IRELAND.
Sir Robert Kane, in a letter to the Cork Examiner, states that a meet- ing of the Senate of the Queen's University will shortly take place, for the purpose of taking two important subjects into consideration: the first being "the relations which are to exist between the Queen's Uni- versity and the so-called Catholic University" ; the second relates to the question of altering the curriculum of studies, as suggested:by the Lord Chancellor in his late address at the conferring of degrees.
The Endowed School Commissioners opened a public inquiry in Dublin Castle on Monday. The evidence taken showed that there is a great want of sound practical education for mercantile purposes, and the know- lege of English, in the schools used by the middle classes of Ireland. The desideratum, according to two of the witnesses, is a " good English education."
The Tenant League held its annual meeting on Tuesday, in the Dub- lin Music-hall. Nothing, not even a new chairman, was novel in the incidents of the occasion. Mr. G. II. Moore, as leader of the party, took the chair. Besides himself there were present four other Members of Parliament, —Mr. Brady, Mr. M'Evoy, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Patrick O'Brien.
Two instances are noted this week of extraordinary decrease in the amount of Irish pauperism. Within seven years the occupants of the workhouse of Carlow Union have been reduced from 2900 to 374 ; and the paupers at present consist entirely of persons aged and infirm and of children. In Tuam workhouse there are now only 224 persons : in February 1849 the recipients of poor-relief were 14,867.
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