The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(nom 008 OWX —OOIII.OP3NLIN T. )

DUBLIN, Aram 20.
The Dai/y Eris ess of to-day contradicts officially
a rumour publish, d by the Brining Mail, to the
effect that Lord Carlisle was not about to return to
this oouutry as iceroy. The contradiction was
scarcely neoessat7. No one believed the rumour.
It is perfectly well known that Lord Carlisle is
supremely happy in his office. He has made him-
self, personally, a favourite with all classes of Irish-

'Heil by hie unvarying courtesy and good nature.
The only possible objection to him u a governor is
his policy. In this respect he has been a shining
addition to the rather long list of "our
failures." The faction to which, in a reck-
less spirit of conziliation, he has sacrificed so
much, seems only to have become exasperated by
all the good thhls it has swallowed. The Tories
have been furnished with an undeniable grievance
which has rendered them more active and united
than ever. The only party which has not strength-
ened its position, or marshalled its forces to better
advantage during Lord Carlisle's protracted regime,
is the liberal party per et simpk. Lord Carlisle
and his advisers have succeeded, no doubt, in ap-
peasing the mutual hostility of our two most violent
[actions. The tory-ultramontane alliance is an
accomplished fact ; but it is an "offensive" alliance,
and Lord Carlisle himself is its object. The liberal
party in Ireland has never been less powerful
or well-organised than it is now. If you need evidence
look over the list of our hundred and five repres
sentatives.ts-Scarcely the "odd five" deserve the
name liberal. Tins is a beggarly account after such
a succession of so-called liberal administrations ;
and it behoves the party of progress on your side of
the channel to investigate carefully the causes
which have made Ireland a log about their neck.
To change a painful subject, let me say a wonl on
behalf of a little institution here which lifts nothing
to recommend it but its bumble prac-
tical utility. The Irish Academy of Music
(founded some few years ago) aims at
opening up a profitable but long neglected avenue
to employment by placing a sound musical educa-
tion within the reach of the poorer classes. Your
Loudon Academy of Music is, it seems, to receive a
giant this year of some 5001., and it was hoped that
a similar bounty, though of course to a much
smaller amount, would have been exteuded to us.
The application, however, Las been met by s very
polite refusal, which I cannot but consider both
impolitic and ill-timed.

A SaI►xyBPEARE MEDAL. —Malin. Hunt and
Baikal!, the well-known jewsillenaadsilvenmitbs, have bad
a large medal struck to commemorate the celebration of t:s
tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth. It is designed be Mr.
John Bell, the sculptor, and the die Las been engraved by
Mr. L. C. Wpm, the medalist to the Royal Mint. It is •
handsome looking medal. ►aving on the obverse a ',mall
profile bust of the poet, surrounded by the names of
all his works, arracged in what the artist is pleased
to call a glory of his works, that is to say,
the names of the plays simply radiate from the
I centre of the medal towards the rim. The effect of this is
not bad, although the device is not strikingly ornamental.
As to the likeness to the great original, we can only say
that it 'Jae much like him as any of these productions, and
still more like the he►l of the statics which Mr. Bell de-
sigeed. The reverse bears • subject representing Shakes-
peare seated crowned be the present century, personated by
a semi-angelic personage in long drapery, while other two
centuries, baring deposited their wreaths upon his knees,
are floating away, se they look back fondly torrents the
object of their worship. Below is • wreath of the dowers
mentioned by the poet in his writings. A medal is • most
appropriate mark of an event, as being less liable to decay
and injury. This e•e may be acceptable whim a better is
not to be

