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i THE WATERFORD NEWS. A THE NENAGH UNION, to the over crowded state of the Brew LATE HOURS OF BUSINESS. The Drapers' Assistants of Waterford have requested us to publish the following TO THE rCBLIC. Reader To a person passing through the streets of London, certainly no object can be more familiar than the numerous shops whose varied attractions vie with one another in soliciting the notice of the passer-by. But though so familiar to the eye, it is probable that these shops and their inmates never formed a subject of any interest or attention to the mind.

Why should they What is there connected with them that has any claim upon the attention of a stranger Yes, reader, but there is something in the case which has a claim upon your consideration and in which you ought, as in the welfare of all, to take an interest and it is for the single purpose of making you acquainted with this something that we now add: ess you. If you will tax your memory a little, yeu will recollect that many of these shops arc, by a man of moderate hours, never to be seen shut that unless you are a very early riser, or else are abroad at an hour bordering on midnight, you can have no opportunity of seeing the shutters of these places, or of attaining personal assurance that the attendants have any I- .5 -iJ 4 1 THANK GOD FOR SUMMER. BY ILIZA COOKE. 1 loved the winter once with all soul, An longed for snow-storms, hail, and mantled skies, And sang their praises in as gay a troll As troubadors have poured to beauty's eyes. I deemed the hard, black frost a pleasant thing.

For logs blazed high, and horses' hoofs rung out, And wild birds came with tame and gentle wing To cat the bread mj young ind tiling about. But I have walked into the world sines then, An seen the bitter work that cold can do Where the grim lee King levels babes and men With bloody spear, that pierces through and through, 1 know not where are those who sink and Ho Upon a stiie bed at the dead ot night I know the roodos and unfed must die, When even lips at plenty's feast turn white And now when.cer I hear the cuckoo's song In budding woods, 1 bless the joyous comer, Vhiio my heart runs a cadence in a throrur Of hopeful notes, that say Thank God for Summer l'vebjarnt that sunshine bringeth more than flowers, And fruits, and forest leaves to cheer the earth For 1 have seen sad spirits, like dark bowers, Light up beneath it with a grateful mirth. The aged limbs that quiver at'their task Of dragging life on, when the north wind goads, Taste once again contentment, as they bask, In tho straight beams that warm their churchyard road. And childhood poor, pinched, childhood, hal forgets, Tho starving pitthnee of our cottage homes, When he can leave the hearth, and chase the nets Of gossamer that cro33 him as he roams. The moping idiot seemeth less distraught When he can sit upon the grass all day, And Uugn and clutch the blades, as though he thought The yellow sun-rays challenged him to play.

Ah clearly now I hail the nightingale, And greet the bee, that merry going hummer And when the lill ics peep so sweet aud pale, I kia their cheeks, and say Thank God for Feet that limp, blua and.blceding, as they go, For dainty cresses in December's dawn, Can wade and drbble in the brooklet's flow, And woo the gurgles on a July morning. The tired pilgrim, who would shrink with dread If winter's drowsy torpor lulled hi brain, Is frcnto choose his mossy summer bed And sleep his hour or two in some green lane. Oh Ice-toothed King, I loved you once, but now I nover see you come without a pang Of hopeless pity shadowing my brow. To think how naked flesh must feel your fang. My eyes watch now to see the elms unf old, And my ears listen to the callow rook I hunt the palm trees for their first rich gold, And pry for violets in the southern nook.

And when fair Flora sends the butterfly, Painted and spangled, as her herald mummer, Now for warm holidays," my heart will cry "The poor wdl sutler less Thank God for Summer ittfeccllancou. NATIONAL MEMORIAL, The following memorial has been sent through all Ireland for signature To his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, the Lord Lieutenant, ftc. Mat it Please tour Excellency. We, the undersigned inhabitants of Dublin, desire, most respectfully, to represent to your Excellency the general feeling of this city, with regard to Wm. Smith O'Brien and the other state prisoners at present confined in Richmond Bridewell.

