The Press.
London, England, 1853-08-13 00:00:00

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AN ANNOrNCENENT of quasi-official character states
that the date and duration of the Royal visit to Dub-
lin are now settled. According to this authority the
Queen will leave for Dublin on the 27th inst., and will
remain in that metropolis six days, dur.ng whirh a
drawing room, or Court reception, will, it is under-
stood, be held in the castle. On leaving Ireland her
Majesty will return direct to Liverpool, traversing
the London and North-Western Railway to Preston,
and thence by the Lancaster and Carlisle and Cale-
donian lines to Edinburgh, en route for the Ro3sl
residence in the Highlands.
TIM Bishop of Limerick (Dr. Higgins), the Right
Hon. John Hatehell, and Dr. Longtield, are the new
Commissioners of National Education.

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Tux Axxo.u. CATTLE &sow of the Royal Agricul-
tural improvement Society commenced on Wednes-
day at Killarney. The Lord Lieutenant. accompa-
nied by the Countess of St. Germans and suite, arrived
at Killarney at seven o'clock on Tuesday evening.
Their excellencies proceeded to the seat of H. A.
Herbert, Esq., 111.1'., at Muckmss, where they sojourn
during their stay. The stock exhibited is described
to be of high quality, but, in point of quantity, the
number falls short of former exhibition*.
COLONEL. CHATTEETON, accompanied by Mrs. Chat-
terton, has arrived in Cork to canvass the electors.
The election is expected to take place about the mid
dle of next week. The contest wid lie between the
gallant colonel and Mr. &mulish. Mr. Commissioner
Murphy has published a farewell address to his late
constituents.

IT Is tfrAran that one of the principal (Neat. of
the Roman Catholic Synod of the ecclesiastic it pro-
vince of Cashel, which is to be held at the College
of Thurles on the Ist of September, is to consider
the subject of national education, especially as re.
garde model schools. The controversy about tie
recent proceedings of the National Board is still
kept up in the newspapers, by dignitaries of the
Established Church and others.
Cosviers BRENN AND HoDOINS WF.RK EKF:-
evrta) at Monaghan on Monday, pursuant to their
sentences, for conspiring, with other members of the
murderous Ribbon fraternity, to kill Mr. liateson and
Mr. *Arlie.
°WINO to the tranquillity which generally prevails
over the country, the Lord Lieutenant has agreed to
the prayer of a memorial forwarded by the magis-
trates of Kilkenny, praying for the reduction of an
extra police forte which has been stationed in that
county since the " troubles "of 1818. A saving of
500/. per annum will be effected in the local taxa-
tion by this measure.
THE Loan LIEUTENANT has transmitted to the
secretary of the Claddagh Relief Fund a further sum
of 101., tor the p of procuring additional trawls
for such of theui rle:tl3dagli men as are inclined to
avail themselves of this profitable mode of fishing.
THE EXODUO continues, considerable numbers of
the peasantry departing tor America, from whence
remittances of money arc received by every mail.
Vast numbers of the labouring classes are also passing
over to England, many of them to work at the har
vest, but a considerable proportion intending to
settle permanently in the great tnanufactunng towns,
where they calculate upon obtaining ready employ-
ment at good wages.
THE MAYOR OF LIMERICK has received a letter
from the Colonial Emigration-office authorising him
to select fifty eligible persons from this district
(young married couples, with one or two children I,
for free emigration to Portland Bay, on the 20th
instant.
THERE are very cheering accounts from the coun-
try this week. The splendid weather enjoyed for
some time past has effected wonders in the appear-
ance of the crops.
A HORRIBLE MURDER has been committed at
Ballymena. Samuel a weaver, from Kul's,
hilt his home on Monday for the purpose of selling
his loom in Ballymena, and was seen in that town
the same evening iu a state of intoxication. He was
found next morning on the Antrim-road, near the
railway station, in a state of nakedness, brutally mur-
dered, his throat having been out, and his body other-
, wise maltreated. Two persons were found under
suspicious circumstances lying in an adjoining field,
and were at once arrested.

Considerable interest had been occasioned at New York
by the arrival of a British ship from Liverpool, having un
hoard fifty head of Durham cattle, a celebrated Cleveland
bay horse, a Neapolitan sow, and it tine litter of pigs.
Some of the oattle were from the stook of Lord Fevershani.
One bull and heifer cost CO guineas. A portion of the
stock was intended fur Mr. R. Atchison, one of the most
wealthy landowners of Kentucky, and the remainder be-
longed to a company of fencers in the InAIWA'S of Fayette,
Bourkein, and Vioodford, in that state.
Upon parliamentary and legal expenses during the past
half year the North-Western Railway Company have
burned nearly 15,000/, which is charged in th .ir balance-
sheet against current revenue. The amount debited wider
the same heads for the December six months of last year
was upwards of 25,0001., so that the company have, for the
last twelve months, placed 40,000/. against revenue for law
and parliamentary expense*.
A fine chimpanzee has been brought home in the
Bloodhound, Lieutenant Commander t liristian, just re-
turned from Berence on the west coast of Africa. 1804. has
already beau ofii•rtal for the animal. Although a young
male, being only about three years old, it has the appear-
ance of a very old man. It is affectionate and very good
tempered, romps and amuses itself with the sailors, and
sits down and sups its cocoa with a spoon as methodically
as any of them. It is a very good specimen of the higher
class of the monkey tribe. It has nu tell, and its feet are
well formed, with the exception that the place of the grist
toe is occupied by a thumb, for the purpose of enabling it
to hold on securely when
Gold has been found in Oregon, on the Santiam river,
and there %Vivi considerable excitement in I'ortland with
regard to it.