... I A HTORICAL CONSCIENCE CLAUSE. There baa just emerged a new educational difi- culty. As if it were not enough that the schoimg of generations has been delayed in England through the acrimonious coipetitions of rival catechisms. the battle of histories has now- begun -The Lone don School Board appointed a committee to decide on the historical teaching in the not yet built elementary schools; ...

... THE LONDON PRESS ON THE TFIANrS. I GIVING CEREMIONY. The Times says the Thauksgiving Day has coe and gone, and universal opinion proclairas th3t it has exhibited one of the grandest and most inn ii, irg ceremonies ever witne.sed in this countrry. For -miles the windows, the shop frouts, t'-e h as nies, %and the housetops wore alive wvi-ha haua beings. For miles the pavements were made in. ...

... THE RESTORATION OF SEBASTOPOL I The Saturday Revi4 t thinks that after the rap- ture of the Treaty of Paris it was easy to foresee that the fortifications of Eebastopol would, at the convenience of the Russian Government, be recon. structed. 'It is fortunately not now necessary to repeat the submission of the English Government or the repudiation of the Russian engagements. The Conference of ...

... m1) THE EamTOa. OF THE P'Ru EIrAS. Sir-In reply to your offensive paragraph in this day's F iinrn, m which my name is so ire* quently repeated, I beg to say that my former let- terouthe aubject referredto hasconvincedeveryone bet you and you clique; that whatyou designate as a re-assembling, lie., was a duly constituted meeting of the sub-committee. The chairman's signature was appended to ...

... I THE TELEGRAPH CLERKS-SUNDAY I WORK. in consequence of an official order lately issued by the authorities, enacting That in future a week's work of the male staff of the Telegraph Department of the General Post Office shall be computed at seven days per week, of eight hours per day, instead of six days, consisting of eight hours as heretofore, a meeting was held In the General Post Office, ...

... FIER HEAD. ARRIVALS. Up to 9 aLM., Nov. 2, 1872. Wind-W.S.W. Nov. 1.-Jeanue, St. blalo, barley; Prlncess of Walei4 TaEanrog, wheat, lRobert- Godfrey, Philadelphia, In- dian corn; Duriey, steamer, Nicoleiff. whear; Anua Jane, London, manganese, Mermaid, Londonu eement; Countess of Dub in, stearaer. London, Telegraph ani Canbria, steamers, liolyhead; St. Patrick, Longford, Mullingar. Eblana. and ...

... I .LATEST EWS. -I lIdrwwR~ e |(BY ir.SPECIAL AND ORDINARY TELE.i M-I ~~GRAPH.) in _ Paris, October 8th. Id ' Thesittingof the Perhrnent Commission of the al Assembly on Thqrsday WM be attended. by-M. le Thlern, a II hiving been oxpressed by the e. members of the oo ion to hear the decision re. of the Government with regard to the course y .pursued by GaznetflatGrenoble. It is probable to that ...

... Industrial strife has this feature in common a with real warfare, thatits worst consequences i are unseen. When we road of great battles I fought, of thousands killed and wounded, of a captives and capitulations, of provinces wasted, g and the havoc of conquest, we shudder at the o sanguinary record. But the more woful results a which neither bulletin nor correspondence set o before us-the ...

... I As thin in ihe' poper time -to xsnenc the - preparation of the liad for next yeas crop of. r ots, we will endeavour -to point out to our ; radera the most approveid methiod of'aceomnPlish- tu It-. The, onatomformerly ?? to, allow the l6nd to remain' untonohed during the entire anutmn and winter months. lu spring, when ?? time for pcttin dowi the crop ?? at hand, . e^n, 'and then only, did ...

... I THE BEV. MR. O'KEEFFE AND THE REV. ME LAVELLE. I- TO TAE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN. Callan, t3ept. 14, 1872. SiR-A longrigmarole de omnibus rebus et quibusedam anis from my candid friend, the P. P. of Cong, has come under my notice in the FREEMAN of yesterday. A little spite has come out this time, as the P.P. thinks I have de- nounced Fenialn ruffians ; but to his astonish- M nt I tell ...

... I - . We have at length the nearing certainty that Dublin is Boon to redeem its disgraceful Indiffe. rence to the memory of one of Irelandslgreateat, truest, and most illustrious sons. The city of Grattan's birth-the city in which he achieved the most splendid of his triumphs-which had witnessed the memorable scene on the 16th of April, 1782, when through the ranks of the Irish Volunteers he ...

... I _ ?? . -.-I ?? ?? I The usual weekly meeting of the board was 3 held yesterday. ) Alderman VOKES MACKEY, D.L., in the dhair. STATE OF THE HousE.-Numllber in house per last return, 2,546; admitted, 134; discharged, 102; died, 8; number of children at nurse, 270; receiving out-door relief, 525; children at Deaf I and Dumb Institution, 27; at Blind Asylum, 14; patients in fever hospital, 3; ...