... SCRAPS FROIM PUNCH FOR AUGUST 1, 1857, HoW To GET A LADY TO SnOW IIt FOOT.-Praise tile foot of' some one else! A COXniuIr CLOAIC.-r11. lUneCkS (ftbniliarlv known as Old Ilunckls) reflises to buy his wife a thsilioiablc mantle, on tie plea that it must neces- sarily he accompaniied by so much trinnuing nnd up- bra*(idinlg. MIs.GAXTInOPrY, axy DOUBIE ENTRY.-To escape fromn the boredom of ...

... Ra,?,Ctt TA Lllihtlrjy? Captain George Ramsay, C,B, we believe, is se- lected to succeed Captain Smart as superintendlent of Pembroke dockvard. The Aluvick Castle freight-ship embarked on Wed- l nesday the following officers and men of the 19th . Remient, for India :-Lieut.-Colonel G. 0. Mundy, Mtajor G. B. Jennings, Captains -Massey, Clay, Sheatffe, Lambert, and Bayley; Lients, Gooen, Kirke, ...

... THE REV. DR. M'NEILE'S SERMON TO THE I WORKING CLASSES. ExuTieR-HI'iL was densely crowded on Sunday even- ing, within ten minutes after the Opening of the gates, and hundreds were excluded by the necessary closing of the doors, long before the commencement of the service. There was again open-air preaching in Exeter Street. The Bishop of London was present, and sat on the preacher's right hand ...

... LATEST NEWS- YESTERDAY'S DESPATCHES. BY BRITISi AND IRISH MAGNETIlO TELEGRAPH. GLASGOW POISONING CASE. Edinburglh, Thursday. This case. terminated this morning-the verdict returned by the jury being Not guilty on the first count, and Not proven on the second and third, Consequently, the prisoner was acquitted. Atffive minutes past one, Mr. Justie Clerl, liaving finished his address to ...

... THE INDEMNITY BILL WITHDRAWN-THE CHANCERY SUIT SUSPENDED. WE have little doubt but this intelligence will be re- ceived with astonishment by the ratepayers of Bel- fast. High expectation was formed of the success of the Indemnity Bill before the Committee of the House of Commons; and' had it not been for the vexatious and unnecessary delay resorted to by the opponents of the measure, not the ...

... CfOniffly FR ANCE. PARTS, SATURDAY .EVINING.-The Empress, yes- terday, gave a grand dinner to all the Ministers, at St. Cloud. This is, I believe, the first entertainment of the kind given by her Majesty in the Emperor's absence. The ildependeice BeWye was seized to-day, on ac- count, as I understand, of a good deal of gossip about the plot. It alludes, though only to contra- dict it, to an ...

... (I effil 5 9r ~ (ESTABLISIIED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: SATURDA&Y, JULY 18, 1857. 11rE publish, in our Columns to-day, additional details, from private correspondence, of the mutiny in Bengal. A correspondent of the Thnes, writing friom the Punjab, says that the telegraph saved India. In a moment the news was flashed to Labore and Peshawur, to Allahabad and Calcutta, to Bombay and Madras, and all ...

... BALLYNURE CITURCH. Wec have been requested to publish the following:_. A meetitig convened by tbc churchwardens anl parishiioners of thei parish of Ballynare, was held on the 23rd July, at which the following was agreed 11un011:- We, the churchwardens and parisliloners of tile parishi of Blallynuro, having observed, by a letter latch' ALhlisIed, that we are represented as going to shont our ...

... WESLEYAN CONFERENCE IRELANV THERE has not been, for many years, an annual con- forence of the Wesleyan Church so fraught withl in- torest- and encouragement to ministers acl members; df that body as the one recently held in the city of Cork, A spirit of fervent devotion, and cordial una- nimnity pervaded every sitting; and never.were con- gregations more delighted and profited than in the ...

... THIS DAY'S LONDON NEWS. [BY MAGNET'1ICl TELLGIO APII.] I Onilctk, rt.m INIaLN Mit T'IMES~. Than Itadilai ilaati'J aata', itjrr'ive. txitlt mtit.-in Iritail Bowilia v it,, *lataa 1: aiit %II t. ;JIataaI ' III I aazdra i, J it Iid I I : ?? ni. It al1an Li; atil lhion-RKomr, Say 25. Tho I1It illtt\I t~ldSI ?? IiI n) St' mv.11 i'i t-.- r'-vittielt, f'f thei cra-sk wa~s jui,'alai huleal aa~ 11at. ...

... ?? V, rog, OUR NATIONAL DlEFENCES. (From thee Ties&) Ax inquiry as to the defence of the country is tanta- mount to a question of Ministerial confidence. It brinigs up the causes which have trenched on the means ot defence; it challenges the Government under which our forces have been suddenly called elsewihete it impulntis the provision oil whichI we have to depend for safety at home. No ...

... }lnpcriat I ttmctit [Bs' BfITVSII AND ?? MIGNETIC 'rLEORAPII.] HJOUSE OF COMMONS-5YESTERDAtV. TuE SPEIAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. CLAURE PETITION. The SPEAKER annouinced the receipt of' ii mulication announcing the abandonment of the petition complaining of the return for the County or Clare. IPSWiCit ELECTION COMMITTEE. The members of' Ipswich Election Committee wre, called to the ...