... _2RTSH STATE PAPERS. I 'The National Archives lately presented by the Li. braiy Company of Philadelphlia to the 3ritish G ?ernment, and which has excited Do little ctrw with political and literary researchers, have b- y. arnined by the Muter of the Roll, L3rd e Ox- whose remarks on their contenb are cont- tsy prlianentaxry publication issued on Tc Absi in a docaments oontained In the volume , ...

... I KilBGStOWN SUPPLY tF- WATEP . I rill. A-.. i:- _- __A_ ?? Idbn The first pipe bs lad yesterday at Monketowe- :roe0. 'A,-lage Pmber of. per svere present qu the .occaegn. The assemblage included Sir John G Gray, . P.; Messrs. Sinosoun, rlepretsenbtives of ' It-erp Eldiegtn and Son0, PAmux Iron, Works, Glasgowr; Spencer Hefty, CE,, reident engu , A. ADole, ,CE, Kmgstow Township; par. INeville, ...

... ROYAL fllISH ACADEMY. The diet MCetiog of the memberaof the academy for the Eessionof 1869-70 weas held last night at the Aoademy Housee, Dawson. stet, Dr. Svoazs in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr. J. T. Gilbert said he had received a paper from Mr. G. R. Kinaban containing a very interest- ing deecription of the ruins of anancient ecelesias- ...

... I _tNDLORDS AND LAND TENUREs. [ The Special Commissioner of the Times in bit last wt letter, dated from Galway, says : - I have attained Cc' a point In an investigation-intended, so far as time in ?? permit, to examine the laua question of Ireland, coi in Jits different bearings, at a variety of places-at we 'which, before I proceed further, I shall endeavour to I indicate, inar general way, ...

... NATIONAL TESTIMO0IA TO SIR JOHN 1 I A., G- . .RAD At the eneeting of tbe ccmmlttoe yesterday, the Very Rev. Dr, SPBAWT nlthe chatr, the frllo sing additional sub siptions were sannouted:_ Thlomae Hamumondq J P, Shteep Hjule, Drogheda ?? £5 0 0 Very Rev M Flynn, p P. AirfnoLlt, Waterford, per Mgr Dean O'Co Abell 2 0 0 'I'll : Canon Wall, P P, C.o04 ty 2 0 CRUR . .. . 2 0 0 James H O'Brien, ...

... RISINTG OF CONVIM C AN D I as ., I JAIL F -rom the Bangoeo Teim of the 17th It. we eat t the following desoa d a -eahbe ocone: o It is melancholy to narrate the cirona- f tances of arieag vvhich took p on Monda ls a about half-past'r ocock n the aftenoon, in the e Central Jail at Rangoon. A -onseicyhd ed. i dently be pb O g the g of eg Ebs w mes convicts to effect teidr escpe. Thi gan .a - ...

... OFFERS 1' COMPROXMISE. (Fv.ra the London LEa ulner.) Th-t signilicant hints lately dropped in the Times, that liberal terms of capitulation, to sare further fighhing, would eftill be gracte-I to the Irish Church, have not been thrown away. More thaa one astute Archdeacon is already ambling on pacific -paifrey be tween the lines, with volunteer flag of truce iu hazd ; and, unleszs they are much ...

... I P= NATIONABL BALL. IoMtiTl: TO THE RDITOR OF THE PFREMAN. SIB-A report of the proceedings of the National Ball (Oominittee having been forwarded to you which is incret, I am constrained to make the following observation, a if left incontraiiceted it may be. sup. posed tbat at the meeting of the committee upon the 14th instant I was neglectful of the interest of those cbarities ad ...

... MIXOTION or' POOR LAW GUARDIAAj3| I The fauounineP -oh Aid At ^, ~w AwiMA are in fnomination which bave been rsecved by tbe roturnig officer for the North Dub~ln Unlio A' -QUAY WA -Alderman Joseph Maaun said Mr. Thoasu Arkins have been nominated by Xetrs. Arkins, John Reilly and the Rer. William Caeen Brock. Mr. W. Bury ha as been iomiluated by Mr. Arkins, and Msr. Michael Gavcan, T.C, by ...

... ihe f er.ainn's lJournal. DUBLIN: WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 18-9. I8 Wa disbelieve the statement of the John BUll, e which repeats. the' assertion that Lord DzBiBy will certainly move the rejection of the Church Bill on the second reading. The statement was first circulated in the Carlton, whence it passed into the columns of the John BtlU, and now, when the club is doubtful about the mat- ter, the ...

... > An filem S~ _Xurrnalv I . _ . . . . . ?? o DtrBLIt: FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1869. .. .. . _ = = ._ _- TaB meetings of the Grand Ledge must be pretty frequent, for we had addresses of one kind or another every three months in the last twelve. The last was particularly special-to adopt an address to the QUEEw on the present conjuncture of affairs. They tell her Majesty their ancient Institution is ...

... | COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN PRUSSI.&. I A correspondent of the Tina describes the com- pulsory system of education in force in Peassia: The law is that every town, or community in town or country, must maintain a school supported bythe taxes, and administered by the local authorities, who are elected by the citizens, and called aldermen or town councillors. All parents are compelled to send ...