... I LECTURE BY PROFESSOR CRAIK ON THE I BRITISH CONSTITUTION. ON Wednesday evening, pursuant to announcement, a very interesting lecture, on the British Constitution, was ?? Craik, of the Belfast Queen's College, before a numerous audience, in the Music Hall, in aid of the funds of the Working-Classes As- sociation. The Presidentof the Queen's Coll6ge acted as chairman on the occasion, and ...

... THE CAFFRE WAR. -SUCCESS OF THE BRITISHI TROOPS. Tmaianxiousfy-expectedarrival ofthe Bosphorusscrewv- steamer has greatly relieved the apprehensions of those who feared for the safety of the Cape colonists against the savage assaults of the native population; though, at the same time, the accounts thus received fail to assure us of the probable speedy termination of the conflict. A decided and ...

... ON Monday evening last, the concluding lecture of the series was delivered by the Rev. Robert Knox, in Linen- ball StreetPresbyterian Church. Notwithlstandingthe severity of the night, there was a large and highly re- spectable audience. The subject was the aFinl over- thro-w of the Papacy, and the duty of Protestants at the present time, wvhichl he discussed with great ability and eloquence ...

... NOTHING of importance was transacted, in the House of Lords, on Monday or Tuesday, with the exception of a notice of motion, on the latter day, by Viscount Torrington, for the production of the evidence taken before the Ceylon Committee. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Mr. Bailie Lwithdrew his motion regarding the Ceylon affair, ie- Iserving to himself the right of bringing it forward when ...

... THE CEYLON AFFAIR.-MR. BAILIE'S MO- TION, AND LORD TORRINGTON'S DE- MAND FOR A HEARING. I LIHE to be despised, is the hypocritical refrain of Mawworm in the play. We are almost tempted to think that the hypocrisy of Lord John Russell apes at the imitation of the same cant, for he seems to takeplea- sure in the expectation of contempt and censure. His postponement of the budget, on the ...

... ? I I. ? .. - I - - .. peria -palfaiment. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WrEDNEsJDAy, MlAR01! 12. The SPEAKER tookthe chair at twelve o'clock. Mr. M. GIBSON moved the second reading of the County Rates and Expenditure Bill, which was in most essential particulars the same as tlie bill of last session.. Some alterations had been made with a view to render the bill more acceptable to the magistracy ...

... BY boring, water confined between beds of clay lying at an inclination may be brought up to any open ditch or covered drain, fitted to convey it to some outlet. It should be observed that this could not be done if the beds of clay were level, as the water can rise to the drain through the boring only by gravitation. A suitable case may occur on any slope, when two beds of clay run for some ...

... COUNTY AN'ralnr.-Bushimills, Friday, Mfarch 28. Arnoy, Saturday, March 29. COUNTY ARMAOI.-lillilea, Friday, March 28. Newton- Hamilton, Saturday, March 29. COUNTY CAVAN.-Ballynagh, Redhills, Alonday, March 24. Arva, Kilnaleclt, Tuesday, MIarch 25. Cavan, Thursday March 27. Killashandra, Mlullagh1, Stradone, Frida&, March 28.ay COUNTY DEnay.- Iaghera, Tuesday, Marc)l 25. AMaghera_ felt, ...

... DUPLICITY AND FINESSE OF PAPAL -PRETENSIONS. WE inquired the other day What are British Pro- testants nole to do ? Our object was, to show that they need to be on the alert, vigilant, and combined, and determined. That they are aroused, we are fully aware. Our proof of the united vigour of the Protestant spirit of Scotland, and'of Ulstcr, admitted of no cavil. From the leading ...

... .Vic arnill. EXCHANGES AND PROMOTIONS. WAR OFFICE, MAlcnc 14. 1st Dragoon Guards.-Lieut. H. Hamilton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Blathwayt, who retires; Cornet G. J. Bridge to be Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Hamilton; E. H. Crewe, gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sir T. Gresley, Bart., promoted. 3d Do.-T. Wright, gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Pedder, promoted. 7th Do.-Capt ...

... ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN BELFAST.-ANNI- VERSARY DINNER. Tiers anniversary passed off very quietly in Belfast and its neigmhbourhood; there were none of those foolish processions which have frequently led to ill-feeling and breaches of the peace. In the evening, however, a party of Roman Catholics and some liberal Protestants, numbering about 200, dined in Devlia's great room. The room was very ...

... lfgrirulturv, &c. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THIS WEEK. FLOwrn GAuDrN.-Tlhs3ewho do notpossess a suffi- cient extent of glass frames for the propagation of ver. benas, calceolarias, and other half-hardy bedding plants, may make a splendid display by masses of the more durable annuals, sown in the places in which they arc to remain. For white beds use Clarkia pulchella alba, Nemophila atomaria, ...