busts of Commodus, Pompey, and Marcus Aurelius; and | legs of which were formerly moveable; and a large silver above the other, those of two Senators, between which brooch, with Ogham inscriptions on the back (described, stands Ariadne. In the recesses of the arcades are Clytie in his Collectanea, by General Vallancey, who asserts and Niobe's daughter. There are also statues of the Belvi- these characters to be the names of certain Irish Kings); dere Apollo, Venus de Medici, and Caligula, resting on there are also several ancient Irish weapons. pedestals. But the most interesting works in this part of the buildings, are the performances of several young artists, educated in the Society's schools; a few specimens of which we give in our following pages. Prometheus chained to the rock, by Gallagher, is a classical conception, and is executed with ability. The busts of the late Serjeant Ball, Hamilton Rowan, Reeves, Esq. Rev. Mr. Philip Taylor, and Mr. William Farren, have all been admired for their style, but more particularly for the extreme accuracy of the likenesses; and are all by the pupils of the Society's schools. INNER HALL. Within the arcade, in the great hall, and at either side of the door leading to the secretary's room, conversation and board rooms, are statues of Apollo de Medici and Flora, en handsome pedestals. On the left is the door leading, by the principal staircase, to the Library and Museum; and on the right, as you ascend, is a model of the cele brated wooden bridge, at Schaffhausen in Switzerland, presented to the Society, in 1771, by Lord Bristol. The original, which was destroyed by the French in their retreat from Switzerland, was 565 feet in length; and consisted of two arches, whose chords measured, the one 172, the other 193 feet, which appear to spring from a pier in the centre, the remains of a stone bridge. THE LIBRARY. At the blank-door, north-east angle, stand four brazen Lamas, taken from a Temple at Nepaul, by Lieutenant Boileau, whose life paid the forfeit of his temerity, being shortly after poisoned by the Indians to punish what they deemed sacrilege.-A very beautiful specimen of the glossy Ibis-being one of three shot by Colonel Patrickson, near Ballymulney-house, in the county of Longford. Here is also a Golden Oriole, killed in the town of Wicklow, by Counsellor Coates: this bird is chiefly an inhabitant of Spain. By far the most interesting object in this room is an entire skeleton of the fossil Elk of Ireland. It was found in marl, under peat, in the county of Limerick, and was presented to the Museum by Archdeacon Maunsell. The skulls and bones of this animal were far from rare in the marl; but it is seldom that materials are found for the construction of a perfect skeleton. In our 7th Number will be found a brief description of this great Fossil Deer. In the windows are some beautiful specimens of stained glass, the gift and performance of Mr. M'Alister, who attained considerable eminence by his revival of this long lost art. The interesting model of Stonehenge, and another model of as strange an Irish curiosity, a circular building, called the stairs, discovered in the county of Kerry, not many years since, have been removed below. In 1787 General Vallancey attempted an explanation of At the head of the stairs are the doors of the Library and Mr. Rochfort, commissioners for reclaiming the bogs the application of the latter; and in 1811 Baron Foster, and Museum. The former is a noble apartment in the of Ireland, procured careful sketches of the whole, from western wing, 64 feet by about 24 (independently of a which this model was copied. The supposition of its semicircular recess), and surrounded by a light gallery. having been a Milesian Amphitheatre in not confirmed by Here is an excellent collection of about 12,000 books, any reasoning of a satisfactory nature. Some pearls, particularly rich in Botanical works; amongst which is a found in various rivers through the kingdom, are also exhi very valuable work, in four large folio volumes, "Gra-bited here. The best have been found in the River Bann mina Austriaca," by Nicholas Thomas Host; the gift of in Ulster, and may probably explain the derivation of this the Duke of Bedford, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. river's name, " Ban signifying white." The MSS. are bound in 17 volumes: most of them are copies of those of Bishop Sterne, made by Walter Harris, the historian; from whose widow they were purchased by Parliament for £500, and presented to the Dublin Society: they contain copies of the Annals of Innisfallen and Multifernan, and several tracts on ancient Irish history. The only original documents known to exist in this