The high persona) character which these gentlemen bear, their long sufferings in prison, and their serious pecuniary losses, have excited lively and umversallnterest in their ite among all classes of society. And men who are unalterably opposed to all their political opinions are most sincerely anxious that their lives should not be wasted in painful exile or protiacted imprisonment. The sincere humanity and the respect for property which they are known to have exhibited under trying circumstances, have deepened this sympathy in their favour. And we are thoroughly convinced, and can theiefore most respectfully and most confidently represent it to your Excellency, that it will meet the general wishes of the country now restored to profound peace if their sentence be commuted to the smallest punishment your Excellency may deem fit. Trusting that your Excellency will take the prayer of this memorial into your gracious consideration with that humane spirit which will meet the wishes of the country, and which you have hitherto evinced towards them, your memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray.

toucV wg Emma not that I touch her, for we onl bowed of course when and I did. nr Bcem iu want iu snaae nacas wun ner 1 went away she obeyed Lord Nelson's General order grappled herself to a vessel of heavier metal than herself, and began firing away for death or She had been told, I imagine, that as I intended to see a good deal of the society of ray wife, I wanted somebody who would be a com. panion. So, by way of showing, that she was qualified to be that, she' talked away at a pace which silenced me, made Mrs. Dragonsblood (her own-flesh-and-blood sister) open her darling great black eyes, and caused her husband tn make queer faces at his wife when he thought I was not looking.

The poor girl wanted to prove that she had been properly educated, and had read a great many books, and I am bound to say that many of her remarks were quite unexceptionable. She went off at the first bang, which he very quietly observing that Mr. Bunn had taken some liberties with history in his libretto of the Daugl. ter of St. Mark, which was then stunning the town and a very good and terrible noisy opera it is.

and if it had been called Mayerbeer's, it would have boen just as popular as the Huguenots. But Emma Pulderock led straight at the mention of St. Mark, who. she was good enough to inform us, was the patron saint of Venice (this showed her theology), which was always, in her mind, the feature of Italy (this proved her geography), darling country, which had always been so unhappy from the discords among its children (and this saved her history). Did I ever see a Venice glass Mr Ainsworth mentioned one in Crich-ton," so that she had studied Uight litera.

ture) and recorded that it flew to pieces on poison being introduced into it she presumed thrt some alkali in the glass, combined with the acid of the poison (which did credit to her chemistry), so that the glass might be "called the sensative plant of the table (and she had not quite neg. lected botany.) The opera I had mentioned con- tained some good airs, But Mr. Balfe was deficient in learning, and knew nothing of couterpoint (she understood music, you see,) but did I not think Mr. Grieve's perspectives especially his agricultural ones very wonderful (and drawing and architecture). The moonlight scene, on the water, was pretty, but I might have noticed that the moon occupied a position which at that period of night she could nt have held (astronomy); and if the daughter of St.

Mark was only twelve years old when she came to Venice five years before, how could she be said to be of age when she was crowned Queen of Cyprus (arithmetic.) Marriage, or the Slaves of the King. To Clean Mirrobs, Looking Glasses, Take a soft sponge, wash it well in clean water. and squeeze it as dry as possible dip it into some spirits of wir.e, and rub over the glass then have some powder-blue tied up in a rag, and dust it over your glass rub it lightly and quickly with a soft cloth afterwards finish with a bilk handkerchief. A Lesson for Scolding Wives. I dare say you have scolded your wife very often, Newman said I once.

