... DUB LI N GO S SI P. (Froom our zoam Correspondent.) SATURDAY, MAY 16. LORD PALM ERSTON AND THlE IRISH GOVERNMENT. IT is currently reported, through town that Lord Pal- merston has recently expressed himself as not being perfectly satisfied with the ?? ten- dencies of the Irish portion of the Government, and that thojadicious Premier-seeing plainly from, the results -of the Irish elections, ...

... ?? * Cdklt. ? . 1. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR TIHE WEEK. PLANT DEPPAeRMENT.-As tho New Holland plants go out of.bloom their seed pods should be picked off, the shoots cut baek anid arranged in the fofini most favourable to secure compact, growth, placing them in an airy part of the greenhouse until they fairly start into'growth. When the buds have fairly started 'will be thc proper time for ...

... LECTURE BY THE REV J. M'KEE ON INDIAN AIISSIONS. MONDAY evening, at Iralfipast seven o'clock, a meeting was ]held in the Rosemary Street Presbyterian Church, for the purpose of affording an opportunity to ?? Rev. James APeoc, one of the General Assem- bly's missionaries in India, to describe the genoral character and operations of Indian missions. The Rev. Dri Mlorgan, after conducting ...

... w8v ?Adfnf (ESTABLISHIED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1S57. DUKE CONSTANTINE IN FRANCE. THE ANGLO-FRENCH ALLIANCE. OURrTeaders may have becn surprised to read in the News-Letter, yesterday, the brief intimations of the manner in which the Russian Duke Con- stantine was about to Ilave Frauce. It would seemtvfromn all the rumioutrs that have reached England, that betwecn Louis Napoleon ...

... I SECON1) EDITIANT. 'I i S DAY. S 1. ON O)N N EW S. Iit Ul : 3l7ls AND ItiS11 .AUttJEI'IC TELhORAPSH.! NNEWS-LETTER OFFICE. I o'clock, o.tM. TR *it'l: OF SIlANil Al X 'a ...

... Utp vus: TIIE LATE VICTORY IN PERSIA. (Frront the Tinmes.) IT has been remarked that in war a victory is often liil the beginning of difliculties. To take advantago xc tile trinimlh, and to rise to the level of new op- ort tun ities, is the test of gencralship. The present positioa of the British force in Persia requires the Ilighiest uidalitics iu the coumiander, and we fully be- lieve that ...

... (From our owon Cop--espsondent.) FRIDAY, MAY 1$. ELECTION PETITIONS, I All informed that petitions were, on yesterday, for- warded to London by the Radical candidates, against the sitting Collservative members for tle City and the County of Dublin. The alleged grounds for un- seating the city members, MIessrs. Grogall and Vance, are, I understand, bribery and the illegal change of the day of ...

... CHURCH PASTORAIA-.kID SOCIETY, TnE twenty-second anniversary meeting of the friends of this society was held at eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning in Exeter Hall-the Earl of Shaftes- bury in the chair. On the platform were also the Bishop of Carlisle the Rev. W. Cadman, the Rev. D Roberts, Rev. E, J Speck, &c. j The nmeeting was opened wvith a prayer by the Rev. Air. Speck. The report presented ...

... SCRAPS FROM PUNCIH FOR MAY 16. MUSIATC TsrwAT.-Amongst many other uitercstimg itemis of intelligence respecting music on the conti- ient, wo read that Carrion has had a complete ova- tion in 'La Soinnanlebila.' La Sosnamibula is generally consideredr a very sweet opcra; but its sweetness mnst be of a peculiar kind, seeing that it appears to have been rcndered all the sweeter by Carrion. ...

... aE usual fortnightly meeting of this body, which as adjourned from Tuesday, in consequence of the )ening of the Model Schools, was held yesterday, at .e Harbour Office. John Clarke, Esq., J.P., occupied .e chair; and the other members present were- essrs. James Carlisle, John Workman, Jas. Barnett, lward.Coey, James Hamilton, Robert Corry, Robert enderson, Charles Duffin, Win. Mullia, John ...

... THIS Synod met in the Presbyterian Church, Caledon, on Tuesday last, at twelve o'clock. Devotional eier- ciscs were conducted by the Rev. Charles L. Morcll, of Dunganuon, the retiring Moderator, who preached a most appropriate and effective discourse, from Acts xi. 24-exhibiting the importance of personal reli- gion in the discharge and in the success of a ilinis- ter's duties. The opening ...

... DEPUTATION TO T-E CHANCELLOR OF TEE EXCHEQUER. ON Thursday afternoon a deputation, consisting of Mr. Paget, M.P., Mr. Pritchard, M.P., Mr. Whately, Q.C., Mr. C. E. Lewis, and other gentlemen, waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Dowuing Street, on the subject of the Government Savings' Banks Bill. The Rev. Mr. Bowen, Mr. Lewis, and other gentle- men, explained their objections to the ...