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

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TM: IZI'sSIAN FRIIIiATE I'ors•mourii Dociamin.—
The Russian frigate .Ibpapr (.amen) has completed hrr
new main and false keel, which it of elm, and only requires
eoppering. She has been also well caulked and several
new planks put in, being now 14 better ship than she ever
was before.

IT is ►sported that a number of men well acquainted
with their duties will be selected from► each of the four di-
visiona of Royal Marines, to proceed to Malta, where they
will be formed into a battalion fin• r.e►riee there.

rAPPOINTNIENTs AND PitomoTioNs.
ArroiN TM Es V.

I .6.111 et unit s—Etlu ant Wilmot ( INM ), to the Eyeelictif ; Thonus
M. F. 110m1 (1543), to the KO,Oll tieerfle•
Mast ers—dlimieh It. Tucker (lea)), to the command of the Tyne;
Pelee Welliiigtou (Is III), to the Victory.
Masters' .Is,sistatits-11. 11. I'. Quinn and Samuel M. Spry, to
the Scospion.
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Nlates—Speiwer I'. Brett (1t4.51), to the Doke of IPliisapton ;
am Willi' ONlrington (INia:1), to the R.rerlient : Cecil W. Buckley
(1,431), Arthur H. Wright (1a52), theory 0. Grant (t 58). atoll
'Behar.' .%.latteis (ISA), to the Royal George : N. J. Murphy It4o,
to the I ',Mare ; l'. E. S. Woodman (1a41), Allred Ilnamillead 1852).
and .I.,liii It. Mitchell (1,4:0), to the i'rineem Boma; t' iarleb
smith, rearinoilatt.4l t.. the Howse; M. Ilaiikinami (10‘;',3), to the
',operate; William It. Pauli (1,442), to the Rifleman; Thomai F.
Stadler', to the l'riNer Rep. Nt : Arthur 1.. thilbraith, to the Arr. •
;rail: Johli 11. Creagli (larr."), to the st. Jean d.lere ; William F'
I lolloek, reappointed to the stronitadi; Edward U. Richards , to
the
.3fogicienne. _ . .. . . .. . . . .

. —.l. 1.. I'ea►wn, t the l'siceees Ray/d.

AN INuENlOl's METlitm uF 1.01.171, ‘I,
heels diseovered in Paris, by which several thousand copies
of a work, entitled " L'Almanach des opprimes," hart.
been circulated in the capital and other parts of France.
The author is M. Hyppolite Mogen, a French refugee.
formerly member of the I iemocratic Socialist con 111 l ittee
for the department of the Seine, and author of a history
of the &dal of I '2. This alinanack, which is
drawn up in terms of extreme violence, contains extracts
front the most furious pimiphlets published in foreign
countries against the Emperor of the French. Even the
Empress is nuit spared in this work, which arrest): dic-
tated by gall and vengeance. The almanack was in-lilted
at Brussels. and the Mithirt• got at the same • • Sollle
ilmilstilids of small plaster casts made of the Emperor nuol
Empress. which were packed up in eases to he sold in
France. The eustomhouse officers. seeing that the like.
messes of both their Majesties were excellent, admitted the
cases without hesitation. Hut inside each bust a hollow
had been left. Mid in it was placed a copy of the alutanack,
closely folded up. The Republican patty, being privately
made aware of what the busts contained, bonght the m
most readily—in some eases to the great astonishment of
the police, who were in surveillance of their actions.
When at last the real secret of the busts and of their peat
attraction beettme kintwit to the authorities. it an. t,w, 13t0
to remedy the mil.

In consequence of the high price of pro% tlw
director% of the Northern I:ai'way of Fronce hove
decided on adding, until further orders,ten per ewat. to the
salaries of their oarleyie !lOW Ili" IN.VVIVO 1,'44.100f. a Sexy
and tinder.

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 took occasion 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