Old Newman looked down, and his wife took up the reply Never to signify and if he has, I deserved it" said the old woman, with a beauty of kindness which all the poetry in the world cannot excel, how can a wife scold her good man who has been working for her and her little ones all the day I may do for a man to be peevish, for it is be who bears the crosses of the world but who should make him forget them but his own wife And she had best, for her own sake for nobody can scold much, when the scolding is all on one side." Fortunate Circumstances Respecting Children. It is a happy instinct which enables us to value these little prizes so highly and a curious thing to reflect, as we stumbles through the paiks knee-deep in children, and there is not one little unit in those diminutive millions that has not (Gad bless it a circle of admiring relatives, to whom it is th prettiest, the dearest, the cleverest in fact the ouly child that ever was worth a thought. Woman's Record. To Clean Carpets. Your carpet being first well beat, and freed from dust, tack it down to the floor then mix half a pint of bullock's gall with two gallons of soft water scrub well with soap and this gall mixture let it remain till quite dry, and it will be perfectly cleansed, and look like new, as the colours will be restored to their original brightness.

Die brush you use must not be too hard, but rather long in the hair, or you will rub the nap, and damage the article. No fewer than three thousand seven bundred and seventy refugees have arrived at Malta from Sicily, and it is, in consequence, almost impossible to procure lodgings at Valetta. To Render Plaster Figures Durable. Set a figure in a warm place, to get thoroughly dry then have a vessel large enough to contain it, which fill so that when the plaster figure is placed in it, it will be quite covered with the bsst and clearest linseed oil just warm let it remain in the vessel for twelve or fourteen hours then take it out, let it drain, and set it in a place away from dust, and when tr-e oil is quite dry, the ornament, or whatever is thus prepared. Mill look like wax, and will bear washing without injury.

PROVERBS. A rainbow in the morning, Is the shepherds warning A rainbow at noon, Will bring rain very soon A rainbow at night Is the shepherds delight. Bread earned with honest labouring hind Tastes better than the fruit of ill got land lie that wants bread and rtiil. It's sin his huna'y cheeks to fill. Six hours sleep for a man, Seven hours for a woman, Eight hours for a child, And nine for a pig! Shoe the horse, and shoe the mare, But let theittleoo eo bare.

This we rather suspect, is a fragment of a nursery rhyme. Talk" for a Husband. But aa troying intemperance, persons are to be found who will take a vow of total abstinence from all fermented liquors will you not resolve to bear the inconvenience, if so it may be called, of renouncing evening-shopping, when you know that it is owing to the late purchasers, that the comfort, the health, and the well-being of thousands are destroyed SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. He begged to take that opportunity of paying a humble but well-merited tribute of approbation to the Socitty of Friends for their active benevolence to Ireland during her recent calamities. Nothing could be more truly Christian, in the best sense of the word, than the unostentatious, but charitable, humane, and wise exertions of that admirable society, who, in every case where it was practicable, had endeavoured not merely to save life, but to raise the condition of the unfortunate peasantry, and to put them in the way of continuing their existence by their own exertions, Speech of Mr.

John O'Connellon the Emigration Debate. Lord John Russell in Opposition. Notwithstanding the many points of excellence in his speeches, Lord Jo: Kussell's exterior and style of speaking are most dissapointing. Remembering the pleasure he has given you on paper, and the prominent position he holds in the House of Commons, your first sensation on seeing and hearing him is, that you must have been misinformed. Can that little quiet, fragile, modest, almost insignificant looking man, so neat, plain, and formal, in his black coat anoV snow-white neckcloth, who sits with his legs crossed anyhow, and his hat over-shadowing his small sharp features till they are scarcely seen can that be Lord John Russell In a few moments he takes off his hat, arises from his seat, advancing to the table to speak.

Now, for the first time, there is something that prepo- sessess. His head, though small is finely shaped it is a highly intellectual head, and the brow is wide and deep. lhe face broad and firm set, sphinxlike in shape, is not of faultless outline, but it is strongly marked with character. A thought ful repose, slightly tinged with melancholy per vades it. The features are sharply defined they look more so in the extreme paleness of the complexion apaleness not of ill health, butof refined breeding.

