... TUE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND IN BELFAST. VISIT TO TI'E QUERE'S COLLEGE, THE PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, THiE MODEL SCHOOL, AND THlE DISTRICT HIOSPITA.L FOR THE INSANE. TUESDAY nigh't, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Chief-Secretary for Ireland, accompanied by his Pri- vate Secrelary, C. Cardswell, Esq., arrived in Belfast by tile express train. Having determined upon visiting some of the public ...

... NEIVgS-LET7'R OFFICE, T/iriday Aforneing,. .% AGNUTiO TELEG5IAPE1.3 Paris, WVedesday. Tile ieorto tile marriage of' Gener'al Garibaldi ,0idtho5t f0uilda~tionl. SPAIN AND) MOROCCO. Madrid, Dec. 15. Till thiud ?? has disembarked ?? Gec~ olhas beon attacked on thle road to Th 'oors w~,ro repulsed wvith great loss, Thet f~inish )ad 1,,'tv killed and wounded. pnIUCL1NATLION OF A IIOLY WAR IN ...

... THE King of Abyssinia has received glidly the ver- nacular Scriptures sent by the Bible Society, through the Bishop of Jerusalem, t Abyssinia. A brief notice of the conduct of the king in reference to the circulation of the Scriptures is supplied by a mission- cry now labouring in that coumtry:- The king received the Bibles with great joy, and began at once himselflto distribnte then. ...

... - ?? ?? ( lb !) c1 (I ?? t I f i i 5 fc t? ? - f t f f c r. (EST'ABLSIIHED ANNO 1737.1 BELFAST: THURSI)AY, D)EC. 15, 1859. ANOTHER attempt to murder has been made in the King's County, but we are happy to state that, the intended victim, a bailiff employed in the Earl of ?? rent-officc, has escaped unin- jured. The magistrates are investigating the case. The report of Garibaldi's marriage is ...

... A 3MOVBNERNT of much importance in connection with the cultivation and manufacture of flax has been on foot in County Corki, and has resulted in the forma- tion of a society entitled the Munster Flax Society, the objects Of whichl are the promotion of tile growth and manufacture of flax through the agency of prac- tical instructors, the dissemination of knowledge on the flax question, andl ...

... : THE MORALITY OF' nOmANisM. IV! Rome is the Head-quarters of Romanism, Naples may be said to he one of its strongest garrisons. People are drilled into *religion pretty much as con- victs are drilled into the sort of manual labour re- quired of them at the depots. It is not a matter of choice, ?? of compulsion, and, thb peasant who does not go to his chapel, or the citizen who refasos to ...

... UNIVERSITY OrF DUBLIN. CONFEIRRING OF' DEGREFS. (FROII OUR DUBLIN CORRESP5OXlcN-r.) YESTERDAY, a Pnitdic ComelillnetImIent wals hcetl by the University of Dublin for the purpose ol confer!ij5r degrees. Unusual interest attached to thic ploceul, ings from thu faet that, as first announced in your columns, it was intended to confer honorary (distiar tions on Captain 71'Clintock, Sir John ...

... THE following circular, mnumbered 396, has been issued, and is dated Admiralty, Dec. 10:- The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, being de- sirous of revising the regulations respecting punishments in her Majo ty's navy, are ploeased to direct as follows:- 1. All seamen and Royal Marines belonging to the fleet shall be divided into two classes, hereinafter referred to as the lst and ...

... PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. IVARtOtFICE, PALI-AILL, DEC. 13. 18th Regimntit of Light Dragoons-Liaut. W. P. Hesketh to be Adjutant, vice Saunders, WhIG resigns the Adljutancy only. Royal Artillery-Assistant-Surgeon W.-R. Stenart, from tho Staff, to he Assistani-Surgeon; Assistant- Sarg. A. Richmond, frotn the Staff, to be Assistant- Surgeon. Ist Regiment of Foot-Li'ut. F. J. P. Hill to be ...

... RAILWAY T I ME-T ABL E. TuAINS will leave for the undermentioned places rfronl and to Belfast, on week days, at the following r ho ars: Frvm BIelfast. 'i'o Belfast. C 19 0 ami; 2,410 pm ?? 7 68, 1017 ILIII; 240 1 5 40 pml 8 am; 12 IL; 4 90 pm ; Araeilghnore' 7 25 am; 12 n; 4 51pm ,1 pmi 7 '10 pm 7, 8 ni; 12 1i, 4 30, Alxlua& 7 20, 0 31) amn, 12 IL 3 715 pm 4' 50 pmn 6, G 30 am;l, 2, 4 30 pill ...

... CO RRESPON D ENCE. TO CORIRESPONDENTS. AN Advocate of Christian Liberty and Constitu- tional Freedom should know that ve insert no communications without knowing the name ol the writer. MORE FACTS FOR SIR HI. BROWNRIGG. TO TH-E EDITOR OF THE BEHFAST NEWS-LETTER. DEAR Su.-Seeing that you have reported in your paper the distribution of the constabulary force in some districts, I take the ...

... 'ART;U-NI'G.N OF I'REEL AND . Tnri Managing Counriittee met' Aon Tuesday last, the 6th instant at the office No. 113, Grafton Street. Thiere ?? prcsent -The LORD CHANOUELLO in the chair;. J. Calvert Stronge, J.P.; Wim. Cotter' Kyle, LL.D.; Dr. Petrie, HERMA.; Willim Jendkins5, LL.D.; John E. Pigot, Christopher Copinger, Q.C. Robert C(alwell, WTillirmn Brocaa RlH.A.- Toifloas Hutton, D L . and ...