At the meeting of the Dublin Society on Thursday week,
a report was presented from the Committee, to whose consideration was re- ferred all the questions at issue between the Government and the Society. The Committee have adopted a generally conciliatory tone, recommending various modifications in the mode of admission, lac. in accordance with the resolutions of the select Committee of the House of Commons ; but upon the chief point of difference' relating to the property, the Committee of the Society are decided in their recom- mendation that no concession should he made. " Your Committee," says the report, "submit to the Society that it cannot, and ought not to consent to any surrender of its property, and should abide by the charter in its true spirit amid integrity, convinced of its entire adequacy to the objects for which it has been granted." The Committee add, that the Parliamentary greet heretofore has been " absorbed by the current ex- penses of the year, and, with the exception of' a trithog addition to the library and museum, constitutes no increase to the perm:meet property of the Society." A special meeting has been convened to consider the report.
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