The Sun. — London, England, 1851-09-08 00:00:00

GODLESS COLLEGES The fallowing are reports of the Presidents of the Queen's Colleges, Belfast, Cork, and Galway, for the essien ISSO-1 : QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BELFAST. THE QREEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. May it please your Majesty,—l have the honour of submitting to your Majesty this second report of the operations of Queen's College, Belfast, embracing the last session from its opening in the middle of October. 1850, till its close on the 15th of June, 1851. The orgenisatien of the different faculties, which another year has enabled the authorities at the college to carry forward toward s com pl e ti on ; the amount of scien tific and literary labour that has been undertaken and accomplished both by the professors and students ; the consolid a ti on an d h armon y of the varied collegiate interests; the consequent unity of action and of pur pose. characterising the whole proceedings of the col lege ; the number of students on the roll ; and, above all, the establishment of the Queen's University now in full opeeation, securing to the different departments degrees sequel in privilege and value to those of any other ieniversity—all these enable me to submit this repo' t to your Majesty with a feeling of satisfaction which will he shared by the supporters of united edu cs.tion and the friends of national enlightenment. Io various respects the Queen's Colleges differ from most existing institntions both i n th e i r cou r se s a n d operations. The p resen t state o f soc i ety d eman d e d the ietreeuction of the a ppli e d p rac ti ca l an d na t ura l sc'eue's to as great an extent as is compatible with the essentials of strictly professional education ; but this teivencereent on old established systems, now brough for two years to the test of experim en t, h as confirmed all the general impressions which the pre sid-uts send vice-presidents of the colleges from the outset entertained of the importance of adapting in struction, even as regards the professions themselves, to tl'.e wants of the community, and those economic Pur ,Joses of which science is the real foundation. The details of this report will more fully illustrate these tiews. Nor will it, I trust, be less apparent whilst the objects of science and literature have been zea lously prosecuted that the paramount interests of re ligion have in any sense been dissociated from that true education which deals with the youth nut only as an intellectual but as a moral and accountable being. The collegiate scheme established by your Majesty has solved the problem of combining the various de nominations for mental culture, without interference wir.h religious convictions, and of providing at the same time for the young man, if under age, that !piritual instruction of which his parents approve, or if above th a t age , th a t sp i r i tua l i ns t ruc ti on which his own choice and p o siti on ma y dict a te. The reports of the two d eans o f res id ences , p u blished herewith, wil , satisfectorily establish this important fact. The only change which took place in the profes• sional ranks during the past year were the transfer ence of Mr. M'Douall from the Latin to the Greek chair, in consequence of the acceptance by the Rev. Frederick Ringwood of the head-mastership of Dun gannon Royal School, and the appointment of the Rv. Charles Reichel to the professorship of Latin. By this means the efficiency of the classical department has been fully sustained. The e . zotracted illness o f P ro f essor Blakey pre vented e. course of l ec t ures on logic from being de livered. during the past session ; but his Excellency has !ssueei such instructions as will secure proper courses in fnis branch and in metaphysics during the next evititer. Referri ng t o t h e diff erent faculties, I give the offi tie' returns of numbers and classes as have been made out from the roll-book, and authenticated by the re gistrar : Numbe r of matriculated students attending second seoion ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Nuriv.er of students who matriculated in October and November, 1850 Admictetl a student of second year, ad eundem from T.C.D. Total matriculated students attending this sossion "' Total non-matriculated students ... Total number number of students ... 184 In the first session of the college the number of non-taatriculated students was 107, and matriculated 85. Tnis large number, at the opening of the col lege, is to be accounted for partly by the circum stance that many young men, who had previously prosecuted their education at the Royal Institution at Belliest and other places, entered the Queen's College for year to coin plete it, partly because a number fell beck to compete for the scholarships ; and, to a con siderable extent, by the fact that the college not having commenced its operations for a year after the expected period, there existed an accumulation of stu dents at the time of opening. Taking these circum stances into account, and considering the past session by its<-If, as a fair test of the second year's operations, I speak the sentiments of the council and professors in expressing gratification that since the opening of the college, in the session 1849-50, 287 students have been enrolled, and that 184 regularly attended during the past year. The students who matriculated last session are young men from the different preparatory schools ; and it is illustrative of the impulse which has been given to education by the establishment of the college, that these are held by their respective professors to be fully equal to their standing even with teeee who fell back from different colleges, and carried some of the first year's scholarships. The investigations of comparative merit at the sup plemental, entrance, and scholarship examinations in October last, occupied the professors several days, and were conducted with great strictness and impartiality. The competition for honours and prizes, both at the opening and close of the session, was remarkably close, and made it difficult in many instances for the examiners to decide on the relative merits of the candidates. The general conduct of the students has been satis factory, and a very marked improvement has taken place in their attention to academic usages and rules. Means were adopted by the council, in the early part of the session, for securing regularity of attendance at all the lectures arid examinations; and an inspection of each professor's roll-book is sufficient to show how effective those measures have been. The subjoined reports of the deans of residences will be regarded as highly important, not only because they bear testi mony to religious advantages which the students have enjoyed, but on account also of the practical and un uestionable proof they afford of the provision that is made in the collegiate statutes for the perfect reli gious instruction os the students. The references to the good conduct of the medical students, and their attendance on the religious exercises prescribed by the deans, is as gratifying as it is illustrative of the fact, that few colleges in the empire possess the same means of religious instruction, pro vided the different religious bodies avail themselves of the privileges which are secured to them by statutory enactment. In reference to the subject of religious instruction, I have further to state that the Rev. William Lupton and the Rev. John Porter, of Belfast, have since the close of the session been ap pointed by your Majesty to be deans of residences ; the former over students of the Wesleyan body, and the latter over those of the non-subscribing Presbyte rian bodies. Both appointments were made in ac cordance with the wishes of the respective churches of these gentlemen. In collecting materials for this report, I felt it my duty to put myself into communication with the deans of tee diff-rent faculties, in order to ascertain any particular points to which it might be desirable to dra ,v your Mejesty's attention. During the pest year such additions as the funds placed at the disposal of the college enabled us to procure have been made both to the, library and mu feum ; but i , : became more apparent every day that the amount granted by Perliement for both depart ments was quite insufficient to provide such a collec t!. , n of hooke, of apparatus and objects, as any col !, ge ouOit: to possess, in which so many subjects are tali lit and illustrated. foe governors of the Observatory at Armagh have in' generously off-red to the college, provi led your Majesty should approve of the transfer, some dupli. ewe instruinents which once formed part of the ap paratus in the Kew Observatory, and were of erwards presented to them by your Majesty's royal uncle, his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant put himself into communication with your Majesty and the Primate on the subject, and the permission being graciously granted, that prelate was pleased to convey to me the r fi ' i. s2lntion of th e governors , ass i gn i ng the instruments Lb , . use of the college, so long as they should be pied to their appropriate purposes. I have now t}'eo Professorsg ra! iecation of stating that, owing to the exertions , Wilson and Stevelly to whose depart menLs this present