... C Freemat' 3Iourwal UO A1 .. O . ?? . 1. ! DUBLIN :'MONDAY,'-AUGUST''18;~ 1851. ' . THE' ROYAL AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMET [ I . SOCIETY. . Co-operation is the instrument by which the greatest social improvements are effected in our day. Associated bodies have taken the place of govern- ments and individuals in originating and directing systems of social progress, and while large and legi- timate ...

... I _ The managing committee of the banquet to be given to Mr. Reynolds, M.P., on Wednesday next, have received from the following members of parliament letters expressive of the high sense entertained by them of the valuable services of Mr. Reynolds, and we have no doubt that the large attend- ance expected at the dinner will further prove the estimation in which he is held by his fellow ...

... A general meeting of the assistants in the leading wine and grocery establishments of Dublin was held last evening in the Mechanics' Institution, Abbey-street, for the purpose of adopting an address to their employers, requesting of them to assimilate their hours of closing to those of other large merchant establishments of the city. There was a very numerous and respectable attendance. The ...

... MINISTERIAL TACTICS-THE ENGLISH PRESS. I _ I We continue our extracts from the London Press, The Globe, in an article remarkable for the auda- city with which it combines insult against the Pre- lates and other distinguished individuals who took part in the great Aggregate Meeting, with the pro- fligate offer of patronage and pay to such of the Irish members as would desert the standard of ...

... FRANCES PAims, THuRSDAY EvsslNo-By this day's post accounts have been received of resolutions by councils of arrondisse- ment in favour of the revision of the constitution. it issup- posed that of the 378 councils three-fourths will adopt this course. The number of votes of this kind already known is forty. 'The Legitimists came yesterday, at the-house of Mr. Ber- ryer, to an unainouis ...

... THE TURNIP CROP-THE CATERPILLAR PEST. The following reports of the state of the turnip crop iri England, which we extract from the Gardener'e Chronide, will be read with interest in this country, where the Swedes have been extensively been attacked with the same pest that is committing such serious ravages in the English crop Temr TURNIeP CROP IN ENGLAND.-I observed with inte- rest the notice ...

... W. H. Smith and Son's Newliaper Obrice, No. 1, Edey-quay, 8t& August, 1851. LONDON F UNDs (CLOSE), AUGUST 8th.-Consols for Ac- count and Money, 96a 4,; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 987 9k ; Bank Stock, 215 16 ; Exchequer-bills (large and small), 46 9 pm. SHARES.-London and North Westerns, 121i 2k; Mid- lands, 42 41 4S Remarke-English market firm, with very little doing. Rail lay shares ...

... I II- I (Fram the United Service Gazette). MILiTARY FosTuNE. -The property of the late General Sir Willoughby Gordon, Quartermaster-General to the Forces, has been attested under the sum of 270,0001. So much for an adherence to the cause of his late Royal High- news the Duke of York and Mary Anne Clarke. T-c On--. ?? ?? ~. A - r: ?? - . sHE DEPUTY SECRETARY-AT-WAR.-It is rumourcd that the ...

... FOREIGN POLITIC9. (From the Spectwtor). FnAwCm-The legislature of France, like thdt of Eng- land, is in a state of suspended animation. The ?? of the Assembly have indulged in a recess which is to Itst tU the beginning of November. The recess will scarcely be for the French legislators g season of such entire repose as oar members of parliament appoear disposed to make theirs. It will be spent ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMIENT. I HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY, AaU8T~u 8. e, Parliament was thris day prorogued by her Majesty in per- e son. with all the usual pomp and ceremony. er At twelve o'clock the doors of the House of LordR were od thrown open to those who had secured tickets of admission to the magnificent chamber, in which the great state pageant of the day' was to be celehrated; and numbers ...

... RLOYAL AGRIWULTURAL' IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY I I OaL OF IRELAND. .. Yesterday was the second day of the exhibition of stock, &c. The show-yard was opened to the public at eight o'clock in the morning, and was visited by a tolerably numerous con- Eourde of persons throdghout the afternoon. The gallant Lord Gough was amongst thi visitors, and remained a con- siderable time on the premises; In our ...

... On this day the railway will be opened to Gal- way, and thorough communication established be- tween Dublin and the capital of the west. It is impossible to overrate the importance of this event, from which we may reasonably date the be- ginning of an era fraught with circumstances of the deepest moment to Ireland, and of equal, if not greater, good to the distant province whose resources have ...