... Lovrrmpoizirltcr. GOSPEL PRIOPAG ATION' SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOlt OF TIHE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. SiR-My attention has been called to a letter in your coluninis, signed Clericus Duuensis, bringing serious and grave charges against the Society for the Propa- gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Ile tells us that one of its missionaries, in the garb of a clergyman 4f the Church of Lngland, ...

... ?? i11tcrligcrtC, AME RICA. TuE United States mail steam-ship 11tmboUldt, Captain Lines, from New York, en route for H-favre, arrived off Cowes on Saturday morning, and after transhipping her English mails and passengers to the small steamer awaiting her arrival, at once ieft for France. The Humnboldt left New York on tie 15th instant, consequently briings only one day's later news than the ...

... A NATE reook-aejs down in Cailow, where Misther Alex- ander kicked up a real dust, and madc a second Darius 4f Misther Sadlcir! Great doings, bedad-the very notion of 'em enough to make wathier the teeth of mlany a poolr boy, that was able and %villin' to come witl a short stick and long grinders into all the hard lickin' and high-livin' of a contested election. I'he boys and the Brigade ...

... 0 zj)de t ~,ie~ 4;fiX 11 ,f1fret,1 BELF AS T: MONDAY. JANUARY 31, 1S53. PEACE AN\D 1WAR.-THE CONFTERENCE AT MANNCHESTER. -AMR. COBDEN'S PAMPHLET. WnV lately copied an article friom the 3rorning C/'OnsiCie, anticipating the assenmblage of the Peace Conference at Manchester, in which it was stated that the meeting was not to be the result of any move- !fent on the part of the Peace Society, ...

... Lgrflttlturr, &C. DROMORE FARMIING SOCIETY. ON Wednesday last, the annual ploughing-match in connuexioi with this society, one of the oldest in Ire- land, having been ill existence thirty-four years, took place about a mile fromt Dromorc, in a field of Mr. Patt erison, ill the towiulanld of' Drumbi-onethl. ThFlue In nl was of' such a quality as to ?? the mettle of the holses and the tactuand ...

... El te dress. POLICY OF THE IRISH PRIESTHOOD. (Froin the Ilerald.) By the same light that enables us to see that a com- pact exists between the Government and those who have talken office under them in Ireland, we can also discern that the whole of the Irish party is not in- cluded in this compact, and that the Roman Catholic clergy in particular, as such, are not parties to it. At the same ...

... LECTURE ON ROME, BY THE REIV. J. A. WYLIE, ON. ITS TRADE, JLSTICE, AND EDUCATION. ON Friday evening, a lecture was delivered by the Rev. Dr. J. A. Wylie, of Edinblmrgbh, on the present state of Rome-its trade, Justice, and education-as le observed it during his residence in that city. The lecture was delivered in aid of the Students' i\lissionarv Society, and was attended by a large and ...

... TlHE, GOSPEL PROPAGATION SOCIETY. Esr.SIYIvaewe insert a report of the procecdings at the annual meeting of this society, held at the Clerical Rooms, on Thursday last, which we have been obliged to copy from a cotemporary, to ?? we understand it was furnished. We were most anxious to have had an original report of these proceedings, and, to that end, directed a reporter to be in attendance; ...

... THE BOROUGH BOUNDARY-EXTENSION QU ESTION. WE have carefully exaniined thle plan for thle extension of thie Bolghl II Boundary, which Captain F. Y. Gilbert, the Government Commissioner, has submitted to the inspection of tile inhabitants of the towln and neigh- bourhood, in compliance with his instructions to that effect. It is lot easy, without tile aid ot maps, and by a meme written ...

... SOCIETY FOR THE PROPACATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOItEIGY PARTS. '1'nt anua meting of the members and friends of thle DIocesan ranc Association of this society wvas hldt( ont Thursday last, at thle clerical s'oorns, for the, purpose of receiving the report of the Diocesan Committee, and I transacting other business. 'rhe meeting eras well a attenided. There wvere present-Revs. Archdeacon of r Down ...

... FIRST UIPRESSIONS OF MELBOURNE. Wxe. (Tiwics) make the followiupg -eatracts from an Australian lettetr vhieh hiis been sent us for publi- cation. 'The vriter, evidently a manl of good educa- tion, aid accustoined to tho ease and luxury of English town liie, went out to MKelbourne iu autumin hist, with his w il', and ?? wiftiout any. positive idea of I what he was to (I ?? lie got to the ?? Ile ...

... Wle bavc just received the third report of the ltegis. ?? of \Iarriages iL Ireland (1I. Donnelly), nuoler the provisions of the Act 7 and S Vic., chap. Sl and, as several qu estions of ?? de irterest all) affected by the statistics which it contails, we shall endeavour to condense into as brief a space as possible the subsiance of the report, more specially as it relates to our own province. ...