(file . . IR db"O ?qttu; Iffterf ?? , j(ESTALBLISHE[D ANNO 1737.) BELFAST: WEDNESDAY, MAlRCH 23, 1881. IN the House of Lords, yesterday, the Earl of Nimiberley, replying to the Earl of Cadogan, : airl he was not in a position to announce in detail the negotiations for peace in th

TRIAL BY JURY IXT IRELAND. Sunioern is the full text of the questions On this subject which were asliod in the House of Comn- mnons onI Monday night, together with the answers MKr. To'Tri.;xliAs-I beg to ask the Chief Secre- tary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether, at tile

UreLsrrOL DOEATH o01 A rOLICE cOSerABSL. As inquest was held in the Rtoyal Hospital on Saturday night on the body of Coustable Charles Mlullin, of the Landscape Terrace barrack, who died that morning under circumstances of a peculiarly painful charactor. Constable Mullin was com

D.P TALTMAGE ON TELE, GRAPlI- Pr may ab interesting, in connectien with the - prcsent agitation on the part of the postal tele- graplists, to reproduce the following address to teleraph cleris, delivered some time ago by Dr. . . De Witt Talmage, Brooklyn :-I wish he said, to reco

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. I A a ?? ordor of the Post Office states that letters addressed to Initials or Ficti- tious Names -ill be sent to the Dead- Letter Office, Dubli". Advertisersshould, consequently, give their full and proper names when they desire to receive corn. mnunicatio

TEE BRITISH BEE SEPEIS' ASSOCIA- i ]I TO Tni annual general meeting of this society was held on Wednesday at the offices, 446, Strand, London. In the absence of the president, the Baroness Durdett-Coutts, the chair was taken by Mr. T. NV. Cowan. The report, the chairman said, con

BANKRUPTCIES IN IRELU-NP. FBYr T'lNinRA'iT.1 LoNDON, TIRSoDAY.--To-day, there has been published in London an officiel return of the nuniber of bankruptoies and p-titions of arrang- ing debtors filed in the Court of Bankruptcy by or against persons residont in the counties men- t

IAMPERUL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-YESTERDAY. TrE L0FDe CINuYcxIo took his seat at five o'clock. aTLLS ADVANCED. The Veterinary Surgeons' Bill was committed pro firnta. The Bankruptcy and Cessio (Scotland) Bill passed through committee. The report af amendments to the Married Wo

SALT is the mineral prodaction which, of all others, is the most importan\ to the Indian re- vonue, the annual gross amount received as tax on this commodity amounting to about seven- millions of pounds sterling. The import tradein salt is still very considerable, though the nat

AM1gRICAN WEATHER FORECASTS. XO TaE EDITOR OF i.s2 BIILVAST N5VEW6-LI SR-iWe have probably smiled at the tradi- tional remark of the old English lady, that the weather in our islands was "- much better before them Americans began to meddle with it ;" and, seriopsl, there are not