The Press.
London, England, 1854-01-28 00:00:00

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THE LORD LIEUTENANT held his Int Leyte for the
season on Wednesday at Dublin Cantle.
THE INAUGURAL BANQUET of the Lord Mayor of
Dublin took place on Tuesday evening at the Man-
sion-have, and passed off with great brilliancy and
echit. His Excellency the Lord lieutenant and up-
wards of 500 noblemen and gentlemen honoured the
Lord Mayo► with their company.
THE statement respecting the serlons indisposition
of the Marquis of Londonderry is eontradieted. His
lordship enjoys excellent health.
THE BIGHT HON. T. B. SMYTH, Master of the
Rolls, has resigned his seat as one of the senate of
the Queen's eniversity in Ireland. No reason is
assigned for this step.
THE Evening Mail mentions a rumour that the seat
at the Treasury vacated by Mr. John Sadleir has been
disposed of to Mr. Chichester Fortescue. It Is added
that the hon. gentleman has been appointed for the
last fortnight, but that the official notification will
not be made until the meeting of Parliament, when
the new writ for Louth will be moved for.
Is THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES COVET, Mr. 1.
Sedleir, M.P., is ordered to pay in 10,000/. by the
end of this month, 10,0001. in February, 10,0001.
in March, 10,000 L in April, and the balance in May,
for that portion of the Caber estates he purchased
last November. . ,

ON Saturday the schooner Catlieria‘ Corrigan,
from Cardiff, bound for Cork, was cast on shore near
Tyrella watchhouse, Bay of Dundrum, during a
severe gals. When boarded, her papers were found
all safe in the cabin, with the log made up to the
previous Wednesday. It is supposed the crew had
taken to the boat previous to the vessel stranding,
as the boat came on shore at half a mile distantfrom
the vessel, and there is no hope but that all hands
have perished. The sehooner was very little
damaged.
THE LONG NEGLECTED FISHERIES OF THE WEST OF
TREIAND are in a fair way of being rendered availa-
ble. Captain Symonds, R.N., has been recently at
Clifden and Westport, for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the mist proper place of fixing a fishing station,
and it is rumoured that Clew Bay was considered most
eligible. It is said that two large strew steamers ors
on the stocks, being eonstrtteted so as to carry in
wells the fish alive to market, and, at the same time,
take cattle, corn, butter, or any goods that may offer
to Liverpool.
THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH CogrAwit are laying
down a series of wives between Limerick and Water-
ford, and the main line from Cork to Dublin, with
arrangements for also extending electric communioa-
tion to Crookbavep. By this means all vessels sight-
ing Cape Clear will be telegraphed to Leaden within
the hour.

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Tim lanzaarios or Cowmen during the year Ls, the
first in which ths tickets of leave were granted to
prisoners serving in the hulks and convict stations In this
comity, emaprised eigiety-ome persons wkw were permitted
to return to their native places or each other localities
where they were most likely to obtain employment and
asseeissing with their emapaniens. The
new act has only been is operation fur a few months
during the past year, and the result of the experiment
eannot as yet be *moldered folly tested. Formerly it mu
found dilficult to give employment to the *menus, as the
dockyards and arsenals were deemed the only places In
which they conld he employed with admmisge, when
pieced miler a military &era, is addition to their meal
convict-keepers. The means of profitably emplo lug oon.
"lets is now different, ss the requarement of ant imtseass
quantity of cosia for the eteeme-ehipe of the Royal Navy
has opened up a field for their labour in mid-mines,
which the therernment, it is suggested, might net to lase
sight of.