The mouth is wide, but finely shaped, surrounded with a marked line, as though it were often made the vehicle of expression, while the lips are firmly compressed, as from habitual thought, lhe eyes are quick and intelligent, the nose straight aud decided, the eyebrows dark and well arched, and the whole face, which seems smaller still than it is from the absence of whis kers, is surrouded by dark and scanty hair, which leaves exposed the whole depth of an ample and intellectual forehead. A moment more and you are struck with the proportions, though small, of his frame, hisrrect attitude, his chest expanded. You begin to perceive that a little man need not, of necessity be insignificant. There is a presence upon him, a firm compactness of outline, a self-posessed manner, a consciousness of la tent strength that lead you to abandon your unfavourable view of his physical attributes, and. to hope much from his moral and intellectual qualities.

He speaks and for a time your disapointment returns. You have seen him make one step forward to the table, look all around the House, then make a step back again into his old place then, with the right arm stretched partly out, and his face half turned towards his own supporters, he begins. His voice is feeble in quality, and It is thin and there is a twang upon it which smacks of aristocratic affection but it is distinct. He is, perhaps, about to answer some speech or to attack some measure, of Sir Robert Peel's. He goes on in a level strain, uttering a few of the most obvious commonplaces of apology or deprecation, till the idea ofjmediocrity grows irresistibly on your mind.

Yet the House seems to listn anxiously they would not do so if they did not know their man. Wait a little. A cheer comes from the oppositon benches it bears in it the culminate laugh of Mr. Ward, the deep bassoon note of Mr. Warburton the shrill scream of Mr.

loud, hearty shout of Mr. Wakely, and delighted chorus of the Anti Corn Law Leaguers, Nay, even on the ministerial side, the point" has not been without its effect, as many a suppressed titter testifies. All the level commonplace, it seems, was but the stringing of the bow at the moment when leagt expected, the cool, prepared marksman has shot his arrow of keen and polished sarcasm at Sir Robert Peel, whom it has fleshed if not transfixed. You. follow the speaker a little longer, now fairly interested in him, even though opposed to his opinions, and you find that he has more of his arrows in his quiver.

Ft azers Magazine. The entire town of Pargate is to be sold by auction. The first salmon caught this year in the beautiful river Ribble was on Saturday last. Salmon is sometimes sel as cheap, if not cheaper, in London than in Waterford. The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society have selected Exeter as the place for holding their next annual meeting.

A ship has been advertised at New London to sail fir San Francisco, and remaining there to board passengers reasonably. Six young Greeks, of respectable families, have clandestinely left Smyrna, in a French steamer, bound for California. During twenty years the present Archbishop of Canterbury held the diocese of Chester, 230 new churches were built. Messrs. Newman and Pomeroy, clergymen of the Methodist and Baptist persuasions, have been murdered at California.

Mr. King, of Watford, caught, a few days since, by fair angling in the river Colne, a trout weighing 91b 14 ounces, 27 inches long, 7 inches, deep, and 1 6 inches in circumference. It is calculated that the prime cost of the materials used in England and Wales to produce artificial light, coal, oil, camphine. tallow, cannot be less than over eleven millions sterling. At the beginning of last month a very sharp arrowhead of yellow flint, which is supposed to be a relic of the ancient Caledonians, was found in a field on the Wester Happer Farm.

The number of persons approved of by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners as emigrants for the Australian colonies, since Dec. 1841, amounts to C.323. A package containing dresses for the Queen, addressed to the care of Viscountess Canning, arrived at Southampton from Constantinople this week and was immediately forwarded. There are, it is said, upwards of 10,000 candidates in the field for seats ii the new French legislative assembly. Where will they all find eats ery Auxiliary Workhouse, cholera has again broken out in tins concern, mere wcic oc nirrocM nn vesterdav.

although for the four days previous there had been no case whatever. perary Vindicator. Captain White, a magistrate of Cork, charges the police of that city with being a most useless bodv. instead of an effective force, as people are robbed in the public streets, and the police are no where to be seen. A Good Landlord John Armstrong, Graierue avenue, in the Queen's Count', has through his agent, Oliver Armstrong forgiven a half years rent to his tenants, and reduced the rent trom 6'ls.

to ios. per acre.onnis property, Ballybeg, adjoining the townlandof Ballyclenhan, in this county. Tipperary Free Press. The select committee of the Irish Poor law in the House of Commons passed a resolution on Friday in favour of the princeples of a maximum rate. Observer.

