... I [Ba T JLERPH] mes I - - dec mai whi TWO POLICEMEN FIRED AT IN COUNTY is LIMERICK. cult LIMERIC, FRIDAY. - Two policemen, named ant Doyle and M'ConaghY, were fired at in the villagse h of Askeaton, in thin county, about seven o'clock mei last evening, while standing in a butcher's stall. oft Doyle was mortally wounded, and is reported dead. it i M'Conaghy was wounded in the arm. No person cla ...

... SOMETHIN'G ABOUr THE SKTi~.Z CZ I. The Malta T;n. Af the 9tih publiehes a very read. able letter from Dr. Cannon, of her Mjesty's ship Newport, giving some interesting detaitl, not here- tofose published, of the magnitude of this great onu dertaking. Dr. Cannon, we may ?? of Dublin, eon of Dr. Cannor, of Kennelwortheqnare, and we therefore have much pleasure in presenting his fellowdcitizenes ...

... I FALL OF A HOUSE-SIX LIVES LOST. YULLfRl PARTICfUARS. LIMErICa, THUrISDAY.-One of the most melan- choly accidents which have occurred in this city for many years took place this morning in one of the oldest parts of the Old Town. The accident has resulted in the instantaneous death of six indi. viduals. About eleven o'clock last night the wind suddenly rose, and by two o'clock this morning ...

... TWO HUNDRED AND PIFIY PERSONS DROWINED. I Toss Sydney Herad says:- The Mary Anne Christina arrived on Thursday, Oct. 7, from the Line Islands, and Captain Field brings the sad news of the massacre, by the natives, of the cap- tain and first mate of the French barque Moores, and Mr. Latten, who *was on board; also, the wholesale loes of life of the savage murderers by drowning, in trying to ...

... I IN'TERVIEWING THE KREDIVE. Tniw special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph °t writes, under data, Cairo, Dec. 16:- It was my n wish, before terminating my Egyptiau tour, to d have an opportunity of being presented to his el Highness. My vish was responded to, as soon as a expressed, with the uniform courtesy which I have ii received throughout my sojourn in this country; h and this ...

... MILITARY PROMOTIONS AND EX- I ~ CH.NGES.I WAR Ovn~cS, Lo,;uo.,T DEC. 28. 1st Regiment of Life Guards-'H. C. Westenra, LodRoasmore, to be Cornet andi Sub-Lieult., by pur.-hafle, vice HRenry Lord Beaumotwh re tires. J2th Lancera kurgeon T. Tyrreat, M.D., from the ape otined tffemen, to be Surgeon, vice Squrgeon- Major F. Hl. Baxter, M.D appointed to the Staff. Grenadier Guards-Llett and Captain ...

... ~ I)e grfmiilu's lurnai. , DUBfIN: SATIURDAY. JAX(. 1, 1870. THE year 1869 has closec. aud te parted from it with regrat as one of the few ysars in our long and sad history which bore upon It the mark of true progrest. It will be memorable in our annals as the ve.r in Which SectariHa Ascandancy was trampled. ander foot by the Engli Government and Eagliha Parliament, and Religious Equality pro; ...

... THE QUARREL BETWEEN THE MILITARY | AND CIVILIASS IN KILLARNEY. KILLARNEY, WDrxsDAr. -During the greater portion of last evening several hand-to-hand en- counters took place between the soldiers, in twos and threes, and the civilians, and as the night wore on the town presented a very disturbed ap- pearance High Street being filled with young men, all seemingly determined on having revenge on ...

... 5 b c ?dfasf liko period of fast year, and 1,331>660 owt3. of flour, against 582,400 cots last year. This aG- count tells of ttle vsqG increase of resources and 2 the rapid recovery of agricaltaral enterprise in the inland SGS. Then, ve have the best proof Citb a$iLrtBsQg ;te.tw33,Lth (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1,37.) |; BELFAST: SATURDAY, JAN. 1, 1870. THvE weary catalogue of disorders in Ireland is ...

... I TEE education question now occupies a conspicuous place in Methodist debate. The President of the Conference has just declared that Methodist schools must be religious; that while resolutely c separated from all merely secular schemes, on the e one side, and from all that would strengthen and t promote Popery on the other, we shall never ex-t cdude from our schools Scripture teaching or ...

... STATioNS OF TE BRITISH A Y. I Corrected up to the 29th De&, 1869, inclsve. j Where two places ase sainented, thebalt-mentioned la that at which the Depot ot Regiment is statiored CAVALRY. 24th-latbat, Malta, Preston lnt LUe Gn1-Reget's 2nd bat, MadrJa, Preton Parknh 26th-Is bat, Portsmouth; 2nd ?? P s 2nd bat, Bengal, Preston ?? Romse Gnar-Wind- 26th-Bengaj, Abedeen Nor 27th-Chasha lat Dragoon ...

... VAGRANCY-DEPTTTATIONTO THE CHIEF- I SECRETARY. A 3aPruATioN from the Guardians of the North Dublin Union waited on Thursday afternoon on the Right Hon. the Chief-Secretary, at the Castle, for the purpose of bringing under his notice the sub- ject of the great increase of vagrant beggars expos- ing infants in public places. The following gentle. men composed the deputation :-H. J. MacParlane, J ...