... TwE warm baths of Hamman Meskhoutin were chosen as the scene of the festivity, and the day fixed was the 28th of Febraary. On that day the true sun of Africa shone forth in all its splendour on the plain of Ham- man NMeskhoutin; the warmth was mild and genial, as it always is during spring in Algeria, and the most luxuriant vegetation was spread like a carpet over the sides of the-mountains, ...

... 3l11tjI3CVat 'jaflamnuit. HOUSE O1F LORDS.-MONDAY, JUNK 7. THED MILITIA BlLn. The Earl of DERBY said, ii thue event of this bill I being brought up from the other IHouse of Parliament t6-uight or to-morrow, lie would propose thit the se- cond reading of the measure be taken on Tuesday week. The MIarquis of LANSDOWNE, at the request of Lord DEnnY, postponed the discussion, which was to have ...

... I agricuIture, &c. GREEN MANURING. THE process of green manuring is based upon prin- ciples which are sufficiently intelligible. Plants derive their nourishment partly. from the soil, throlugh their roots, and partly from the atmosphere, by their leaves. From the soil they extract a portion of their organic, and the whole of their mineral constituents. If, as was at one tine believed, they ...

... Ctarvorrcone.e I REPRESENTATION OF LONDONDiftR'Y COUNTY. TO THE EfDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEWS-LET'ntI. Sin-Through the columns of your truly loyal and excellent Presbyterian paper, I beg leave to say 'afew words to my Presbyterian brethren with regard to the conduct of some of our ministers, in attemptingto in- fluence us at the approaching election for this the county of Londonderry. It is with ...

... REPRESENTATION OF B 'ELFAST - LORD CASTLE-EAG1-I'3 REFUSAL TO STAND. THE eve-i has proved that our prediction war true, when, more than three weeks since, we asserted that Lord CastIcreagli had no renl intention of coming for- ward 4o contest this borough on the Liberal interest; and owu readiers will hear in miid ?? this is not the iirs', nor thke furl iiista ce, in which our projiecies ...

... SIR HARRY SMITII'S RECEPTION IN ENG- I LAND. TjnE returned veteran of Aliwal has already met with a foretaste of that tribute of national respect and sympathy which was certain to be his recompense for the slight put upon him by the late Administration. We publish to-day the record of the cordial welcome which awaited him at Portsmouth, which, says a London cotemporary, is but a prelude ...

... DI. M'KNIGHT AND THE CATHOLIC COMMITTEE. WE looked to the League utensil in its publication of yesterday with curiosity to learn what reply Dr M'Knight, would make to the direct charge, quoted by us from Saturday's Mercury, that this same Dr. M'Knight was the individual who first wrote, on behalf of the Catholic Committee to Lord Castlereagh, in- viting his lordship to stand ber this ...

... forgyll 3i t Itcefg FRANCE. TILE Paris journals are dull and uninterestirnrg still partaking, as a private letter expresses it, of a holi- day character. Owing to the great excess of expenditure over in- come, the Government are disposed to sugogest fresh taxes; but the Budget Committee are, it is said, op- posed to any such scheme. The Gazette di Midi gives, as a positive fact, that Madame ...

... DIPLOMATIC- DIFFERENCES. Tun followiug appears in a late American news- paper:- A t WaisIlinnton a misunderstanding had occurred between Senator the Hon. Joln Barney and the French Ministeri SL N Sartishe. Through the intervention of the Secretary at ail-* a meeting had, however, been avoided. The Arew 1'e7A Ieeal aives the followilln cliatacteristic account of the-affair, and appends a ...

... AT the weekly meeting of Poor Law Guardians, held on Wednesday, J. WV. S. U'Cance, Esq., chairman, the followingmembers attended:-LlutchiiisonPosnett,J.P., Robt. 'Connell, Wm Canmpbell, John M. Haslett, Wmn. Watson, Robert Carlisle, Samuel Giffin, Jacob Bell, Henry Murney, William M'Gee, M.D., John Holdeln, Thomas Chermside, Thomas Verner, J.P., Thos. Greg, J.P., Thomas Bigger, James Sterling, ...

... 1.4griculture, &,r. RYE AS GREEN MANURE.-Rye, deposited evenly in drills, makes a good manure for turnips, but is better before the ear is fully developed than afterwards; if the ear be much developed, it will be better to ferment it; but, in the latter case, it will not now be lit for use in time for any but the later varieties of turnips. Farmers' Gvazette. PEAT CHAUCOAL,.-Malke conical ...

... AMERICAN HOTELS-GOOD LIVING AT HOME AND ABROAD. Tim hotels in New York are one of its most remark- able features, and excite the astonishment of the wan- derer from Europe by their enormous size. Many of these huge establishments are capable of affording ac- comumodation to six hundred persons. They are occa- sionly crowded to suffocation; and, from the high rate of charges, their proprietors ...