IRELAND.
Last week, three gentlemen from Manchester, Mr. Fairbaim acting as spokesman waited on the Earl of Carlisle to lay before him an account of the Exhibition of Art Treasures to be held in Manchester next year, and to induce him to lend his assistance. There are many fine collections of antiquities in Dublin, they said, and Lord Carlisle might induce the societies to part with them for a season. Castle Howard boasts of a fine collection of pictures, and they wished to persuade his Excellency to intrust them with some. Lord Carlisle said, he did not much like sending away the paintings from Castle Howard, because he was in. the habit of permitting visitors to see them. He recommended them to speak to Colonel Larcom about the Irish antiquities, and to endeavour to obtain some of Lord Charlemont's pictures, some of the finest in Dublin. In the course of the interview, the deputation stated that the exhibition-building would present unrivalled means of displaying pictures : the perspective particularly would be immense, as the hall in which they were to be contained would be 704 feet, or about the seventh of a mile, in length ; the main hall was to be 104 feet wide, and would be filled with pieces of sculpture and other objects of attraction to visitors..
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