especially belongs, aided by the influence and zeal of the vice-president, an observa tory is being erected Wleyh_perivatte contributions the college groundQ, i n h hese instruments and others of 3 similar kind that may be obtained, will in a short time be deposited, for the benefit of science and the advantage of the college. On account of this rna. k of favour, as well as the coolers, the college authorities are deeply grateful to your Maesty fbr permission of the t ransference, and to the Primate and governors of the Armagh Obser aratory, for having proposed and effected it on proper and encouraging conditions. During th e fi rs t co ll e giate session, th e President of a theßoyal I r i s h A ca d em y, Dr. Llyod, expressed desire, on the part of that body, for the co-operation of the college, ;n carrying out some comparative meteorological observations. At the time we were met in a position to respond practically to this invita tion. A few months ago, however, measures were adopted for effectuating this desirable object, and I have now to report that observatio n s, th ro ugh the aid of ex ce ll ent i nstruments, are being takenl regularly at the college, whose results shall be conveyed from time to time to the president and directors of the Royal Irish Academy. THPI SUN, As another matter of detail, it may be useful to remark, that the college has experienced much advan tage by the establishment of a lithographic printing press within its own walls, for collegiate purposes. The professors are thus enabltd to have all their examination papers struck off and corrected under their own inspection, and with such guarantees of protection as secure from all chance of divulgence the questions which they propose to submit to the different classes about to be brought under examination. Another benefit results from this, that each professor claiming his turn for printing, has of necessity his papers made up in proper time, which immediately after the examination are lodged with the registrar. I take leave to submit in the appendix a number of the questions which were proposed to the students of the first and second years, during the past winter, and in doing so I feel assured that the papers prepared by the different professors are worthy of themselves and the important departments over which they preside. The oral mode of examination continues to be com bined to some extent with the use of printed papers, and perhaps this union affords the best means of testing the qualifications and relative merits of the students. In concluding this report, I am enabled to bear testimony that if it be the object of the supporters of these institutions to have science elevated and ex tended, habits of industry and order inspired, religion honoured and illustrated, social harmony and good will promoted, and all by a system which teaches the young, while respecting their own characters and rights, to reciprocate to others what they claim for themselves—if it be the patriotic desire to qualify the rising generation for individual exertion and for mu tual co-operation in matters national and public— these ends have been gained to the extent of the ope ration and influence of the colleges. They shall yet have their full measure of accomplishment, provided the beneficent scheme of the foundation of these va luable establishments be carried out with the same decision that has secured their first success, and in a spirit of impartiality similar to that which has already won the approbation of friends, and disarmed the hos tility of many opponents. All of which is testified on behalf of Queen's Col lege, Belfast, by your Majesty's most dutiful servant, P. SHULDLIAM HENR Y , D.D., P res id en t . Queen's College, Belfast, July 20, 1850. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CORK. TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. May it please your Majesty, —In accordance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament under which this collegs has been founded, and in pursuance of the statutes issued by your Most Gracious Majesty, I beg leave to report as follows regarding the general proceedings of the college during tie academic year lust now terminated, and on its actual condition. Since the date of last report the organisation of the several departments of the college has been sedulously proceeded with; and although in many instances serious difficulties have occurred, which it required much attention to overcome, the working efficiency of the institution has been materially improved. Most of the essential requisites for the various courses of systematic instruction have been obtained, and been actively availed of by the professors; and it may be now confidently asserted that, although in no one de partment does the college possess all the resources which an institution of its university rank and exten sive range of unity ought to possess, yet an important advance has been made on the position occupied by the college in the last year, and it may now contrast favourably even with many older and more established colleges for university education.: I shall proceed to notice briefly such topics as may serve most fully to illustrate the actual position of the college, and the general working of the several departments since the date of last report. NUMBERS AND AGES OF STUDENTS.I It is peculiarly gratifying to me to be able to re port that, notwithstanding the exertions made to embarrass the progress of the Queen's Colleges, and to prevent students frOrn availing themselves of the advantages therein afforded for superior education, the beneficent intentions of your Majesty in the foundation of this college have been satisfac torily carried out by the entrance of a still larger number of matriculated students in the session just now closed than in that of the preceding year ; and further, that notwithstanding the influences employed to prevent the students of the last year from return. ing to the college, so large a proportion have con tinued their college studies as to render the total number of matriculated stud-ants almost double that exhibited in the report submitted at the end of last year. The precise numbers are as follow : Of 70 matriculated students who were in the college last year, there have prosecuted their studies this year There have entered this session, matrieulaied students Non-matriculated students 38 Total number of students of the session now closed 156 Those students were distributed as follows : Matrieullted. Non-matriculated. Total. Faculty of arts ... .56 ... 12 ... 68 Faculty of medicine 31 ... 19 ... 50 Faculty of law ... 3 ... 3 ... 6 Course of engineering 18 ... 1 ... 19 Course of agriculture 10 ... 3 ... 13 118 38 156 The true significance of these numbers may not, however, be fully understood without a brief expla nation. It has been objected by those opposed to the Queen's Colleges that the numbers of students who entered in the preceding year did not indicate any conviction of the merits of the educational system, but had been at tracted by the many scholarships, which purchased a support that might not have been accorded on mere principle. But it is now seen that in this year, although, by the scholarships having to be divided between the stwWnts of two years' classes, the number of those prizes available to the candidates entering this year was reduced to one-half, nevertheless a larger number of students presented themselves than in the last year for matriculation, and to follow out the academic course for degrees. Another remark able fact is, that many of the students of last year at tended the college as non-matriculated students, and merely followed one or two courses of lectures, from an interest in special subjects, have, in the session now closed, from an experience of the system of education, joined as matriculated students, to pass through the entire course, and graduate in the Queen's Univer sity. Hence the number of merely non-matriculated or extra collegiate students is not greater than in last year, as the tendency has been to the complete ab sorption of those students into the collegiate organi sation. In regard to the ages of students the averages ap pear nearly the same as in last year's report. For the matriculated students the average ages are— Years. _ _ _ In the Faculty of arts 18 Faculty of medicine 191 Faculty of law ... 