576 
‘mara: for the working of all which, the 
company are said to have entered into agree- 
ments with the land-owners. 
The number of students that entered 
Trinity College, Dublin, on Monday last, 
was 131, anumber unusually large to enter 
on one day. 
A prospectus has been issued for a pro- 
vincial banking company, capital two mil- 
lions, in shares of £100 each. 
By the late census it appears that there 
are, in the city of Dublin, 19,471 females 
more than males; in Limerick, 2,811 ; in 
Waterford, 2,661; in Belfast, 2,537; in 
Galway town, 1,083; and in Ireland, alto- 
gether, there are 117,975 women more 
than there are men. ‘The only counties in 
Treland in which the males outnumber the 
Treland.— Answers to Correspondents. 
Margaret, wife of Lieut. McDonnell, late 
of the 85th Regiment— At Dublin, Mary. 
wife of Thomas Tuke, esq, ‘o.p.—At his 
house near Clare, 38, the very Rey, Dr. 
Doyles, Pastor of Kilbridge and Horseleap, 
and Vicar General of the Diocese’ of 
Meath.—The Right Rey. Dr. Murphey, 
Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher.— 
At Catrick-on Soar, Mary Banks, in the 
107th year of her age. She was the wife of 
a linen-weaver, and always employed herself 
in that branch of manufacture. She enjoyed 
her faculties to the last, and was seen at 
market for herself a few days prior to her 
“decease. ‘She was the mother of many chil- 
dren,—one of whom, a son, had made her a 
promise, at his father’s decease, not to marry 
‘during her lifetime, which promise he faith- 
fully discharged. He is now in the 75th 
year of his age, and avows his intention to 
marry after his mother’s interment. 
females, are Kildare, King’s County, Meath, 
Kerry, Galway, and Roscommon. 
Died.] At Corrofin, county of Clare, 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
We have to apologise to our valuable correspondent, Ir. Hampson, for apparent neg- 
lect of his paper on Meteorological Phenomena: it was set: up for insertion in our last, 
but was removed, with several other communications, for want of room ; a cireumstance 
which escaped the observation of the Editor, till part of the present number, ‘containing 
another article on the same subject, was printed off. The requisite attention to variety 
obliges us, therefore, however reluctantly, to’ adjourn once more the insertion till the 
ensuing month. , 
The reply of 7. L. Williams to Mr. Nelson, which escaped our observation last month, 
we purposed to have inserted this: but we found, on perusal, that a mistaken apprehen- 
sion of personal hostility had betrayed the writer into a warmth of language which could 
not be admitted in our columns: Mr. W. may be assured that, in the article he com- 
plains of, there was no intention, on the part of the gentleman he is so angry with, either 
to injure his reputation, of wound his feelings. 4 
A correspondent, who complains that we did him “ severe juslice” on a former occa 
sion, will find that we have paid due attention to his more recent and more finished pro- 
duction ; and will, we hope, excuse the liberty we have taken with a single word. 
A correspondent, who signs his‘ name (whieh we will be too tender of him to repeat), 
has obliged us witha page anda half of foolscap, full of hypercriticism on one of the little 
poems of one of our correspondents ; and illustrates his own candour by altering thé 
punctuation so as to confound the sense. What impropriety can there be in saying of a 
nun, that “ the brows that shadowed her‘dark soft eyes were Loye’s mourning-pall its 
or that “ Love was kept, purified of sin) in-her placid heart, by Faith?’ The critic 
thinks he could pull the other poem of the sante correspondent to pieces in the same way. 
When he sends us any thing half as good, we will insert his criticisms. a 
Mr. J. Je Leathivick wishes it to-be made known, that he was not the Edmonton cor- 
respondent.whose poem was rejected from our last. ‘The present. Editor neyer even saw 
any of Mr. Leathwick’s poetry, and therefore-could not reject it. ¥ 
“¢ Hints for the Improvement of Mud Carts’’ should have been sent to the scayen- 
gers. +n : 
In the signature to the letter of inquiry’relative to Short, the portrait-painter, in our 
last, for Taxem read TaTEM. : a a gets 
~The observations of 4. B. C. of Totness, on 4 passage in Mr. Scoresby’s Voyage to the 
Arctic Regions, came too late for the present number, but shall appear in our next. | 
We readily comply with the request of Mr. Lewis Gompertz, in stating that the article 
inserted,*with his signature, in‘our last, contains extracts only of a longer communication 
with which he favoured us, In giving connexion to what we deemed it necessary to 
abridge, sume changes in the language may have been inevitable ; we are not conscious 
of any alteration of the sentiment. : ; : ae 
We lament exceedingly that the two very valuable communications from our statistical 
correspondent,—one on the Post-office Revenues, arid the other on the Population of 
Sreland,—came so late as to render it utterly impossible for us to give insertion to either 
of them this month. We must entreat of our correspondents in, general tobe early in 
their communications, as it is impossible for us to do justice either to, them or to our 
readers, if our arrangements are not, in a great measure, made before the middle of the 
month, 
