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LONDOS, ,SATURD.A.Y, AUGUST Is, 1851.

The dinner of the Royal Agricultural Improve.
ment Society of Ireland, which came off in the me.
tropolis of the sister isle on Thursday evening
was a prominent and gratifying feature in the opera.
tione of the grand national cattle show, now being
held in that city. The Duke of LEnkisrEß, who is
ever found to afford with readiness the prestige of his
influence and his name to any measure calculated to
promote the social interests of his native land, presided
on the occasion ; and it is pleasing to find the prominent
pat taken by several Irish noblemen, in giving an im-
Piing to the operations cf this useful asiociatioDy

in furtherance of whose objects the present gathering
in Dublin has taken place. Nothing is of more im-
portance to the farmers of Ireland than the develop-
ment of perseverance and skill, and if the society
can induce them to appreciate duly the necessity and
advantages of soberly and steadily "putting their
shoulders to the wheel," its results will be commen-
surate to the wishes of its founders and supporters.
Few Members in the House of Commons have evinced
a more active attention to Irish interests than Lord
NAAS has done since he sat as a representative for that
country, and the improvement in one very important
branch of its productions may be collected
from the assertion of that talented and practical
nobleman, "that if not in quantity, at least in
quality, the cattle of Ireland might vie with the cattle
of any other country, and that in quality the short-
horns which were exhibited in the show-yard that
day might fairly claim equal consideration with those
which many of them saw lately exhibited in the great
park at Windsor." Under the existing circumstances
of Ireland, not yet recovered from the fearful visita-
tions of recent years, it could not be expected that
the Agricultural Society of that kingdom could com-
pare with that of England or the Highland Society,
but when the relative condition of the two islands is
taken into account, we concur with Lord CLANCARTY,
in expressing a belief that the existence of a society
for the improvement of agriculture in Ireland is a
matter of at least as great value, if not of more value,
than the existence of similar institutions in either the
northern or southern divisions of the sister island ;
that although they could not command the resources
of the English society, yet the very necessities of
their country, and the contrast which its agricultural
state formed with that of England, should exclusively
establish the value and importance of their society,
and should supply strong motives to every
Irish proprietor to come forward and aid
them in their objects. Judging from the ex-
cellent character of the stock which had been
exhibited in the show-yard, the labours of the
society for the last ten years have not been by any
means in vain ; and Lord EBRINGTON, an invited
guest, expressed his conviction that the improved blood
exhibited, " blood which could compete with, and
which, in one instance, at least, was superior to the
chosen productions of England, would be diffused
over the length and breadth of the country, so as to
bring up the average to a much higher standard than
had been hitherto reached."

There was one branch of practical farming alluded
to by the Earl of ERNE which it would be well if it
were more generally attended to, especially in Ire-
land. Personal observation enables us to testify to
the wasteful disregard of one of the most useful mi-
nisters towards the production of crops, namely, liquid
manure. The Noble Earl took occasion to illustrate
the advantages of a judicious use of that powerful
fertilizer by adducing two instances of its efficacious
employment in Scotland; one on the farm belonging
to an eminent distiller near Glasgow, on which,
though the soil was of the most inferior description,
yet excellent crops were produced by means of this
liquid manure, dispersed over the farm through iron
pipes by the power of a steam engine; the other on
that of Mr. KENNEDY, of Ayr, who had employed it
in the irrigation of upwards of 300 acres. En-
couraged by the beneficial results which be had wit-
nessed on the grounds of his Scotch friends, Lord
ERNE, on returning home, set himself about the
adoption of the system. "I caused," said the Noble
Speaker, " two tanks to be erected capable of con-
taining 1,000 gallons of this liquid ; I purchased iron
pipes to the length of three miles, which I spread over
350 acres, and after irrigating the land through these
pipes by the pressure of a steam-engine, I computed
the cost of manuring the 350 acres to
be 601., whereas, by the old system I should
have expended 11. per acre, or 3501." It
is to be hoped that, this plain statement,
coming from a proprietor of so high station, may con-
tribute towards awakening the Irish agriculturists to
the obvious advantages attendant on an imitation of
the skilful Scotch farmer. With a soil, distinguished
in the main for its superior natural productiveness,
and with no deficiency of intellect or of observation,
how comes it to pass that the Irish is so far behind
the Scotch agriculturist ? Simply from a want of
steadiness and system, and en idle adherence to an-
tiquated usages. The muEquetoon was, doubtless, a
very good weapon in its day, but it would cut a very
sorry figure at the present in competition with a six-
chambered rifle. Improvements must be adopted
and worked out with perseverance to prevent dis-
graceful and disastrous consequences, for in the pre-
sent phase of industrial competition the farmer can
afford as little as any class to pursue a jog-trot rate
of motion. Believing that the Royal Agricultural
Improvement Society of Ireland is conducive to the
promotion of agricultural improvement in a
country where it is so imperatively de-
manded for the prosperity, we may almost say
the existence of the mass of its inhabitants, we
heartily invoke success on its proceedings, and on the
aspirations and labours of its members and adherents.
We trust, with Lord CIANCARTY, that Irishmen will
in future take the lead in developing the resources
of their country, and that they will take agriculture
as their commencement. It is essential to the ex-
istence of that people ; it is essential to their comfort,
and would render their country fit to take its proper
place in the commerce of the world.

