... THE FINE ARTS IN IRELAND-RcYAL IRISH ART UNION. DITRIBSUTION or PRizEs roa THE YEAR 1847. The annual meeting for the distribution of prizes, selected by the committee of this highly valuable society, among its members for the year 1847, was hold yesterday in the Theatre of the Royal Dublin Society. Long previous to the opening of the theatre, the reception rooms were crowded with a most ...

... ROYAL DUBLIN: SOCIETY'S SPRING EXHIBBi TION OF FARM STOCK, FARM IMPLEMENTS, &C. &Co. This great national show of stock, implements, &a., is, front the numbers and character of the different descrip- tions of farm stock, both in the fat and breeding claises, superior to any exhibition-far and away superior to any that has ever yet taken place on the premises of this very ancient and highly ...

... O Dovsi UBilN SOCIETY'S SPRING EXHIBITION, This attractive exhibition was extremely well attended yes. if terday. - The following is a list of the adjudication of premiums at the it the Royal Dublin Society's Cattle Show, on Tuesday April BREEDING STOCK-BULLS, Division 1. e Bulls calved on or after January 1, 1847: Section 1. Hon A F Nugent, No 7, eight sovereigns, and for h the beetof all the ...

... Io TeE CourT.-Lord Aeniley arrived at Osborne on a visit to her Majesty and Prince Albert, and bad the honour of' joining the royal dinner party, which included his Royal High. neas the Prince of Prussia, the Chevalier Bunsen, Count Portalis, and Major Von Oeihrliclh ia attendance on his royal highneEs. The whole of the royal guests left Osborne on Thursdaymorn- ing for London. Lord John ...

... IiROYAL HORTICULTURAL SoCIE-Tys - SHOW OF FLOWERS AND FRUITS 0G I On yeaterday the spring exhibition of fh;. - V Jplt, -L F' w ?? U5 Ot this Isec., exoti plants, r au nd hothouse flow,,e .'9tl! and fruits, took place at the Rotundo, Thi r' otinbet[., that building was selected for the exhibiti drQa~ tastefully fitt' d up for the ceoasion. Tbens ,ad a . previous exhibitions, occupied the entire ...

... I Tho Arobbishop of Dublin, Irs. Whateley, family, and suite, Mrs. Thompson and suite, Mr. and Mrs. Pollard, Massrs. ) Urquhart, Luther, Haumphries, Edwards, Rev. Mr. Kilrkpa- trick, Messrs. T. M. Taylor, Pigott, BKOdigan, Jones, AsII. dion, Sands, Fitzgerald, George, Wilson, &o., sailed from ?? for Liverpool on Monday evening by her Majesty's nail packet Iron Duke. . 'he Earl and Countess of ...

... I rous TIRE NINTnITnE Finsw YEAR OF nIIS POVTI. FICATE-By Compte de Liancourt, and James MUanhin-, !Esq., Inner Temple. London, T.C., Newby, 1847,2 vols.- The history of the Popedom, fraught as it ever has been with the deepest interest to the Catholic world, and connected so intimately with the destinies Of Kings and the fate of empires, presenting In its chequered pages so many startling ...

... THE WONDERs OF GEOLOGY-A FAMILIAR EXPOST- TION oP GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA-By Gideon Algernon Mactell, L L.D., F.R.S._(Two- Vols., 6th Edition; Bohn, London, 1848).-Within a very limited remem- brance geology was regarded as a pursuit profitless in itself and possessing no inherent claims to the dignity of a science. Its theories were looked on as delusive and calculated to lead to opinions ...

... ANTIENT CONCERTS, I - - - -- - A - - A ABJI This society repeated, last evening, the per'ore Mendelasohn's scared oratorio of Eija h 'lei J L b pred,,1! which in December of last year may bo regarded epooh in the musical history of our metrepalrde El occasion of the first performance we end otwvou are in us lay, to do justice to the mighty work ned 4 manner in which it was produced in Dublin ...

... The continued pressure on our apace, conecquent to lb important political events that hava recently ocecuil public attention, rooluded us from noticing at as :! length as we could have wished the enterprisig effortl e Mr. Caleraft to sustain the time-henoured reputalim d our national theatre, or the highly commendeable oorv= ia which he hcs been seconded by the excelleat co', peny he has orgar ...

... Ie FASUIIONABLE INTLLIGENCEO wINDsOt, TUESDAY EVENING, Aron25, Yhe birth- day of the Princ~ess Alice Maud Mary wae celebratedheetdy by the ringing of the Church and Castle bells, and the firing of royal salutes from tice Belvidere Bavttery, in the Great Park. Her Royal Highness completed her fifth year to-day. Mr. Smith O'Brien, M. P., and his lady have arrived at the family seat, Cabermoyle. ...