... DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT-FOURTEEN . '-LIVES LOST. A DUEAflPUL colliery accident occurred on Wednesday at the Primrose Colliery, worked by a company of whliich Messrs. Morgan & Lewis -aro the principal owners, and situate near Pontardawe, nine miles from Swansea. Two hundred men were in tile pit'woen the accidentoccurred. The men went to work at si& o'clock on Wcdnesday morning, and about ...

... ULSTER SOCIETY. FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB AND T1IN BLIND-PUBLIC MEETING 'IN HOLYWOOD. YUTERDAY evening, a public meeting, in aid of the Ulster Society for the Promotion of the Educatioll of thle Deaf and Dumb and tile Blind, was held in tile Asse: ably-roums, Holywood, whon the Rev. Dr. Couke and the Rev. Mr. Kiinghan attended as the deputation on the part of the ...

... BIALLYMENN TOWN CONEMISSIONERS. (FjuRM OUR CORR3SPOND2T) I ON Friday, the 15th instant, the annual meeting of ratej)ayors, nuder the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, was held at thle Comnmissioners' offce, for the pllnrpose of electing three Commissioners in the room of' Messrs. John Straian, James Kinnear, and JohnClhrirtie, who retired by rotation. ANDRiEW rTODD Drueg,,Y Esq., tile ...

... TIHE BELFAST CHANCERY SUIT. W tiare enalbled( to state tihat tile supplemental in- iormaxtiiin in this suit, as against Mr. Kennedy, has been disiinescd; mrd Mr. Boa, tho Rclator, has been ol(dere(l to pay that gentleman's costs. ...

... ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND GROIVTH OF FLAX IN IRELAND. Tun monthly meeting of conliti cc was held in Bel- fast, on1 12th instant-JOIIN fORTI [Cl;, ESq., in thle chair. The auditors reported that they had been examining tile instructor's accounts, and as some of theor appeared to be difficult in solution, they re- quested that there Should bo associated wvith. them three other ...

... THREE ITUNDRED YEARS AGO. . TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE TIMES. SIR-Three hundred vears ago 'Mary died, and Queen Llizaboth ascended tile throne ?? realms. By almost universal Protestant consent, her ascent was the establishment of that Reformation the social and national fruits of which Macaulay, in his great history, and Carlyle in his recent work, have both culogised in terms asjust as they are ...

... IMESSRS. LINDSAY'S NEW BUILDINGS-' THE I ULSTER ARCADE. BELFAST people, generally, are proud of their town, its public buildings, wide lines of street, commerce, and manufactures; and, however much strangers who have never been here, may be inclined to at- tribute this feeling to local partiality, it is fully justi- fled by the facts. Our town has advanced more rapidly during the last twenty ...

... ROMISII CIHAPELS AND PROTESTANT CON- TRIBUTORS. Wip perceive, by the Newry and tuidundl papers, that a new Rotnan Catholic Chsapcl has just been erected at Rathfriland, and is to be opened on Sulday next. Nearly twenty years ago, we hear, the ttildinig was conmibenced, and its slow progress was, doubtless, owing, first, to the Want of funds; and, secondly, to the decline of Romanisin in the ...

... , ? c '?Pvlfimt Alctuldfa ., (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20, 1858. IT appears, froun an official report which has been published, that the frauds upon the Commercial Dock Company hive bcrn going on for the last twenty-one yoers, and that the amount embezzled was over £20,000. Howv such a sum could be taken from a company without detection, the perpetrator systeematicidly ...

... 9?t ?? clfimf (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) l ?? I BELFAST: THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1858. Tun Prussian Chambers were opened on Wednes- clay by the Prince Regent. The opening speech does not appear to have contained any definite information concerning the future course of the Regent, who simply said le intended to do what the Constitution and the law required. Soein extraordinary facts concerning our ...

... l I(FROM THE NORTH BRITISH MAIL.) Wr have before us evidence that ?? frolm the earliest period of its cxistcelce to its close a syste- matiscl concealmient of the state of the discotmis was practised flpon Iltc directors. Such as trace the ruin or the Western to thoe Manlgement of Mr. Taylor, will probably be sutrpriserd to learn that though hliere can be no question tihat hle became an apt ...

... THE GAL WAY PACKET STATION. WE beg to refer our readers to the prospectus of th Atlantic Royal Mail Steamn Navigntion Comnpan (Limited), which appears as an advertisement in ol colunmis this morning. With the namne of the conr pany the public arc hardly yet familiar; but the feal which, while yet nameless it. has accomplished baN excited the wonder of some, the envy of many, an the admiration ...