high office which it is my honour to fill, in making it a testimony to the great work Mr. Steele is doing in this country."*

MUSEUM OF IRISH INDUSTRY.

The establishment of this institution filled up a vacancy in the system of education in Ireland. Lectures on the various experimental sciences and arts are delivered by able, accomplished, and skilful professors; and the pupils are instructed efficiently and practically in the most useful arts, sciences, and manufactures. Annual meetings are held for the distribution of Prizes, and invitations issued to great numbers of distinguished personages to attend these assemblies. Lord Carlisle took a marked and brilliant part in the interesting proceedings. His Speeches will supply some idea of the aptitude he had for expressing his sentiments in the purest and most appropriate language. In 'addressing the assembly on the 20th October, 1859, the noble Lord said:

"It is, I confess, very satisfactory and very refreshing for me to feel, on an occasion like this, that we are not breathing any possible atmosphere of controversy. I feel that I have not risen to-night with any fear that the words which drop from my lips will be watched with any suspicion, or interpreted with any anxious misgivings. The products of nature, the materials of industry, the deductions of science, which form the special and exclusive subjects of attention and study within these walls, have nothing in common with the passions of the parties of the passing hour. We are here treading the serene temple of knowledge, which is pursued for its own bright sake, with a homage which is perfectly disinterested.

"The laurels that are to be gathered here are twined around fair, as well as around manly brows."

Again, he says (in favour of Irish industry):

"One expression struck rather disagreeably on my ears in the statement of the Director, when he told you that some of the medals could not be delivered last year, in consequence of their not having been forwarded in sufficient time from London. Why should it be necessary to send to London for the medals

* See Appendices.

which are to grace and adorn the possessors of Irish genius? Surely we ought not to allow it to be said-if you allow me to quote a line from the Roman poet

'Excudent alii spirantia æra.'

Why should not Ireland cast her own medals?"

Alluding to the increase in the produce of the Wicklow mines, he introduced Moore's song on the Vale of Ovoca, and humourously remarked that there was something "more exquisite still" in the Valley than "the soft magic of streamlet or rill" :

"For what [said his Lordship] is it that it has? Copper and sulphur. Now, these do not seem at the first sound the most romantic or the most fragrant of articles; but I will take courage, and I will maintain that there is something yet more exquisite than all the soft witchery of romance, or even all the ardent loveliness of nature; and that is, honest, hearty, human industry, exercising the body, developing the intellect, bracing the energies, sustaining the family, benefiting the district, enriching the country."

In his Lordship's Address of the 3rd of October, 1861, he availed himself of that first opportunity, after the Queen's visit to Ireland, of stating "that Her Most Gracious Majesty expressed herself highly gratified with every circumstance of her visit-with the loyalty, warmth, and whole demeanour of the Irish people ;" and observed, that "Her Majesty could not fail to be pleased and struck with the obvious marks of progress and improvement in this portion of her dominions."

With reference to the progress of the institution, his Lordship said, in his Address of the 1st October, 1863 :

"I believe that much work has been done here. I believe that the work has been done well. I believe that the officers attached to the Institution are able and eminent men, who zealously and conscientiously devote their time and abilities to the work set before them."

MEDICAL EDUCATION

Attracted Lord Carlisle's peculiar attention. Whether he was engaged laying the foundation stone of an Hospital,* or a

The private visits of Lord Carlisle to the hospitals, charitable institutions, and reformatories of Dublin were frequent. He consoled the poor and afflicted, sympathizing

School of Medicine, or in distributing Prizes to the Students, he felt real pleasure in performing these duties incident to his Viceregal office. Of the Medical Profession in Ireland he entertained a very exalted opinion. "May those who fill a high place in the Medical Profession in this country," says his Lordship, "be evermore associated with the high ability and conscientious worth which have heretofore rendered it illustrious, and which have attracted to this city, from all shores, crowds who deemed it a privilege to sit at their feet and profit by their lessons!" The most distinguished members of the Faculty were noticed with honour by Lord Carlisle. He styles Dr. Stokes, of world-wide celebrity, a "living light of the Profession;" and he says of the son of this great physician, “Most pleasing it is indeed to find the son of a father, who has done so much to lighten suffering and prolong life, himself showing so much promise in the cultivation of those pursuits and humanities which so powerfully contribute to dignify and adorn it. I am sure we shall hail with pleasure the promising career of such a son of such a father."

