... IF we really wish to form opinions of any substance or value on that painfully important subject, the condition and prospects of the Irish popu- lation, it is well worth our while to turn our attention for a moment fromn the barren volumes of political speculation to which we are treated to those statistical returns out of which-if we use them rightly-all that is really trustworthy on the ...

... IRH Y RA PKS. MANY army reformers recommeud a reduction not only of the nimibers of officers, but also of the different grades of officers in the arny ; and conservative soldiers ?? ?? proposals mere'y froM a belief that as we have done well wvith the present system any change Lnst be for the worse. Although nominelly the classification of officers is nearly the saine at present as it was in ...

... Senor Figuerola, the Spanish Minister of Finance, has issued a statement, nwhich he estimates the deficit at two and a half milliards of reals, attributing n to the necessity for extraordinary expenditure in consequence of the letrcailing distress, and the want of work for the lower classes, though, e says, the Government does not acknowledge the right of the citizens hoe be provided with work ...

... l S REYNOLD-S'S& NEWSPAPER SUNDAT. OCTOBER 11, E88&. SUNDAY'S EDITION.- TIE PREmUUER'S MANIFESTO. At length the oracle has spoken, and says-no- thing. His bewildered party for weeks have beer chattering common-place nonsense, but have 'con- spicuously refused to express any confidence it their leader. They evidently think him one ol the leaders who are not guides ; for whilst th( Liberals' ...

... OM 'UA?Iik -- I - - - -- - ?? .11 - - ?? TyHE SrAwissa REsvoLUirroO.-The Daily R/ena says: -Several of our conlemporaries appcar to tak.) for granted that the Spaniards cannot possibly exiet with- out a monarch. Time was when a nation was punished for asking ior a king, but that was in a very early age, and among a peouliar people. Now-a-da s it aes that a nation which bas been for centuries ...

... Vs.,'tBAL CRMIrNAL CouRT.-The October sessions C6 thie court onmnier~cti to morrow at the Old Bailey. DlAILTLTIBONE E CII0coXo-A Mr. Stanford, a Middle- Rex mnagistrate, has started in the COnservative interest for Mar' lebone. T iu QuErEN, on the o h inst. (says the Ayr Advertiser), miost Miadly sent to Mrs. William Roy, New-eireetI Dairy, the sum of 17, in consideration of her having bteet ...

... GENEFLAL SUMAIAL1Y. FcENxce EtreenAL, etc1 DUMANt -P)t nice, Oct. 4.-A Fenian funteral lock place in Dublint on Sellay Tho deceased hail beingolt Ree never hr. tigh t to trial. The, collat was born ona terad tho hineariltien ws V COVered With a large, green wreath. About 8,000 persons, wearling green neoklite end r-eetos of that colour, folloewedthecorpso. 1belmrnwaik.d four dic ep. IPer eo'tv ...

... DISTUBA: E c I IN D - A BomsnAP; Sept; 15.-Advices from-the Huzara frontier-state that -the troops were e~pected to ad, vance about the ?? or 15th. Opposition by the enemy, was also expected. Tbe liahore Clironicle states ?? Swat had attacked 'iand killed fifty Hindustanees. From Cabool he is' reported to be stirring up the dissffected tribes of Affghanistan. CALCUTrA, Sept. 10.- The ...

... 0 dONTWOUAOIRS- '. P I ?. ?? _LL-1- i ltll trea no harem, , al o it lii, I Itha bec~n d ~nti olt~rk' yhas Oslre two cW Ettheir fav l our and'patronse. tht tK e ibs notionio, jjevein'e wha fitlows. how add~etely st~ided withnal othc tbrone si befiha moral and ~bliti haaild , nto ?? apnsriopous butb chdh're ?? tttlher the RavometaotnsaI & ri niti tig, and though, arrangement is to On beh o the ...

... ZATES1TELECTRI NEWS. I I I 0 ND s SlL -naaSE TELGRANlM1 Pris, Friday EvenIng. The Prance of this evening says that the Marquis fis Menstier received Senor Merry yesterday 's Spanish chargei affaires until the appointment of a mew ambassador. 'The same journal states that the govern eat Wadrid has proposed to France to excbiange the .ati- %cations of the treaty settling the Franeo.SpanSh ...

... : T:E IO A A L. : THB [E BOMBAY MAIL. 0; 'By the arrival- of the 'above mhil we have re- ceived advices* fro Bombay to Oct. 8; Madras, Sept. 28; Calcutta, Sept. 28, &c , The- Tizes of Inia announces that a move has at length been meade on the nrth-west frontier. General Wilde's head-uarters (it says) were esta. blshed at Oghee, ?? the 28th ust. the 19th Reetenent marchetinth4e loliowus day, ...

... COMM;00fxERCIAL 2~TRAYBLLB.A8' SQHOeL&a On SatisdayJlast thd Shevi :igo, which for some time past have been in comre of erection in oonnec- tion with'these schools at Pinner, wereformallyopenedby the Earl of l~arrowby. It' had' been announced that the ceremony would be performed by Miss Bnrdett Coutts (who for many years hasq' taken a lively interest im the welfsre oftheinstitution), but the ...