The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-09 00:00:00

1854.

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THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND is to leave for
England towards the close of the present month.
The Freeman's Journal mentions as a "rumour"
that his excellency may not return to this country
in his capacity of Chief Governor. To this may be
added the prevalence of another "rumour," to the
effect that Lord St. Germans may be the last of the
race of Irish viceroys.
IN order to promote the efficiency of the Queen's
Colleges an additional grant has been given of 1,6001.
per annum to each of the three colleges. The con-
sequence of this munificence will be speedily made
apparent in an increase to the libraries and museums,
the physical, anatomical, and other practical depart-
ments; and better still, the authorities have an-
nounced that they mean to relieve students in great
part from the fees hitherto necessarily charged for
contingent purposes. The fee henceforth will be, for
matriculation 10s., instead of 91., the first year; and
ss. instead of 2/. for the second and subsequent years.
The scale of fees payable to the professors by the
students remains unaltered.

THE committee of the " Catholic University" have
purchased for the sum of 1,4501. the Apothecaries,
Hall School of Medicine, for the purpose cf using it
as a medical school in connection with their new
institution.

DR. WHALE, and the other Roman Catholic bishops
associated with him in the late Synod at Tuam, have
issued their " Synodical Address," their " decrees "
having been sent off to Rome to obtain the Pope's
sanction previous to publication. The document
bears the unmistakable marks of its St. Jerlath's
origin ; and differs but little from one of th• ordinary
epistles emanating from that source, except that in
addition to the usual "John, Archbishop of Tuam,"
it has the episcopal titles of six Romish bishops in
full.

THE STATISTICS OF THE GREAT DUBLIN EXHIBITION
of last year appear in an official form in a work just
published on the subject. Mr. Dargan's actual loss
has been within a few pounds of 19,0001. The
account stands as follows :—Cost of building, 59,8711. ;
salaries and all current expenses, 28,342/.: total,
88,2131. Receipts, season tickets, 18,2381. ; ditto at
door, 28,9811. ; ditto from all other sources, 0,0131. ;
value of building, 12,000/. ; of machinery, &c., 4,0001.
Total, 09,232/. ; balance of loss, 18,9801.
THE Monarch steamer, employed to lay down the
wire for the submarine telegraph, left Holyhead,
in company with a tug-boat, about four o'clock on
Monday evening. The operation of laying down the
cable between that port and Kingstown was success-
fully completed before noon next day.
THE sailors engaged in the coasting trade at Cork
have struck for an advance of wages. They are at
present receiving from 31. to 31. 10s. amonth. They
demand 41., with an augmentation of allowances.
A DOCUMENT just issued by the census commis-
sioners tells a sad tale of the dreadful sufferings of
the Irish population after the first potato blight in
1840. The increase of the people appeared to be
about at the rate of a quarter of a million a year,
which, if no such calamity had fallen upon the coun-
try, would have shown a population in 1851 of about
9,000,000; instead of which, there were very little
more than 0,500,000. At the same time it cannot be
alleged that Ireland actually lost 2,500,000, seeing
that the number of births during the calamitous
years, from 1840 to 1850, was considerably below the
previous average :
Return showing the Population of Ireland, from 1803 to 1851, as
far as the same has been ascertained.
1905
1815
1820
1825
1830
The "population drain" is likely to be further
increased to no small extent by the " political econo-
mists" of some of the Irish poor-law boards. Last
Saturday morning, 250 paupers, including 28 boys
and 222 women, embarked on board the Royal Alice,
Captain Livingstone, for Queenstown, where they
were received into the emigrant-ship Kennedy, Cap
tain Herbert, bound for Canada. These paupers
were all from Cork Union, and each was provided
with two suits of clothes, and everything requisite for
the voyage.
THERE is not an unemployed field labourer around
Dublin, nor in any part of the country unless he
chose to be so. The demand for labour is univer-
sal. The last fortnight's hot sunshine has ripened
the grain, and the apprehension of an unfavourable
change induces the farmers to use every exertion to
save the harvest

Noless than 300 wasps' nests have been destroyed within
the distance of half a mile from Woolbeding, near Mid-
hunt. Calculations have been made showing that the
average loss sustained from their depredations by every
grocer in the town, even in a moderate way of business,
fir the past few weeks, cannot be less than a sovereign per
week, and that out of every cwt. of auger the wasps devour
quits 7lbs.