... T'O CORRESPOND1ENTS. I A Subscriber.-It took place Sunday near Verna. A Young Reader,_-We think it requires iml provemen4 It is irregular dcB. D.-Apply to the Dean of Trinity Col- lege. Frnco.-Panis Lottery. Apply to the French AN APPEAL FROM THE NORTH1, The Rev. B. Watterson, PP., makes through ?eur columns an appeal to the charitable people of the city of Dublin. A portion of his ...

... PROTESTANT ORPHAN SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASN. Office, 17 Upper Sackville-street, Dublin, 4th Oct., 1878. SIR-I have been directed by the.committee, assembled to-day, to request you will enhance your formner favotrs by giving insertion to the aceompanyu g letter of Rev. J. R. Dowse, Retor of Carnew, received since their last meeting, snd which disposes of the statements ot Mrit. ...

... LIFE IN THE--AROTIC EGIN * It . ?? Dn P.Ift O.,deli,6e~dA a ie~ktlre last' 3d1 ~~ ?? flj, ?? 'ia Life ill! ?? the!XIi6 lie~ginon,' iii *hich h' 'dsc~lec hi ax :k., periences in AVotioe6%Pedit~iohsa-i,,The lecture wivas in aid of the funds of--Mrs. Sullivan's Cripples' Dr. lRU'_ ef~ bymiti aolarge map, the dititwt~wuj epooe odezil in his'! kj lecture,.-A dbrt-of adueaatior, he ?? wanted' ...

... I I (By Aezecsnmb Special Wire.) LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. Flreeman Ofipe, 211 Strand, London, t Wednoeday lIoriiing. There line been uo Cabinet. Council held since 2 the startling news from India perturbed the Fence I of homle politicians, but there has been a tangible t reason for tine absence of a Ministerial assembly, f while there hasbeen nolaclk of communications be- twoeel ?? individual ...

... THE AFGiAN DIFFICULTY. (From the T'imes of Saturday.) It is clear that the Afghan question, whatever its issue, is partly anu lmperial, partly aun Indian one. But it is an Imperial question simply and solely because it is an Indian question first. It is in the intercsts of ludia that we have entered into rela- tions with Afgbanistan, and if wo have to go to war it will be in the intecests of ...

... L,%-TEST NEWS. (By F'recana Special WVire.) LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. Premesan Office, 211 Strand, London, Monday :Morning. The absentee from Setuirdt6y Cabinet Council 'Ivas not Lord Cairns, cvlo, it ?? expected, would lea-vo been prevontecl from, ttlending, but Lord JJohll Mannors, who is laid op with ice attack of the gout in Scotland. The Premier was, as usual, -the first to arrive iD I ...

... * THE MACROOM1 RAILWAY I . . DISASTER. * ?? IXPORTANT VERDI6T AGAINST THE a, DIRECTORS. be - ?? (SPEoCIL TZLEGERAh.) T Cork, Tuesday. t} Upon the inquest at Ballineollig being re-a sumed this mrrning, lii The Coroner eaid-I must say before Ae orM ti mence that there has been an amount of irregu- L larity for the last four days that I can only say has been caused by my own foolishness in allow ...

... I II TH UNION. I Theweekly ideetlng of the guardlans of the 3Botet~s UTnion wsalseld yedterday.. , .i.. 'Alderman DRAPS1t in the chair. The other guardians present were- Thomas Frankil, Thomas E Hlrne. Roberb. Cal- Iow4 t p; Ueqrdsecr6ve. P Plsworth;' J.G ;^prury, 1P; F inegsu, T u; JainesH E 'rane, Atthtr M Dovwn. ing, Joseph Flood, Jaraes Kenny John D Tottenham, Robert Sseatf, Abraham - ...

... MR. MITCHELLE i [IFD. A :- i; PTEOPLE OF. CUFDEN, ?? f _ A. - == _ 2 1 . t .I . 1 On Thlrsoay a n t0Wotdik4 most ?? deputauaon-fitm Cfens ?? by t1ieir brass baud, proceeded to Eylemore where they were. re-r~d r i 'pShit' ?? dprincely man~er:.ie proceesiol1 ?? 8 strjkie ntau indicatiiv of profound .repe96 and esteenm ror the patriotic owner. Allalong the line unmisakabls evidencss of the ...

... I We published a leader in our issue of the 2nd inst. in which we made some observations on the letter of Lord Lawrence which recently appeared in the columns of the Tinecs. We ueed the words ;Saviour of Idia in reference to that statesnian., This expression gave rise to a communication from An Observer, who disputes the validity of the M title of the Saviour of India ?? Lawrence, I ...

... THE PRESENTATION ORDER, Six Juembers of this Order have started f, Cork for Parsonstown to take charge of a fine r, school which has just been erected, at consier5 ble cost, by the energetic parish priest, the itk Mr. Bugler, P.P., V.G., of the diocese of Killalr, This is the frist offshoot that the vigoroue tsret tree in Cork has given off for some time, so frr - Ireland is concerned, but in ...

... ?? fretman's 301ltal. DUBLIN: MONDAY, OCT. 7, 1878. Since the opening of the present ExPOSITION UNIVERSELLE the Free- man's ,Toirnal has been on Sale at the KIOSQUB opposite the British Commission, near the Porte Desaix, in the SECTION ANGLAISE of the Ex. hibition. Tom news from India is very serious. The Afghan War is no longer a thing of the future; it is an actual, existing entity-a thing, ...