The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 19, 1853. Ifttlant. (:()LLE(iE, cioRK. Tat distribution of prizes in this institution took place on Saturday last, in the examination-hall of the college, and was attended by a very numerous and fashionable assembly. Sir 8. Kane, the Presi dent, officiated as distributor of the various prizes, and, when this ceremony had been eotuph3ted. delivered a long and eloquent address upon the prospects of the college, the admirable conduct of the pupils, and the bei;eflts that might justly be anticipated from the working of the educational system pursued in the institution. "We have had," he remarked, " pursuing their studies together in this college, in each year, some 154 young men, of various social conditions, of various degrees of intellectual 'opacity, and of various forms of belief, and there has not occurred iunoug those masses of students a single instance of controversy or collision ; not in a single case has it been necessary to apply those rules of discipline wisely provided by our statutes for the repression of sei:ons irregularity of conduct ; and, in the higher responsibilities of morality and religion, I believe 1 may appeal to the reverend gentlemen who, being officially connected with this college, have favoured me with the expression of their I:ews, and who consider the conduct of the students in those regards to merit their full approval." The President continued : " When I List had the honor- of presiding iu this ha", OD an occasion similar to the present, 1 t o ok o ccasion to advert to the emboli :assment and impediment to our educa tional arrangemente, which arose from the low state of preparation to which students are brought by the classical and other secondary schools prior to entering college. I am quite aware that they are not more here than elsewhere Ireland, and 1 know that the defect is mostly caused by the excessive losses of the years of distress, from which, happily, we have now emerged, and by which some of the beet schools were disorganised and reduced. The effect of the imperfect preparatory education, now so general in this country, is to depress and limit to a very serious degree the entire university standard, and especially, by forcing • professors to occupy themselves with mutters of were elementary mstructi ,to prevent the development in a satisfactory degree of those higher inotlent and practical branches of study which should enable the students on issuing from our walls to render their education Omni!• diately available for the practical purposes of life. For we t regard the special function which, by the structure and necessity of the times, devolves upon those colleges to be the diffusion of exact knowledge of those branches 411 human learning, which, neglected or subordinated in the older universities, the organisation of which is framed upon the ideas of a time when those exigencies did not exist, are DOW generally and deeply felt to be the principal means of seeming material civilisation, and of obtaining for this country that industrial development in which our future prosperity must be chiefly sought. This is, indeed, au august and exalted mission. It is one to which I and my colleagues devote ourselves ardently and unceasingly, and. Ally apprecisting the various obstacles which oppose themselves to its success, will firmly and steadily apply ourselves to overcome them. For this industrial canca n )))) , for the reception of those idesaou which well•fouuded industrial enterprise must he based, it is folomate that we have in this locality a so“ admirably suited and prepared. Those prekedieee which in many manufacturing districts have grown up against the necessity for science, because, through the wonderfel bounty of nature, they have been able to realise considerable success v lineal much aid front science, are not here powerful. On the