... I r_ _, _IRM TEHACKERAY'S LECTURES. Mr. Thackeray delivered the third of his series of lectures i on Thursday, to an audience more numerous and distin- e guished than ever. The humorist he dealt with this time S was Sir Richard Steele, Addison's friend and fellow-labourer in the 8pectator. He began by showing us that such a being as a perfect man would be, to us, intolerable, and, as regarded ...

... IF O The Right.Hon. the Lord Mayor gave his first grand ball last evening in the Mansion-house. The entire suite of rooms were splendidly decorated end brilliantly illuminated, parti- cularly the Round Room, in which there were several beau- tiful devices in gas jets. Their Excellencies the Lord and Lady Lieutenant arrived at half-past eleven o'clock, attended by the usual escort, and were met ...

... THE PACKET STATIOIT. The .fail of last night, speaking of the report of the so- t called Packet Station Commissioners, against Ire'and, says: AllThe government secured to themselves the advent Age of packing thtir jury and controlling its operations. A com- mission, therefore, was issued to these five p rsonages, Lord n Granville, the Vice-President of the Boars of Trade, Sir h John Fox ...

... THE KILRUSI UNION-THE INSPECTOR'S REPORT. Mr. Lucas, Poor Law Inspector, having been directed by the Poor Law Commissioners to report upon the state of the Kilrush Union, in reference to the letters of the Rev. S. Godolphin Osborne, has made his report. As the Poor Law Commissioners are themselves deeply implicated in the slaughter of the peasantry which is systematically carried on in these ...

... ?? be tamn 4futat DUBLIN: SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1851. 0 The maintenance of these institutions is by no ameans a mere Dublin question. Every part of Ireland is interested in it. Although the hospital accommodation of this metropolis is not, unfortu- nately, co-extensive with the urgent and large de- f mands upon it, still admission is freely given to patients from all quarters of the country, ...

... PARLLMENTARY NOTICES. HOUSE OF COMMONS-MoNDAY, MARCH 10. ORDERS OF THE DAY, Valuation (Ireland) ?? reading. Civil bills, &c. (Ireland) ?? reading. Improvement of towns (Ireland) ?? reading. Viscount Jocelyn-Committee to Inquire into the question of the existing steam communications between England and India, and to report whether any improvements may be made in the coniuct of those ...

... (FROM A CORmuSPOWDENT.) Tuesday Morning, 10 o'Clock. The town is up and stirring this morning. The streets were crowded last night, particularly about the committee rooms of the candidates. Nothing remarkable, however, took place, as the weather was not favourable, it having commenced to rain about eight o'clock in the evening; so that no speeches were delivered from the committee rooms. Lord ...

... ,[We publish the ?? letter because of our entire co- incidence with the views propounded by the writer. We do not desire in commenting on this letter to anticipate the pro- ceedings of to-day; but we may confidently assure our cor- respondent that those proceedings will be in perfect keeping with the high tone which the country has assumed, and by which alone we can hope to resist and defeat ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF TiE FREEIAN. The parent of prejudice is ignorance. DEAr SIRc-Hitherto I have refrained from making any observations on the lectures now delivering at the Rotundo on the subject of mesmerism, and I most cordially agree with the writer of a letter signed ?? Observer, and which appeared in your journal a few days since, that the subject has made a great Impression on all ...

... i DUBLIN TRADERS' PROTECTIS E The anniversary dinner of the members of this bodetyw held last evening at Jude's Hotel, Grafton-street, and was numerously attended by the merchants, traders, and shop- keepers who were members of the association. The ente- tainment was served in Mr. Jude's very best style, and com- pyised every delicacy of the season. The wines were of the richest vintage, ans ...

... Files of papers have been received from the Cape to the 16th of April, being eight days later intelligence. We ex- tract the follosviig stifmmary of events from the Sout,4 AI- fJrican, of the 12th of April:- (le, The intelligdncs receive:d by Thursday's post is more by gloomy 'than ever. A feeling of discouragement and alarm ts; seems to perva -e all commun'cations from the frontier, and by ...

... I ?? a _ la iuonuay evening anu accident occurred to Mrs. Graham, b the c lebrated aeronaut, ard Mr. Graham her husband, which v. perilled not only their lives, but those of many other persons, i- and occasioned the destruction of a large amount of property. d For some days past an announcement had been made that on y last evening Mrs. Graham would take an aerial trip, accom- D panied by her ...