For more than two, and not more than four persons, 3 articles of luggage-1s. In the latter case, the driver, if required, must bring the employer back for the same fare, if the delay does not exceed fifteen minutes. 2. Hackney Coaches may be engaged by time, either within or beyond the Municipal Boundary of Dublin, not exceeding the distance of seven Irish miles from the Circular Road, at the rate, for the first hour, of2s. (within the borough, 1s. 6d.) For every half-hour, commenced after the first hour-9d. But no Hackney Coach is bound to a time engagement within the FARES BEYOND, OR PARTLY BEYOND AND PARTLY WITHIN THE BOROUGH. For a drive from any place within the Municipal Boundary of Dublin, to any place beyond the same, or for a drive entirely outside of the same, and in both cases returning with the employer, provided there be not a delay of more than thirty minutes-for every statute mile actually travelled with the employer-6d. For the same, but not returning with the employer-for every statute mile actually travelled with the employer-6d. For every half mile (statute measure) commenced after the first mile, one-half of the above rates, in either of the two cases immediately preceding. 4. Employers detaining such Hackney Coaches in waiting beyond thirty minutes, to pay for every quarter of an hour of such further detention. commenced-3d. Hackney Coaches are not bound to go beyond Seven Irish Miles from Other Regulations enact, that the driver can claim an hour's fare in advance in cases of hour hiring; that if unemployed on stand, road, street, or passage, he shall not refuse a hire; that, when hired, he shall not delay, loiter, or fail to perform services for which he has been employed; that he must travel at the rate of five miles per hour at least; that all licensed Hackney Coaches shall be kept clean and dry, and in good and perfect repair, as also the braces, harness, and tackling used with the same; that drivers shall appear in decent apparel, and conduct themselves in a becoming,manner towards their employers; that they shall take due care of all property committed to their care by the passenger; and that, when desired, the owner or driver must produce, for the information of the passenger, a book containing the Rates and Fares appointed to be taken. SITUATION, AND PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. Dublin is situated on the banks of the river Liffey, which, running from west to east, divides it into two nearly equal parts. After leaving the town, the river expands into a PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. 13 noble bay, which is guarded on the one side by the hill of Howth, and on the other by Killiney hill, near Kingstown. The river is navigable as far as Carlisle Bridge, in the centre of the town, but the heavier vessels seldom pass above the Custom-House. A serious impediment to the navigation of the river used to exist in the shape of a sand-bar at the entrance of the harbour, but of late years this has been removed, so that large ships can now enter. Dublin contains many fine buildings, which will be described in their proper place, and is the seat of a university, as well as of the higher courts of law. It is well supplied with places of worship of every denomination, and for the recreation of the citizens has a beautiful public park, situated within a short distance of the town, besides botanic gardens, museums, a picture gallery, and theatres. The town is not famed for any particular branch of trade, while its export traffic is at present insignificant. Those trades, however, connected with articles of apparel and common consumption are in a thriving condition. The manufacture of poplin, which had shewn symptoms of decline, seems to have revived again, especially after the stimulus given it by the exhibitions of 1851 and 1853. It was about the year 1780 that the trade first assumed a degree of importance in Dublin, though it had been introduced by the French Huguenots in the reign of William III. From that period till the Union, in 1800, it had been gradually increasing in extent; but suddenly declined after the transference of the Irish Parliament to London; and Irishmen are fain to link the two events together as cause and effect. At the present day the entire number of Jacquard looms at work in Dublin is about 200. That portion of the town known as the Liberties, and generally shunned by the tourist on account of its desolation, was the former seat of the silk trade. "At the time of the Union," we are told, “and for some years afterwards, the Liberties presented a scene like the business part of Manchester. Fully forty thousand people lived by the employment given there." PRINCIPAL SIGHTS. The objects of interest in Dublin will be noticed in their order during the Walks; but it is thought expedient to select the chief of them for the use of tourists who may have no time for the prescribed routes, and care little for the objects of minor interest within the city. Those who have not much time to spare are recommended to hire a car for three or four hours, and they will find the carman very ready in giving descriptions. 1. Bank of Ireland. 2. Trinity College. 8. Dublin Castle. 4. Christ's Church Cathedral. 5. Cathedral of St. Patrick. 6. General Post-Office. 7. Nelson's Monument. 8. Custom-House. 9. Four Courts. 