... BELFAST WATER COMMISS[ONERS, YESTERDAY, the usual weelkly meeting of this Board wvas held at the offices, Rosemary Place-Mr. George Phillips in the chair. Theotlier .Comrissioners pre- senit were:-Dr. Dill, Messrs. John Lindsay, Richard Connery, Robert T. MI'Geagb, Robert Greer, nnd R. M. Carson. T'IE :E3W WT. The C1A1RMAN4, in going over the minutes of last regular meeting, read the protests ...

... T Tan following letter has been communicated to the editor of thie .Vaijy Press, Hong-Kong:. SI-..Having been a passenger in the James Hartley, it may not he uninteresting to the public for me to give a lirief account of her loss, end some . f the incidents connected therewith. The steamer left Shanghai for Hong-Kong on the 16th instant (Octoher, at daylight, with two cabin passengers, a ,ew ...

... Royal Dublin Soeiety, Rildare Street, December ?? 1869. SBR-The Committee of Agiiculture having invited the attention of the Roval Dublin Society to a sub-, scti)tionl whtich bas hleert set ont foot for presenting to thte Messrs. IV. S. and E. Pardon a testimonial in recogitltion of the important services they have ren- (ileied to Irish agriculture, and the society, bearing in~ grlitefril ...

... THE REVIVALS, PRAYER-AiEETINGS, AND SPECIAL SERVICES. MHUETING IN EXErER HALL. ON Tnesday Cyoning, tlhe 11s.nal weekly lecture in con- nexion with thu Youlg ?? Christiain Association gave Place to a special mllecting for prayer and prac- tical addresses by tile 1Hon1. and Rev. Baptist Noel, nnds tile two lay evangelists whose labours lhave been so emilonetly llnoled( ill S0ntla0id, Mr. Brownlo ...

... TIHE IMPERIAL PAMPHLET. (FROM THS TIMES.) BoCoAcIro tells a story of a Jew who, heing half- converted to Christianity, determined to make a journey to Rome, aind to be decided by the results of' his persotial inspection. IHis Christiain friends dreaded the eflect upll hlis timind or the disorders hfi was sure to witness there, but, to their astonishliment, lie returned converted. Me had never ...

... TnE tenantry of the Saintfield estate have taken a very prompt and decisive method Of testilying in what estimation they hold their landlordl, James C. Price, E q., and of separating themselves from and denouncing the attempts that have been for sonic time so assiduously made in the neighbourhood to bring that gentleman into discredit with them. An ad- dress, to Mr. Price, signed, we ...

... TIE POl'E AND THE CONGRE, SS. T~Efollowingu is a translation of thie very impor- 'it, tifnt ?? by M\. (la Ia Guerrouiere, wbich hias xi jjtbeen, published-of course. by permission-~ by 115 ?? I. ?? WtIe wvish, in a trle, (Romlan) Catholic, spirit, to Iiti t:,( aqestcion ?? imprudently become iii- itl( tint never make's us see.' Let us Ilhon violeavoiur it( al ?? it 11em1 ii subject wvileve ...

... EUC.-LESTAs 3Tr 1,. T'IHEl E S T .1B 1, I 31 E1)J , Cf IUitlIt Ivil unil rsiandi I hlt i he Riev. {h'it'go Wilsone has resigned tim (Cio'acv of' Kiiookltirer1.1 in consequence of' his apinjjfitiP lent to tile C ?? Schiool, Donlegall Silirlare, tin11er thle si ipuri'iitewlellci o ill Ai. Reddy, E 0tti Ii DINA'r't01t. -ThFe 'lellowitig gentleman fr'omi Trinlity Cillegle, Dhttrlili, slag, ...

... R AIL WAY T I ME-T AB LE. TRIAINS will leave for the from and to Belfast, on Wei hours Froin Belfast. 6, 9 30 amu; 2, 4 30 prm Antrim L nrn; 12 u; 4 30 psll; Atunighi 7 1 pin 7, 8 nm; 12 ii, 4 30, Armingh 715 pin 6, 9 30 lilnl; 2, 4 30 pmi BcIlycIcl 7 sin 12 ii; 4 80 pi i Ballibay e, 30 am; 2,4 30 pDI BRcllymne! e, 9 20 cmn; 2 poc Ballymo d cm, 2, 4 20, 7 30 pmr Blllynal 6 nm; 4 30 pin ...

... ECCLES [ASTICAL. THE ESTABLISHIED COHU10CIT. The followving will be tle emlsi cl service iln T1o0y- Wvooli Cllli cli on to)-rlirol'W'O, Christmias Daly:-- Forelloon.Clialiit (Proper Psalms), Nares; ServieO (Td Deem, Jubilate, Rss1PoneSe, ?? Rogerns; Iicn. 'W Whence those somids;' andi Anthitm, Lift up yolr ieiads. Afterniolio -Chtla (Prip(et 1'sailcls), J. Re- lnIls(oi; Seirvieo (Casltiiid ...

... ; THE DUKE OF CAlBRIDfla AT WOO[ , ?? His Royal Highness the Dake Ot Uanlorlugou VUI- b down to GWoolwich on Alonday, fcr the purpose of 9 delivering the prizes of merit to tise gentlemen cadets t recommended by the aovernor of the Royal Militar~y Academy, as deserving rewards and priies for good I conduct and acquiremnents: and also to inspect two of tho most. important nov'cties of the day, ...

... WHAT THE ITALIAN BOOT DOES NOT WANT.-MOMC Austrian welting or new French binding. SUASOwAnLE CONUNDRUM.-Why is the Frost lile a HIotel-Boots? Because it changes one's shoes into slippers. WHAT A CONGRESs OF TIME GREAT Powrns IS LIKELMEST TO DO WYITI TITIq ITAEIAN BOOT,-Put their foot in it, CONSOLATION UNDER CRITICISMI.-(By a pacllydcr- matons ?? all, according to Sir Emerson Tennent, the ...