IRELAND
The Lord-Lieutenant presided at the annual distribution of prizes to the pupils of the Dublin School of Design, on Monday evening.
The cholera seems to have generally abated last week. It had dis- appeared from Lame and Carrickfergus. No cases had occurred in Belfast. But in Cork isolated cases continue. One of its victims has been Captain Hopkinson, of the Sixty-second Regiment ; who died in Fermoy Barracks, after only six hours' illness. At Kanturk there had been an abatement : altogether, the number attacked had been 129; of these 51 died, 12 were cured, and on Saturday 66 remained under treat- ment.
Agricultuee in the West is vastly improving, now that the great estates have fallen into the hands of a "foreign" proprietary. The land is gra- dually drained, fenced, and stocked. The newspapers report that the po- tato is again planted "with enthusiasm." On the other hand, if we may trust the local journals, the going out of the people, "the flight" as it is called, continues both from the South and West.
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