... * ?? IF the year now closing has a less sensational r record than some of its predecessors, its annals t are by no means devoid of interest. If it has t not been marked by foreign wars, or by political 0 conivulsions at home, its progress has been sig- t; nalised by incidents which wvill leave their trace f in history. It has chronicled the death of one h King and the abdication of another. ...

... ACKNOWLEDG~MENTS. BELFAST SAILORS' HOiTE.-MVfr. Roblrt Boag. Honorary Secretary, acknowledges, xvith man thanks, having received parcels of periodicals for the use of the boarders from Mr. Wallace, Brook- hill Avenue; Mr. Vance. ',ountcharles ; anl Mr. Mlayne. College Square East. 24881 ,SIJNDAY MIORNING FRIEE, BREATCrAST FOR THE Poon.-Received by the Treasurer ?? S. M1ollan. 10, Brunswick ...

... S0METHING NEW IN COMING. TEsErE is good reason to believe that there is at present a considerable number of snurious half crownns in circulation in Great Britain. for which iso are indebted to German commercial enterprise. thes4e coins have nothing in common with the base metal imitations of the vulgareoiner; on the con- trarv. they are equal in quality to the half crowns ;.sued fromu her ...

... IR1FAST SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION. LAST evening the first annual mee ting of this association was held in the rooms of thte association. 3, Customhouse Square. There was a large atten- dance of members, including Messrs. James Jenkins (president Belfast Benevoient Society of Saint Andrew), Andrewl Doig. William Fair, William Campbell, John Boyd, and James Dewar. Mr. Andrew Gibson (junior vice ...

... TFan min rotary flight of a flock of birds is a strange and even affccting spset-acle. If the observer be of contemplative turn, there is something awe-inspir- ing in this utrange and sometimes unaccountablle yearning of the creatnres for their chane. Thi birds seem so fraile, so lacking in what wve might consider the requisite intelligence, and the dis- tances over which they travel are often ...

... I ANOTHER ELECTRIC DEATH: SPECIAL CABLEaRAM. PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. NEw YoncK, TUESDAY.-Pitiful details are pub- lished of the horrible death of another lineman, who was killed yesterday afternoon by the alter- nating. current from an electric light wire, witha which he came in contact while at work among the telegraph lines. The body hung in mid-air for several hours before it could be ...

... S ECOND EDITION,. \tr. - ; BY OUil SP2ECIA.LT WIRE , BlOTE ~EL17AST SEmvs-LETT F'1. O)Frlej%, tI 169. ?? STIIEU~, LNO; Z> ter Lite 1TEHURSDAY MIRXr out aIX ?? I'Sw Elljb 'Y rt'S R E' UR 1O, -~ ?? AbkiC~r9O1(S-t41E Ia, STALASNEWSLI JIR nLc: Stanley haS arriVe1 l herdF in SaSfctty, AL E Eat rOPeanUS coDnecteA Iio,11nthe CaraVan 'Oe cil ' ihe he ?? Of Mr. Stevens, the__ si;oner Of ?? New ...

... OUR LONDON LETERL.l I~~~ BY OUR SPECOZL WIRE. BlFrAST NEWS-LETTEPR OFFICE. 169. FLEET STmE1T, E.G., MONDAY NIGHT. CRISP. frosty weather favoured Mr. Gladstone in opening his brief campaign at Manchester, the abode of gloomy fogs oftener than not, where he is expected by his supporters to give a complete reply to Lord Salisbury at Nottingham. The member for Midlothian has the advautage of ...

... DEATHS BY ELECTRICITY. C TO THEe EDiTOR OF THlE BELtAST NEWS-LETTER. SIR-The frequent reports lately received from America of, the numerons accident-al deaths which t have occurred by electricity used for lighting in- a duce me to address you on the subject. It is all the more important from the fact thint the suppily of electricity from central stations is likely to be- I conue very general ...

... THLE TEA 1 I DEFENCE ASSOCIATION. CONVENTION AT LONGFORD. SPEECHES BY .IR. T. M. HEALY, M.P.; MR. DENTS KILBRIDE, M.P.; DR. FITZGERALD, 3F.P.; A-ND MR. TUITE, MI.P. (FROM OUR RlEPORlTE5R) Longford, Monday Evening. To-day the Convention of the County Long- ford, under the Tenants' Defence Association, took place in thie Temperance Hall, Longford. The Convention was largely attended, and was ...

... .AROBATS ANDA MNTEBA I ?? .~ 1-~ I ? I ~j.-e-s&,lirHues Le Roux. d Jule - Garpisr, 7 W ?? e r Fth ench origi o£a bo , i, h 'thabove ,titlepublished byk Mesr Chap ma f0. 'and- Hall, 0might have''eaeuted it to the, 3 T~g with the~ complimentsi.of the season. It. is eminently a Chriktmsa book,- for the.mountebank w4I ridre at ts best at,.tbe .perid- of pantomimne T.ae.uthora werk with ...

... I LONDOIN CORRESPONDENCE, I (BY FltgEAYs SPECIAL WIRE,) oum OUR OWN CORDESPONDENtL Freeman Office, 211 Strand, London, Monday Morning., The Coercinistea are doing dhir utmost to dis- count in advance the effect of the great Liberal w gathering at Manchester this week. They recog- t nise the disadvantage they are placed at by the f fact that Mr. Gladstone will have an opportunity 1 of replying ...