Letters, memoranda and news cuttings dealing with various matters, including a Fenian meeting at Clontarf, the visit of the Prince of Wales to Ireland, Donnybrook Fair, the police, the powers of privy councillors, the Peace Preservation Act, Lord Charlemont’s library, the Dalton manuscripts, the opening of the Dublin Exhibition, the steamer ‘Ajax’, injury to ruins at Drogheda, the stationing of troops at Callan, the Queen’s plate, Roman Catholic lotteries, labourer’s cottages, the death of Sir G. Brown, and the expediency of government management of the railways. Correspondents include William Clements, 3rd Earl Leitrim, D’Arcy Irvine, Henry Bruce MP, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl Kimberley, Henry Moore, 3rd Marquess Drogheda, William OrmsbyGore MP, Mr. Justice William Keogh, Chief Justice James Monahan, Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl Bandon, Professor John Stevelly, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin, Sir Robert Peel (Chief Secretary for Ireland), John Hely-Hutchinson (Viscount Hutchinson), Dr. Hatchell, and Messrs. Bland and Burke,

1865.