... THlE CR! oO THE POOR' TO TSE JDrrOR OP THE P'EEMAN. SIR-The presemt lamentable distress through- out our city calls foi something to be done by the city goVernore. The Corporation 'authorities in publio meetings assembled weekly ought to pro. nounce in favour of some. united effort, headed by the chief magistrate, tom ombine both public and rivate charity in the reief of the starving i4g~ ...

... [ ARMY NEWS FROM CAMPS AND CLUBS. (FaOc OUR MILITARY COP.RIMSPONDENT.) London, December 8th, 1878. Generali Roberts, ' commtaning 'the 'Peiw`ar column, is a good and daring officer ; but his luck is certainly even greater than his meaits. 1uch sympathy is felt in military society for General Browne, the famous Sam Browne of India, because he took Ali Muejid eo soon. Ho would have been a made ...

... PakByTEifiA NEWS. l (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) 'The Lord Lieutenant has: appointed to the honorary office of Dean of Residence, Queen's Col- lege, Belfast, the Rev. Thomas Hamilton, ?? of York-sireet. Presbyterian Church, in the room of Pr Porter, now engayed as Assistant Commissiond± in the new 'Educatlon Act. Mr. Hamilton is a distinguished student of the' Queen's Uuiversity, and there is no ...

... ?? - - .y. A. M. S os PAdo LAND QUESTION. (FROt OUR CO0BEoONDRN),} Dundalk, TWryid Srre few weeks ago MrM 04. CUralner, P.L.GI,, *>town, county Louth, wrote to Mr. SullivanIt ..:iior member for the county, ?? on 1X ,iko charge of the Land Question duiring the c in .session of Parliament, and urge it upon the I ;:I,,eat for immnediate settlement, or obtain I them n a promise to early consider ...

... I| THE1E KIORA)I FUND. We have received the following subscriptioi I- Acknowledged in yostetrday's Freeman's Jour- v1al ?? ?? ?? £740 17 1l NVIIliim Kelly, 75 Quay, Waerfotd .. 1 0 0 John Kelly, Bakebeoue-lane, Waterford ?? 1 0 0 John Cogan, Quesii-striet, per . Aloron. ( 10 0 J V N, per lo ?? ?? ?? 11) 0 To THE EDITOR OP TIIE FngEMAN. ' ~ 1. .. !, . YWaterford, Dec. 20. DRAU Sim-I feel great ...

... The usual weekly nieeting of the board of guar- dinus wits held yesterday- TiioM.qs P. CaLDBECE, Eiq., J.P., in the chair. The other guardians present were- 31r Edward Bfllnkburne, J P; Mr George Deane, J 1' i lr Piobert Callow, ?? a; lr George, Crowe, blr David Armntrong, Mr Thomas B Hearue, Afr James it M'C0rane, MIr Jubaph Flood, MrJohn D Tottenham, Air G-eorgo Sykes, TTC; Allormanu.John ...

... T1THE NATIONAL SYSTEM OF RbUCATION-I I PAID MONITORS. OW TO THE EDITOR OP THE FREAMc. in. Ballymena. Dec., 1878. lal Quod si difeclant vires audacla certe laus erit. M.- DEAR SIp-Your recent editorial article, excel- in lent in spirit, on the appointment of paid monitors in National schools, arising out of the couflict that d has arisen between the departmentalauthorities of the National Board ...

... , - _ _ _ _ _ (FRtOM OUR CORRESPONDENT,) It is understood that the Rev. Professor Cros. . kery, of Derry, will be a candidate for the Chair of Theology, vacaut by the death of Professor , Smyth. Professor Croskery is one of the best. t, known writers of the Presbyterian Church, and the author of several contributions to the Edin. burg and other leading magazines. Sir Thomas M'Clure, an old and ...

... HlOMICIDE IN WATERFORD. not (FROM OUR CORRESrO0DENT.) the- Waterford, Saturday. ewge In the police cotrt to-day at two o'cloek a wo. op. man naraed larty (hsey was platcd in the dock, sy's betore Mr. J. Slattery, J.P., charged with having ,n cailsed the deatb of her sister, Bridget Sullivan. 1 to Coustable Rigney was sworn, aud stated that at and nine o'clock. on last night it iyas reported to ...

... II (By Premans Special Wire.) London, Sunday. To-day's Obsersw says that is the present Par. liament draws nearer to the close of its coustitu- tional life it is with a feeling of uneasiness it is compelled to speculate on the future disposal of the Irish vote. The Honie Rule Party, it con- .tinues, has, in spite of its formidable numbers, been unable to exercise any controlling inffuence upon ...

... ITHE GENERAL BLEOTION. 1 I . _ ?? o tl D il ;1 i' Beformer, 'witing' to the Da - ay4 _& . ?? . Thc~iilre is agata~~in n wahen the people of the i Uuite~d' T~ibgdom will be called upon to exercise .,their ~i~itit gf .itize6nsiB* in selectlhig a Govern- t mcittinto vwhoaseI hldn the ?? of the bation n 4114 ile placed ,fpr the term of five or six years ; andt th~c question whlich naturally ...

... I LATEST: NEWS. I (By Breeman Special Wire.) tl LONDON CORRESPONDENC%. n lienmas Office, 211 Strand, London, Wednesday Morning. ti Parliament stands adjourned until the 18th of February, then to meet practically for the de- 1 spatch of business. The little eesiion 'now num. n bered with the past wes not altogether an abortion, E and it may well be believed that had the Govorn- b ment ...