... olarmpubturt. I BISHOP COLENSO. TO TEE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. Sin-On reading in your paper of Saturday the fair and impartial review (from the Post) of Bishop Colenso's opinions, though I have but a few minutes, I beg to make the following remarks:- First-The Pentateuch was quoted by our Lord and Saviour; and, if this portion of Holy Scripture were to be impugned, He would, ...

... i The Times' correspondent ?? overtures of. France to Russia; on American questions, have, per- haps, not as yet taken an official character. They have reference not solely to mediation and recogni- tion, but to an armistice for six months. The season' will soon render operations in the field difficult, and the state of parties in the Northern States may, it is hoped, incline Mr. Lincoln's ...

... E IT is stated that overtniers were made', though in an unofficial form, to the French Government to sup- port King Otho on the throne of Greece. This was when the news of the disaster which has befallen him was first known here, before his flight to Corfe, and before we learned that the movement was so general and so decisive. It is not said what was the nature oithe support asked for, ...

... THE: Central Executive Committee have just issued a report, from which the ifollowing are extracts:- In presenting their second monrthly report, the Central Executive Committee have to announce that the amount of subscriptions received and promised has now reached the sum of £150,174, and further donations of about £30,000 have been received by the Cotton Districts Belief Committee and by'the ...

... NEWS-LETTER OFFICE, 27'lhursday Morning. t YESTERDAY'S DESPATCHES. t [BY 31AGNETIC TELEOAPH.-] OCCUPATION OF ASHBY'S GAP BY M'CLEL- $ LAN'S ARMY; STONEWALL JACKSON AT CHESTER GAP; THE FRENCH PROTEST t AGAINST NANA BUTLER; THE DOINGS OF THE ALABAMA, &c. ARRI3VAL OF THE EDINBURGIE. - ~ Qneenstown, Wednesday. The Liverpool, Ne* York; and Philadelphia s.s. I Edinburgh, from New York on the 5th ...

... AN-QUET AT THIE 3IANSION-iOUSE, DUBLIN. MONDAY evening, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor gave a grand entertainment at the Mansion-house in celebration of the majority of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Above one hundred guests were invited. The Oak-room was elegantly and ap- propriately laid out for the occasion. Amongst those present ?? Lord Lieutenant, Viscount Southwell, Right Hon. ...

... Iarrapai netn. ~j/AJ*t~AA-f 4, . THE PROPOSED MEDTATION ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. MV DrAR SiR-I have read Tour article in to-day's NEws-LETTER on the proposed mediation between the belligerent Powers in America. I generally agree with yonr views on American affairs, but must makle an exception in this case, and wish to lay the following considerations ...

... efast #lf-udtct.- (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST:. FRIDAY, NOV. 28, 1862. TuE mail-steamer Bohemian has arrived in Lough Foyle, bringing advices from New York to the 14th inst. Since the removal of General M'Clellan from the command of the army of the Potomac, he has become still more popular with the masses. The General had been serenaded by his admirers, to whom he delivered an ad- dress, ...

... Oun readers need not feel surprised at the outbreaks re of intolerance and the commission of acts of savage vengeance by an ignorant and excitable peasantry fo when they learn the sort of gospel which is preached M to them by some of their priests, who, instead of E being apostles of charity and peace, are instigators 7C to outrage. The following narrative, which we ex- tract from the Kerry ...

... NEWS-LETTER OFFICE, Tuesday Momning. YESTERDAY'S DESPATCHES. [BY AHIGNETIC TELEOBAPH.] FRANCE AND RUSSIA-THE MEDIATION QUESTIOA. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says- The French despatch relative to mediation was sent to St. Petersburg several days earlier than to London. The French Government flattered itself that Russia would accede unconditionally to the suggestion of the ...

... YESTErnDAY evening, the opening lecture for the ses- sion of Alfred Street Young Men's Congregational Association was delivered by the Rev. Henry Osborne, of Holywood, in Alfred Street Church. There was a very large attendance. The chair was occupied by the Rev. GEORGE BELIaS. After the usual devotional exercises had concluded, The CmunsMAN briefly introduced the lecturer to the meeting, and ...

... I 1 . 1 . ; - I- . . . . - i 9 e..? NdfaO AtWltltf, 'r 4 (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) C 9 BELFAST: t SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 1862. I THE ?? by the Persia this morning is not of t striking interest. It was believed by some that M'Clellan was going into Winter quarters; by 1 others, that he was aboat to advance; but, at all i events, he has done nothing since the middle of I September. Morgau,,whlo was ...