18 Course of engineering ... flBl Course of agriculture 19 1-3 General average 181 Of the entire nu m b e r o f s t u d en t s there are 14 under 16 years of age; 82 between 16 and 21 ; and 25 over 21 years of age. The extreme ages are 14 and 35 years. The ages of non-matriculated students are generally higher than those of the matriculated, but are not entered, as those students are not subject to the statutes for residence and supervision. MATRICULATION, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. The nature and circumstances of the matriculated examination in the several faculties and courses has, ing been fully explained in the preceding report, it is sufficient now to mention that a very distinct advance has been remarktd by the examining professors in the degree of proficiency exhibited by the young men w ho presented themselves this year for entrance. The nature of the education system of the Queen's Colleges and University being now better understood by the managers of schools, the absolute nece.sity for a high standard of preparation is recognised, and will be carried into effect. by a strict enforcement of the entrance examination by the authorities of the college. The examinations for scholarships were held at the periods arranged in accordance with the statutes, and were conducted by theprotessors of the several branches of literature nod science engaged in the courses for the first and second years' scholarship respect;vely. Those professors reported to the council the result of their examination, and the council thereupon allo cated the scholarships. As in the former year, the council, anxious to render your Most Gracious Ma jebty's liberality in founding those scholarships the reward of valid and superior merit, did not confer any scholarship except on evidence of positive ability and knowledge. There have, consequenly, remained also in this year some scholarships not filled up, but from the active competition and higher preparation of the candidates, the number undisposed of is much less than in the case of the preceding year. It gives me much pleasure to be able to report that the systematic instruction in the various departments of science and literature in the college faculties and courses has been carried on by the several profes sors with a degree of zeal, diligence, and ability, generally most highly creditable to themselves, and most useful to the public ; and although in some very few instances the class arrangements have not yet fully acquired the form which the objects of the collegiate instruction will ultimately require, I am confident that with the anxiety which the college council and the professors generally have shown to promot e the interests of education, every possible ex ertion will be made to realise the full extent of your Majesty's beneficent intentions in organising the im proved system of collegiat e and university educati on . The classes of the s e cond year's course of the azta faculty having come into play during the session 9 ,r- LONDON, The arrangement and formation of the library has been actively proceeded with since date of last report, and, so far as the limited funds available from the .Parliamentary grant has allowed, may be considered as being nearly completed, except in the department of anatomy and physiology, in which the requisition lists have not yet been finally arranged. In each department, however, the books n3w obtained can only be contemplated as forming a nucleus for what the library collections of the college ought to be ; and I would beg leave to submit the absolute necessity of additional funds being provided for obtaining books, as even already the wants of the professors and more advanced students have outgrown the existing resources of the college. Some additions have been made to the library, by donations of books, of which the most interesting has been that of 51 volumes of works on Oriental litera ture, presented by the Hon. East India Company ; and of 23 volumes and parts of geological memoirs, maps, and plates, precented by Sir Henry Delabeche on the part of your Majesty's Government. The Royal Irish Academy and the Messrs. Chambers have presented their several publications, and I was able to select from my own library 238 volumes of works on the physical and medical sciences, as a donation to those departments of the college library. Donations also of many individual works have been received from Dr. O'Connor, of Cork, and ether persons in terested in the progress of the college. Considerable progress has been made in the arrange ment of the museum, and its collections have been augmented by donations of a series of the fossils col lected in the north of Ireland during the geological survey under Lieut.-Colonel Portlock, R.E., presented by the Right Hon. the Chief Commissioner of Woods; also of a series of casts of the fossils of the Him alayah, collected by Dr. Falconer, presented by the lion. the East India Company ; also of a collection of specimens of American woods, presented by General O'Leary. Further donations of rocks and minerals have been re ceived from Mr. Greenough, to whose kindness and liberality the college is under the greatest obligation. There now only remains a department of the general and medical museums in which the collections still require to be organised, and it is to be expected that a very short time will enable those departments also to be rendered tolerably complete as to the arrangements for their illustration. Eat4DENCES AND DISCIPLINE OP STUDENTS. The discipline and conduct of the general body of students have been found during the last session upon the whole extremely satisfactory, only a few cases having occurred of infraction of rules of discipline, and none which required other correction than the admonition by the vice-president and by the college council. In no case has any violation of the rules of discipline in regard to morality and religion been known to have occurred. In repro to the conduct of the students resident in licensed boarding-houses, and of the religious instruc tion imparted to those students by the reverend deans of residences of their respective creeds, I have the honour to annex the report of those reverend gentle men ; and I beg to add thereto my own full agree ment in the opinions which are therein so strongly expressed, that the moral and religious conduct of those students is most honourable to themselves, and most decisive as to the beneficial influence of the col legiate system on the habits of the young men who are subjected to its rules. I bfg leave also t(; express to your Most Gracious Majesty the gratitude which is due to those reverend gentlemen, the deans of residences, who having dis charged the wholly gratuitous duties of their offices with such efficiency and zeal as fully proves their conscientious anxiety for the moral and religious wel fare of the students committed to their charge. The number of students of the Wesleyan commu nion having materially increased, his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, Lqrd-Lieutenant, has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Mr. Greer as special dean of re sidences for that communion. The relative numbers of matriculated students of the respective communities attending the college in the first year of its opening having been shown in the former report, it remains to exhibit, in the following table, the proportions of students of the several creeds attending during the session just now closed. Of the 118 matriculated students on the college books there belong to the— Church of England Roman Catholic Church ... Presbyterian Church ... Wesleyan Communion ••• Other Protestant Communions ... 42 ... 65 Total ... ... se 118 When distributed according to college standing, ;here become— Freshmen. Sophistora. Total. Church of England ... 23 19 42 Roman Catholic Church 42 23 65 Presbyterian Church ... 1 1 2 Wesleyan Communion 5 3 8 Other Communions ... 1 0 1 Comparing the distribution of the religions of stu dents, among those who entered the college in the session commencing in October, 1849, with the reli gions of those woo en t ere d i n the session commencing October, 1850, the result will be found as given in the following table, extracting the figures of 1849 from the last report : Entrance of 1849. Entrance of 1850. Church of England • • 16, or p. cent. 37 14 .. 23, or p. cent. 33 . 40 It. Catholc Church ...• 38 •• 54'29 .. 42 „ 59 16 Presbyterian...... •... 1 „ 1 . 43 .. 1 „ I'3l Wesleyan ... .. •• •• •• 4 „ 5'71 .. 5 ~ 7 . 14 Other Cornmuulois .... 1 „ 1 . 43 .. 0 ~ 70 100 00 71 100 ea Hence the Roman Catholic element appears to have increased about 4 and the Wesleyan about q per cent. upon the preceding years. The general ',umbers may be considered, however, to represent very fairly the ratio of distribution of the several religions among the class of society from which the students were derived in the south of Ireland. In concluding this report I beg leave to express the general satisfaction which is felt at the comple tion of the improved system of superior educationoybayl the establishment, und e r your Majesty's R Charter, of the Queen's University in Ireland. The academic career of the students of the Queen's Col leges being thus to be crowned by the reception from the Chancellor and Senate of the highest university degrees in the several faculties, will open to your Majesty's subjects of all creeds an honourable career in practical and professional distinction, un biassed by prejudices, unshackled by illegal ex clusion, and rich in the rewards of honour im partially bestowed. Your Majesty having graciously conceded an organization, so suitably devised, it becomes the paramount duty of all entrusted with carrying out so great an educational plan, to devote themselves to the fulfilment of those objects of public benefit with which this college and the university have been founded ; and it is my fervent trust that, not withstanding the many and great difficulties with which this college has to contend from various sources, it will each year become more efficient in its depart rnents, more extensive and more perfect in its range of action, and more fully known for the steady con duct and discipline of its students. Thus, alone, can it become fully entitled