EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ETC.

Queen's College Belfast,
University Road

Queen's College is one of the three Colleges, the aggregation of which constitutes the Queen's University of Ireland, the other two constituents being those of Cork and Galway. The Queen's University was founded and incorporated by Royal Charter, dated 3rd September, 1850, in which her Majesty "wills and declares that Queen's College, Belfast, Queen's College, Cork and queen's College, Galway, should be colleges of the said University, and that the said University should possess and exercise the full power of granting all such degrees as are granted by other Universities or Colleges in the several faculties of Arts, Medicine, and Law to Students who have completed in one or other of the Colleges of the said University the courses of education prescribed and directed for the several degrees in the manner, and by authority, in the aforesaid Charter described." The Chancellor of the University is his Grace the Duke of Leinster, the Vice Chancellor, Sir Dominic J. Corrigan, Bart., M.D., and the Secretary, G. Johnstone Stoney, M.A., F.R.S., etc. Dublin Castle. The general legislation, government and administration of the University under the Charter, and in cases not provided for by it, are vested in the University Senate. This body consists of about twenty members, representing literature and science and different public interests. It includes, as ex-officio members, the Presidents of the three Colleges for the time being. The Senate meets at stated periods in Dublin Castle. Besides the Exhibitions open to those students of the Queen's Colleges who take honours on graduation, several valuable prizes have been founded in connection with the University. by public subscription. Queen's College, Belfast, is a corporation founded by Royal Charter, under an Act of Parliament passed in the 8th and 9th years of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled "An Act to enable her Majesty to endow new Colleges for the advancement of learning in Ireland." The general government and administration of the College are vested in the President and Council. The College was inaugurated by the Rev. Dr. Henry, D.D., M.R.I.A., (late President), in 1849. The number of students who have entered and pursued their studies in the different departments of arts, Medicine, Law, and Civil Engineering up to July, 1879, is 3,324. Numbers of Students attending Lectures in Queen's College, Belfast, in each Session from its opening :-

Forty six junior and eight senior scholarships have been founded in the College by Government. The sum of £100 is awarded in prizes at the end of each session. The subjects of the matriculation or entrance examination for students in the Faculties of Arts, Medicines and Law are English Grammar and Composition, the Greek and Latin Languages, Arithmetic, Fractions, vulgar and decimal, Practice Proportion, Interest, Discount, and the Square root, Algebra, to the end of Simple Equations, Euclid's Elements, the first two books, Outlines of English History, Outlines of Roman History, to the death of Nero, Outlines of Ancient and Modern Geography. The entrance course for Engineering students is the same as the preceding, with the exclusion of the Greek and Latin Languages, and History. Of the junior scholarships, thirty of the value of £24 each are appropriated to students for the degree of B. A., eight of the value of £25 each to students for the degree of M. D., two in each year, three of the value of £20 each to the law students for the degree of LL.B., five of the value of 320 each to students for the diploma of Civil Engineering. These scholarships are awarded annually by examination, and are tenable for one year only, but the scholars of each year are not disqualified from being candidates for scholarships the succeeding years. The examinations for junior scholarships of the first year take place immediately after the matriculation or entrance examination. The subjects for examination for the junior scholarships are published annually in the Belfast Queen's College Calendar. Of the thirty junior scholarships to students for the degree of B.A., fifteen are awarded for proficiency in Literature - viz., five to students commencing the first year of their course, five to each of those commencing the second and third years, fifteen for proficiency in science - viz., five scholarships each to students of the first, second and third years respectively. The scholars of the second year retain their scholarships in the third year without any further scholarship examination. Eight senior scholarships of £40 each are awarded to the most distinguished students who have proceeded to the degree of Bachelor of Arts - one for proficiency in each of the following departments :- Greek, Latin and Ancient History, Modern Languages and History, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Metaphysics and Economical Science, Chemistry, Natural History, and one of the students who have completed the course of legal studies prescribed for candidates for the degree of Bachelors of Law. The student first on the list of candidates - both in the Literary and Science divisions - at the examination for junior scholarships in Arts, shall be entitled to a scholarship in each division, but in no other case are two scholarships to be held by the same student. Several valuable exhibitions have of late years been founded by private beneficence in connection with the College, among these may be mentioned the Pakenham Scholarships, the Sullivan Scholarship, the Porter Scholarship, the Dunville Studentship, and the exhibitions attached to the Royal Academical Institution and the Methodist College. The College session commences on the third Tuesday in October, and ends on the second Saturday in June. It is divided into three terms. The first term ends at the Christmas recess, and the second at the Easter recess.
President : Rev. Josias Leslie Porter, D.D., LL.D.  Professors : Faculty of Art - Literary Division. Greek Language - Hastings Crossley, M.A., M.R.A.S. Chemistry - Vacant. Latin Language - William Nesbitt, M.A. History and English Literature - Charles Duke Yonge, M.A., Modern Languages - A. L. Meissner, Ph.D.
Scientific Division : Mathematics - John Purser, M.A., M.R.I.A. Natural Philosophy - Joseph D. Everett, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S. Natural History and Geology - R. O. Cunningham, M. D., F.L.S. Logic and Metaphysics - John Park, M.A. Civil Engineering - George Fuller, C.E. Agriculture - John F. Hodges, M.D., F.C.S.
Faculty of Medicine : Anatomy and Physiology - Peter Redfern, M.D., F.R.C.S. Practice of Medicine - James Cuming, M.A., M.D., F.K.Q.C.P. Practice of Surgery - Alexander Gordon, M.D. Materia Medics - Jas. Seaton Reid, M.D. Midwifery - Robert F. Dill, M.D.
Faculty of Law : English Law - John McKane, M.A., Jurisprudence and Political Economy - T. E. C. Leslie, LL.D.
Office Bearers - Curator of Museum - The Professor of Mineralogy and Geology. Registrar - John Purser, M.A. Librarian - Rev. George Hill. Bursar - John Wylie.
Deans of Residence - Church of Ireland - Rev. S. E. Busby, LL.D. General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland - Rev. Thomas Hamilton, M.A. Irish Association of Non Subscribing Presbyterians - Rev. John Scott Porter. Wesleyan Methodists - Rev. Robinson Scott, D.D.
Queen's College Library contains about 30,000 volumes. It is particularly rich in scientific works, and in works of general interest. The library is open on every week day during the College terms, from 10am. till 3pm., except on Saturdays, when it closes at noon. It is open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10am. till 2 pm. during the Christmas and Easter recesses and the long vacation, except during the month of August, when it is entirely closed. The Government Grant for the library, museum, and for philosophical apparatus in the different departments, amounts to £1,500 per annum. Librarian - Rev. George Hill.

General Assembly's College
College Park, Botanic Avenue.

Opened 5th December, 1853. The classes in this College open on the 1st Tuesday of November, and close on the 1st Thursday of April. President of Faculty - Rev. W. D. Killen, D.D. Vice President - Rev. J. G. Murphy, LL.D. Secretary of Faculty - Rev. Robert Watts, D.D. Professors - Systematic Theology - Rev. Robt. Watts, D.D. Biblical Criticism - Rev. Matthew Leitch, M.A. Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral Theology - Rev. W. D. Killen, D.D. Hebrew - Rev. Jas. G. Murphy, LL.D. Christian Ethics - Rev. Henry Wallace. Sacred Rhetoric and Catechetic - Rev. John Rogers, D.D. Living Oriental Languages - Rev. J. Glasgow, D.D.

