... I CORRESPONDENCE INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BEiLFAST NEWS-LETErD University Square, Belfast March 21, 1859. SIR-In the report of the Tines, adopted into some of our local papers, it is stated that, in reply to a question by the Bishop of Down and Connor, Lord Derby said that no Bill on the subject of intermediate education would be Introduced this session. I have just had ...

... i MISCELLANEOIS. |? The pres-ent of RIor Maejoty to lher grndono a i hiieiti is a spleindiii and very Valuable coral of the g l Th e Government are fitting up the defences at v the mouth of the Tyne with 32.pounders. The .Sardinian has arrived from Geelong, with B 1 4,106 bales of wool, and elro tons of leather, but no gold. I: The Head Mastership of the King's School, Can. 1 y|te btry, is ...

... 1. ? . Ifortip 3attfligenct A 14: . I 'THE BOMBAY MAIL. We (Times) have received the following telegram from our Malta correspondent:- lMALTA, March 18. The Bombay mails of the 25th of February leave to-day. The Rohillas have been dispersed by Brigadier Hills. The forts were captured without a blow. ' Tantia . Topee is still at large; ho is believed to be in the reighbourhood of Doesa. ...

... NOTICES TO CORRVESPONDENTS. .fliccers isiteided for publiceation must Qe ?? by the ,cenei Lnd addresses of 'the witeis, scat,wlccnserifi for #ubihcatcon, but for the iafonnatidr. of thnctiC6o. - aporrcpondenuts who set, ansy special value .,puon their com-; munwcations must keep copies of Chem, asve c no7t asnder- take to rieturn unused eontributw.ss What, in the name of conioron sensec does ...

... THlE RUSH -CHURCH MISSIONS. The anuual meeting of this society was held. hat m evening at thp Collegiate Institution. TheRev. Dr. he M'Niei pressced, and amongst the other gentlemen on tse platfprm were the Revds. Dr. Taylor, Dr. d Baylee, T. Moore, H1; C. Eade, M.A., missionary secretary (whohad tely visited the varmus missions of the society), Postanee, Gregson, J. H. JTones, &C- he The ...

... UPWARDS OF 300 CASUALTIES AT SEA AND DREA.DFUL LOSS OF LIFE. In the course of last week a succession of gales have raged with the most destructive fury, causing very extensive havoc amongst the shipping. it is computed that during the week there were no fewer than 300 casualties, some of them of a very lament- able character, and involving serious loss of life. Among the casualties there were ...

... Name of Railway. This Same 1lf-1'-s We.85.Total. Ileo s nd Leyburn ?? 605 84 1153 Belfast and.I1ailymena,. 1018 904 11396 1Bhead, L., & Cheshire .. 2341 2142 26623 Bristol and Exeter ?? 6939 6247 54119 Celedonian ?? 11683 1141C 72641 Cork tuad Bandon ?? 257 2GS 2940 Cork, BFrock, & Passage.. .. 170 Doeside ?? 225 203 Dublin & Belfast Juno 116 31113 12705 Durfee, r., RA.Juno:.. 1002 942 5913 ...

... The Critic, in its last number, has some further re-bi marks on this vexed question. It still maintains G that George Combs was the author of The Ves- w tiges ; the only evidence, however, that it furnishes d of the correctness of its assertion is, that a gentleman a] -understood to be Professor Owen-corrected cer- tl tain misstatements as to matters of fact in the first o edition of the ...

... SKCOND EDITION. MERCURY OFFICK TUMODAT. ELEVNI OCtvc FRANCE. PAws, Mondqy.' The Paris ConferenCes for the consideration of the affairs of the Principali- ties will not be re opened before the end of the montb. TAe revision of the special treaties be- tween Austrisa and the italian States, and the ex- aminatioui of administrative reforms, will be ?? from the deliberation of the Congress. ...

... F'ItEi GN Iq XTELLIG ENe EL F A.N CE. (From the lines' Correspondence.) Paris, Friday, AI arch IS, Z r.Pt The greater part of this slay has been wet, cerke-s, 'and gloomy; nothing but cain,;and masses of cloud drifting ever. the heavens. At the ?? moment' when they were Luost' lowering a gleam of sunshine suddenly broke through the dark nmist, and, slowly dissipating the murky vapouf, diE- ...

... LORD EDWARD 1'iTZGERALD-GEt. LAWLESS. TO TrE EDITOR (F TUE FREEMAN, Kilmaeud Manor, StillorgantMarocl 14. Sie-Ia a recent letter I expreseed my Eatafaction that the betrayer of Lord Edward should have been at Last discovered in the notorious ,sham squire, In order that the bonourable men who professetd themselves diaeaplas of Lord Elward should te finally acquitted from ill suspiclon of ...

... ?? 1; i ?, r. : ;: ? I , , . Madame Thillon is in London. Madame Novello is cora- 'ing in May.- . M;Xeyerbeer's now opera has been re-christened, and is to see the light at Paris-(possibly next week) as Le Pardoil d otreDawed' Auray. M. Gounod's Sausa is also -now on the threshold. . . 'The Gadet e Ausicle of this week announces that -a Stra- duarius violin- has lately changed hands at l'aris, ...