... THE EMPEROR AND THE POPE. (raoi TUE TIMES,) Wn have already shown in a general review of the political relations of the Great Powers what these opportunities and temptations are which may mnake the prospect of' war necoptable to the French Ent- peror. The resentment of' Russia for Austrian ingrati- tiude in 1855, the ambition of Piedmont, the threa- toned insurrection in Lomabardy, the ...

... e. i kill f'it 8 f r c i Se c f c r (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12, 1859. THERE is rather a flush of home news .to-day. Baron Pennefather has resigned, and Judge Crampton has intimated his intention of retiring within a short tinme. Mr. G. A. Hamilton, M.P. for Dublin University, has been appointed Per- manent Assistant-Secretary to the Treasury, and retires from ...

... CANNINO applied to Bronugham, in the days of the first great agitation of Reform, what we may fairly apply to a less but noisier man on a now less popular phasis of the same topic. A young painter had finished ?? Lion for a village alehouse, much to the satisfaction of the landlord. Every visitor to the scene of villate bacchanal ianis m heard the praises, and retired re-echoing the liume of ...

... FRENCHI 0 SSIP AND ICti'-CHAT. PARIS, SUNDAY RVENING.-The alliance between the Impcrial House of France and the antique dynasty of Savoy, news of which domes oddly by telegram from Berlin, will not add to the. security of Austria in North Italy. Princess Clotilda of Turin, who will be aged sixteen next AMarch, is affianced to Prince Jerome, minister of Algeria and the Colonies; and no event, ...

... YESTrERDAY the usual weekly meeting of this Board was held at the workhouse, Dr. M'Gra in the Chair. The other Guardians present ?? Moore; IMessrs. R. Bell, D. M'Connell, John Htamill, Robert Carlile, David Walker, Jas. Kavanagh, Geo. Martin, Win. Johnston, and James Harper. STATE OF THE HOUSSE. Number of persons in the Belfast Union Work- house and Fever Hospital on Saturday, the 8th day of ...

... WAR OFtI3o, PALL-MALL, JAN T. THE Secretary of State for War has received the fol- lowiiig list of casualties in the army in India:- Return or IKilled, Wounded, and Mlissing of Troops under the immediata Command of his Excellency the Commnander-in-Chief, in action at Buxar Ghaut, on the 24th Nov., 18'8. Head-Quarters, Camp, Badour, Nov. 26, 1858. Her. Majesty's 6th Dragoon Guards-Wounded, 3. ...

... iBELFAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN A S S O C IA TI ON. LAST evening, at eight o'clock, the seconld lecture in connection with the present session of thc Bulfis Young Mlen's Christian Association was delivefled inl the MIusic Hiall, by Patrick E. Dove, Esq., of GllS gow. Sul)ject-The(Wild SportsofScotlainl. The attendance on the occasion was large and rpelcj1)!,. The chair was occupied by ...

... CIIEAICO - AGRICULTUR1iL SOCIETY OF ULSTER. ,, a01U N . tj L hi 1i T I N O. JANUAlRY 7TII.-Tle first meeting of thc Council appointed at the annual meeting was held at the Laboratoiy on Friday, the Ith inst. Rev. Gcorgg Smsyth, and afterwards W. S. Crawford, Esq., Vice- President, presided. There were also ?? Greg, J.P., Vice-Prcsident; Jonathan Richardson, Glenmore; W. Charley, J.P., Seymour ...

... (eRoM oun CORRESPONDENT.) ARitiAGI, WVEDNESDAY. DURiNG tile past weel the most active exertions hav c been mado to procure the admittance of the ' Sisters' of Alercy to the sick and infirm wards in the work- house. For some time past two ladies connected wilh the Established Church lhave been in the habit of calling occasionally at tihe house, and reading the Scriptures for a short time to ...

... [B Y M A t3 N E T I O T E i. E G B A P rt.] THE PORTE AND SERVIA. Tbo Globe remarlks that the Porte having aclnow- lcdged the new state of things in Servia, there is no question now of Austrian occuptation in that qunarter, and the Treaty of Paris is not likely to be broken by a separate intervention of that Power. FRENCNI WAR POLICY. The Jo-neal des Debnats, of' to-day, in deprecating a a war ...

... PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. WAR-OFFICE, PALLU MALL, JAN. 11. 3rd Dragoon Guards-Cornet A. C. V. Cortlandt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Berkeley, pro- zuoted. 5th Dragoon Guards-Strgeon W. J. Fyffe, MI.D., from 13th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Trousdell, who exchanges. 7th Dragoon Guards-J. A. Drake, gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Allcyne, who retires. 3rd Light Dragoons-J. G. Pott, ...

... RIAIL WIA Y T I ME-T ABLE. [ARRANGED FOR TVE NEWS-LETTER.] TRAINS Wvill leave for the undermentioned places from and to Belfast, on Week days, at the following t ours From Belfast, T| | Eclfcist. 6, 2 30 am; 2, t 0 pm Antrim j 3S, 10 27 atl; 2 53 45 4O Im. 8 am ; 12 n- 4 SO pm ;: Aurghrnmoleoi7 ;1. arn; H t 1; 4 pm; 715 pm I7 0 pm 7, 8 cia 12 n, 4 80, Armagh 7 20, D30 cill, 12 ni, 715 pm I,.1. ...