IRELAND.
it is understood that Mr. Stuart Knox will be returned for Dungannon_ without opposition, in room of Lord Northland.
The Tablet has the following statement in reference to the decree of the Synod of Thurles and the proposed legislation against the Papal assault- " We have it on the very best authority, that letters have been received in Rome from Lord Clarendon, and communicated to the Holy Father, to the effect that the proposed penal legislation would be abandoned if the Holy Sec would undertake to withhold its sanction from the statutes passed at the recent Synod." Anticipating a denial of the statement, the Tablet adds—" We are as sure he [Lord Clarendon] wrote the letter we have described as that he lives. Our readers will thus understand plainly that the penal law is a measure of coercion directed against the Pope, the Primate, the Archbishop of Cashel, and the Archbishop of Tuam, to compel them to sur- render their views, and those of the Church, as to the protection of the faith and morals of the people, and to adopt, instead, the views of Archbishop Murray and the minority of 13.' " The Dublin correspondent of the Morning C7u'oniele writes—" It is stated that the Government have determined upon the appointment of competent persons to make inquiry respecting the various processes for the steeping and preparation of flax, with a view of affording accurate in- formation to the numerous landowners and farmers about to engage in this branch of husbandry in this country."
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