... GARDE NING OPERATIONS FOR THIE WEEK. PANS^NT DEPARTUTaE.-COnservatory, &c.-Whiere thero is a good stock of azaleas to select f'rom soime of thlu most forward plants may nowi be placed in lheat ill order to get them into bloom early; moisten theni overhead two or three tSmes a day. Do not forget to introduce a good batch of roses, choosing the most premising plants for Winter flowering. ...

... MU NEIBEIM-TIE BISHOPS' PASTORAL. PURSUANT to a i'eqtlisition, signed by it number of their body, a ni titig of Irish Liberal members was held on Tluirsdlay, at tile Northuiciberlaud Hotel, Duil)lin, ' fur the pnrpose or taking Imeasures to pro- moto thle poliey eiliicirtteld by the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops of Ireland, in their pastoral address, published on the 5ith of August. ...

... Tae severe frost, which has now continued three days witholit intermission, this (Friday) morning enabled those having the time and inclination to recreate themselves on the various waters and canals in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. A little before 11 A.M the glass had fallen 25 degs.-7 (legs. below freezing point, and, or course, during the previous night it mest have been much lower. ...

... .C ? e , I gildfiof (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.l : BBLFAST: FRIDAY, DEC. 16, 1859. IT is pleasant to find that the Concordat made between the Pope and the Grand Duchy of Baden is most displeasing to the Roman Catholic inhabi- tants. They are agitating warmly against it, and it is not improbable may carry their point. It is only in Ireland, where a Concordat is happily impossible, that the people ...

... 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 ...

... '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 werLe 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 . ...

... ULSTER INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AUD DUMB AND THE BLIND. HOLYWOOD AUXILIARY. (FRtOM OUR OWN RIEPORTER.) LAsT evening, the annual meeting of the Froly,00 anxiliary to this excellent society was held in t-lr Assembly Rooms, Holywood, at haifiPast six O'clock tird Lord Bishop of' DowN and CONNOR and DR01a in the chair'. The attendance was considerable an would havo beein larger had it not been for ...

... I THcE OE THOUSAND GUI-NEAS._The popularnotion. that we must not put too much faith in the doings of tile opposite sex is in every way applicable to horsc- flesh, more especially the juvenile Portion thereof, so that, in analysing the performances Or the forty- six fillies engaged in the One Thousand Guineas (there are forty-eight subs, two of the nominations, Rimetnbranza and Sybil, having ...

... AGRITCULT.URE. F A.C T S F O R F A R M1 E R S. NIILX HARID TO CHiURIN AND BUTTEL IIAnD TO GA- T'I.:l,-A Sabscriber, Ballyronan, writes- I have twelve milking cows in bales; they are fed on the best of hay and turnips; they milk well, hut ino- possible to churn; small produce, and blrnd for thc dairymaid to gather the butter. Piase let me klnoW tho fhult -It is tmost likely that the thult ...

... TOWNS' IMPROVEMENT ACT IN ARIMAGH. Tas following letter, in reply to the memorial lately fhrwarded to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, lies been received by John G. Winder, Esq., J.P.:- Dublin Castle, 9th Dec., 1859. GFNTIEMEN-Tho Lord Lieutenant having received, one alonth previous to the *1ate of this order, an applioa- tion from forty-five housoholders of the town of Arimagh, sach of ...

... BELFAST WATER COMMISS[ONERS. SATURDAY Last, a special meeting of the Board of Bclfast Water Commissioncrs was held in their t'OOmll, Rosemary Place, for thc purpose of c ionsidering no( ices received from tho Ulster Railway Company relativo to the construction of a tramway to the quays and othro business. The chair was oc- cupied by Ar. Tno)AS GnAy. Tho other members preseut wern:-Dr. Dill; ...

... SoMB months ago, we called attention to the fact that very unpleasanit disputes had been fome'nted in Saintfield by certain parties, in reference to the Saintfiold Academy. It will be remembered that this Academy wse chiefly built at the expense of the family of Mr. Price, the universally respected lord of the soil. The people, we helieve, scarcely con- tributed one-fourth of the cost, and the ...