The LorctLieutenatit by no means confines tdmseitt to the in-door
vo- cations of his office. He seems to be constantly about among the people, visiting this society and that institutioh) hot forgetting delicate attentions to the wounded heroes who arrive from the Crimea. On Monday he ex- tended his visite beyond Dublin, and made a kind of triumphal progress to Cork to open the Athenaeum there on the following day. He was re- ceived with full ceremonial by the local authorities gaily dressed in their robes. The streets were crowded, ladies abounded at the windows of the houses, and guns were fired on land and water.
The Fortune, one of the Black Ball line of packets, bound from Liverpool to Sydney, went ashore in Dundrum Bay on Saturday. The passengers, 290 in number, were landed in safety, except two, who were killed.
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