... ROYAL IRI-tl ACADEMY. ?? ~ .. . .I The usual fortnightly meeting of this society was held last evening in the society's house, Daweon-street, Rev. Dr. itoINSON in the chair. Dr. Todd read the minutes of the last meeting. iMr. John F. Waller handed in the following donations, viz. :-A series of meteorological observations registered daily during the last six months, by the Rev. John Heffernan, ...

... MIR. F. SCULLY, M.P.-THE fLERGY OF - I .. _ . . I TIPPERARY. - ' . . I Mr. Scully, instead of applying himself to the simple point put before him by the Tipperary clergy, has written a homily on the virtues of Whiggery and the abominations of Toryism. The point raised by the Tipperary clergy was the necessity of maintaining an Irish party independent in ken- timent and in action, and devoted ...

... THE DUBLIN AND LONDON HosPITALS. The Chairman said he had an important subject to bring before the meeting, and which he had often introduced there before-namely, the Dublin hospitals. However, he had never before been prepared to find that so vast a discrepancy existed in the grants to the London and Dublin hospitals re- epectively, as he ascertained existed. He extracted the fol- lowing from ...

... CIIARGE AND COUNTER CHARGE. ANI'ECEENT to thle grand crisis Which is to deter- mtine the fhte of the budget, and, by consequence, iltat of' the Coalilionll M isliSLu, an interi nlue has oc- curred whieh has exeited no slight commotion ancong political coteries since the morning of Satulrday last. It is unfortunate. liut not the less true, that the sec- tion of' the Hlouse of Commonos, vulgarly ...

... Ely twli. PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES. WAR r r50 APRIL 22,185t3. 2nd Lif'e Guan'tls-..Lie~tt. H. S. Lumley to be Captain, by Pilnchiase. vie,' H-on. 1t. N. Lawley, wb'o retires; Corntet and Sub-Lieut. R. 0. Jamneson to be Lieutentant, by, purchuse, Vice Lutmlev. 1Roval 1-1o1se GuardlaLCor~net J. AV, BillingtOll to he Lie.1tenant, by Pi)tl'iso, vice Lord G. C. G. Lenn1ox, who retires. 3rll ...

... fijc loc55. SECRETS OF THE COALITION. (F?'omr tire Stasndor'd.) T1e Times of Saturdayv irorning-, with its usual in- discretion, charges the Conservative party with a con- spiracy with the Irish Brigade, the object of the alleged conspiracy being to obtain tie defeat of the Ministry on cond;tion of exempting Ireland from the income tax. We are now in a position to disclose the followingr ...

... FOREIGN IN TELLIGENCE. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. PAE&, APEIL 26, Six Prl -Lest night the Emperor gave a grand ball at the Tuileries. About 6,800 persons were present. The Empress, who is slightly indisposed, re- mained in her apartments. ITALY. The Wanderer of Vienna of the 21st says:- Letters from Turin announce that the Sardinian government has solicited the mediation of Great Britain in its ...

... THE CATHOLIC CHURCI. I On last Friday and Saturday, the Rev. H. O'Farrell, as- sisted by the secular and regular clergymen of the city, pre- pared over six hundred of the inrmates of Boherbuoy work- house for Easter duty. On Sunday morning they approached communion in the most edifying manner, and after the usual devotions the children sung several of the beautiful pieces of music sent to them ...

... I 15TO TRE EDITOR 'OF THE FREEMAN. Arklow, April 16th, 185 3. SBo-Space, if _yoA please, for a few -words to set -myself right with your readers on one or two matters. I am neither a Whig nor a Tory, but a Catholic Irishman, with good -will towards all mankind, and a love of my native land before the world. I hate the terms Whig and Tory, Old Ireland and Young Ireland, Orangemen and Ribbonmen, ...

... I THE INCOME TAX--THE OPINION OF THE I I COUNTRY. (From the Evewing Freeman of Yesterday.) The following important communication from a highly respected correspondent has reached us shortly before our going to press:- On Monday, the 25th inst., at a meeting of the indepen- dent electors of Carrick-on-Suir and its neighbourbood, held in the Liberal Newsroom of that town-T. LAI.Own, Esq., D.L., ...

... REV. DR. CAILL IN GLASGOW. ? - - ?? U.i +,-1 h . The Rev. Dr. Cahill has recelvea, nor tooe LoueanuTu rime, one of these challenges to hnld a public controversy on mat- ters of faith which every puny whipater seems to think he cn offer and demand acceptance of at his own pleasure. Te challenger on the present occasion is a Rev. Mr. Ander- so and as Dr. Cahill's answer disposes entirely of all ...

... Ulf),c 10'rrItn B E L F A S T: IVEDNESD A Y, APRIL 27, 1853. THE following are the principal items of foreign in- telligence reecived since our last:- A M E R I C A. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. LivEnlOOL, MIOND)AY, 12-30 A .s-By the steamer N-Karrra we have ardvices from New Yorl; to the 12th, and Boston to the 13th inst. She has brought 123 pas- sengers, but no specie. 'IThe steamer America, ...