An extraordinary attack as made by a cat a few miles from Moffat. An infant was left in a cradle, with a large cat no sooner had the mother quitted the house than the cat sprang upon the child, and tore it in such a way that it died soon after. An Important Fact The Duke of Wellington rides every day to and from the House of Lords, in his favourite blue frock coat, and white duck trowsers. Some of the Cork Insurance Offices have got instructions to charge an additional rate of premium on the lives of medical men and clergymen. Constable O'Malley found a gun and two pistols concealed in an old wall at Ballinareena.

The gun was newly stocked by a house carpenter. Quinlan (Cud), late of the 84th who was sentenced to be hanged at Clonmel for murder, is to be transported for life. Mr. John Murphy, coppersmith and bell founder, of on Saturday obtained a verdict of 150 dan ages in the Exchequer court against Mr. James Kennedy, his father-in-law, for board and lodging of defendant's wife.

The Countess of Blessington is a Clonmel woman, and daughter of the late Mr. E. Power, formerly proprietor of the Clonmel Herald. She is now close cn three score years and was at one time one most, fascinating women in Europe. Nenagh Guardian.

Mirth. There is a large class of people who deem the business of life far too weighty and moment ous to be made light of who would leave merriment to children, and laughter to idiots and who hold that a joke would be as much out of place on their lips as on a gravestone or in a ledger. Surely it cannot be a requisite to a man's being in earnest that he should wear a perpetual frown. Is there less of sincerrity in Nature doing her gambols in spring, than during the stiffness and harshness of her wintry gloom And is it then altogether impossible to take up one's abode with truth, and to let all sweet homely feelings grow about it and cluster around it and to smile upon it as a kind father or mother, andjto sport with it, and hold light and merry talk with it, as with a loved" brother or sisttr pnd to fondle it, and play with it. as with a child.

No otherwise did Socrates and Plato commune with truth no other wisejdid Cervantes and Shakespeare. Thorp's Catalogue of Autographs" (1843) includes a letter from a Miss Smith of Arundale, forwarding to the Earl of Buchan a chip taken from the coffin of the poet Burns, when his body was removed front'hts' first grave to the manso-leum erected to his memory in St. Michael's, churchyard, Dumfries." The tower of Monthard, in Burgundy, was Buffon's study, and, together with the gardens in which the great naturalist used to recreate himself, is rigorously kept up by the inhabitants. Pope's house at Binfield has been pulled down, but the poet's parlour still exists as a part of the present mansion erected on the spot. A patch of the great forest near Binfield has been honourably preserved, under the name of Pope's Wood.

His house at Twickenham is gone thr, garden is bare, and in disorder but the celebrated grotto remains, stripped, however, of all that gave it picturesqueness, grace, and seclusion. Cowper's house Olney is siill standing in the same ruinous state so humourously described by the poet his parlour is occupied as a girls' school. The summer-house in the garden, wherein he used to sit conning his verses, also remains, its walls covered with visitors' names. His residence in the neighbourhood village of Weston has been much altered, but is still beautiful, with a profusion of roses in front. Goldsmith's cottage at Kilburn, where he wrote the Vicar of Wakefield" and the Deserted Village," was pulled down a few years since, to make way for new buildings.

Juvenile Precocity. Traveller Hey my man is there a decent Inn about here Precocious Native Why5 they draw a tidy glass of Ale at the Ship up yonder and they've got an uncommon fine Gal for Barmaid there. No Monopoly," said a sunbeam, dispersing a dew drop that was hiding in the folds of a rose. A Vow of Abstinence is a moral prison, and the appetite must have become criminal before it needs incarceration. Bad Temper.

