... ?? ) e ?? c I f it it II` c to, ? - ?? r' e i t c r 4 (ESTAJBLISHED ANNO 1737., BELFAST: WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28, 1859. Wz publish this morning, from the Glasgow Herald, a lengthened narrative of the lamentable and disastrous collision off the Mull of Galloway, on Friday night, of the steamer Lyra and the schooner Sweetheart. It is impossible to read the account in another column without lively ...

... , THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.' BALLYTMENA.-It is with mingled feelings of regret and sattisfaction we announce that the Rev. Doll I Mooney, the highly and worthilyesteemed Incimientit of this parish, is now on the eve of his removal to anothercounty, having received notice of iis ap- pointinuent to the valuable living or Clondevaddock, in the diocese of Raphoe. Tihe presentation to that parish is ...

... SEVERAL LIVES LOST. GREENOCC, Dco. 25.-This morning there are no less than four large steamers and a schooner just ar- rived, and are lying at our quay, connected with each of which we have to report disasters in the Channel. These are the Glasgow and Liverpool screw steamer Thetis, Captain M'Lean; the Glasgow and Bristol screw steamer Oscar, Captain Sloleyt the Belfast and Fleetwood paddle ...

... THE FIGHIT ON THE PEIIIO. IXTrEIIESTING ANECDOTES. Wr make the Following extracts from a brilliant article in .Blackdwosod, deseriptive of thle fight on the Poilh:- V When thie Cormorant's bow-gun did the. good service of sileici ug, in four shots, tile centre cavali&?, the Admiral, lying on his cot, was so struck with the accuracy of the aim, that he immediately sent an aide-dc-camp forward ...

... SUPPOSED INTRODUCTION OF PUSEYISH INTO DROGOHEDA. DROGIIEDA, F RIDAT, Dic. 23,-Since the appoint- mcnt of the 11ev. Edward Gort Kelly, by the Mar- quis of Drogheda, to the living of St. Peter's, a grent deal of anxiety has been cvinced by tile church- wardens end parishioners to ascertain whether the incumbent ho as much a Pnseyite as the marchioness is known to be, it being thought that. no ...

... (FROMI OUR OWN CORRESPONDr1NT.) LONDON, SATURDAY. CHRISTMAS Eve is not an epoch peculiarly favorable to composition. There are so many things to do, so many invitations to answer, so many souvenirs to purchase, ?? a pull upon the memory and the system-so much, in fine, to distract attention, that no one but an individual in the position of Alex. Selkirk or Robinson Crusoe can sit down at such ...

... TiHIS DAY'S NEWS. [13Y MAGLNETT X TELEG.RAP1 . NE IVS-LET7'ER OFFICE Tuesdoy, One o'clock pin, 'MISCELLANEOUS, The chief feature in the morning papers is the Bc- count of the Christmas pantomimes, burlesques, and other enterteinments. 'the Tivies fills seven columns with this matter. There were 34,3G4 visitors at the Crystal PMlace yesterdiay. The Duke of Malakoff arrived at Windsor Castle ...

... JOHN BROWN'S LAST LETTER TO HIS FAAILY. I A LrTPER of Brown's has been published, in which be expressed doubts as to the propriety of his wife visiting hilm in prison to bid him farewell, and it is probable that tile subjoined letter from Brown to his wife and children was written under the belief that no interview between themn would take place:- JOHN BROWN'S LAST LITTER TO II[S FAtI LY. ...

... THE ArMAIY AND NXVY. PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. WAR-OFFICE, Dee. 20. eth Regiment of Dragoon Guards-SkirgCOn ]. S. Smitir, froim the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice M1olinc, who oxclhanlgcs. 7th Ligiht Dragoons-Capt. A. E. Wilkinson, from thie D9 Light Dragoons, to be Caipt., vice Bulieley, weho exchanrges; Lieut. J. Giles, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Lieut., vice Viscount Royston, ap- ...

... PENSIONS ON TWE CIVIL LIST. Tfiu following is the correct list of the £1,200 avail- able for this year of the pensions on the Civil List, at the disposal of her Majesty the Queen:- £26 to Dr. Atherston; this is in addition to a for- mersunm of £75 per annum,,for bis services to litera- ture and his advanced age. £50 to Mrs. Beecroft, in consideration of the ser- vices of her late husband, ...

... MR. BAXTER AT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND I YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETY. Dip E menbers of' the central district of the Chorch of England Young Men's Society assembled on Mlon- day evening in the Readinia-room (11W. Fleet Street), to hear froril Robert Baxter, Esq., some account of the revival in Ireland. especially in Belfast. Thuis geitleman detailed tile result ofi'iiS personal inquiries (luring two ...

... THlE ES'TA1BLItSaHED C1EUaRCG . ENGLISH OtDINATIOSS. The following gentlemen fromn Trinity College Dublin, were ordained deacons oil Sunday last:- By tile Bishop of Poterborough-Tlle Rev. J. Foster. By the Bishop of Carlisle-The Rev. T, Hawes, for the curacy of Preston Patrick. By thle Bisilop of Oxford -Win. Henry Podmore, AL., Trinity College, Dublin, and Stildent of the' Theological College ...