The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dtratnr, RPM 6.
At a meeting of the Senate of the Queen's Uni-
versity for Ireland, held yesterday in the Council
Clamber, Dublin Castle, the Right lion. the Lord
Chancellor was elected Vice-Chancellor of the Uni-
versity, and the following gentlemen were chosen

Cathcart Lees, M.D., in the Theory and l'ractice of
Medicine; John Hamilton, MI)., in Surgery; 11. Carlisle,
M.D., of Belfast, in Anatomy, Physiol.igy, and Compara-
tive Anatomy; James A:dohn, M.D., in Chemistry; Alex-
ander Fleming, M.D., of Cork, in Materia Medics, Phar-
macy, and Medical Jurisprudence; George J. Allman,
M.D., in Zoology and Botany; Th.nris Wliecver, M.D.,
in Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children;
William B. Blood, Esq., of Galway, in Engineering and
Plan Drawing; Thomas Skilling, E.g., of Galway, in Agri-
cultural and Farm Management; John Stertlly, LLD., of
Belfast, in Natural Philosophy and Practical Mechanics;
James Nicol, Eat., of Cork, in Mineralogy and Geology.
Letters have been received front Thomas Francis
Meagher, and the other Irish political exiles, giving
in bitter terms an account of the severity with which
they have been treated by the Van Diemen's Land
authorities. Meagher intimates that it was tho
intention of Smith O'Brien and himself to give up
their tickets of leave by way of expressing their
disgust at the harshness ex..reised towards their
friends; but adds that they had been prevented
by the entreaties of the latter from adopting that
course.

Since the archdeaeonry of Dublin became vacant
by the death of the late Dr. Torrens, a gwd dcnl of
agitation has prevailed in Dublin on the subject of
pluralities, and memorials have been presented to
government for a division of the parishes enjoyed by
the late dignitary. The following annou.icement,
made in the Erening Pust, conveys the satisfactory
intimation that these appeals have not been without
effect :

We understand that the order of the Privy Council, just
age, ed upon, directs that the parishes of St. Peter, St.
Kevin, and Donnybrook, shall in future form the arclulea,
conry of Dublin, and that Taney and liathfarnham shall ho
severed, and funned into separate parishes. The income of
Tunny is about Mil. per annum, oad that of ltatlithrohant
about 200 f.

A great deal of time has been occupied by tho
General Assembly of the Presbvteriun Church of
Ireland, now sitting at Belfast, in diseu.ssions re-
bating to the establishment of the Magee College, and
some of the debates on the subject have been charac-
terised by considerable warmth. The result, how-
ever, is, that there is to be no more litigation on tho
matter, and that no more of the college fund shall ho
drained by the lawyers.

'file Awning foal, in its reflections on the Trish
census return, lays particular weight on the eth,ct
which emigration has had in bringing about the
fearful decrease of population which is disclosed.
The Pool says:

There is nothing so surprising in these returns as tho
extent of diminution in the population of most of tha
counties of Cister. The per centage of decrease in Clare
and Tiplwsary is 21. mot that is exactly th • rroportion in
Ferman:LA, where thniine had been romporatis,lv light.
and baste-law taxation moderato. In Kerry the per
cottage is but It), whilst it is 24 in Caron and Monaghan ;
and even in Mayo it is 29, but one per cent. exceeding
those two counties of Ulster. Nose, how is this to ho
accounted for? Surely not by the mortality in Monk:lion
or Cavan, but by the vast amount of emigration front
those counties. From Kerry or Clare, where the per cent-
ime of decrease in the population was lower, the far greater
part of the diminution has ben caused by deaths during

the famine or the pedilonca that en•ned: mareivers
had not the menus to emigrate, and they crowded the poor-
hauselk. But in Manighan and Cavan emerration must
hive been the prime eauie of dim:maim. In order to

show to what avast extent emigration has been instrumen-
tal in reducing the generalumulation of the country, wo
copy from the " Statistics of Ireland," in Thom's Afmanoe,
so remarkable for the great care and fidelity with which
it is compikal, the following remarkable st detneat :—The
emigration ufthe last three y..ant gives an annual average of
2h5,.10 person*, being not very tar short of the whole ; teal
increase of the United Kingdam. If this emigration be ana-

lyseol, the results as Inland will be much moro
striking. For, °sunning nine-tenth" of the emigration from
Liverpool to be Irish (which is a low estimate), and evert
oruittinr alto...ether, for want of accurate information, those
who proceed from the Clyde, it will appear that the Irish
emigration during the last thee.. yoart, has "eon 01,118
giving an average of 21)0,182 a year. Now, the increase of
population in Ireland betwe. n It•e3 and 'till, as appears
from the census raurns, was 1it;,723, in spite of an etniara-
, thin amounting during the .une years to csi,Vot, thus

ranking the real inrtca.e to be 14449:0, or 86,234 ayear.
Assuming the increase to have been at the same rate since
It I when the population war returned at n.175,23ti, it
would give the eight years, to the dose ofHD, it17,1t40
souls or M 4,43.1 per annum. The em, tratim, on tho
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average of the tot three years, according to this istintate,
L Recoiled the increase of the population by V.M.811 souls
per annum. At this rate, therefore, the !population would
he decreased in about eight years I,y cntignition alone to
the extent of 1,0011,010 soots; and when it is also taken into

• t. acronut that t1;4; ennitru comprio.; a lam proportion of
thoxe who are in the rigour of life, vet on whom the in-

croase of population mainly deponik, it may be assumed
that its influence in checking. such increase is evtu greater
than the mere liduri.,s imply.

HER MAJESLTS THEATRE.

This theatre was crowded to overflowing on Satur-
day evening, when the Queen, as had teen announced,
visited it with all the "pomp and circumstance" of royal
state. Splendid preparations had been mule for her Ma-
jesty's reception. The royal box, with that on each -ide,
were thrown into one, and the whole W. 14 fwurmountcd by an
elegant canopy, richly ornamented. The Queen and Prince
Albert, with a larga party of illw trinus visitors, and at-
tended by a numerous suite, entered the box precisely at 8
o'clock, by which hour every part of the house was cam-
pktely tilled. The curtain instantly showed
the stage open to its full extent, unit covered
with people, including all the perfumers in the
opera about to commence, with Una chorus, supernu_
merarics, &c., in their picturesque costumes ; and the loud
vocal and instrumental harmony of " God save the Queen "
was mingled with the shouts and acelamations of tho
whole audience. ller Majesty never looked !setter.
11cr dress blazed with diamond., but its tied. and elegance
were even more remarkable than its splendour ; her face
beamed with pleasure and animation, and nothing could
exceed the gram with which she acknowledged her en-
thusiastic reception.