to that award of public con fidence and support of which already it has received so satisfactory a share ; and thus only can the autho rities of the college feel that they have discharged their duty, in carrying out to practical success the beneficent intentions of your Majesty for Ireland and for its people. (Signed) ROBERT KANE, President. Queen's College, Cork, June 18th, 1851. now concluded, there were occupied with the lectures i❑ that faculty ,en professors. I❑ the coures of the faculty of medicine there were engaged nine professors and the anatomical demon strator. In the faculty of law there are occupied two pro fessors. In the course of engineering there are occupied five professors. In the course of agriculture there are occupied six professors and the lecturers on 'veterinary me dicine. The delivery of the course of lectures on Celtic languages having been delayed from various causes until very late in the session, was attended but by one student. The regularity of attendance of the students upon the class lectures has been upon the whole very satin• factory, the council having found themselves only in a► few instances called upon to enforce regularity by a reference to the penalties attached by the college rules to insufficient attendance at class lectures. I had occasion to describe in the report submitted to your Most Gracious Majesty, at the close of the preceding session, the great disadvantages under which the professors of the medical faculty laboured in carrying on the business of their several depart ments, owing to the total absence of any provision of buildings for their use. lam happy to be able now to report that in the interval a building containing a museum, dissecting and lecture rooms, suited to the plan of medical instruction and sufficient for the present requirements of the faculty, has been erected, and the courses of the medical professors have been transferred there from :the rooms of the faculty of arts, which had been provisionally occupied by the medical school. For the erection of this building of the medical faculty the college is indebted to the en lightened zeal for educational improvement that has been throughout the progress of this institution uni formly manifested by bis Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, under whose auspices and by whose exer tions and liberality the necessary funds were ob tained. The medical faculty and the council of the college, feeling the most lively gratitude for his Ex cellency's active assistance, and being desirous to commemorate his liberality, have resolved that the new building shall be inscribed and designated as the " Clarendon Building," allocated to the business of the medical faculty of Queen's College, Cork, which appellation it now accordingly bears. LIBRARY AND MUSEUMS. MONDAY EVit'N'ING I S. PTE OFFICIAL LETTERS OF THE SEVERAL DEANS OF RESIDENCES ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CORE. PROM THE REV. LOUIS PERRIN, DEAN OF RESIDENCES FROM THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. My dear Sir,—l must ask your pardon for the long delay I have made about answering your note; since very shortly after the commencement of this session I have had, as usual, my weekly meetings with my pupils. My own pupils have attended with fair regularity, and some of the others (i e , those not resident in licensed houses), have also very fre quently been with me. Fogarty has not attended , I believe engagements prevented him; but as he is of the Methodist communion, I do not feel that he is bound to come. I have every reason to believe that my pupils are regular and attentive to public worship. The return which you made me at the commence ment of the session has been reduced, as Ashe has left the licensed house in which he did reside, and is with his brother ; and Kingston has not been in town since Christmas. I need not ask have any other students, in connexion with the Church, been since settled at licensed boarding-house, as no doubt had such been the case you would have informed me of it, I remain, my dear Sir, yours, very faithfully, Lours PEaiexN, Clerk. See House, Cork, March 14, 1851. FROX THE REV. WILLIAM O'C )NN , R. ROMAN CATHOLIC DEAN ON RESIDENCES. Dear Sir Robert Kane,—lu reply to your note of yesterday, it affords me great consolation to bear the same high testimony to the conduct of the Roman Catholic students of Queen's College, Cork (for what has passedof the present collegiate year), that I did at the close of the last year's studies. The students who reside with parents and guardians, and who do not necessarily come under my control, are equally entitled to my praise for attention and for orderly conduct as those residing in boarding-houses; and I am happy to be able to add, that whatever may be the speculative opinions of some wise and good men, I have not yet seen, nor have the students yet expe rienced, danger to either faith or morals at Queen's College, Cork. I have the honour to remain, my dear Sir Robert, yours most truly, WILLIAM O'CONNOR, Feb. 20, 1851. Roman Catholic Dean of Residences PROM THE REV. WILLIAM MAGILL. PRESBYTERIAN DEAN OF RESIDENCES, TO THE PRESIDENT OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CORE. Sir,—l have had under my care, for the last ses ion, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Henry, and Mr. Eunson, students of Queen's College. Week:y lectures on religion. and intended for their benefit, have been delivered from October to June. Regular visits were paid to the students at their own rooms for advice and superintendence; and evenings were devoted to religious and literary education. All these means of instruction, together with the usual Divine services on the Sabbath at the Scots' Church, were attended by the students with considerable re gularity, I have bad reason to be satisfied with their moral character and habits, their attention to their religious duties, and their interest in their several courses of study in which they were en gaged. They leave Cork, I believe, in every way improved, and they carry with them a purpose of literary industry which may be regarded as the bud of future promise. The unrivalled advantages they have enjoyed, aided by the kindness of many of the citi zens of Cork, will induce them to commend their alma mater, and thus collect a harvest of alumni for future academic honours and pursuits.—l am, sir, yours, &c., WILLIAM MAGILL, Dean of Residences of the Presbyterian Church Cork, June 14, 1851. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GALWAY. TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. May it please your Majesty,—ln compliance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament founding the Queen's Colleges, I proceed to lay before your Ma jesty the report of the proceedings of the session which commenced on Tuesday, the 15th of October, 1850, and which terminated on Saturday, the 14th of June, 1851. At two entrance examinations held on the 15th of October and 20th of December, 1850, twenty-six students were enrolled on the college books, of these twenty-four were matriculated and two non-matricu lated students. If these be added to numbers who had entered the Queen's College during the first session, the numbers admitted since the opening of the college in October, 1849, will appear as follows. As great misrepresentations have been circulated of the number of students attending this college, as well as of its general success, I deem it right to make upon this subject a few observations. In estimating the progress of such institutions at the Queen's Colleges, attention must be paid to the district in which they are placed, and the population and wealth of the towns with which they are con nected. Colleges placed in populous and thriving localities are at once frequented by numerous stu dents, who live in their own homes, and who are not obliged to incur the expense of travelling to or resid ing in a distant neighbourhood. The students of the Queen's Colleges, unlike those of other institutions, must attend its lectures for at least two terms of each session—a period varying from five to six months. It will thus be seen how essential it is to look to the condition of the town near which a college is situated to judge with fairness of its real progress. In the great majority of cases the young men frequenting the Gal way College come from a distance, the town of Galway not as yet possessing such a population as would furnish a large number of students. Taking these circumstances into account, I do not hesitate to say that the Queen's College, Galway, has fully kept pace with her sister institutions of Belfast and Cork —institutions which, by the confession of all, have equalled the most sanguine expectations of their warmest supporters. Nor do I entertain a doubt that, despite the extraordinary and continued opposition which appears to be in a great degree concentrated upon this particular institution, it is destined to out live the hostility with which it has been assailed, and to confer upon the province those countless and ines timable blessings which follow in the train of know ledge, enlightenment, and civilisation. I am glad to be able to report that the conduct of the students (including young men of all persuasions) his been generally all that could be wished. IF some acts of