Methodist College
Belfast
(Founded 1865)

This College was erected by the Wesleyan Church in Ireland, largely aided by English and American Methodism. The design of the Institution is two fold :- first, to be a college for the training of candidates for the Wesleyan ministry, and for the reception of students, other than theological, who are studying for a degree in the Queen's University, and, secondly, to be a public school of the first class, open to pupils of all denominations. The buildings occupy an elevated and a beautiful site, with grounds about eleven acres in extent, in the suburbs of the town, immediately adjoining the Botanic Gardens and the Queen's College. The College contains accommodation for about eighty boarders, each having a separate cubicle, and for nearly thirty students, each occupying a separate room. The cost of the building and outfit has been about £37,000, and for the effectual working of the establishment an additional sum of £20,000 has been invested as an endowment. Exhibitions and prizes, to the value of £250 per annum, are presented for competition in the several departments. In addition to the Students' and Boys' Departments, a separate portion of the building has been set apart for the accommodation of Ladies' Classes and a Girls' School, under the management of the general staff of the College. These classes are largely attended, and are in full working order.
President and Treasurer - Rev. Robinson Scott, D.D. Theological Tutor - Rev. W. Applebe, LL.D., T.C.D.  Head Master - Henry R. Parker, Ll.D., Ex Scholar, Senior Classical Moderator and Gold Medallist,  First Hebrew Prizeman, etc T.C.D.  Mathematical Masters - Jas. A. McNeill, First Science Scholar etc, Q.C.B., T. R. Collier, A.B., Senior Science Scholar, Q.C.B. Classical Masters - Jas. G. Meyer, A.M., Ex Scholar and Moderator, T.C.D.,  T. B. Oliver, A.B., Senior Classical Scholar, Q.C.B., John Montgomery, First Classical Scholar, Q.C.B.,  W. P. Holmes, Classical Scholar, Q.C.B. First Resident and English Master - H. A. Davison, London University. Writing and Commercial Master - J. D. Stuart, Professor of French - Isaac Bradshaw. Teacher of German - Miss Reid. Professor of Elocution - Samuel Browne. Professors of Music and Singing - B, H. Carroll, Miss Moore. Assistant English, Classical, and Mathematical Masters - A. G. Roddie, J. A. Macdonald, Andrew McAfee, John Fannen, T.C.D. Ladies in charge of Girls' School and Kinder Garten - Miss Moore, Miss McKee, Miss McKee. Drill - Sergeant Galbraith. Visiting Physician - Thos. K. Wheeler, M.D. Consulting Physician - Professor Seaton Reid, M.D.

St. Malachy's Diocesan College
Belfast

The object of this Establishment (under the patronage and superintendence of the Most Rev. Dr. Dorrian), is to prepare young gentlemen for professional and mercantile pursuits. The course of studies comprises Latin, Greek, French, Mathematics, History, Music, and Drawing, with the various branches of a first class English and mercantile education. Special attention is paid to Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Composition, Bookkeeping, and Mensuration. President - Rev. H. Henry. Dean - Rev. J. Conway. Professors of Classics, Mathematics, French and History - Rev. H. Henry, Rev. J. Conway, Rev. H. Laverty, Rev. J. Tohill, and Rev. H. Macauley. English and Mercantile Department - Head Master, W. J. McCormick, first assistant, H. W. Graham, second assistant, J. O'Brien, third assistant, J. Harbinson, Professor of Dancing and Deportment, J. Gordon, drill master, Sergeant Prendergast, medical attendant, J. Fagan, M.D., Drawing Master, D. Burns.

Belfast Academy

The Belfast Academy was founded by public subscription in December, 1785, and opened for the purposes of teaching in January, 1786. All subscribers of Ten Guineas and upwards were constituted "patrons" and all the masters were appointed by them. The first principal was the Rev. Dr. Crombie. The seminary was intended to combine a public school with a college on the model of the Scotch universities, but the college department was never fully carried out. Dr. Crombie lived, a very short time, and was succeeded by the Rev. Dr. Bruce, at whose accession a change was made in the constitution, placing the appointment of the masters in the hands of the principal. In 1822 Dr. Bruce resigned, and was succeeded by the Rev. James Gray, who accepted a chaplaincy under the East India Company in 1826, and was succeeded by the Rev. Dr. Bryce, who retired from the work of teaching in 1865, but still holds the office of principal and the power of superintendence, but without remuneration. In 1834 a new subscription was opened for re-building the Academy, but difficulties arose regarding the title to the property. These were removed in 1864 by a decree of the Court of Chancery, which also settled a new scheme for the future government of the seminary. It was subsequently found necessary to go again to Chancery for the amendment of the scheme on account of some defects in it, which hampered the governing body in their efforts to go on with the building. The required amendments having been sanctioned by a decree of the Lord Chancellor in May, 1876 a suitable site was taken at Cliftonville, in the angle between the Antrim Road and the New Lodge Road, where a beautiful and commodious building is being erected. It will be finished about the beginning of May, 1880, and it will contain five large school rooms, several smaller class rooms, a museum, library, spacious common hall etc. There is a Board of Directors, chosen by and from the Patrons, and a Board of Masters consisting of the principal and the head masters of the four schools above mentioned. These Boards united form a council for the general management of the Academy, and has besides separate duties and powers of its own. Trustees - Wm. Ewart, M.P., Thos. Sinclair, J.P., Rev. J. Bryce, LL.D. Secretary - Rev. J. A. Chancellor. Principal - Rev. R. J. Bryce.

Belfast Ladies' Collegiate School
The Crescent, University Road

Founded 1859, by Mrs. Byers. The School buildings in the Crescent, with residence for Principal adjoining, were erected in 1874, and contain class rooms calculated to accommodate 300 day pupils, together with cubicles, dormitories etc, for the accommodation of 40 resident pupils. The system pursued is by means of an ample staff of teachers of undoubted attainments to provide for girls an education adapted to their wants, as thorough as that which is afforded to boys in schools of the highest order. The classes are carefully graduated in such a way that a girl may commence with the rudiments of learning, and rise gradually by test examinations through each department until she reaches the Advanced Class. The School consists of the Preparatory and Intermediate Departments, and the Advanced Collegiate Classes. In the Preparatory School pupils from four to ten years of age are received. They are taught reading, writing , elementary arithmetic, Scripture, singing, and drawing, and the kinder garten system of Frobel as far as it is found practicable and expedient. In the intermediate division the pupils are encouraged to take advantage of the examinations under the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act. There are several exhibitions and prizes in the School, and in the collegiate classes the courses of study are regulated by the standard afforded by the Queen's University Examinations for Women (Senior Grade) and those of Trinity, Cambridge, and the London Universities. When lady students obtain certificates in these examinations, official recognition is given of the education in the Collegiate School.

Royal Academical Institution
College Square East

Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1810, for the purpose of affording a sound education to all classes of the community, without distinction of sect or party. There are several valuable exhibitions and prizes connected with the institution, particulars of which, as well as a full prospectus of the course of education, can be obtained on application to any of the masters. There are four vice presidents, twenty managers, and eight visitors elected by the proprietors, and thirteen ex-officio visitors appointed by Act of Parliament. One vice president, five managers and two visitors retire annually. President - The Marquis of Donegall. Sec. - Adam Duffin. Treasurer - Henry J. McCance. Board of Masters- Robert Steen, Ph.D.- Classics. Randal C. J. Nixon, A.M., Cantab. - Mathematical and Mercantile. John Carlisle, M.A. - English. Robert Dods, B.A. - Modern Languages. H. Burden, M.D. - Natural Science. John H. Howell - Writing.

Belfast National District Model School
Divis Street

This School, opened in May, 1857, was built by the Commissioners of National Education, at an expense of £14,000, and is exclusively under their control. The average attendance of pupils has been 1,300. There are four departments - the Evening, Male, Female, and Infant Schools. Boys' School - Head Master, Mr. G. L. Moore. Girls' School - Head Mistress, Miss Cleery. Infant School - Miss Heritage. Chaplains to the children of their respective denominations - Irish Church, Rev. W. S. Darley. Presbyterian, Rev. Dr. Murphy and Rev. John Greenlees. Methodist, Rev. Richard Butler. Unitarian, Rev. Mr. Orr.

Belfast Government School of Art
College Square North
(With Branch Classes at Ladies' Collegiate School and Methodist College.)