collection, are those which formerly belonged to Archbishop King. Harris's catalogue of these MSS. is imperfect. On pedestals, in the piers of the recess, stand two well-executed marble busts, by Van Nost, of Dr. Prior and Dr. Madan, the founders of the Society. There is a series of volumes in the Library, of which the Society may not improperly be styled the Authors, viz. the County Surveys; works undertaken at their instance, and published at their expense; some of which are deservedly esteemed. The First Room contains a miscellaneous assemblage of curiosities. In a glass case, near the western window, is a mummy, in a very perfect state of preservation. The interior of the coffin-lid is adorned with grotesque figures and hieroglyphic characters, whose colouring is exceedingly vivid. Near this is a figure clad in the armour of one of the Tiger-guards of Tippoo Sultan. A curious Earthen Urn is shown, found by the late Bishop of Derry near his seat, Faughan, on Lough Swilly; it was full of bones and ashes, and was found beneath the stump of an oak tree, which was probably some centuries buried in the earth. In one of the flat cases may be seen, a curious ancient Irish regal sceptre, made of iron, inlaid with gold, which was found in a bog in the county of Clare. This relic was much admired by his Majesty, George IV., when he visited the Museum, and he is said to have examined it minutely. In the case of Irish curiosities, an old Bassoon is preserved, found in the ruins of Dunluce Castle. In the same case is a small brass figure, the head, arms, and The Second Room is dedicated to the animal kingdom. Over one of the cases lies extended the stuffed skin of the very Boa Constrictor, described by M'Leod, in his "Voyage of the Alceste." A yellow-breasted Martin; a large Otter, shot in Bray river; and a Chamois, in the warm clothing with which nature protects him from the rigours of the wintry season, in his Alpine country, presented by the Archduke John of Austria, are the most important objects in this room. The Third Room contains the mineralogical portion of the collections. In this apartment are two very beautiful models of Chinese state pleasure-boats, made of ivory, mother of pearl, &c., the one representing a bird, the other a beast. The Fourth Room is devoted to the Natural History of Greenland. Around, in splendid cases, are innumerable mineralogical specimens from the same terra inhospita; and in one of the windows are the head and tusks of that extraordinary animal, the Walrus. Many other interesting curiosities and natural productions are contained in this apartment, all of which were collected, during a residence of three years in Greenland and the Northern "The windows (of Lismore Cathedral) are of stained glass, richly and exquisitely executed, the work of a native artist, George M'Alister, of Dublin, who devoted his youth and talents to discover the lost art of painting on glass, and who died at an early age, after having made himself master of the secret."-Ryland's History of Waterford, p. 337. This young artist, who died at the age of 26, in 1812, was the son of the late Mr. John M'Alister, head porter of the Univer sity. The principal of his works are in the windows of the Cathedral of Tuam; where are full-length figures of the four the arms and crest of the Waterford family; one of the Evangelists; Moses holding up the serpent in the Wilderness; members of which, the Lord Decies, was Archbishop, at the period of the insertion of these windows: with various ornaments in the remaining windows.-See Gent's Mag, July, 1812. regions, by the late professor of Mineralogy, Sir Charles The Sixth Room, is the Museum Hibernicum; and contains mineralogical and geological specimens from the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Some Irish gold, from the Crohan Kinshela mine in the county of Wicklow, and a fac-simile of the largest piece ever found there. There are several parts of the Irish Moose Deer's antlers over the cases in this room, and one or two busts and figures. A small figure of the Right Honorable John Foster (Lord Oriel,) and busts of Archduke John of Austria, and the late Sir Charles Giesecke; the latter are not part of the Museum property. The Chemical Laboratory is finished in the most modern and improved manner, and the apparatus is of the most scientific description, such as the learned professor is entitled to; here, an annual course of public lectures is delivered, and there is accommodation for 400 auditors. The apartments appropriated to the use of members, are all en suite on the ground floor. They are the Board and Conversation rooms, Ante-room, and Secretary's office, or Sub-committee room. The Board room is a nable