... In the thousands of columns of Christmas sentiment to which the readers of the news- papers are treated at this time of year much non- sense is inevitable. The tears of merriment are shed profusely; and we might be content with this sort of thing if we were not further troubled with bad sermons from preachers who don't know wbat they talk about, and who have a purely professional feeling at ...

... THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN PRUSSIA, There is (says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily SNew8, writing on the 20th instant) very little in the shape of definite Information about the Cabinet crisis, The only fact which is clearly beyond dispute is that Prince Bismarok has asked to be relieved from the duties of Minister-Presi. dent, or Premier, touse an equivalent and simpler expression. The ...

... I. PIEPHEAD. ARRIVALS. upn to 9 a~m, Dlec. ~0, 1872. Wvind-S. Dec 19.-COUntCess of Carrick, sablesvrheat; gow: Sanda, steamner, Waterfo3rd ; Alexandra,. °IMEr,Cr Gepsey and M3abell Hgaarris. C~thnestX Ler, o~ bricir, steanmer. Holyhead. t colliers. SAILI3NCS. Dee. 19.-Maid of Alostyn. Barrow, wood : Alexiltr end Jambria, steamers, Holyhead ; Irishm.N1 iivl Lrd slde teamers, (ilasgo~v Longford ...

... _IF8TLOR.AW ;OEtYj | I .I IC . . N1ie have been requested to publish the fol. lowing Case on behalf of the President and Coun. l oil of the Incorporated Soeiety of Attorneys and and Solicitors of Ireland:- . The Charter under which the Soeiety of Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland is ihcorporated provides that ?? t'.e governing body shall consist of a council of not 0 les,, than twenty-one or ...

... RI frttm Xs.X1.u DUBLIN: SATURDAY, DEC. 7, 1672, I .. ?? Tin Cork Election has been from many points of view an interesting and a remark.; able'struggle In the fitst place its history has in the Mist striking way testified to the foresight of those political prophets' who alleged that, the pasing of the Ballot Act was the deathknell f election disorder. The people of the Beautiful City have ...

... I ~~p Sot iji'ra 2tmatt 2' I.1,1,1,1 ?? E E~xs~iX~E~~xs\s- DUBLIN: THUURSDAY, DtO. 5, 1872. ?? E TmnErm never were two countries which resembled each other in so many ways as England and Ireland, and yet whose people so thoroughly misunderstood each other on many irrmp ortant points. The ordinary Englishlmanl is almost invariably strongly affect~ed by that insularity which mentally, no lees ...

... KINGSTOWN Cjr.ESPONDENT. BracO Office, 87 Georgo'a-straet, Kingatown, Wednesday Night Ar LAmn.-It will he p ereived by the report of the transaotions at L oughlinstowan Bomar of emardisas that the plans for the new Parlan0ii taty Bill for the selwage and enlargement of Ii g'tow, up to the Bray road from Dabln, ,vd for taking iuaud laying watet pipes, &o.. in and along the villges and farms ...

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... I The weekly meeting of the guardlanh Wau hos yesterday in the boardroom. The chair wam oc2pied by Mr. DANE, J. P. The following guardians were ?? Frank- lin, Arthur AL Dowsing, JByrnot TO: Aldersm John Diaper. George Woodward, David Armstrong, Patrick Pyaworth. Patrick Dolan, T.O.; George Sykea. T. ;Frederick StokesJ.P. UharlesTeach, Edw:r BI'Cready, P Ryan, JH Evans, ?? Owens, J.P. STAiN Op ...

... >'by - 'O TsIt 'XOIPOR OF TI1E FREEMAN; ?? the best method of fixing the attention of the public on the many defeats of the recent Land Act would be to give the widest, piblioity to the various methods adopted by its enemies for rendering it useless. The quiet, undermining method is much in vogue in many parts of the oonntry. In times past, tenant right was, very useful instrument in the hands ...

... n.- _ I- m. _1- -- I. vI_ ?? - ELL Ad, :ife n'smea states tha; tamine rever ftine ro- lapsing fever of technical writers) ha reappeared h- inthemetropoli. Several cases of this disease if have lately occurred in more than one lacallty of South London. These cases arose in families suffering from great destitution, and the popular to. name of the fever appears to have bean with respect to them ...

... THERUSSIANS IN CENTRL ASIA. I .A no *, - Ace 4.2A_ A-- J.U e . . -. I .. . * The Dfdij, News says that a telegram froci St Petersburg positively contradio's the rnono~lj which reached a contemporary on Frid'Ly frc~m Berlin, to the effect that a note from the llritil1 Government bad been preseeted *to Priiee Gortehakoff respecting Russian progress i, Central Asia. It to easy to account for the ...