IRELAND.
The cattle show of the Royal Dublin Society was held on Tuesday. The number of animals exhibited exceeded that of any previous year— the young stock especially. In the evening, the Lord-Lieutenant was present at the meeting of the Society. A vote of thanks being passed, he delivered a speech dwelling chiefly on the merits of the show ; but adding that Ireland appears no longer paralyzed by the depression caused by the adverse circumstances of former times, and there is no longer occasion to stimulate the energies of the gentry, the farmers, and the landed proprie- tors. He hoped Irish agriculturists would soon send specimens to Eng- lish exhibitions, and bring back some of the prizes carried off that day by English exhibitors.
Lord Derby has caused his cattle and farming stock in Tipperary to be sold. The proceeds of the sale amounted to 40001. The estate, hitherto farmed by his Lordship, has been let to tenants.
An unpleasant contest between the authorities of Queen's College, Cork, has been brought to light. The Vice-President and Council of the College charge the President with a despotic use of his authority. He will not attend the deliberations of the Council, yet he claims and exer- cises an unqualified veto on their resolutions ; he insists that he alone is authorized to carry on the correspondence of the College, and he draws it up without any communication with the Council. The Vice-Presi- dent and his colleagues have embodied their complaint in a memorial to the Queen; and they allege that the dispute for authority endangers the institution itself.
Mr. Poe, a county-eess collector living in Shinrone, found 8, number of burglars in his house at night, burning his papers. Mr. Poe was armed with two pistols ; he called on the robbers to desist and surrender; they re- fused ; he fired a pistol, and shot one man dead. The police have since appre- hended two of the gang who escaped from the house.
The Minerva steamer, on her voyage from Liverpool to Belfast, on Tuesday night, when some miles North of the Calf of Man, came into collision with a ship, which immediately sank : all on board must have perished, and nothing was found even to denote what vessel had disappeared.
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