ght ?, Int ?R Off 5-xctta. (ESTABLISHED ANINO 1737.) BELFAST: THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1875. TarE Contagious Diseases Acts Repeal Bill was rejected by the Commons, yesterday, by a majority of 182-308 voting for it and 120 against. The Turkestan Cazette announces that the members of the

DUBLIN LAW COUWTS. B COURT OF CHANCERtYl-SALJD.Y. h [FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.] Tr h1i re NM'CONSELL, OOMMIrSIONER FOR BELFAST. P Mr FRAZER applied, on behalf of the petitioner, t Mr. At'Connell, that he Should be appointed com- h missioner at Belfast for administering oaths for

CUSTODY COURT-SxTURDAY. espc [Before CAivai.rn DUFFIN-, Esq., J.P.; and EDWARD the OtiiE, Esq., EM.] Cha WIFE BEATING. Mal John M'Caniey was charged by Sub-Constable also Aikin with assaulting his wife on Friday evening. of tI From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner and

The tienol ere.kly meeting of the gn.rdinni of this I'Mon was held in the boardroom. on %edueed.), 16th JonP. J bn Mullen, EN. J.P., in the chair. lt her guardians present -1 holMlll Pozherh,•rt, J.P. ; J K. Taafl , -,J.P ; P. Smith. W. Buchanan, James ; on, L, Healy, W. Reid Mi

DROGHEDA UNION . At the mooting of the guardians of this onion. which took place on Thursday, the tollowing gnordiana at- tended F. Donash, Eeq, J.P., in the chair. T. St. George Pepper, J.P. ; R Taylor, LL D. ; John Chadwick. J.P. Dail J P. ; Ow.n Markey. John Blanton, P. liarga

DUBLIN PETITION. Mr Sheldon, who bad a notice on the paper of his intention to move " that the order to the petition from Dublin against the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sundry (Ireland) Bill, presented on the '2Bth of May, do lie upon the table, be read and ilia• charged," sa

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lgTEE Archbishop of Dublin preached on Sunday rue afternoon at St. James's, Piccadilly, London, in ha- continuation of the series of sermons now being de- in livered there on well-known devotional books, it upon Richard Baxter's " Saint's Rest," reading as his text the words, "T

BELAST BOARD OP GUARDIANS. YtsTnnDnn, at eleven o'clock, the usual weekly meeting of.this body was held in the Boardroom of the Workhouse,-Mr. JnoM *KAv.&aGa (in the absence of the chairtaxn, Mr. David Taylor, J.P.) presiding. The other Guardians present were:- wssra. James Alexa

ROYAL THAMES YACHT RACES. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM.] AT thle Royal Thames yacht races, yesterday, the Egeria, 152 tons, the property of Mr. John Mul- holland, MLP., won the schooner prize; and Mr. WVm. Jessep's Florinda, 140 tons, won the yawl prize. ROYAL As-irtEr YACHT CaLUn.-Entries