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An influential deputation from Belfast, in furtherance of the move- ment set on foot there to found intermediate schools, waited on Lord Eglinton on Thursday. It included the Bishop of Down, Lord Masse- rene, several local Members, and Dr. Montgomery. The Lord-Lieute - nant said he was in favour of intermediate schools. But all schools should be entirely non-sectarian. He saw the propriety—the necessity— of the Government taking the subject into consideration.
The promotion of Mr. G. A. Hamilton to the office vacated by Sir Charles Trevelyan has of course caused a vacancy in the representation of the -University of Dublin. The candidates at present deemed probable are all Queen's Counsel, namely, Mr. Joy, moderate Conservative ; Mr. George, Derbyite ; and Dr. Gayor, Ultra-Tory.
Baron Pennefather has resigned his seat on the bench. It is stated that Mr. Justice Crampton will shortly follow his example. Mr. Hayes, Solicitor-General, is spoken of as the probable successor of Baron Penne- father, and Mr. Brewster or Mr. Francis Fitzgerald for the place of Mr. Justice Crampton.
Mr. Attorney-General Whiteside, it will be seen, holds on, apparently in hope of better things.
According to the recommendation of the Chancery Offices Commission, the office of Clerk to the Hanaper it is said will in future be dispensed with, the present occupant, Mr. Ralph S. Cusack, retiring on his full salary for life.
Further information respecting the conspiracy has found its way into the papers. The Callan and Kilkenny prisoners were examined privately on Saturday, and the Kilkenny journals report the result. There were five, the principal of whom is Martin Halve, leather merchant. The informer in this case is Patrick Callaghan, clerk of the Callan Coal Store. He states that Hams induced him to become a member of a secret society, and him- self administered this oath. "I, Patrick Callaghan, do swear in the presence of God to renounce all alle- giance to the Queen of England, and to take up arms and fight at a moment's warning to make Ireland an independent democratic republic, and to yield implicit obedience to the commanders and superiors of this secret society. Finally, I take this oath without any mental reservation whatever."
Callaghan was entitled to swear in nine men, and directed to provide himself with a pike, a musket, and ammunition.
" I afterwards told Hawe that I intended to retire from the society, for the priest would not hear my confession while I continued a member of it, but had turned me away. flame said, Don't mind that, but stop as you are." He declared his sole object in giving information to the authorities was that his mind was uneasy, and on account of the "tremendous observations" on the subject made by Father Salmon, went to the head constable while drunk, and gave him the infor- mation. Would not take 1,000/. to transport those young men.
Hawe was committed for trial. Two others were discharged ; and two bound over to appear if called upon. - The four liberated men were received in Callan with cheers. Father Salmon preached a sermon on the subject on Sunday, expressing a hope that what had happened would be a warning to the boys ; and extolling the open and impartial manner in which the magistrate, Lord Desert, had acted. He is " an upright nobleman and a conscientious magistrate."
Frepois Nugent, the printer of -a- seditious almanack, full of insane pre- dictions and expressions of hatred to England, has been arrested in Dublin, and bound over to be of good behaviour for seven years.
A man, supposed to be Mr. Ely's murderer, was arrested on board the Circassian, at Galway. Ho turned out to be one Kelly, a cattle-stealer. He was armed with a revolver.
A Roman Catholic priest, journeying to Newport, was fired at by one of three men. He closer' with them, and captured two. Meeting some coun- try people, the villains fell on their knees to the valiant priest and begged pardon—they had mistaken him for a land-agent. Ile let them escape !
• Father O'Sullivan, parish priest of Killorglin, enforces his notions of the 'Beautiful and the Good, with his horsewhip and shillelagh. The other day he beat on more than one occasion a girl who had an illegitimate child ; and tore the shawl she wore. Before the bench at Tralee he naively admitted the facts. The Magistrates warned him that he must not break the law and fined him 51. He had been fined 20/. for beating the father of the child.
• A very brutal murder has been committed in Dublin. Thomas Black, a painter, went out on Saturday night with Margaret his wife, to make some purchases for her and to receive some money. They drank together at the public house where the money was paid and returned home about ten o'clock. About eleven, Mrs. Quin, the landlady of the house, found the son of the Blacks in her room ; he said he had come there because he was afraid his father would kill his mother, whom he was kicking terribly. Mrs. Quin went in later and found Black in his night-dress, and Mrs. Black in bed. She felt cold. The next morning she sent the boy tp borrow for her his mother's cloak. The boy ran back convulsed with fear—his mother lay murdered in the bed. Mrs. Quin went into the room, and instantly gave the alarm. It was found that Black had inflicted a deep wound in his wife's side, and had compressed her mouth and throat with his hand to prevent her screams. Subsequent inquiries showed that he left the house about eight in the morning of Sunday. He was seen smoking a pipe. Ile had himself shaved by a barber, and washed himself and disappeared. Black surrendered to the police on Tuesday, and has been lodged in gaol on the coroner's warrant. The police knew him well, and had rendered es- cape hopeless.
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