ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND.-The Senate will appoint Fellows in October next. Classics 1, Natural Philosophy 1, Anatomy and Physiology 5, Medicine 1, Surgery 2. Candidates must send in their applications to the Secretary (Dublin), before the 1st September.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.-The examination for Andrews Entrance Prizes (Languages and Science), and for Medical and (Gilchrist) Engineering Entrance Exhibitions, will be held on 26th and 27th of September next.

QUEEN'S COLLEGES, IRELAND.-There is a vacancy in Queen's College, Cork, for a Professor of Greek; the salary is about £300 a year. Candidates must send in their testimonials and applications before the 1st September, to the Under Secretary, Dublin Castle.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL.-At the distribution of prizes the gifted Head Master, H. W. Eve, M.A., the Earl of Kimberley presiding, referred to the general good conduct of the boys during the year, the scholarships gained by them at Oxford and Cambridge, and the present prosperous condition of this admirable seat of learning.

CAMBRIDGE. The next examination at St. John's for Minor Scholarships will be on 11th December; at Queen's an exhibition is offered to persons under 19 years of age, worth £40 a year, the subject being Hebrew; at Peterhouse there will be an examination on October 16th, for seven Scholarships.

LOWER DIVISION CLERKS.-There will be an examination at the usual centres on 1st October, the preliminary being on 7th September.

MANCHESTER.-A gentleman, qualified to lecture on subjects connected with Fine Art, may apply to E. W. Marshall, Esq., Secretary, Royal Institution, for an immediate engagement.

LEEDS.-A Science Master is required for the classes in the Mechanics Institute. Previous training in Chemical Analysis is indispensable. Salary about £300 per annum.

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NEW ZEALAND.-A graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, with experience in a public school, is wanted as Head Master for the High School at Christchurch: salary £800.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY.-An examination will be held at Owens College, Manchester, on 1st October, and following days.

BRIGHTON COLLEGE.-"Speech Day" came off on 1st August. At the conclusion of the programme, in which the boys took part, the able Principal, Rev. T. H. Belcher, gave a short account of the general satisfactory condition of the College, and the Archdeacon of Essex distributed the prizes.

OLDHAM.-The Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition was, on the 1st August, opened by Sir John Lubbock, M.P. This patriotic enterprise has cost the Corporation £30,000.

DULWICH COLLEGE.-On 1st August a number, of the pupils' friends assembled at the College, it being "Speech Day." Mr. Weldon, the recently appointed Head Master, at the conclusion of the speeches, alluded with great taste to the work of his predecessor, and introduced Mr. Lowell, the American Minister, who briefly referred to the founding of the College by Edwin Alleyn, to its present prosperity, and the interesting ceremony in which they were engaged.

CLIFTON COLLEGE.-At the distribution of prizes on 1st August, the Head Master, Rev. J. M. Wilson, mentioned that ten of the pupils entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and several others had distinguished themselves at the Universities.

ISCHIA. This Island, the unhappy scene of the dreadful earthquake which has recently occurred, is about 5 miles long, and almost 3 miles broad. It rises from the sea very abruptly, and attains in Mount Epomeo an elevation of 2,380 feet. has 6,000 inhabitants. The chief town bears the name of the Island, and Its castle has lately been used as a prison. Communication is kept up with Naples by means of two or three steamers a day, many persons visiting the island, in the summer season, on account of its mineral baths. The inhabitants though poor, are sober and industrious.

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THE EARTHQUAKE.-Among those who were in Ischia when this dreadful calamity occurred were several Englishmen, present for the enjoyment of the springs. Of these, 7 were killed-a son to Mr. Bariff, British Chaplain at Naples, Mr. and Mrs. Struve from Wales, Mr. Green, a retired Indian Judge, Mrs. Robertson, with her son and daughter, and Mrs. Gall of Dundee. The earthquake occurred at Casamicciola.

THE DUBLIN DOCTORS' DUDGEON.-Dublin contains some 250,000 inhabitants, for whose welfare there dwells in that fair city a large number of, medical gentlemen, possessing no secondary or common-place pretensions. London, with its four millions inhabitants, and a floating population of a million, must forsooth have its medical staff placed on a par with that of Dublin; and because the faculty in Dublin was in times gone by sopped with an occasional Baronetcy, it insists on its right to an equal participation in the honours, conferred on a few of the most eminent practitioners in London.

SIR GEORGE.-Two Dublin doctors were offered the dignity of Knighthood, one, as related in our last issue, accepted the honour like a man of sense, knowing well that it would add a few extra guineas to his receipts. For the Dublin matrons, and even a few weak-minded of the sterner sex,

will be delighted to have the privilege of saying, "Priscilla was very ill, and Sir George was most attentive during her protracted prostration." Sir George like his namesake, the Irish Attorney-General, is a gifted man, and will wear his new title with becoming dignity.

THE OTHER DOCTOR.-On becoming aware of the intention of the Government to confer on him the Order of Knighthood, the other Doctor consulted a few intimate friends, who flattered him he was a much more clever man than Sir Andrew Clark of London, in everything but "his European reputation," and why should the latter get a Baronetcy, while the former was simply to be Knighted, an honour which a Lord Lieutenant, only a few years ago, was almost determined to bestow on a popular Dublin sing: ing master. A meeting of the faculty was at once convened, and after vehement protestations, in the windy way that Irishmen are wont to protest, there was

A DEPUTATION to Earl Spencer, whose logical mind could not see the justice of the complaint, inasmuch as the faculty in Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow, each with three times as many inhabitants as Dublin, neither considered themselves slighted nor thought the conferring of

honours on a few eminent London brethren any affair of theirs. One of the fruits of this little "storm in a tea-pot" was to bring forth an admirable letter from Surgeon Stokes, of Dublin, and published in The Times, in which he scathingly deprecates the order of Knighthood, as beneath the notice of professional men of high standing, in consequence of having been recently conferred on persons of inferior status.

