... Lomndn, Thursidli) ?? The Irish members hail a meeting to day at half past one o'clock, which wae viery nnmeroualy attended. Mr. J. O'Connell represented that he had utterly failed in his efforts to get an opportunity for a full discuession of Pus Irish distress, and the necessity of immediate money relief, 16' before the house should approach the discussloO of the co- the ercion bill; and ...

... W YORK RORaEESpO New York, Novembn0er 3o, TaE DEMONSTRATION FOR THE PoPE._Tb1 47 last night at the Tabernacle was all that Could be a eetll the most ardent friend of the illustrioue pontff p ye hx., aud his people. It was worthy of him, o pipa the cauele. Of , audit The evening was suddenly and bitterly cold, 3 0nc indeed, that but few persons were in the streets aft h Al fall. That, however, ...

... (From the Castlebar Telegraph.) REACTION-MORE DIFFICULTIES-Ill the Union of _ Caetlebar facts are daily coming to light which prove that tl no enactments, however well administered, will be suffi- Cient to stay the demands of the people for support. It d may be asked, how can this be accounted for ? This we N will endeavour to show. Some landed proprietors have I thought it their duty, in ...

... DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1847 Every person knows by experience the difficulty of' whistling and eating meal in one and the same mo- t ment. Lord Dufferin, however, goes very near it . He can eat down mutton and discharge rhodomon. tade in the same breath-the nearest approximation to the original type. At a snug dinner party in the | town of Killileagh, whereat the chief guest was a Mr. ...

... THOU SHALT NOT KILL-THOU SHALT NOT STEAL. At an investigation which recently took place in the 4 union workhouse of Carlow, the Catholic chaplain, the i Rev. Mr. Joyce, in reply to a question put to him, stated that it was possible a case might arise, ina which ?? it would not be robbery to take merely what would satisfy the crav- ings of nature. Thtl reply awaked a storm of abuse against ' ...

... SWITZEE1LAND. ' The Austrian Obseiver of the Ith contains a long ar- rtilo on the reply m.Ads by the Swiss Diet ts the notes of the Csinets of Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. This article ii remarkable for the tone of bitterneos which pervades it throughout, and for the decided hostility which it manifests for the principles on which the reply of the Diet was founded. The personal allusions in it, ...

... TO THE RIGHT HfONOUrABLE LORD JOHN - RUSSELL. ,,ks St. Jarlath',' Tuam, Nov. 29tb, H147. l Through honour and dishonour; through infamy and good name ; as seducers, and yet speaking truth ; as un- known, and yet knrwon, as dying. and behold we live; as clisatbeld, and not killed.-Sg. Paul jo the Ceorinthiansi. MY LORD-To the Catholic clergy of Ireland, who have been mainly instrumental In ...

... I MIEFTIN~ .TN THE ROYAL, sEX HANGF TO DEl- tie FEND THE REfURN OF MR. ItEYNOLDS. bu Pure' ant~ to the requisitioae presented to the Lot ird Muor, ye; an inlr~enthiaI sd numnerouil attended meeting too0 place IV in the Royal Enchange yesterday, for the purpose of. me making arrangerm nts to defend the return of John Rey'. O'8 nolde, Esq., as represestative for the city in pa liamel t. OP ...

... - =CATHOLCCHURCH, Slen ST. AceEON'9 CHURCH, £tliI U II - 53 -1 s -_ I 5t; I of the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus I fesl t !V celebrated with great mrgnififonloo in the above E h During the morning the most holy sacrifice wa t 15terh ursan oearly hour. At twelve o'clock there was I 0ffered uipfrmtnoB.Kly a 5slemnl high mase celebrant, the Rev. ,1.Kly wp °lhose sweettoned voice, replete ...

... -- . .. . - _ . .-A Q.#,sr I We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Satur- day. Rumours of the approaching resignation of M. Guizot continued to be rife in Paris. He had, it appears, entered Into su agreement with Prince Metternich to station an army of 40,000 men on the frontiers of Switzerland, while Austria, on her part, was to assemble an army of 80,000 in the Voralberg. This ...

... , We have reosived the Paris papers of Friday and 3a- lurday. On the subjest of ibe King's health we find the following in Galignan;'i Messenger of Friday:- The report which has been current for the last two days of the King being seriously unwell is, we are assured, destitute of truth. His Majesty has, it is true, been attacked by a cold with hoarseness, to which be is very subject at this ...

... ]MR. SCULLY-THE PEER OF THE TIMES, | Our readers will remember that the ' Peer of the Times who appeared to know so much about Major Mahon and his assassins, undertook to serve a public notice of contemplated assassination on Mr. Scully, member for Tipperary, in which the aristocratic Thug set forth the sevoV al causes which induced him I and his accomplices to resolve upon the death of Mr ...