... The lady who, the week before last, put an advertise- ment in the FREEMAN'S JOURiNAL, requesting aid in trifling sums, on behalf of the suffering poor at Skibbereen, and referring to Mr. Brady, of Henry-street, aetbe person who consented to receive contributions, begs to return thanks for several sums received, amounting in the whole to 191. l0s. Of this she, on Tueeday, the 22d instant, trans ...

... The following extract of a letter, which we find in the Mail of last night, from the Rev. E. L. Moore, Protestant rector of Cong, corroborates-if corroboration were necessary-the statements already published relative to the dreadful sufferings of the people in the west. The deaths from starvation are now so numerous that, according to that reverend gentleman, they excite no wonder-call forth ...

... slaval aiar inattarv., PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 7. Ifer Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint Vieo Ad- miral Sir William Parker, Bart, GCB. to be her Majosty's First and Principal Naval Aide de Camp. vice Adminirl thc Ri ight Rio Lord Amolius Beaucleik, GOB, GCII, deceased, WAR OFFICe, DEC. 22. 8th Light Dragoons-Lient.l Thompson to be Captain, vico Lowndes, retires; ...

... I SCRAPS FROM PUNCH'S kLMANACK FOR 1847. JUVENILE BALL-,.OOm, DIRECTTONS FOR JAN.-NOw ti get together your young shoots, and having given them plenty of water, rake over with comb preparatory to final Al dressing. Sow wherever there is a gap; and when all is O prepared plant in rows, after a fair amount of drilling. y! When the shoot is obstinate, moisten with ginger wine. d When the young ...

... Viljp NWtaf. BELPAST, Dec. 28.-Wind, S.E.; weather, rainy. ARRIVED. Dee. 25.-Princess Alice (st) Fleetwood. 26.-Thetis (st) Glnsgow; Glow Worm (et) Ardrossan; Admiral. Young, Riga. 27.-Windsor (st) Liverpool ; Tartar (st) Glasmamv Toward Castle (st) Glasgow; Mliry, M6ACllum, Lonlonderry, herrings; Royal Oak, Fosler,Liver- pool, salt. 28.-Albion (st) Stramraer; Mischief, Grant, Liverpool, salt; ...

... Van of Or C ountrv. * D I S T R E S S. FURTIiER DEATTTS FRiOMt STARVATION.-last woel, Mr. R. O'Grady, corolner, he!d an iniquest at Killbrack, countv Mlayo, on a man named Pat Tiernan. The jury returned a verdict that deceased cama by his death from the effects of hunger and insuiffcient clothing.-Mr. Rutledge, coroner, held an inquest at Robin, in the same county, on the body of Catherine ...

... THE CHIL.D'S TEAR. It was in the year 1834; I had just given to the theatr ono of my most successful pieces, which had returned in the largest sum of money, and the greatest anmount c reputation. Two letters from the country reached toe a oncoe; they were from the same town. One was from th manager of the theatre. The other letter was eonceive in these terms :_ Sa,-n-The wife and daughter of ...

... f*Xi0?1Iafltotw. t The East India Company have a revertue of £,300,0.10 e from the salt trade. LI From the N\ew Yor/r Directory we learn thera are in nt that cit 101 persons of the name of Join Smith, pur- e suing fifty-five trades or professions. e There are six Snnday nemtipapors pilblished in New it York, with an aggregate circulation of thirty thousari e copies. 0 A SIuoWEwh or nIsM FLIES. ...

... ovpinltion of tbW urto. Tuin FAM5.I[ cN IIIELAND.- It SeemS to approach to ,fainatian to mingle political coisiderations, with the tnmplationnof the ghistly picture (an account of the disl tre ii :\Olavo)i but what can we do when we know that are the result of political misrepresen- tationS and politcal blundcriigi ? Whocan have forgotten Ite atrociouS nevspaper articles of tile last three ...

... I CONCILIATION HALjV-W t. ill, LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATI The usual weekly meeting of the association wa Yesterday. Conciliation Hall wag much crocwded,an 3 reception of the Liberator wasl most worm and enthusat. Mr. John O'Connell and the Hon. Cecil Lawless were also prm loudly cheered, in Amongst the gentlemen in the immediate vicinity of the W Liberator's Chair., we noticed the ...

... n!lriculturr, ,Vc. SUGGESTIONS FOR SMALL FARMERS. The necessity of attending to the cultivation of the land, arid the policy of admitting a cottier to be occasion- ally withdrawn, or to absent himself from a permanent, though comparatively reinotet reproductive work (such as draining anti subsoiling), to be employed in reproductive of an iwnrediate, and though temporary, of the most rioces. ...

... ..1,Forcigil Elltdlt9cllfr- : ?? L RVanPOOL, W1DNESDAV EVENING.-Tho packet selip Eutope entered thel ersey on Wednesday evening; her accounts are of the lst instant. They add little to the intelligence received by the last mail steamer. A fright- ful steam boat collision had occurred on the Mississippi, about seven miles above Natchez, on the 21st ult.; twenty or thirty lives were lost, and ...