... BURNING OF TIlE AMAIA Z ON. LATEST PARTICULARS. BEnsT, JAN. 5.-The Dutch vessel Geeftrinda, Cap- tain Teinteleer, entered the roads here to-day, with twenty-five shipwreckedl persons who escaped from the catastrophe. She picked up one of the boats yes- terday (Senday, the 4th January), at half-past six o'clock in the evening, and a second this morning at seven o'clock. In the presence of such ...

... etc ?? rc5- - , FRANCE AND IRELAND. (fTrom the T0imes.) EVERYTHING which we have been taught to regard as the impersonation of the spirit of evil is at this moment rampantly triumphant. Tyrainny among princes, license and-corruption afnong the military, servility and mean- ess among civilians, punishments without crime,.and perjuries without shame, are the staple oft cotemporary history., - ...

... BRITISH ASSOCIAT'I'TON FOR TIlE ADVANCE MENT OF SCIENCE. PUBLIC MEETING IN THE CORN EXCIIANGE. YESTMRDY, - at one o'cloclk, a very large and most in- fluential meeting of the principal inhabitanlts of Belfast and its vicinity, was held in the Corn Exchange Hall, Victoria Street, for the purpose of hearing the report of the Local Committee appointed to take preliminary neasures for the ...

... ])URATION OF THE PRESENT SESSION. (From thle Times.) WE have ever been ready to ?? the most favourable view of that singular position into which the caprices of fortune, and the scarcely less unaccountable follies of party, have thrown Lord Derby and his followers. We have vindicated for them the greatest breadth'of9 pledges and length of tether., Ve have maintained that, instead of ...

... Ebrb - 3reos'. Z FACTIOTUS OPPOSITION OF THE FREE TRADE PARTY. (From the Morning Herald.) -THE test is, it seems,* very soon to be applied to the present House of Commons that will ascertain the hamoinht:f patriotism and good sepn .which'eists in that assembly. Mr. Charles Villiers, the brother of 'the Earl if' Clarendon, 'hts-followed 'up the spiteful. snarling of Earl Grey in the ,House of ...

... (From Pulnch.) Interior of N fir st-class carriage, with the traiin in motion. By one of those strokes of qood forttune ?? pleasure exclursioijists, ,illi. and .s. Bake1' and an Ir ritable Elderlly Gentleman finl themselves occupants of the same carriare. Ur. Ba7ker (aside to Mrs. Baker, confilentially)- You see, my dear, the sort of thing you wvill always be exposed to, if you travel with ...

... ?? Wreak REVIEW OF TI-1E SESSION UNDER TIll, DERBY GOVERNMAIENT. (From the Aeurnijql Iierald.) Timt first act of the MAinisterial dramna may be said to :have closed. Last light (Tuesday) the curtain fell. In plain English, the Easter holidays begin to-day. The first Parliamentary trial of the new Ministers is at an end, and the adjournment of both Houses, for a fortnight's recess, snakes a ...

... 5orrigil r-litelligeacr. END ()F THl3E K A FI It WA 1. THPi Bosphcorus, screw-packet, Capt. Hall, has arrived with dates from the Cape to the :,rd February. The intelligence brought by this vessel is of thec higpest im- portance. The war may be said to be at an cnd; for, after a succession of engagements, in which tile enemyf i -were defeated, the Kaliirs endeavoured to make a com- promise ...

... 7 4.- 7u, f A t 4 0,fi{+rtt5)1£X I BELFAST: MONDAY, MARCIH 15, 1852. TImE foreign news received since our last comprises no extracts worth quoting. THE BANNER OF FACTION UNFURLED. THE Whig-Radical opposition has opened its cam. paig-, and there is no longer a doubt of its intention to drive Lord Derby to an early dissolution. It would be puerile to say that there is no generosity in this ...

... 7gittAdltur , &t. TVIODI: OF Giinwi-rS SUGAR BRRT.-The preparation of the land, and, in fact, almost every detail connected with it, is identical with the growth otniangel. I would, however, suggest, with a view of meeting the require- ments of' the manufacturers, some experiments on the growth of beet at much closer intervals than we have gener ally grown either mangels or turnips; for I ...

... LAYING TME FOUNDATION STONE OF TIHE MAGDALEN SCH'OO. YEsTnEfAr morning, the ceremony of laying tile first stone of the newv school-house in connexiou vith tile Magdalen Asylum, in Donegall Pass, took place in the presence of a number of the clergy of the town, the scho(lar1s at ?? in attendance L11)O1l the schools, and a large concourse of the friends of tho institution, con- sistitig of both ...

... Pton some days past we had been intending to refer to this subject, but one thing or another prevented us from doing so, until yesterday morning's post brought us the following communication, which, for various reasons, we have great satisfaction in laying before our readers:- We are glad to find that our county is likely to be preserved from the divisions which are distracting our ...