... LECTURE BY SRP. COOKE IN AID 01 THE BROWN- STREET SCHOOLS. THMt PLEASURES AND OBJEsCTS OF SCiENCE. YeeTrseDAY 0VCIsiIng, ill accordanlc w~ith previous auttounce- mneet, the Rev. 1)r. Cooke delivered a lecture ott tite above. mni~ed subiject, itt tho sipper room of thle Commercial Buil d. ings. Conisiderably before tite hoeir fired for the commence- mleet of the proceedings, tlie large roomn ...

... A FEW FACTS FOR THE PROSPERITY PROPHETS IN GENERAL, AND FOR THE CHRONICLE IN PARTICULAR. WE congratulate ourselves and the public that we have been the means of stirring up our somnolent cotempo- rary, of the C/lonicle, from the trance into which he has been plunged, for the last four months, by the total sur- render of his faculties to one theme. We have broken the spell with which ...

... 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 ...

... TRANSLATION of An address and memorial to his Eminence Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster &c., ec., 3c., agreed to by the Roman Catholic Clergy of the Diocese of Beverley, - in meeting assembled at Selby, in Yorkshire, on Tuesday, the 14th of January, 1851, the Very Reverend the Dean of the District being in the chair. May it please your Eminence graciously to receive this ...

... ADDRESS O0 THlE REV. DRi. 'MONTOOM R il., Tirr first of a series'- of lecttures connected with the cirdumstances of the present times, in reference to re- ligion, was' delivered din Friday evening, at seven o'clock, in the Music 1ld6l, by the Rev. Dr. Montgdo- mery, to a large and respectable auditory. The Rev. Doctor commenced bysaylig he had chosen for his texts -oin ?? xvi, 3, Ye can ...

... ;ffJCegn h1trIifigntm. A M ERIC A. ARRIVAL OF THrE EUlRtOPA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDIENT.) LivrurooL, MoxDtv.-We received New York papers and advices to the 11th, inclusive, and Boston to the 12th inst., by the arrival of the steam ship Europa, at this port, yesterday afternoon. The Europa had upwards of sixty passengers, and silver specie on board to the amount of £15,000 sterling. A large ...

... DOWxsPATRICK FPAI.-The April fair hold here on Saturday last exhibited unusual animation. The de- mand for milch cattle, as well as a gooddescription for grass, was very considerable. There were some muich ] cows so high as LIA and, on an average, the price of dry oattle. was hilly Lds. a ]head above that of the fair for the corresponding month of last year. Sheep and I lambs were scarce; the ...

... THE REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF QUEEN'S COL- LEGE, BELFAST, FOR THE SESSION 1S49-50. TiO TfIC QUEitN'S MOST rivLIT~,FT MAJESTY. MAY IT PLEsASE YOURt MNAJ13STY-Iti accordance with thia Act of Parliauenert, the 81tIr arid 9th Victoria, chap. 60, Isv which tlic Queen's Colleges in Ireland have usenersctalilisheri, 'I have thce honoor of subimitting to your Majesty this report of tire opcriiog of ...

... FEARFUL BURNING Or THEa BUC5KIWONGAMSHIIRE INDIA- MIAN WITH TROOPS ON BOARD. A rilorTruL catastrophe was made known on Wednes- day at Lloyd's-the destruction of one of the largest Indiamen by fire, called the Buckinghamshire, formerly belonging to the East India Company's service, while on her homeward voyage to London. She was a splendid-looking ship, nearly 2,000 tons burden, with high poop ...

... ?? ?Z-6? t? PUL - TH1E 111EV. JAMES MORGAN, D.D., BELFAST. TiAT man's chief end is work is the aphoristic ex- pression of the creed of this neis time in which we live. The faith is divinely true when correctly under- stood; but as now interpreted and lived, it is perni- ciously false. To work and progress was the primal ordinance pronounced by the lips of destiny to 6ach created thing, as ...

... MINIS. MOUSElR ON TRAVELLING. Ir I pride myself upon anything, it is, that I never travel with mrore thana Six triruks, two bonnet boxes, ard one bag, ai-d orre mojeraii 1asket, even if I leave home for a month. Mrs. Motiuser is about leaving for Franice, and applies to the ambassador for a passport. While the ambassador is writisg a descriprtion of her person the good lady soliloquises, ...

... utnpediat Varlvtautent. HOUSE OF LORDS.-,MONDAY, MAY 19. The 'Earl 9f EGLINTOUN, in presenting petitions from Scotland against Papal aggression6 availed him- self of the ?? confirm ,the declaration nade by the Duke of Argyle on ai Ancr evening that the strongest feelings on tire sult of. 'Papal aggression pirevl'aile~d in Scotland. Never upon any other subject, irthin his experience, had the ...