... l rouse of Coosssons, Saturday Homirng Mr. Buttes motion for exempting precarious and clerical incomes under 1501. from income tax has been negatived on a division by 205 against 49. t Londo~n, Friduy Evening. Contrary to expectation, the discussion on Ur. Phillimore's . motion respecting church rates occupied the house the whole 5 of last evening, and the income tax bill was postponed to to- ...

... II SLIGO.- On Saturday the select comimittee appointed to inquire ito the ailegations of Mr. Somers' petition against the re- turn of Mr. Towneley, on the ground of bribery and oorrup- tion at the last election, assembled for the first time at eleven o'clock. The members of the committee were Mr. Divett (chair- man), Mr. Hindley, Sir E. Filmer, Hion. W. Portman, and Mr. Evelyn. Counsel for the ...

... I GROCERS' AND VINMNERS' SOCIETY. The committee held their meeting on Wednesday, at the usual place, Royal College Tavern, York-street, Mr. JOHN Nixox, in the chair. The Chairman wished to commence proceedings by band- log in the second year's subscription: of Alderman Laurence Reynolds, Queen-street, of one pound. He (the Chairman) took that earliest opportunity of asking the secretary if he ...

... DUBLIN: TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1853. The total amount of presentments made by all the Irish Grand Juries, for the year 1852, reached £884,976, minus £6,733 for representments, which gives a nett of £872,242. The largest item in the account, for repairs of roads, bridges, &c., amounted to £320,797; government prison and bridewell expenses, £89,000; police, £42,145; salaries of county officers, £101 ...

... I A Royal Commission being about to inquire into the state of education in Maynooth, and all other matters connected with its internal arrangement and discipline, some of the hot heads think the in- quiry should go much further, and take it the whole question of Catholic doctrine as practised in religious establishments; and farther, that all institutions of that nature should be placed under ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE THE FRENCH EMPIRE. PARIS, MIOWAY EVENING.-The univers contains an ac- count of an ejection riot in the canton of Fribourg, in which the Radicals are said to have savagely beaten their oppo- nents with large sticks, naked sabres, end the butt ends of muskets. The Presse rays that the above statement is grossiy exaggerated, for that no person was seriously injured, a ...

... SOUPERISM-MORE DISCLOSURES. MILOTOWN PETTY SESIONS-WEDNESDAY, MAY 4.- Magistrates on the bench, Sir William Godfrey and Edward Roe, Eeq. The follewing case was called, which appeared to be the case of the day-it was de bello clerico, and seemed to excite a good deal of interest, if we may judge fiom the crowded state of the court. Rev. Mfr. Erwin v. Xicleael Leyae. In this case Mr. S. Huggard ...

... THE SEASON-THE CROPS. Vegetation is unusually backward, and the spring work rather late. We hope the summer season will soon break in on n9, and dispel the gloom the present weather is calcu- lated to cast on the prospects of our agricultural friends.- Drogheda Conservative. The country looks well, and vegetation progresses rapidly giving cheeripg promise of the ?? Sentinel. In the course of a ...

... IpfENSED GROCERS' AND VI[TNERS' SOCIETY. I ., W.ThereOV8 a full mnetingnofthecommittee on weanesuay, il MIr. MI5IAEL L E cARN , /itigsend, in the chair. Ikhe Chairman handed in the renewed subscription of His. 4* ' ~r. John Byrne handed in the second year's subscription | of~ Mrs. Mary Kelly, tavern-keeper, Essex-bridge; also, a year's saubscription from Mr. James Nedley, grocer, San- dymuunt, ...

... I . A A . - I BSay 28, 1852. FscLLOW-COUNTInYMIEN-After patiently awaiting, for much precious time, an appeal to you from other quarters, I can no longer check the feelings that prompt me respect- fuilly to call on you to sot ! The unhappy exasperations of the last two years have at length eventuated, as was easily to be foreseen, in a renewed, and still a baser, instance of English ...

... |DU N $ VcculaN sDAY, MAYil1at. DUBLIN: E DESDAY, BMAY 11, 1858. THE EXI B ITION-THlE OPENING. No formil directions have been publi-hed yet with respect, to the adudmission to the inauguration of the Great Exhibition, and knowing f~om the letters we have received that a good deal of anxiety pre- vails f'r information on the matter, we have mader inquiries as to the regula ions that will be ...

... LICENSED RETAIL GROCERS ANlD VINTNERS' I I ~~~SOCIE'y IT. The committee of this body met on Wednesday last. Mr. DE. LAoEy in the chair. Mr. J. Byrne (with whom, as a deputation, was Mr. O'Hara, the secretary), proceeded to Mr. P. J. Burke, grocer, &o., Dame-street, who, he4'observed, expressed his marked approbation of the proceedings of the society, and of his pleasure in having an ...