IRELAND.
The Industrial Exhibition at Dublin is still incomplete, and it is said that June will arrive before the last workman dears away. Of course the arrangements of the articles contributed must be imperfect ; but great activity prevails in all the departments. Hitherto success of a remark- able kind has distinguished the experiment; and the show promises to be highly attractive.
At present the most characteristic department is the exhibition of modern paintings, illustrative of art in England, France, Belgium, Holland, and Prussia. Of these the Belgian and Prussian collections are the most perfect, embracing every variety of painting in their re- spective schools. The Dutch collection is small, but extremely good. England is also represented by her best artists. The collections extend over the last hundred and fifty years. This, at present, appears to be the chief distinction of the Dublin as compared with the Hyde Park Ethibition of 1851. Among the novelties is a collection of Japanese curiosities, kindly lent by the King of Holland. In the end it is ex- pected that the French display will outshine all others: Louis Napoleon has forwarded magnificent specimens from the Imperial manufactories. The attendance of visitors has been considerable, notwithstanding the unfinished aspect of the interior. On Monday, with bad weather, 3200 holders of season tickets, and 232 at five shillings, visited the building. On Tuesday the doors were not opened until noon, yet the numbers had risen to 5804; of which 5485 held season tickets, and 319 paid five shillings each. On Wednesday there were 4066 visitors of the former class, 282 of the latter, and 201 excursion ticket-holders.
The Dublin Corporation have appointed a committee to take the ne- cessary steps for presenting Mr. Dorgan with a "national recognition."
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