... A gardener of Sheffield has died of lockedjaw caused by sceidentally running a spill into his little finger. The Dublin steamner Trafalgar, wlhile leaving- the Mersey on Saturday eveciig, came into collision with 'a schooner, and the schooner sank. The crew sared themselves in a boat. The person who accused himself of mnurdering his wife in Edinburgh now admits that the tile was a fabriea ...

... 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 ...

... h1OUSE, OF CONINONS.-WEDMM3IAY. Tbte Speaker took tlie chaxir at twtdie o'celock. Thu East Augliata Railway Bill (Nio.2) toves read the second time. Petitions were presented by )!r. Johnstone from a place in Cisabmannan its favour of thle Urileersity Tests Abolition Bill by r.Blair, in Isvotur of the 1'nblic-boutse (Sixitlond) Bill by Nr V. Evans, from Detrby, fur thle abolitionr of church ...

... 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, ...

... HEALTH of LONDON DURING the WBEE. I The official report states that the mortality of London con. tinues to decrease by slow degrees. In the three weeks of April the number of deaths returned have been 1,340, 1,243, and in the week that ended last Saturday, 1,182. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52, the average num- ber of deaths was 944, which, if raised in proportion to in- ...

... a A valuable report has been issued by the Edinburgh Gene- ral Committee on Bankruptcy-Law Reform, suggesting some important alterations and improvements in the administration of the Bankrupt Law of Scotland. Among other recommendations, it is proposed that the office of interim-factor on its present elective footing, should be abolished, and that the judge, in awarding sequestration, should, ...

... 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., ...

... We have received by Extraordinary Express in enticipation of the Overland Mail, our private 3orrespondence and journals from Bombay to the !9th March; Calcutta, 19th March; Hong Kong, l1th March; Alexandria, 19th April ; and Malta, !2d April. INDIA. f[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEXNT. BOMBAY, MACWE 29. By the last mail intelligence from Burmah came sown to the 22d February; by this opportunity the ...

... MERCHANT COMPA A meeting was held in the Hall, Hunter Square, on Tues- day,—C. M-Gibbon, Esq., in the chair. The minutes having been read, the Master stated, that the Committees appointed at former meetings to report on the Bankruptey and Bills were not in a position to do anything, amended copies of these acts not having yet reached He then laid on the table a copy of the Chancellor's ...

... IE DUBINa: R s 32ourital DUBLIN: THURISDAY, APRIL 28, 1853. ITHE INCOME TAX-MEETING OF CITIZENS. The citizens, of Dublin meet to-day to protest against the Whig Budget-not because it is a Whig Budget, but because it proposes to impose new and intolerable burdens on this- already over-taxed country. We have already analysed the propositions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer at such length that ...