The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-11 00:00:00

Bottum MONDAY, Jon 10.
The Belfast and ask paper: et Saturday report
the close of the first emus at the Queen's College@
of their respective towns, aid describe the malt as
having been in the highest degree eatishetory There
was a distribution of panes at both Whigs, sad the
Presidents addressed the stades% fa esagratulatori
terms. The Northern I% says :
The principle of noe-sesterisa education ha bow ashy
hens* out, and the public will lava with subibidea VIM Me
yam gesithemsa whe yeas*, reeshed seless ha-
da& Mailbag of the maiibbsit and Rasta emboli.
*erase, possbyamehos of the Basel Arent 'ofd sea-
salieribleg yesebyteeises, sasibeiha sad
The whim of the President, artlah h by geed
tame sad mead Menem, vety asessaßy sad wry
exults is themes= of this experbasat, Una we sreig=
it ; and we .q an. look forwerd with seaddeses m the
operation of this Nikes we sa ellskat moaned benwelsiss.
enlightening, sod el=ssZpest sad isspeetemt region
which is to be mere seemed by its legume.
At the meeting, es Friday last, of the committee of
the Belfast Royal Society for the Promotion and En-
couragement of the Growth of Flax is Ireland, the
following communisation from government was read :
Dubihi Castle, Ist Jun., 1860.
lau directed by the Lai-Liewlemaat he uiat you that
the Lied.Commi of be Mefeety's~Taaarary bare
asaellemed Mwe ebeamed-peemode fa the
proimsficia and iatuovensest of the greeds of fin in the
00111eN10 and is the proportions followiag: 2004 to be es-
paded in the county of Cork, 761. ia Clue, 1001. in Kerry,
1001 in Limerick, 751. in Tipperary, 601. in Galway, 601 in
Leitrim, 2001. in Mayo, 601. in Roseeesmoo, 1001. in Sligo.
The sues of 1,0001. will, accordingly, be paid to the Belfast
Banking Company, oa account of the society. Their lord-
ships having desired to be informed of the luau which shall
actually be expended in each misty, in pursuance of this
gran., his Excellency requests that such information may be
furnished to him. lam farther directed to state, that weir
lo:dshipe have been planed to unction, retrospectively, the
disbursements made by the society from the grants of 1,0001.
each made in 1848 sad 1849.-1. am, sir, your obedient ser-
vant, T. N. REDINOTON.
James MstAders, inn., EN., Belfast.
The correspondence of the moiety's agriculturists,
submitted to the meeting, gave a very satisfactory ac-
count of the appearance of the 3 wing flax crops, and
were unanimous in praising the excellence of the
home-saved flax seed, which for the first time has
been very extensively tried this year, and has been
found more samurai than a great portion of the
foreign seeds. This result is moat encouraging and
important. The Newry Telegraph says :
The Os: crop, throughout all the adjoining districts, is
mos! promising and luxuriant for the season. Yesterday a
stalk, plucked promiscuously from a field of five acres, the
property of Mr. Smyth, of Densmore, was Wilhite(' in
Newry. In length it =wand two feet two inches.

A correspondent writes:
The appears:toe of the young flax crops Lavery satiable-
factory. They are, in most cases, looking remarkably well.
The weather could not be more genial. Bowe stalks have
been exhibited, grown our Belfast, already 21 inches in
lesigth, sad increasing at the rata of nearly two inches
Similar accounts are given in various other pro-
vincial journals, and all agree in describing. the
prospects of the harvest generally as most cheering.
In its commercial article of this morning the .Fiee-
man's Journal thus reports progress in oar mercantile
affairs:—" There has been rather a better business
done this week, and prices of both shares and produce
are higher. No increase in the consumption. The
duties, for the week have been 16,7001., of which
8,0001. on tea and 3,4001. on tobacco."
The Drogheda Argus states that there is very good
reason for believing that no vacancy in the represen-
tation of Drogheda will occur for the present.
Mr. Serjeant Murphy has announced his intention
of becoming a candidate for the representation of
Cork, in the event of a vacancy being caused by the
resignation of Mr. Fagan.
Cork Examiner states :—Oa Tueslay evening
next, one of the largest and most effective iron screw
stet am-ships ever constructed,not only in Ireland,bnt in
&gland or Seenland,will be launched at Cork. The fol-
lowing are her dimensions :—Length over all, 220 ft.;
brftdth of beam, 28 feet; entire depth from main
desk, 17 feet, exclusive of what is termed a spar or
' upper deck, which will be seven feet above the main
deck, thus making a depth of 24 feet. Her probable
tonnage is estimated at 830 tons builder's measure-
ment; and it is supposed she will afford freightage
accommodation for from 6 to 700 tons of good!.