... F ) I - - X ,.,7 ?? I- Iad - II\ ra m ?? A ;cv5 Ozthe miii-. . scersof B-Lcast anl vienuity testc?;; daV in the As-socation Rooms, when *,re , -t of diepute between them and tiheir .;as anxionsly considered. After mature rle- Vii,03, the meeting came to the conclusion that . snt accede to th-ce demand of the operatives -r~e ; they had already offered-2s a-week. It g- - o resolved that tce lock ...

... COPI3vESPO,3'DENCE. T HE FLr.1SOD3&S~5WE SraikE. L TO Pi..E uDtieo- OF Tl2 rErASCT ENwS.aSETTns. Sia-In your issue of to-day r notice a letter I from a gentleman, signing himself an I Employer andl Working Man's Friend, inwhichhe says that he, in common with all ?? peoplie, laments the strike at prosent cuisting bietween the f iaxN resSCTS at theiremployers. 1, as a working 1,mIn. say so too ...

... T'HE LIONXINS OF TgE SEASON. Tit Rloankin is without question an unmitigated nuisance. There ate platdeh ithete you positively find them in herds. Mhat the lady of V& ei:5- ?? Cainot have in quality she makes up for by quantity,. Every second person You meet is more or less a small celebrity. Mas1r em you can simply identify with desperate brfe to attract public notice, associated with noisy ...

... THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, TOwfSEX;1D STREET CGuRcn.-On Tnue-day even- ing, the ladies of Townsend Street congregation in- vited their minister, the session. te committee to tea in the Lecturc-room, which v-as beautifully orna- mentedxvith florersforthe ocer.sion. Aftertea,Capt. Tatewas movedinto the chair, and lMr. Thcs. Yonng, the treasurer of the congregation, in a few hind and complimentary ...

... STHE COURT. ter WnsrDSOR CAsnTL, MAY 13.-Her Majesty's a. dirner party yesterday included her Imperial Ma- ed jeety the Empress of Germany, their Royal High- to nesses the Prince and Princess Christian, Princess to Louise, Princess Beatrice, and the Marquis of Les Lorne, Countess Schuienburg, the Mvarchioness of i-Ely, Earl Granville, Count Furstenstein, and the ri Earl of Kenmare, Lord-in ...

... I THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL, KMG8. ?? ' TOWN., p A crowded and highly influential meeting of the parishioners of Kingstown was held yesterday, in the parochial church, for the purpose of adopting measures and realising funds for carrying on the work of reconstruction of thi sacred edifice. On the mnotion of Mr.P. Segrave, seounded by Mr. Thomas Casey, the chair was taken by The Vg Rev. Mgr. ...

... ?? 0 I (BY SPECIALj AND REUTERS TEL5ff GRAPH.) FRANCE. Versailles, Saturday, The report of the committee appointed to inquire into the capitulations during the late war censure the commandant of Thionville. As regards the capitulation Of Paris, the committee declares itself incompetent to express an ofinifofl in the pre. amble the committee takes into consideration, frst, that General Troclin ...

... MP, GL AD1STONE AND TH1N.EI. - FORMf1ST ASSOC:IAT10N. | A further correspondence has taken place be. tween Mr. Warburton and the Premier. The for- mer gentleman regrets that ,Mr, Gladstone has-not seen lit to throw light upon the important points at issue on the subject of concurrent endowment. Mr. Warburton writes nnder date April 22, to which he receives the following reply, dated- Downing ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREE3IAN. 41 Lower Mount-street, Dublin, 21st May, 1872. SIR-In reference to the paragraph appearing in your issue of Monday, I regret much that any misunderstanding should exist in regard to the In- dependent Order of GoodrTemplars, Kingstown, Vanguard Lodg,,137, and for the purpose of giviag yea and the public an opportunity of judging of the facts in relation to the ...

... I HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST YIGHT. I The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. OFFFENCES AGAINST WOMTEN. Sir Wilfrid Lawson gave notice, on behalf of Mr. Ta)lcr, that on the motion for the second reading of the Offences against Women and Children Bill he will move that it be read a second time that day six months. THE WHITEHAVEN RIOTS. Mr. P. Wynadbam gave notice that on Friday, the 21st instant ...

... I SPECIAL TELEGRAMS I I (PROM OUR OWN CRRESPOND8NTS.) -I LONDON CORRESPONDENOCE London, Monday Night. Archdeacon Moore, in charging his clergy this afternoon in Wolverhampton, said he regarded the bill allowing a Catholic 'to be Lord Chancellor as tending to the putting of a Catholic on the throne. The Dublin University has been not only unpro' testantised butunehristianised. He supported the ...

... THE COURT. WINDSOR CAMTLs,!APR1L 30.-The Queen, accom- panied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Ron. Caroline Cavendish, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty walked and drove this morning with Princess Beatrice. Lord Wrottesley and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville- West have succeeded Viscount Torrington and Colonel Hon. Augustus Liddell as Lord and Groom- in-Waiting. His Royal ...