... SUMMARY OF TIHE PUBLIC PRESS. Tfes Times plaintes itself upon the latest trade returns. 1 No. thing, according to our cotemporary, can be more satis. factory thair the prospect opened by these ret urns. At pre- sent, the only fear is that we may possibly 'oe getting on too fast. Manufactures, cormmerce, siipinig, money, and etredit iscreasing, we are cviiieritly approaching a perind when ...

... TuERan has been vwisdoni in the delay which, up to this time, held the impatient Protectionist feeling of the County Down in the leash. The demonstration which, several weeks since, we hinted was in preparation, has only the fault of being, if nnvthing, a little too early; for it is manifest that the closersuch an important event as the deliverance of the finest agricultural and com- mercial ...

... TIHE YEAR OF REACTION. IF the year 1548 was oue of defeated struggle against the injurious and denationalising tendencies of the agc- if the year 1849 witnessed the portentous meteor of Free-trade in its blighting zenith-the year 1S50 is de- stined to experience and record the reaction of a vigor- ons and intellectual people from the insidious fever which, for a season, prostrated its cnergies ...

... I octal Riddligence. BELFAST 13OROUGII REGISTRY. THm General QiarterSessions for this Borough commenced yesterday morning, before JoHzN GIBsON, Esq., Assistant Barrister. The registry of persons qualified to vote at Par- liamnentary elections occupied the greater part of the day, and the Court adjourned till the following morninig at tell o'clock, at which hour the civil Ills will be ...

... A W.EAK cause generally betrays its want of bottom, andl absolute dependence upon factitious support, by the un- fairness of tie tools it uses, and the auiger, impa- tience, and intolerance it manifests in the field of ac- tion or of argumient. Tb e inherent impotence of the Free-trade cause thus reveals itself. WhIcn its advocates saw that they *were nillable, bv bluster and menace, to ...

... THE BELFAST RE FORNI ASSOCITION-LOVE'S I LABOUR LOST. I MANY of the lieges of Belfast and its vicinity are perhaps unaware that we ore blessed with the benefit of a ' Reform Association ; bitt the following circular, profusely scattered amoiong that motley body which includes all our local political quid nuncs except the stanch Protestant Conservatives, and issted] under tile style and ...

... PUBLIC MEETING IN TIOLYWOOD-IEDUCTION OF I ?? E N T S. ~ PUBLIC ireeting of thle tenant-farmers of the parish of liolv- wend was held ois Teesday, in the Old Mleeting H-ouse, Shore- street, llInlywood, for thc purpose of takineg into consideration thle present distressed sta 't of the agricultural ieterosts, and adnisting such resolotions on thle subject as moight he fleemcd silcisalble. At. ...

... i Irnoms OUR OW'TN nErOwarlt.] ON\ Wednesday last, in pursuanice of a requisition to the -ligh Sheriff, neumerously signed by tire nsoblemen, inagis- trates, merchants, mainufacturers, and landsilolders of the county Down, a mecting seas held inl the Coutrt-lhouses Dowvn- patricl;, to petition Parliaminent for a return to Protecive d uties, the requlisitiollists beitig convinced, from ...

... El f)c 33dfnt 13 E L F A S ?? FRIDAY, JANUARY ll, lS50. ANIBRICA.-THE PRESIDENT'S 1'IESSAGE. BY the arrival of the Hlibernia, at Liverpool, on Wed- nesday mlorning, we have New York advices to the 26th nit., including the Message of President Taylor, de- livered oD the 24th. After upwards of sixty divisionis on the Speakersihip of the I-louse of Representatives, 11r. Cobb was elected, and the ...

... MEET1ING IN MONAG HAN. A OF Et3TING Was held ill tile county Court-lbonse of ?? on l'uesday, for the purpose of cnrdeavouring to get back pro. tcctinn to agriculture. It wyas convened by the High Sheriff, and the lion. E. Licas necupied the chair. A resolution, in accordance with the object for which the meeting was called, havlig been proposed and seconded, an amendmetit was movete by Mr. J. ...

... GREAT MEETING OF T[E COUNTY TYRONE IN FAVOljr OF PROTECrION. A GENERAL mleeting of thle nobility, clergy, gantry, ann free- holders of the county Tyrione was hll Ieni M~onday last, in tile County Court-house, Omnagh, at one o'clock. Thle ohi act, accorinlig to thre requisition, was 1for the purpose of peti- tionring her Majesty in favour or Protection to agriculture and iiativec i irlrstry, ...

... Koc~at 3Intefi~genic. DEATt OF THF REV. JAMES N'ACKcO-N..-We record with sincere regret the death of this amiable and rdevoter3 yonng miniister, the Pastor of the Third PresbYterian Congre- rg aion, Ballymtena, whlich occurredl, ratlher sudderily, on iii a 7th ilestant. The diseasc whicih removed him so prematiurely and iunexpeetedly front tihe seene of the liboters, upon whicili lie liar ...