Britannia Bridge, by the Holyhead route; and the firth of Clyde by the steamers from Glasgow.

Travelling in Ireland is not quite so expensive as in either of the sister kingdoms, and the railroads are so laid that extensive tours can be taken with great expedition. It is possible for a tourist to go through the length and breadth of the land in ten days, taking hasty views of the chief objects of interest; although at the same time he would find it much more pleasant to attempt less if his time is limited, and rather restrict himself to one part of the island at a time. It is with this consideration that the present work has been divided into four sections, which, though consecutive, are unique in themselves.

HOTELS IN DUBLIN, WITH CHARGES.

Gresham, 21 Upper Sackville Street-bed 3s., breakfast 2s., dinner 3s. (upwards), tea 1s. 6d., supper 1s. 6d. to 2s., attendance 1s., private room 3s. to 6s. Morrison's, 1 Dawson Street-bed 3s., breakfast 2s. to 2s. 6d., lunch 1s. 6d. to 2s., dinner 3s. to 4s., supper ls. 6d. to 2s., attendance 1s. 6d., private room 6s. to 8s. Shelbourne, 27 Stephen's Green-bed 28. to 3s., breakfast 1s. 6d. to 2s., dinner 2s. to 2s. 6d., tea 1s. to 1s. 6d., supper 1s. 6d. (upwards), attendance (charged in the bill) 1s., private room 3s. to 6s. per day. Imperial, 21 Lower Sackville Street-bed 3s., breakfast 2s. to 2s. 6d., dinner 2s. to 3s. 6d., tea ls. 6d., supper ls. 6d. to 2s., attendance (in bill) 1s., private room 3s. to 5s. Reynold's, 11 Upper Sackville Street-bed 3s., breakfast 1s. 6d. to 2s. 6d., lunch 1s. to 2s. 6d., dinner 3s. (upwards), tea ls. 6d., supper ls. 6d. to 2s., attendance (in bill) 1s. 3d., private room 3s. 6d. to 5s. 6d. Royal Hibernian, 48 Dawson Street-bed 2s. to 3s., breakfast 2s., lunch 1s. 6d., dinner 2s. 6d. (upwards), tea 1s. 6d., supper 1s. 6d., attendance ls., private room 3s. to 5s. Royal Arcade, 32 College Green, and 4 Suffolk Streetbed 2s. 2d., breakfast 1s. 6d. to 2s., lunch 6d. to 10d., dinner 1s. 6d. to 2s. 6d., tea 1s., supper 6d. to 2s., attendance no charge. Macken's, 12 Dawson Street-bed 2s. 6d., breakfast 2s., lunch 1s. 6d. to 2s., dinner 3s., tea ls. 6d., supper 1s. 6d. to 2s., attendance (in bill) 1s., private room 3s. 6d. to 5s. 6d. Bilton, 56 Upper Sackville Street-bed 3s., breakfast 2s., lunch 1s. 6d., dinner 3s. (upwards), tea 1s. 6d. to 2s., attendance (in bill) 1s. 6d., private room, 5s. to 6s. Verdon, Talbot Street, near Belfast railway station. European, 4 Bolton Street-bed 28., breakfast 1s. 6d., dinner 1s. 8d. (upwards), lunch 1s., supper ls.

to 1s. 6d., private room 2s. to 4s. Jury's Commercial, 6 College Green -bed 1s. 6d., breakfast, ls. 9d., dinner 2s. 6d., tea ls. 6d., attendance (in bill) 1s., private room 2s. 6d. Wicklow, 5 Wicklow Street-bed 1s. 6d. to 2s., breakfast 1s. 6d. to 1s. 8d., lunch 1s., dinner ls. 8d. (upwards), tea 1s. 2d., supper 1s. 6d., attendance 9d., private room 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. Kinsley's Hotel and Restaurant, 27 St. Andrew Street, and 6 Church Lane-bed 1s. 6d., breakfast 1s. 6d., lunch 1s., dinner 1s. 8d. (upwards), tea ls., attendance (in bill). Foley's, 30 Wicklow Street-bed 1s. to 1s. 6d., breakfast 1s. 2d. to 1s. 6d., lunch 9d. to ls., dinner 1s. 3d. to 18. 6d., tea ls. to 1s. 6d., supper 1s. to ls. 6d., attendance (in bill) 6d. Dolphin, 45 East Essex Street-bed 1s. to ls. 3d., breakfast 1s. 6d., lunch 8d. (upwards), dinner ls. 3d. (upwards), tea 1s. 3d., supper 1s., attendance 1s. 3d., private room 2s. 6d. Aitken's Temperance Hotel, 33 Westmoreland Street-bed 1s. to 1s. 6d., breakfast 1s. 6d., dinner 1s. 3d. (upwards), tea ls. 3d., supper 1s., attendance (in bill) 18., private room 2s. 6d. Manx Arms and Cumberland Tavern, 37 Fleet Street-bed 18., breakfast 1s. 3d., dinner (ordinary) 1s. 3d., tea 8d. (upwards), attendance no charge.

ABSTRACT FROM THE DUBLIN POLICE

CARRIAGE REGULATIONS.

All complaints of misconduct against owners or drivers are to be preferred to the Magistrates of the Division in which the complaint may arise, within fourteen days after the offence is committed.

SCHEDULE OF RATES AND FARES TO BE PAID FOR ANY HACKNEY COACH.

Drawn by One Horse, hired and taken within the City, Suburbs, and Liberties of Dublin, or within Ten Statute Miles from the General Post Office.

FARES WITHIN THE BOROUGH.

1. For a drive from any place within the Municipal Boundary of Dublin, direct to any other place within the same, without delay, for not more than two persons, each article of luggage 2d. extra-6d.

For more than two, and not more than four persons, 3 articles of lug. gage-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. 4d.)

For every half hour, commenced after the first hour-9d.

But no Hackney Coach is bound to a time engagement within the Municipal Boundary of Dublin, beyond five consecutive hours, except by special agreement.

FARES BEYOND, OR PARTLY BEYOND AND PARTLY WITHIN THE BOROUGH. 3. 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-4d.

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
Circular Road.

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

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 consump*ion 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, 66 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. 3. 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