IRELAND.
The annual ceremony of conferring degrees upon the students of Queen's Colleges, and of awarding them honorary distinctions, took place on Friday last ill St. Patrick's Hall, Dublin, the Lord Lieutenant and a large number of noblemen and ladies connected with Ireland assist- ting. Vice-Chancellor Brady delivered an elaborate address on the pro- gress and success of the colleges, but especially on the subject of inter- mediate education, for which a better provision is required to enhance the usefulness of the colleges. Meanwhile they are making steady pro. gress, the number of candidates for degrees being in excess of any former year. Thus it seems the number of matriculated students in the three colleges is now 361, and of non-matriculated eighty-four, making a total of 445. From the opening of the colleges upwards of 12,000 have matriculated, of which number 377 belonged to the Established Church, 402 were Roman Catholics, and 439 Presbyterians and other Protestant Dissenters. On the present occasion seventy-six successful candidates appeared for diplomas, of whom twenty won medals and other honours, which were distributed by the Lord-Lieutenant.
A meeting to promote the establishment of steam communication be- tween Queenstown and Australia and New Caledonia was held at Cork on Tuesday. The promoters of the scheme describe the trade already carried on between that city and Australia as enormous, and promise that the delivery of goods thence to Australia by the proposed packets may be effected in 46 days, or ten days under the time taken on the overland route by way of Marseilles.
His Grace the present Duke of Devonshire has, we understand, deter% mined to die e of his extensive estates in the south of Ireland, re- serving those own as the Lismore and Bandon properties. The Duke awaits the opening of the new Court for the Sale and Transfer of Estates to present the petition praying for the disposal of those lands.—C/ortmel
Chronicle.
The Magistrates of Dublin have done what they can to defend Miss Arbuthnot from the enterprise of Mr. Carden, by holding him to bail in the sum of 50001. to keep the peace towards that lady. Before the case was closed Mr. Carden, with much agitation, begged to make a statement. He said that he had been greatly miarepresented ; that he had no intention of repeating the offence of which he had before been convicted ; and that if he were held to bail, it would be a lasting aspersion upon his character. The magistrates) against the wish of Lord Gough's solicitor, consented to accept Mr. Carden 's personal security.
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