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The Earl of Carlisle held his firstlevee on Wednesday. It is remarked that it was "beyond all dispute the moat numerously attended ceremonial of the kind (the Queen's excepted) witnessed in Dublin since the com- mencement of the Viceroyalty of Earl de Grey, in 1842."
The good people of Dublin have shown their sense of the visit of the French Emperor by agreeing to an address of welcome and congratulation.
A body of sick and wounded soldiers arrived in Dublin on Sunday, from the seat of war. On Monday, Lord Carlisle, after providing for all their wants at his own expense, paid them a visit, conversed with them, listened to their stories, and inspected the relics of the battle-fields which they had brought home—among the rest a greatcoat, devoutly believed by private Green of the Eleventh Hussars to be one of the coats of Prince Menschikoff; found in the carriage taken near Mackenzie's farm.
The Church Education Society met in Dublin yesterday week ; the Earl of Mayo in the chair. Its prospects do not seem brilliant. The report stated, that for the year ending 31st December 1854, the number of schools, was 1860, the number of enrolled scholars 94,483 ; thus distributed— Established Church, 60,546 ; Protestant Dissenters, 16,064 ; Roman Catholics, 18,480. A decrease of 3751 scholars has taken place since 1853. The total income of the Society was 44,5281.—an apparent increase of 2581. on the revenue of 1853 ; but a real decrease, because the surplus has been obtained by the sale of funded property, to meet the Society's. liabilities.
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