... 3s Three more Irish petitions were ithdrown last n 'O viz-against Sir Timotby O'Brien for Cashol egaieg 6 ' Montgomery for Leitrim, and against the late Celnee for Carlow. The consequence of the i a the l Le will be a new election for that county, which will ;i in a few days, the writ having been moved for lest eva's1 °o By this time nearly all the Irish county and sone nf , borough petitions ...

... I Lucas, Of Limerick, and Miss Selby took the veil on Tueeday, at the Convent or Mercy, Derby. Five of the Sisters of Mercy have arrived at Ballinasloe fron, Dublin to take charge of the female schoola of the Rev. r. eD Nhich are in connection with the National Board Of Fduc tito. A school ia sbortly to be opened in the town Under the 1sanagement of the Christian Brothers. Lady de Vere has ...

... *A lecture on the nature and influence of Americau slavery was delivered last evening in the Baptist Chapel, Lower Ab- bey-street, by the Rev. Edward Kelly, a man of colour, a miniister of Baptist persuasion, and formerly a slave in the United States. The lecture was of a most interesting descrip- tion, and, from the simple bet very impressive and persuasive manuor in which it was delivered, ...

... KILMA&INHAN HOSPITAL (2rom the xofiossiry Heruld.) In the printed paper of the busicess in the Honee of Com- mons for this evening will be found a resolution to be pro- posed by the honourable member for loughal for'the adop- tion of an address to ber Majesty, representing that it is expedient and right to maintain for-the Iriab soldier, in his age and infirmity, the asylum which the Royal ...

... T$e ractm 0uarial THE REV. MR. REDMOND-THE TENANT LEAGUE. We have been asked by the Rev. Mr. Redmond, of Arklow, to publish a letter which he has written in reply to some observations made in the Tablet on a letter from the rev. gentleman to the Tenant League. HaviDg copied the article from the Tablet, we feel it simple justice to give Mr. Redmond's reply. We confess, however, that we are sur ...

... AMERICAN SLAVERY-MEETI1NG IN THE I. ER ,fMECHANICS' INSTITUTE, I. .1 .- .. . . ..I A A highly respectable metling was held last evening il the theatre of the Mechanics' Institute, chiefly for the purpose of hearing an address from the Rev. Edmund Kelly, a [nan Nof. colour, and formerly a slave in the United States, on the subject of American slavery, Mr. JAmES HATUGRTo0 ID the chair. The ...

... |I The first annual report of the Commiesioners of Irish Poor Law, under the medical charities act, has just been issued. The following is an abstract of the report:- The commissioners commence by stating that it is imposei- ble in this report to comply fully with the requirements of the act, inasmuch as no dispensary district has yet been one year under its operation. On the 12th of November, ...

... The usual weekly mesting of this association was held yes- terday. in the Royal Dublin Society House. at half-past three o'cluck, Sir EDWARD BOROUGHj Bart., in the chair. The following members were present, ?? George Preston, the Rev. Mr. Saunders, the Rev. H. Dickenson, Dr. Vance, Dr. Byrne, Dr. Mason, Messrs. Haughton, Norwood, Louch and Ferguson. POLwE ]ETURNS. The Chairman atated that in ...

... MEETING OF THE ROMAN CAThOLIC CLERGY ANM) LArrY OF NEW YORK, IN RELATION TO TIE EXILED &RCHBISIIOP OF SANTA FE DE BOGOT A AND DR. NRE IAN. m ceetia, of the clergy and laity of New York, convened for thepurposol of ercprexsirg thair admiration and sympathy tewarlsthe Archbishop of Santa Fe do Bo-ota, lately banished from New Granada, and now a resident of New York and ?? tjowirds Dr. Newman, ...

... CL I MreONDaY, ?? aL DUBLIN: MONDAY. APBlb 11, 1853. I TMEf SIXMILE-BRIDGE SLAUGHTER AGAIN. I The aristocratic party in the House of Commons, not content with their triumph over the friends and sympathisers of the unhappy victims who fell before the fire of the military at Sixmile-bridge, have made an attempt, but a futile one, to get the pre- cedent of peasant-slaying at elections recognised ...

... , . I _'lHE i EDITOR OF THE F axRE31. SIo-WIll you kindly afford me space for the following remarks :-If wpe driving on last Thursday through the Ap- pian Way, which connects Banelagh with. the Donnybrook road, wben my attention was called to a man rolling, upon the road, somewhat after the manner of a person seiz3d with a fit of convalsions. I alighted,. and, after a careful inepec- tion, ...

... ATRLONE gELECTION CONIVITTEE. The following more extended report of the proceedings before the AthloneCommittee (a summary of which appeared in our London correspondence yesterday), id taken from thea Morning CAronic'e Mir. Andrews, Q.C., opened the case for the petitioners, who alleged a want of qualification on the part of Mr. Keogh, and that Mr. Lawes, the other candidate, ought to have ...