The school was re-established in October, 1870, after a lapse of seventeen years, since which time considerable progress has been made in developing a taste among all classes for drawing, painting and design. There are evening classes for artisans and day classes for ladies, gentlemen, school boys, and girls, at which most excellent work is done, and workmen and apprentices from the various firms in town steadily acquire, under able teachers, knowledge and skill in artistic, architectural, and mechanical Drawing, as well as designing and modeling - fitting them to compete with the same professions elsewhere, employers in many cases pay the fees of their apprentices. Frequent applications are made to the school for draughtsmen and designers, showing the evident desire on the part of employers to keep pace with the times in employing thoroughly trained and skilled assistants. In the eight national competitions since the opening of the school in October, 1870, the total number of prizes gained from the Department of Science and Art have been :- 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals, 13 bronze medals, 36 national book prizes, 197 third grade prizes, 22 free studentships, and 6 national scholarships, entitling to a course of training at South Kensington and £52 a year for three years. The first prize of eight guineas, offered by the Plasterers' Company of London, was gained by one of the Belfast students. The board of management also annually distribute a large sum in local prizes to the pupils, which is subscribed by merchants and manufacturers of the neighbourhood. The head master, T. M. Lindsay, Esq., has been awarded a bonus each year for the efficient state of the school, which now ranks among the most successful in the country. There are two sketching clubs among the students, and a monthly illustration club. An interesting exhibition of the pupils' works is held at the beginning of each year. Board of Managers - Sir Charles Lanyon, J.P., R.H.A., chairman ; Robert Young, C.E. ; Henry R. Parker, LL.D. ;  James Musgrave, J.P. ; Alex. Tate, C.E., vice chairmen. W. H. Patterson, M.R.I.A. ; J. W. Byers, M.A., M.D. ; James Thompson, J.P. ; John S. Brown, J. Vineycomb, F. F. D. Ward, John Ward, F.R.G.S. ; D. W. Johnston, C. H. Brett, John Carlisle, M.A. ; Charles C. Connor, William Dobbin, Lavens M. Ewart, Vere Foster, James Henry, J.P. ; Sir John Preston, J.P. ; William Gray, M.R.I.A. ; E. J. Harland, J.P. ; Jas. Alex. Henderson, J.P. ; Professor Nesbitt, W. H. Lynn, R.H.A. ; James Moore, M.D., R.H.A., M.R.I.A. ; Alex. Moore, Robert Thompson, J.P., LL.D., F.R.S. Edinburgh ; John Vineycomb, John Carlisle, M.A.  Treasurer - William Valentine, J.P. ; Hon. Secretary - John Carlisle, M.A. Assistant Sec. - Hugh Robinson. Head Master - T. M. Lindsay. Second Master - John Summer. Assistants - Jno. Donaldson, W. H. Minshull.

Brown Street Sunday and Daily Schools
Brown Street

Established in 1810, for the purpose of supplying the children of the working classes with Scriptural and literary education. In 1862 it was placed under the National Board of Education. About 540 children are taught in the Sunday Schools, and in the daily and evening schools there are 1,557 on the rolls, while 614 (in average attendance) receive instruction. According to the last report (that for 1878), there were on the rolls of the Sunday and day schools 2,536, the actual average daily attendance 977.7, and the total teaching staff at work 79.  Treasurer, Wm. McNeill. Secretaries - Rev. Dr. Johnston and Mr. Joseph Lytle. Boys' School - Mr. Donaldson, master. Girls' School - Miss Trimble, mistress. Infant School - Miss Young, mistress. Evening School - Mr. Donaldson, master.

Northern Sunday School Association
Offices - 33, Donegall Street

Established May, 1839, for the purpose of supplying Sunday Schools with Bible, Testaments, and other books and requisites. The committee meet at their Depositor, 33 Donegall Street, on the first Wednesday of every month, at Two o'clock.

St. Ann's Parochial Schools
Academy Street

These Schools, since the appointment of the present Vicar of Belfast - the Rev. Dr. Hannay - have been placed in connection with the Down and Connor and Dromore Church Education Society. The schools are now in a very efficient state. All the children in attendance receive instruction daily in the Holy Scriptures in addition to a good secular education. On the roll of the daily and Sunday schools there are now upwards of 500 children. Teachers - Richard Pearson, Miss Pender, Miss Braithwate (Braithwaite), Miss Constance Pender.

Drew Memorial School
Grosvenor Street

For girls and infants under the Church Education Society. Teacher - Miss Jacob. Assistant - Miss S. M. Jacob.

Christ Church Sunday and Daily Schools
Durham Street
(Opened November, 1836)

Infant and Female School - Number on roll, 200, with an average attendance of 160. Teachers - Miss Frances M. Morrow, Mr. Wm. Gibson, Miss Agar.
The Sunday schools, male and female, are held in Christ Church school rooms at ten am. and four pm. average attendance 450, and 50 teachers. Total on the books of Sunday schools, 1,000. Adult schools, 50. Library containing upwards of 500 volumes for the use of the children and teachers attending these schools.

MASONIC AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES

Provincial Grand Masonic Lodge of Antrim

Meets in the Masonic Hall, Belfast, on the second Monday in February and August, at 7 o'clock pm., second Monday in May, and the second Wednesday in November at 2 o'clock pm., also for District business at Ballymena, on the second Wednesday in April, at 11.30 o'clock am., and at Ballymoney, on the second Wednesday in October, at 12 o'clock noon.  Offices for 1880 :-

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS' (M.U.) FRIENDLY SOCIETY

Founded in Belfast 1840, registered in Ireland, 1855. Place of meeting, Oddfellows' Hall, Academy Street. Its objects are - Relief in sickness, burial of its members and members' wives, and assistance of widows and orphans and members in distress. Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P., stated that the Manchester Society of Oddfellows was the best organised and best managed Friendly Society in existence. On 1st January, 1879, it numbered 531,560 members, with a capital of £4,325,584. "Ulster" Lodge (2,468) meets every alternate Wednesday - John Clarke, Surgeon. Medical Officer, William Spiers, Permanent Secretary. "Marquis of Donegall" Lodge (2,957) meets every alternate Tuesday - William Scott Core, M.D., Medical Officer, William Crawford, Permanent Secretary. "Belfast" Lodge (3,907) meets every alternate Wednesday - David Johnston, M.D., Medical Officer, John Downing, Permanent Secretary. "City of Carrickfergus" Lodge (3,783) meets every alternate Thursday in the Parochial Schoolroom, Carrickfergus, J. W. Patrick, M.D., Medical Officer, Henry Lynn, Permanent Secretary. John Woods Beck, M.D., etc., District Treasurer, John Downing, Corresponding Secretary, 68 Eglinton Street. District Trustees - Samuel Rushton, Samuel Clifford, and Samuel Acheson.

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES (SALFORD UNITY) FRIENDLY SOCIETY

Founded in Belfast, 1846. Registered under the Friendly Societies Acts. Place of meeting, Oddfellows Hall, 65 Academy Street, Belfast. Principles - Total Abstinence. Objects - Relief to members in sickness, burial of its members, members' wives and widows. District Officers for 1879 - Chief Ruler, John Johnstone, 45 Townsend Street, Deputy Ruler, Isaac Clarke, 39 Dock Street, Past Chief Ruler, Hugh McKibben, 4 Percy Street, Treasurer, Alex. Crawford, 13 Arthur Street, Secretary, Thomas Brennian (Brennan), Chambers Street. Trustees - Duncan MacMillan, Mountpottinger, William Malcolm, 36 Thames Street, W. J. Dougall, 29 Donegall Quay.
Tents In The District :-

The "Olive Branch Juvenile" Tent , for boys, from 8 to 18 years of age, meets every alternate Friday evening in Oddfellows' Hall. Medical Officer - Dr. Brice Smith. Superintendents - Mr. James McConnel, 42 Cavour Street, Mr. A. McConnel, Denmark Street, Mr. H. Wallace, Schomberg Terrace. Secretary - Mr. W. J. Dougal, 4 Benwell Terrace.

Juvenile "Alexandra Tent", meets in Clifton Street Lecture Hall. Superintendent - Henry J. A. McAlery, and L. S. Fleming.

BELFAST FRIENDLY SOCIETY
Christ Church School Room

Instituted 1839. Meetings held last Monday of every month. Office Bearers - President, John Hamil, Secretary, James McConnell.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