apartment, a little too low, but otherwise of fair proportions, sixty-seven feet by about thirty-six, with a rich ceiling, supported by columns at each end. In a spacious semicircular recess stands a fine canopied President's chair, richly carved and gilded, which formerly belonged to the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons: and here too is a full length portrait by Sir W. Beechy, of a nobleman who once so ably filled it, Lord Oriel, better known as the Right Honourable John Foster. Corresponding with this, is a portrait of Richard Kirwan, the face of which was painted by Hamilton. Over the chimney-pieces are two small frames containing banditti scenes (small life,) in white marble, the one by Smyth, the other by Kirk. In the original grand entrance to this spacious room, and directly opposite to the President's chair, is a bust of his late Majesty, who visited this institution in August, 1821. The Board-room communicates with the Conversation room, an apartment of considerable, though much inferior, dimensions, where is a portrait of a once distinguished member, and very meritorious antiquarian, General Vallancey. Here are likewise a series of forty-two architectural drawings from classic remains of antiquity, by Mr. Tracey, made at the expense of Henry Hamilton, Esq. of Fitzwilliam-square. In the Ante-room is a portrait in crayons, of Coussellor Wolf; and two marble busts, one of Lord Chesterfield, the other of Mr. Maple, the first Secretary to the Society. In the Secretary's room is the collection of paintings presented to the Society by Thomas Pleasants, Esq. together with a portrait of himself, by Solomon Williams. In the collection are the following:-The VisitaLion of the Shepherds; the Dream; Narcissus; Joseph and Mary; two Landscapes by Barrett; two large Battle Pieces; two smaller Battle Pieces; the Magdelene in a Wilderness; St. Paul preaching; the Holy Family; Peg Woffington, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; Head of Captain Ram, by Hogarth, &c. Also two plates of plaster of Paris Medals, Swift, (said to be a faithful likeness,) Malone, Sparks, Woodward, Ryder; and a statue of The Drawing Schools are held in a range of buildings erected for their reception, in 1825, under the superintendence of the Society's architect, Mr. Baker. The entrance is beneath the northern colonnade adjoining the lawn: the entire building measures 127 feet, disposed in the following manner: a vestibule twenty feet by ten, a stair-case, leading to a spacious and lofty gallery, ninety feet by thirty, in which the collection of statuary is ar ranged. In a niche, at the end of this noble apartment, is placed Behnes's statue of his late Majesty. On the basement story is the school-room, forty feet by thirty. All the apartments are warmed by heated air; the front is towards the lawn, and is neatly finished to imitate granite. The Drawing School is divided into four departmentslandscape, figure, modelling, and architecture-to which is added a school of sculpture or modelling; over each of these a different master presides, who gives instruction three times each week, and three hours at each sitting. The pupils of the figure school are occasionally provided with a living figure, to perfect their sketches of the human frame, and all this is gratuitous. About two hundred pupils partake of this advantage, and from the exhibitions of native genius and education presented at the annual display of drawings formerly made in the Society's house, the beneficial consequences were manifest. Botany early became a favorite subject with the Society, and for the purposes of a garden a considerable piece of land at Glasnevin, about one mile from Dublin, at the north side of the city, was purchased and laid out, nearly forty years ago. We shall take occasion, in some future Number, with a drawing, to give a correct description of the Gardens. At present we shall only say, that an eminent professor delivers lectures both in Dublin and in the garden, during the spring season, which are free to the public. This garden contains twenty-seven acres, twenty perches English, or sixteen acres, two roods, thirty-nine perches, Irish; and is inferior, in size, to but one of the same description, that is, the Botanic garden in Jamaica; the ground has every advantage in quality of soil, and variety of surface, and is watered by a wellThis interesting garsupplied stream, the river Tolka. den is now being renovated and considerably remodelled under the superintendence of Mr. Niven, the lately appointed Curator. One of the most important objects of this Institution, is the cultivation of mineralogy; to promote which the Society purchased, in the year 1792, the museum of M. Leske, Professor of Natural History at Marburg, a distinguished pupil of Werner; this collection was subsequently improved by the celebrated Kirwan. The classification of the minerals is Werner's, and is as follows:1. Characteristic collection. 