10. Phoenix Park. [These numbers also correspond with the figures in the Plan.] 1. THE BANK OF IRELAND, in College Green, formerly used as the Parliament House, occupies the site of a building which was begun early in the seventeenth century by the then High Treasurer, Sir G. Carey, and cost the sum of £4000. Originally intended for an hospital, it became successively the seat of justice and a mansion. The present building was commenced in 1729 and completed in 1787, costing altogether the sum of £95,000. The company of the Bank of Ireland, however, purchased it in 1802 for the sum of £40,000, and an annual rent of £240. The plan of the building may be more advantageously studied from a beautiful model shewn within than from any external view which can be obtained. It is somewhat semicircular in shape, with a beautiful colonnade of Ionic columns facing College Green, and portico in the centre, in the tympanum of which is placed the Royal Arms, appropriately surmounted by emblematical figures of Hibernia, Commerce, and Fidelity. The entrance to the former House of Lords was by a portico on the eastern side, the columns presenting the anomaly of the Corinthian order. The figures here are Fortitude, Liberty, and Justice. The western entrance, like the colonnade, is in the Ionic style of architecture. The beautiful quadrangular apartment, now used as the cash-office, was erected by the Bank authorities upon the site of the House of Commons, which was a large room of an oval shape. The House of Lords, to which visitors are admitted, remains unaltered, save that the site of the throne is now occupied by a statue of King George III. The chairs are in their places, the long table in the centre, and the old tapestry still hanging on the walls. This has on the left a representation of King William crossing the Boyne, with poor Schomberg expiring almost under his horse's feet; and on the right the Siege of Derry. Both pieces of needlework are in excellent preservation. The mantel-piece in this room is deserving of notice, being formed of dark Kilkenny marble, beautifully sculptured. Various other rooms, formerly used as offices or committeerooms, are now occupied for different purposes of business. Before leaving the building the attendant-who asks no gratuity-will shew the model of the building, which gives the best idea of the size and plan of the structure. 2. TRINITY COLLEGE is situated immediately opposite the Bank. In the year 1311, Pope Clement V. granted a bull to John Leck, Archbishop of Dublin, to erect a university, which, however, was not acted upon; and not until his successor, A. de Bicknor, obtained a similar authority from Pope John XXII., were statutes drawn up, and a college founded. Like most other institutes of learning, Trinity College was closed in the time of Henry VIII., again to be opened in the reign of his daughter Elizabeth, who erected it into a corporation, consisting of a provost, three fellows, and three scholars, designating it by the name of the "College of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, near Dublin." In 1627 a new code of laws was framed, by which the number of fellows was fixed at seven, of scholars at twenty, and of probationer fellows at nine. During and after the civil wars of the protectorate, the college fell to a very low ebb, but was brought again to a flourishing condition with the return of royalty to the throne. Jaunes I. and Charles II. befriended the college, endowing it with lands in Ulster and other parts. Several private individuals have also made liberal bequests; among others, those of Erasmus Smith are deservedly esteemed, seeing that no less than five professorships have been endowed from the sums left by him. The instruction is carried on by means of lectures and periodical examinations, though the details of literary and scientific educations are intrusted to the eighteen junior fellows, who are elected to their honourable post after a strict examination. The external façade of the College is, though plain, very beautiful; it is built of Portland stone, and in the Corinthian style, measuring 300 feet in length. The central part is ornamented with tall columns, let into the wall, and supporting an elegant pediment. This portion, to which visitors are admitted on presenting their card, is THE MUSEUM, a collection which, though small, is creditable to all concerned, and especially to the late Dr. Robert Ball. At the entrance bronze statues of Goldsmith and Burke, by Foley, have been recently erected. They are both admirable works of art, and contrast favourably with the statue of Moore in College Street. The collection of Irish birds is very fine, the specimens being in good condition, and the series all but complete. Among them may be observed with interest the golden eagle, the erne, the spotted eagle, and a vulture, all shot in the south of Ireland. Some of the specimens originally preserved here were removed to the Geological Museum situate at another part of the building. The other departments are also deserving of notice, especially the antiquities, which include the old charter horn of King O'Kavanagh, and an ancient Irish harp, said to have been that of Brien Boroimhe. FIRST COURT-YARD.-The building on the right, with the portico of four Corinthian pillars, is the examinationhall, the scene of many a severe ordeal. Internally it is decorated with portraits of illustrious characters, some of them originally students of the College-the sarcastic Dean Swift, Bishop Berkeley, Archbishop King, and Lord Oriel, |