... G6RAT TA N. IT is said he took Chatham for his model, and there were certainly many points of resemblance between them. Still Grattan's manner WAs distinctive enough to reject all idea of imitatiOi, and there were traces of that Celtic nature so evidejat about him, it would have been impossible for him to have conformed to any discipline that should have curbed the imaginative discursivenes of ...

... 5 b c ?dfasf liko period of fast year, and 1,331>660 owt3. of flour, against 582,400 cots last year. This aG- count tells of ttle vsqG increase of resources and 2 the rapid recovery of agricaltaral enterprise in the inland SGS. Then, ve have the best proof Citb ?? ;te.tw33,Lth (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1,37.) |; BELFAST: SATURDAY, JAN. 1, 1870. THvE weary catalogue of disorders in Ireland is daily ...

... I TEE education question now occupies a conspicuous place in Methodist debate. The President of the Conference has just declared that Methodist schools must be religious; that while resolutely c separated from all merely secular schemes, on the e one side, and from all that would strengthen and t promote Popery on the other, we shall never ex-t cdude from our schools Scripture teaching or ...

... THE COPPER COINAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEWS-LETTlR, SIR-You are aware that, by a Royal proclamation issued some months ago, the old copper coinage- that is the coinage prior to the year 1SG2-will cease to be legal current coin of the realm from this date. I Inquiries have been frequently Luade of late as to how parties having such coin in their possession could get rid of it, and I ...

... I [Ba T JLERPH] mes I - - dec mai whi TWO POLICEMEN FIRED AT IN COUNTY is LIMERICK. cult LIMERIC, FRIDAY. - Two policemen, named ant Doyle and M'ConaghY, were fired at in the villagse h of Askeaton, in thin county, about seven o'clock mei last evening, while standing in a butcher's stall. oft Doyle was mortally wounded, and is reported dead. it i M'Conaghy was wounded in the arm. No person cla ...

... THE LONGFORD ELEMTlOI-qHE No). | 1 , - I- NATION. I I (Frone our Reporter.) LOyGuPpD, Fera'r.-nTh nomination of caudi- dates for the representation of the county of Longford took place this morning In the courthouse, Long, ford. There wa considerable excitement In town, the streets being pretty well filled by the different parsies on the side of Mr. Greville and Mr. Martin. A trop of the 14th ...

... THE EIGHT TO SEAWEED. ,r, -i 1 -1 ., .. L. - . ?? . . _. _ Ibe subject on which The Farmer's Friend urska informtion-the right of the public to collect and carry away seaweed from the foresbore-is one of very great importance, and we would advise him to write to the Law Oficers of tha Crown, whose duty it will be to give him authoritative Infor- Mation. Should he do so we will be happy to ...

... I . BY TELEGRWPH WIRE' London, F~riday. The revenue returns for 1869, made up to to-night show a decrease in this year compared with last year of one million one humdred and forty-five thousand pounds. The Tabil states that upwards of five hundred bishops are in favour of the promulgation of the infallibility dogma. The opposition is in a woeful minority. The Weekly Regismer says the Emperor ...

... CHURCH OF ST. KEVN_ HABRINGTONi - . S TREET.,j To-morrow at two o'clock, a public meeting will be held at the Wooden Chapel, Eleyteebury-street, to receive the report of the building of the new Paro- chial Church of St. Kevin. and to adopt measures forisecuringthe continuance of the works If the inhabitants . not only of the pariah but of the city generally could have brought. fully and ...

... I FALL OF A HOUSE-SIX LIVES LOST. YULLfRl PARTICfUARS. LIMErICa, THUrISDAY.-One of the most melan- choly accidents which have occurred in this city for many years took place this morning in one of the oldest parts of the Old Town. The accident has resulted in the instantaneous death of six indi. viduals. About eleven o'clock last night the wind suddenly rose, and by two o'clock this morning ...

... TWO HUNDRED AND PIFIY PERSONS DROWINED. I Toss Sydney Herad says:- The Mary Anne Christina arrived on Thursday, Oct. 7, from the Line Islands, and Captain Field brings the sad news of the massacre, by the natives, of the cap- tain and first mate of the French barque Moores, and Mr. Latten, who *was on board; also, the wholesale loes of life of the savage murderers by drowning, in trying to ...

... MILITARY PROMOTIONS AND EX- I ~ CH.NGES.I WAR Ovn~cS, Lo,;uo.,T DEC. 28. 1st Regiment of Life Guards-'H. C. Westenra, LodRoasmore, to be Cornet andi Sub-Lieult., by pur.-hafle, vice HRenry Lord Beaumotwh re tires. J2th Lancera kurgeon T. Tyrreat, M.D., from the ape otined tffemen, to be Surgeon, vice Squrgeon- Major F. Hl. Baxter, M.D appointed to the Staff. Grenadier Guards-Llett and Captain ...