The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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DUBLIN, Wag 29.
The Lord-Lieutenant visited the Museum of Irish
Industry last evening, for the purpose of distributing
prizes and certificates to the sucoesstul candidates at
the recent examinations in natural history and
physical science, in the Government School of Scienos
applied to Art. The Archbishop, the Lord Chancellor,
the Chief Baron, and a large assemblage of dw
tingnished scientific men and others, were present.
Sir Robert bane, as manager of the institution,
opened the proceedings, and his Excellency the
Lord-Lieutenant addressed the company in the course
of the evening. He said :
Enough has already been collected under-this roof-
though I hope to ma that co:leoion receive constant and
large 'co-mines-bat enough bat been already colt cud to
Mow that Nature, or more properly so to my the
Author of Nato., has in no niggardly degree
endowed this eimantry with the resource, sad applisnces
of art, industry. and wealth-(applaus)..-blimed with a
generou, soil, with capacious rivers, with matchless bar-
boors, wi,ls fair if not equally prodigal materials fir fuel,
with many mineral productions. with quarries of granite
and marble flits. to foroi.h en unlimited ant ply
for any quantity of wall., bridges, streets or pal.ces. Com-
pare this wide area of resource and capability, fur instance,
with the barren and perched mil of ancient Attica, which
has left such undying reeve amid the annals of oar race.
(Applause) Weil, then, for the A.heciaue, we must look,
my yoong friends, to you-to whatever sea you may belong
-because I am happy to fled that we have not Mem stela-
sive in the award of our plisse tonight; and whatever
(Tiptop may be held cos.-erring " the rights of woman "-
(taught. r)-we are, at all mot", v. ry well disposed to ap-
t r•inate and acknoelerige "the lemma of woman." (Ai.-
plasm.) pe it will be the of jest and ambition of one
and all among you to rise up to the level of these physical
advantages by which you are surrounded-of these oppotta-
Mums and facilities tar information and progress which are
here liberally 'applied to you; and to tae level, let me add,
of the capabilities of you owe yontbfal and suseeptiMe
assures. - . . -

A correspondent of Sounders writing from Strabane
gives the following account of the terntho effects ot
a thenderetorst::
Ose of the sliest fearful isecurreaces which ever took
Sue is this musty hopseesd near Killeter oe esedey
*seats( le.t. two ewe bete" iesttetsiweesly deprived ef
life by a gash ot liebtatmg. It opposes that a stutter of
pusses won estber.d et the boys of oso of the deemed,
&boatsmen ceolork la the seeping. their object beisg to
bnr tits cotateete of a le•ter boa a fnesd is Australis. The
petty west to the door, the NWT tome the writing. so the
eseedag weeded' sad steady. While there the *seder

storm, which had been gathering sometime previously,
greatly Increased in violence, and flashes of lightning sac-
seeded etch other with territne rapidity. Fearful to relate,
the elect,ic fluid struck the vor man woo was reading the
letter,es well se an unfortuvate companion his aide, kilhe g
both on tl e spot. Everybody in the house at the time was
more or lees it fared, and one woman remained insensible
for tome twins. A dog lying at the kitchen fire was torn
to picot; by tte same stroke of I.g• tiling, and the building
Itself bears evident marks of the visitation. The bodies of
that two men did not, so far as I have learned, present any
eaternel indications or having been struck by the lightning.
I have been jammed that the corres were interred to day
in the grave-yard of Termonamoogan. As might have
been @weird, this terrific visitation has created a pro-
found sensation in the district. The &leased were respec-
tively tamed ltd•R,,y and td•Guinness.
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Accounts from various places in the north and
south of Ireland describe thunderstorms which have
taken place during the lot two or three days.
The following resolution in favour of tenant right
was carried after a warm discussion at the North
Dublin Board of Guardians yesterday :
That a petiiion, slotted by_the chairman on behalf of this
board, ha forwarded the 11.iuse of Commons, praying the
house to take the earlie,t ovorturity of considering the is
fallow' between landlord and tenant in Ireland, with a view
to the immediate floe) asjustment of the question, by past-
ing a meteors tha will incurs the industrial occupiers of
the the fair and full enjoyment of the fruits of their
indurry, sad that sill provide for property the creation
of the chill and enterpree of the agriculturist the same
protection and security which the law now affords to pro-
perty created fa commercial trading, sad other industrial
pursuits.

The rumoured apprehension in Drogheda of Red
Patrick Bannon. one of the murderers of Miss
Hinds, turns out to be outmoded.

The Rev. Michael Crotty, whose separation from
the Roman Catholic Church several years since
created a good deal of excitement, has publicly sought
madmission to its union.

SPORTING.

THE OAKS.