Working Men's Institute and Temperance Hall.
Castle Street and Queen Street

The Institute is designed to supply the artizan and mechanic with a public place where they can meet their friends, spend an hour or two in social intercourse, read the papers of the day, etc., and hear lectures, at a moderate charge. The building was erected at a cost of nearly £9,000, and contains a news room, supplied with all the local and the leading English, Scotch, and Irish newspapers, periodicals, and reviews, a chemical laboratory, lecture and class rooms, amusement room supplied with billiard and bagatelle tables, chess, draughts etc., a library, in which there are a large number (nearly 3,000 volumes) of carefully selected books, and which is being constantly increased. Trustees - Sir T. McClure, Bart., M.P., V.L., M. L. Dalway, M.P., Thomas Valentine, J.P., Thomas Greer, J.P., Edward Hughes, J. G. Richardson, Thomas Gaffikin, T.C., Dr. Samuel Browne, R.N., J.P., W. M. Scott. Robert L. Hamilton, J.P., Alexander Johns, J.P.  Committee - President - Geo. Morrow. Vice President - James McCreery, John McCalmont. Treasurer - John Henderson. Financial Sec. - James Murdoch. Jas. Andrews, Wm. Johnston, Edwd. Bingham, Henry Connolly, Saml. Gordon, John S. Lytle, James Serridge, C. J. Glen, W. J. Carmichael, H. S. Gamble, John McKenzie, James Chambers, Joseph D. Moore, David Craig, William Marks, John Barbour, R. C. Barrett. Hon. Sec. - Robt. Barklie. Assistant Hon. Sec. - Samuel Boyle. Science Committee - Chairman - Dr. Samuel Browne, R.N., J.P.  Jas. Alex. Henderson, J.P., James P. Corry, M.P., Thomas Valentine, J.P., Finlay McCance, J.P., Thomas Greer, J.P., Sir Thomas McClure, Bart., M.P., V.L., Professor Everett, M.A., D.C.L., Edward P. Cowan, J.P., Thos. H. Browne, T.C., Thomas Gaffikin, T.C., Robert Thompson, J.P., Wm. Moffatt, Henry Burden, M.A., M.D., Robert L. Hamilton, J.P., William Q. Ewart, T.C., A. M. Ferrar, James McCreery, John Henderson, John McKenzie, H. McCaffrey, R. C. Barrett, R. J. Walshe, H. S. Gamble, Geo. Moore, John Barbour, Wm. Marks, John McCalmont. Hon. Sec. - T. Gaffikin, jun. Classes for the study of the English language, shorthand, French, and bookkeeping are held during the winter, all of which are conducted by thoroughly efficient and competent teachers. Special prizes (for the most part contributed by the merchants and gentry of the town) are given annually for proficience in the following subjects :- Mathematics, Acoustics, Light and Heat, and Magnetism and Electricity, Chemistry (Inorganic, Organic and Practical), Chemistry and Botany, Agriculture, and any four of the allied subjects, Chemistry, Botany, Geology, Physiology, and Physiography.  Queen's prizes of the value of 7s. 6d. and upwards are also awarded to all students who pass their examinations in the first class. All students attending the classes in the Institute may qualify themselves to compete for the Whitworth Scholarships, the Royal Exhibitions, and Science Studentships. A room in the Institute has been specially fitted up as a Laboratory, and is furnished with all the apparatus necessary for both qualitative and quantitative analyses. The classes in Chemistry and Botany will be found specially adapted for those preparing for either the preliminary or final examination of the Pharmaceutical Society. Certificates from the school are recognised by the Council as qualifying for their diplomas. These classes have, since their opening, proved the most successful in Ireland, both as regards the number in attendance and the scholarships, medals, prizes, and certificates gained at the May examinations, no fewer than 9 students' 2 Queen's medals, 453 Queen's prizes and first class certificates, and 574 second class certificates having been secured. Upwards of £400 (of which £100 was presented by the Committee of the Belfast Meeting of the British Association in recognition of the importance of the Institute as a School of Science) have been spent in the purchase of apparatus for illustrating the lectures experimentally. Educational classes in connection with the Science and Art Department in Mathematics, Mechanics, Acoustics, Light and Heat, Magnetism and Electricity, Chemistry (Inorganic, Organic and Practical)  Geology, Botany, Animal Physiology, Agriculture, Physiography etc., are held and conducted by Robert Barklie, F.C.S.,  R. T. Collier, B.A., Sen. Scholar, Q.C.B., and Samuel Boyle. Every information regarding the classes may be obtained from the Manager, at the Institute, or Mr. Barklie, who attends every evening to enroll students.

CHURCH OF IRELAND YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETY
Rooms - Clarence Place Hall

Containing library, reading rooms, lecture hall, news room and offices. This Society was established in the month of January, 1850, for the spiritual, moral and intellectual improvement of its members, and for the purpose of aiding missions at home and abroad. The library, containing about 1,800 volumes, religious and moral, history, biography and travel, magazines, poetry and fiction, miscellaneous, books of reference etc., is connected with it, and suitable lectures are delivered, at stated periods, by eminent men, and by the members of the society weekly, during the sessions. A committee of fifteen conducts the business of this society. Patron - His Grace the Duke of Abercorn. His Grace the Lord Primate, His Grace the Duke of Manchester, Right Hon. Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., the Lord Bishop of Down and Connor and Dromore, the Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. President - The Right Hon. and Rev, Lord O'Neill. Vice Presidents - Right Hon. Lord Cairns, Colonel William B. Forde, J.P., D.L., William Johnston, Sir Thomas McClure, Bart., M.P., Sir Charles Lanyon, Knt., J.P., Sir W. G. Johnson, Knt., J.P., D.L., Henry H. McNeile, J.P., Conway R. Dobbs, J.P., D.L., William Ewart, M.P., Sir Joshua Prestor, Knt., J.P., Thomas Valentine, J.P., John Mulholland, M.P., Joseph J. Murphy, Isaac J. Murphy, Frederick Kinahan, Thos. Henry Purdon, M.D., Charles D. Purdon, M.D., Henry Ferguson, M.D., W. J. Johnston, J.P., J. T. Abbot, Alexander Lockhart, James B. Owens, James Alexander, J.P., James Neill, the Vicar of Belfast, Revs. Theophilus Campbell, D.D., E. J. Harttrick, A.M., Thomas W. Roe, LL.D., James Marshall, A.M., William Cotter, D.D., George Hamilton, I. H. Deacon, A.M., Richard Irvine, A.M., C. H. H. Wright, D.D., Ph.D., G. A. Chadwick, D.D., Samuel Moore, A.M., S. E. Busby, LL.D., Thomas J. Welland, A.M., J. G. Hopkins, A.M., Walter Riddall, A.M., G. R. Wynne, A.B., W. Stewart Ross, N. E. Smith, Thomas R. Hamilton, A.M. Committee - Charles Foy, Henry Harris, Thos. Brittain, Robert Walsh, B. T. Hewitt, John Smyth, William Irwin, Richard J. Orr, John Garrett, M. B. Thompson, W. R. Patterson, James Taylor, H. A. Matier, James Stewart, Charles Gausen. Treasurer - Robert Thompson, J.P. Corresponding Secretary - Robert L. Hamilton, J.P. Hon. Secretaries - J. G. Johnston, W. J. Jackson. Librarian - John Wylie. General Secretary - H. McKnight. Library and Reading Rooms open every day (Sunday excepted) from 8 am. till 10 pm. Saturdays till 9 pm. Meeting and classes every week during the winter session.

LITERARY SOCIETY

Instituted in 1801, meets once in each month, on Monday evening, from October till May inclusive, in the houses of members. It has for its object literature, science and the arts, and solicits information respecting the history, antiquities, and present state of Ireland. A paper, confined to the subjects announced, is read every night of meeting by the members in succession. Hon. Secretary - Henry Burden, M.A., M.D., College Square North.

BELFAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Rooms - Lombard Street.

Established 1850. The objects of this Association is the spiritual, moral, and mental improvement of young men, by the efforts of the members in the sphere of their daily calling, by devotional meetings, biblical instruction, and mutual improvement classes, the delivery of lectures, the diffusion of Christian literature, or by any other means that are in accordance with the Scriptures. There are a reading room and library in connection with this society. President - Sir Thomas McClure, Bart., V.L., M.P. Vice President - John Browne, Mayor Alex. Bulloch, James Carlisle, J.P., Sir E. Coey, J.P., D.L., J. P. Corry, M.P., Rev. I. H. Deacon, A.M., Wm. Ewart, M.P., W. Quartus Ewart, William L. Finlay, James Glass, Thos Greer, J.P., P. Johnston, J.P., Rev. Robert Knox, D.D., Sir Charles Lanyon, J.P., A. D. Lemon, T. G. Lindsay, J.P., John Moore, M.D., Wm. Mullan, J.P., Rev. Jas. Robertson, Rev. Chas. Seaver, M.A., C. Wolfe Shaw, Wm. Shaw, T. Sinclair, J.P., David Taylor, J.P., Charles Thompson, Rev. John White, Rev. H. M. Williamson, John Workman. Treasurer - W. L. Finlay, jun. Hon. Secretary - Mr. W. S. Mollan. Committee - Robert Anderson, Lawson A. Browne, Joseph H. Cooke, John Fisher, William Greenhill, David Jones, Harry Jones, J. K. Mitchell, Henry Montgomery, Henry McClelland, John Pim, William Shaw, jun., John Wilkinson, B. D. Wise. Hon. Librarian - George W. Blair, and N. Patterson. General Secretary - Alfred H. Pettit.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY
Rooms - Queen's College

This Society, founded February, 1850, was established for the purpose of affording to its members an opportunity of improving themselves by writing papers on literary and scientific subjects. Members are permitted to offer criticisms on the papers. There are now upwards of 150 members. It is managed by the members themselves, under the care and with the sanction of the College authorities. It usually meets every alternate Friday during the College terms, and the public are admitted to the meetings. Annual subscription 2s. 6d, Patrons - The President of the Queen's College, Belfast, and the Right Hon. the Earl of Dufferin and Clandeboye, K.P. Vice Patrons - The Professors of the Queen's College, Belfast.  Office Bearers for 1878 - 80 - President - J. A. Lindsay, M.A. Vice Presidents - J. B. Sayers, B.A., J. A. Strahan, M.A. Secretaries - James Barron, B.A., M.D., J. D. Osborne, B.A. Treasurers - G. L. Moore, B.A., J. H. Montgomery. Council Members - S. Hamill, B.A., S. Black, W. P. Steen, B.A., J. H. Rainey, W. Byers.

