... 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 ...

... ?? 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 ...

... 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 ...

... DUBLIN CASTLE-A GOOD RIDDANCE. Tinr ?? Nortfiern Whig has been uncere-L moniously tossed out of Dablin Castle, along with the other unwholesome lumber therein accumulated during the Clarcndon regime. This piece of intelligence we derive from the WlVdgy itself, in its publication of yester- day, which publishes the following communication:- TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN WHISI. Sit-I am to ...

... A GRAND promenade took place in this building on Saturday, with a view to a demonstration of public feeling on the subject of the preservation of the Crys- tal Palace for national or public purposes. The !lours named for the promenade were from two till five, and, by two o'clock, the neighbourhowd of Knights Bridge and the Kensington Road was ani np- interrupted scene of confusion, from the ...

... LR(POSPE[) A MIH:NIIJ.T IN PjE[FAS'P- PIJ1'LIC MEETING. YnsEaTsT I , at one o'clock, a numerously aitd iulluen- tially-attended meeting of thie inilabitalits of this ?? was held in the Workiing Classes' Association Rea(lmig Rooms, Donegall Street, for the purpose of' liscimssing the proposition to establish an Athemeuim in Belfast, as advocated in the e9-cpllent letter of the Earl of Bel- fast ...

... IVESLEYAN IMISSIONZARY SOCIETY. ANNUAL MElETlINGS OF Till' BELTFAS'T AUMILIARI[ES. TIlE annual m1eetings of this society took place on MIon(lay and yesterday evenig-s, on the former even- ing in the Wesleyan Church, Donegall Square East, and en the lattelr in the Frederick Street Chuilrlh. On both occasions the attendiance Was larfO and respect- able. On MIonday evening the chair was occupied ...

... 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 ...

... ?OVZ?JO1flTE1tCC. delivered sixteen years ago; that the body had been brought up to town and placed in the press with the intention of its subsequent removal to a family burial piece; but that no other members of tile family having since been gathered to their fatllels, the burial place had not been purchased, and the relnairls of the Cuild had been allowed to lie in the press. With this extra ...

... rrc$n?Tc1tc?. ESTABIISHIMENT OF AN ATIIENXU.\[ IN BELFAST. TO THiE EDiTOR OF T'HE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. Sin-In Soliciting your presence at the meeting to which you are invited by the enclosed circlar, I shall take the liberty of stating a few of the reasons which prompted mie to the undertaking therein referred to, and endeavour to set before you, rather more widely than is possible within the ...

... Z13C TJUf,5,1-. THE RADICAL WAG OF THE HOUSE OF COMMiNO'NS. (From the Xornioy Ieralcd) By the death ofthe late C. Buller, the office of pro- fessed wag of the House of Commons became va- cant. The contest for the laureateship of the cap Land bells has been most severe between Mr. Chisholm Anstey ann Mr. Bernal Osborne;. We believe, how- ever, that we may state upon authority that the brows ...