GLEANINGS OP NEWS.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 113, 19 November 1858, Page 4

GLEANINGS OP NEWS.

(From the Rome News of August 16.) About 200 of his Scotch tenantry waited on Lord Eglinton on the 20th July, at Dublin, and presented him with an address congratulating him on being a second time elevated to the chief governorship of Ireland. The deputies were received by his Excellency in the warmest manner. Their visit excited some interest in Dublin. " Every one. of them," says a letter, "was dressed with superfluous neatness in black. No one could observe their independent bearing and intelligent appearance without coming to the conclusion' that they were prosperous and happy." On the 22nd of July his Excellency left Dublin for Galway, to preside over the grand banquet given by the town to inaugurate the successful establishment of the new line of packets from that port to America.

At a meeting of the Dublin Town Council on August 2, Alderman Lambert was unanimously elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1859.

The tide of emigration, as far as can be learnt through the country papers, has received a check this year, and the " rush across the Atlantic" or the " flight from Ireland" have ceased to be household words. The number of emigrants from the port of Derry to America this season amounted to 849, the greater portion of whom sailed for Philadelphia. A considerable number in addition proceeded to. America via Liverpool and Glasgow, but by no means so many as in past years. By this time the Landed Estates Bill has become an Act of Parliament, and it is agreed on all hands that the measure is one of the most beneficial that has emanated from the Derby Government. It is calculated that the amount of business to be brought before the new court will be large beyond any estimate that has been framed, for, if the proceedings be well regulated, and the court prove moderate in cost and expeditious in practice, nearly the whole of the conveyancing business of the country will-pass through it.

The task of readjusting the affairs of Trinity College is about being commenced in right earnest. A Queen's letter is in preparation which will embody the heads of the agreement lately come to between the senior and junior fellows. It is stated that its chief provisions are the gradual extinction of the non-tutors as a class, and the amelioration of the condition of the existing non-tutors. In addition 14 exhibitions, of £100 a year, tenable for seven years, and to be competed for at the degree, examinations, are to be created, these exhibitions to be thrown open to the youth of all religious denominations. . Two entirely new offices are to be created, to be held by the two senior tutors. Their

duty, in addition to lecturing, will be that of general superintendence.

The Emperor of the French has, in a marked manner, extended his solicitude for the memory of Frenchmen to Ireland. Desirous of conferring «f a signal mark of his favor on the Roman Catholics of Aughrim," he has directed that a set of the richest sacerdotal vestments be forwarded from Paris, to be used from time to time, as our informant saith, in the chapel of Aughrim, at the celebration of mass for the repose of the soul of St. Ruth, a French general of historic fame, who fell in the battle of. Aughrim, Jqlyvl 12,1691. " What," asks the Spectator, "is the meaning of this military coquetry ?*'

At Londonderry assizes, a few days ago, no less than 26 persons, who had been convicted of assembling in an Orange procession on the Ist of July, were called up for sentence. The presiding judge was Mr. Justice Christian, who has for the first time gone circuit in his new capacity. His lordship sentenced the prisoners to two months' imprisonment, and at the end of that time not to be liberated unless they found bail, themselves in £20 . and two or more sureties in £20 more, to keep the peace for a term of seven years.

To custom-house officers, crinoline is henceforth a suspected article. Ellen Casey, a well-dressed young woman, was observed by Mr. Gardner, a tide-surveyor of Customs, to exhibit great rotundity of person as she was preparing to leave a foreign steam vessel at St. Katherine's Wharf. He delicately alluded to the fact, which was attributed by the young woman to crinoline. Not satisfied, the suspicious Mr. Gardner handed the young woman over ,t6 one of the female searchers, who speedily delivered her of 22| pounds of cigars. She pleaded guilty.at the Thames policeoffice, and was sentenced to pay a fine of

