... (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) BE,'&FAST: TUESDAY, JANUARY T. 1889. A mnan named Wilkinson was arrested in Nottingham yesterday on the charge of having attempted to murder his wife. During the fog in London yesterday a serious- rail way collision occurred, and several persons were injured. A Tnan named Macey was yesterday, at I Faversharm quarter sessions, sentenced to five 1 years' penal servitude ...

... COUNTY DOWN STAGHOUNDR. Taa weather for the l'st week has been a CaUticl1 to beef1lting aoon, ancd is very graiphieally desoribed in the colrmne of a contemporaryu:- Thero is a gloriouis uncertainty about the weather. It is as v¼iriable as woman, h' far loss chatncinl and interesthiux. Yesterda y we imd frost to-day we have a thaw; to-morrow we may have rain, or in all liktlihool frot, thaw, ...

... A JUDGE'S NOTE -BOO, 1689-1697. AIroxGsT Sir IHenry Puck's nunliments is Mr. Jus-tice Rok-eby's circuit note-book, which contains some quaint antd interesting jotting's made by that learned gentleman at the close of the seventeenth contury. The owner. of the note-book came of'a g1ood old Yorkshire family, I3e went to Cambridge soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, arnd was called To the ...

... SPEECH BY SIRt EDWARD CLAIMI.| SPECIAL TELEGRAM. PsvYeou'dH, TiiURSDAY.-SiC Edward Clarke, M.P. (Solicitor-General for England) addressed a mass meeting of his constituents in the Guildhall to-night, and had a very cordial, ahnost unani- mous, reception. He referred to the past session annd the progress that had been made in the pacifi- cation of Ireland in terms of almost unmixed satis- ...

... -1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i~e~thant SttoW5Stggtttei T- f~ dsXtf (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) The Duke of Rutland is somewhat seriously indisposed, and is confined to his room at Belvoir Castle. The Solicitor-General for England, speaking at Plymouth last night, said that the adminis- tration of Ireland during the past year had ...

... ULSTER INTELLIG 'CE. From OUR conuEEsOSNDL'-TS8. MASOINIC REU\ION NEARt BusumILLS.-The annual reunion of the membersoof Carrowreagli Masonic Flute Band was held on Friday evenini n lat in O narrowreaghl Masonic Hall, and there was a gmoL. atteadance of the bandbaien, Freemasons o i Lodge 374. and their neighbours. Tea was served by the z followruS ladlies 1-Mis J. Curry, Miss d. Liniigan, Miss ...

... CHIEMIICO-A'}r.tCU. L'RAL, SOCIETY OF U1T-EILr. YsiSTnRDnAY. at lialf-psmt tv.c!ve otelo,., r e monthly mehtind of iii.; 'occtv was h^iL in! sooiety's rm.is. Upper Artllur Ss:e-t rT; ;'-.. Andrews (ctober) ursLldc1., ain the o';tr ir. bers present were-Professkor Hod-es. J. P.: Mss ...

... '; THE DIVIDED IRISIH BY THE HoN. ALDEgR S. G. CANNING. Publishtd by JAMES WARNOCK & do., Newry. (Price dd; by Post, 3d.) LITERARY OPINIONS. From Mr. Leoky, author of - History of Eng- land in EBlgihteenth Ciatuey-'1 It shows very wide reading, and is so temperate and reasonable in dealing with very inflamnmable subjects, that it cannot fail to do good. I hope it may be as suC- cessful as it ...

... - _ . . - BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE. BELFAST NSw-LETTrER OFFICE, 169, FLEET STREET, E.C. TUESDAY NIGHT. BUSINESS has been dull of late with the preachers of separation in the London Press. In the absence of anythbing stirring in Ireland they have felt compelled to champion the black asen who threatened to sack and lay Suakin in ashes, sing the praise of the Czar of Russia, or, for a change, ...

... THE DEFENCES OF OuR MERCANTILE P o It T S. THE following letter has appeared in The T11nes . Sil-At a time when coast defences are being seriously considered by the Government and the public, it may be well to supplement the larger measures for national protection by carrying around the British Isles a line of telegraph, follow- ing the coastgruard path, and dovetailed at suitable points with ...

... DOUBLE EXECUTION AT IIAIDSTONE. LONDON, VEDNRSDAY,-T1he execution took p place at Maidstone Jail this morning of William d Cower, aged 18, moulder, and Charles Joseph Dobell, 19, plumber. for the murder of Bensley r CyrusLawrence by shooting him through the head, a on the .20th July last, in a timber yard adjoining the Baltic Sawmills, at Taubridge Wells. The cir- t' curmgtanees attending the ...

... DEVELOPMENT OF STE.X3SIP EN- TERPRISE IN GERMANY. Tan growth Of the German mercantile rearitme int the past decade or so has been unusually rapid, and the coming3 year will, it is asserted, witness further important develOpments of steamship enterprise in Gernauy.t. The most notible o the undertakings. projectedby the Hamburg and Bremen capitalists is a first-clals lins to Calcutta, designed ...