The Press. — 1856-11-08 (London, England)

AIR. WHITESIDE, Q.C., will be leading counsel for the petitioners in the celebrated Tipperary Bank case of " O'Flaberty v. M‘Dowell.'- This case, No, 37 on the list, it was decided by the Chancellor on Monday should be placed at the top of the list for the present term, and be heard immediately after the cases standing over from last term. THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE, in the course of his late address to the students of the Queen's College in Cork, remarked upon the success of the college : This college has been only a few years in existence, and already are its students holding positions of honour and respectability in nearly every port of this empire and I am proud to say that if their reputation is not sufficiently matured to reflect back a lnstre on the place of their education in no instance has •heir conduct been such as to bring on it discredit. Students and professors alike feel that they are nursing the infancy of a great institution, destined, ere long, to raise this country to the highest intellectual eminence. It has not antiquity to recommend it, neither are there venerable names associated with its history, to give an artificial value to its degrees. lint, on the other hand, it is free from the abuses which time has rendered sacred in other institutions, and which impede their action there. This college has no claim to respect or support except its utility. Taking human knowledge in the advanced state to which it hail arrived in the middle of the nineteenth century, there is here everything neces• sary for its diffusion, in the shape most suitable for the wants of society, as at present constituted. Without egotism or flattery I may confidently state that the authorities and professors have performed the part assigned to them. If the public do not perform theirs, if they show an insensibility to advantages, the greatest ever conferred on a community, advantages so long and so clamorously sought for, with them rests the reproach, on them will fall the consequences. THE FIRST PUBLIC ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT SALES for the season took place on Tuesday before Mr. Commissioner Longfield. Four estates were put up, but the gross amount realised during the day did not exceed 7,0001.  THE JUDGE OF THE PREROGATIVE COURT has given notice that he will, on Wednesday, the 12th inst., give judgment in the important will case of the " Attorney General v. Wilson," which involves a property of several hundred thousand pounds. THE QUEENS COUNSEL is, it is said, to be reinforced by three additional calls to the inner bar. The names of the gentlemen are Mr. Alexander Norman, Mr. John Edward Walsh, and Mr. James Lawson, the first of the North-West and the others of the Leinster Circuit.  THE GOVERNMENT has bestowed upon Mr. Nicholas Kelly, R.M., a good-service pension of WO/. a year for the zeal and ability exhibited by him in reference to the discovery of the murderer of Miss Hinds.  AN EXPRESSION occurring in the following letter from the Emperor Alexander to General Luders has excited some remark on the part of the continental press .  Taking into consideration the indispensable necessity hou are under of seeking a cure of the grave malady which as affected you for many years, I have consented to accord you a year's leave of absence, to enable you to repair abroad, conserving to you your present emoluments. Acceding, further, to your second request, I have relieved you from the duties of Commander-in-Chief of the Second Army, retaining to you, however, the dignity of my Adjutant-General. Appreciating your efficient services, I hope that if circumstances give me occasion to steal you to employment before the expiration of the period named, you will come to resume your duties with the same zeal and alacrity which have ever signalised your military career.—l am always your affectionate _ _  ALEXANDLA Nicouaiwacu.