Sitst.t. DEctatrty-uctt.r Housata, aiming within the
range of a clerk's or meebanic's income, and let for 1:51. or
IRI. a year, that is to ay, st ths a amok, ars man •
putatively scarce and highly prised is London. "loch
tenements," says our contemporary the Burlier. " rarely
remain vacant. Pontoon may go over 'many otavieks is the
kkwough and other panda, whore this class of houses are
built and not see a single one in good repair to let. The
people, in tee marry iwotamees, areamoyel with bed &sings
and mospoola,ltat, on temphint lasing motet* the lanileads,
they are generally told, 'lf you do nut like it you can
leave ; I can get plenty of tenants' A clerk or imechinate,
with • family, mad as inseams et shoat sOs. a week, aan
scarcely sand to pay tic. a week for house-rent; yet what
is he to do, if be with to keep himself in respectable privacy ?
There is no altemative but to hire part of a home let to
others, a must osconakirtable and generally boil arrange.
went. To those who are poorer, the difficulty of obtaining
proper house accommodation is still greater, and the profit
to the landlord wr agent proportionably higher. As we
descend in the scale of respectability and amount of pro-
perty possessed by persons, the sum paid for inferior
homes is proportionally increased ; tie. &Lind 4a. dd., sod
ewes more, is paid fur a single count unfit for Yuman habi-
tation. The first great means of naming the poorest classes
is to reform their ivrellinge, to provide places wholesome
and well ordered, at tests which they ma afford today.
Dwellings of this desorption, extensively carried out in a
pruper method and well eanstructed, would be attended
with great benefit. and, moreover, would pay wet"
A Larrra hum Palace tiortselialtoif to a Itsasian of
distinction in Paris was read lately in a fusionist sub's, in
which he seems to intimate the expectation of obtaining
some great success befuse long. " I have hitherto," lie
says, "Ind to contend against snow and wad. Whet the
ground shall have been pro rlv cleared away, you will see
that I shall make a arc effort."

Lennon. wending to the birreftsw, eoniAilill 2.M)()
bakers, Wel laittormea and ebeenanoniters, 1,700 butchers,
3,000 grocers and tetidealers, 1000 eatablialted dairykeepri-14,
100 fralen ongeta, 1,000 greettgmesm and finiterem,. The
total somber of 4024140141 is pawn/Mona and unstimulating
liipton is 10.790 : whilst that of the licensed public-horses
alone exceeds ilMn.
THE tisorsr have lately been eompelled by abeer wan
of susteaance to abandon the moors in the neighbourhood
of Castleside, and resort inland, and great destruction has
been caused among them by the ideenie telegraph wires
en the fltanhope wad Tyne Railway. For several tia3s
large numbers bare been found killed on that line, as many
SS nine having been picked up at one pistil., some with
Their 'tinge and ethers with then- heads eat oft by the
wires.
Is is noticed that none of the Legitimist journals in
France have this year trdten any notice of the 21st a 'arm-
, the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI.
Heretofore they have all exhibited some memory of the
day—the Qatotilieene by a black margin to its page!, and
other paten by semi regretful psragnsphs. 1 bav un-
wonted silence at the present time is attributed to a 00
wilre bent forth by the leaders of that party who partici.
pated in the fasten, and are tmwilling to run the risk of
annoying the Oriesnine by • ig to put forsard too
prominently the martyrdom o the Xing by divine right.
THE Berlin Zeit informs its readers that. in a new bill
about ts be brought in by the Minister of Commerce, for
the protection Mande mark& stantja will he 00/ailed
which contain any puff or recommendation of the goods,
such as, for instanee, patent," " wasmited," " very list."

Tne Neribtryil el at. Petersham, posidished es the
14th inst., cattalos a piece of uses from M. Th. Winks,
of the kind taro in Gainsay io 1813. " Hurrah ! " K says,
" Hurrah ! Forward against three enemies at onee! It
is not without good reason that our bayowets are theme.
sided. Harrah ! Rae% is ear ery ha the Ceacsans, end
sack shall be our cry hi Mame I ' Thereat then makes
a pompous eulogiuni of the generous conduct of the
Russians in 15511, in " bringing peace and the white flag
back to France." The piece of verse goes on to say,
" What! is it to re peiese ear aerviees and ewer Mead-
ship, that yea, F English, he.. east mile the
symbol of the trim lath, to support the Keno—that you
have become reamailes to Christianity, and entered the
service oldie Turks? What will history say, in Woe* to
come, on learning your Impious alliance—on seeing it
stated, in burning letters, that the Englishmen hes turned
Turk, and that the Premiums hem basked Moo, by be-
mating so likewise? Bat. be ears of this, that all your
groveliing issingisa and all year basso oats are but crkr
neap and vanity ! For you will never succeed in nuking
lay impression on Russia, acting, as she always dere, w
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our Saviour, and in His Name !"

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