... SEATMAN'S FRIEND SOCIETY. Tire adjourned annual nmeeting of the Seaman's Friend Society took place in tile ChII-apel, Pilot Street, oni Wednesday, ain, was numerously anti respectably at- tended. T'le following clergymen and gentlemen wore present:-Rev. Dr. Morgan, Rev- William Johnston, Rev. David Hamilton, Rev. Robert Knox, Rev. George Bellis, Rev. J. Mateer, Rev. J. Mlaltin, biout. Calder, ...

... ANOTHER IYHI( INSULT TO BELFAST ENTERPRIZE. Timr following paragraph is now what is popularl1 termed going the rounds- EL.crioc TEr.EoGRAP! ro GATLWAY.-Th ewires foi an electric telegraph have beaen laid down, by tile Gal. way Company, frmi Athllone to the station at loun- hill, adjoining Kinnegad, and, in the course of a fees weeks, tile whole line between Dublin and Galwav wvil be ...

... I{ICKFORD CONSERVATIVE CLUB. CASTLE HEODINIOIAM, OCT. 13.-Yestet'day the air- nual meeting and dinner of the members of this Con- eervative Club took place at the hotel in this village. The leading members mustered in considerable strength, and great anxiety was evinced with respect to t.e forthcomin- Ministerial policy. At the dinner Mr. W. SAVILrLE Our.r presided, and was supported by the ...

... A BELFAST gentleman having asked Prince C. L. Bo- naparte, when attending the Association in this town, for his autograph, the Prinee courteously presented to him the followilng the original French being a Iran- script ofa letter in which he had just acknowledged his appointment as a member of the General Council of Co~rsica. Thle letter will be read with interest:- M Belfast, 4th Sept., 1852. ...

... DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH.-THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Om Monday evening, a large and. influential meeting was held in the Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature against the contemplated opening of the new Crystal Palace on the Lord's Day. The audience was composed of per- sons from all the denominations of evangelical Chris- tians in town, and the ...

... Q. When is a fisherman not a fisherman? A. When he's eotchin'eel. Reader faints. Our faults are poor relations that we do not like be- ing visited with. To YOUNG MEN OF PROPERTY. - Marry, and be steady; but don't settle. NOTE AND QuERY.-Is Lord Mounttrarret the author of the popular melody, Siob a Getting up Stairs? A CLEVER FaEaTaow.-Judging from the initials of Mr. Bernal Osborne, we ...

... (aorrtponbtnbc. THE REPRESENTATION OF LISBURN. TO TIHE EDITOR OF TIHE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. Sin-In the Northern WTI/d7q of Thursday last, a let- ter appeared, signed An Elector. of Lisburn, con- taining one of those specious and absurd specimens ofabusive declamation that sometimes find their way into the columns of a newspaper. The tirade of coarse invective the letter contains, seems to ...

... Time personnel of the new Ministry is still a matter of speculation, notwithstanding all the lists which have been published, and though Parliament has twice met since the adjournment moved by the Earl of Derby on his first allocution in the House of Lords, after the defeat on the Budget. The latest intima- tions we have on the subject are altogether non-offi- cial, for as yet Lord Aberdeen ...

... THE MINISTRY AND THlFE IRISH PRIEST- |I- - -HOOD. IT seems tolerably clear that some measure is in con- temnplation by the members of the present Adminis- tration for the repression of Popish ecclesiastical pie- sumption in Ireland. As yet, we have the rumour only dfrmn the Popish side; and if it be worth any- thing else, its very existence shows that the priests are in dread of such a measure ...

... ?ror?c?ponbtttc?. BELFAST STUDENTS' MISSIONARY ASSO- 'CIATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THIE BIEtt'AST NEwS-LETTER. Sin-Several members of the Belfast Students' Missionary Association have stated to the committee, that when endeavouring, this year, to collect the funds necessary for the support of thuirl agents, they have not, in several quarters, met with that favourable re- ception which they ...

... PiRTY PROSPECTS.-THE BUDGET. Ir any apprehension as to the safety of the Govern- ment, in the issue of the Chancellor of the Elxchequer's financial scheme, had for a moment rested on our minds, that feeling is completely dissipated by a perusal of the metropolitan leaders of Monday. We own we are of opinion that the Government was unnecessarily frank and daring when it announced, through Mr ...

... FA IRS. KT.ADY FAiT.-The fair on Friday was an average. Prices were high. Milch cows were in great demand, at remunerative prices. Sheep in prime condition sold athigh figures. In the pir market business was brisk, and prices high. The horses, with very few excep- tions, were of the jaded Rosinante stamp. RATJIFRILANO FAIR.-There was was a very full at- tendance at this fair, on Wednesday last ...