2. The Systematic. 3. Geo5. Economical. The Irish logical. 4. Geographical. minerals form a distinct collection, distributed according to the arrangement of the thirty-two counties, and is called " Museum Hibernicum." This valuable collection of specimens is open to students at all hours, and to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays, from twelve to three o'clock. Doctor Scouler is the present professor. Annual Courses of Lectures, open to the public, are delivered by the Professors and Lecturers, from whom and the House keeper, tickets can be had.-Chemistry; 1st Course commences the first Tuesday in November; 2d Course, first Tuesday in January.-Mineralogy; first Monday in March.-Natural Philosophy; 1st Course, first Tuesday in March; 2d Course, first Tuesday in May.Botany, 1st Course, first Monday in May; 2d Course, second Tuesday in June.-Mining; first Tuesday in February. The following departments are open to the Public ;Museum, on Tuesdays and Fridays from twelve to three.Room of Statuary and Elgin Casts, Tuesdays and Saturdays from twelve to three.-The Library, on introduction to the Librarian.-Botanic Gardens, on Tuesdays and Fridays from twelve to four; but a member can intro. duce visitors at any time, BRITISH ASSOCIATION. In the anticipation of our city being visited, as it was, during the recent Meetings of the British Association, by some of the most celebrated geologists in the British empire, the Dublin Society directed their Professor, Dr. Scouler, to prepare a description of the objects of Geological interest in the neighbourhood of Dublin, and a Map to illustrate it, which was accordingly done, and OBJECTS OF GEOLOGICAL INTEREST IN THE VICINITY OF DUBLIN. PORTRANE. This peninsula consists chiefly of limestone, which is remarkably contorted, the strata resting on their edges, and curved in a very complicated manner. LAMBAY ISLAND.-This island consists of conglomerate rocks of different kinds, chiefly of argillaceous schist, including fragments of other rocks. There is also a stratum of sandstone conglomerate at the northern extremity of the island. In some places the schist is greatly contorted. Green-stone and porphyry are extremely abundant, alternating with and passing into greywacke. MALAHIDE. The country in this vicinity consists entirely of mountain limestone. The quarries of Malahide, Feltram, and St. Doolagh, afford numerous organic remains. The following is a list of organic remains collected from different situations: Articulata.-Calymene sp. Terebratula lineata. common everywhere. resupinata Spirifer cuspidatus. attenuatus. - glaber. Cardium hibernicum. Tubipora catenata. KILLESTER, near Clontarf.-Impressions of organized bodies occur in the upper beds of limestone; these impres sions are however so obscure, that nothing more than their vegetable nature can be inferred. CLONTARF.-A vein of lead occurs in the limestone, which was worked a few years ago, but is now abandoned. HOWTH. The peninsula of Howth and the adjacent island of Ireland's eye, consist chiefly of quartz rock. The phenomena of contortions are here exhibited in great variety and distinctness. The quartz is interstratified with schistose rocks of a great variety of colours, rendering by their contrast the curvatures of the beds very apparent. The following minerals occur in this locality: Iron pyrites Oxide of manganese. Copper pyrites. Earthy black cobalt ore. Galena. Beds of MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE occur at the north eastern extremity of Howth, at Sutton. These beds occur near the junction of the blue limestone with the primary strata; are interstratified with it, and include loose angular fragments thereof. Near the town of Howth there is an extensive mass of stratified alluvium, attaining the thickness of about 100 feet, and containing fragments of marine shells of the same species as those which still exist in the adjoining sea. IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF DUBLIN. LUCAN. The contortions of the limestone (calp) are displayed with great distinctness at the quarries near Lucan. DONNYBROOK.-In the quarries at Donnybrook there are numerous strata of calp, passing into the ordinary limestone, and containing organic remains. MILLTOWN.-Between Milltown bridge and Classon bridge there is a portion of magnesian limestone, which is included in the ordinary limestone. Granite is visible at a short distance from this place, but its contact with the stratified rocks has not been detected. SOUTH OF DUBLIN. BLACK-ROCK.