... IR -SRAILWAY RATBS. _- . . . THE letter which we publish from the Lord Ul Mayor of Dublin on Railway Monopoly and is Amalgamation opens up a question of far. or reaching importance, which we doubt not tc will receive intelligent and exhaustive con- re sideration at the public meeting which his Lordship has summoned for the 19th of April, at the Mansion House. In his letter B are sot out a ...

... MR. RRODES'S SCHEMES. l .. ~ I .- _ . , . ?? READ between the lines, rtne statement of G Herr Von Bulow, the German Secretary for Foreign A ffairs, in the Reicbstag yesterday fully bears out the anticipation that w Mr Cecil Rhodes's ?? with the f Emperor and his advisers would go substantially in favour of the great man of Africa. This was inevitable, for, as we have already pointed out, Mr ...

... TH[S NEW COUNCILS. To the Editor ofthe Freeman's Journal. Dear Sir-I have read with mnuch interest the usefnj letter of Father Molony in this day s issue of your paper, and I think no better work could be undertaken than the public discussion of interesting points, such as he has raised therein. I have not seen Mr Clancy's hook. but I have followed closely the three editions of Messrs Muldoon ...

... - ?. r ' 1GREAT FIREIN DUBLIN.I I ; - MANURE AND VITRIOL woimsS IN FAMES. * LARGkE BILDJINGS' DESTROYED. Last night a; destructive fire broke out int the primises of the Dublin and Wicklow Manure Company, situated at Poplar row. The corn- psay cary on a very extensive business as chemical meanare sand vitriol manuacturers, and general manufacturing chemists. Their premiss cover an area oi ...

... THE MARTYRDOM OF FATHER t OCOIGLEY. s t London, Sunday. To-day a very large and influential body of London Nationalists gave evidence of the faith! d that is in them by maling a pilgrimage to Pen- n neden Heath, the scene of the execution of I e Father Ocoigley, an Irish priest who one hun- dren and one years ago poured out his blood n that spot for the cause of faith and father- ii land. That ...

... I - - - l I 1 A volume has just been issued by Mr John Falconer, which is another and a very acceptable addition to the glowing body of literature deal- ing with the question of Local Government in its legal and semi-legal aspects. Messrs Fitz- gibbon and Johnston's book has the advantage of having the latest word upon the condition of the Local Government code, which is still being added to ...

... | LHCTION OF MEDICAL SUPER- INTENDEINT. CLARE ASYLUM. Ennis, Monday. A specially convened meeting of the Bosrd *f Governors of Clare Lunatic Asylum wee hels to-day, thi pfneipal business being the appoin- tsent of a reside-nt medical superintendent in the place of Dr Gelston. The Most Ptv Dr M'Redmoud, Lord Bishop of Killslte, was in the chair. After disposing of s'one of the ordinary bosine~s ...

... I- THE - LABOUR BOECTGRAL 1; - ASSOCIATiON. THE QUESTION OF THE MAYORALTY 'Last night a meeting of the Labour Electoral -Aassciation was held in the Trades Hall, CapeI, M*r HM4Entee (chairinan)' piesi4ed§ and tliere. *%aie about twenty persons present. The Secrerary read resolutions received from -io;3 anid No 5 Branches of the Amalgamated 'odiety of Carpenters and Joiners, and which *er~e ...

... .BPRR UW BAN COUNCIL AND THEIR ENGINEER, AN AWKWARD SITUiTION.' ' Birr, Menday. ,'The -Birr Urban District Council it their jmontbly meeting, held last night, Mr. Edward To'acy, J P(Chuirman) ptesidiug, found the.- selves in an exceedingly awkard siiustion over theappointment of Mr. Luke LMacasy-theI eminent Belfast engineer, to carry out their waterworks scheme. It appears tiat a resolun tion ...

... CORK SOUTH OCARITABLE INFIRMARY. CONSECRATION OF A NEW URATiWlY. Cork, Thursday. To-day the new oratory of St Joseph ottacned t{ the South Charitable Infirmnary and County Hospital wee solemky conaecrated to livineo womhip by the Lord Bishop of Cork ,the Most Rev T A O'Callaghan, :9 D. The new chapel is the gift 6! the Countess Murphy, whose bene- *olenc is a household word in the South. It is ...

... A STRANGE LnTDTER. The Rev Arthur Robins, Rector of Holy Trinity, Windsor, chaplain to the forces at Windsor, and chaplain to the Queen and the Prince of Wa'es, has been distinguishing him- self. He is a Jingo of the Jingoes, and pub- lished a letter the other day from which the following is an extract:- The British interests at stake in South I Africa are Imperial. If Great Britain is not ...

... X-orml , ,:CQ ?? . ? . '!?iv.tuty Vr I . Yesterday the Dublin Stock and Share Maf- hets were in a state of suspended animation. The heavy fall in Consols -was anything but indicative of a peaceful solution of the Trans- vaal imbroglio, and pending no definite ar- rangement in that quarter everything 'will be at ies and at sevens. Consols fell z. Home Rails moved ir-egularly. There was a good ...