... MONDAY, 13TIH SnoT-The September tryst com- menced this mornin', the stock on the ground being sheep. A large show was anticipate(d, bitt the antici- pation was not realised. Blaclcaeed sheep occupied but a MueW speck upon the division of the moor appropriated to the display of this class; and although the Cheviots presented a greater bulk, they were in- doultedly under the average. The fears ...

... drb if xa 5t Ic i I)l -Y e t 1. + (ES'T'ABLISIIHEI) ANNO 1V37'. BELFAST: TUESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1858. TilE terms of the treaty with) China are even more favourable than the non-official information had led us to believe. Not only is the Chinese Empire to be open to our trade, and full toleration nfforded to the Christian religion, but we are to hlove Consuls at the open ports; and British ships in ...

... TIHE PRESBYTERIAN CHIAPLAINClES. WaV expressed in a few sentences yesterday our opi- nion in regard to the proceedings of the late Com- mission of Assembly. In the judgment of all the right-minded of the community those proceedings cannot but be strongly condemned. They were in- sulting to the Governmont-they were ill-advised and reckless-they were unconstitutional, and, as the ?? Wilt prove, ...

... E ? c -Vi I c .1 f I t 5 f (I'i -1 c tu -T c f f c r. (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: TUESDAY, SEPT. 14, 1858. Tum, Paris Correspondent of the Times, whose business is, of course, to keep alive a feeling of distrust between France and England, repeats his statenment that a battering ship is being con- structel at Chcrbourg. T''he inference drawn is that the Emperor, who is also the inventor, ...

... Trirs park was formally opened on Monday last by ?? of Stockport, WILLIAM WILLIAMSON, Esq., in the presence of a large concourse of people. In 1842 Lord Vernon presented to the Corporation of Stockport 15 acres of ground, lying about a mile from the town to the South-East. This ground has been adopted by tile Towu Council, and laid out to fbrm a public park. One portion of it rises fr-omn the ...

... ENGLISII SAtL/)RS AND FRENCH SOLDIERS. Tiara, was when the Frnch were o urr snlrriors in naval architecture, and wcn tilhe finest sailers in our floets were prizes taken from tiie Fre cnch. That day has long gone by, and onr saiing ships arc equal to the French, our steamers generally superior, espe- calla in the long raking bow and firls entrance. Tire rig of our stcamers is also better, ...

... LONDONDBRItY AND ENNISKILLEN R AILWAY. . 1. .. .. . . - . .. Tui: followbig is the report of tile directors or this railwvay for the last ll-year- 'Cie tralic receipts for tile lialf-year ending 30th J.1ne last amount to £17,991 9s. t1d. For tho cor- responding period of 1857 th1e receipts weoe £17,744 Ss. Gd. The. new form of' accounts points out so clearly the comparison of rmccil)ts and ...

... THE STAMP RETURNS-GROSS M16REIPRE- SENTATION. A FEv days since, a return of stamps issned to ne-s- papers in tho United Kingdom, from July, 1855, to 31st Ducembor, 1857, wns printed, otl thio mo- tion or Mr. Crawford, M.P. It was il July, 1855, that thc penny stanlip on newspapers was declared no lonver imlerative; and on thle samo (lay the Betfast Mivns-Letter became a daily jouinal. All our ...

... SIR GEORGE GREY ON THlE MEANS OF ADULT EDUCATION. AT the annual dinner or the Northcrn Union of Literary and Scientific Institutes at Alnwick, on Tues- day, the Right Hon. Sir 0. GREY presided; and in proposing the toast of the evening- Prosperity to tile Northern Association of Literary and Mechanics' Institutions -said :-This is a toast which I am sure, after the meeting we have had this ...

... C-1) 1) c i He) c .1 first \-J (7?) 1 1 (ESTABLISIIED ANKO 1737.) BELFAST: THURSDAY, SEPT. 30, 1S58, IT alny additional proof were required of thesuccess -the deserved successtof the Gabdway Paclet Station, it is amply supl)liitd this Im orning in our telegraphic columns. The Propeller steam-ship arrived yesterday, from Boston and St. John's, having made tihe run fron the iatter port ii a ...

... - WESLEYAN lMETHODISM. | Tmnri~noual Society and Copgregationfal soiree of the Belfast Soiuth Circuit took place hltst evening, atsevefn o'clock, ill the school-room underneath Donegall Sqanre Wesleyan Chureh. There was a very liuuer- ous ahttendance on the ocecsimo, individufals being present from thle several plices of worship on the circuit-viz,, Done-all Sqnare, Falls Road, Wesley Place, ...

... 14t vclt. THE LAST IiOMISII MIRACLE~. (l~IolM THlE TIMES.) THERE is Som~ethiing ?? Wve all deploro in France -sometlillighii whiich weoall agreo, huxt may not quite kno1w bow to express. It is a spec~ies of formalism, or, or to tale the modern spelling, formulism, which creeps like a lepsrosy over France, and involves all her reatures and flimbs in one suit of scales. Evcry idea, liowever ...