-On the Coast near the railway there are a series of rocks which are best observed at low water. The granite may be seen within a few feet of the limestone, but the actual contact of the two rocks cannot be observed. The limestone is hard and crystaline, and appears as if it had been shivered into angular fragments, which have been subsequently united. KINGSTOWN. The country around Kingstown and the Island of Dalkey consists entirely of granite. Almost every block of granite is traversed by concretionary veins of the same substance, differing from the general mass in the texture, colour, and relative proportions of the usual ingredients The following minerals have been found in the granite Spodumene. Fluor. Garnet. Apatite. Sphene. Orthite. Rutile. These extremely rare. KILLINEY. On the sea coast, immediately below the obelisk, the junction of the granite with the mica schist occurs. The edges of the schistose strata repose on a basis of granite. The schist is much contorted, and sometimes so convoluted as to form concentric crusts. At the line of junction the schist abounds in crystals of Andalusite grouped in a stelliform manner. Numerous veins issue from the granite, and intersect the micaceous schist; some of the veins run parallel to the lamination of the schist, others run parallel to the direction of its stratification, and consequently one set of veins intersects the other. In one instance a heave has taken place, and the two portions of the granite vein are displaced. These veins frequently contain fragments of micacious schist. ROCHESTOWN HILL.-The line of junction of the schist with the granite may be traced for a quarter of a mile, and is remarkable for its clearness and precision. In this locality the spheroidal structure of the granite may he observed. SCALP. A deep ravine has cut across the granite and schist, so that their contact may be easily observed. The shistose rocks recline against the granite, and are much contorted. Crystals of Staurotide occur near the Scalp. BALLYCORUS. At a very short distance from the Scalp a vein of lead ore occurs near the junction of the schist and granite. · Galena, sulphate of barytes and carbonate of lead are found here. SHANKHILL. This hill is composed of quartz rock, and its stratification is not very apparent. On the west side of the hill, where it approaches the granite, the quartz is changed into hornstone. BRAY HEAD Consists of quartz rock and argillaceous schist in frequent alternation. The strata in many places rest on their edges, and are turned and contorted in every direction, exhibiting phenomena analogous to those observed at Howth. To the south of Bray there is an extensive mass of alluvium containing broken shells. GREATER and LESSER SUGAR LOAF.-These hills consist of quartz rock without any argillacious schist, and their stratification is obscure. RATHFARNHAM.-The junction of the granite and micacious schist may be observed near the commencement of the Military Road. GLENISMAULE. The junction of the granite and schist may be traced to a considerable distance on the southern side of the valley. RATHGAR, CRUMLIN, and ROUNDTOWN.-The operations of quarrying have disclosed an extensive series of strata of calp limestone. The calp alternates with strata, and numerous such alternations may be counted. these quarries the limestone is highly inclined, and exhi- is at present in the possession of the Mining Company of Ireland, who bits other indications of disturbance, In all This vein has been worked by different mining companies, and have works for smelting, and for rolling and drawing pipes. Shot in also manufactured here," THESEUS RESCUING HIPPODAMIA FROM THE CENTAUR. Designed and Executed by Constantine Parnormo, formerly a Pupil in the Schools of the Dublin Society. OLD FRANK AND HIS STORIES. STORIES FOR HOLYEVE. A kinder hearted, better natured old soul, than Frank Kearney, never existed in human form, nor one who could better give the genuine patois to a good old Irish story-nor would seem more in earnest when he was telling it. Poor old man, his stories are at length exhausted, and he now rests quietly beneath the white thorn bush in the old church-yard of All Saints, the sweetest and lovliest spot in the place, and withal the best suited for the tenant who inhabits it. He is gone-but not from me, for his silvery hair and his laughter loving, good humoured countenance, will ever be as fresh to my mind and my memory as are the numerous tales and stories of won der and achievement with which he stored them in early youth; and which from being narrated to the master's eldest son, who is always peculiarly