A jar of household vinegar, wherein all the pearls of happiness are dissolved. Italy produces the finest singers England the finest boxers Germany the profoundest theologians and France is incomparable for its cooks. It is wfse to consider the characteristics of youth as painters colours in an unfinished picture for then we forbear to criticise apparent austerities or to condemn the too vivid glow, since the one will be tempered and composed by the matured background of reason, and the other subdued, alas too often obliterated by long deep shadows of care. We regret that we cannot always think. The brain is not to be developed at the expense of other regions.

The inability to think is a silent admonition to go and attend to the body. The complete will be him of whom it is said that he possesses 11 of spirit, beauty, strength, that we see at present divided among many men." Population. Supposing the earth to be peopled with 1,000,000,000 of inhabitants, and allowing thirty-three years for a generation, the deaths of each year amount to 30,000,000 of each day to 82,000, and of each hour to 3,416. But as the number of deaths is to the number of births as 10 to 12, there are bornyearlv3G 000 OOO daily 98.630. and hourly 4.109.

Out of every" 100 there die annually 30 and the number of innabitants of every city and country i3 renewed every thirty years. rest from their toil. 1 lus ot the extreme class. But of others more moderate, and of the generality of tradesmen, the attendance is prolonged to such an hour, as to render that course of life a most unfruitful one in respect to the ends for which men are supposed to live and as to personal liberty, or happiness, a galliug bondage. Compelled, as many thousands of them are, to surrender personal control, and to stand behind the counter for thirteen or fourteen hours a-day, it is obviously scarcely possible for them to enter in any consideraole degree upon any pursuits of an intellectual character, or to lead a life enviable for its fidelity, or exemplary for elevation of mind, or the developement of the resources and capacities of the soul.

This baneful servitude, in which so large a portion of our countrymen are involved, is occasioned neither by law nor necessity but by some means it has become custom, and being custom, it fails to excite the attention or the npprobium it deserves. Efforts, however, are being made to awaken men to the appreciation of the evil they sustain in thus sacrificing themselves to business and the sentiment is progressing that the shop is for man, not man for the shop that business has been invested with an undue importance that it is unwise to sacrifice the interests of men to those of trade that the destruction of the former does not necessarily involve the advancement of the latter and that if the superfluous hours now daily squandered away, by the unnatural confinement in question, were saved for other and not less important purposes, the interests of the shop and the man might both advance together. But in the attempt to cany these sentiments into practice, a great difficulty presents itself in the fact that those who adopt earlier hours, are exposed to the competition of others, shabby enough to keep open in the hope of benefitting by the earlier hours of their neighbours. These persons are aided and abetted in their dishonourable course by such persons as purchase things in the evening. Hence it arises, that the co-operation of the public is necessary.

If people who now, from pure thoughtlessness, are in the habit of shopping in the evening, could but be made to understand the evil of which thy are, though unknowingly, the agents, they would surely utterly abandon the practice, and the reformation desired would soon be effected. Pernicious customs are not among the ills that flesh is heir to they are of human parentage, and are within the province of human cure. But where is the remedy to be found in the present case In the same principles which produced the evil. It was the covetousness of tradesmen, stimulated by the public, that induced the practice and the same impulses must now be worked for its extinction. So that whereas it has been the case, that the covetous tradesman, through the patronage of the thoughtless, indulged his thirst for gain by the lateness of his hours, the public being enlightned, he must now expect a continuance of that patronage only by reforming his practices.

