... COMMUTATION-ITS SAFETY AND ADVANTAGES. No. iv. TO THE EDITOR OF TEE BELFAST NEWS-LMTER. SIR-I approach the subject of the investment of the Church funds fully sensible of its gravity and the vital interests which it involves. As every in- vestment is exposed to more or less risk, the prob- lem to be solved is to secure a minimum of risk with a maximum of interest. That object will be best ...

... SATURDAYS NOT AT HORE. NOTES BY THE WAY-DOWN IX A MIN E- CARRICKFERGUS CASTLE. THE exigencies of mag-zine nomenclature have laid mnany of our prejudices and proverbs under contribution. More, however, of our better than of our worse f elings have furnished inviting titles with a result which shows how idle was the Shake perian sneer, 1 What's in a name? All of us do aol care to practice the ...

... SUSTENTATION FUND COMMITTEE. A siezwxinG of the Sustentation Fund Committee of the General Assembly was held yesterday, in the MissionOffice, attwelve o'clock-Wav. YOvxG, Esq.,, of Feenagby, in the chair. The following, in addition to the Chairman, were present:-Revs. J. R. M'Alis- ter, J. H. Moore, R. Park, T. Ml. Browne, F. Petti- crew, J. Orr, Malcolm Orr, I. Black, T. S. Woods, S. P. ...

... KNOCKBREDA PARISel.-At a public meeting, held in the Parochial School house, on Wednesday even. ing last-H. Fox, Esq. (one of the churchwardens), in the ?? Thos. Bateson, Bart., was elected the lay delegate to represent this parish at the forthcoming Diocesan Synod. DIOcEsE or CoNmno.-At a meeting of the clergy of the Diocese of Connor, held at the Cathedral Church, Lisburn, on the 3rd ...

... pt tbe TEO COURT AT BALXOORAL. .ey ro- The Rev. Dr. Wallace, Edinburgh, conducted the equest service in Crathie Church on Sunday, and gave an tine excellent discourse from Philippians ii., 12-15. [honso Ile? Majesty was present, as were also Prince and a who Princoes Christiani, -princesses Louisa and Beatrice, at was and Prince Leopold. In addition to the Royal infer- party, there wd?9 also ...

... CORRESPOND ENCE THE DIOCESAN SYNOD. TO THE ETMlTOR OF TmIE BELFAST tiEWS-LITTER. ! Sin-Wlla 31 a sla me, as lay representitive of the parish of 13 umbo at th e pproahingla Diocesan byn' 6.r to suguvest, throu;h your wrildely circulateiS I columnns, ti the other snembers of the S) nod that, 51as soon as the chairman has been appointed wre should proceed, before entering on any other busi- ness, ...

... THE PurFSS. TEE IRISEH LAND QUESTION. Tur Suaurd'qy Review hil Is that ' the diffieulties of recognizing legally the customary code of Ireland are not exclusively Irish. It is impossible that Parliament should not consider what the effect of such a measure would be in England and Scotland. There are parts of Great Britain where something like the customary law of Ireland still exists, and ...

... BRAN FOR BABiE8. , Ev1nYEoDY knows that dolls are stuffed with saw- It dust, but that real babies should be packed and r preserved in bran is probably new to moat people; s and yet the practice is not-if we may express our- it selves in the sorry pun which suggests its elf-a s bran new one. On the contrary, it has been tried 3 long enough to have enabled one lady to bring up a family of five ...

... MYSTERIOUS DiSAPPEAR&NCE OF TIE E LORD-JUSTICE CLERK. Wz learn by despatches received from Perth and Crieff on Tuesday night that in the course of -Mon. day a painful rumour spread through Lower Glen. almond to the effect that the Lord Justice-Clerk- 3 whose family seat is in the district-had mysteri- ously disappeared. Inquiry at his lordship's St residence confirmed the truth of the report, ...

... TO OORRESPONDETSN. MR. D LLWAr's La-TER.-We have declined inserting the letter of 31r. Dalway, M.P. for Carrickfergus, nolt from any ie- sire to hinder him fromt stating his case to the public; ?? simply because the letter from M!r. Gw~ nne did nt tip- pear in these columns, nor would we have published it under any circumstances; and, also, because Mr. Dalway, as we believe, has travelled oit ...

... COUBRT AND FASHION. ~dy- aye THE COURT. The Queen, on Saturday, went on a trip through )nt the Trosschs, accompanied by Princess Louise as and Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady se Churchill and Colonel Ponsonby. Going from In. oh vertrossachs by Loch Venaachar and Loch Achray, the Royal party took steamer at Loch Katrinae, and on sailed to StroZachlachar, whence they continued the ...

... - WHEFsN the Wandering Jew went forth to the world from the Rue Vivienne, the artist was struggling gainst enemies in the Academy and elsewhere, who would not rest in their malignity, and derided the genius that was not cut to their ancient pattern, as the romantic school were mocked and refused honours when Hlugo, Lamartine, De Mausset, Theo- phile Gautier, and the rest, alive to to the ...