£100 or be .imprisoned for six! month** ", "You will have no faitlrin crinoline again?" • inquired Mr. Yardly'- of. the' official. "Never, sir 1" said the latter, emphatically. "I shall always suspect every woman who wears crinoline." A very handsome present to the mayor and corporation of Adelaide is to be forwarded by the Alice Maud. It consists of , a punchbowl elaborately chased with an • appropriate design of fruit, flowers, and grapes, and weighing 83 ounces. The following inscription will show the object- ■ with which it is presented to the corporation:—Presented to the mayor and corporation of Adelaide, that they may thereout drink in Australian wine to the memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Light, the first surveyor-general of South Australia, by some of the original founders of the * colony, viz, George Palmer, Esq., Jacob Montefiore, Esq., two of the originalcommissioners appointed by his Majesty William IV., in 1835, who raised £35,000 by sale of land, and £80,000 by loan; Raikes Currie, Esq., M.P. for Northampton, the trustee for £20,000 of the above - £35,000 required by Parliament to be deposited to obviate the'attempt to found the colony of South Australia causing, any charge to England;' Alexander Elder, Esq., of Lancing, in Sussex, and others. Mr. Morley, the proprietor of the "Burlington," and of the hotel which bears his name at Charing-cross, died a few days ago. He has left nearly the whole of his property to medical charities. In the early ■ part of the present century he was a medical student at St. George's Hospital, but he left the pursuit of medicine, and became one of the most successful of the London hotelkeepers. He had been for many years an ' active governor of St. George's, Bethlehem, and other hospitals. He has left £1000 to Liston's widow, £5000 to the surgical department of University College; £5000, the interest of which is to support three fellowships at University College, each to be held for three years; £1000 to St. ' Mary's Hospital; 21000 to the Lock; and £500 to Mr. Braine, his medical attendant. There are various legacies, among which are £50 annually to six widows of St.' James's, not recipients of parochial relief. The whole of the residue, amounting to upwards of £100,000, is left to found a convalescent hospital, in connection with St. George's, within seven miles of Hyde Park-corner. Here'is an opportunity of founding a model sanatorium. There are lovely spots within the prescribed distance, about Heridon, Neasdon, or Willesden on the north, or Putney-heath, Roehamptonj or Wimbledon on the south, where the poor city patient may obtain fresh air, sunlight, and freedom from the noise, dust, stenches,, and smoke of our overgrown city. It is stated that, in consequence of cer- " tain unfortunate difficulties in which he has become involved, Mr. Walter Savage Landor, the well known poet and essayist, has found it necessary to leave the country. A collection of pictures, the property of the venerable litterateur, has been sold by auction. Referring to the circumstances alluded to above, the Gloucestershire Chro- . ' nick says :—" It has been hinted for some time that a singular action for libel would ' be tried at the ensuing Somerset assizes. - The parties concerned are the Hon. Mrs. Yescombe, wife of the Rev. Mr. Yescombe, and Mr. Walter Savage Landor, the distinguished author, and the difference arises out of some statement in a publication alleged to be from Mr. Landor's pen:" The case, of course, cannot now come on. A meeting of influential members of the Jewish persuasion was held at the Loridon Tavern on the 26th of July, to adopt ■ measures to commemorate the triumph of Jewish emancipation. A resolution was passed, thanking the friends of civil and religious liberty for the efforts which they have so long put forth to liberate . their Jewish fellow-countrymen. Another resolution, which was moved by Mr. Alderman Salomons and carried unanimously, declared that it was desirable the Jewish community should adopt some means of permanently commemorating the event; while the last resolution appointed a committee for that purpose. Messrs. Arthur and Co., merchants, of Glasgow, who lately suspended, with accounts showing a large surplus, have issued a circular to their creditors, intimating their readiness, on the 4th of August, to discount the extended notes given by them after their stoppage, falling due on the 4th of November. The Russian painter Tranoff, founder of the modern Muscovite school of art, has just died at St. Petersburg. He devoted 20 years to his great effort, " The Preaching of St John in the Wilderness.'' - - Mahogany is now coming into use as a material for ship-building. A Frenchman has made some experiments to test its strength, which he considers to prove conclusively that it is stronger than teak or oak, under a direct strain. ! The Earl of Carlisle has been employing his time, since he resigned the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, in the consideration of theological subjects, and the result has been the production of a work, entitled "The ' second Vision of Daniel." The work is a paraphrase of the prophetical writings. ; A great racing feat has been performed at San Francisco. A celebrated rider, Jack Powers, has ridden 150 miles in 6 hours 43 minutes on 24 horses, all Californian. He had undertaken to perform the, task in eight ,[ hours. About the 130 th mile a trick was L played, which does not appear to have been;.; * a fair one, with a view to deceive the ( iihipi- i i tiated —Powers appeared to spit blood, and .: seemed very weak indeed; but the.bloqcl. . came from a small bladder which he JwUit: ' his mouth. Of course thosenot in the secret •• now betted against the rider,'.and were ■ robbed. . ' ' A? J-.:>"•'