... glig IN dfut Pw5:-Xfttf r. ;CA? (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1880. The Lahore correspondent of the Daily News has reason to believe that a new froutier pro- vine will soon be organised. The province will Include portions of the Kyber and Khuram Valleys mentioned In the Gandamak treaty, with part of Scindo and the Indus for its eastern boundary. Inatellgeuce received ...

... $.I ?? QUEEN'S COLLEGE SCIEOLASRIPS. TO TIIH RDrTOR OF THIC BELFAST 111WS-LETTEW SIR-I have jost ehie ronment received a copy of your Issue of the 12th inst. ?? aL letter from Mr H. A. Mathers about the senior law eoholar- ship for this session In Queen's College, Belfast. But for the grossly personal attack I would not trouble you, believing that the matters In dispute can be more ...

... THE PRINCE OF WALES AND FREEMASON RY, ly be ON Saturday evening the Princo of Walebas Grand Theth wo ster of th English Freemasons, presided over Mac. a specisl Grand Lodge called to invest Colonel pro. Shadwoll H. Clerke as Grand Socretary-a position Tpn' to which he hac been nominated by the Royal have Grand Master. The fact that the Grand Matter here, would personally preside was not ...

... THE BANN NAVIGATION, TIlx uenitl gfneriel ?? mosrtiag of the true. tees of the Upper Bsnn Navig; .ton vras beld In the Courthouse, Lurgan, at cleven o'aolo,on Saturday. Presewt-John Rancook, J. P. (in tbe chair) A. L, Nleholeon. J. P,; Colonel Waing, J P.; Gui:nIng )Moore, 3 P ; aod J. H. rv.exr, 3 P. Me. Adans, en-beledor, and Mr. J. A. ai!UOO.f;, secretar;, wivere also iri a,teod;mnv', The ...

... A LIFE'S ROMANCE, THr. romanti icirsitudes of tbe early life of the Coulttehe Solringe de Kramer have ouce more beocme t 'e tl'- of thr(e Pmis ahloe asd ti: y ern, 1;1 'ed I no exerlimrg that, used a m oiialc for a novel, ttey would epoil cho bool; by thr ir lack of voii. s miitmle. OUL neght in ISO Ifttlei girl ab;orl ono yrar old waq rjjc. juci in 1hr, rdia're' rof' n Foundrfug Idoopitdl a;s ...

... A LtI. . i.. W E XAti FIN(CLANNI) AND TURKEY, CONSsTAMINJIOrLLR, MoSIJo Y. -Tho difficulty hc tweeln 1lsxane.Rl ,nij Turkoe brag beer finally aettlod, and *'rii- i~p Laoard has rtsom~d hlis ofleicl re- ltwnegit'1 t., Porte. THE I;U,? SIAN flUX[I)ITION IN CENTR 'J ASI A. vSTiNTSr& ThLlRAN.1 Bornflm M)tA;DY-A1 Berlin aud Vienna it le believed thri British Government hago de'termined to anewr the ...

... DISTRESS IN IRELAND, MEETING IN THE DUBLIN MANSION HOUSE, [PROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTIER] DURLIX, FnIDAY.-An iiillential meeting waa beld to day In the Oak Room of the Mansion House, to adopt measures for the relief of the distress In Ireland. There was an Influential attendanoe, amongst those prehent being ?? Grace the Aroh. bishop of Dublin, the High Sheriff of Dablin, Sir John Barrington, HIon ...

... |ORUANGE ANiD SIOREE I' | )£BIAL £aIN. OcrT Fioethv evemxtJg, ral (tlrugo and~ O'r~-vsIivoI veen-t v welf rl Under 4-hIo wsnepices of, ti 'Io o n L. TI' P. N. 6), iti the MairolinSholo ,wih ?? deorte xlh the iO of' the local: 1;M if xlii nv ; til l ?? the p!N.folI wi;- erecteA a y j, x Io Were ,,itkjj adnoiret,- by 1 fiv po' r A 1, It. l~o'ldd, Ec El J, P., v:,;es ?? to th cht-t, lf, xtz~l ...

... THE LATE EXGISE PROSECUTIONS. 'TO TER 'EDITOR OF TrS I3KLFAST NEhWS-LUTThrt, SiR-I find that the report of the Excise prose. cution against rao in your p.per of Tuesday Lt is has misled many of your readers to think I had been gelling oontraband or adulterated tobacco, W il you, therefore, permit me to sey no snoh offence was imputed. Tho offence charged agai.1nst me was the simple ...

... STORM AND FLOODS, OF the weather in Belfast yesterday the same tale might be told as of the previous days, The wind was less boisterous, but the rain was more Inces. sant, and, consequently, the publlc had little room for congratulations on improvement, The wind was not so high during the early part of the night, and the sky wvas lesa cloudy than during the day, but towards midnight the wind ...

... IBUDGETS OF EUROPEAN STATES, TEn Frankfurter Zeitwrig publishosr a comparison of the budgets. natinnad debts, atd military expendi ture of European States la 1865 and 1879 First of all, ae regards Germany herself, her financial ro. quirements ID that intorval have more thrn doubled. In 1865 ohe rejolced in the comparative innooeooe of mi king two ends meet wlh a budget of £31,000(,000 aterlink ...

... ARMAGH UNITED PROTESTANT YOUNG M1;N'S MUT'UAL.. IMPROVE.ME.NT OO1ETY. [hROM OUR IE;PORTER,] TIa %nnual meeting of the Armagh United Pro. teatrut Young Men',i Mutaal Improvement Assoola. tion was held iu tho Tontino Rooms nn Friday evening. The atterldance vas very large, the room being filled la every part by a highly resp60table comepany. Toe wse sorvoA at eeven o'clock, and having been ...