The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland was present on Thursday at the
annual meeting of the Senate of the Queen's University, held in Dublin, for the purpose of conferring degrees and honours on the successful students.
Mr. Frederick Lucas, writing from a bed of sickness at Staines, to Father Tom O'Shea, says- " In plain and sober seriousness, my dear Father Tom, I have given up all hopes of life, have received the last sacraments, and though, perhaps, not immediately to die, for this is in God's hand, yet I have now no other busi- ness than to make the best preparation I can for the judgment-seat of the Almighty, and to request all the prayers of my friends to help me through this fearful passage, which I hope may be from death to life."
Mr. Gavan Duffy has feelingly declined the projected banquet in his honour, because " the foremost man among US, Frederick Lucas, lies on a bed from which he may rise no more."
It will be recollected that Lord Ernest Vane Tempest was recently fined five pounds by the Windsor Magistrates for an assault upon Mr. Nash, the lessee of the Windsor Theatre. The character of the assault was even more ferocious and disgraceful to the perpetrator than it appeared from the first
report. Lord Ernest Vane Tempest seized the lessee, and dragged him to the top of some steep stairs leading beneath the stage, exclaiming, "You dared to send a policeman to me ; now I will break your infernal neck; /71 kill you." " For God's sake, do not kill me in cold blood," gasped Mr. Nash. But Lord Ernest Vane Tempest hurled him from the top with all his force, and, running down, dashed his fist in his face as he lay on the ground. Mr. Nash complains in the Times this morning, that the Magistrates should have dealt summarily with a case like this, instead of sending it to a court of cri- minal jurisdiction empowered to inflict extreme punishment. [We observe among the recent exchanges in the Army, that Lord Ernest Vane Tempest has just exchanged from the Second Life Guards into the Fourth Dragoon Guards, now serving in the Crimea. Had the officers of his regiment sent him to Coventry, before Lord Hardinge favoured him with this retreat ?)
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