... Ma. LAWREaNE arrived in Limerick on Thursday. The following is an abridgment from the Limerick Chnkecicle Shortly aftersixo'clock on Thursday, the hon. gentle- man arrived in a travelling carriage, accompanied by his lady and daughter. The Mayor and Lord 11onteagle were deputed to have an interview with Mr. Lawrence, with a view of communicating their desire, and in a few minutes his ...

... WE are still kept balancing between the hopes and fears associated with the welfare of our native country. Nothing can be more dark or ominous than the picture, as we gaze on it with dimmed eyes and quailing hearts, when suddenly a gleam of light through a rent in the canvass tells us that the cheer- ing and splendid sunshine is behind, ready to irradiate the sad perspective, draw out, all the ...

... A ?? panacea for the ills of Ireland has just been started under the most captivating title, and with all the usual flourishes which ordinarily precede the issue of a favourite nostrum. We allude to the proposal of improving the condition of the middle classes by the establishment of mutual land and building societies. The question has prominently come before the Irish public by the ...

... E.rje ur5. WILL THE LAW BE VINDICATED. (From. the Morning Herald.) WE have waited some time in silence to see what steps her Majesty's Ministers would take, in conse- quence of the open and insulting violation of the law by the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops. At the assemblage of bigots which met at the Dub- lin Rotundo, on the l9th of last month, the law by which Ministers determined ...

... I JPUEADFUL ACCIDENT AT BALLYCLARtE. THREE PERSONS KILLED, AND GREAT NUMI- BERS INJURED. IT is to-day our painful duty to record one of the most serious disasters ever known to occur in the peaceful rural districts of this favoured Province, by which the lives of three persons were lost, twenty-six persons badly (some of them it is feared, fatally, injured by fractured limbs), and upwards of ...

... CHARACTER AND AGRICULTURE OF HILLS- BOROUGH PARK. Tins picturesque demesne, so well known as the prin. cipal Irish residence of the Marquis o& Downshire, is one of the largest in the kingdom, and embraces within its boundaries an admeasurement of over one thousand statute acres. From whatever point a commanding view of the park, and surrounding country, is obtained, the scene presented to the ...

... ( L w . : O XJNIC INjPETWE~EN .THE AT- LANTIC A4D PACIFI'OCEEANS. (From the Times.) WHO has, not heard of project after project for joining the two great oceans of the world by cutting ?? the Tstlimus of Pananma? TIie distance to be accom- pjished .yas'really -so trifling,'the advalta'ges to cOOP merce' sd enormous, the territoty through which the path; must- be cut in :the hands of- so ...

... | APPEAL TO THlE FOLLOWERS OF JOHN KNOX, FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF ITALY AND THE EXTIRPATION O TIEM JESUITS. FATHER GAVAzzx delivered his fifth oration in Glasgow, in the City Hall, on Thursday night. Subject-Italy, its hope and future. The reverend Father was received with undiminished enthusiasm. This, he said, was a propitious moment for the Italian cause. The Papal aggression had told the ...

... SPEECH OF THE lRllV. DR. COOKE. TIE annual meeting of the Newry branch of this noble Institution was held in the Assembly-Room, Savings Bank, on Monday night, commencing at seven o'clock. The room was crowded by a most respectable com- pany, including many ladies, attracted, doubtless, by a desire to hear the Rev. Dr. Cooke, who, along with the Rev. J. Kinghan, constituted the deputation from ...

... 9be qIrmu. PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. WAR-OFFICE, S&PaTsMnEa 9. 17th Light Dragoons-Cornet G. Ross to be Ad- jutant, vice H. St. George, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 5th Foot-Lieut. A. E. Ross to be Adjutant, vice Carter, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 7th-Capt. R. F. L. Jenner, from 41stto be Captain, vice Stuart, who exchanges. 31st-G. Cadet T. E. Swettenham, from the Royal Military, ...

... DUBLIN MECHANICS' INSTITUTE-THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. ON Saturday evening, Mrs. Catherine Winter, the lady ' who, as stated in the advertisement, lately pleaded her own cause before the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, and in the Encumbered Estates CoJurt, commenced a series of lectures and lessons to young ladies on how to be called to the bar. The first lec- ture was delivered in ...

... Wn regret to find, by the accounts supplied by the Hellespont steamer, from the Cape of Good Hope, to the 1st of August, that the little war in South Africa had continued up to that date without the least prospect of its favourable termination, until further reinforcements from Europe should arrive. It will be seen, by the details which we elsewhere in- sert, that success was still ...