... INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS OP IRISH MANIUFACTURE. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER, SMa,-Having learned that a deputation from the so- called Parent Board of Irish Alanifithti ro ar e llt pfie- sent enmaged on ;a colilectin mission ias Bi lfiast (where, being unknown, I ?? they expect to siuctald some- what better than they have done of late ill tills city), I wouldearllestlysulggesttonvy ...

... 'I'TIE JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. Tris bill -was read a third time in the HIouse of Commons, on Friday night, by L majority of fifty- eight, the ayes being 2SS, and the 1 noes, 230. 'The result was anticipated, the question being un- fortuniately one Upon which opinions widely differ in the ranlis of the Opposition. We give merely the pith of the debate, seeing, that it presented no ...

... Etc Wress. POLITICAL REFUGEES IN ENGLAND.- SEIZURE OF ARMS IN KOSSUTII'S HOUSEs. (From the Times.) Tint British Government has not waited long for an opportunity of proving to all the world the sincerity of its resolution to put the law rigorously in force against suchi foreign refugees residing in this country as have abused the tolerant hospitality of England by carrying on conspiracies ...

... MINISTERIAL DEFEATS: THlE IRIS MEMB13EMRS AT TILiL POSTS. The Ministerial defeats follow fast upon each other. On Tuesday night, (as reported in Fridny's Ntesu-Letter), ;Mr. Butt's motion for preserving Kuil- tuainhamn Hospital front the hands of centralizers, was carried by a majority of 67. Eighty-three Irish metn- bers voted in the majority, viz.:- 'Alexander, John; - rchdall, Al.; ...

... CONSOLIDATED ANNUITIES.-MEETING OF POOR LAW GUARDIANS, &c. A HESTING of the nobility, gentry, and guardians of the several unions of Ireland was held on Friday, pur- suant to requisition, in the Pillar-room of the Rotundo, for the purpose of adopting a petition to Parliament, and a memorial to the Government for the remission of the unjust and aggressive consolidated annuities tax. A ...

... fforriga INDIA AND CHINA. W (Times) ]ave received by our ordinary semi- monthly express from Marseilles our drspatehes in an- I ticipation of the Overland Mail, which left Bombay on the 14ti of January. The following is our corres- ponldent's letter of that date:- ,There is little news of inmportance from Burmall. It is believed that Prince Alingdoor has succeeded in obtaining tbe supreme ...

... Tnu report of tihe annual meeting of tile patrons of this institution, -which will be found in our first page, is calculated to afford tile highest satisfaction to tho3ee wvho look forward to its further progress as a direct means of utilising the artistic genius of this community. It is quite manifest that the seminary is flourishing- that it is gradually opening tile moeans of honourable, ...

... IMPELRIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TrURSDnvY AaPsL 14. The Earl of Fingall and the Earl of Kenmare took tbe oatis and their seats, A conterence was desired by the Commons upon an address to the Crown in tile matter of corrupt prac- tices at the recent electioln for Clitheroe, and cer- tain noble lords were appointed to manage the con- ference. The Earl of ATBERI)EEN, in reply to Lord lynd- ...

... TIHE ADVERTISEMIE NT DJUTY-MINISTERS I AGAIN DEFEATED. ANOTIIEcR severe blow has been struck at the stability of the Omnibus Cabinet, by the defeat, on Thursday night, of the Chancellor of the Exchlequer's mend- ment upon one of Mlr. Milner Gibson's resolutions for the repeal of what arc popularly, but mistakenly, termed The Taxes on Knowledge. This is the ,Jinrtsh Ministerial defeat of the ...

... THIE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT. |TIIEIE are two notices on the books of the House of Commons of motions for the repeal of the Ecclesias- tical Titles Act. The first is by the Ultramontane member for Meath, Mr. P. Lucas, for a day not speci- fied. The other is by Mr. Serieant Shee, for the 3rd of May, the terms of which are these-, To explain the 14th and 15th Victoria, cap. 60, commonly ...

... TIIE annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of the Belfast School of Design, or, as it is nuow named, the Government School of Ornamental Art, was held on Friday, in the Institution, College Square North. There was a very large number of ladies present; the male and female pupils of the Institution, and children from respectable private schools in town, also attended. R. B. Blalkiston ...

... B.%RnxT._This important fair commonced on Friday. The supply of cattle w'as large, but not neatr equal to the - reat demand. Tltus, in purchases wvhich were made to a great extent, sellers could not b1 preyailed upon to make any abatements; and sales nvero easilv effected at full twventy par cent. over ihe price of last year'. Barren cows were also ill great demmad, at £S to £10 per head. ...