... ,l A GREAT IRISH CHRISTMAS isl NUMBER. I, The immeense populaity that has attended the previous pub'ications . of the mammoth Christmas Numbers of our National eontemapo- ! rary, the 'Weekly Freeman, is bound to be eclipsed y thie production for this season. Alike 1 in quslity and quantity does it exol all other eff orts of the kimd. It eaSiYyl4O'4 log ny ahead of any special or Christmas ...

... BOARD OF MISSIONS. The General Assembly's Board of Missions met y yesterday in the Mission Offiee, 12, May Street, at v eleven o'clock forenoon. The Moderator of the General Assembly (Rev. a D. A. Taylor, M.A.) presided, and constituted the a meeting with reading the Holy Scriptures and a prayer. fp The Secretary (Rev. George MaacFarland) read c seriatim the minutes of the various missions, ...

... OUXR LONDON LETTER. BY OUR P'RIVATE WIRE. BELFAST NEWS-LETTER OFFICE, 435, STRAND, W.C., WEDNESDAY NIGHT. London Tramways. As regards the means of rapid intercommunica- tiona between its different parts, London is :far be- hind any large town in the United Kingdom. There is the Underground and the District Rail- ways, whioh, it is true, are in valuable in their way, but they cannot possibly ...

... | The weekly meeting of the Rural District Council was held yesterday in the Boardrom of the South Union Workhouse. Mr Joseyl Mooney, chairman of the board, presided. FINANCE. 1 The Local Government Board wrote sanctiofll- ing the proposal of the Council to obtain an overdraft of 22.0O0 at 4 per cent per annum, to pay the amount advanced by the former trea- surer. the Bank of Irelandi THE ...

... LORD ROSEBERY AT 1i PAUM t THE PARLIAMENTS OF THE QUEEN. t e INFLUENCE OF LOCAL COUNCILS. The Earl of Rosebery last night presided at a s ilecture on The Parliaments of the Queen, de- I X livered -by 7%1r. H. W. Lucy (;Toby, M.P.), in sthe Public Hall, Epsom. e Lord Rosebery, who was well received on taking the chair, ?? and gentlemen, I have great pleasure in introducing to yoa Mr. Lucy, ...

... (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) V.. ?? 7tt.~~f~f~ BELF AST. I THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1899. | Mr. W. H. Faloon, Q.C., died yesterday morning. There was a serious fire yesterday at the Queen Victoria Spinning Mills, Dundee. ;--There was a railway collision yesterday near Glasgow, and the guard of one of the trains was injured. It is reported from Paris that alarming re- ports have been received as to ...

... 0 38, LowE.n ORoiOD QUAY, A MWEDNESDAY NIGHT. b The death to-day of Mr. William Harris Faloon, 0 Q.C., at his residence, 55, Upper Mount Street, is a. source of sincere regret to all his brethren of d the North-East Circrxt, and to many personal d friends in Ulster, especially in the city 1 of Belfast. He delighted in being hailed as Father Faloon, the attribute of seniority a on circuit. ...

... THE COURT. WINDSOR CASTLE, WEs13sSDnY.-The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. and at- tended by the Honourable Aline MNajendie. Princess Henry of Battenberg, attended by MKiss Bultee], went to Farrhorough and visited the Empress Eugenie. Lady Audrey Buller and Right Honourable A. J. Balfour, M.P., First Lord of the Treasury, ar- rived ...

... COVUNTY COURT REFOP)M> Refornm moves with leaden s1l - Ic'- land. and very often is transforle. - thing like Injustice by the action ani of the British Parliamen. before :. 'a I's the goal o' the Statute Book. Mr who as Vioe-President ,f the ha i. ; Commerce. in the very regreclab> a- of the Presiden;. Sir John Bairv.in~r ,il The mercantile deputation v.s!erdav : Lord Chancellor. gave very ...

... } - l 'rhe ate Mr Justice O'Brien had one of, I the most valuable-if not the most valuable- libraries in Ireland, and naturally there is conl- siderab'e public interest felt as to its future dis i - posaL. What may become of the law books which it contained few, except the Jawyers, care; but the remainder of the library, con- aistiug as it does of a collection of rare and costly works of ...

... DONEGJCALI ROAD PIMIETIVE MET1PI'IST ClH URICH. A ZA4R AND SALE OF ORiK. 3, A X twvo day3' bazaar iand sale oi work. the pro- -seeds o' which are to be devoted to the ftrld -r0 is liquidating a debt of about £200 remain ?? on lill-; J, Donegall Road Primitive Methodist Churcai in.d er manse was opened yesterday afternoon in iahe s, schoolroom adjoining the church by lMrs. . Id Martin, Galwa]i ...

... I Yesterday the news of another serious defeat was allowed out by the Britih War Office. The public had been vainly searching for some light upon the fighting that waB. in progress north of tuhe Modder River sin e last Saturday. Now it has come. Lord Me- tihuen, after a desperate cannonade in which during two Uays the Boer position was raked and searched with lyddite shells and ho- w'taers, ...