... Pants, TUzcDAsn EvixXINu.-A granil forensic tournament has just conic olf ?? the Bank of France and the Russian Treasury, in which tho Kremlin carried the day. The ship-builders, Collas & Co., had made contract with Due Constantine to construct at Bordeaux a friigate (screw) for2,600,0OOf.; a corvette ditto, for l,t600,0001; and a steam yacht for In1peinal pleasure trips, at the ?? roi 1,2130 ...

... 3Fiattturte SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. (rROSE THE Inisn FAn)MERS' GAZETTE,.) SIZES or PisP TILES FOR DlArxInX -For paralle or minor drains the pipe tiles should have from 1j t4 0 11 inch bore, according to the length they are in t tended to run; short leng-ths 1 inch, incrcasing evern e e 10 perches a I inch. Submains vary in the bore fron s 2 to 0 hiches, accordinig to the volume of water the3 o ...

... - . A, 4- - ?? Tm- ?? Tuesday, a~deputation ?? the Agricultilrnl lnl- I.IOVIett Society prescauted the following address o the Lord Lieutenant:- To Iht isI eelency the Farl f Aq1li9lnon and WTinton, Lsi'd Liedeownt-General and General Governor of Ireland, We, the President, Vice-Presidents, and Council )f the Royal Agricultural Improvement Socicty of reland, beg to approach your Excellency ...

... -a ?? -. _r . - - - - .: v larlialltgltt-? f ?? t [BY MA GNETIC TELEGRAPHI] HOUSE OF LORDS-YESTERDAY, IN the House of Lords the Customs' Duty Bill was read a second time. Their Lordships, after a very brief sitting, ad- journed till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS-YESTERDAY. COMMUNICATION BETW EEN LONDON AND DUBLIN. In reply to Mt. Scor arid Air. Sergeant DEASY, M Ir. G. A. HAMILTON said that ...

... IC ?j e ?01 dfiot, llctu?-f after+ (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1858. TuE case of the students and the police is still proe.eeding in tho Police Court. The position of it at present is, that Colonel Browne and several constables and others in the police force have been sent for trial. Trhey reserved their defence nominally, but in reality made it, in the nature of a cross ...

... A DEPUTATION, consisting of Di, Mayor, Dr. Haw- kins, Dr. Burrows, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Lawrence, Mr Vincent Martin, MIr. Tegart, Dr. Alexahlder Wood, Dr. Ormond, Dr. Watson, Dr. Neliganl Dr. Williamsf from the Medical Corporations of England, Ireland, and Scotland, waited upon Mr. Walpole, at the Home Office, on Saturday, to urge, upon the Government the desirability of taking up AIr. leadlain's ...

... THIlS DAY'S LONDON NEWS. (BY -MAGNEITIC TELEGRAPH.) NJ~l'-LEY~iOFFICE, TUESDAY. M A I L S. Thle steamer Panither arriveld at malta, from Alex- andria, onl the 2.3rd int.., Witlli the light pfortion of tile hoead111(1 aland China maliils, and left onI thle fotlowling dm7'. for Mtarseilli1.. Ti'. Cooitltad Ht'] lo, 011 her y portion of tilheils nice S~t iltd dl Malta onf the 24th for, ...

... BELFAST JNDEMNITY BILL, (BY SPECIAL TELEGRAPH.) - FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.] HOUSE OF COMMONS, LONDON, MONDAY EvmNING, APRIL 28, 1858. TIlE Committee met this morning at a-quarter past twelve o'clock, pursuant to the adjournment on Friday. ?? Lanyon, Esq., for whose attendance a Speaker's summons was obtained on Thursday, was the first witness examined. Ho was followed by Capt. Leech, RN., who ...

... (FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, SATURDAY EVrNING. Ix the absence of political news of any moment, John Bull has turned his attention to domestic matters. Ele has been engaged tbe greater portion of the week in bringing to public justice certain peccant members of society, whose proceediugs have brought them within the grip of the law The journey fiom St. Stephens to the Old Bailey is not ...

... REV. 1iU1;U STOW ELL'S LECTURE. I\ accordance with previous announcement, the Rev. 11. Stowvell, A.X. of Manchester, and Canon of Chcs- ter, deliveted last night, in connexion with the above society, the first of two lectures in the Victoria Hall, which was densely crowded, On the rev. lecturer's appearance on the platform, accompanied by the Lord Bishop, 11o was loudly applauded. Amongst the ...

... SOUTMIMAMTON, SATURDAY.-ThC steam-ship Indus, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com- panvy, Captain R. IV, Evans, with the heavy portion of the East India and China mail, in charge of Cora- inander Gibbon, Admiralty agent, arrived this day at ten o'clock. She brings 85 passengers, among whom are- Captain Gossett, R.E., Lieut. Bolger, RN., Mr. Brown, Mrs. Dorrington and child, Mlr ...

... TuH following is an extract from a letter received from a youth of 20, a non-comnuissioned officer in the 7ch Dragoon Guards, which regiment (it was at Jock's Lodge two years ago) is now on its way to Lahore. For want of more serious work the men seem to amnuse themselvesafterthe fashion of the enclosed narativc:- Selliance, River Indus, March 8-You have heard and read often of jungles and ...