THEATRE ROYAL, B:ELFAST. FAREWELL ENGAGEMENT, (FOR A LIMITED NUMBER OF NIGHTs,) Provioua to ida departure for Australia, California, 4c., . VITH TITHE GREATEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL TRAGIC ACTOR OF THE AGE, BA R R'y : S L L I V KM, Pronounced by an overwhelming majority of the Pres

BANKS AND RAsIWAYS. , I__ BxN* K £ O Northern Bank. 30 100 Belfast ?? 126 100 Ulster Bank ?? 21 10 ProvincialBank .. 25 100 Royal Bank ?? 10 10 Hibernian Bank.. ?? 26 100 National Bank . 25 50 Commeroial Buildings.. 93 93 City of Dublin Steam.., 100 '00 Belfast Steam-Ship Co. 27

__~i ENGLAND AND A M E R I C A.. (FROM TUB MORNING POST.) IF war should be forced upon us by the Federal Go- vernment, the blame must be laid exclusively at their doors. Setting aside the wantonness of the outrage committed on an inoffensive nation, circumstances have singularly

Ton Rev. C. IT. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Taber- nacle, Kennington Road, I.ondon, spoke very elo- quently to a crowded assembly on the death of the Prince Consort. Ire chose for his teat the 6th verse - of the 3rd chapter of the Prophecies of Amos-" Shall I there be evil in

SCRAPS FROM PUNCHI FOR JANUARY 4. JUSTICE TO IREMANm.-Thn ()nTAn.A- P-- AA JUSTICE TO IRELAND.-Tho O'Donoghbue ceases to be a Justice. England's National Reserve may bang back, but England's Naval Reserve comes for'ward. NEGRO ENIANCIPATIoN.-Colilmbia's black draught. TuE HEIGIIT

BELFAST MARKETS. , BELFAST, FRIDAY, JAN. 1.0, 1862. Tar weather has been wet and stormy this week, and snpplies of grain at market moderate. The receipt of the intelligence per last steamer from the United States of the American Government having given up the prisoners, and, con

TnE efforts of the committee for raising a memorial to i the late Captain Francis Crozier, R.N., in his native town, at Banbridge, Iave met with great success. It is no doubt known to most of our readers that the late Captain Crozier was the companion of Sir John Franklin, and c

IENGLIS-[1 MALAkn ?? LO?&DON, MONDAY, JANUARY 6.-Grain.-The supplies of English wheat. are smnad, and we have halfl moderate arrivals from abroad durireg the panst week. The trade is inactive, and the Englibh wheat could olnly be sold at a slight reduction; and we have a slow s a

THE JEBSTHETICS OF LADIES' BONNETS. WE extract the subjoined maxims-drawn up by M. CObevruel, a famous French writer-from a handsome volume of Essays in History and Art, by Mr. i. H. Patterson, which has just appeared, being in a great measure a selection of articles from " Black

. .- THE COURT. e OSBORNE, SUNDAY.-The Rev. G. Prothero per- formed the service this morning at Osborne, before their Royal Higbnseses the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, and their Serene Hialhnesses Princess Hoheulobe and Prince Louis of He