IRELAND.
A report that Sir John Campbell will soon succeed Lord Plunket in the Irish Chencelloreitip, has been revived in Dublin.
The Dublin Trades Union, following Mr. O'Connell's advice, which the Northern Whig considered the perfection of " humbug," have addressed Mr. Sharman Crawford, requesting hint to head the Repeal agitation. Mr. Crawford acknowledged the address in a brief epistle, and promised to "prepare a reply as speedily as possible."
Some members of' the Kilkenny Citizens Club have declared their intention of doubling their eubecriptions to the O'Connell tribute when the period of contribution arrives.
The " monstrous indecency of the Vicar of Bray" has excited the indignation of' all trite Pent o :tants. The Duhlin Evening Packet gives this account of Mr. Plunket's offence- " On Sundae week, the festh of September, the Honourable and Reverend William Plunket, Vicar of Bray, left his parish-chnrell, previous to what is usually termed the see..u,1 rrvb., and pr 1eidA to a Roman Catholic chapel in the town, where he acted as a collector for pious, i. e. Popish uses ; leaving to one of his cur ttes tie, performance of that most solemn of all clerical duties, the adrnini4ration of the s,,.crAment of the Lord's supper. The question that naturally sitggc.-ti itself to the intelligent mind is, which of the offices, that of collector in a Popish ina,4-lioase, or that of officiating minister of God's Holy Word, did the flormoaratile and Reverend William Piunket deem of the greater
importance and the more incumbent up' iiH The answer must be, that he regarded his most awful and responsible d ity as a minister of the gospel, to he
&thing of minor consideration to that of in the sustainment of a sys- tem which, if he be a true believer in Christ's Scrititaral doctrines, he must consider full of errors and delusions. By teenier his back upon his church and flock, and countenancing and supporting, Popery, he cast upon that church and that flock an insult which can never be forgotten. It was a monstrous neglect of duty and a crying, indecency. We hope sincerely that his congrega- tion will mark their sense of the revolting act, and that the Archbishop of Dublin will punish the delinquent." The Limerick papers last week announced that an atrocious con. spiraey had been discovered, of which Mr. Philip Henry Holland,, solicitor, and his wife Frances Holland, were to have been the victims, It Was said that ruffians had arrived from a remote part of Ireland to murder Mr. and Mrs. Holland, and had actually got as far as their bedroom-door, when finding it bolted inside, they ran away. Enmity to Mr. Holland on account of his "serious" Protestantism was pre- sumed to have been the motive of the Popish villains. From the pro- ceedings in the Magistrates Court at Limerick, however, we learn that the entire story .of the intended assassination was fabricated by two children, apprenticed servants of Holland. These apprentices, Mary Ann Alcock and Henry Pujalas, had invented the story, and accused themselves of being accomplices, in order to get away from their master's house; where they were treated with a sort of cruelty which reminds one of Mrs. Brownriger's treatment of her apprentices. They were flogged, often several times it day, with sticks, holly-switches, and whips of cord. A surgeon declared that lie never saw a soldier's back after a flogging in a worse state than the poor girl's—her shift stuck close to time back, and the skin was torn oft'. The boy was scarcely fit to appear in Court. Both the children were under thirteen years of age : theywere emaciated, squalid, miserable little creatures. Had they not been at once put under medical treatment, Dr. Keating, Physician to the City Gaol, said that mortification and death might have ensued, for "the wounds were extensive." It appeared that on one occasion Mrs. Holland had made the boy take an oath upon the Bible. The Magistrates therefore ordered llolland and his wife to enter into recog- nizances, themselves in 500/. and two sureties of 250/. each, to appear for trial at the next Assizes for an assault with intent to commit grievous bodily harm, and Mrs. Holland for administering an unlawful oath. The decision of' the Magistrates teas received with loud cheers by the audit ors.
The Deliiisf Chron:ele announces the discovery of a Rihand Lodge in Belfast ; which the Da/din Etening Post says is an Able " utterly con- temptible " in a political point of view—and that the " vermin must be extirpated."
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