... * IPROVEMiENT OF S. GEORGE'S . . CHURCH. 1ErrXTENUV improvements are at present being effected in S. George's Church. These, when completed, will add considerably to the internal beauty and commodiousness of this already spacious edifice. The alterations have been ren- dered necessary as much by the change of service which recently took place as by the desire of the vestry to increase the ...

... ADDRESS AND PRESENTATION TO REV. - WM. STEWART ROSS. LAST evening, a gratifying ceremony took place in the mission-room, Christ Church, Rev. W. S. Ross being presented by the members of the con- gregation with a purse of sovereigns, on a solid silver salver, accompanied by a handsomely- illuminated complimentary address, on the occasion of his leaving the incurmbency of Christ Church, on ...

... r BITIS-H ASSOCIATION. ESPECL TELERfA.] SoOT;OTN, Tr~sDAY NiGmn. TnE CHMANNED TUNNEL. construction of 9 cannel tunnel was dis. Tile '-o dyi the geologioal sect-'il, presided by1, 1r 1]. Etberidge,F.R.S. The section El, byc0 attended and the discussion was of a ' 0tar5eti character. Professor Boyd !,' I introduced the subject in a verbal state- il tile geology of the channel bed, and he ...

... COURT AND FASUION. TOE COURT. [SPECIAL TELPIGR A hT.1 'OSBOi'NE, FnArDA. TEE Queen presented new colours to the 2nd Battalion (Princess Charlotte of Wales') 66th Berkshire Regiment at Portsmouth, yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, adc6mpanied by their Royal Hiighnesses Princess Beatrice and the Duchess of Connarvght, in the first carriage, and the Princesses Sophie and Margaret of Prussia, Lady ...

... NEivS-LETTEIR OFFICE, SAT0lDAY.EORINMO, SIX o'cLOciC. THIS MORNING'S LONDON PAPERS. TVIM WAR IN EGYPT. (From the Daily Chronicle of This Day.) Complete mystery still prevails as to the real plan of operations. It being confidently expected that important alterations are impending, the finance and commissariat departments at Ismailia are at present strengthening their staffs under orders which ...

... Nr.ws-LCTTrn, OFricS, TnunsisT Iffon'uxa, SIx O'CLOCIC. THIS MORNING'S LONDON PAPERS. THE WAR IN EGYPT. [1r1am'S SPZCrL TFLECR.3AI.] ISiLAIdA, WEDSEDSAY, 9-30 Pr.3. Sir Garnet Wolseley intends pushing forward into the interior at once. A tramway is being rapidly laid between the station and the quay. The Chronicle Ismailia correspondent tele- graphs that the Governor of Ismailia, who fled on ...

... A. CORRECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE JBELFAST NEWS 1,9TTEn. Sin-My attention has been directed to the second edition of your issue of the 1st ingt.f which contains a letter signed Knock. Who ,K Knock is I know not, nor do I know whether he writes on his own responsibility or to order. He writes, however, with seeming authority, but in total ignorance of the facts of the case. With ...

... . ell vj)fle Ndfut ReivOretter. I - (ESTA.BLISHE D ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1882. In the House of Commons yesterday Sir Staffoid Northcote asked for information re. garding a reported attack by Arabi Pasha's troops ulpon the 60th Rifes, which resulted in the precipitate flight of our men. Later on Sir A. Hayter read, in reply, an unofficial tele- gramn, wvhich gave an entirely ...

... Nnws.L :rTrn OFrIcE, SATURDDAY Maoimo# Six o'CaLoc. THIS 1M1ORNING'S LONDON PAPERS. THE TARb IN EGYPT. DETAILS OF THURSDAY'S ENGAGEMEENt GALLANT CHARGE OF TEE LIFE GUARDS. The Chronicle's Special Correspondent at Ismailia gives some details of the engagement of Thnrsday described in Sir Garnet Wolseley'sf first despatch published yesterday. The; enemy was strongly posted on the railway' aud ...

... FRENCOWOWN AND ENGLISHWOE%, WourNe are women all the world over, but thii most captivating lady of Terra del I'eego i3 , little like a European lady as the wild sloe is like the Orleanus plum. No doubt, tile twc female types just named resemble each other very closely when all artificial growths arisit-, fr the conditions of life, such as a taste for lrctX blubber on the one band, aud; for ...

... Nasivs-LETrER OwicC, SATURDAY Xo0113MG, Six O'CLOCK. THIS MIORNING'S LONDON PAPERS. THE WAR IN E GYPT. The Post Berlin telegram states the occupation of the Suez Canaul is not regarded there as preiu- dioiiig the flual decision of the Conference on the canal question. Turkey is rapidly concentrating her Syrian troops along the Egyptian frontier. This is taken to show that she is very much in. ...

... LONDON CORIMBSPONDENO. | - - [non OUB OWN connSroNI t.] LONDON, TUESDAY. Tim condition of affairs in Egypt is becoming graver every day, and events are rapidly develop- ig in such a manner as to lead to the conolu. sion that we shall at no disttaut date find our- selves with an opponent more powerful than Arabi Pasha. Her Majesty's Government, whiol has managed during the Iast four months to ...