SOCIAL SCIENCE-FIFTH CONGRESS.

The meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in the Irish Metropolis was a scene of attraction never before witnessed in this country. The number of members distinguished in every department of literature, science, and art who attended-the important nature of the various subjects for discussion-the impulse such an enlightened assembly would

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kindly and generously with their sufferings. Glory be to him, and may Providence reward that holy work!" to use the approving words of an organ of the French Press, when recently recording the magnanimous visits of the Emperor to the bed of sickness. May the great examples of men of rank and high station influence henceforth all those who have the power to alleviate distress and human misery! The Irish public will never forget Lord Carlisle's humane attention to the welfare of the wounded and disabled soldiers on their return from the Crimea.

give to the cultivation of science and art in Ireland-imparted an indefinable grandeur to the proceedings. The President, Lord Brougham, opened the meeting with an admirable Address.

The duty devolved on Lord Carlisle, as representative of Her Majesty, to move a vote of thanks to his Lordship.

The difficult nature of the task may be comprehended, if we consider the great celebrity of the noble President-venerable in years, illustrious for learning and the endowments of his mind-whose political career had been marked by his generous advocacy of every cause that promoted the welfare of the people, or tended to advance the principles of civil and religious liberty, and the dignity and independence of man; and who had now, with unabated energy, in eloquent and moving accents, addressed the august assembly.

Lord Carlisle was equal to the occasion. In a few, but appropriate and touching sentences, he alluded to the political career of the honoured and venerable President-to the power of his eloquence and commented upon the usefulness of the Association, and the salutary results to be derived from the meeting of the Society in Ireland.

LORD CARLISLE'S PATRONAGE OF THE FINE ARTS.

His Lordship evinced great zeal for the cultivation of the Fine Arts in Ireland; he presided at the meetings of the Royal Dublin Society's School of Art. On one of these occasions he paid a just tribute to the memory of the late Prince Consort. Alluding to the deep interest felt by his Royal Highness in the promotion of the Fine Arts, and reminding the meeting of the Prince's last visit to the Exhibition of the Royal Dublin Society-"No one," said his Lordship, "did nearly so much to implant taste, and capacity for the enjoyment of refined pursuits, or to organize the great centres of competition which have given in our time such a large impulse to our modern industry and art."

Lord Carlisle was a liberal subscriber to the various Art

Unions of England and Ireland; he was President of the Crystal Palace Society of Arts. The Royal Hibernian Academy of Painting has lost in him a good and zealous patron. He was a constant visitor at the Academy's Annual Exhibitions, from which he made numerous purchases of the works of rising Irish artists. He frequently visited the studios of B. Watkins Kirk, Farrell, and Hogan, the great Irish sculptor (whose atelier was "a solitude for years")—whose genius was universally acknowledged, yet unworthily neglected in his own country.'

Lord Carlisle appreciated his genius, admired his works, and encouraged his hopes by the deep interest he evinced for his success, and by his friendly and generous patronage.†

During Lord Carlisle's Viceroyalty Statues to eminent Irishmen were placed in the open air and broad thoroughfares. Previous to his arrival in Ireland as Lord Lieutenant, the streets. and squares of her beautiful Metropolis presented few mementoes of the great men of the country. At length, moved by his liberal subscriptions and wise counsels, the Irish people are now fulfilling the sacred duty of transmitting, in marble and bronze, to future ages the fame of those great men who shed a lustre on the history of the country by their noble works and patriotic deeds.

* "I left Italy, where I would have made a fortune-where genius was appreciated— and I threw myself into the arms of my country; but, instead of pressing me with affection, she is pressing me to death "-HOGAN.

Lord Carlisle was deeply affected when he heard of the death of the great artist. No sooner had the meek yet high-toned spirit of Hogan quitted its earthly tenement than the amiable and generous Lord Carlisle sent words of consolation and well-timed assistance to the widow and "little ones” of “poor Hogan,” as his Lordship affectionately calls him in the following letter, in reply to the sad intelligence:

"CASTLE HOWARD, March 29, 1858.

"DEAR MR. GASKIN,-I am extremely concerned to see the death of poor Hogan, I fear his family must be in a very impoverished condition. I should like to learn about them, though I should be but little able to help them. The extracts have been very interesting.

"Yours, faithfully,

"CARLISLE."