STRATFORD-ON-AVON SHARD:FRAME Thai ESTE-
! FART FESTIVAL—The prat Pavilion will be fully completed
and oat of the decorator's hoods m a few hours. The Exhi-
, bitiau of Watts of Art has received two valuable acquisi-
Lions in the shape of paintings—me of J. P. Kimble in
the character, of Runlet, from her Majesty the Queen ;
and another of Charles Young, in the same character, from
the South lieosingt-o Gallery; and the whole coll.ction
' contains genie from t'Le canal's of the leading private col-
lectors in the country. Very few banquet tickets remain
unsold, and those for the MeasiaA, and the dramatic per-
formances, are in rapid demand. The whole aspect
of affairs indicates a highly successful festival in
every department of the labours of the committee.
The railway arrangements from London to Stratford by the
Great Western line are in every way complete. Special
trains will run as follows :—On Saturday the 23rd, from
Paddington at 9.25 a.m., reaching Stratford at 12.40, or at
12 from London, due at Stratford at 3.50, nearly one hoar
after the banquet (the great inaugural event of the festival)
has commenced. On Monday the trains from Paddington
run at 6.30, 12. sad 1.30, arriving at Stratford, 10, 3.50, and
'5. Up trains to Loadoe, Lc., at 4.10 and 1230
(night) ; arrivals in London, 7.40 and 4 (mot nog). On Tues-
day, Wednesday, and Thursday, April 36th, 27th, and :Nth,
massagers may leave Paddington at 12 (noon) and I.3o(after.
moon), and return from Stratford at 12.30 (midaight), reach-
lug town at 4 in the morning. On Friday, the 29th, there will
be two service,, one at 12 (sous), and the other at 1.30
(afternoon), from Paddington, arriving at Stratford at 3.b0
and 5. No return trains except by the ordinary one,
leaving Stratford at 710 p.m. On Saturday, the 30th,
there are no special trains from London, but the ordinary
coos at 6 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 12 (nom). and 2 p.m. ; and from
Stratford as early as 4 in the morning, to convey runt.",
from the Lusty ball on the Friday evening. thus enabling
Loodonets to psrttcipate in the gaieties of that assembly
and reach Paddington at 7.30 the next morning (Saturday).
COFRT OF COMMON COUNCIL—A Court of Cool-
- Council was held meterds at Guildhall ; the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor p The Rernembrucer re-
ported that a bill was before parliament affecting the ern-
servancy of the river Thames, and the privileges of the
' corporation which be proposed to refer to the City Lands
Committee. Alderman Rose, IL P., conaklered the proposed
bill was moot dasgerous in its character, and be movedthat
a copy of it be sent to every member of the court, in order
that they might hare an opportunity of cemeideriog its pro-
visions and deciding what steps should be take, in the
matter. Mr. Thorp, the deputy chairman of the board of
conservancy of the corporation, seconded the motion, which
was agreed to. Mr. Lawley brought forward • motion
" That this corporation, highly appreciating the municipal
institutions which it has enjoyed for so many centuries, and
believing that the time has arrived when the privileges of
self-government should be extended to those portions of the
metropolis not yet entreated with the ameagement of their
own load affairs, and desiring to aid in the accomplishment of
that result, is prepared to contribute the sum of 5,0001. as
the nucleus of a borough fond to each of the parliamentary
boroughs of Southwark. Westminster, Marylebone. Lam-
beth, -Finsbury, and tie Tower Hamlets, to be paid to
them when those boroughs shall have obtained their barters
of incorporation under the provisions of the Municipal Cor-
porations Act, the sth and 6th Wm. IV., c. 76." This ques-
tion wu discussed etconsiderable length, bat ultimately the
motion's, withdrawn. A report was brought up from the
Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee in the reference of the
19th November last, on the petition of the ratepayers of the
Ward of Bisbopegate frr an inquiry into the best means to
be adopted for securing the economic and profitable utiliza-
tion of the metropolitan sewage with a view to the reduc-
tion of the local taxation. The report stated that having
made every investigation the committee were of opinion
that it was a very important matter, and although they
could not recommend any particular scheme they worn-
, weeded the representatives of the corporation at the
Metropolitan Board of Works should be requested to use
their best endeavoais to promote moth a plea as in their
opinion might appear best for securing tie desired end, and
they also recommended that a petition should be presented
to the Home of Consumes, before whom it appears the
question is shortly to be brought, for their moisten°, in pro-
moting such a plea. The report was agreed to, and a draft
of • petition ordered to he drawn according to the term of
the report. The court then adjourned.
CONVOCATION. —Yesterday morning the Upper
House of Convocation aseemblad at Queen Anne's Bousty-
office, Westminster, the Archbishop of Canterbury in the
gair. The Bishop of St. David's renewed the debate on
the Bishop of Oxford's motion for appointing • committee
to ;omits into the desirableness of proceeding to • synodal
judgment on the book called " Boom and Reviews." His
lordship opposed the motios, and was followed by the
Bishop of Loadoe, who fdefesded the declaim of the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (of which he is a
member), and severely denounced the conduct of those
who by siltation were keeping alive religions bitterness..s
in the church. Several other bishops followed, and the
discussion was kept up with great briskness for five hosts.
On a division the Bishops of Oxford, Llaedaff, Salisbury,
Glousester, and Bangor voted for the motion ; roman it,
the !hoboes of Loney', St. David's, Lichaeld. Linoo/r, and
Ely. The number being equal, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury gave his casting vote in tamer of the motion, and a
committee, consioting of the whoie of the bishops of the
province of Canterbury WAS appointed to examine the hook
and draw up a report upon it, with • view, if desirable, to
a sr oodal judgment.
EM RATION To Qr RENSLAN D.—The ship Fusilier.
2,000 tons burden, brimming to Mews. T. M. Mackay and
Co., sailed as the 20th of April from Gravesead for
Quensland, Captain Cornet°, commander. The Fusible is
the fortieth vessel that has sailed on the land order system
of eraigratioe, under the immediate dietetical of the Queens-
land government. She contain 256 souls, divided into
paying, assisted, and free passengers, and consisting of I' I
members of (amides, single men 100, single females 44.