... ?? ?? r ail; = b >v I '98 CENTENARY, : - bLOSE -OF THE YEAR, TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION. The close of the centenary year of the Insur- x rection of 1798 was celebrated on Saturday night by a torchlight procession through the principal streets of the city, passing by the places in the city associated with the events of that rniioiraie period. The procession was large in numbers. Fifteen bands joined ...

... I~W YEA rH .- . THE IRISH LIST., The following N6w Teaes honours for Ir- laud air announced:._ u To he memnbers of her Majty's Prlivy Council sii Ireland- Theo Earl of Dmraven, K P. and Colonpl Cooper. her Majeaty's Lieutenant for County Sligo. To be Companions of the Bath- Sir Charles Camerou, M D, and ' 3T Joues,REsq, Chief Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. :His Excellency the ...

... AhITED., - - - LRA GIJ . ?? tu'G AT MAYo AGBfy !MPORT.AT SPRECH BY Alt, WIlAM O'BE'. (PROX OUR azPonTfl.) Clareinorns, Sunday. To-day a meeating of ?? members and Wupporzers of t he United Irish Leaae, took place at Mayo Abbey, about five miles from here, and proved ono of the most Temarkable and suggestive incidents cc nnected wivh' the new campain. The day sV Is not. only most unfavourable ...

... AI HE- W O C A E AT.TH-E -PRO-CATHEDRAs.L. Neow Yeass Day was celebrated at the Pro- Catbdral, Marlborouggh. street, with a Solemn, High Mass at 12 o'clock; at which the Right Hon the, Lord Mayor and- te nembaeis of the. Corporation attended in customary state. His Lordship, wh4 was accomupanied by his chaplains, Rev BJ 3Dunne, and his 'aecret'ry, Mr T Kiinuedy, and ttended by the Mace and ...

... 1tNEW- YEAR(S:- VE TN DURli TNJ The eve of the new year in Dublin is always observed by the citizens with feae of inte- rest which distinguish it from any one evening or night of the year. The departure of the old and the dawn of the new year are witnessed by crowds who MIl the streets, especiallt in the neighbourhood of the churches where the joy- bells ring out. Every year immense crowds are ...

... 1IPORTAND )OOKS 3WOARD 1 ELECTIONS i ?? I .. . THE NOMINATIONS. On Saturday Mr Nicholas Proad, geernlary Port -nd-Docks Board, sat A Balst Office to receive ncmiaonz to fill the 21 Vicaaie's on 'the Board, namely, for 12 repriesenatives Of the-traders and '9 representatives of the s3hip- ping interest THu6 ANSION, HOUSE MEET- ING l CANNDATES.. TRADERS' BEPRESENTATIVES The following Traders' ...

... LOR BEACONSFIELD-AND UN1VEb1TY EDUCATION IN .IULAND. .LEII$R FROM MR. EDMUND DEASE. 'The buck' g letter appears in The Spec- tator: ?? Sir-It is avt a. year since a remarkale d-Je- daratioen pt the part of Irish Roman Catholhcs 'sas pub~ed, in which a clamn was set forth, for tosecond time in the last quarter of a cen- tory, for thaet educational equality which has y.t to be secured. ...

... THE OLD YEAR AND TIE NEW. . -ano L A - -_ . , , - I ANOTHER '98 has gone, atid another '99 has come. A century ago a '98 opened in hope and closed in despair. .First eamne the brave stroke tor liberty, then the forgin2 of the chains. Seventeen hundred and ninety- nine was given up to the Preparations for the Union. The way was cleared for the infamy that culminated in the immoral sale of the ...

... I I ~ - .I IMPOSING CEREMONIAL IN- ST. PETER'S. Oar Drogheda correspondent writes:- Yesterday being New Years Day, wsu cele- -brated with special solemnity inr St Peter's .Churh, West street, Drogheda. Solemn High Mass was celebrated at 12 o'clock, at which the Corporation were present, wearing their robes of -state, headed 'by his Worship the- Mayor. Francis Gogarty, Esq; accompanied by the ...

... STEAM TM4AWL1NG OFF WEXFOBD HAUBOUR AND -CO. WATERFORD. To the Editor of the Freeman. Sir-l have only' recently read in your jour- nal a report of the special meeting of the Whxford HErbour Commissioners concerning 4the -serious situation caused by- the continued 'steanm-trawling in Wexford Bay. At the meet- l iit was pointed out that the lord Lieutenant had declined to sign a bye-law ...

... -THE OMDIUR3ANREVELATTONOS. THs tale told in the Contemporary R.P. view by Mr. Ernest N. Bennett, with regard to the conduct of the Anglo-Egypgtiaun army after the battla of Omdurmnan.. bjh come with such a shock on the BTs'riti public that actually their leading argu. fear to discuss the subject. The 51i- chester Guardian,' of course. true to .1; traditions, faced the issue at once, ?? made ...

... I ,rni-xg. of Lann- vho -has s ewton, ±uluate, yet he candidate that ^ to make as good. have got two very' rest of the election fact that it will be ,e or disadvantage as Rosebery's leadership., bhave maintained that rship, which is in their somplished by the retire, Harcourt, would be an -iberal party. That claim ' Lord Rosebery's imperial- all as an electoral factor, d in Lancashire wherQ] t ...