... FARM OPERATIONS FOR AIARCH. SPRING WHEAT.-Tho early part or this month should be devoted to getting in, with as little delay as possible, the usual breadths. WINTEI-SOWN WFEIATS, if tho land be dry enough, should be well harrowed, to break the crust formed by the Winter rains, and mould the young plants, alter which the application of the roller will be of service; but unless the land be ...

... - NEWIS-LETTER OFFICE, Fr^id1y Mm-oning. PEACE OR WAR. The Paris correspondent of the ICi'Held says the tone of tbe Pllis journals is daily becoming more wlrlile. In referring to Lord Broughianis statement tlat the proparatiols nowv golng on in Fraace are oily to fill up the drain on tho army, caused by the crilmcanu war, tho journals ?? is tlis recou- cileable with the fact, that the horses ...

... ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS, YESTPPDAoY,, the adjoulrnledl annual meeting of tbe Harbour Commissioners wvas held at one o'clock in the lharbour O117ico for the purpose of receiving the Auditors' report. There was not a single rateptayer ii attendanic. The Commissioners present woerc- The Chairman, JOHN Or ICH, Esq.; Janies llaujiltoni Robert Patterson Robert ...

... EPISTLE TO TIHE ROMAN ,S. NO. IX. Nature and Grace-Chap. vil, 1-25. Having explained the condition of the sinner, nud the provision of grace, with its effects on the heart nnd life, the Apostle isrocceds to describe the translation of the soul from sin and nature to godlliness and grace. In this change it encounters much difliclty. It is a warfare, and the prominent features of it are set ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-YlE.STrR DAY. [sY SPECIAL TELEGRAM.] TnEIR Lornship- met, for the disposal of business, at five o'clock. TIlE ROYAL ACADEMY. In reply to a question from Lord LYNODHURST, Lord DERBY said that, i n tile recent arrangements which the Government had made as to the site of the National Gallery, they haul fully taken into consideIn- tion the claims of the National Academy. He believed ...

... ' 1HOLYWOOD AND BANGOR RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THlE BELFAST NEWS-LETTEB. SIR-The proposed shore lino 'of railway between Holywood and Bangor being more similar, in its. general features, to the Dublin and Kingstown Rail- way than to any other, I applied to Mr. Boyle, the Deputy-Chairman of the Dublin and Kingstown Rail- way Company, for information as to the progressive increase in the ...

... PARIS, TUESDAY EvErNINGT-L'Independance Belge confirms the rumour I twice noticed of Maria Chris- tina's managing to provide the Pope With a body- guard of Spaniards to keep' his ?? subjects in order wvhen the French go. France, be it understood, was so jealons of these interlopers at the thile so much bloodshed occurred in the trenches before the Eternal City, that General Ondinot warned off ...

... (FROM TIIE RECORD.) IF the State goes much fufrther in its concessions to Popery, it is doubtful if it will have sufficient strength left to maintain the Protestant Constitution of 1G8, the Act of Settlement, or the right of the House of Hanover to the British Throne. Already we have witnessed the repeal of some very important preser- vative statutes against the encroachments of the Papacy, ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENTr. (Svppleszentary to Telegraphic su01aMry.) HOUSE OF LORDS-T.lURSDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock, The Earl of RIPON presented petitions from Hail- fax, Rawdon, and other places, in favour of allowing Protestant Dissentcrs to eimcoie trustees of endowed schools, and also from the ?? Riding of Yorkshire in favour of Parliamentary Reform. ...

... E RAILWAY TIME-TABLE, [ARANGfD FO1R THE NUWUS-iTTEW,] TRAINS will leave for the underamentioned places from and to Belfast, on week days, at the following hours :__I Front Belfast. Tao Belfast. 0,G 30 en; 2, 4 80 pm Antrim; 718, 1027 ass; 215 5 40 pml. 8 sin; 12 n; 4 30 pm; Aninighilores 7 25 mn; 12 n; 4 25 pm; 715 pin 7 40 pill 7, 8 sail; 12 n, 4 30, Armagh 720, 0 30 inm, 12 n, 7 15pm 4050pm ...

... - NEWS-LETTEr. OFFW0E, Saturday Aforning. EV ACUATION OF THE ROM11AN STATES. Palis, Friday. Tlic ,llMitear of this morning, says the CGnsaitutioar- I1 as ?? that the evacuation of the St,%tes of tie Ciuwirch by our troops has been ordered by thle Felperor. Tell French corps d'a)rmee hbs received 0iilei5 to withdraw to Civita Voccilia. This news i, at least, premature. THE ITALIAN QUESTION. ...

... DETAILS of tile IRolianist persecution of tile Baptist missionaries and their converts in tile island, of Fer- nando Po are already before our readers. It will be renioelibererd that tbo station has been removed to tile Afican continent, where a new settlement has been forilmed. Tie February nniinbor of the Baeptist M1issionlary leraald states:- l By orn recent letters we find that Mr. Dibioll ...