BELFAST LIBRARY AND SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE
Rooms - Linen Hall, Donegall Square North

This Society was instituted in 1788, and meets in the centre building of the Linen Hall, under the direction of a president, vice president, and committee, elected annually. It now possesses upwards of 15,000 volumes on history, biography, voyages, travels, political economy, encyclopedias, French and English, with books on natural philosophy, chemistry etc., dictionaries, maps, charts, reviews, magazines, philosophical journals, and a selection of the most popular light literature of the day. The library contains an almost complete file of the Belfast News Letter from 1737 to the present date. A register of the weather is kept by the librarian - viz, barometer, thermometer, and quantity of rain. The Committee meet the first and third Thursday of every month, at eleven o'clock am. There are three classes of subscribers - Proprietors - Who pay two guineas entrance, and one guinea per annum. Members - Who pay one guinea entrance, and one guinea per annum. Annual Subscribers - Who pay no entrance, but merely one guinea per annum subscription. Office Bearers - President - Joseph J. Murphy, F.G.S. Vice President - Arthur C. Weir. Hon. Treasurer - Thos. Montgomery. Hon. Sec. - J. Anderson, J.P., F.G.S. Committee - W. Ed. Crothers, F.R.G.S., John S. Drennan, M.D., W. D. Henderson, John F. Hodges, M.D., Robert MacAdam, Rev. W. C. McCullagh, William H. Patterson, M.R.I.A., Henry Reid, William A. Robinson, William Simms, John Workman, J.P. Librarian - F. A. Maitland. Assistant - F. W. Knox.

COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Waring Street and Donegall Street

Build by a Joint Stock Company, which has been brought under the protection of an Act of Parliament. The building, etc., cost about £20,000, which is divided into 200 shares. The business is managed by a committee, chosen on the second Thursday in every January, from among the proprietors, The public apartments consists of a spacious subscription News Room, liberally supplied with the principal daily and other periodical publications, and also daily telegraphic intelligence, and furnished with a valuable assortment of books and maps. 'Change is held in the buildings on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The facade, fronting Donegall Street, is of the Ionic order of classical proportions, substantially erected of granite, and forms one of the principal architectural features of Belfast.
Committee - Richard Bell, Charles Duffin, M. Oakman, J. G. Biggar, Dr. Murney, Sir James Hamilton, John Suffern, Jas. F. McCaw, W. W. Godfrey, William Carson, James Kennedy, and James Campbell. Secretary - Samuel Vance.

PEOPLE'S LITERARY INSTITUTE
Reading Rooms - 12 Donegall Street

This Institute was founded in 1845, and since then lectures have been delivered under its auspices by several eminent gentlemen. The money raised by all lectures delivered in connection with the Institute is used in improving and extending the libraries. The News room, opened 22nd June, 1846, is supplied regularly with all the leading newspapers and periodicals. It is open daily from 8 am. till 10 pm. Terms to both news room and library, 3s. per quarter. Visitors admitted at the charge of one penny. The Circulating Library, opened 8th July, 1847, consists of about four thousand volumes. Educational classes, in connection with the Society of Arts, London, are conducted every winter, which are free to members of the institute. The institute is now amalgamated with the Working Men's Institute.

BELFAST FRIENDS' INSTITUTE
Frederick Street

Established in 1863. Removed to the present building specially erected for the purpose, at a cost of £900, in 1869. The Institute comprises a reading room, library, etc., and is open free to ladies and gentlemen members of the Society of Friends, the expenses being defrayed by voluntary subscriptions. Lectures on literary, scientific and miscellaneous subjects, are delivered during the winter season. President - Joshua Pim. Committee - Wm. T. Harvey, William J. Boucher, William W. Lamb, Joseph C. Marsh, E. Wakefield Pim, Edwin Squire, Louis F. O'Brien, William J. Gilmore. Treasurer - Elias H. Thompson. Librarians - Fred. W. Lockwood, James Creeth. Hon. Sec. - H. Charles Knight. Resident Caretaker - John Ferguson.

CHEMICO-AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ULSTER
Rooms - 63 Upper Arthur Street

Instituted in 1845, for the dissemination of practical knowledge on the connection of chemistry with agriculture, and for the analysis of soils and manures etc. Meets the first Friday of every month in the rooms of the society. Patron - The Duke of Marlborough, Lord Lieutenant. President - Viscount Templetown. Vice Presidents - The Marquis of Londonderry, Marquis of Donegall, Earl of Dufferin, Earl of Antrim, Lord Clermont, Lord Lurgan, Viscount Newry, Lord E. Hill-Trevor, M.P., Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., M.P., Sir Thomas Bateson, Bart., M.P., Belvoir Park, Lord Bishop of Down, Right Rev. Dr. Dorrian, Sir Thomas McClure, Bart., John Sharman Crawford, D.L., the Mayor of Belfast, R. F. Gordon, D.L., A. J. R. Stewart, D.L., Ards, Hon. Somerset Ward, J.P., T. Gregg, J.P., John Mulholland, D.L., M.P., Thomas Andrews, M.D., F.R.S. Honorary Members - M. Boussingault, Paris, M. Chereal, F.R.S., Professor Voelcker, F.R.S., J. B. Lawes, F.R.S., D. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S. Council - James Andrews, J.P., Comber,  W. J. C. Allen, J.P., Fanoran, John Borthwick, J.P., Prospect, Carrickfergus, J. Barr, Royal Distillery, Lisburn, Washington Charters, Wakefield, H. Dickson, Belfast, Wm. Gray, M.R.I.A., Belfast, William Boyd, Comber, Rev. J. Bradshaw, J.P., Milecross, Newtownards, Henry Burden, M.D., Belfast, Professor Cuming, M.D., Belfast, Ynyr Burgess, J.P., Parkanaur, Dungannon, J. A. Henderson, J.P., Belfast, D. Delacherois, D.L., Donaghadee, W. C. Heron, J.P., High Sheriff, Co. Down, J. Torrens, J.P., Belfast, W. Charley, J.P., Seymour Hill, Dunmurry, F. Filgate, J.P., Castleshane, Lieut. General Smythe, R.A., Whiteabbey, Robert H. Bland, J.P., Lisburn, R. Gordon, Falls Road, Belfast, Andrew Cowan, J.P., Groomsport, Bangor, Robt. Ireland, Falls, Belfast, J. Hancock, J.P., Lurgan, Rev. J. Jellie, Carrickfergus, W. J. Hurst, Drumaness, Geo. S. Kirkpatrick, Craigs, Cullybacky, Peter Quinn, J.P., The Agency, Newry, F. A. Heron, Craigavad, R. Morrow, Lisburn, J. McCormic, Newtownbreda, L. Turtle, Aghalee, Robert McCalmont, F.C.S., Belfast, Joseph Perry, Grove Hill, Downpatrick, S. McCausland, Belfast, J. Chambers, Tullynaskeagh, Rev. Geo. Smythe, Carnmoney, S. Shannon, Carrickfergus, M. Thompson, J.P., Killyleagh, T. Lindsay, Derryboy, Killyleagh, Thomas Valentine, J.P., The Moat, W. Davidson, Rademon, J. Davidson, Brookfield, Moira, H. Young, J.P., Fenaghy. Treasurer - Wm. Simms, Linen Hall, Belfast. Honorary Secretary - W. B. Ritchie, J.P., The Grove, Belfast. Chemical Director - Professor Hodges, M.D., F.C.S, Assistant Chemist - F. Hodges, F.J.C., Mem. Chem. Soc., Berlin. The Society publishes a monthly "Journal of Agriculture and Industry" which is circulated free to members.

