Henry L. Swords, New York city. John F. Doyle, New York city. Col. John F. Doyle, Jr., New York city. Alfred L. Doyle, New York city. James Curran, New York city. Michael Gavin, 2d, New York city. Thomas S. Brennan, New York city. T. St. John Gaffney, New York city. E. A. McQuade, Lowell, Mass. Edmund O’Keefe, New Bedford, Mass. William Lyman, New York city. Edward O’Flaherty, New York city. Louis V. O’Donohue, New York city. Michael J. Dowd, Lowell, Mass. Francis W. Foley, New Haven, Ct. M. J. Drummond, New York city. E. J. O’Shaughnessy, New York city. John J. Pulleyn, New York city. Patrick Gilbride, Lowell, Mass. Thomas H. Boyle, Lowell, Mass. William P. Mellon, New York city. The following gentlemen, all of New York city, were likewise present: Richard Deeves. John G. O’Keefe. James J. Phelan. David A. Brien. James G. Johnson. John Vincent. B. Moynahan. Mark P. Brennan. Edmund M. Brennan. Thomas F. Brennan. Joseph J. Ryan. R. M. Walters. Edward J. McGuire. John H. McCarthy. Michael E. Bannin. Thomas S. Bannin. J. P. Callahan. E. J. Farrell. John Vesey. Andrew Little. P. Gallagher. James Flynn. John D. Moore. N. J. Barrett. John O’Connell. Isaac Bell Brennan. George Coleman. In addition to the foregoing, the following were also present. Residence is not given, but a majority are believed to be of New York city: A. Fred Brown. Thomas R. Hall. William H. Hume. Frederick T. Hume. John Connelly. James F. Minturn. John C. McGuire. John Kirkpatrick. William J. Farrell. T. S. Danahy. C. H. Conway. John P. Kelly. Wm. H. Kelly. A. B. Carlton. J. J. Gleason. F. C. O’Reilly. J. J. Clingen. George E. Kilgore. J. DeM. Thompson. J. F. Slevin. Charles Black. Owen J. Carney. Patrick C. Meehan. Theodore Meehan. M. D. Greene. Wm. J. Fanning. John McKean. R. W. Powell. John Callaghan. Austin Finnegan. George F. Crowley. P. A. Moynahan. Arthur B. Waring. F. C. Hodgdon. Richard Dixon. T. T. Tomlinson. G. B. Warriner. Thomas F. Glynn. Upon the cigars being lighted, Gen. James R. O’Beirne, the presiding officer, arose and in a neat speech opened the after-dinner exercises. He first introduced Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet of New York city, who read a paper on “Irish Emigration During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” Hon. John C. Linehan of Concord, N. H., followed with a paper on “Some Pre-Revolutionary Irishmen,” which was well received, and proved of much value and interest. Rev. John J. McCoy of Chicopee, Mass., read an able paper on “The Irish Element in the Second Massachusetts Volunteers in the Recent War” (with Spain). James Jeffrey Roche, editor of _The Pilot_, Boston, Mass., entertained the company with a paper touching upon the work of the Society, and was frequently applauded. John Jerome Rooney of New York city recited a fine poem on “The Irish Name,” and elicited the plaudits of the company.