... GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTL ID. Tins day (Saturday), Mr. HoG, of Newliston, laid on table the annual state required from the Board of Trustees,, showing in detail -the mode of investment of the various funds,- and the intromissions for the year. Professor M'DocGUAL brought up the report of the Widows' Fund for the year. The amount of the Build is now £41,332. During last ...

... Eric Pam MISMANMAGrEMENT OF OUR FOREIGN AFFAIRlS. (From the Press.) PnsoPsors have often fancied that they could discover in little accidents and paltry motives the secret sources of those great events which fill the pages of history. Voltaire collected a crowd of in- stances to show What mighty contests rise from trivial springs. Bat the notion is rather ingenious than profound. Mere chance ...

... BELFAST GENERAL i-ioSPITAL. OS- Saturday, pursuant to adjournment, a meeting of the inhabitants was held in the Chamber of Cona- marce, Waring Street, in reference to this institution. Tie attendance was limited. During the proceedings the following gentlemen were presenc:-G. Heyn, G. A. Thomson, Surgeon Browne, Dr. Dill, Dr. Gordon. A. JIrenan, Professor Stevelly, Rev. J. S. Porter, Rev. John ...

... MOND-AY'S 1bONDON NEWS. FRANCE AND GREECE. TirE Tbaes gives an important article firem the .Ae. niteur of Sunday, on the position assumed bv the Government of Greece on the Eastern question. Th ?? recalls ald the good offices which Franee ha! lavished upon Greece from the original accocaplishmen of its independence, ata cost to the French nation of aD less than one hundred million francs, ...

... agriculturr. THiE 1JAT HARVEST IN ENGLLAND.-A great quantity of grass has already been cut in various parts of Devonshire and other Western counties, and the har- ve4t, on the -whole, is likely to be good. The price of hav is at present somewhat high, and a vast quantity has been pterchased in Devonshire for the cavalry engaged in the East. SOLT UJITABLIt FOR PEAs.-Any light, friable loam is ...

... THEs RUSSIAN FLFETS.-The Emperor of Russia is such a rogue that, if his sailors are worthv of their so- vereign, his navy ought to be spelt with a K. COMFORT FOIt O M1ANcHTE5.--The Russians cannot take our cottons in general, but they are at least re- ceivin, a great many checks. CccTv INTELLIGEece.-' I would not be a turtle, prettily once remarked an alderman in our hearing, I would not be ...

... T 1-l E 13 W N O C K A CT 1.IRQlNIEUIOM rUt:hAbD:N MTil VAT.UN 1' ) M3AN. Yas-ronu,1Ar, at Cloven 'Clock, a11it nfui,i ticlfl Washd inl thle Boarclrcoen- at the illie crlih$o h Bel- fact sad coolty DOWa1 Re ii vSv, 112Ildi' tie ?? of thle 1.and's, Ciauscr. Conisoflettctn Act. for ?? pot- P1 of tsiitifgtile value, of ceitain slob Land, to tile am aunt OF thitroe or fouruti Jloit' cd at yes, ...

... TIR. JOHN REA SHOWING THE NVIRTE FEATEJ iER. IT will be recolected by our readlers that, on the very evening on which Mr. John Ru-a bad been ejected from the Assemnbly-room of the Commercial Bui!ldings, by the police, on the order of our present popular Mlayor -the occasion being the second adljoernod public meeting- in reference to the i3laclcstaff noisanco-the su-id 2\r. Rea served the ...

... 5mprrfal l9arliantrnt. HOUSE OF LORDS-TxiUzSDAs, AUguST 10- (Supplenrtacry to Teiegraphl.) THE WAR WITH RUSSIA. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE rose, in pursuance of the notice which he had given, to make some obser- vations on the irnmortant events of the war in whicih the country was now unhappily engaged, and also to endeavour to obtain from the noble lord tho Secretary of State for Foreign ...

... Agriculturz. New potatoes are selling in Limerickl market at 3d per lb., and in Tralee at is per stone. TiE WEATssa.-Since Friday evening last we have had an almost continuous fall of rain, and, even now, there is no probability of an immediate change. The crops have been vastly improved, a remarkable change for the better having been observed during the past few flays. Cereals are- ...

... TEn *iZONFESSIONAL AND THE R.OISH-l ?? .. ' ?? .. - .. - (CLERGY. ., -arlT FATlTER AT.ES. bAvsZZi. ' (.From fts Crusade'.) 1Thaty ?? -upon the Catholic auricular confession I denounced an(d stig-ratised it as directly immoral, and indirectly conducive to manj sorts of abuses. Nothing, in fact, could-be more dangerous than the practice ac- cording tn which thell RohislsTriesZs receive secretly ...

... MORE PRIESTLY INTIMlDATION. ON Thursday evening last, John Ross, of Drombiggol near Waterpark Mission-house, was visited again by priests M'MAahon and Kenny, to intimidate the poor man to Withdraw his grandchildren5 from the Water- park school, or turn them destitute on the world from under his roof. che' lodgers in his house were turned out, and himsdlf called abominable namUecs; the mob ...