It might have been imagined that the HENDRENS
and the JERNINGETAMB would, after the unenviable
notoriety they bad recently acquired in connexion
with the case of Miss TALROT, have been contented

to retire into the obscurity from which, had they been

wise, they would never have attempted to emerge.
Such, however, is not the case ; there are some per-
sons, more especially the weak-minded and bigoted,
whose morbid craving after notoriety is such
that it must be gratified at whatever cost, arid the
parties to the intended incarceration of Min TALBOT
seem to be labouring under this morbid craving.
This morning has from two distant parts of the
United Xingdom brought us intelligence of the lIEN-
DRENS and the JERNINGLIAMS. From Dublin we
hear that HENDREN, the letter-writer par excellence,
whose letters in their relation to the case of Miss
TALBOT will never be forgotten or forgiven by his
co-priests for the damaging admissions they made,
has, in the indulgence of his favourite propensity of
letter-writing, been making admissions as fatal
to himself as his admissions in his former
letters were fatal to the Roman Catholic cause. In
a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Roman
Catholic Defence Association, he has actually signed
himself H. HENDREN, Bishop of Nottingham, thus
wilfully violating the enactments of the Ecclesias-

tical Titles Assumption Bill, and wilfully courting
that prosecution which the more astute Dr. ULLA-
THORNE cautiously avoids, by signing his Christian
and surname only, without any titular designation.
Can it be that the unfortunate HENDREN is
the victim of a trick, and that his more
cunning brethren have, by appeals to his vanity, in-
duced him to commit a breach of the law, in order that,
by subsequent appeals to his fears, they may induce
him for a while to seek refuge on the continent, and
thus rid themselves of the presence of the Enfant ter-
rible, whose peculiar vocation it seems to be to inflict
irreparable injury upon every cause which is so unfor-
tunate as to have his support? The case of Dr. HEN.
DR" is amusing ; that of the eJ ERNOGIIAIL family is
deeply painful, and exhibits one of the most remark-
able instances ever recorded of the abject servility
to which the mind is brought which once suffers
itself to be reduced into obedience to the priesthood,
and the utter want of feeling, we are almost inclined
to say the diabolical love of torture, which the
priesthood ivariably exhibit when they get
into their power those who either expose their
impositions or oppose their machinations. The
Plymouth Journal of yesterday publishes the
following extraordinary account of the abduc-
tion of a Protestant child from its Protestant
mother on Sunday last, at Plymouth, and of its
removal to the notorious convent at Taunton, where,
under the tender care of Miss JERNINGHAM, Miss
TALBOT was so long immured. '6 Mr. FREDERICK
WILLI-MK JERNINGHAM," says the Plymouth Journal,
1 is a Roman Catholic, and a brother of that Miss
JERNI/SGRAhI who is at the bead of the nunnery re-
cently so
notorious as the place of incarceration of
Miss TALBOT. Mr. JERNINGHAM, some years since,
married Miss MANGLEs,
the daughter of the late Rev.
GEORGE MANGLES, vicar of Lewannick,
Cornwall,
aul that lady subsequeotaY collimated to the Lman