NORTH EAST AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND
Office - The Ulster Buildings

This Association consists of two classes of members - amateurs and farmers. Its operations, as far as regards the Farmers' Class, are confined to the province of Ulster. The Amateur Class is open to the United Kingdom. Funds are raised by donations and annual subscriptions. The first Show was held in Belfast, August 1855. President - General Viscount Templetown, K.C.B. Vice Presidents - (Down) Marquis of Londonderry, K.P., Earl of Dufferin, K.P., Viscount Bangor, Sir Thomas McClure, Bart., V.L., M.P. (Antrim) - Marquis of Donegall, K.P. Viscount Massereene and Ferrard, Lord O'Neill, Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., M.P. (Armagh) - Earl of Charlemont, K.P., Lord Clermont, Sir J. M. Stronge, Bart., Maxwell C. Close, M.P. (Monaghan) - Marquis of Headfort, Earl of Dartrey, K.P., Lieut.- Colonel Lloyd, J.P., Rev. A. N. Haire-Foster, J.P. Trustees - Fitzherbert Filgate, J.P., J. Hancock, J.P., W. B. Glenny, J.P.  Secretary - G. Gerald Bingham, office, The Ulster Buildings. Treasurer - The Northern Banking Company.

FLAX SUPPLY ASSOCIATION
Office - 10 Donegall Square West

Established for the improvement of the culture of flax in Ireland, and the dissemination of information relative to the production and supply of flax. President - William Ewart, M.P. Vice Presidents - J. G. Richardson and John Mulholland, D.L., M.P. Council - Thomas Andrews, John D. Barbour, Charles Bowles, John Campbell, James Carlisle, William Charley, Foster Connor, James Dickson, William Quartus Ewart, William J. Finlayson, William L. Finlay, David Graham, Robert Gordon, Robert L. Hamilton, James Hind, W. J. Hurst, Philip Johnston, William M. Kirk, John Love, Robert MacGeagh, William S. Mitchell, William H. Moreland, Charles Murland, John Marshall (Leeds),  H. D. McMaster, A. J. McCullough, Robert Porter, Sir. John Preston, J. N. Richardson, jun., James Taylor Reid, Thomas Valentine, John Vogan, John Young. Treasurer - William Valentine. Secretary - Michael Andrews. Bankers - Northern Banking Company.

THE BELFAST CHOIR
Band Room, Ulster Hall

Instituted 1876, for the cultivation of classical choral music. Practices are held weekly during the musical season, on Thursday evenings, in the Band Room, Ulster Hall, Linenhall Street, commencing at eight o'clock. All information can be obtained from the conductor, 5 Atlantic Avenue. President - Viscount Castlereagh, M.P. Organist - Joseph S. Firth.  Conductor - Fred. C. Smythe, Mus. Bac., T.C.D.

THE BELFAST CHORAL ASSOCIATION
Assembly's Hall, May Street

This Society was established in 1874 by Mr. Walter Newport, for the cultivation and promotion principally of unaccompanied part singing, as well as the performance of the works by the great masters. The society has succeeded beyond anticipation, not only in their own work but also in developing a great desire for music among the middle classes. Three concerts are given by the society in the Ulster Hall during each season, which are always largely attended. The society meets for rehearsal in the Practice Rooms, Assembly's Hall, May Street, every Thursday evening at eight, during the season. President - His Worship the Mayor of Belfast (for the time being). Hon Treasurer - G. Ord. Hon. Secretary - Richard Howell. Conductor - W. J. Kempton, St. Mark's, Sydenham, late Professor, Ely College.

BELFAST PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY

(In which are Incorporated the Classical Harmonists' and Belfast Musical Societies). This Society was founded in 1874 for the practice and public performance of choral and instrumental works. The members meet weekly during the season, in the Ulster Hall, for rehearsal, and there are usually four or five concerts each season. Subscriptions - One Guinea, two guineas, and 9vice presidents) five guineas, entitling the subscriber, for each guinea paid, to one free ticket for each concert. Members - Half a guinea each, with the same privileges as a subscriber of one guinea. President - Robert Edwd. Ward, D.L. Hon. Secretaries - James Alexander and Hugh Hyndman. Hon. Organist - John Shillington. Conductor - Sir. R. P. Stewart, Mus. D. Assistant Secretary - M. H. Harris, Office of the Society, 15 Donegall Place.

NATURAL HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Museum - College Square North

This Society was formed in 1821, for the cultivation of natural History, and the investigation of the topography, statistics and antiquities of Ireland. Subsequently the range of subjects became much more extensive, it being agreed to receive communications on all branches of physical science and their applications. The meetings (private and public) for reading of papers are held during the winter months, at the Museum, College Square North. The Belfast Museum is the first Museum erected in Ireland solely by private subscriptions. It was opened in 1831 -32. The internal arrangements are under the care of the Council for the time being. Officers for 1879 - 1880 :- President - Professor Purser. Vice Presidents - Dr. Andrews, Joseph John Murphy, R. MacAdam, and R. Lloyd Patterson. Treasurer - John Anderson. Librarian - Thomas Workman. Secretary - A. O'D. Taylor. Shareholders - One share in the Museum costs £7, two do., £14, three do., £21. The proprietor of one share pays 10s. per annum, the proprietor of two shares pays 5s. per annum, and the proprietor of three shares or more shares stands exempt from further payment. Shareholders only are eligible for election on the council of management. Privileges - Each Shareholder and Member has the right of personal attendance at all meetings of the Society, and of admitting a friend thereto, also of access to the Museum for himself and family, with the privilege of granting admission orders for inspecting collections to any friends not resident in Belfast. Any further information can be obtained by application to either of the Secretaries. It is requested that all accounts due by the society be sent to the Treasurer. The Museum, College Square North, is open daily from 12 till 4 o'clock. Admission for strangers, 6d. each. The Curator is in constant attendance, and will take charge of any donation kindly left for the Museum or Library. The society publishes its proceedings annually.

BELFAST NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB.
Rooms - Museum, College Square North.

This Society was established in March, 1863, for the practical study of natural science in all its branches, and archaeology, by holding field meetings during the summer months, and the reading of papers during the winter months - the papers so read to treat, so far as possible, of the natural history and antiquities of the district. The annual subscription is 5s., payable in advance. Prizes are offered for the best collection of scientific objects made by the members. The Club publishes annual proceedings, with occasional appendices, referring to the geology, natural history, and antiquities of the Province of Ulster.  President - Wm. Gray, M.R.I.A., Mountcharles.  Vice President - Prof. J. F. Hodges, M.D., Derryvolgie. Committee - John Browne, M.R.I.A., W. S. Firth, Dr. James Moore, M.R.I.A., H.R.H.A., Rev. Canon MacIlwaine, D.D., M.R.I.A., Geo. O'Brien, F. W. Lockwood, S. A. Stewart, F.B.S.E., Joseph Wright, F.G.S., F.R.G.S.I., Isaac W. Ward, Thomas Workman. Treasurer - Greer Malcolmson, Castle Place. secretaries - Hugh Robinson, Donegall Street, William Swanston, F.G.S., King Street.

ULSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY
Rooms - Royal Hospital, Frederick Street

The Ulster Medical Society, formed in 1862 by the union of the Belfast Medical Society and the Clinico-Pathological Society, has for its objects to afford its members increased facilities of consulting the best medical works and periodicals by means of the library, of deriving mutual instruction on medical subjects by means of its discussions and its pathological museum, and, as a collective body, protecting the interests of the medical profession. The meetings are held in the rooms of the society, at the Royal Hospital, at eight o'clock, on each alternate Tuesday, from 1st November, till 30th April. President - Dr. Dill. Ex-President - Dr. Harkin. Vice Presidents -  Drs. J. W. Browne, and Fagan. Council - Drs. Wales, Moore, McConnell, McKeown, Dempsey, and Clements. Treasurer - Dr. Esler. Hon. Secretary - Dr. Whitla, 41 Great Victoria Street. Librarians - Drs. Cole and Clarke. Pathological Secretary - Dr. Workman.

THE THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

This Society is in connection with the Assembly's College. Public and private meetings are held alternately during each month of the College session. At these meetings papers are read by members of the Society, but although the Society bears the name Theological, the readers are not restricted to theological subjects. The Society has a flourishing news room. Office Bearers - President - H. Waterworth, M.A. Vice Presidents - W. Martin, M.A., Geo. Jackson, M.A. Secretaries - John Irwin, M.A., W. L. Berkeley, M.A. Treasurer - J. D. Osborne, B.A. Council Members - Pepe Pauley, R. T. Bailey, R.A., R. Reid, B.A., H. Moore, B.A., George Harrison, B.A.

ULSTER BOOK, TRACT AND BIBLE DEPOSITORY
1 Donegall Square East, & 11 College Square East

Established 1815, under the management of a committee of different religious orthodox denominations, for the sale of Bibles, Prayer Books, Psalm Books, Tracts, and religious publications generally. Proprietor and Manager - W. Erskine Mayne.

