... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... - I Beltna ChistasEve, 1846. `MY~ LORD-Within the two ?? months I have. travelled .athousand minles through 'the 'south' and'wesot df Ireland; I have therefore seen much of the deatitction: Of ?? Pie. It is not, however,' my intetixton, tot occupy Youii lordship's time by relating the ninxny scenes of mieery and .starvation I havewitnessed', but in the most earinestmranner M I astI claim, ...

... 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 ...

... TR T ~ixTAN. Bristol, Moaday, Dec. 2c ; The following report'from Mr. Brunel- has-been ;rinted ;a for cirouletion amoqgst the prOprietorS:- TO THE DiLEC'TOJiS OF TIIE 1_ORET 3rESTEnN STEAD: 7 SNiPl COVPANY GENT1,EEN-~AGOardilg ?? request, I have, ,8asia soon as my engagements would allow of my leaving L Indon paid a visit to the Great Britain, and I now beg t 14eporl to you the state in ...

... cm, v - - '14 el, gtyrtauaio Actual DITBLIN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 184b.?' REMEMBER THE, 30T.H OF BAY, 184 E UNITED STATES-THE PRESIDENT'S 'MES- SAGE. We publish elsewhere the Message delivered by the President of the United States at the opening of Congress on the 8th instant. The document, which, though lengthy enough, is not so long as the gene. rality of Messages have been, opens with a ...

... 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 ...

... DSTRSSDIN XIrELAND. (From the Standard.) We copy the following melanoboly statements from the Dublin FREEM~lAN's JOUNAL, confident that much as they must distress our readers, we need make no apo ogy for the pain that we inflict. At any time Englishmen would con- demn instead of praising the courtesy that would lead them, like the Levite of the parable, out of eight and heating of the misery ...

... THE IRISH FAMINE-CONTEMPLATED PUBLIC MEETING IN LIVERPOOL. LOvEmiPOOL. DXCEABEa 26.-Liverpool has been hardly pressed upon this season, in consequence of such vast num bers of destitute Irish having been landed here, and then thrown immediately on the town for support. The vari- ous steamers arriving nil bring numbers of paupers, and it is certainly astonishing where or how they obtained the ...