Let but the voice of public opinion, and the discrimination of purchasers, place the attraction at the other end, and make early hours the lucrative side of the argument, and we will soon find that tradesmen now butjuke warm friends of the cause, will be eloquent in its praises and that others, who now see nothing but evil in the the proposed inovation. will change their minds, and be of opinion that it is quite right that freemen should be for two or three hours a-day at their own command and that it behoves men of all conditions, as of a common nature, no, to neglect, in the pursuit of wealth, the higher part of man but by due attention to all things in their season, to do each with cheerfulness and with vigour. Now, Reader, you perceive the object of our address. The space prescribed in this paper, will not allow of more than a very brief statement of the facts of the casr. We cannot attempt to produce excitement, nor do we wish it.

What we want is not excitement, but conviction, and an abiding determination to rssist in the attainment of the object desired. We want to induce you to think upon this matter yourself. And if you bring to the inquiry a mind not swayed by custom, but guided by truth, we are persuaded that you will arrive at the conclusion, that the character of the people' of this country, especially the shopmen, is much depressed by the exorbitant requirements of business that to social intercourse', to the endearments of home, to the cultivation of the mind, there is allowed little or no time, business absorbing the whole. The object of all business is the good of man it is a perversion, a blunder, and a sin, to sacrifice the good of man, or of any order of men, to business. Assist then, in promulgating those sentiments and especially see to it, that by your practice you advance them.

To this end, make it an invariable rule, never to enter a shop after six o'clock. Copy Dr. Cummings' excellent example I give leave" said he to any man who catches me in a shop after six o'clock to send for a policeman, and give me in charge." A very 6mall degree of attention is necessary to provide yourselves with such things as you require before this hour and if through negligence you should have omitted to do so, it is surely not expecting too much to request that you will wait till next day. If for sake of example and in the hope of des On Friday near Slranraei, Ayrshire, an old man was attacked and tossed by his own bull, which was feeding in a field, and when picked up he was found dead. The infant child of a cabinet maker at Canterbury has lost its life in consequence of its parents persisting in trying hydropathy to cure it of an affection of the lungs.

At a funeral at Bury lately, in compliance with the wish of the deceased, the coffin was borne by eight men uniformly attired in the working dresses of a tallow chandler. Last week a pike leaped on the deck of a boat near Worcester and was immediately secured. It weighed I21bs. Messrs. Baaing's trade circular, containing 1 300 words, was written and cqnveyed from Boston to New York in 45 minntes.

It i.j said that the Skibberecn Union is nearly 7,000 in debt for food. In the stomach of a sparrow hawk, lately shot in Westmoreland, were found eleven water lizards and a field mouse. The widow of the late M.A. Von Rothschild, the father of the house which bears his name, died at Frankfort a short time ago. She had arrived at the patriarchal age of 99.

Count de Werdinsky's scheme fcr superceding steam by gun cotton, for the purposes of locomotion by sea or land. Las been contravened by several scientific gentlemen. Mehort is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and I the council chamber of thought. A rumour has been circulating and as yet un-; contradicted that the late Lord Melbourne was privately received into the Catholic Church seve ral years previous to his death, and was a Roman Catholic when he held the Premiership. A chemist at Lynn was preparing some laughing gas when the retort suddenly burst, and so 1 severely injured his face that it was expected he would lose his sight.

He is. however, recovering I although his face is frightfully lacerated. Theodore Parker compares some men who i grow hmu vj irauc iu uiiuuugi's gruwiuj in a vio- let bed. They smother the violets, but are, after all, nothing but cabbages. WATERFORD: Printed and Published by E.

Kenmbv on every FRIDAY EVENING, at The WatebfoiD Evening News Office, 9, Little is filed at all the respectable News Ac-cuts in Loadom at Shinkswin's Irish Newspaper Office, 21, Littla Queen-street, Westminster Peel's Coffee House, Fleet-street; Fisher Co. Westmoreland-street, and -i Johnston, Dublin; and at the various Publie 1 Institutions, Coffee Houses, and places of general resort in the United Kingdom It circulates extensively through the Counties of Waterford, Tipperary, KU- kenny, Wexford, and Cork. Yearly Subtaription 18 in advance, and on credit Half -yearly do Ss. tn advance, and Hit. credit.

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