insubordination and breach of college discipline have occurred, they have yielded in almost every in stance to remonstrance and persuasion. The college authorities have but rarely been compelled to resort to penalties. The reports of the professors, to which I shall subsequently refer, give, on the whole, a very satisfactory account of the attention which the stu dents have paid to their studies and their progress in the different branches of learning to which they de vote themselves. I feel, indeed, sure, that in no col legiate institution do the professors labour with more indefatigable zeal to promote the interests of the stu dents; and it is right to say that, in the majority of cases, their efforts have been met and responded to as they deserve. The great dearth of schools in the province, and the faint desire for knowledge which has hitherto manifested itself, is strongly perceptible in the state of preparation of many of the students who offer themselves for entrance ; and nothing better can illustrate the necessity and advantage of such an institution as the Queen's College than the change which a few months' attendance upon the lectures of the professors has wrought, not only in the actual at tainments of the students, but in awakening within them a desire for knowledge. Young men, whose attainments on entering the college were barely suf ficient to enable them to pass the matriculation ex amination, have within a short time become most as siduous and attentive in their studies, and before the conclusion of the session have evinced an improvement which has called forth the admiration of their teachers. In the appendix annexed to this report will be found the courses of instruction which are pursued by the students in the several faculties and schools, as well the examination fur matriculatio❑ and the scho- lurships of the different years. I have also adfled;e lections from questions given at the scholarship and priza examinations. These questions will be a test from time to time of the effect which the college may produce in elevating the standard throughout the province. With regard to the religious instruction of the Roman Catholic students, and their attendance upon their religious duties, I think it right to state the fol lowing circumstances. By the statutes of the Queen's Colleges the Crown has been empowered to appoint deans of residencies for the different persuasions, to whom complete control is given over every student of their respective creeds not residing with his parent or guardian, and who can also call for college penal ties upon any student, no matter where resident, who may not be regular in attendance upon his place of worship. Immediately on the opening of the college, in October, 1842, a Roman Catholic dean of resi dences was appointed, who continued to discharge, during the entire of the first session, the high and sa lutary duties of his office with the most exemplary attention It was my grateful duty to lay before your Majesty, in my first report, the statement submitted to me by this excellent gentleman, of the extreme satisfaction he had derived from the conduct of the students submitted to his care. This statement was, indeed, a gratifying proof that the statutes had provided abundant securities for the faith and morals of the etudents, and that any danger which might arise could only arise from Churches not availing themselves of the opportunities aff , rded them by the statutes, and from not co-ope rating with the college authorities in providing fur the spiritual welfare of the students. Among Whet interesting portions of the report of the Roman Catho lic dean I beg to refer to the following statement : I stn happy to say that the Catholic students have, up to this time, evinced a d ee p sense o f th e strixiety which yourself, sir, the coile4e council, teed the ire body of professors, have felt for their reli gious instruction in appropriating cne day in each week for that purpose. I have had the satisfaction to see them attend my instructions regularly on every Saturday. My notes of their attendance enable me to report that they have been generally present, ex cept when prevented by some reasonable cause. " All students who have been present at my in structions have given me the greatest satisfaction, by the attention which they have paid to the various sub jects on which I addressed them, and the thorough knowledge which I found by interrogating them they acquired of them. lam happy to report, as the fruit of such religious dispositions, that on a late oc casion several of the students, who had not previously received the sacrament of confirmation, were confirmed by the Right Rev. Dr. O'Donnell. " I am also gratified in being able to report that, during the visits which I paid to the licensed houses, I have heard no complaints nor observed any symp toms of disorderly conduct ; on the contrary, I have received repeated assurances from the parties who hold these houses, that the students have conducted them selves in a quiet, moral, and gentlemanly manner." Such was the satisfactory manner in which, during our first session, the religious and secular instruction of the Roman Catholic students went hand in hand, the latter given by the accomplished scholars who fill our professorial chairs, a large number of whom are Catholics—the former dispensed by the clergyman who, in accordance with the statutes, had entered upon his office under the sanction of the constituted authorities of his church. I lament to say that this gentleman has intermitted during the last session the performance of those sacred duties which he had dis charged with so much honour to himself, and so much advantage to the college. In the absence of that minister whom the public care of your Majesty provided for the Roman Catho lic students, the heads of the college have not failed to use all the weight of their influence and advice in enforcing upon them a diligent attention to their re ligious duties. It gives me sincere pleasure to de clare that that advice has been attended to. From the repeated inquiries I have made, I am able to state my confident belief that the conduct of the Roman Catholic students has been excellent; that they have been regular in their attendance upon their place of worship, and in the performance of every religious duty belonging to their creed. To the cordial support and co-operation we have received from the reverend deans of the Established and Presbyterian Churches I find it hard to do jus tice. These gentlemen have been instant in the dis charge of every duty connected with their office ; they have endeavoured to carry out the benevolent intentions of the Legislature, in giving confidence to the parents of the students submitted to their charge, aad in blending with that instruction which prepares a man for his walk through life that higher teaching which sanctifies and elevates his path. Seine diffi culty has been felt by these gentlemen in the case of students who do not reside in the boarding-houses, and over whom their control does not extend. They have, however, endeavoured to compensate by an in crease of zeal for that legal authority of which they are deprived in the case referred to. I may here ob serve, that every inducement that could be afforded to students to reside in licensed boarding-houses would be in itself an additional security for religions and morals, by enlarging the power and control of those ministers, who, in some degree are accountable for the conduct of the students. As connected with the distribution of scholarships, a circumstance occurred towards the commencement of the session to which I think it necessary to refer. In awarding those scholarships which the munificence of the Legislature has placed at the disposal of the college, the authorities considered that they were dealing with a fund which was given to promote edu cation, and which ought not, under any circum stances, to be bestowed upon undeserving candidates. While they bad regard to the low state of education in the province, and considered that a high standard of knowledge ought not for some time to be insisted upon, they were determined not to confer scholar ships upon any candidates whose answering did not imply such an amount of previous preparation as would enable them to derive advantage from the teaching of the professors. Acting upon this princi ple, they stopped several scholarships at the exami nations held during the first term of the present session. On one occasion a student who consi dered himself aggrieved by not obtaining one of these endowments, memorialed the visitors against the decision of the college council. As the transac tion involves a principle of law deeply interesting to all the colleges, and as it tends to show the prompt attention that is paid to any student who may con sider himself unjustly treated, I deem it right to state the particulars of the trausaction, and the deci sion of the visitors. A few scholarships of the second year not having been awarded at the first examination of the session in October, were held over to be contended fur at the second and last examination in December. On this occasion the scholarships exceeded in number that of the candidates ; but, as the answering was very de fective, the college council determined not to award any of the scholarships. An