Catholic faith. They continued to live together for
some years, but differences eventually arose, and a
separation ensued. Mr. JERNINGRAM is like many
other gentlemen, rather needy, and repeatedly,
we are told, were his debts paid by Mrs.
MANGLES. In the year 1847 they separated,
and in 1848, while Mrs. JERNINGRAM was living
with her mother at Southampton, she still re. 1
tained possession of her children, but one morning in
the month of March Mr. JERNINGRAM was seen
watching Mrs. MANGLES' house, and having a servant
in his interest, he got the door opened for him. The
two children came down to breakfast, when Mr.
JERNINGHAM rushed into the passage, threw a bonnet
and shawl over each child, and forcibly carried them
off. The eldest child had been very ill, and was
taken away at the risk of her life, as she had not re-
covered, and the medical man bad ordered that she
should not leave the house. Miss JERNINGHAM, the
abbess of the convent at Taunton, received these chil-
dren, though against the consent of their mother and
grandmother, on whom the children depended. They
remained at the convent until the stir in Miss Tat.-
Bofs case, when they were clandestinely removed to
the convent of Notre Dome, at Namur, in Belgium."
That Mrs. JERNINGHAM should cease to have any
connexion with a Church which thus wantonly and
inhumanly encouraged the violation of the highest
and holiest ties—those, namely, which unite a mother
to her children, is what might have been naturally ex-
pected; and we are, therefore, not surprised to learn
that Mrs. JERNINGHAM has ceased to hold com-
munion with members of the Romish persuasion.
After stating these facts the Plymouth Journal thus
proceeds :—" Recently a gentleman of high conside-
ration is this town had an interview with Mr. JER•
NINGIIAM in London, and obtained from him a solemn
promise on his honour, that he would not remove his
child from the care of his wife by stratagem. Mrs.
JERNINGHAM'S legal adviser was present when this
promise was made. Probably, as the child was being
brought up as a heretic, Mr. JERNINGRAM has been
able to get a dispensation. It appears that on
Sunday last, from the inquiries that we have
made, while Mrs. JERNINGRAM was in St.
Andrew's Chapel, a stranger entered after the
service bad commenced, and looking over towards Dr.
BUTTER'S seat, where Mrs. JERNINGRAM bad recently
sat before she was accommodated with a pew for her-
self and children, said that he should like to be put
into the Doctor's pew. He then excused himself
from going there, probably from not seeing his wife
there, and asked to be put near where Mrs. JERNING-
HAM sat. He thus became acquainted with her posi-
tion in the chapel, which was near the south door, and
be then took a seat just inside the door, where be
remained till the close of the service. In due time
Mrs. JERNINGHAM came out of the church, being
followed, as she supposed, by her children ; but on
looking for her little boy, be was nowhere to be found.
She then went home, thinking that be might have
preceded her, but he had not come home, and as
nothing could be heard of him it was feared, and
but too truly feared, that the poor little fellow had
been seized and carried off." This fear was reduced
to a certainty the next day, by the receipt of
a letter from Mr. JERNINGHAM, stating that he had
carried off the child. It happens, unfortunately, that
the present state of our law permits the perpetration
of these atrocities ; but it is to be hoped that another
session will not be permitted to pass without the
enactment of a law preventing, for the future, the air
duction and imprisonment, under the pretence of re-
ligion, of children of tender years. The true
principle of legislation is not to permit that to be done
under pretence of religion which you would not per-
mit to be done under any other pretence. If a show-
man is punished for collecting a crowd by his exhi-
bition, and thus obstructing the public thoroughfare,
so ought a preacher who collects a crowd, and creates
an equal obstruction ; and so with regard to monas-
teries and nunneries, the public safety demands that
they should be placed under at least as stringent a
surveillance as other lunatic asylums.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Petrie journals of yesterday.
The day being the feast of the Assumption was
observed as a Mite, and the Bourse was closed.

The Patrie has the following semi-official para-
graph :
" The Afessager de l'Assemblee published yesterday
the itinerary of a tour which it declares the President of
the Republic had decided on shortly making. Accord-
ing to that journal the President had at first intended
to proceed to the camp of Lutiiville, but afterwards
gave up the idea; and now proposes setting cff for the
South from the 20th to the 25th inst. We cannot say
where the Massager has obtained the information
authorising it to give a sort of official programme, but
from the intelligence which we have received, and which
we have every reason to believe exact, the President never
had any intention to go to Lin 6ville, where, besides, there
is no extraordinary assemblage of troops. As to the
excursion to the south, which, according to the state-
ment of the Massager, was to include Bordeaux and the
two Charentes, we think we can affirm that the Presi-
dent, notwithstanding his great desire to comply, to-
wards the end of the recess, with the wishes of the popu-
lations of that part of France, has not as yet come to any
determination on the subject. We consider it almost
unnecessary to add that no notice on the subject has been
transmitted to the Prefects of these departments."
The Moniteur announces ,the translation of Mgr.
PARIS'S, Bishop of Langres, to the bishopric of Arras,
in the place of Cardinal DB LA TOUrD'AUTERGNE
LAURAGUAIS, deceased.

The Committee appointed by th. Republicans to
watch over the safety of the Republic during the re-
cess consists of MM. CREMIEUX, VICTOR HUGO,
JOLT, CASSAL, RASPAIL, and Aliot.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 15.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 171,4—Paris
and Strasbourg, 11%—Rouen and Havre, Pi—Sambre and
Meuse, 8!-4.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived.
They contain no intelligence of political import,
ante.
The Bolsa was closed.