... [Fno~r THE LOaEI.1 I ON Monday the ancient borough of Preston entered y upon the time.honoured festival of its guild- h merchant. That this ceremony has beer ob- C served every twenty years since 1542 is an un- I doubted fact, and there is a strong probability C that it was celebrated, with equal pomp, at irre. n gular intervals during the three preceding centu- A ries. The borough records ...

... . 0i 4e OA 5 - ?? Pdfa 'tR (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BELFASTT: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1882. ; The Khedive held a grand reception' in Cairo yesterday. The attendance of natives was very numerous. His Highness refused to receive several persons of rank who had been concerned in the rebellion. Sir Garnet Wol- seley, being unwell, was unable to attend. The grand review of the British troops has ...

... THE VISIT' OF THE CONSERVATIVES LEADEES TO BELFAST. A MEETING of the Ulster Constitutional Union. was beld yesterday in the Clarence Place Hall,- for the purpose, amongst other things, of making arrangements in connection with the expected visit of the Conservative leaders to the North of Ireland. Sir James M'Garel-Hogg, ?? ocOn- pied the chair. After some preliminary liusiness had been ...

... THE3 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. ZENANA MISSION-The com mittee met yesterday in the mission offices. PRev. (:l. Shaw presided. There were also present-J. WV. Barnett, Esq. idLD.; Rev. Win. Park, A. D. Lemon, Es l. Jr., and Mirs L~emon; M~rs, Williamson, ?? Dr. and M\rs. Stevenson, M;i~sSinclair, Mrs. Osborije, Brs. Dixon, M\rs. Taylor, Fnd MNrs. Park. Mrs. Parks (secretary) read the minutes of last ...

... NORTH OF IRELAND UNION COURSING I I BMEETING. President-The Earl of Kilmorey. Vice-President-Lord Lurgan. Stewards-The Earl of Haddington, John Q. Henry, Esq.; Idwd. Greer, Esq.; J. G. Winder, Esq.; W. H. Massv, Esq.; Captain M. E. Arch- dale, Thomas Fosberry, Esq.; Thomas D'Arcy Hoey, E;sq.; G. J. Alexander, 3sq.; H. Hay- wood, Esq, S. S. Ewinburne, Esq;; Major W. Hall, D.L., Wm. Liddell, Lsq ...

... IAGRICULTURAL QU1ERIES AND ANSWERS.I [FRO31 THE IRISH VARMErs' oAVETTE.1 TARRING FIILT FOR RooriN(i.- T.-What is the best thing to mix with gas tar to put on felt to wake it waterproof ? I am told that boiling the tar for 36 hours is all that is necessary. Others say add one pound of pitch to each gallou of tar. -It would be advisable to use the admixture of pitch, and to throw a little fine ...

... NErws-LETTrE OF'FICE, S.AUsRDAY MORNING, SIX O'cLoCx. THIS MORuNING'S LONDON PAPERS. THE DUBLIN POLICE STRIKE. Comu entili upon the Dublin police strike, the Morniny Post ?? Spencer has treated the offenders with a severity which was well deserved, and which, we believe, will meet with general approval. It is unfortunate that the well-known disposition of the Govern. ment is to trifle with ...

... Lur his father, Prince Leopold is wide-minded; he regards facts not from a narrow and personal, but from a general standpoint. To fully realise this attitude of our Royal family, and to find a cause for gratitude at the same time, we have but to perform a simple process. In certain countries of the East how often do we not hear, in relation to the progress of this or that measure of reform, ...

... THD WAR IN EGYPT, EXCLUSIVE SPECIL TLEGIIA n. A FIERC$E ENGAGE'ME2C1 T. STUBBORN RESISTANCE. REPULSE OF THE ENEMT AND CAPTURE OF GUNS. HE, AVY LOSSE S ON BOTH SIDES. GALLANT STAND OF THE INDIAN TROOPS. FULL AND GRI? PRI0 ACCOUNTS OF THE FPLIT. ANOTHER ATTACK BY THLE TGYP. TIANS-A FIERCE L;NGAGEM`NT. SPECIAL TELEGRAM 111-rGMrG THE. D DAItY NEWS' OF THIS MORNING-'MOND.A. Camp, haszasern (ma I ...

... THE. INTERMEDIATE EXAMINA- TIONS. el - Yesterday the following official lists of results 4of the Intermediate Examinations held in June last were issued- Stuent towho god ?? been awarded for' Obtahduig ecrn place in their respetv rds: Senilor Gatade-H Ui Grilffi, FureUnchCl l rc 3lidulo Uradle-fi G' suel, St C ~alns' 'er Junior Gra,de--. A ODLaurtSt St a-n ?? TullmoreT Students to 'shom. sodo ...

... FATER CURT[S'S SPELTAL EXERCISES.* This importart contributiort to our religiout literature comes to us under most favourable auspices. The name of its venerable author it well known to the Irish Church as a high authority on all that concerns the SpS4f lifr. In Me Life of the Founireas of the Sisters of Mercy it is recorded that, in the early days of the Institute .one of her first ...

... -I '11.0 ?? ' !5 4 1-nal I 'o Q? I I . 11 , -_ I DA.XT5iT1'A threatens to sustain its ancient' character for coiibhat. The bloodiest page of the history of Saracen and Crusader was writ at Damietta. A ?? named Abdelal,coin- manding a black regiment, holds out there to-day against the British, and undismayed . at the destruction of Alexandria, the rout of Tei-el-Kebir, the occupation of the ...