unsuccessful candidate protested against this act of the authorities, and urged them to reconsider their decision, and to grant him a scholarship. Upon their refusing to do so, the stu dent memorialed the visitors of the college, praying for an extraordinary visitation to consider his claim, which he rested upon two grounds—first, that he had not been examined with sufficient care and perfect fairness; secondly, and chiefly, that the council had no right to refuse him scholarship under the circum stances in question. An extraordinary visitation was at once granted to the student, and his case received the most patient and attentive consideration. I feel much pleasure in stating that the accuracy, care, and honour of the professors who examined the student were completely vindicated, and that the decision of the college authorities in not awarding a scholarship upon defective answering was fully confirmed. Bat I feel equal satisfaction in referring to the prompt at tention that was paid to the prayer of the memorialist, and to the proof which has been thus given that any student who may consider himselt aggrieved will have the wrong of which he complains at once inves tigated by a tribunal composed of men whose rank, integrity and attainments place them above the sus picion of injustice. With respect to the educational progress of the stu dents, I beg to refer to the reports of those professors who have been engaged in their instruction, and who state with perfect candour the real condition and pro gress of the students. The complete foundation, under letters patent granted by your Most Gracious Majesty, of an uni, • versity, where the students of the Queen's Colleges will obtain degrees, and the attaching to them " all such rights, privileges, and immunities," as belong to similar degrees granted by the most ancient and honoured universities of the empire, is a fit comple tion of the system of education which your Majesty and the Legislature have provided for the people of Ireland. The establishment by the university of prizes to be contended for by students from all the Queen's Colleges, will keep alive a spirit of generous emulation amongst these institutions. It will be a gratifying and instructive spectacle to see young i nen from every province, and of every creed, contending in honourable rivalry for those prizes which will' at once confer distinction upon those who may obtain them. The high and respected names which con sti tute the senate of the Queen's University have already attracted public confidence, and are a sufficient ear nest of the success that will attend its proceedin gs ; nor can I allude to the constitution of that body with out expressing the entire satisfaction which every sup porter of the Queen's Colleges has derived from find ing at its head the statesman who, in an auspicif us hour, was called to preside over the destinies of %his country, and to whom the friends of united education owe a debt of endless gratitude. The annexing, by the benchers of the Queen's Inns, to the A.B. degree of the Queen's Univereity the privileges that attach to the same degree welen granted by the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Dublin, is a just recognition of the high course of education pursued in the new colleges, and d Des honour to the liberality of the benchers. The student who shall obtain the degree of A.B. will now be called to the bar without being compelled to attend the extra terms hitherto required of all w - ho had not graduated in the older universities. Certain other privileges have been asked from the bench era for the diploma of elementary law, and the degree of LL.B. Into the particulars of these demands I do not think it right to enter, because they are still under the consideration of the benchers, and because I have the fullest confidence that every privilege that justice can require will be ceded by ghat learned body. I hope, however, it will not be con sidered improper to observe, that the Queen's Col leges have peculiar claims to the favourable consi deration of the heads of the legal profession, as being the first collegiate institutions that have given to the science of law its due importance, and that by in troducing into its ordinary courses the study of its noble principles, as well as b y t h e creation of legal faculties, and the endowing them with scholarships, have endeavoured to promote the cultivation of legal knowledge. As regards the profession of solicitors, a recent act of the Legislature has conferred some very important advantages upon the students of the 01l een a CL.eges. First, by ext en di ng to the degrees of A Qu nd LLB. the aB. the same privileges which have hitherto been confined to the degrees of the Universities of Oxford, Cam bridge, and Dublin, students now obtaining these degrees being entitled to be sworn in as solicitors after three years' apprentict , ship, instead of five ; and next, by conferring on all matricul4ted or non-matriculdted students who shall attend the lectures of the professors of the faculty of law in the Queen's Colleges the pri vileges set out in the following clause MARY ZEBONE. James Cummins and William Cummins (brothers), both of them well known to the police as being most desperate characters, were placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with outrages of a very brutal description upon the police and other persons. The first named prisoner has for a long time been known by the appellation of the "Slasher," and has several times been punished far murderous assaults committed by him ; th e o th er h as a l so b een more than once in "trouble" fir offences of a like nature. Sergeant Bushell, 9I) whose eyes were shockingly bruised and swollen, deposed that on the same morning, at two o'clock, as he was on duty in Hare wood-square, he saw a woman leaning against the rails, and, on his as ki ng h er w h a t was th e matter with her, she told him that she felt ill. He advised her to make the best of her way home, which she said was near at hand, and at the same moment the pri soners made a remark to him the purport of which he did not understand, and he then went on towards Dorset-square, on the way to,which spot the prisoners rushed out upon him from a mews, and, seizing him, beat and kicked him most severely upon the face and different parts of his body ; the prisoner James Cummins also tore a quantity of hair from his (wit ness's) head. He (the sergeant) cried out " Murder" as loudly as he was able, and in a short time some constables and other persons came to his assistance ; had they not done so his life would probably have been sacrificed. 1 A great deal more evidence was gone into, from which it aineared that the prisoners had assaulted other police officers and two persons, who, hearing the cries of murder, went to Bu-bell's assistance. The pris()ners, who had no witnesses to spe4k in their belaal• i, said that they were improperly inter fered with : in the first instance by the sergeant, and illtreated b , r him. Mr. LON. 3 characterised the assaults as being of a most unprovoked and brutal nature, and therefore felt himself hound to inftct a severe punishment, which he hoped would be a salutary lesson to the prisoi,er s , with regard to their future, conduct. Each of !file prisoners was fined 203. or fourteen days' impr iaranment, in two cases, for attacks upon civilians a: A for assaults ppon the police. James 8, 1651. That every person who has matriculated, or as a non-matriculated student of one of the Queen's Col leges, sh.e,ll have attended, or shall attend, the pre scribed lectures, and shall have passed or shall pH the prescribed examinations of the professors of the faculty of law in any of the said Queen's Colleges for a period of two collegiate years, and who shall have duly served as an apprentice or clerk, by con tract in writing, duly stamped at or before the sign ing thereof, or within six months after, for the term of four years, in like manner as by the said herein before recited Acts is directed respecting the service for the term of five years, shall at any time after the expiration of five years from the commencement of such attendance on lectures, or of such period of service which shall first happen, be qualified to be sworn and to be admitted a. an attorney or solicitor respectively, according to the nature of his service, of the several and respective superior courts of law or equity in England or Ireland, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as any person having been bound and having served five years is qualified to be sworn and to be admitted or enrolled an attorney or solicitor, under or by virtue of an Act or:Acts now in force for the regulation of attorneys or solicitors in England or Ireland, anything in the said Acts or any of them to the contrary, in anywise notwithstanding." It will be seen from the reports of the professors that the students have been generally most assiduous in their attendance upon lectures, and that when they enter on their studies with a sufficient amount of preliminary learning, their progress has been only retarded by their endeavours to pursue at the same time too many branches of knowledge. It will be necessary to explain what has mainly given rise to this. In many instances young men are unable to meet the expense of residing near