... MALTA.-FORCIBLE D&TENTION OF A SE- CEDING PRIEST. WE (Record) have received the painfully interesting caso of a priest who, having had his eyes opened to the falsehood of the Romisl system, has becn forcibly seized and placetl in a3lunatic asylum, ;vhere, at the date of the lettci (March 20), h~e was still confined. His name is Joseppi Borj. About the 20th February, he had, on the previous ...

... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE, (FReer OUR OwM CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. TTil Italians have a proverb to the effect that it is a heavy burden to have nothing to do. The op- ponents of Lord Derby's Governcent, impressed, no doubt, with the truth of the adage, are working heaven and earth to bring it into disrepute. The Times, which hates the Earl of Ellenborough, because the ...

... SARtDINIA AND A U S TRIA. A LETTER, dated 10th April, from Placenza, in the Unione of Turin, says:- Austria is concentrating troops in Placenza and on the Sardinian frontier. Five hundred Austrian troops arrived this morning, and more are expected.l The garrison is composed already of 2,500 men. No one can comprehend the motive for these military movements, They have given rise to much specula ...

... FOR some time past the practice of posting indecent and disgusting quack placards has been growing more and more prevalent in, Beltast. Every dead wall, every hoarding, every shutter of a vacant shop, exhibits the rival claims of opposing pretenders to a certain class of medical knowledge. Even the portals of the Police Court have not been sacred from the presence of these offensive ...

... AGRICULTURAL STMTOSTUCS, IRELAND. Tar following are extracts from the elaborate report of the Registrar-Gencral to his Excellency the Earl of Eglinton:- In continuation of the Agricultural Statistics of Ireland for 1851 already presented to Parliament, I have now the honour to submit tables, showing the estimated average produce of the several crops grown in each county and province in that ...

... Illperal v artiallmct. (aUY'MA(NE Ior TELE GR APH1.) HOUSE OF LORDS-YESTERDAY, SPIRITUAL INSTR1UQTMO. The Bishop of EXETER moved for the appoint- ment of a select committee to inquire into deficiency of the means of spiritual instruction in places of Divine worship in the metropolis and other populous districts in England and Wales, especially in the mining and manufacturing districts, and to ...

... TiiURSDAY, ARtIL 1. SECOND DAY'S RUXNING. . T11 R .S A]) r1 1,Ia U P. M Mr. Gage's Gammon (2) beat Car. Boyd's Mlistletoe, i aid won the cup). TIHE CUP PRESENTED IIY F. Il. WALL, ESQ. SECOND TIES. . Mr. Savage's Balakliava beat Mr. Winder's Lucifer. TFIIRD TIES. Balakiava beat Lucio 2ud, Patience-i bye,. DECErDING COURSE. Balaklava beat Patience, THE OPEN STAKE. SECOND TIES. Mr. Douglas's ...

... ANCIENT AND MODERN JERUSUAEM THERE are few places to which tile mind-of the Chlris- tian is so often led as to tile City of Jerusalem. At whatever page the Holy Book is opened, he reads of Jerusalem and its surrounding hills, of the Temple' tile porch of Solomon, tile Valley ofJohoshaphet, the rapid Kedron, the Silent Pool of Bethsaida, the palace of Herod, the Mount of Olives, the Hill of ...

... -lit pr6p, ?Iltkltiglla. F R AN C E. PA1ruS, TnURSDAY EVEU SING.-ThC loUg-vexedCOI1- test between Professors Brewster pnd Whcatstone 3 to the first discoverer of stereoscopy has been judis cially set at rest by a sentence of the Civil Tribunal of Paris yesterday in the lawsuit of I Dubosque versecs G udin.' The date of Wheatstone's first intimation of that natural phenomenon to the public, and ...

... I g?t ?effai I'leW-f-tilm (ESTABLISHED ANN.0 1737-1 BELFAST: TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1858. MFn, D l;4zI~EII speech, last night, in moving that the House should copsidor the Indian reso- lutions next Friday, was lucid and wc zinplg, l even judged by the telegraphic summary; and we rejoice to find the Government, whilst determined to prevent faction from inflicting a blow on India,i and, therefore, ...

... YesmrxxDv, thalristial monthly meeting of this re- venrid body was held in the sessilon-room of the May Street Church, the Moderator1 Rev, ISAAC NEL- soN, in the chair. The attendance of' members was numerous. The minutes of the last meeting were read and ap- proved of. INTERtMEDIATE EDUCATION. Rev. Dr. M'Cosnt, Professor Qtocen's College, said he was anxious to make a statement in reference ...

... BELFAST DOMES'TIC MISSION. TInE annual soived of the Domestic Mission to the poor of Belfast, was held in the Fountain Street School- room, on Friday evening. Amongst those present cI were:-R. Grimshaw, J.P., D.L.; Robert Patterson, nRsq.; W. J. C. Allen, Esq.; James Darbyshiro, Esq.; Rev. Mr. Bruce; John Gray, Esq.; Rev. J. Scott Por- ter; William Campbell, Herbert Darbyshire, Esq,; Rev. John ...