For the satisfaction of our readers we are induced to append to the preceding notice of Mr Hogan the following list of some of the principal commissions which he has recently received in Ireland;--
The Monument to the late Mr Secretary Drummond.
A Statue of the late Mr William Crawford of Cork, for which Mr Hogan is to receive L.1000.
A monumental alto relievo, consisting of three figures, to the memory of the late Mr William Beamish, for Blackrock Chapel, Cork--L.650.
Monument to the late Dr Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne. A colossal figure in relievo for the Cathedral of Cloyne.
An alto relievo for the Convent at Rathfarnham.
An alto relievo for the Chapel at Ross, county of Wexford, commissioned from John Maher, Esq. M. P.--&c. &c.
That all animals, however fierce and ungovernable may be their natural dispositions, have nevertheless implanted by a wise Providence within their breasts a certain awe, a vague, indefinable dread of man, which, although meeting with him for the first time, will induce them to fly his presence, or at all events shun encounter, is, we think, a fact which no observer of nature will deny. This instinct of submission to human beings exists among all creatures, and the greater the intelligence they possess, the more powerful is its operation. When we meet with instances of a nature calculated to overturn this theory--such as wild animals attacking and destroying travellers, or preying upon the shepherd as he guards his flock, with others of a similar description--instead of hastily presuming upon the falsity of the above position, we should rather seek for some explanation of the reasons which in these cases checked for the time the workings of the animal’s natural instinct. These will be for the most part easily enough discovered, if sought for in a spirit of impartial inquiry. The lion and the tiger are prompted by natural instinct to shun the haunts and the presence of man--they choose for their lairs dark and impenetrable forests--they select for their habitation a situation whither man has not as yet approached--and according as the work of settlement and cultivation advances, they retreat before it into their dark and gloomy fastnesses.