contrary, that general love for knowledge, even in its abstract forms, which hart illustrated the annals of Irish literatore, of Irish science. and of Irish art with so many hrilliuut names from this locality, serves also to indicate with how munch energy and success we may expect the eareer of scientific industry to be pursued, and, indeed, as in many departments it is already rustled among its." Mn. Jotror O'CoNarts, is said to he the probable future member for elonmel. Among the numerous list of candidates mentioned, he is the only one that has as yet issued an address to the electors. Cram ISLAND, on the coast of Mayo, has been officially inspected as a depot for convicts under the new Penal Set :tude Act. This island was lately the property of Sir Samuel O'Malley, Bart, but 'tow belongs to the Law Life Assurance Company. It is situated at the entrance of Clew Ilay, cud contain~ about 4,4M14) acres, the greater portion arable. AN INFAMorm ATTEMPT AT Mennen, which is attri bitted to the Ribbon Society, has ocemeed in the county of Armagh. The Rev. Mr. graham, of Killvy parish, was sitting at the kitchen tire of his residence on Tuesday evening, when a party of men. or ;two at the least, came to the rear of the house awl fired through the window. The rev. gentleman was on a very low seat, and this circumstance saved his life, for some fragments of a ramrod with which the gun was charged passed through his hat, struck the wall opposite, and entered the floor. The mis creants made their escape, and for the ',resent no trace of them has been found. The motive for the diabolical attempt is said to he the fact that Mr. iraham had lately given some assistance to an (hl Mall named M'Connell, who has incurred the dis pleasure of the people of the district, on account of his being a most impot cant witness in a prosecution instituted in the year 1f7401 against a person wilding THE PRESS. in that locality for writing a threatening notice. 11.t'otinell was shelling at the residence of Mr. Graham whets the attempt was made on the life of the reverend gentlemitii. Tim EvrEssivr. MonNu.atroN Peon-1m was put up in the F.ncumbered Estates Court. ou 'Tuesday last. These estates are in King's and Queen's eou n ties. Meath, Dubi;n. Cavan. and ‘Vcstmeatii. annual value is estimated at nearly 10.000/. p er annum, and (or the eonveutettee of small capitalists they were divided for sale into sixty-four lots. Much excitement was caused by the event, the court was crowded during the sale, the competif i;gorotts, and the lots in some instances realised thirty year.' purchase. On the gross sale the proceeds were '401,513/., equal to an average of twenty -two and a half years of the net rental. SECOND EDITION. s.ITURD.4 SI'MNINt?. LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. RUSSIA ANI► TURKEY. The despatches received this morning eolith in the tatigetueut that the ''arks hail reeres*fti the I►Nnnite. This n►ove was, howe‘er, p►vmptvtl wily by u►uuacs of Atnitegetiettl prudence. Heavy rains had deluged the lower portions of Wallachia, and made military operat• . impraeti estate. This circumstance decided Omer Paella to p4ostpoue the expel' tiun agaiust Bucharest. tlrders were, therefore, given to stay the movement of the Ottoman filmes, and those which were at Oltenitza recruesed the I)tkillibo in the greidest. order, and without beiug diaquieted by the enemy. Before re tiring the Turks blew up the works and quarantiue building at Oltenitza. The retnwrade movement eon:mewed eti the 13th inst. Tlw islands opposite thurgero and ttltenitaa continued in the ocetipati. of Ike llttomans. A Russian account of these 11111- nfilivre4 was transmitted by :nee I igtrtselinkottE Ns the Nhotemite :Ilinister at Vienna in the folios telegraphic message, dated Bucharest, the 1:Ith Ist swat : " At the tutiment when ineitioices were shout to Ill' exc. euteil against the emiablihl •ut of the 'Emits op the left bank of the rivt.r. opposite Turtitkai, they cvactiaLed their p.,sit ion nipl retired to the right hank, keeping itoeseeeiou only of im island which lies bet w, Ih.. hs.