UNITARIAN SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
Depository - 33 Donegall Street

The aim of the Society is the promotion of genuine Christianity, and the vindication of the right of free inquiry. With this view, a choice and extensive selection of books and tracts is kept at the depository, which are sold at cost price to the public, and lectures and other works of a missionary character take place under its auspices. The committee meet on the last Wednesday of every month, at three o'clock pm. Office Bearers - Hon. Treasurer - Hugh Hyndman, LL.B.  Hon. Secretaries - Robert McCalmont, F.C.S., John F. Mulligan. Executive Committee - James M. Darbishire, Chairman, William A. Adamson, Henry Ferguson, George Fisher, E. A. Fuhr, T. McClelland, D. McMaster, James McWilliam, D. W. Moore, John R. Neill, Rev. John Orr, William Rankin, John Ritchie, Rev. J. C. Street, and Rev. David Thompson.

THE TYPOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION
Belfast Branch

For the relief of unemployed travelling printers, and to aid in the adoption of beneficial trade regulations in the town and neighbourhood, and throughout the United Kingdom. There is also a Sick and Funeral Fund in connection with this Society. The Society is regulated by a President, Secretary, and Treasurer, and a Committee of nine. The Society meets first Saturday in each month. Office of the Society - Oddfellows' Hall, Academy Street.

LINEN MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION
Linen Hall, Belfast

This association has for its object the regulation and protection of the trade, the settlement of disputes by arbitration, the bringing before Parliament Bills tending to further the interests of the linen business, and the carrying out of all projects likely to promote the advancement and prosperity of the staple manufacture. A meeting of the Council is held regularly in the Linen Hall on the last Tuesday of every month, at half past eleven o'clock, when such subjects as affect the interests of the trade are discussed. Ex-Presidents - William Ewart, J.P., M.P., (Messrs. William Ewart & Son) ; Robert Thompson, J.P., (Messrs. Richardson, Sons & Owden Ltd.), J. M. Calder, (Messrs. J. M. Calder & Co.) Henry Smith (Messrs. County Down Flax Spinning and Weaving Co. Ltd), R. H. Reade (Messrs. York Street Flax Spinning Co. Ltd_, James Glass (Messrs. James Glass & Co.), John Jaffé (Messrs. Jaffé Brothers). President - Henry Matier (Messrs. Henry Matier & Co._ Vice President - Charles C. Connor (Messrs. Fenton, Connor & Co.) Council - Messrs. Brookfield Linen Co. Ltd., George Betzoid & Co., J. M. Calder & Co., County Down Flax Spinning & Weaving Co. Ltd., Dicksons, Ferguson & Co., Wm. Ewart & Son, John Elliott & Co., Ewing, Son & Co., Fenton, Connor & Co., Greenmount Spinning Co., L. H. Guynet & Co. Ltd., Malcolm & Pentland, Henry Matier & Co., Moore & Weinberg, Northern Spinning & Weaving Co. Ltd., Richardson, Sons & Owden Ltd., R. Thompson, Son & Co., James & Robert Young. Treasurer - Lavens M. Ewart (Messrs. Wm. Ewart & Son.) Secretary 0 William H. Ward, (Ulster Damask and Linen Co.)

BELFAST DOG SHOW SOCIETY
Offices of Society - 24 North Street

The object of this society is to foster a taste for an improved breed of dogs in the North, by holding an annual exhibition. Chairman - Marcus Gage, J.P. Committee - Capt. H. G. S. Alexander, G. H. Adams, A. Crawford, F. W. Hayes, Wm. Graham, William Laird, W. H. Hunter, S. T. Mercier, Marcus McC. Gage, J.P., Robert Bryson, J. Thompson, W. H. Lawler, John A. Pryde, A. Galloway, R. Mullan, K. MacRea. Hon. Treasurer - W. A. Parke. Secretary and manager - Robt. Erskine, 24 North Street, Belfast. Hon. Vet. Surgeon - James King, V.S. Rules and regulations may be obtained of the secretary.

ULSTER RIFLE ASSOCIATION
Secretary's Office - 21 Castle Place, Belfast
Range and Clubhouse - Kinnegar, Holywood

This association was founded in 1861, in continuance of the Belfast Rifle Club, which dates as far back as 1829. It has been most successful in promoting long range shooting of the scientific description, but several of its members have acquired great reputation in the older art of "off shoulder practice." The association is indebted to Captain Harrison, J.P., of Holywood House, for the free use of one of the finest ranges in the kingdom, extending to 1,200 yards in length. The annual rifle meeting has been held since 1867, at Clandeboye, by special invitation of the noble president, and it attracts rifle shots from all parts of the country. Subscription, One Guinea per annum, in advance. Members of the army and navy and R.I. Constabulary, half subscription. President - The Right Hon. the Earl of Dufferin, K.P., K.C.B. Vice Presidents - The Right Hon. Viscount Massereene and Ferrard, the Right Hon. Lieut.-Gen. Viscount Templetown, Sir Thomas McClure, Bart., M.P., the Mayor of Belfast, the Chairman of Harbour Commissioners, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Sir Charles Lanyon, D.L., J.P., Thos. Cordukes, Esq.  Chairman - Capt. John Harrison, J.P.  Vice Chairman - T. R. Walkington, Esq.  Committee - John McKenna, John G. McGee, John Robinson, J. T. Barrett, James S. Lee, Dr. Barnett, Henry Fulton, S. O. Wylie, J. A. Teggart, Thos. McArthur, Henry Ferguson, Alex. McCann. Armourers - Joseph Braddell & Son.  Hon. Treasurer - T. R. Walkington, Waring Street.  Hon. Secretary - James Wilson, jun., 20 Skipper Street.

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES

BELFAST FLAX & JUTE CO. 9LIMITED0
Offices - 32, Donegall Place

Managing Directors - Wm. Harrison Moreland, John Harrison Moreland. Sec. - J. E. Mansfield.

BELFAST STEAMSHIP CO. (LIMITED)
Secretary's Office - 18, Tomb Street

Established 1852. Incorporated as a Limited Company 1872. Managed by a Board of Directors, Steamers ply daily between Belfast and Liverpool, and twice a week between Londonderry and :Liverpool. The following steamers constitute the Company's fleet - Voltaic, Galvanic, Magnetic, Electric, Semaphore, Italia, Glenocum. Chairman - Wm. Valentine, J.P. Sec. - John Pim. Shipping Offices - 42, Donegall Quay, Belfast, and Quay, Londonderry.

BELFAST WAREHOUSE CO. (LIMITED)
21, Donegall Quay. Secretary - H. H. Kingsmill.

BLACKSTAFF FLAX SPINNING AND WEAVING CO. (LIMITED)
Offices - 1a, Railway Street,
Managing Directors - John K. Boyd, William Boyd. Secretary - William Boyd.

BROOKFIELD LINEN CO. (LIMITED)
Offices - Donegall Street,
Managing Directors - Jas. Carlisle, J.P., chairman, W. R. Patterson. W. B. Morton, secretary.

D. ANDERSON & SONS (LIMITED)
Directors - Robert Ferguson, George Lord, Dr. J. Walton Browne. Manager - Robert Reid. Secretary - William James Anderson.

DUNVILLE & CO. (LIMITED)
Offices - 16, Calender Street,
Directors - R. G. Dunville, J. Bruce, J. Craig, John McConnell, D. R. Lappin,, and J. Barr.

GUNNING & CAMPBELL'S (LIMITED)
Offices - 4, North Howard Street.
Managing Director - John R. Garratt. Sec. - John B. Aickin.

JAMES LINDSAY & CO. (LIMITED)
28, Donegall Place.
Directors - James Lindsay, Thos. G. Lindsay. James C. Lindsay. Secretary - Thomas S. Oliver.

JOHN ROWAN & SONS (LIMITED)
Offices and Foundry - York Street.
Directors - A. B. Wilson, chairman, William Dobbin, vice chairman, Edward Reilly, Edward Porter Cowan, R. H. Orr, O'Donnell Grimshaw. Secretary - James A. Armstrong, 150, York Street.

LINDSAY BROTHERS & CO. (LIMITED)
11 Donegall Place. Directors - James Lindsay, Thos. G. Lindsay, James C. Lindsay. Managing Directors - Wm. J. Davison, David J. Lindsay. Sec. - H. Porter.

