IRELAND.
The Earl of Carlisle has been on a visit to Cork, and has opened a new railway in that district. He attended, while there, a meeting held to distribute prizes to the students of the Queen's College. Sir Robert Kane made a speech showing that the Roman Catholics availed them- selves of the College in larger proportions than the Protestants until 1857, when the numbers fell 8 per cent. Since that date, however, the numbers have risen again, and are now 50 per cent of the whole. Lord Carlisle made a brief speech expressing no opinion whatever on the subject of education.
In the evening there was a banquet, Sir John Arnett, the Mayor, pre- siding. The Lord Lieutenant commented on the rising prosperity of Ire- land, on the want of guns at Spike Island and the harbour forts, and re- commended Turkish baths "from one of which I have just issued." Lord Fermoy also spoke, and recommended that the people ahauld be allowed to arm for the defence of Ireland ; advice received With "loud cheers."
A meeting of laity was held in Dublin, on Tuesday, to support Dr. Cullen's appeal on behalf of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope. Over it the O'Donogliue presided ; Dublin, with its many respectable Roman Catholics, offering no gentleman of standing for the post. The orators were the chairman, Mr. Maguire, a Papal decore, Mr. Pope Henneesy and Mr. Patrick O'Brien, the two members for King's County. Besides these were one of the Nation men, and a gentleman who once held a place long suppressed, and who now enjoys a large pension. The audience was of a kind congenial to the orators:and the oratory, which did not pass beyond the limits set down for it by Dr. Cullen. A long letter from the Mtramoutane leader repeating his narrow and peculiar views was read to the meeting. It is remarkable that Dublin was not repre- sented except by the noisy audience ; and it should be noted that the O'Donoghue has resigned his commission of Major in the Kerry Militia.
Dr. al'Hale has sent forth one of his thundering epistles against the Queen's Colleges. It is addressed to Lord Palmerston, and is intended to prove that the Colleges, so obstinately vital, are a failure.
The Belfast Harbour Commissioners have been officially informed that it is intended to prepare Carrickfereus Castle for the reception of heavy guns, and also to provide works to defend the Channel leading into Bel- By an explosion in a flour mill at Sligo, used to manufacture inflammable materials called "shades" or "fire-seeds," five lives have been lost, and eight men have been seriously injured. It is not known whether the ex- plosion was caused by foul air or the fire-seeds.
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