and attending the college unless they are sufficiently fortunate to obtain scholarships. The large majority of these endow ments are annexed to the faculty of arts, while there are comparatively few in the faculties of medicine and law, and in the schools of agriculture and engineering. Now, the students attending these professional and industrial departments are pre cisely those who, looking to the profession or em ployment they may adopt in after life for support, stand most in need of those aids in obtaining edu cation which scholarships afford. Accordingly many students enter the faculty of arts, gain scholarships therein, and thus deriving the necessary means for attending the college, endeavour to pursue, cotempo raneously with the studies required in arts, the courses of instruction given in other departments. Scholars in arts are constantly found attending medi cal, legal, or engineering lectures, but particularly the former. It would be unjust to prevent any stu dent from obtaining at once by increased labour the endowment which enables him to prosecute his colle giate career, and that particular species of knowledge which he may consider most useful to his future pro spects. But the pursuit of so many branches of know ledge serves, it is feared, to distract his attention, and to prevent his attaining that complete familiarity with the subjects of his duty which so effectually helps to sharpen and fortify the mind. Acting upon this belief, the college authorities have determined to recommend to the senate of the Queen's University that a modification be made in the courses of instruction in arts for such students of the faculty as may be in attendance at the same time upon the medical lectures, and that they may be thus enabled to carry on simultaneously their edu cation in both departments. They conceive that, by such an arrangement, many persons will obtain the means of pursuing their medical studies who would otherwise be precluded from doing so, while the stu dents of the medical faculty will be encouraged to cultivate, together with their professional pursuits, those branches of classical and general learning which every day's experience proves to be so essential to the medical practitioner. I have referred to the fact, that the scholarships in the faculty of arts are often sought for by students to enable them to attend lectur es i n o th er 'departments, and to the injurious effects likely to result from such a practice. The cause of thie I have already ex plained to be the difficulty which students find in meet ing the expenses of the college. This difficulty, I have little doubt, will form the only real obstacle to the speedy and entire success of the institution, and not any opposition arising from a misconception of its nature, which every hour must serve to dissipate. I am far from wishing to recommend that any of the scholarships at present annexed to the faculty of arts should be transferred to the other departments, be cause I believe it right to encourage the youth of the present day to a diligent cultivation of those great models of ancient literature, and those exact sciences, which form the best mental culture ; but I most re spectfully venture to submit that some means should be devised by which the cost of attending the college would be lessened, and the advantages it offers be thus more widely diffused. The fees pay able to the college, which at present constitute the sole means of defray ing its current expenses, add largely to the cost the student must encounter. To enable the authorities of the colleges to reduce these fees, by a grant for meeting this expenditure, would be an object worthy of the wise and benevo lent policy which, in other respects, has so nobly en dowed it. No educational institution that I know of is left without some provision for its maintenance. The establishment, too, of boarding-houses or halls under the control of the authorities, where the stu dents could reside at a fixed and moderate rate, would largely contribute to extend the benefits of the insti tution. If the college fees were reduced to the same moderate standard which prevails in the universities of Scotland, and boarding-houses or halls provided for the students—all of which could be done at an expense utterly insignificant as compared with the great end in view—the college would, I am persuaded, overcome every obstacle it may have to encounter, and would cast far and wide throughout the province those precious seeds of knowledge sure to yield at no distant period that abundant harvest which would repay with usurious interest whatever cost or care has been expended in its establishment. (Signed) EDWARD BERWICK, President. Queen's College, G-11wsy, ug. 5, 1851. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION -HOUSE Walter Whittaker was charged with having com mitted an assault upon a policeman with a tobacco pipe, and inflicting a most dangerous wound. It appeared that the policeman was called in by the landlady of a public-house called the Custom-house Stores, to remove the prisoner from the bar, on ac count of having used offensive language to her. He induced the prisoner to leave the house quietly, but after going a short distance be returned, and said he should go in again. The policeman told him he mu-t take the consequences it he went back. Upon this► he took a long pipe from his mouth, and thrust it into his face. On finding that blood began to flow, he went to Mr. Childs, surgeon to the police force. Mr. Childs said the pipe had made a most danger ous wound; it had penetrated the side of the face. With great difficulty he contrived to extract a piece of pipe about two inches long from the wound, it had forcibly perforated the bone, and was lodged in the cavity of the upper jaw. To do this great violence must have been used. He could not say what would be the effect of the wound, but the complainant would perhaps suffer more or less from it all his life. The prisoner was apprehended by another police man while running away. He said the landlady had given him a pinch of snuff, after which he became in • sensible and knew nothing of what had occurred. It was proved that he was not in liquor. The prisoner was committed for trial for having assaulted the policeman with intent to commit some bodily harm. Cummins was sent for three tric.riths to the Tiou i l , o Correction, being one month for ea ch of the t"t;j ta assaults. William Cummins Vias, in additi3 cats fines above stated, sentenced to two m onths' ive; tr ration, being one month each for the attacks salue him upon two officer. 4. - -- -. THE CO UN TRY MARKETS A,,f4.1 LIVERP,OL, SEPT. 6 —We are ve r y quiet N.. not touch passing in the trade. ar e ther (14 ; MANCHESTER, SEPT. 6.—Although the - ° do g pf;• ring the weak has for the most part been , it b 0 cloudy, with occasional slight showers of ra l 'il o perl' not on the whole been unfavourable for bsrf e c s i bis to' tions. The trade throughout the same patio !slier mained in much the same state as Dead in ° Li n d betty port, a moderate, but by no means brisk, dell' 6 4 , o eo o experit need for approved marks of fresh-made a ise od oatm,al, without varialion to prices. Celo tw 0 0 11 from Ireland the arrivals at Liverpool and Pro again o a limited amount, and those from aur:01: this week on a less extensive scale tha n we 116 0 1 eel% notice of late. At our market this m orning n ... red l' occurred in the value of wheat. Flour 113 3 , e ii0; slowly, but good qualities, whether En g lish o'o'oo maintained the currency of this day se'nnight. w o e Or oatmeal, continuing in moderate supplY , pox , ' d late rates. i w ell 16 ' NOTTINGHAM, SEPT. 6.—The market w° - A i n t O i l plO d with new wheat to-day, but notteitbstan,u_e're .0 sant pleb t ~010 large quantity well got, many of the poor condition, and sold very slowly. Th e be „ s tbellei of new and fine old were is per quarter log e ' 0 w' l week. Some samples of new barley wets 9 11( 4' 6 cil the quality was coarse and condition not go d i ot o 9 not hear of any sales being made. In W s, - iy peas no alteration. sie GLASGOW, SEPT. 4.—Owing to the large deb, were yery,o; ir cattle from Ireland this morning, sales effected. Best ox beef, 42s per -cwt; curreet;4o4 terior, 34s to 365. At the close a great olalin/dlOO out unsold. Although the number of sheep and we / was smaller than last week's market, Yet,' j peel I equal to the demand. Best aged svethers'i;mbs i middling quality, 4 to 43d; interior, 3 1' -- 2 • 0 : 4 dull in sale; best, 15s each; current, 105 t° - L I, il from 6s to ii.; a few lots of small inferior seci`ofe:'; 3s to 45. At the close a great many turned c in u e 0 1 '; DALKEITE, SUT. 4.—The relative of the three prices of wheat were 18st 71b, 18st 77 I w o ' we i g ht per,;,- s o ~, 01b. Oats, last :,Ib, 12st Sib, and 10 t 121 b.: Bar"'' 190' 1' 16st 01b, and 15st 21b. Peas s ' end 18st 131bs. 11 11°41 0 165 Wheat ... ...... Z 2 5 and E Cb 2 eu Qrs. Best. 16 602 Oats ... 14 4 12 0 1 14 0 164 Barley-- ...... 1 7 3 1 5 1 27 Peas and Beans 119 6 117 °,, ~ A Average of wheat ........... 385 31‘ 1 „,,' to 2 ) l' he ABERDEEN, SEPT. s.