• General Osten-Sacken's advanced guard hail passed the Truth, and he was expected at Ituchareat on the 211th. The Russian for•es were coneentrating in K rajova. The Vienna Government are organising an at .tiy of observation in the south of Hungary, and near the Turkish frontier. This /newel', howevur, is stated to be taken only tOr the security of the Imperial territoii, and in the iittsrest of Austrian neutrality. Respecting the capture of tielielkat;', Nicholas Krapowsky, Nieolai, or Cheykedy, all 14 whirl' sainem are given to one and the smite place, the Ater of a letter from Constantinople says : " 1,01011 Rnicsiatia were k;lk•d, anal NO math, pi4SanPril, among whom is a memis•r of the family of 4:omit-I: tiering themselves forced is their foioess, the Russians, iu leaving it, Net tire to thu tick: new Whacks. which were completely all•stroy - ed ill spite of the acidic l'isrks lu extinguish the thinks. Tice votress was olefeualcsl by ;1, 4 ss men. Th., To • -km f u nnel 'l , t lloll carbines, nimbi aan the model of those used by the Claiaseurs of Vilbeemies, ull bee Mg the mark of the double•healed Itstssimi eagle, mud the mark of a 1111411 U aeturer at I Tine.. 1111.1... A of cannon were also taken. The elanbat was very mangairia: . .. battalion of the Turkish guani particelarly itsef. Five pricsonera—a eaptiati a n d fa our sc•lcliers been sent here ; the rimilinsler will h 0 dNsina•ii at Another despatch states that the .on of Prince George I,ouriel and Colonel Cloti an , among the pi, boilers. The affair took place on iict. The Porte has refused to grant the exrquat it r to the Consul-tieneral appointed by Austria for the I humbilin The British l'enycourf and A Ibloa. mid the French vessels .1 it jade r an,l 11. avi re, an. I eight steam-frigates, were at lleikos, close to the entrance into the film+ Sen. 'llie r)1 ti •Imus naval division which is to cruise in ths•se waters consists of four fi,uales, two steamers, three vial cues, and t,vo brigs. The vessel Meje,hietie and two lately joined the squadron. The French Ambassador at 'onstantiuople has in• vlted coutraetors to semi iii sealed tenders, offering terms for the delivery of provisions for the French squadron at Constantinople, Trebisond, or Odessa during its presence in the llosphoruii or the Black Sea. Flt 'fhe Bank of Frame ha. re.ohi•il that the rate of is not to Ie• rai.e4l. The admires o n r o il way ttltare.t are to be nslnee►i from 4)0 to 50 per rent., and the who - tees QII übligatams are fxed at 70 per cent. On the 14th f September last. l'aiitain !tawlin. the coanunuhler ut the Ennuis station o n t h . 4 west ern comt of .Itilea, 'ietlt an expedition opined tho %.11age ut lair. the whiiiiilnuts of what'll hail plundered arid Ii th d heveral French merchant's. The dive his‘iug been iketruyetl, the chief+ ut the sited lot react.. SP AIN. The publiNlker of the Deur io Espanol has been ennikultteti to two months' impri.tattnent, awl a lino of No rents. for an 'whir against the Ministerial measure% relative. to railroad', lint iii•st . v and the al Fatuil, %lilt a timid of distinguished visitor'. are expeeteil to remove from Windsor to Osborne on 'Unesilikv next, to sojourn till titristinais. Esmasit Str‘e Nm,i%rios os rut: The new Liverpool steamer .4rgenthm, as appears by letter 4 just reeeised from the Plate, had returned to Buenos Ayres. On I.lw ',list of September she left that play,. for the purpose of ascending the Parana ill Rosario, which port was limb , in twenty•one I rs and t h irty minutes steaming, the vessel having been obliged to *hop at San Nicolas to wood. The Argen firm hell Itltsllll . lo in lilt` )lelled Itnelltt..‘%lTs in twenty hours. steaming. 