SMALL CONSOLATION.-Mr. Cant, who practices as a Solicitor in Lancaster, was successful in a small action for a labouring man, and got £6 for him in the County Court on 20th March, 1882. The poor man had calculated on getting at least a "Fiver" from Cant, after allowing him liberally for his costs between " Attorney and Client." But Cant quickly applied the man's money to his own use, and after repeated applications, was unwilling or unable to pay. On the 6th August the case came before the Queen's Bench Division, and Mr. Cant was suspended from practice for three months. We fancy the labouring man has For three "small consolation" in this decision. months Mr. Cant may turu dairyman, or, as his name is appropriate, he may turn canter, "the country name for auctioneer." At the end of this period he has full power to again prey on: Her Majesty's subjects who may come in his way. Had he robbed some rich man instead of a labouring man, we guess Baron Pollock and Mr. Justice Lopes would have recorded a different decision.

MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.-Crimes committed on the high seas, on board an English ship, were, by the Common Law of the land, under the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, until the Act 28, Henry VIII. abolished this jurisdiction, and directed a special Commission to be issued to try such offences. On the Central Criminal Court being established in 1834, this jurisdiction was extended to it, and a judge from the Admiralty was appointed to preside there.

THE UNITED STATES.-It is computed that the present population is 56 millions. Last year the number of immigrants was 600,000, of whom Germany sent one-third, England and Wales one-eighth, Ireland and Canada one-tenth each, Scotland one-thirtieth. Almost every other European country contributed some of its redundant population to swell that of the New World. What a future may be before the Great Republic!

BRITISH HONDURAS.-W. M. Goodman, Esq., has just been appointed Attorney-General of this Colony.

SUDBURY, SUFFOLK.-The services of a head master (a graduate) are required, who will have an excellent residence capable of accommodating 30 boarders. He will receive a capitation fee of £6 for every boy in attendance.

CAVE HILL ASYLUM, SURREY-The services of a senior assistant medical officer are required, salary, £150 a year, with apartments, coal, gas. There is also a vacancy for a chaplain, in priest's orders, salary, £250 a-year, with house, gas, &c.

TRAINING SCHOOLS IN IRELAND.-We have the pleasure of announcing a great extension of the facilities for the Training of Teachers in Ireland. The Catholics have a formidable array of professors, headed by Dr. Casey, the eminent mathematician for their new training establishment, Belvidere.

OXFORD.-Some months ago we announced the death of the Savilian Professor of Geometry. The election of a successor will take place in Michaelmas term. His duties are to lecture and give instructions in pure and analytical Geometry, and his salary will be from £700 to £800 a-year. Candidates must send in their applications to the registrar before the 31st October.

NEW YORK.-The commercial capital of the United States seems to have doubled itself every 17 years. On this basis its population of 2,206,000 in 1880 will almost reach 5,000,000 by the end of the present century.

SOLDIERS' PAY.-A soldier in the Cavalry receives 1s. 2d. a day, in the Royal Horse Artillery, 1s. 4d., in the Royal Artillery, 1s. 24d., in the Infantry, 1s. His washing and groceries cost, in the Cavalry, 44d., in the Artillery, 5d., and in the infantry, 4d.; but his rations consist of only lb. of meat and 1 lb. of bread, barely sufficient for one meal for a healthy recruit.

THE IRISH MAIL CONTRACT.-Antipathy to monopolies in general, and appreciation of long and faithful services, caused our advocacy in favour of the Irish Mail Contract being given to the Dublin Steam Packet Company, which, from October next, is to carry the Mails from Holyhead to Kingstown, at £84,000 per annum, but after October, 1885, the boats are to cross the channel in a quarter of an hour less than at the present time, and the train from Euston to Holyhead is to gain half-an-hour.

CUSTOMS.-Mr. Lindsay, Collector at Leith, has been appointed to the Collectorship in the Long Room, London, a selection highly beneficial and agreeable to the whole Service, a small "ring" excepted.

ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY.-The subjects given for English Competition at the recent examination were: (1) The Evils of Procrastination. (2) Write a letter to a friend describing a visit to Killarney. (3) Describe a supposed attack on a house by a burglar.

CUSTOMS.-Sir Francis Doyle having retired from the Board of Customs, a chair worth £1,200 a year is vacant.

POST OFFICE.-Mr. W. H. Mulock has been appointed Director of the Confidential Inquiry Branch of the Post Office; and Mr. J. Philips has been appointed his Assistant.

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.-It is officially announced that the First Lord of the Admiralty has at his disposal a nomination for Christ's Hospital for the son of a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Applicants must be between the age of 8 and 10, and apply before March the 31st, 1884.

GILCHRIST ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP.-This will be competed for at University College about the end of the present month. Candidates must be under 19 years of age. Subjects—(1) Elementary Mathematics; (2) two or more of:-Mechanics, Mechanical Drawing, Essay on Mechanics or Engineering, French or German, use of tools (or lathe). The value is £35 tenable for two years. There is also a Senior Engineering Scholarship, value £80.

VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS.-There are above 14,400 Voluntary Schools in England and Wales, chiefly in connection with the Church of England, with an average daily attendance of two millions of children.

BRIGHTON.-In 1811 the population of this town. was only 12,000; in 1831 it had increased to 40,000; in 1881 it was 128,000.

DUBLIN CASTLE.-R. O'Shaughnessy, Esq., M.P. for Limerick, who is a member of the Irish bar, has been appointed Registrar of Petty Sessions Clerks. The salary is about £1,000.