... Agricultita. FARMING OPERATIONS FOR NOVElMBER. WHEAT sowing should now be proceeded with-con- pleted within the month, if possible: and, as the season advances, the quantity of seed shotl;d be increased. Winter vetches should be sown, if omitted last month, and finished as early as possible- so late in the season they are best sown in ridges, and the water furrows lwell cleared up. Winter ...

... QCormepaonbrilct. I T'lE FLEETWOOD STEAMER. TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE B1ELIFAST NEWS-LETTER. Queen's Hotel, Mr1ichesterr, 30th Oct., 1853. Sris-I thinlk it right to inform iou that, on the 29th instant, the Prince Consort, in the course of her pas- sage from Belfast to Fleetwood, very niarrowly escape l a dangerous collision with a sailing vessel. As the night was cleat, with little wind, and as ...

... Timi Evangelical Alliance proceeded on Thursday to business. Sir C. E. Esn&r~i-v addressed the meeting on the present state of the Continent in relation to evangeli- cal religion. The Rev. M. MoNOD, called attention to the advance of evangelical principles in France. In the evening the Conference re-assembled. T'he Rev. Mr. Kiana, the Rev. Mr. Di)cIrNsoN, the Rev. 3Mr. SnEPnaan, the Rev. -Mr. ...

... ubt jr ig PROMOTIONS ANI) EXCHANGES. WAj OFFICE, Ocr. 28. Ist Grenadiers. B. B. Coulson to he Ensign and Lieut., by purchase, vice Sir C. Russell, Bart., pro- moted . Scats Fusilier Guards-Enshign and Lieut. D. F. B. Buckley to be Lieut. and Captain, by purchase, vice T. Henderson, who retires; Ensign iF. Lrambton, from 27th, to be Ensign and Lieut., by purchase, vice Buckley. Ist Foot-Ensign ...

... Mdf0)tt B E L FA S T: WEVDNEFISDXY. NOVEAMBER 2, 1SS. TIIE EASTERN QUESTION, T'iietu is another extraordinary alternation in the aspects of this question. A few days ago, the rumour that hostilities had actually commenced on the banks of the Danube, between the Russian and Turkish forces, sounded, as it were, the tocsin of a general war, and no /eits eL miacliina seemed at halind to stay the ...

... gorrigit Intellignirc. 'TIlE EASTERN QUESTION. The 310ornig Heeald of Monday, says- A rumour ,sa circulated in London on Saturday, that an ar- mistice had been concluded between the Russian and Tirlishi armies, appears manifestly to have been on a mistake. This intelligence was received by electric telegraph from Vienna. It will be seen tinat the Mlonite), announces the receipt in Paris of ...

... MEETING OF THE HARBOUR COM- MISSIONERS. TIE usual fortnightly meeting of this Board was held yesterday, in the Harbour Office, at 12 o'clock, Jolin Harrison, Esq., in the chair. There were present besides the chairman -Tessrs. Pirrie, Bottomley, Heyn, M'Clure, Dunn, Mullan, Tluhomson, HlIenderson, and Valentine. The minutes of the last sneeting having been read by tile CHAIRMAN, THE ...

... Varticulture. GAR1DENING OP4wA'V-1ONS FOR THE WEEK. H AIV FauutT GsaueNs.-_We take the present oppor- tunitv of reminding those now aboutplanting, fruittrees of the dangrer evervwhere apparent of making borders too deep, as well as too rich. The soil should be maiden loam of a moderate consistency; no dung whatever should, be, used, and the roots shouild bh prevented from passing below the ...

... BELFAST TOWN COUNCOIh. TuE last quarterly meeting of the Town Council, fol the present year, was held yesterday, the MAYOi in th( chair. The twenty-six members present attended ir their robes. The TOWN Cr.Eni having recited the minutes of the past meeting, then read the REPOI1T OF THlE COsMaTTI:M: ON POTiCE Al sF.IE, which stated that the Act for the Extension of the Borough Boundary would ...

... (From the Dublin University Mlagazine for Nov.) WE may, perhaps, form an estimate of the great esteem in which the boar's head was held at the feasts of our ancestors, when we consider thle immense number of families who bear this device as their crest. So im- portant a part, in fact, lid swine play in the days of old, so essential were they to the wealth of nations, that all matters ...

... THE B1,ACKSTAFF. Win respectfully urge upon the Belfast public the ex- pediency of perusing with care the Report of the Town Improvement Committee of the Town Council. read at the quarterly meeting of that body yesterday, and inserted in this publication. We make this ap- peal, because it now lies with the ratepayers them- selves to deeide whether the intolerable nuisance of the Blackstaff is ...

... fforrigpt 3lntelligrcilre T IL F. E A S T Q, R Y Q U E, S T 0 N. CONSTAXTINOPL.E, Ocr. 22--The Austrian intel- nuncio has submintted to the Sultall the diraught of' a note, wvith the collective guarantee of the four Power's It is stattcl that this note, has been arcepted hy Ir Rssia A Tartar courier was at o(eae solitI to Omn ll' Pasla nit o iistnuctL on- fiir thre po)stponioniini of hst ...