... I TIMiES TELEGRAM BY THE AFRICAJ] NxW YORKa MAwCH 10. General Grant's army before Vicksburg is greatly reduced by sickness. An agent of the sanitary commission states that nearly every tent is a hospital; that on the 26th ult. the number of sick was 12,000, of whom a large number were dying daily; and that altogether there were not more than 20,00 men fit for duty. The bill authorising the ...

... A REMABKABLE INVENTION. If any of our readers wish to learn how to become invulnerable, they may do sO from the following extra- ordinary telegram, which was addressed to ua by a gentle- man residing in London, and reached our office long after midnight on Thursday :-To the Editor, I have discovered a wonderful secret to make a person bullet-proof. Taske a piece of solid India rubber, four ...

... AIABBOUR COMMISSIONERS. Scturday, Maerch 21. 3 A MEETING of the Commissioners was held this day-Baillie b . Watson presiding, 0 t PIRESENT:-The Shoremaster; Messrs Leslie, Eddie, d Adamson, MIKinnon, Dyer, Lurnsden, Fraser, Ii a 0 iRose, Gibb, Wylie, Mornson, and Dr Jackson. b t WRECK OF THE PRINOE CONSORT STEAMER. ti The PnEsnS explained that the meeting was called to re-b s ceive a report ...

... THE DISTRESS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF. LISBURN. TO THE EDITOR Or THE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. RESPECTED FRIEND-Herewith we hand a copy of a letter received this-day from our friends, Thomas Richardson & Co., Philadelphia, on the subject of the present distress in the neighbourhood of Lisburn. Conceiving that this frosh liberality of the American people should be known, we shall feel obliged by ...

... The recent summary dismissals of volunteers which have taken place in the Queen's, South Middlesex, and other corps, at the caprice of the commanding officer?, have induced the establishment of a Protection Asso- ciation amongst the volunteers themselves. The object of this association is, as their prospectus states, to protect volunteers against dismissal by the commanding officers of their ...

... T O W 3sT BY OUR I .ON DON CORRESPONDENT. Our vectdtrs will understand that we do not hold ou> selves responsible for our able correspondent's opinions. WHO was answerable for sending the father and mother of the Princess of Wales to an hotel? When, in the face of the parvenu Hotel Company, Mr. Breach built his Palace Hotel, people thought him silly; he has proved himself wise in his ...

... SHOCKING TRAGEDY ON BOARD A STEAMER. By the arrival of the Arsglo-J'rench Steam Ship Company's steamer Grimsby, Captain Wharton, which vessel has just entered the pert of Great Grimsby, we have particulars of a shocking tragedy that was enacted on board that vessel on her passage from Hamburg. It appears that the Grimsby left Hamburg on Friday evening last, in ballast, and also with several ...

... FIRE INSURANCE. The advantages offered by Fire Insurance are too prominent to require much comment. By the pay- ment of a small annual premium, indemnification from loss by fire may be secured, and the insurers placed beyond the possibility of sudden beggary. It has been calculated that property to the value of about £6,000,000 is annually destroyed in Great Britain and Ireland by fire, a fact ...

... THE ALABAMA.—The following lettei has been received from a Rochdale joulh, now serving on board the Alabama :—Confederate screw steamer Alabama, Feb. 25,—Dear Cousin—I am now in the vessel mentioned above, and tikeherpretty well. We have taken about 35 vessels, including the California steamer, bound from New York for Aspinwall. She had about 140 marines on board, and we thought we should ...

... (Before the MAYOR, R. O. JONES, and J. PRIDE, Esqs.) BROTHEL KEEPING.—Mary Kaohane was charged with keeping a brothel in Whitmore-lane. Three con- stables proved visiting the house, and finding the de- fendant in bed with men. Sentenced to one month's im- prisonment with hard labour. This was the fourth con- viction of the keepers of the house in question. SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—John Morgan, a ...

... THE AMERACAN WAR. The steam-ship Canada arrived'6at Queenetown last Sunday, and brings intelligence from New, York to the .th inst. The Federals were contiauing their operations against Vicksburg. They are re- ported to have opened the Yazoo'River, and taken six gun boats to Tallahatchie. The waters of the Mississippi were rising rapidly, and as the levees were broken down, the Federal camp ...

... ARRIVAL Of1 THlE AFRICA. Sece (From our owna Correspondent.) WOit Liverpool, March 22. thou hue,- Britids band North Aincerican ovlesd 'Madl steam-hip ~ihic tRIVE-.1 Captain MooClue. rie tc ae su ongtfo pose tc~en York, wsbenee- slit sailed on Wednesday the: 11th inst. they tidsthce nails, and a [fair anseccict of cargo, thed Africa ro ltforty ?? and baa ,12; dois. in -~eroti TI En eieht. Tin' ...