... Nfovember 15. In 1851, twenty-three per cent. of the population of Ire. land could speak Irish ; in 1861 only nineteen per cent. could speak it of these, 164,000 persons could speak Irish only. Among the Assyrian tablets at the British Museum have been discovered ...

... whole household for the Queen, the writer speaks of the personal loss sustained in the death of Prince Albert:-` How I shall miss his conversation about the children ! He used of en to come into the schoolroom to speak about the education of the children, ...

... wish to speak, and I must interrupt the Minister of War. M. Von Boon: I beg pardon, I am in possession of the House, and I shall not give way. (The President rings his bell.) I am in possession of the House, and I have a right to continue speaking according ...

... broken windows and for fines for buying gun- powdir and Master Walpole who speaks very well and you should bear him recite Cicero's Orationes Selece well we chose him to speak and he said he would which mode Master Dizzy very crabby because he thought ...

... motion for three monthszwas about to be quietly disposed of, when lI. Dufraisse, the representative for the Dordogne, rose to speak, and gave an unexpected turn to the debate, by rousing the indignation of the majority against him. After the revolution of ...

... Robert Ball, Director of the University Museum, and president of a society kindred to our own. It is not in Dublin that I need speak of Dr Boll's career. There is no scientific body in this city with which he -was not more or less coniected or identified; ...

... as a standard English pronunciation? It is not desired that, for ordinary use, phonetic spelling should represent or, so to speak, photograph the sounds of words, but only consistently and proximately indicate them. This, in the case of a large proportion ...

... followed as a matter of course, and thus bespoken and bepledged, he ascended a tower professedly to do the bidding and to speak the sentiments of the expectant Magi. Judge their surprise when he forgot alike his own pledges and their injunctions, and ...

... Victor Emmanuel and the people of Metz to be made Italians, whether they like it or no. True the people do not speak Italian, but neither do they speak German: though their tongue is rather a Latin tongue and their religion is Romnanist. But if we do not stop ...

... -nations have been received from Russia by the Austrian Govern- ment, is confirmed also from other quarters. This fact would speak for itself, but it happens to be completed by the additional news that the first battalions of the frontier regiments (gre ...

... regretting that he could not speak the pstols, but promising to learn it, if he should remain long enough in the Jura. ALL THE DIFFERENCE.-Ir Pollock.-Speak up, Sir. Witness.- Oi thinks oi speaks up enough. Baron Alderson.-You don't speak so loud as the learned ...

... aspirations of the age, and seek in public opinion the support necessary to govern. The Epoca of the 17th says: Several journals speak of a long political Conference held by her Majesty with the Duke of Tetuan after Sedor Isturiz had undertaken he formation ...