... - Tan bimonthly meeting of this Board was held we yesterday afternoon, at half-past three o'clock, in thl the office, Rosemary Place. There wore present- w Mr. Robert Carswell (chairman), the Mayor (John raI Browne, Esq.); Messrs John Snffern, Thomas po Gaffikin, William Carlile, James Colligan, Robert O Dunlop, William Bell, William John Scott, John n Forsythe, William M'Cammond, Samuel ...

... MR.n W. Hf. SgTB4T ON PUBIAC AFFAIRS. ON Tnesdtry evening, the memdbers for Wesrtminsxter, lett the ?? lfon. W. E13. Smnith, F~irst Lord of the V. ]v Admniralty, and Sir C. Russell, V.C., w~ere enter. Ithe btamed at dinner by the London and Westminsteo |WhF Worlring M\en's Constitutional Association, ab the gou Westminster Palace HEotel. The Dake of W'el. 1 ob lington, K.GI., preqided, and the ...

... [BY TELEGRAPH.] HARwICH, FEB. 18.-A Ramegate smack brought the news here on the afternoon of the 16th instant that a large iron ship was ashore on the Long Sand. Accordingly the Harwich lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, proceededthere under oanvas, and found the endangered vessel was the barque Pasithea, of Liverpool, bound from Ham. burg to Cardiff in ballast. A steamer had also ...

... I ? I the Pffast ANW-Ptta. ?? (ESTABLISEHED ANNO 1737.). BELFAST: OF SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1879. ;he IN the House of Lords, yesterday, the Earl of S Airlie asked whether the Government intended 3V to propose any measure for the amendment of the law in respect of the admission to bail of ;he persons committed for trial on charges of fraud. The present system of the law, he said, worked very ...

... SERgIOUS RUPTURE BETWEEN .OUMANI AND RUSSIA. [DAILY TELEGRAPH TELEGRAM.] die IeNVNA, SUNfDAY NIGIIT.-Nevws as unexpected as it is esrioua has been received by the Govern- de- ment within the last twenty four hours. You are oflvware of the difficulty that arose in the delimits. teiion of the new R~oueinse-lbalgoriou frontier, be. ad, twbeen Silistria and Mangolia, on the Black Sea. In ?? the ...

... METR?OPOLITAN G??p [iBOMOUB dDY ORREEPOND2;1 T.1 ,ha [FRO : OUONDON4 SATURDAY. the Tars membesrs of t~he Crema~tion Society, who were eide so sanoguine of introducing their system into EBug. put, blad of burninge rather then burying, dead bodies, Jd are much disappointad to find their proceedings for checlked. Tbey wrere under the irmpression thattio England WalS in every sense so free a ...

... CHURCH OF IR3i?LA11D. Down~ AND~f COiNOR A1iD DRObIORH TEPERANC]3B SocIlry.-The opening meeting of the Glenavy ?? of this societyr was held on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance Rev. E. Johneon .Smyth, vicar of the parish, presided. Rev, Win. Moore, in ta very effective speech, advocated the caseo of temperance. Rev. John Leslie followed, ande very eloquently explained the aima and ...

... THE DESPATCH OF REINFORCEMiENTS, e [BY TELEGRAPH.] I SouTiumprox, TUISDAY, Tau portion of the 17th Lancers intended for the Cape' to go by the National steamer England it was a, -.atged should to day march from Hampton Court to b'i\er, thence to be oonveyed by train to Wina. eb est, 9r* Inaraldng thence twelve miles to South.' amptoL. This morning tl, rrangements were altered,at id the troops ...

... FASHIOI?T. THEX VICEZBEGEAL COU1R'. 8'STATS BAL A THUl OA$SL. Their Graces the Lord Lieutenant, K.Gr., and the Duohees' of Miarlborough gave ~the firat state 'bail fort he season at Dublin Castle on Tuesday evening. Their p3raees entered the ballroomu shortly after tea o'elotok, acoompanied by Lord enld Lady Randolpih Churchilll, Lay (ieorgiana Spencer Churohill, the Mbarohioness of .Drogheda, ...

... PRUNCE LEiOPOLD ON UN7IVERSITY TBAlLLI-N G. ?? ATr a meeting ir. ?? lis this stl~jecl, beld lso in London on Wednesday evening, his Royal High. I ress Auice Leopold moved a resolution. Rif R1oyal hac ?? 1igho-esr, who, on rising, want received with loud Ma cbeerring, ?? I feel I can add but little up to what has already been eald by the mover and his secinner of the Eret resolution, and ...

... T~E PUBLIC AND THE BANES. Ti'ne Timies saysr: - Obvionely there cant be ?? more unw/iso thanr for people to treat a devcosit wikh a bank-whiceh is, after all1, only a loan to a. trader without secutrity-as an investment, Only tlhe most absolute and complete knaon kdge of the int~rior of the bank which is trusted could justify such con- duct, But because a particular ban k has beenl long ...

... FORIRIGN TELEGRAM1S. (By Reutoes and Ordinary Telegraph.) FRANCE. Yersailles, Friday. The general debate of the Xmanesty Bill having been ooncluded yesterday, the Cham- ber ?? to-day commenced the dis- cussion by clauses. M. Mlarion, whowas the first speaker, rejected the idea that amnesty ought to be extended to such men as incen- diaries, the murderers of the hostages, or, in fact, any who ...