... that if the Government had left the matter to-itself, instead of attempting to put obstacles m the way of united or unsectanan education, Irishmen would have solved existing difficulties for themselves, and have met in the Queen's Colleges and Dublin ...

... the former precedents in such cases, according to which some article of valne should be presented to those arbitrators- The United States Government agreed to this course, but subsequently the matter was renewed, and in the corre- spondence which took place ...

... English rule ? Will not every Home Ruler feel strengthened in his con- tentious plea for the settlement of Irish questions by Irishmen alone ? We will uot stop to argue now whether the Irish demands on this question are reasonable or not-; we only say that ...

... mourn- ing, to count from the 13th of February. An American paper states that the blades for the new swords ordered for the United States Army have just been finished at the Springfield Armoury. They are perfectly straight, 31in. long, and handsomely decorated ...

... PHALANX. The Telegraph observes that if the fanatics of Home Rule or concurrent endowment could send seventy or even forty, United Irishmen to Parliament, if the phalanx were so well drilled that it would always obey the word of command, and if it were absolutely ...

... Association. In a letter to an officer of the Association, Mr. Henry says that Englishmen and Scotchmen look upon Ireland and Irishmen with undisguised dislike and distrust. The Hulsean Prize given annually to any mem- ber of Cambridge University under the ...

... parti- cular offices had the power of charging a different rate for telegrams sent in the French language to any part of the United Kingdom to those in English, and whether a postmaster was justified in charging for such telegram at the rate of Is. per 20 ...

... bye-gone times than to the pre- sent generation. The truth is that there is far more good feeling between Englishmen and Irishmen than political agitators and nostrum-dealers would have us believe, and the object of all future legis- tion with regard ...

... have entire control of the brotherhood, and issue orders as occa- sion may require for its guidance. The law which deprives Irishmen of the right of carry- ing or having in their possession any description of wea- pon or ammunition was resented as something ...

... represent any existing society, club, or confederation. They shall represent only a certain number of Irishmen of their own locality. Each fifty Irishmen are to have one delegate, and no more. A telegram conveys news of a rumour that the Spanish Government ...

... the progress of railroad enterprise it. the United States have just been issued. Since the year lS1, when there were but about 6,OCO miles of completed railroad in the country, the railroad system of the United States had increased on January last to 71 ...

... meeting in Dublin on Thursday night, said that if the Irish people were only united in action and temperate in conduct the wish nearest the heart of the masses of Irishmen for a Parliament of their own would be realised. The Sheffield knife-grinders ...