... j (ESTABLISHED ANTNO 1737.) BELFAST: THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 19&3. l tThe Princess of Wales continues to improve. Mr. Talbot, M.P., the father of the H-ous' of Commons, is seriously ill. Details have arrived of the disaster to a train on the Chesapeake and Ohio RailA ay, inl which several lives were lost. i A man named John Ritchie, aged about fifty years, and residing near Ballymena, ...

... OuR LO )ONN LETTERL. BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE. BrUIxST NEws-LT-rnE OriFes, C 1 i. FLEET ETREZT. TC.. WnEDNESDAnY NIGHT. IT iS stated to-night that the Prin:cess of Wales is -affering from irfluenza in a jniii form. It was I for this reason that her Eoyal Highness was un-J2 able yesterday to accompany the Prince to Dorset- l atib-. The inditposo ion of the Pr ncess wvas at first t attributed to a ...

... BELFAST SoCIETY FOR THE EXTENSION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING. T}Iis new scheme. which was so successfultv in- augurated on Tuesday evening. in the Ulster flall. by Professor Tyndall. with his great lecture, Our Invisible Friends and Foes. gives every promise of proving a complete success in every sense of the term. It has for its object the bringing of univer sity teaching within the reach of ...

... UPAIS DAY BY DAY. TEE Paris correspondent of the Detiy Yelfeg;'apli wiring on Sunday night, says-No little sensation has been produced in official circles here as well as in the Far East by the fate which has just befallen the Brothers Roque, two of the wealthiest anrl most notable colonists in Indo-China. The Roquees settled in Cochin-China in 1361, and by degrees acquired a large fortune. ...

... SLECOND EDIT 10 WY OUS5 SPZCIAL WIPRS BEaFAST oX usz-Lan- asrOFilc. 169. Fr~ra' STREET. LOXD3ox, Et.G SATURDAYl hORNING. SIX Y'CLOCX. IRELAN4D IN- 1S&9. The Dublin corresrondent of 7-- flcrs in this morning's issue reviews the events of tue year as regards Ireland. The dark forebodings. he says. which for a long time were heard on every side, have given place to ex- pressions of hope and ...

... ?YHi? ?RESRYTER?AN C?ROH, B3SEAST PRrn3BY*R NEWE YEBAR S [N IUBA:RL SER&VICES. THEr New Year's m~eeting of the Presbyterr of ,Belfa~t wa'S held yesterday in the Schocoloomt of Irogfralsevic~swere conducted tio celebrate thebetnn~lgofthe Newv Year, wvhich wzere engze i bvRev A. Cuthbert, who read a Ps.lrnandporionofScripture; Rev. Jas. M~artin enrage inpraerRev. Jamzes C. Ferris read, and . Rr ...

... Tar, new Lord Napier of Mazisla is a twin, and a I contemporary announces that there is no other case in the whole peerage of twin sons including the heir. 1This is not Ii, The present Earl. ofrl Durham was a twin with his brother and preismp- tive heir, the Hortourable Frederick LinLbton. Dr. Adler. the chief rabbi, is lying in a weak state of health at Brighton. For some years Dr. J Aler ...

... SERI1OUS RATLWAY ? ACID)EN-T A-EM ? I I1EI ,FELT A sAin sr.ilWav aochlnt occurred~ at th~erssn known as, M f ba~no' Crrssirz'. in the towu7,lands ol ~~hic in-I Mullar-hb-_.r about half a roile from flghecaftr aietRldivoy Station. on thue Dl-wry Cent~ral 'oraiseh of the-, N ortarra Csannt4's awrv ca 'zra eveni],), ag In. vescltsnz in1 the dxath oi a 'emnan- narnol SiTrr.zt- r. wj~eof a ra ...

... THE BA.NN DRAINAG&E BILL. A MEETTING of delegates from thoae poor-law unions and towns interested in opposing the taxa- tion of that or sech portion of the River Bann and Lough Neagh catlhment a6rea *which will not receive benefit from the proposed drainage scheme I *was held yesterday in the Chaimber of Commerce, Commercial Buildings, in accordance with a circular issued by Mr. B. Wyly. clerk ...

... AN INTERVIEW WITfI A PROFESSIOIQ NAL B EA -UTIS I 'rz. A LADy journalist on a New York pner having scunt t-wo doilars t-eith a face restorer.- gives her expericeces:- Your face. said the mnasseuse. - ie in a bad oondlition. It neeas uleaninu. It h'asn been nronerlv lwashed for : 1ba time. A sxna- te~az-table was wqheel-i Withlin reach. consaiazg a cracker j.r full of soft meriao rags, a ...

... THE 1POLLTICAL WORLD. THE New Year opens with the usual rumour of political changes. Mr. AV. H. Smith, the public is told for the hundreth time. is to retire from the leadership of the House of 0Comlmons, and as Viscount Greenlands, possibly, or Viscount Strand, to find repose in the House of Lords. Mr. Smith has scarcely a claim to be elevated at one bound to an earidom, as Lord. John Russell ...

... N 0 T E So Ts cc two Ro3 a!i .3cademicians. Millais and Barlow (lately deceased), *were on very treuridly termns. and .lillaiss picture of tho dying-ornithologist, known t.as `The Ruling Passion.' is a tolerably accarat.' representation of tile enaraver andl his family. 1 With the death of its oldcr pracLitioneis eagraving - is fast becoming a lost art. The Giobd knows of only one pupii in the ...