... -- - WORKING OF THIE IRISH POOR-LANV.-RELIEF STATISTICS. COMPARArTIVE statements of the expenditure and collections under the Irish Poor Relief Act, for the lattcr portion of the past year, have been made, anid the results exhibited are suf- ficiently interesting. The following is an approximate state- ment of the expeoses and collections for last October, com- pared with those of the same ...

... PETITION TO TnE Qvirnea.-This document has received a largenuinl)erofsignaturessince we last adverted to thesubject. Among those are the Earls of HIuntingdon and Mounteashel; Sir A. Brooke, M.P. ; Mervyn Archdall, MI.P.; V. Ormisby Gore, M.P.; Sir Robert Gore Booth, Sir Nugent Humble, HeInury Rowley, Esq., D.L., Carrickmore, &c., &c. The Earl of ?? has also signed the address, and upwards of ...

... IMPORTANT MEETING OF TIHE TOWN COUNCIL. TnF usual mnon'tbly meeting of ?? Council was held on Tuesday last, thle 1st instant, irs tire Town Hall, at, twelve o'clock. INAUGURATIO11N OF THE MAYOR. Alderman STIRLING, the newly-appointed Mayor for tire. ensuing year, took the chair for the first time, andt was in- vested with the Insignia of Iris office by Sir W. G. Johnson, tise retiring Mayor. ...

... : ' , YTIS!t IN TVM; WEST. I TO THiE l Dli TOR OF THE FREEMAN. Balliakill,' Clifden, co. Gaiway, Ireland, A .. * ?? 25thi, 1849.- )f D:sisISP.-I aMI Indebted to' the kindness of a neighbour- d lng dergynanl for-a number of the C'1eltenkani Free Press of , othe:1st Dtc., containing' a speech purported to be delivered if by J. B. Clarke, Esq., at a mneeting of the British Society for h ...

... PARSONSTOWN UNION-LORD GLENGALL'S PETITION, &c. - (Abridged frons the King's County Chronicle) A special meeting of the board of guardians of this union was summoned for Saturday last, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of adopting the petition to the Queen, prepared by Lord (dlengall, at present in course of signature throughout Ireland. Owing to the extreme severity ...

... RE, SIGAI X 'CON IELL-opi- I ?? 'CON Examiner.) Wle grea, should have everfelt the neceesiX which appears in this s page. A t ted, efficient, and in- corruptible r e . cycould have. Con- S stant in his attond e g rmed on every question is of public interest anm e, whether national or interna- t tional; intimately conversant with the statistical details of , that great financial account which ...

... I FOREIGN INTELLIGE (From da Led= vavr s of veaterA.. N X FRANCE. P ins, TuRsDAY EvNINesaG.-The Monte Video is now alimost the exclusive topic of discuesion in the circles. Yesterdsy, by a relative majority of only tah1 Assembly decided on taking into Consideration an ame e t of M. de Rancil, to place at the disposal of the govertrtm sum of ton millions to enable it to support an sarnn tnti ...

... I 040MR 01 ?? ''PI . ?? - : CAstLEflAi*..At th tQ mentirg of the guardians on Thurs: day- Lotrl Luy, - §ir RbrtTLyzichJKBosse, Bart, Colonel DrAlpine, WJillijan Walsh, and James Malley, weft'dowi'. to the ball to exanihe the Ocaips of' applihagi19 for relief, -of ,fiich there were se'eraj- sh tyett;ookiep'iind' a retdhes eta, inand Suttig,, QitsJ e. SQiDG a re ?? iftted the betlr s t ebtheq ...

... SOUTII DUBLIN UNION. The board of guardians of this union held theil usual weekly meeting yesterday, at the workhouse, Alderman BOWLMS en the chair. The following guardians were ?? Nalty, ?? Captain Nowlan, John Byrne, Christopher Keating, Charles F. Dowling, John Ousley Bonsall, John Pearson, Samuel Warren, William Crozier, John HI. Askins, E. D. Williqns, John Healy, Armstrong Hayes, Dr. ...

... Thbe r 4otuaL _ ~ ~ - I TIHE ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM-THE NATION AND CORK REPORTER. For the last fifteen years there was not an oppen or a covert enemy of the Irish people, of their creed, or of their country, who did not openly or covertly assail that people's distinguished and un- flinchingfriend-the illustrious Archbishop of Tuam. The political renegade has gnashed his teeth because of Dr. ...

... THE RENT-SCREW IN CAVAN-.TWIST I I SECOND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE FRAER. Cavan, January 3, 1850 Sin-In my last communication I announced the er- here of Lord Glengall's compound of landlord delusion t loyal treason. and Since then, a vigorous-but silent-under-current hasl in unceasing flow amongst our 'landocracy, the drift otwfb was to collect, on some day, the members of the menm into a ...

... A PROTECTIONI;T DEFEAT. KrAmRESB0soOUGIT, JAN. S.- Yesterday, at half-past one o'clock in the afternoon, a meeting of the gentry, farmers, and tradesmen of Knaresborough and neighbourhood, was held, for the purpose of passing resolutions in defence of native industry. On the proposition of Sir C. Slingshy, Bart, seconded by Mr. T. Collins, jun , the chair was taken b1 Mr. Joseph Dent, of ...