... [BY TELEGRAPH.] NE WS-LETTER OFFICE, Friday Momirnn. , THE ALARMING AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BORDEAUX HLRBOUR. The Post says- The names of theships cen- sumed at Bordeaux are the Tourev, the Charle- magne, the Ariel, the Morse, the Chimiate, the Pioneer, the Lieut. Bellot, the Harmoine, the Ulysse, the Chamoyn, the Panama, the Mary, the Unica, and the Joseph and Marie Christine. Four were ...

... COR ihi ES PON DOENr S. THE UNITED PROTESTANT D E, MONST IATIO N. ir T TILE EDUTOR OF THlE BELFA T NEWSLETTER. , SIm-The annoancenaent in vour valuable paper he that a great sinsitol irotcztaflt demonstration is a soon to come off in B elfast has ?? the hen.) ts of its all loyal and gnod men with joy anl gladness. That suchL is the fact will be fully terlied by the r thousands wrho will pour ...

... DRE.ADFlUL R1AILWAY COLLSITSO. A Dntiarutm accident took place about twenty minuites past six o'clock on Frid.ay ensting on the Bhsbop Auckland branch of the North-if-astern u, Railway, wbichr mreclted fatally to the engine- driver aud stoker. It app3ars that twelve or thirteen laden cokn waggons were stanmding at the t B ancep th Coke Works, ruaiy to e b egpatohced Zor Jarrow. At thin nlee ...

... AsJ~ ?? (2ilURCH. THE ;E7 Iat1 CiU 1.t, En L.AY COsI'ERENCE. SECOND DAY. [F RO M OUR OWN R.EPORTERISJ DU-BLIN, WEDNESDAY. Tu1e Conference of lay deleg~ates, representing the -vn~iius dioceses of the Lrish Church, assembled tals mnornirC, at eleven o'clock, in the Antient Con- cvr u emws, Great BrULswick1 Street. The meeting having been opened with prayer by l~ (ruce the Archbishop of Dublin, ...

... THE CHUROH CONGRESS. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 6.-To-day the basiness com- menced by dividing the Congress into two parts, one meeting being held in tbe Great Hall, under toe x presidency of the biltp of the dioeseo, the toplifos discussion being Phases of Unbelief, and How to Meet them. I The Rev. E. G.4RLmT read the first paper. Ile divided unbelief into four phases- viz., the histori- cat, the ...

... 1, YESTERDAY, at twelve o'clock, the usual fortnightly 0 meeting of this body was held in the Board-room, Rosemary Place, Mr. JRSEPH BIGGER, chairman, presided. The other Commissioners present were - Messrs. Robert Carlile, John fea, William Priestly, John Moffett, Thomas Shaw, James Jean- kins, 1.1. Hamilton, Robt. Carson, James Wallace, and Dr. Hanna. s The CLERIC read the minutes of the ...

... TIH. LATE IIEN RY L. PRENTICE, E, Q, D. L. Ti-:E funeral ofithe late Mr. Prentice, whose demise I fuseU we have already announced, took place on WIetnes- xi day. The remains were interred in the famaily vault Codl in Caledon Churchyard, and were enlclosed in app] stuffed shell. and oak coffins covered with black, sI andi the breast-plate bore the following inscrip. Mr. Lin- mFtRY LIES1.1r ...

... AM. GLADSTONE'S LATEST APPOINE. AM1ENT. Ir would puzzle any one to name a public man worse fitted to conduct any delicate negociation with a foreign Power than the confident and ro- bustious member for Southwark. For the day is gone by when the sole duty of an Ambassador, ac- cording to the old saying, was to lie for the good of his country. In this more polished age an Amnbas. sador is ...

... ITHE FAiTAL COLUSION ON THE NORTH I BRI f1S1LU KAiLIVAY.' Tuclsiav yevening, a collision involving great de- atruction of property, as well as loss of life and serious inj ary to several individuals, occurred on the North British R3ailway at Niddrie Station, Jie ?? Edinlburgh. At this station there is a branch line ta St. Leonard's which is used entirely i for coals and goods tra lui. Betweeen ...

... HIGH WATER AT BELFAST-THIS DAY. Morning, lih, 102n. I Evening. lilh 26t. iz D f TV ufut #fW-xttffr. bI (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) l e BELFAST: THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1869. .5 . No change for the better has taken place i. I; Lord Derby's health. Without food or medi cine since Sunday, it can scarcely be expecte, r that his robust frame will much longer avert oi e defer the final end. The Master of ...

... THE COURT. BALrINORAL CASTLE, THURSDAY.-The Queen, ac- companied by Princess Beatrice, went out in the morning. her Majesty and Princess Louise, ac- companied by Prince Augustus and Princess Amelie of Saxe-Coburg, drove in the afternoon, Prince Augustus and Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg went with the Prince of Wales to a deer drive in the Ballochbuie Forcat. The Duke of Argyll ar. rived at the ...

... (BY TELEGRAPH.] NEW11S-LETTE;R OFPICE, Saturday Mornirg. th, Ro THE ]NSURRECTION IN SPAIN. an( MADRID, OCTOBER 13, EvESIxrec-Senor Prm. MOe ends, one of the members of the Cortes, compro. ilj mised in the outbreak at Saragosta, has been on] arrested. The two insurgent leaders in the South, Paul and ! Salvochea, have fired the town of Carthrgena. 1,i In to-day's sitting of the Ccrtes, ...