... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... DUBlIN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1846. REMEMBRER THE 30TH OF MAY, 18441 I An enlightened Liverpool merchant and patriotic Irishman-Mr. Eyre Evans has published an able pamphlet with the above heading; in which, among the other causes that have contributed to the deterioration of the lower, and the insolvency of the higher classes, he particularly dwells on primogeniture and entail. is I would ...

... I - X OF IRELAND. (Friday) being the glorious festival of the Na. f elebrtet d in the several churches and o hapese a' Vince with great pomp ant solemnity. At tb. Z 1'tb0edrlt of Tuaa, the monument of the seal of i 0 jd A t h Fold of Judab, as well as of the piety r1 t i bo, and lamented predecassor . the Most Reverendr fi~llagaily, PD..2 the ceremonies of religion were ob. .h onexampled ...

... I 7, Ederi-quay, Dublin, 18ib Dec., 1846. i SiR-As it is the privilege of every member of the com- munity thus to convey his opinions on matters of public concern, I beg to submit a matter of, I believe, inestimable importance at this stage of the condition of this country. There is no question now as to the entire loss of the hi potato crop and the want of seed to restore it. For such ge- tj ...

... (From the Sligo Champion.) .. EMIGRATION.-This very week several poor creatures sh left this port for Englend there to take shipping for G America; they were nearly all destitute of clothes, money, or sea stores; and how they will be able to make their way Im to the Uuited States, is indeed, a mystery. But the fact of WI people leaving the country in the very depth of winter, on vs the eve too ...

... TO THIE EDITOit OF THE FREEtAN. - ha George's Ward Reading room, du December 26, *1846. th SIR-With unfeigned sorrow we read in the EVENING Po FlEnEMAN'S JOURNAhL of. Tuesday, the 22d inseant, a re.as solution passed by the committee of the Loyal National Re- peal Association to discontinue the newspapers and draw. all back from the reading rooms. We felt grateful to Doctor sol Gray for his ...

... I THE FAMINE-PRIVATE CHARITY. TO TSIE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN. SIRI feel assured I need offer no apology for occupying a small epaco in your journal with what appears to me a practical palliative for the rapidly increasing misery of the Irish poor. Public works, whether productive or otherwise, have resoued, or will rescue, many thousands from pestilence and death. The central and branch relief ...

... TO THEt LAW CLERSS OP DUBIIN. It Sandymount, 23d December, 1846. B FELLrow-LABOTRrEeS-YGU have on several occasions, t when trying emergenoies required it, distinguished your- a selves for true nationality and generous feeling. I need not mention your prompt, spirited, and successful o efforts in November, 1843, on behalf of Repeal, when, in the teeth of tyranny, you met, enunciated bold ...

... I We had on yesterday an opportunity of seeing the coach prepared by Measa Hutton for the new Lord Mayor, and which in the elegaince of its shape, the harmony of its oolours, and chasteness of allits ornaments, has never, we think, been excelled in this country. A few of the details I of this beautiful piece of manufacture cannot fail to be ge- nerally interesting, especially to those who are ...