The Press.
London, England, 1853-08-06 00:00:00

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IT is now confidently stated the Queen's visit to
Dublin will take place on Monday, the 29th instant,
and that her Majesty will remain during the entire
of that week. The committee of the Exhibition are
making preparations to give her Majesty a suitable
reception.
Da. WHATELEY, Archbishop of Dublin, is engaged
in preparing a statement, to be submitted to his
clergy, containing a detailed account of the circum-
stances connected with his withdrawal from the
National Board of Education, of which he had been
a commissioner since the establishment of the board
in 11+33. It is rumoured that Dr. Higgin, Bishop of
Limerick, is to be appointed commissioner in the
room of the archbishop.
THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF THE ENCUMBERED
ESTATES COVET, Baron Richards, has, by the advice
of his physician, left Ireland for a visit to the Py-
renees. The laborious duties of his court have
made serious inroads on the learned baron's consti-
tution.

AUGUST 6, 1853.

ANOTHER SYNOD AT THURLES is announced by the
Tipperary Free Preu, a high Roman Catholic au-
thority
"In compliance with the instructions of the Most Rey. Dr.
Cullen, delegate of the Holy See, a provincial Synod, under the
presidency of the Most Rev. Dr. Slattery, of Cashel, will be held
at Thurles in the ensuing month. The preliminaries have not
been u yet finally arranged, but in all probability the sittings of
the Synod will eonanence about the Ist of September."
Two LONDON MISSIONARIES, the Rev. Messrs.
Dickinson and Lewis, attempted to read and expound
the Scriptures to a crowd in Limerick on Sunday
evening. After a few minutes a mob collected and
set upon the reverend gentlemen, who were severely
maltreated. It is computed that 10,000 of the canaille
of Limerick were engaged in hooting, yelling, and
pelting stones, where they could with safety to them-
selves, at the obnoxious clergymen. The next
morning (Monday) a man and woman were brought
before the magistrates of police, charged with as-
saulting the Rev. Mr. Lewis.
THE GRAND JURY have found a true bill against
Mr. George Birch, " one of the attorneys," for the
embezzlement of 35,0001., the property of Mrs.
Sarah Kelly, of •• great will case" notoriety. The
trial was to commence on Thursday.
IN CORK, Col. Chatterton again comes forward as
a candidate, and has already issued his address to
the electors. Mr. Francis Bernard Beamish opposes
on the Liberal interest.

IT seems that no less than three petitions have
proceeded from the electors of Sligo—two against the
return of Mr. John Sadleir, and the third against
Mr. John Patrick Somers, who stands arraigned for
malpractices in his last effort to regain his lost seat.
THE EXODUS has recommenced with great vigour,
although on the eve of harvest, when employment at
good wages can be obtained in all parts of the
country. Many of the emigrants are now proceeding
to Canada, where labourers are in great request for
the railways.

THE LONG, CONTINUANCE OF RAIN has caused some
uneasiness about the cereal crops, and farmers are
becoming apprehensive that the excess of moisture
might produce a revival of the potato disease. Up
to this time, however, no material injury has been
done to any crop, and potatoes, with some very few
exceptions, are still free from the blight,. The agri-
cultural reports from all quarters contain most en-
couraging accounts of the prospects of the harvest.
A PETITION from tne Protestant patrons and friends
of the National system of Education, which is in-
tended for presentation to both Houses of Parliament,
is now in course of signature in Dublin. The peti-
tioners say that they are

" the patrons or managers of national schools, or friends
of the national system of education in Ireland, having been
invited to become such, and as such to submit to, or ap-
prove of, the regulations prescribed by the Commissioners
of Education, on the faith of the body agreeing themselves
to be bound by the same, and otherwise to observe, in
their spirit, the provisions of their charter, contained in
Mr. Stanley's well-known letter, as finally settled and sent
to the Duke of Leinster.

" That, although Mr. Stanley in the first draught of that
letter proposed his plan as one for' combined literary and
separate religious instruction,' each branch altogether to ex-
clude the other, the members of the then intended board
objected to a scheme which should exclude all religious
teaching from the combined instruction ; and, accordingly,
after mature deliberation, the draught letter was amended,
by describing the projected plan as one for combined
moral and literary and separate religious instruction,' with
the following important explanation annexed:—' It is not
designed to exclude from the list of hooks for the coni-
billed instruction such portions of sacred history or of
religious or moral teaching as may be approved by the
board.,

" That your petitioners, therefore, submit that, of all the
provisions of their commission, the provision just mentioned
as having been gravely suggested and solicited is the last
that either the original or succeeding commissioners can
be allowed to infringe, endanger, or neglect.
" That the board, having entered on the discharge of
their duties, proceeded from time to time to publish and
recommend certain books for the combined instruction in
national schools—namely, some books of lessons on general
subjects, but interspersed with much moral and religious
teaching; some scripture lessons; also a work, entitled
Lessons on the Truth of Christianity;' and, finally, for
the same purpose, they placed on their list of ' books
sanctioned, but not published,' a book entitled Intro-
ductory Lessons on Christian Evidences.'
" That your petitioners have now to complain that the
board, by a recent decision of a majority of their body, have
resolved to exclude from their list the two last-mentioned
books, and have further virtually deprived the children
desirous to read the ' Scripture Lessons ' of all power to
read the same, except out of their school hours, when it
will, probably, be inconvenient, if not impossible, for those
children to attend.

" That in the language of the commissioners themselves
in their fourth report, 'to limit in this way the time for
such instruction, tends to discourage it altogether.'
" 'f hat the commissioners, unless prevented, may thus
proceed to further breaches of their trust, and go on to es•
chide from the combined instruction, one after another,
books and portions of religious and moral teaching, so as
utterly to destroy the spirit of that system which they are
bound to preserve and administer, by reducing the com-
bined instruction to a strictly secular character, essentially
different from that which your petitioners were invited and
engaged to support.