L. H. GUYNET & CO. (LIMITED)
Linen Manufacturers and Merchants
42 & 44, Upper Queen Street
Managing Directors - F. W. Pim, Dublin, H. J. Nicholson, Ardsallagh, Derryvolgie avenue. Secretary - R. L. Ferguson, Avonmore Terrace, Balmoral.

PHILIP JOHNSTON & SONS (LIMITED)
Jennymount Mills, Shore Road.

Directors - Philip Johnston, J.P., Dalriada, John D. Barbour, J.P., Lisburn,  William J. Johnston, J.P., Dunesk, David W. Johnston, Dalriada, Samuel A. Johnston, Belfast, Wm. Walker, Banbridge. Managing Directors - S. A. Johnston, Richmond Crescent, Henry McCance, Wellington Park. Secretary - Thomas Gardner.

ROYAL BELFAST BOTANIC AND HORTICULTURAL COMPANY (LIMITED)
Garden and Co.'s Office - University Road.

Secretary's Office - 7, Donegall Square East. The Gardens are open every day to subscribers, who are privileged to give admission orders to strangers, non residents in Belfast, under certain restrictions. During the summer months a band attends once a week. Shareholders and subscribers, 6d. There are two entrances - one by University Road and one by Botanic Avenue. Strangers and those living more than six miles from Belfast are admissible to the Gardens (except on fete days) at 6d. each; children 3d. Directors - A. J. Macrory, Duncairn, W. J. Johnston, J.P., Charles Thomson, William Simms, W. H. Dixon, T. R. Walkington, A. D. Lemon, Charles Kinahan, Thomas Gaffikin, A. M. Ferrar, David Taylor, J.P., James Thompson, J.P., E. H. Clarke, William Gray, and H. H. Bottomley. Solicitors - Messrs. Macrory & Co. Treasurers - Northern Banking Co. Secretary - F. W. Smith, 7, Donegall Square East. Head Gardiner - Charles McKimm.

SMITHFIELD FLAX SPINNING AND WEAVING CO. (LIMITED)
Offices - Smithfield, Managing Directors - F. S. Herdman, A. J. A. Lepper. Secretary - T. Blair Boyd.

THE EDENDERRY SPINNING CO. (LIM.)
Crumlin Road. Managing Director - John Beck. Secretary - John T. Abbott.

THE ROSEBANK LINEN CO. (LIMITED)
Mill & Offices - Rosebank, Crumlin Road.

Capital, £75,000, in 7,500 shares of £10 each. This Company has been formed to purchase the mill and factory of Messrs. Mitchell Brothers, with the fixed and moveable machinery therein, and the water rights attached thereto, at the price of £2 per spindle and £25 per loom, subject to the ground rent of £250. Directors - John Young, Galgorm Castle Co., Antrim, Chairman, Sir John Preston, Dunmore, Belfast, Herbert O. Lanyon, Lismara, Belfast, with power to add to their number if found desirable. Managing Directors - William S. Mitchell, Olinda, Craigavad, J. L. Marshall, Belmont. Bankers - The Bank of Ireland. Solicitors - L'Estrange & Brett.

THE FALLS FLAX SPINNING CO. (LIM.)
Offices - 5, Conway Street. Managing Director - John Vogan. Secretary - A. McD. Calwell.

THE NORTHERN SPINNING & WEAVING COMPANY (LIMITED)
Offices - Falls Road & 1 Wellington Place. Managing Director - Thos. Valentine. Sec. - William Savage.

THE ULSTER HALL CO. (LIMITED)
Office - Ulster Hall, Bedford Street.

This Company possesses a spacious hall in Bedford Street, with the necessary minor apartments, affording accommodation for between two and three thousand persons, and suitable for concerts, exhibitions of art, balls, dinners, and all other public purposes to which such buildings are generally applied. Chairman of Directors - Sir John Preston, J.P. Secretary - F. W. Smith, 7, Donegall Square East and Ulster Hall. Bankers - Belfast Banking Co.

ULSTER SPINNING CO. (LIMITED)
Offices - Bedford Street. Managing Directors - Finlay McCance, J.P., Larchfield, Lisburn, Chairman, R. H. Reade, Wilmount, Robert Porter, Fortwilliam Park. Secretary - William Moffatt, 3 Lower Crescent.

CLUBS

BELFAST BOAT CLUB

President - The Duke of Abercorn, K.G. Vice President - A. Chenevix-Trench. Secretary - William Crawford, jun., Rosemary Street. Treasurer - H. Herdman.

BELFAST BOWLING CLUB
Green - Cromac Park

The first Green of the Belfast Bowling Club was made in Nelson Street in the year 1843. The ground which it occupied having been taken for building a second Green was made in York Street in the year 1846, on ground now occupied by the York Street Spinning Company. The third Green was made on ground lying immediately behind the Belfast Charitable Institution, and is now built over. The beautiful Green now belonging to the Club was made in Cromac Park in the year 1873. "Bowls" was at one time a very popular game, and frequent mention of it is made in old documents. A game of "billiards on Nature's billiard-board" is one of the most delightful and healthiest of exercises, and is altogether free from risks attending some other out door games. It is adapted alike to the young, the middle aged, and the old. The membership of the Belfast Bowling Club is elective. Secretary - D. Laurie, Queen's Quay.

BELMONT BOWLING CLUB
Green - Belmont Park

The Belmont Bowling Club has been recently named for the purpose of extending the practice of this and other kindred games to that pleasant and popular suburb. Its success is already assured by the active co-operation of a few of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood, and the site chosen, which is admirably central, will make it a convenient and agreeable resort for those who love a pleasant chat or friendly game. The property is vested in trustees, and is managed by a committee of the shareholders. The membership is elective. Hon. Secretary - R. Jamieson, Belmont Park.

NORTH OF IRELAND CRICKET CLUB,
Ormeau Road, Belfast.

Established 1859. Patrons - His Grace the Duke of Abercorn, the Most Noble the Marquis of Donegall. President - Viscount Massereene and Ferrard. Trustees - Viscount Massereene and Ferrard, J. B. Houston, D.L., J.P., P. Ewing, E. P. Cowan, J.P., C. K. Cordner, J.P., A. Duffin. Hon. Secretary - F. L. Heyn, Ulster Chambers. Hon. Treasurer - R. Watson, Donegall Square West. Committee - Lord Massereene, J. B. Houston, D.L., E. P. Cowan, J.P., E. K. Cordner, J.P., W. H. Moreland, Adam Duffin, J. R. Bristow, J. G. Fennell, C. E. Stelfox, J. T. Reade, H. H. Bottomley, P. Ewing, F. R. Lepper, W. Vint, W. Ewing, F. M. Harris, Dr. Ferguson, J. Stelfox, jun., R. H. Orr, P. H. Ewing, R. Watson, E. Hughes, E. H. Watson, F. L. Heyn. The ground, situated on Ormeau Road, about one mile from Great Northern Railway Terminus, is seven acres in extent, all levelled and laid down, and is considered one of the finest in the United Kingdom. At the north-west corner stands a magnificent pavillion, erected at a cost of upwards of £1,000. The club numbers 381 members, consisting of life, ordinary, and temporary members.

ROYAL ULSTER YACHT CLUB
Bangor - Co. Down.

Commodore - The Earl of Dufferin, K.P. Vice Commodore - J. Mulholland, M.P. Rear Commodore - H. Murney, M.D. Hon. Sec. and Treasurer - Arthur Jill Coates, Bangor, County Down.

ULSTER CLUB
Castle Place

Trustees - Lord Lurgan, W. T. B. Lyons, J. Blakiston Houston. Hon. Secretary - Arthur Sharman Crawford. Bankers - The Northern Banking Company. Steward - J. M. Beazley.

UNION CLUB
Castle Buildings - Donegall Place

Committee - Robert Patterson, J. D. Smyth, f. Connor, William Riddel, John R. Musgrave, W. C. Mercer, Wm. Moreland. Hon. Secretary - G. K. Smith. Treasurer - Samuel Vance.

CHURCHES, RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES ETC.

CHURCH OF IRELAND
Within the Municipal Boundary

* The original Parish Church stood in the Churchyard of Shankhill. That edifice having become a ruin, and unfit for divine service about A.D. 1621, an ancient parochial Chapel, then known as "The Chapel of the Ford," and afterwards, on being restored or rebuilt A.D. 1645, known as "The Old Corporation Church," situated near the spot where St. George's Church now stand, became the Parish Church of Shankhill. "The Old Corporation Church" was pulled down A.D. 1774, and the present Parish Church of St. Anne's was erected in Donegall Street by the Earl of Donegall, at his own cost, and consecrated A.D. 1778.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH