... I COUNTY CESS.-MEETING OF DOCK WARD.. :YESTEnDAV evening, a meeting of the cesspayers of Dock Ward was held in the large room of the Frederick Street School, to take into consideration the mode in which the county cess was applied, as respects the sums levied on the upper and lower baronies of the county, and their appropriation. Mr. Samuel Them- son, senior alderman of the ward, took the ...

... 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 ?? Ayres, 28th April; ...

... THE iAG-YAR HUSSAR. TuE Austrians had ida 'the, battle; the Hungarians had lost it. The Austrian general Was taking his ease in his quarters, with his staf 'arouud him;',an officer entered, and reported the capture of a huzzar. Bring him in, gaid the General; iho. Was in ex- cellent hulmour. He himself wore the uniform of the hussar regiment he' had formerly commanded, and had unbuckled his ...

... INAqsxucui as this notable undertaking of the fiery Bishop of Exeter is on the point of lighting a taper in Etngland which will kindle a flame not soon to be extinguished, we think it right to sreport progress that our readers may be prepared for the issue. The Synod opens under such inauspicious omens as would disturb the nerves of any one less sensitive to gloomy prognostications than ...

... 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- ...

... Inmperial oarliaunitnt, HOUSE OF LORDS- WrDNESanY, AuGust 6. Their lordships met at twelve o'clock. The Earl of IIARDWICK presented a petition from the shipowners of Scarboroughl, complaining of the re- peal of the navigation laws, and of the consequent in- crease of foreign, as compared with British, tonnage, and praying for an inquiry into the subject; also a pe- tition from masters and ...

... ( L w . : O XJNIC INjPETWE~EN .THE AT- LANTIC A4D PACIFI'OCEEANS. (From the Times.) WHO has, not heard of project after project for joining the two great oceans of the world by cutting ?? the Tstlimus of Pananma? TIie distance to be accom- pjished .yas'really -so trifling,'the advalta'ges to cOOP merce' sd enormous, the territoty through which the path; must- be cut in :the hands of- so ...

... TuE following amusing description of the symptoms of inebriation, is extracted from a late number of the New MAonthly Magazine:- Well, doctor, said Mansfield, laughing, we'll not dispute the point. You shall have the best possible character for sobriety; afid we will not crack any more okes about the Glenlivat. But, in return, pray give us a definition of what you consider being fou, that ...

... 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 ...

... A ?? panacea for the ills of Ireland has just been started under the most captivating title, and with all the usual flourishes which ordinarily precede the issue of a favourite nostrum. We allude to the proposal of improving the condition of the middle classes by the establishment of mutual land and building societies. The question has prominently come before the Irish public by the ...

... Soreign ]Intelligence. INDIA. WE (Herald) have received by extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Calcutta Mail, our cor- respondence and files of newspapers from India and China, the dates being Bombay, July 5; Calcutta,July 3; and China, June 23. The following summary of the news is from the Overland Ben qal liuarkarn, July 2:-Froin the Pun- jaub we have no intelligence of ...