... TIHE O'CONNELL COMPENSATION FUND-ITS I UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS. I From the Evening Freeman of yesterday. m It is in the highest degree honourable to the people of a Ireland to have come forward in~ austaurjzent, of thia great, fA measure, on 'the present occasion, w~ith suxcl unexampled' ci spirit. The necessity of supporting the find on principles qi which come home to the business and bosoms ...

... MEETING OF aIR. O'CONAELL'S CONVSTITUl'N7'S An adjourned meetin- -v - ,t us vsir. U'Connell's constituents was held yesterday at the Adelphi Theatre, pursuant to a i requisition from the honourable and learned gentleman, for the purpose of receiving the drafts of the address to her Majesty, and petition to the House of Commons, pre- a pared by the committee appointed at the last meeting._ i ...

... I FRANCE. The Paris papers of Saturday have been received in due course. The address of the Chamber of Peers, in answer to the King's speech, was to he presented and read this day. The discussion would, it was expected, last during two days. The address of the Deputies would, it was believed, be presented on Thursday. There is nothing new respecting the recently dis- covered conspiracy in the ...

... Paris, Friday, Jan. 3. Long before you receive this you will have learned the melancholy intelligence of the good arclbishop'.s death.- Since Tuesday evening that painful event has engrossed tbe sole attention of the ecclesiastical circles here, and indeed up to the present time the circumstances connected with it form the general topic of conversation among the citizens generally. All classes ...

... NEWS O THE DAY. we understand that the demand for tickets for 'the great Banquet to Mr. O'Connell has so far exceeded the anticipa- tions of the comffnittee, that no new applications can be re- ceived after to.morrow. The entertainment will, ofcourse, be in Morrisson's first styie, and the whole is to begot up on a scale of magnificence which has been equalled at few public dinners given in ...

... THE FREEMAN'-S JUORNAL DUBLTN, WEDNESDAY, .JANUARY . 1P40. = = r = __ _ _ _ *A_ ?? :6 THE IRISH REFOUM BiLL. .. ~ ~~ ~ . IL . The Times is certainly a most efficient en- gine of Irish agitation; 'if -paid.afr -,doing the work of the agitators it could not by -possibility have hit upon a better mode of proceidiug thn the course it chalked out for itself four years ago, and which it has up to ...

... THE FE.EMAN'S JOURNAL THE IRISH REVORKt BILL. If the Standard be serious in the mode it sug- gests for testing the qualification of Irish free- holders, it must, of necessity, regard the Irish landlords as little better than downright fools; and their tenantry, or we are greatly in error, know to their cost that the class, with few exceptions, are, like true children of this world, swise in ...

... CITY TAXATION-MEETING OF THE COM- - MITTEE. - I A meeting of the Committee on City Taxation;~took place, the yesterday in the Coffee-room of the Royal Exchange, pur- 'His suant to public advertisement. Pon Captain NoWLAN in the Chair. pric Mr. Edward Bren nan was requested to net as secretary. is Is The Chairman observed that he felt great pleasure in sunv laying before the committee, and the ...

... I COUN'TY DVBL1N-YEsTEBRDAY. Brought up, ?? 42 h Liberals -registered, new, a a Re-registered, ?? ?? 15-18 a Rejected, ?? ?? ?? 3 h Tories, new, ?? ?? 5 a Re-registered, ?? ?? 12-17 SI Rejected, 3-Stands, 1. BELFAST. q1 The following are the numbers registered on Tuesday:-f Liberals, ?? ?? ?? 68 n Re-registered of 1832, 20 Re-registered-disqualified by removals b since election, . .. 16-36 C ...

... F FRANCE. The Paris journals of Sunday have been re- ceived. On Monday, the 13th inst. the trial of the second category of prisoners for the May insur- rection will commence in the Court of Peers. The To61onnais of the Ist inst., states that the steamer with the African mail, so anxiously expected, had not arrived, and no cause could be assigned for its being' overdue, as the weather was ...

... 'I-he following is the memorial of the bakers of Drogheda to the Board of Trade, and the reply, on the subject of tbe Unjust prohibition of the import- ation of foreign flour into'trelandt The law which excludes Ireland from the benefits enjoyed by Scot-' land and England in this particular is mpre oppres- sive than usual, now that some means to remedy the effects of malted corn, in the making ...

... THE ADVOCATES OF THE NATIONAL BOAfRD I ~~OF EDUCATION. ~ V rta - -, . . ~. . i vzau er mora, falsa festinatione et incertis va. lescunt._ TACXTUS. TO THE EDITOB OF THE FREEMAN. SIR-Wht I sincerely ?? 6tb, 1840. Smn-Whilst I sincerely lament the necessity of having been engaged so long in the odious and disagreeable task of quarrellingwith friends and of inveighing againstabuse, itis at once ...