... VIC7BRGAL COURT. The Castle season having concluded, preparations are being made for the return of the Lord Liem. tenant to the Vicoregal Lodge. Hin Grace the Duke of Marlborough id at present in Mallow. fish- ing; and the exact data of his arrival at the Lodge is not yet ftxed. Tli SPAKR5'S DINXR, The Speaker gave hbe fourth rewsionel diner. cm. Wedner.day. Aumong the Irirh members honoureeE ...

... HOUSE OF COMMOlNS-WsDNESDAY. Tn 9rznszR took the chair at a quarter-past t1walre o'clock. ,UNMIVESITY EDUCATION (IRELAND) BILL. The adjourned debate on the second reading of tiss bill wsz resumed by Mr. SYNAN, who observed that in the interests of Trinity College itself It was desirable to pass the 1ill so as to avoid future agitation, whioh would prbaibly be more injurious to the college than ...

... IMPERIALi PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-THaRSDAY. THE LO1uD CANCiLLOn took his seat on the wool. sack at live o'clock. RFINFORCEM5ETS FOR THE CAPE. Earl CAIJOGAN said a telegram had been re. ceivod at the Colonial Office from the officer ad- ministering the government of the Mauritius, -which was to the following effect ?? The Tamar arrived here this morning from Ceylon with reinforcements for ...

... THE DUREAM STRIKE. [BY TELEGRAPH.] n. Fzrm miners belonging to the Ryhope Colliery, n Durham, on Saturday appeared at Sunderland petty s sessions to answer a charge of assault and wilful e damage to houses, property, furniture, &o., In con. neetion with recent strike disputes. It was alleged a that blacklegs' houses were broken into. The oases awere adjourned a fortnight for instructions from ...

... wi THE TESTIMONIAL TO THE DUKE OF viC CONNAUGHT. Ias TO THE EDlITOR OF THR BELFAST NEWS LETTR. to SiR.-Taking for granted that you and the cri readers of your paper are interested in the teeti. du monial to be presented by the Irish people to hin ha! Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, and as the no! central committee in Dublin, in opposition to the is, desire of the majority of the ...

... THE AIVANCE TO EKOWE. COLONEL ViOOD'S VICTORY, THE BOERS. [SPIEIAL TrLEURA?,3.] PLYMOirrH, TnruasDAY. Twee TlrC8tern Hfornineg Ne'w8 han received (Vift MaIdeira) the following telegram from ita correspon. dent MAIRITZHUP0, lax APRIL,. The relief column led by Colonel Law did not fairly start until the day before yesterday. They entrenched themselves the firht night in a plain, within sight of ...

... ON Tuesday, says bhe Freeman8.'8ornaZ, a horrible spectacle might have been witnessed at the Kil. leater Graveyard, near Clontarf. No one could have thought, that just a few miles from the city, in the very pleaeantest of the suburbs, a scene o0 such unutterable horror could exist. It is a de' lightlul walk to Killester in the summer time-out through the green lanes that wind across the ...

... '-(ESTABLISHED ANKO 1737.) :: BEBL FA StT: ; ; THURESDAY, JAIJUY 30, 1879. As- official despatch from the Indla Office an. nlounces that fightingg is going on between the Ghiizais and Safis, and the latter are said-to be in difficulties. Itlis reported from- Cabul that Shere Aii has rem oved his family to Malmena, remaining himself at Mazir-i-Sbarif. General Roberts telegraphs that several' ...

... THE CO1NVIOT PEACE. Tic igimes says :-CUharles P~eace ma~y claim aS re. nmrkablo placeo among the greart criminoals oI moodern da^,s. There has seldoma been One s~O strictly ty pi- cal of that criminal class wh~ich ?? its war againsti society to the rank of a proicesteon. A cold andi cynical depravity aldunediesuleed subscrvicttco to ?? aud vrilgur formnS of. plea..aru were cenl jtined iu this ...

... A MAiN BURIED IN A COLLLERy. 011 ON Wednesday an oxtraordinrry accident occurred he atthe Old Oaks Colliery, near Barusley, by which ed a m inor named Eiijah Coiclough, aged 23 years, raldng ati what is known ao the Long Row, at Hoyle MjII, wras entombed by a fall of coal. He wxent to his work as usual at six o'clock that morn. th. fg in company with his tramnier, Arthur Barlowv, to also ...

... 0,FOREIGN. COMPETITION. ~'AM~TRivELtnD ENGL~siarAN writes as follow's to the RtBendard:-.I came back, to -England not Ip I.d aofonaoeht lengthened jpurnqy. to find rny lellow- countrymen suffering ip. no salldge '!.*,from'depresoios1, if not s~a ftes ak a o9Ibrken, large mecniehues hat failed, 0 grezt industrial works had'a opd; n hog. oat the' manufacturing: districts 'th6 gloomiest ...

... 0OABcKvnwn ME7 oDrST BAND OF Hops. -The monthly lecture was delivered in the Methodist , Schoolroom on Friday evening, 19th instant, to a l large audience, by Mr. JohnPyprr, Belfasti subjeot: sual Alcohol a Poison, illustrated by coloured d-aw- rival frogs showing ito notion on the humanstomach, The I lecturer spoke for two hours, and his admirable lec, Go turn was l tetned to throu~ghout ...