11l passing the isbuid of Martin tiazeia on her ascent, the though retrying the English tlag, was tired al by a ',Mall st•littimitr si t th ii it4I111141; 11111 on her deseent Mr. Hadfield, Ilw agent of the Liverpoid eompany, who went ashore, was at:mired by the etuumandiuit that the guns had been fired asi om his psi aiission. The sessel was received at San Nicola: and Rosario with great enthusiasm Ivy this inhabitants. CITY, Sotorila) Afternoon. 951; MeNieao, IIA I ; ; Pitio 1 1 / 4 .ferreil. 211 2h ; Ittoonan, 111 1;1; Bir mingham, lil•te :1; Lulea...hire and Yorkshire, li:oh 11; M 11161141, illy :1; tiron WiNierii, 911 :1; Vork.liire, 211 1; lh , verm. Ist Sinus of Emmy. :1:11 4 Strasbourg% :11l I, -I sliv uud x hi; Lyoub, 1:11 141 ; Exchequer 11111 N, v N prl,ll/IAUU. Liatvtitstiv Forit ltAcks.— These raves for a challenge I'llll 111111 111'1'%1'11111111111 silver tankards commenced nu Monday, the. 14th. After three slay* of "bumping " r/tl'l'l4 1111' 11411111 A WO'S 1 4 1 . 1111e141 111 11111, viz., the Lady Ma rga ret (St. Jaha's and the Trinity. Thu t► m. nice am rowed on Thursday, the Ilth, between these Iwo, and after a good rave was won by the Lady ,linryoret. Tho fol lowing was the winning crew :—.l. E. Cayley ; i. kl. Snow ; :I. ti. Forster; i. J. Wright ; lt. t'ayloy (coxswain ). A ei t ,,witru IfErTiso assembled in Manchester Weilmaiday, haying been called together by mini ?dhoti 1.0 expresa sympathy with Turkey in her present. struggle for iii114 . 1101111 . 111!1 . against Russia. Nearly 2,11410 persons gathered in the (*on' Exchange on this oecamion. Many foreign I gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood Ina 1,1 it wax midersioml, been also advised not to attend, iii order to make the eieut a purely English expression ..f feeling. Sir I'. Napier, Mr. Urquhart, and other ;speakers addressed the aasembly .luring the cow* 1 the peueeediugs, Tug Socirry Il1•• AN ti qt•4airra held their first meeting for the .11•`1!111 111 Ilt 1154'13 .1 fill The 11110 , 1 important feature 41f the meeting eransisted 111 I h.' alllll111neelnl•Iut or II Pieties of' donations, comprising a number of valuable printed works, whirl Inel been presented to the seeiut, daring the week. A 1114plag them were two V 011.1311194, o%l'll by Mr. William Salt, containing the royal proelaunations lupe reigns of Elizabeth and Jau►os 1, all in II high 1.11,1.' of preservation. The 4,llerti. in 411 proelaisuiti44l was, this valuable addition, the most regular and exten sive in the kimtdoen. It is now a deposit 44 histo rical fret, which will prove of the utmost importance to inquirer% into those period* of the history of the country lips's' which these documents especially bear. It is prulamea 4. *Wen the Chariv-rnnan e.plan•ii it tutu a lwn. , awl ea/limp. cauu , a a), and to ..reet new ailisnatehes nu boll. sitlrm the it.•r An Attti•ittni.nr Aso*istatas luta heti' eautl.lisheil in South. anipton. Po: .11aTtS4 , 1 in Very t 1117111. 11, eirellll l / 4 11thrt , . 1 0 .I.lmg in Ipswich, *reuniting us a lural pato,' , Laos. albar dime trans' ‘tieeee.i. - 11 u. ciatatructitig a inlaid a taw:blue, 1111 . )11•PI by 13, HIIII 111 deep, a lao•li is wet is $4 • MI" . b•-tug put in tuittiins by a Pier, V/ . It was powerful email* to turn a grunilatone against the loose. of INK' 1141 n..• it o ho bast au kill, Nil . tits •. It littr, kept u. 1111..1 upwards of :WI hsauv., at the roll •4 *lnch tom.. the aisew4l was Itoot olitlillil+ll. .1. awl ti, oanainuctlir. *kw., Itatallt• is 1 . 11.4101.% e..111.•t0.1s that Op . l lo , •10 in ttltt.ititl 4 imo i l tin t i wasolterell t.. ilv“.1•51 firms in liontieli who ileenio.4 t a ki n g It up, suttee %shall three pyritous I:wlinging to flue .4 the that r um s 14rUt hu rrnt. 1111 1014 , 14 di hat, raanuilest that utaehile, have Iron intlue...l (it pay the investor liberally, wail have token thy uta‘ltitte M. 1NU4141 to pivevituty