—Graia—Oats 2)9 eu th , o rlA l . l 401ba per bushel; foreign oats, 00s Od to 17s Od, 4 °'" 2 " , coi t i o 'fl barley, 23s Od to 24s Od, 521bs per bushel; he,',' g ; ° dl o ' l l;l Od, 521bs per bushel; wheat 00s to 425; oaten v l ° • otter" per boll; flour, 303 to 31s per sack. P , r° ,,,, 31 1 ° , c li „ tt4h ri3; anrres'lntl.oQet 8117' ioi 5 i LI Sct to 6d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 3d to 6a; 'n, Yi 5 4 ,0 t t a o l s lo d w ; , po p r e k r , - p s e t r on s e te , ne 3 , , 3 o s d 6d ta to 3 3 s s 9d 6d ; lamb , Pe r "" per r CII 6d to 8d ; rabbits, each, Od to ; Orlf 6tghtar°ee il l't 4 li to Os Od; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, Per' Od' b id' eggs, per doe, 8d to 10d ; cheese, per cwt, 181 t ie 'el dgeti:,lS pet pair, 2s Od to 2s 6d; chickens, ditto, is 6d to 2 ° c l3 '. e d ls 6d to 2s Od ; ducklings, ditto, 2s to 2i6d; tark e it, e r a ir . oi to Si Od; geese, ditto, 7s to 8s • butter for exporoll" &A t " cure), per cwt, 73s to 00s; eggs, wholesale rice, peek ie to bid ; 41b loaf, cash, 5d ; cer-easit,,6d;rk,PPer ,101/ Oa Od; e i D .1 ° O. tad to Os Od; poik fine, small, 5s 6d to — n„ 00 kid; 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 2 04 ''''A',i W ,',SJ dust, e ~! ; so Meal—Oatmeal, Is 8d to Is 9d; barley peasemeal, Is 10d to 2s Od • side, 7d to 8d; b ,,, er r. o le ci; to is 6d; flour, is 9d to Is 10 ' d; barley, per lb, lr " ' .0 1 ' flour, used to Is Bd. ~, lie re i/ P llO E DUBLIN, SEPT. s,—The supply of neW g•- t in no r, A . Every des ription met a steady demand °L, -- e aCer 4 ,o currencies of tS' ednesday last, but old, with te' - to A mad. milo" of feeding oats, continues without ee- - 0'o; corn scarcely saleable, and our quotationl, to ,', O , Wheat, white, 19s to 21s Od; red ditto, l' o "d i 0 . 0 ,1 bere, new 9s Od to lOs Od ; oats 14s Od to 153 d; e il e new, 9, Od to lls Od ; oatmeal', lis6d to 12" 4t, 25s ul, ti rt,op 2e7 Oil;s r cwt., rapeseed, Odsie d, to newl4s 0 1 .1 4 ; l o n d d i n o in o n : r o li c i I F 7 e - r l / 6°' s We have had anotChOerßwlieekol SEPT.u S I . I and iritielif sc e r lirSl; with scarcely any business passing ill either of grain. Indian corn, especially, owing • English of potatoes, is almost totally n e gt e f e te irt e :!ed advices continue to represent the e i '; arl ° il l quality.ehoem coming in foreign i n g T n i n h u i fi s a n h i :a l se theand condition, ffuetctd a ( ii,tfimdephoi checking trade materially. The supplies of grain °,, is i t y market increase daily. The oats arriving ere Of n o, that br ialc oor C o d condition, and of fine qualit The ( P i n r 1. ' wheat is also good, but it. condition is still risl-,:gtol The late dry weather, however, is producing 1113.- he ' I : e l, ment in this respect. The total producing , f° ; r t ill i/rt iti a t3h r , 2 e e 0 - wheat,- vsa o lb t uaerroeflsa. n yw l d , see description i vpbetai veryor t n e ls of ; grain, littleba r i n e e: h i : ti ; lig : : ::,.- i situis 031,.;021 wt w he h e i h c ma h roe a s t r h e arde 3 t d haui lt t o vceh 4 ra d yr al p ict e tt r el er. b d r o l Li ~ ie s , v e is st rn.d even hill eotrii: eg e k x i n t r g a oorpioe o rs iboofni ittio pt S 40 1 0 merits, by steamers, we have as yet no r lin 'id 6 1 'l3l oats. The flour market continues precioeVic to t o noticed, the purchases made being confined Ile'ke;rl,6.c'e I s paB3r u rse p tietst p qw l r y rueh7 o wtn f eoedr t g.k h l eienclngteodor;e ff still ttihiietheir . entirelyth engagements. Indian corn already 7 t : is o immediate stoc w k s a , n ab t s s e f o o f r the () :l yo b t.e i .i i . neTi s o4 l : oil prices are nomina ll y wheatwheat ...11465s 54 Red ist e 69dd to o to 1 1 6 8s s 0 6d d ° l°l7l-61191-leltidsB 67 Ditto les Od to 16s 6d 32 Ditto 42 Barley - 6°6 0 r l64° les 16 Bere 357 Oats 179 Ditto 51 Ditto Os 4d to lOs Od no Od P er 0 Pigs Oils Od to 0 0s Od --- 6 A V; Quantitywhite whseoaltd; 11 a tthe e d; HighestlB barleys Pric e 11 4 1- Z„ , _ ; 11 barrelss -, 0 pigs. i eel' o v Quantity of Grain and N um b er o f Pigs sold °l ' Wheat, 1,053. B ar l ey , 799, O a t s , 2,699. ' PRICES OF BUTTER. 61 1 CANT. cUnEENCY. ~ 0 ... First quality ... 76, First quality , •••••• •' ... 0 o p Second quality Third quality 7ls Third quality ••• .... e" di Fourth quality Sixth Fifth quality quality 58s Fifth quality ........... ..0 Return of Cattle sold for week ending I; 01' Coxx. Pigs, 301. Sheep, Co 's' 1 " 31 ' 330 - f ' s I A oe / —Hour—First lis 6d to 12s 6d; third/' - 6 : l' seconds, 10s Od to 1110 d; households 8i to 10s Oth '''W. - ed; ‘,,4";1 1 per cwt. Oatmeal 11 sto 00s lid; Indian . ea 1689010 ,i . - 00 l ' f 1 4 meal, Ps to 9.64 per cwt. Indian corn m 51 105 to „L to o ts. Bran 7080 d to 7.5 s per ton. Hay—Farmers 141 t _,FIP' A i; 0 ; dealers,33s to 00s Od; av e rs ;;eoosper ton. Stir ;ON ed . I 12s Od to 25s Od ; average 18s; dealers 28 4 t)u kid 4 °,A 0 average h 00, Od per ton. Bread—Whesten loaf 1•,...71/ w ousehold loaf 4id to 5d per 41b. Fresh b e a d , V - ,104 per lb. Eggs -4s 3d to 4s 4d per hutidr7., ' 1 :0 Newport 14s Od ; Lydney 155 • Landore °"'or I' o l 12s v 6d per ton. Tallow 38 ' s Od to _ 1 6 4 Ito isk y' 25 o. p. , 5s 9d per imps al g";,i 4 ", 11/ , _ _ . —Beef sid to 7d; mutton 5d to r 6id; / fel P e 'd Vo'psP°6lrklOs4dto O t7 oB od pe ; r b c a w c t o . n B 6d mag t h o r .7lciat•esslus,ap SIP r e ) 2 ..,,, 6d to 4,40 ni rr i, ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to Si Os • Valonia 1 51 t'''' ; er ' tilij ai 61 Os ; Spanish 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to ilo5:toPlo; tai Hemp 29/ t 032/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herring s 1 "" di_t ar to, et 2l:l l 6 s e s r— per iVi t e e r : e ; l ' dtd i s P , e t di oh tto, 26s to 006 per barrel ; Newfoundland , 10 ` °6 o , te ; 1, 611 :/ 3% j. to k 3i cl s pert 4 3 111 0... s p al o te ta d to 2 es 2s w to hite 3os 4 1 • _llO r us ton th ; red p p in e e; 31 0 () . 0, 11 2 00 1 00d to 00d. Guano-- Peruvian , 111105; laha b°e ' per ton. Tar—Archangel , 19s per barreL iPdertoOliii ; silliti:e; 10 , It c l a o p N tai T n H , MONTHLY 9 11/ th IL F I: tiAl,?Yqo.,/31T : i At ,li r n ts . ;;oo 9 ' . t ß e,.: , a j u a t t - e U n ol:)n E e n l g s t Majer-Generals—W. ltidd 11 E 1i.f1.9 L °. ' s , bis e' Mills leo L d l , P C u Majors —K • itson, ret. fp , 62c1Bath; -- 11/3, 7 50 - Pe3nYrithla; late Pe .1354evageVo-liii,:l';l.ll4l(jrs, ret. f. p., 13Th Vet. Be '" F., d k,to ' ,Loudon; Cra oc ~ fa Mil. Knight of Windsor.. o° Ca tam p a Gordon, 42d F., Cairo; jatnes'o,droby, Hyderabad; Mitchell, 84th F., TrichinopolY, `'"-- Pig - Liutenauts—Glasgow, 4th Dr. Gds•,Licaerick; 100 Ist Bat. Ist F., at sea, on age .hoine frolo jig' Sc,tia; Dawson, Ceylon Repassliong E:ohgi C o b P u woud, ret. f p., sth Vet. Big:, DOWIIie, b•P" 1304 pron, h.p., 15tti F.; ilsz.n, h.p.,.. 49 di F., Islel y ,g,l l3 ' witli; Phillips, b•P•I 570 F • Scott, h.p., 6th.0"0.04 Reg., Dublin; ' ' um L' lc Wallace,ce h.p., York Chasse Carnet—Watts, h, 2d 112 Dr. po lar , Surgeene—p - • ilktu tun h St a ff , Butll in; h.p., Staff. 8 ' .1 3 .. ..s,ifef ftoru - Lord Bagot's seat, Blithfield St a " . 0;40 has been the ecene of great festivities this weel 6 - sea " the arrival of the Hon William Bagot. 11 ." bride, daughter of Lady Dover, from their wedding BIRTHS. 0 i• F A S On the 4th inst., at O Salisbury,ON. t h e lady. of Tl 3OO el Grove, Esq., of Seagry-house, Wilts. of an heir. f WO On the 4th inse., at St. Helen's-place, the wife ° Solly, Esq., F.R.S. 0 OF A DAUGHTEX. : r. of O r. On the 2d inst., at Penbury, Kent, the 'ff.' ; lin idcljel44l Wall, Esq., of Tunbridge-wells. On the Ist inst., at Eastcote-house, Et" -- -' ,....__ _ .. / the wife of Francis 11. Deane, Esq. MARRIED. flerlr l , At Christchurch, by the Rev. Robert WalP°l9'dfttle.. t Singleton e H l o a o t p e e T r, of Hatcharn-house,rd. near St. Austell, Cornwall. A ... A d i e ;a ter of the late Samuel II u s r o r n ey o , f to On the 4tl inst., at Hampstead, Middlesex. Eti— r t ie,ih'' ' castle, Esq., of the Royal younger - the late Alfred Hard ,io6", ' ' s ß S N tep " he to ns A , nEnseqS.,°Pobf iLa'atallessat heath, and clat.e, jut?" Sir .i/illiani }:' _step-daughter of Captain Priscilla BEusstonoieb,ldae3mtp-rsftre,lu, e, J °l' ol Navy. On the 4th inst., at Trinity Church, - St. Dj a ryleb oll . 4 4., , Henderson, Esq., eldest son of J. P. Henderson, f", ol , o ge j lancliester-square, to Ann Mary C. Cookson, f-lipeov d Aughter of tilt , late Dr. William Cookson, DIX' , ° ti s e d DIED. c 0' On the Ist inst., at Thames Villa , Kingston, Surre y ' cosli 63, John Young, eldest soil of the late J. y o ung' 4:11 ibe house, Newport, Isle of Wight. ifred s ' ` On the 4th inst., at Woolwich , Cordelia Win t , Ap pel wife of Captain the Hon. Montagu Stop for L ieutend, 11.a"nt- At Ramsgate, on the 3d inst., aged 78, Turtliff Boger, KAI., late of the Royal Artillery..strestlig°l On the -4th inst.. W:lliam Stericker, Epq. , 0 and FPncluirch-st Yee% a , ert .54. ~„ Of „ 1 ,I.IP -- ijYr Lvudou : Priotat auu Put)listieu by Al L -h ",p6 - , a : S 4 h t e Of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The So' ~.'7l ; - , " 01 041 Strand, in the Precinet of the SavoV , w - laiddleaes, bioaday, septewpor OW. minn 1 4 11 Re all& Anti Lag a TG " Gi 411thet e o elk.% . e" t I'd tt h4 Z 1: 11 Li Of t k 4 be' i ' 4 ° Da sold ;:iltti /1 14) G3 00 4 , tiet re 114.u tt:t O b t aw YLi ck a (1.4 p. kqte, th e tei v ma, TI JOUr the nigh toad ela is Foike Ciil uerna er nata nt Pun Co 11 11 A rla: tit%