... 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 ?? 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 iU il. ...

... A U S T 11 A L I A. (FaOM TIIt MEIRBOURND ARGUS, OCT. 17.) Tan mail leaves us on the eve of a Ministerial crisis. The Administration of Mr. OShanassy is believed to be upon its last legs, and there is scarcely a doubt that the result of to-morrow's debate will be to see its doom. On the address in reply to the Goveraor's Speech it is the intention of Mr. Nicholson, in the Lower House, to move ...

... IN our last impression we apprised our readers that a meeting of the shareholers in the Holywood and Bangor Railway Company of last year was to be held yesterday for the purpose of receiving a statement of the accounts of the company. The meeting, we tniderstand, was well attended, and from the state- ment of accounts which has been submitted it appeared that the deposit on all the shares ...

... flt 4 c I f a5 t 1, 16051fli, c It c r. , c?I (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1859. A Swiss paper has some rather strange remarks on the MiacMahon sword. According to this doubtful authority, the Emperor Napoleon had refused permission to the Marshal Duke of Ma- genta to accept a sword which was to be presented to him by disaffected Irishmen as an ?? demonstration; but ...

... A OItEAT aggregate mlneeting of Protestants was hel1 InstThursday evening, in tile Metropolitan IlN), Lowe Abbey Street, to pronounce upon the existing crisis o affairs, and the consequent duties of Protcstants The hall wvas densely crowded. At eighto'clock th choir w'as taken by Sir EDAIARD GROGAN, Bert. Amongst those oln tile lioltrin ?? Vance, Esq., MV.;. Thomas H. Thomplsoln, Rsq. Rev. 1)1 ...

... |O N.D ON, IRIS H,. MONDAY, a special meeting of the working com- mitteo took place for the purpose of considering the uniforth of the corps, determining the placo of drill, and other matters connected with the preliminary proecedisncs ccessary for its due organisation, as also to discuss the propriety of co-operating as a central body with various provincial corps that have been startedil in ...

... SECOND EDITtON. THIS DAY'S NEWS. [BY MA GN ET IC T ELM G RAP M.] .V7 lVS-LE7'TTIE OFFICE, .8aturdiy, One o'clock, p.na. FRANCE. Paris, December 17. The Moiniteur of today contains the followving:- Tho Emperor received yesterday the Papal Nuneio, who presented to his Majesty a letter from the Holy Father. Yesterday evening, the state of Prince Jerome was still serious. Rheumatic pains in the ...

... I DESCRIPTION OF TIHW WRECK OF THE ROYAL | I CHARTER, -I BY oNIS O THE SURVIVORS. ON Tuesday evening, 6th inst., a most attentive and resliectablo audience assemibled ill the Court-house, Clough, County Antrim, to hear a lecture from Mr. Janies M'Cappin. The snbject wIvs- Tho Wreck of' the Royal Charter. Admission was by ticket; and as he is one of' the few survivors, much anxiety to hear ...

... THE ESTABLISHED CIIURCII. The Rev. George Alcockl has been appointed to the Cnracy of Ferns, vacant by the larnented death of the Rev. William Cosgrave. The Rev. Hemy Scott, Frebendary of Killamory, Diocese of Ossory, has been promoted by tile Lord Bishop of Ossry, Ferns, and Leiglilin, to the Prc- bend and Union of Tullowmagimia in the t'olunty of Carlow, and Diocese oF Laighlin, vacant by ...

... DURIJNG THT TEN DAYS BlEG;INIGo wrTH SArLRDDAY, DEOE31rIit 24, 1859, AND ENDING WITH MONDAY, JAN. 2; 1860. LUEE xVnT., IS-lt. Tiuts has been a year moarked by reullairliabl answers to prayer in the outpouring of tile Spirit, and, there- fore, praise is comely. Dr. Alexander, of New York, in his R Revival Lessons, writes-' Sing Plraises! Sing to God in Christ! Sing of grace and glory! Sing ...

... 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. ...

... CORARESPONDENCE. THE SAINTFIELD ACADEMY. TO utHE EDITOR OF T'lE BELFAST NEWS-LETTEit. Sir-I see you have honored me to-day in your notice of Ward's letter; you have also given your own version of the affair (very one-sided, I must say). There are one or two statements in that notice to which I hcog to call your attention. 1st-You say that Mr. Mecredy, the Presbyterian Minister of Sainiteld, is ...