... I DPE HAVCOGCKW RETURNS. I To L?8 SDYOBP OF FTH E tAN, Dublin, 27th August. SIt-In the Criminal and Judicial Statistics re- cently issued for 1878 there are some points 4f in. terest not referred to in the digests of the volume already given. lst, The arrests for drunkenness from 18783 up to 1878 have steadily increased. The following are the figures :-1873, 95,623; 1874, - 97;48S; 1875, 102 ...

... i- .'E - A monthly meeting of the Municipal Council will be held on Monday, at one oeloclc, to fix a day to receive applications for grand jury present- ments. to6 consider a letter from the Science and Art Department, London, stating that they are unable, %with the means at their disposal, to repair and send to the Sciences nd Art Museum in Dub. Tim all th;e casts bequeathed by the late Mr. ...

... TO TE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN. Kinseaiy House, August 28th. Sm-With mingled feelings of surprise and dis. appointment I read in your issue of Thursday a report of the rops in the, county Dublin. Your correspondent says the potato crop is more plenti- ful thsn last year Might I inquire by what pro- ces of reasoning he has arrived at this conciusion? I regret to say this statement has not the ...

... AI-te 4frc.n tdn'; lonmat. DUBLIN: SATURDAY, AUG. 80. ?? ?? - 1_11 - 1 ?? .. .. - - In Paris the Freeman's Journal is now exclasively supplied at Kiosque ili, Boulevard de, Capucines, near the Place de lOpera. WE publish elsewhere the third of the letters from our Land Commissioners. The Com- missioner who has forwarded us the present letter writes ?? Ireland,a portion of which he has just ...

... A CANADIAN WILDERNESS, A ?? of Canadian officers, including the Hon. D. A, M'Donald, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, have arrived In St. Panl, on their return trip from a rather adventurous tour of Inspection in the country north of Luke Superior. Some time ago certain teirritory lying bitwveen the British pro- vincee of Ontario aid Manitoba, and called the District of Keewatin, woe ceded by ...

... CHURCH TEmPHRAN09 SOCIFTi ANT) SCHOOL Firr AT BANBRIDGE -There hrve lately been a series of letes connected with the Church Sunday schools and other organfsatfons in Banbridge, First came the aunual Sunday nobool ft.te, when the teachers and elder scholars of Banbridge a%,d Mfagberally, numberi}vg nearly SOO made a very pleasant excvr. sien, going by special traiD to Di omore and thence ...

... COflRESPONDENCE. * NARROW.GAUGE RAILWAYS. so TO THE EDITOR OF THR IB LFAST NEWS LETTER., Sin-I fesr, from' the report of the half yearlY mneetig of tho.BAllymen, and larne Railway, my letteron the question of working that line has to .aemeaextont been mistanderstood, I had not the smalleat intention of conveying 'that the line had been imorked extravamantly.' The manager and tl locomotive ...

... ,LArTfEST X NEWS. R U S S I A.;, A1 Stndxer- Vienna taegram. says-A report 'Z from Odessa communloatea the startling fact that the whole cf the officera. there have been placed Oinder the control of the police bya seoret order of the Government, Thisfaathbavingbecomoe knowvrn, caused the greatest excitement among the officers;,] so much so as to provoke serious tumultsi SeveralI policemen have ...

... THE BET QUSION 'LIM0RICK. (SPECIAL TZLEORxA.) ilUmallock, Thursday. The Kilmallock Poor-law Guardians met to-day. The following resolution wxs proposed by Patri ek Keane, Esq, and seconded by Henry J Gilbert- son, Esq, and supported by the'ehairman, William Bolater, Esq, Wm H O'SUllivan, Eeq, M P, and other guardians- Resolved-That the guardians of ?? union respect. ully appeal to the ...

... I THE NATIONAL CONENTION. I TO THEX EDITOR OF T1IMF;PREMn. Dublin, August 30. SmR-As you have thrown open your columns to a discussion on the best method of organising a National Convention, I bee to trouble you with a few remarks on the suggestions already put for. vark by Mir. Sullivan and others I entirely con- cur in your remarks upon the service which a really representative body would ...

... [-THE ZULU WWAR.-1 .. . . r. , I PROSPECTS OF PEACE. DESPATCO FROM SIR G. WOLSELEY, ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN,1 (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) Madeira, Thursday. The Union steamer American arrived at Madeira this morning, bringing news from the Cape to August 12th. Sir Garnet Wolseley is at Ulundi !. but has not seen Cetewayo's messengers. It is, reported by the Daily T'eegraeph correspondent that at the ...

... LMBURN HORTICULTURAL SOOIETY, HE Ennual exhibition of fluits, ffoiverr, vegetahlles, a &o,,in nonneotion vdth thli snointy took p ace yes. t] rti-)o, uwt~icr .ai I owr . rp-uliqwl, t.a * ?? t. 1 (-lll~r. Th,2 plixt . f r,*XIilibit.l1, ISts . . . ?? sI, 'vo PIt I t. ?? 1 ,. I l ri , e |w l rP. IOl e . ?? r uP; i1VIl, fir rlwej 1; r'islav 1 4 ott n^ Il) lie f.,li I. , :! ' i ?? ;, 'e'o f ir I ...