... 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 ...

... REcRuiTING DISTncrs.-Lieutenant Lowrie has suc- ceeded Captain Pieters, on promotion, as Adjutant of the York district. Lieut. St. George, 80th regiment, is appointed superintending officer of the Bristol dis- trict. vice Lieut. Lamabert, 38th regiment. Staff Sur- geon Barclay is temporarily in charge of the North British district. Lieut. Griffin bas replaced Lieut. Lowrie as Adjutant at BeL ...

... THE THUNDER-STORM IN DITBLIN. SnoaTnv after mid-day on Friday, our city was visited by.a thunder-storm, as violent for its continuance as we remember to have witnessed for a long period. It was accomnpanied by torrents of rain, followed by heavy showers of bail. The storm clouds seemed to approach from a South-Westerly direction: and burst over the city with great violence. The flases-ot ...

... Ube (;1mu. OnFin. o OFRDNANC, IAY 30. Roval Regiment of Artillery-Captain A. J. Taylor to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Tylden, retired on full- pay; Second Captain S. M'D. Calder to be Captain,f vice Taylor; First Lieut. A. J. M.'ougall to be Sc- cond Captain, vice Cald.-r; Second Iieurt. R. Biidulph to be First Lieut., vice M'Duugall; Capt. G. Maclean i to be Lient.-Colonel, vice Shone, ...

... THE PASSAGE AT ARMS IN PARLMA MENT. WE fall back upon the proceedings of Monday night in the House of Commons-late in the week as it is -in order to give our readers what we could not earlier afford them, some idea of the great stand-up fight between Lord John Russell and Mr. Disraeli, on the occasion of the withdrawal, by the Coalition Ministry, of the Bribery Prevention Bills of the ses- ...

... f, 40, ?Jfij ??rtfflcr (ESTABLJSIED, ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: FRIDAY, JUNIE 2, 1854. THIE WAR. IT is gratifying to learn that, at the date of the most recent despatches, the important post of Silistria was still gallantly holding out against the Russians, and that, wearied with fruitless assaults, the forces of the Czar were deliberating about raising the seige. There is now every hope that Omer ...

... BELFAST AND WEST OF IRELAND JUNC_ TION RAILWAY. London, Pj' , 1coJun . ON the re-assembling of tlhe conmittee this mambo. Mra G. *r. Ile-nans, ?? wvs calied, and examinj by Mr. Sergeant Wrangan. His a-tention had bo drawn to the estate of the Dundalk Company for the proposed line; and he was of opinion that -t would he impossible to construct Fhe line fu r the estimoate flr Jlemans v-as eross ...

... C ?? THE IMA flE LIQUOR LAW TO THE ErDITOR Or TOF E LRLFST I'WS-LETTEnt Sue;-I rejoice that my former note has brought for- vard, thle ophilOTIS of sonle of thle citizens of this towv, on the llecessity of continued correspondence on the rnost important question of the day-the Maine Law. I cannot ?? is it a matter of much mnoment- the reason why Mr. George Pepper, thle indefatigable originator ...

... SL - O=- F TIL -- SALE OF THE TAY'LEUR.i A esumrnous company was attracted to tle offn c of Messrs. Cunard, Munn, and Co., Liverpool, on Mjoen- clay, in consequence of an announcement that the wvreck of the ill-fated iron ship Tqylaur, as she now lies off Lambay Island, ,oold beoffere}d for sale by auction. The conditions of sale, lwhch wvere read be- for- the vessel was put un, stated that ...

... DEPAtTuRr or Tno'os.-Another detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards,.numbering 30 men, under the command bf Captain Robinson and Lieut. Wilkinson, left Portoballo Barracks, on Thursday morning, for emibarkation on board the William Jackson. EMBARItATION Or TIHE HEAD-QUARTERS DivisioN or nwiioT~erAr. lnassie DrGOOsrs.-At eight o'clock on Fri- day mnorning, the head-quarters' division of the 4th ...

... I 9t i4 fcallX5 XW (ESTABLISHED, ViVO 173-7.) BELFAST: W 3D-NESDAY, JUNE 7, 1854. MIOST DIPORTIANT FROM THE SEAT OF WAR. Tim intelligence conveyed to us by the telegraphic despatches of yesterdav are by far the most cheering which have arrived since the commencement of the war. They wholly contradict the Fabian plan of the campaign which the Timaes, a few days ago, under Aberdeen tutelage, ...

... PRE-RAPHAELITIS I. TuN following is extracted from a Review of Rus& kine's Lectures, in the Critic of the Ist inst. The lecture on Pre-Raphaelitism opens thus. The subject on which I would desire to engageyour attention this evening, is the nature and probable. result of a certain schism which took place.e few years age among our British artists. This schiiti, or- rather the heresy which led ...