The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-02 00:00:00

TIIE NEW COLLEGES.

The following are the names of the gentlemen ap-
pointed to be presidents and vice-presidents of the new
academical institutions for Ireland, who have power to
appoint such professors in arts, law, and physic (not
exceeding twelve in number) as shall be necessary for
each establishment respectively, viz.:—
Cons.—Robert Kane, Esq., Doctor of Medicine, Pre-
sident ; John Ryan, Esq., LLD., Vice President.
BELFAST.—The Rev. P. S. Henry, D.D., President ;
Tho:. Andrews, E.q., Doctor of Medicine, Vice-President.
GALWAY.—The Very Rev. Joseph Kirwan, Clerk,
President ; Edward Berwick, Lq., Barrister-at-Law,
Vice President.
THE POTATO rISEASE.

DUBLIN, DEC. 31.—The weather still continues most
unpropitious, the rain nearly incessant, and the wind a
perfect hurricane ; notwithstanding which the accounts
of the potato crop are, on the whole, less unfavourable
within the last few days than might have been anti-
cipate I.
" EXTRAORDINARY CORRESPONDENCE."

Under the above head, the Mail of this evening pub-
the following strange correspondence between Mr.
T. Jefferson Hogg and Sir Robert Peel. Why Mr.
Flogg should select a Dublin journal as the medium for
communicating these documents to the public, or why
their publication should be withheld for a period of
nearly 18 months from the date of his last letter to the
Premier, cannot be well divined :
" Temple, July 20, 1844.
" Sir,—l shall be sorry to be obliged to make public,
because, although it relates to public affairs, it is, in its
nature, private, my correspondence with yourself, with
the Lord President of the Council, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and the Lord Chancellor. The last having,
as he states, obtained the permission of Field-Marshal
the Duke of Wellington, continued to write two or three
notes to me every session, until a majority of 92 enabled
you to turn your back upon your friends, and with many
other good Conservatives of great respectability, but in-
ferior note. With so many, indeed, that selection is
difficult. _ _

