schools, he withdrew his first resolution. The dispute
on the management clauses was also settled; and from
this cause the Home-Secretary had announced, in the
House of Commons, the intention of the government to
modify the restrictions placed upon grants to church
schools, and Archdeacon Denison, referring to the
aspect of the management-clauses question, and to the
avowed intentions of ministers, withdrew his second
resolution with the full concurrence of his friends.

The annual meeting of the subscribers of the association
for Improved Dwellings for the Industrious Classes
was held on the 18th, at Willis's Rooms, Sir Ralph
Howard, Bart., in the chair. From the eighth report
of the directors, it appears that the total net receipts for
the year for rents, &c., amounted to £2,158 11s. 1d.
The report showed the gratifying fact, that, in
consequence of the sanitary arrangements in the society's
dwellings, the mortality has been much less than the
ordinary average. In the Pancras Old-road buildings,
the average population is about 600, among whom there
have been, during the year, but nine deaths. In the
family dwellings in Albert-street, the population is about
300, of whom only four have died. In the Metropolitan
chambers in Albert-street, for single men, out of a
population of 120 there has been but one death, and that
arose from an accident out of the chambers. These
chambers are but partially occupied; "the advantages
afforded by them," we quote the report, "not being
sufficiently appreciated by the inhabitants of the district."
The report adds, that while rents for half a bed in houses
in the adjoining streets are the same (2s. 6d. per week),
they are resorted to in preference to these chambers,
where each man has a separate compartment and bed,
and most commodious living room accommodation.
The chairman having moved the adoption of the report,
the Earl of Carlisle, in seconding it, congratulated the
shareholders that there was now the prospect of a
moderate return for their expenditure. By being
reproductive, an useful undertaking furnished the means of
effecting further good and useful objects, and thus
achieved a double triumph. Mr. Charles Cochrane
complained that greater hopes of profit were held out
than the facts justified, and he doubted whether it would
not be better to make the institution altogether a
charitable one. A long discussion arose upon this
point, in the course of which it was explained, on
the part of the society, that 'though their charter
gave them the power to raise £100,000, they had only
raised half that amount, and that, as the expense of
the staff was as great for the smaller as it would be
for the larger amount, there was every reason to suppose
that when the capital was increased there would be a
larger dividend. A dividend of 3 per cent, was declared.

The Great Exhibition at Cork was opened on the 10th.
The Lord-lieutenant presided at the ceremonies of the
inauguration, during which he conferred the honour of
knighthood on the mayor of Cork, now Sir William
Hackett. His excellency also presided at a splendid
banquet in the evening. The grand saloon of the
exhibition, in which the ceremony of the inauguration took
place, is 182 feet in length by 53 feet in breadth, and 50
feet in height. It is covered with an arched roof, which
is composed along the centre of glass. This entire
structure is built of yellow pine wood, the walls and
arched ceiling being divided into compartments by
richly tesselated girders. The south end of the building
is occupied by a splendid organ by Telford, erected
on a lofty platform, which is approached by a series of
steps, whereon the orchestra is disposed. The sides of
the hall to one-half their height are covered with fine
paintings exclusively the production of Irish art. They
have been contributed by the National Art societies,
and by individual artists. Each picture is let into a
panel suitable to its size, the whole forming a grand
effect. Grouped along the entire length of the hall are
placed the choicest triumphs of the sculptor's art, from
the studios of Hogan, M'Dowell, Kirke, Foley, and
other Irish artists of eminence. In the centre of the
hall is erected a handsomely-designed hydraulic fountain,
from which springs a jet d'eau. The Exhibition
was opened for the admission of the general public on
the morning of the 11th, when the influx of visitors was
immense.

The Sales of Land in Dublin, under the Encumbered
Estates Act, are proceeding with great activity. The
great Martin property, in Connemara, has been sold
to the Law Life Assurance Society for £186,000;
but no money is to be paid, as the society are
encumbrancers to the extent of £200,000. The property is
purchased in the name of the trustees—the Right Hon.
John Lord Campbell, Sir J. G. Turner, Sir Edward
Hall Alderson, and J. W. Farrer.

The Rental of the City of Edinburgh, within the
police bounds, has risen during the last five years more
than twenty per cent. It is now somewhere about
£450,000; more than £100,000 having been added to it
within the time specified.

It appears from a return to parliament, that in 1841
the number of British Vessels which had entered the
port of London, engaged in the foreign trade, was
4016 sailing, and 626 steamers; and in ten years, in
1851, the number was 5190 sailing, and 1403 steamers;
while of foreign vessels there were in 1841, 1927 sailing,
and 72 steamers; and last year the number had increased
to 3474 sailing, and 274 steam-vessels.

          PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

THE Waterloo Banquet was given, as usual, by the
Duke of Wellington, on the 18th. There were eighty-four
of the Duke's companions in fight; and among
them Sir Harry Smith, whose health was proposed by
the Duke, and drunk by the warrior-guests, with
especial emphasis.

The Queen has conferred the dignity of a baronet on
Mr. Sheriff Alison.

Mr. William Henry Willes, one of the members of
the last Common Law Commission, has been appointed
by the Inns of Court, lecturer on the branches of the
Common Law which are not included in constitutional
law, the law of real property and conveyancing, devises
and bequests.

Mr. John George Phillimore, Q.C. has been elected
by the Council of Legal Education, representing all the
Inns of Court, to the chair of Constitutional Law and
Legal History founded by the four Inns of Court.

The Rev. G. E. L. Cotton, M.A., late Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge, and Assistant Master of
Rugby School, has been elected Head Master of
Marlborough College, Wiltshire.

Dr. Cullen has received the Pope's brief, appointing
him Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin.

Professor Liebig has at length yielded to the inducements
held out to him by the Bavarian Government to
leave Giessen and settle at the University of Munich.
He is to commence his labours there with the winter
season.

Mr. Feargus O'Connor has been discharged from the
custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and removed to Dr.
Tooke's establishment at Chiswick.

Among the persons of note who have recently
emigrated to Australia, are Mr. R. W. Horne, and Mr.
William Howitt.

Professor Mac Dougall of the Free Church College,
has been appointed to the chair of Moral Philosophy in
the University of Edinburgh, vacant by the resignation
of Professor Wilson.

         Obituary of Notable Persons

The Hon. JOHN CHETWYND TALBOT, Recorder of Windsor,
and Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales, died suddenly at
Brighton, on May 25, in his forty-eighth year.

Mr. JOHN FIELDEN, the late member for Oldham, died on
the 28th of May.

A Canadian paper records the death of Mr. CHARLES BOUCHER;
of Berthier, district of Montreal, at the advanced age of 106.
He was married to three wives, with whom he had sixty
children! He leaves forty-three children, sixty-six grand-children,
thirteen great grand-children, twenty-eight nephews,
seventy grand-nephews, and eighteen great grand-nephews.

Vice-Admiral ROBERT JACKSON died at Kensington, on the
3rd inst., in his eighty-seventh year.

The Rev. W. J. BURFORD, D.D., Rector of Magdalen Laver,
Essex, died at Brompton, on the 8th, in his seventy-seventh
year.