privileged amongst domestics, prevented him from noticing the change from the grave gaze of awestruck and childish credulity to the ridicule which it was not always in my power in after years to suppress. At any rate he would not see it-so he went on story-telling, and I went on listening and laughing at him to the end of the chapter. Some years since on the morning of Holyeve, that farfamed epoch of the year in the almanac of the young and hopeful, finding him in a mood well suited to my purpose; I thus addressed him : "I hear them saying, Frank, that the old people know a great many tricks to be played this evening that would let a body into the secrets of what's before them; will you supply me with one or two, for I want to try my fortune." Why thin, Masther Thomas," answered he, " is it a curosity you'd have to know what nobody but the ould boy himself could tell you-in truth I'm ashamed of you now-you that knows the differ, to think of bringin' the likes of him about a place, not knowin' what he might do afore he'd lave it;-whisht now, an' don't be talkin' o' the likes at all. 'Deed an' to be sure I do know many an' many a thrick an' many a spell too, that 'ud get a person grate knowledge if they tried them; but somehow or other I never knew good come ov such goings on, so | I'll not be afther letting you into them-but just to put you off the sarch, I'll tell you what happened undher my own eye twice, an' if that doesn't sober you, why you're a daring boy; an' now listen to me, for the sorra a word o' lie in what I'm goin' to tell you. "I was once a young boy, livin' there by the edge ov the bog, wid my father an' mother, rest their sowls, they're dead this fifty year; but you couldn't see the trace ov the house now, by raison there's a big bog-hole in the place of it-aye, indeed, though there wasn't ten score o' turf cut on the whole place the time I'm spakin' ov; but a few perches down from us, there was livin' one Nick Horan, an ould bothered man, an' a poor man too-an' sure it's poorer he'd be, only for a colleen he had that worked day an' night to keep the bit in his mouth, an' the rag on his back, no matter what became ov herself. Biddy, machree, 'tis you was the good colleen-she had the purtiest and the softest blue eyes that ever set a gossoon's heart asthray; and the light golden hair of her was finer than the finest flax-wirra, wirra! but the one and the other soon got a fading. There wasn't a livin' sowl but our own two houses within two miles distance, an' from Monday mornin' to Saturday night, the never a mortal face she'd see, except the ould people, barrin' my own, unless she wint of a day to the market; an' sure I'd be as long without seein' one but her's and my sister's-her that's livin' down the boreheen there beyant-and 'deed a body might go far enough afore he'd meet such another pair, though the one o' them that's left is ould and withered enough now, any how. But to make a long story short, I loved Biddy like the apple of my eye, and the crathur wasn't far behind me; an' livin' there amost by ourselves, sure it's no wonder if we were as happy as the day is long-an' so we wor, an' so we ought, an' so 'ud any body be that had the heart of sich a crathur to himself, as I had. Well, that's the way we were livin' till Hollyeve came round-an' ochone, ochone! that was the heavy Hollyeve to me; but, avick machree, I'm tiring you The old man rose from the bench on which we were sitting, and retired slowly into his house, without giving me an opportunity of evincing to him how much scepticism he had unjustly attributed to me; for never since the days of my farthest childhood was I so horrified or awestruck by a tale of the supernatural as I was then with this, told as it was by a sufferer and eye witness in the terrible events it related-it had, in fine, all the results which he anticipated, for on that Holyeve at least, I left Fortune and Old Nick to themselves. The morrow came, and I sought the ould story-teller to remind him of his promise. He met me in the barn before the door, and laughingly accosted me with 66 Well, yer honor, did I spile your thricks last night? I'm thinkin', after what you hard, you played as little as myself; but I've another story to tell you, an' a quare one too-so if you want to hear more of Hollyeve, come an sit down." So assuring him of the effects of his tale of yesterday, I took my seat by his side, and he proceeded : "In the troubled times, long ago, when martial law was over the country, and a boy darent' budge the length of his nose outside his own door after nightfall, without being brought over the coals for it-there was in this very parish a parcel of as merry boys and girls as ever footed |