... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Ace -rc5. ANTI-PAPAL AGGRESSION LEGISLATION. (From the Standard of Thursday.) Tnr ?? Bill is to come before the House of Commons an Monday next. There may not be time in the three days' interval for Protestant consti- tuencies to urge the attendance of their representatives, but there is ample opportunity for every member of ?? to reach London sufficiently early todischargc the most important ...

... [The following report, to the close of the Rev. W. Campbell's address, appeared in a third edition of the NYews-Letter of Wednesday.] A MEETING of the advocates of Tenant League prin- ciples, annorrneedfor some time past by public advertise- ment, was held on Wednesday, in the Mlusic Iall, in this town. The hour appointed for the commencement of the proceedings was twelve o'clock, but it was ...

... THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. - LAY AGENCY IN THE ADMINISTRATION. OF ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 0 LATE events in the history of the Established Church 1: of England and Ireland, however disastrous they may S have seemed in one point of view, as tending to the 0: . n disruption of her body into heterogeneous systems of b doctrince and discipline, have been productive of great 0 advantage, under another ...

... AT the annual meeting of this society, held on the 14th instant, the following donations were announced as having been received at the Museum, during the plre- ceding year:- OBJECTS OF NATURAL iHISTOIRY. By Ric'iardBattersby, Esq., Oakfield, Carrickfergus -An e routi. b~y Henry S. B. Bruce, Esq., Ballyscullion House- A great wild swan. By Mr. William Darragh-Stuffed specimens of the snipe, ...

... Z?t 0460tviv#?OftIft BELFAST: MONDAY, MAY 6, 1861. Teri foreign and colonial intelligence received since our last, is of rather more than ordinary interest. We annex the details:- A M E R I C A. AItruIAL O TiEE WASINGTON. THREE DAYS' LATER NEWS. (FROM OUR OWN CORTIRSPONDENT.) BY EXPRESS. LIvssepooa, SATURDAY NIGHT. WVs are just in possession of advices of a communica- tion from Southampton, ...

... Tim third lectute of this interesting series was deli- vered, on Friday evening last, by the learned professor, the subject being T'ile Celtic languages, their origin, and spread in the west of Europe. After some pre- liminary remarks on tfle advantages attending a study of philology, lee said it was agreed that the Cel- tie races occupied tle western parts of Europe, and that it was some of ...

... ANNUAL MEETING. TuE entire proceedings of Synod on Wednesday were of a private nature, consequently we have no report of them. We understand that the subject which en- gaged the attention of the Synod was an appeal by Mr. Martin, a licentiate of the Church, against a decision of Down Presbytery. The issue was, that the matter be left to the investigation and decision of a com- mission. The ...

... ON Friday sen., the Council of this Society met at the Laboratory, Arthur street-the Very Rev. the Dean of Ross, President; John Andrews, J.P., F. Filgate, J.P., H. F. Higginson, J.P., Jonathan Richardson, Glennore, Lisburn Farming Society; Rev. F. Blakely, Manager; R; Niven, Chrome Hill; James Wilson, Car- rickfcrgus Farming Society; R. Neill, Dumlurry; Pro- fessor I-lodges, P. M'Henry, W. B. ...

... WE: insert elsewhere an important document-the report from the Encumbered Estates Commissioners to the Lord Lieutenant, with respect to their pro- ceedings under the Commission. It has a melan- choly interest in one point of view, showing, as it does, the immense proportion of landed property which has passed out of the hands of its hereditary owners, the rental of the estates already brought ...

... Q?ovv?ponbciicc. THE CLERICAL AGITATORS. I TO TIME EDITOR OF THE BELFAST REWS-LETTER. Sin,-In your publication of the 21st inst., I perceive an extraordinary document, an epistle from the Rev. Julius Cwesar, of Newtownards. I am certain that the readers of it are heartily satisfied, under the conviction that Julius Wrote at the time of periodical inspiration -the full of the moon-at no other ...