... l ?? ?? . D t KIRICINTILLOCH BURGH ELEcTION.-Magistrates- a ?? Dalrymple, and Robert Mofl'at. Councillors g -John Goodwin, David Forsyth, John 'Boyd, A. B.f Armour, James Jack, A. B. Freeland, John Munro, q Archibald Gilchrist, and W. W. Mackay. Treasurer b -John Goodwin. Town-Clerks-David Tainsh, and t, James Hutcheson. Procurator-Fiscal-John Smith. so , Town-Oficer-Alexander Martin. a l We ...

... - SCIIOOLMAISTERS IN RURAL DISTRICTS. f TO TItE EDITOll OF TILE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. S!R-111 large towns, the schoolmaster is generally looked upon as a usefal public servant to the rising generation, and can manage to earn sontetltitg, like a comfortable subsistence; land oven in towns hec is too often deficiently remitnerated for the performance o of his onerouis and important duties; but it ...

... A GROWING NIU8ANCE. The John Ball thuns refers to a subject which must have forced itself on the attention of many of o0 readers And a very bad thing indeed the stereoscope shop has come to be. Having dealt with its misdeeds in the matter of art-misdeeds for which it is only in part accountable, inasmuch as the artistic function has been forced upon it by injudicious critics-we now proceed ...

... FOREIGN A ND CUOLSVIA L RAIL WAY .S. I1 :t What ?? been done ir. Greiat Britain in railway construic. tion must in time Ito (lone also fir a great part of the 10 world. If thA two hundred niillions of iqaarte miiles of tho At earth's surface were to be traverscd by railwsy~s to )lint the te one-hundredth par'. of their proportionate extenlt In this ls kingdo.1m, where there hi one mil~e of ...

... A FEMALLE BIGAMIST. At Worship-strect, on Saturday, Mary Anu Parr, a gar- trulous person, 46 years of age, described as a silk winder, .was charged with intermiarrying, hel former husband being then anid now alive. I F'r ?? d: I ?? Well public-house t tINP-en' -Ne\-town. Unifortunately I know this womian, sfor I niarriv(l her on Christiiais-day at New Hackney Chuirch, Prikoner: Oh, you lid; ob ...

... MUNICIPAL EnFCTIONS.-Our Municipal elections are to D., pass over this year without any stir. In the First Ward 'ta Mr. Walter Service, baker, will be elected; in the Second ?? Mr. George Adam, wood measurer, will go in; in the pt r Third Ward Mr. John Hunter; and in the Fourth Mr. in ?? M'Ilwraith will be re-elected; and the Fifth Ward will be represented by Mr. Abram Lyle, cooper. The Pro- ...

... RAILWAY TIMB-TABLE. r . _ .. A1- ?? lpf IA Ifif ;I .- ,,1nA, MAINS will leave for tloe unuermentououcat places, irom aud to Belfast, at thc folloving hours From Belfast. To Belfast, 9 30 am; 2, S 20 pum Aitrim 7 sB, 10) 27 at; 2 S3 17, 40 pil. 8, 10 smi; 12 n, 4 30. Arnsngi 7 20, P 830 nm, 12 a, I niJ 3U m; 2, 20 pm l Ballyclaro 8 21, 10 51 nsu, 3 22, 3 aim ; 1 i; 41 30 pilm Bnlibay 7 40 ...

... THE CUNARD CONTaACT. TO THE EDITOR Ot' THLE OALwAr VINDICATOR, SIm-I read Mr. Gregory's letter to you of the 21st, ID your paper of the 28d, which reached me ol the 25th In. stant. I immediately wrote to Mr. Hamilton the f@llow. ing letter, and I received the same evepilng the reply which I also sabjoin:- Carlton Terrace, Oct. 25, 1858. 'Dc.sa Sie-I hava just read In a newspaper, a letter ...

... MR. RRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.. {mV AA - Aas . (Prom the Times.) It has been said that nothing truly' great was ever l i done by an effort, arid, though the Inaxim is some- whsat dangerous, it nevertheless contains a portion of ti'utlrwlich we cannot but acknowledie. The morn- taii in laboutr is an old fable, and strange enought it l is that mountains which have in their. time shot forth their ...

... INDIA AN]D CHINA. By the Calcutta mail private correspondence and files of papers from Calcutta to the 23d of September and from Hong Kong to the l 2th of September, have been received. The Calcutta correspondent of the Times writing September 23d says- The fortnight has been almost barren of intelligence. The pro- clamation announcing the abolition of the Company had not yet appeared. ...

... TBB PAp FRACAS. We (Mestern Times) have received a communica- tion from a friend of the hon. member for South Devon, who stated that the popular reports of the fracas at Torquay are grosesy exaggerated to the hon. member'e greatdisadvantage; but as the communication is rather private than public, and enters on matters not within the province of the pugilistic case, we pass it aside, merely ...

... . . - _ - - ?? PAROCHIAL BoARnD.-The monthly meeting of this body b was held in the Board Room, ?? last. Present- d J. M. Gartshore, Esq., Chairman of the Board; James Dal- rymple, Esq.; Rev. George Little; Robt. Galloway, Esq.; Wm. Somerville, manufacturer; James Montgomery, nier- chant; Andw. Reid, merchant; Win. Stoddart, manufac- = tuer; Charles Stirling, manufacturer; Robert Martin, mer- ...