... 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 ...

... THE EASURYAND THE CIVIL SERVICE. To TOIM EDITOR OF THE FtEMAN,- Sxn,-The ii Barvico Commission is now in I the fall dischargeof its mysterious functions, and' a the Civil servants of Ireland are on their trial be- 7 fore a tribunal on which they are not repreSented, . and with the scope 6f whose jurisdiction they are unacquainted. This, however, is known-that, in the constltuthon of that ...

... z-_- ?? 'framm's 'I'a , , urnal, - ? I I I .. - DUBLIN: SATUrD YU NOVEiBBR 2, 1872, ?? -1 11 1 , ?? ?? Tim melancholy intelligence which it this morning our most painful duty to con. vey to our readers will be read with sorrow, deep and profound, not alone viitlhin the limits of our isle, but in distant zones and foreign climes- ~wherever a trae Irish heart beats, wherever the foot.of the all ...

... ii _ - : e 'a ?? 'L, -:T, IHE jS ?? I -L ATES..;.1 Mg; - ?? B.'e P. ; . 1. A nD i;OPDIARY TRL- - GBPC .aris, Moday Evening. The French GOvernment wi,' In'theourse o the presentb weqlr pay two hndred millond to the Getman Government, on amoeuntbof the war | indemninity, ond subeq' nitly contiue these pay- ments, so as to leave only two milliarde due by the end of the'pesert year. Even ...

... I I I 10 TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEM)AN. flh DEAn Szg-It gives me much pleasure to ob. of serve that the public mind is beginning to realise iy fully the unstable condition of the Qacen's Uni. )h versity in Ireland. EHaving been for some time c- a student in one of the Queen's Colleges, I hope d these few remarks of mine on the subject may not prove wholly uninteresting. As an Irishman to and ...

... : A meeting of members of the Irish Soclety for Women's Suffrago was held on Saturday at Kyle, Wexiord.-Captain Percy, Harvey, D.L,, in the chair. Miss Anne Robertson, PAesidtnt of the Society, who was present, said that it was gra. tifying to observe that more Irish members of Parliament had voted last session in favour of the, bill to enfranohise women ratepayers, than had voted for it upon ...

... PRESENTATIONS TO THE ERA, I COUNTESS QOuAY8MFORT.- I 'I On Saurday, the 2ndinst., at hs,*-past twelve . o'clook, by a ppoutnb., a deputation from tho tenantry of the ?? Estate .alted on the Earl and Countess-of Caryefort, in the Castle of' Glen-Arti to preaent'addtenei to his lordlup ah d a testimonial to her ladyp, Theddzess frqm the tenantry i'beiutifulyboun4 in tho fowsot a 'nlbum, and ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEI N. Dublin Dairy Proprietors' Association, Qommittee Rooms, 73 Aungier-street. Sue-Sb much has been written in your own columns, as weli as in those of other public jour- nal, against the recent rise of one penny per quart on the milk eupplied by members of our association, that I feel I may trespass on yon for space enough to endeavour to disabase the publia mind of ...

... I TO THE EDITOR OF TE FREEMAN, 3rd Nov., 1872. DECAR Sm-On this day the people of Dublin -ever generous and kindly-a people of noble impulses and ready sympathies-did honou? to themselves and to their country by the solemn tribute so touchingly rendered to the ashes of a greatly gifted and greatly distinguished Irishman -John Francis Maguire. Almost without no- tice, barely a few hours in ...

... 3 The grievances of the Royal Irish Constabulary still continue to occupy journalistic attention, and no doubt can be entertained that these grie- vances are weighty and numerous. An import. ant suggestion for bettering the condition of a large section of the force is made in one of our contemporaries this morning. The writer signs himself A Married Policeman, and says that three-fourths of ...

... IfISH STORIES-THU COPYRIGHT , The `great and only cloud which overshadowed t the first visit of Oharles Dickens to the United States was that created by his vigorous and un- ar iparing denunciation of the lawlessness which enabled an American publisher to use the writings of an English author without giving that w author onepesny. More than a quarter of a Di century has elapsed since then, aud ...