at first thought to be, The limb has been care- fully set, and his Lordship is progressing towards con- ...

... Z#c fri. BELFAST: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1861. Accounts from the United States, by the Cambria, to the 29th ult., will be found in our first page. SOUTH AMERICA. The Royal Brazilian mail-packet Teviot, Captain R. Revett, from South America, &c., arrived at South- ampton on Tuesday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieutenant Gardner, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are-Buenos Ayres, 28th ...

... THERE is much cause for serious apprehension in. the existing social and political condition of England, as regards the domestic questions which are now await- ing their solution by the legislative process. The state of trade, in nearly all its branches, and in almost every locality, is critical in the extreme, as we learn by the commercial circulars, and by the weekly mar- ket reports. The ...

... WINTER EVENING SINGING CLASSES IN I BELFAST. WE refer with much satisfaction to our report of the proceedings last nighdt in the Music Hall, in reference to the projected establishment of evening singing classes, during the winter, for teaching music on the Mainzer system. The meeting, as will be seen, was a most numerous and influential one, auguring well for the success of the movement. We ...

... THlE GRACEHILL MORAVIAN SETTLEMENT. Tim Rev. Robert Gault, of Killileagh, has published the following account of a recent visit to the well- known Moravian settlement at Gracehill :_ On a dazzling bright day in the month of Septem- ber last, we visited Gracehill. We had long been de. sirous of seeing a spot of which we had heard so much; and we could not have enjoyed a more favourable op- ...