The Press.
London, England, 1853-07-30 00:00:00

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TIIE Si lIISAI rx TIIEAItD of NATIONAL EIRTA-
TIoN has crone to a crisis by the rekignationm of the
Archbishop of Dublin, Mr. Blackburne, and Baron
Greene, the most active and influential, if not the only
Protestant, members of the board. The Catholic
party and delegates of the Romish See will now, as
the Evening Mail remarks, "have an opportunity to
assume the supervision of the entire secular educe •
tion of the country, and the unchecked control of at
least lif,(sXot. of public money." Two of the vacan-
cies have been already filled up, it is said, by the
appointment of 1)r. Knox, Bishop of Down and Con-
nor, and Mr. Abraham Brewster, the Irish Attorney-
General. Dr. Knox has been for many years a sup-
port( r of the national system. Mr. Brewster has
never taken an active, or indeed any, part in the
Irish education question. Meanwhile, the aufortu-

nate nature of this embarrassment is proved by the
evidence aecumitlatiug on all hands that the systtm
has been successful.
At a meeting of the clergy of the diocese of Dublin,
held ou Wednesday morning, the archbishop for-
mally announced that he war nu longer a member
of the National Board, his grace having received a
letter which he could regard in no other light than
as a "dismissal" by the tioverument from the office
which he had tilled for a period of over twenty years.
This anuouncetitent created great surprise, not un-
mingled with indignation ; and, after the archbishop
had retired, the clergy present came to a unanimous
resolution to prepare a strong memorial, or remon-
strance, condemnatory of the whole proceeding, to
be forwarded for immediate presentation to the
House of Lords.
Tux Loren LIEUTICNANT took his departure for
London on Sunday evening, to be present at the
debate in eommittee upon the Succession Duties
Bill.
THE Ataucrurea.u. Bs:yours continue as favour-
able as could be hoped for; and it is calculated that
the harvest will become general about the middle of
the next month. An early harvest is of great im-
portance under existing circumstances, on account
of the comparative scarcity of labourers, and the de-
parture of many of the best of them for England.
The potato crop is still safe, and the farmers rejoice
at the prospect of the escape of this favourite root,
which would give 11111111141111 V in the humblest dwel-
lings. At this time last year the blight was very
general, and considerable alarm prevailed. Fur
many years past, says the Kilkenny Moderator, there
has not been at this season so cheering a prosiwet
in this part of the country of an abundant cereal
harvest, and at plentiful potato crop.
Tzu Dem Ase you FLAX Is ULSTER is considerably
greater than the people of that province have been
in the habit of supplying to strangers. A Newry
paper states that as "many as 13 tuns of flax were
shipped front Newry last week for the Isle of Man."
Any 111110111 a of flax Ireland can produce will he taken
up, and inere required, provided the present demand
contintie.
WILLIAM Tummy, a man of gentlemanly appear-
ance and respectable connections, has been eon-
victed of shoplifting at Cork, and sentenced to ten
years truneportation. He carried ou a most exten-
sive system of plunder, the articles found iu his pos
session at his arrest being almost sufficient to set up
a bazaar ; and at the time that he perpetrated thee.,
depredations he visited, and was visited by, many
highly respectable persons in the neighbourhood.

Returns of the number of accidents on the United
States railways show that in the seven weeks ending May
10, this year, seventy-three persons were killed and 101
wounded. In contradistinction to this fearful return
appears that of European railways :—llelgium Railways,
three years, six killed ; French railways, two years, none ;
English railways, two years, twenty-eight. The number
of passengers carried on the English roads during the two
years was 109.317,2:13. Notwithstanding this display of
national recklessness, the number killed by their own
careleraneioi in the United States is no greater than in
Great Britain.
'l'he directors and shareholders of the Surrey Oita Con-
sumers' Associtif have prese•utael Mr. Sherid'Croll with
a costly 014 c of plate in CollllllollOrdtl4lll of the valuable
services ire had rendered to the company.
The militia of Moldavia, according to a Berlin journal,
are to be united to the Russian army, In issusequence
of this determinati tttt several of the militia officers have
wished to resign, but have nut been permitted bide so.
No less than tr.:,21{.1 pilgrims entered Aix•la-t !impede on
the lith, in order to visit the relics.
Mr. Jeremiah Davis, l'obuid-street, Oxford-street, while
riding in an / onissibin4 towards the City, suddenly tell bae•k
and expired. Medical assixtbnce was instantly procured,
but life was quite extiiwt.
Cholera, aceonling to the latest accounts from St.
l'eteraburg, was committing conaiderable ravages among
the Ituesian troops, especially those concentrated for the

isistorou,s.
Official rep 451104 trout the I►annbisn principalities stab.
that the Missions pay rawly 000000 ley for all supplies.
Another immense delselit of guano has been discovered
in the Indian Ocelot, between filauritiont and Calcutta.
The island containing this depelit is forty miles long by
seven broad, and tlins forty timer the site of lehahoe.
M. 4billicti wits among the loassengers who left Liver•
pool on M'eflilesilay fur the United Mates by the n►ail-
strainer Kullu•.
Ike:gulfs coat 81111 NOW will be rowed fur on Monday
neat by s►x young 'litanies waternien.
The great Australian gold nugget lately exhibited has
been melted and sold for 6,6:41/. Its weight before melting
was 10114 ounces, and it yielded 1,:119 ounces of fine gold.
e•epual to 1,1'13 ounces standard.
A first divith.nd of tni. in the pound was this week de•
dared upon the estate of Messrs. Ewhank and Gray, who
failed in 1046 I . It is expected that a further dividend of
•Is. tki Ailey pt be realised.
The health of M. Aragu, the astronomer, is w much im•
proved that he lilts left the south of France for Paris, se
compauied by Mme. l.augier, his niece.

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