" But are the remainder of my reports on municipal
corporations, allow me to ask you, to remain unpublished
for ever ? Are my services in composing these volumi-
nous reports to be always unpaid ? Is no remuneration
or recompense whatever to be awarded for my vexations,
labours, and losses ? Am I tamely to submit to slights
and indignities which, most certainly, I do not deserve,
and which no honourable man ought to bear ? Be
pleased to consider these matters.
" I am, Sir, yours very respectfully,
" T. J. IL HOGG.
" To the Right Hon. Robert Peel, Bart., &c."
" Whitehall, July 25,1844.
" have received your letter of the 25th of July.
You state that you shall be sorry to be obliged to make
public a correspondence with myself and others, which,
although it relates to public affairs, is, in its nature, pri-
vate. You proceed to ask, 'ls no remuneration, or re'
compense whatever to be awarded for my labours,
vexations, and losses ?' And you desire me to consider
this matter. I beg leave to inform you that I have con-
sidered it, and that my opinion is, that you have received
the amount of' remuneration which is due to you. Your
intimation that you may be obliged to publish corre
spondence in it; nature private, will have very little
effect in inducing me to add to that remuneration. If
you think fit to publish any correspondence with me (and
I leave you at entire liberty to exercise your own -discre-
tion in that respect), I must desire you will include in
that publication your letter of the 20th of July, and this
answer to it.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" I'. J. 11. Hogg, Esq." " ROBERT PEEL.
" Sir,-.-Your letter of the 25th of July pretends to be
an answer to mine of the 20th: that it is not; it is
merely unhandsome and improper.
"I have never been paid one farthing for my reports;
neither for those that were printed, nor for the remainder,
which are still unprinted, and in my hands. For seven
months' inquiry I was paid at the appointed rate, 700
guineas; but for my reports I have received nothing.
Whereas, a commissioner, who was engaged with me on
the inquiry less than four months in all, had 9001.; for
his reports, therefore, 5001:, and so with the rest. If
this matter were referred, as it ought to be, to some im-
partial person acquainted with such services, as one of
the Learned Judges, for instance, I would show him, in
a quarter of an hour, that the assertions which you have
been instructed to make, that. I have received the
amount of remuneration which is due to me,' is utterly
false. Your informant knows that it is false, and you
must suspect that it is, if you will not submit to the arbi-
trament of some respectable person, to be named by
yourself if you a ill.
" But this is the least considerable part of my letter;
you do not touch the more important matter. I ask you,
first—' Are the remainder of my reports to remain unpub-
lished for ever ? ' You are mute, sa I must answer the ques-
tion myself, and say—` that I shall be sorry to be obliged
to make public a correspondence with yourself and others,
which, although it relates to public affairs, is in its nature
private.' Nevertheless, I will, through a sense of duty,
publish it at once, rather than permit my reports on
Great Yarmouth, Saffron Walden, Sudbury, Colchester,
Carliarvon, and other boroughs, on which no report has
been made, to be unlawfully suppressed. I was appointed
a Commissioner under a Commission issued by the Sove-
reign; at the requisition and petition of the House of
Comthons ; and was commanded to inquire and report.
I did inquire, and most diligently, and I made my re-
ports. The like reports have always been printed, as of
course, and laid before Parliament. There is no pre-
cedent for withholding such reports ; and I will do my
utmost not to furnish one, and it signifies nothing that
the Ministry have been changed.
" Your Chancellor well knows this, for he applied to
Lord Melbourne, in public and in private, again and
again, for my reports. Parts were published in 1838 ;
as to the remainder Lord Melbourne did not venture to
answer—' I will withhold them.' The last communica-
tion, made not long before his happy resignation, was
only will consider of it.' You have just as much
right, and no more, to suppress my reports, as I have
to enter the House of Commons when you are speaking,
and order you to sit down and be silent. The Duke of
Newcastle, the Earls of Harrowby, of Winchilsea, and of
Falmouth—Lords Wharncliffe, Lyndhurst, Skelmers-
dale, and Ashburton, and the Lord Bishop of Exeter,
and very many other peers, were permitted to ask for
my reports, night after night, when the production of
them might serve a turn. But now nobody dares to
name them, because some turn is to be served by sup-
pressing them. This will do very well, when your
new allies shall have put down the Queen, the Lords,
and the Church, but not before. I also asked you,' why
I am to submit to slights and indignities which I do not
deserve.' Your answer is money money !' what are
slights and indignities, so that a man fill his pockets ?'
Such is the tone of your letter, and the temper of your
mind. You can see nothing in my letter, but a demand
for money. Nor can a worshipper of wealth di,cern any
principle in opposing the rule, that an unprincipled Ad-
ministration shall reward their base tiols, but he who
was honest in the worst times shall remain for ever un-
paid. Fear not that, in the exercise of my discretion, I
will suppress your letter of the 25th July, in which you
gratified b
do
my duty, I also ask for my own.
publication of it, if you still
address me as if I were a robber, because, in stating my
beg
determinationyo u
shall
desire it, and of these poor lines.—l am, Sir, most re-
spectfully your servant,
" T. JEFFERSON HOGG.
" Temple, 27th July, 1844.
" To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., &c."

FLOOD IN THE SEVERN.—The river has been
rapidly rising the last day or two, and this morning its
waters have reached the house-steps on the quay, the
passage to and from which is only effected by boats ; in
addition to which, several barges are actually moored on
the quay, and the happy crews (to whom the occasion
presents a nice holiday) have taken care to locate them-
selves and craft pretty near to where her Majesty's
licenses have been granted for retailing beer and tobacco,
h while,philosophic
pilic seated
andn enviable waste of waters, and " blow their cloud" with the most
p
tops, they look round on the
indifference. It is, we believe,
o e theirnvi cabin bi n
the highest since the extraordinary summer flood of
1839. IVorcestershire Chronicle.
WINDSOR, JAN. I.—PRINCE ALBERT'S HARRIERS.
-T Prince
r Royal ten, at the Manorof Hooton.
Th the Earl of Lincoln, and
was attended by Major. General Wernyss and Mr. Anson.
ince wasl liglrn
accompaniedessr met at
by
His Royal Highness hunted on the farms of Mr. Pullen and
Mr. Holderness.