IRELAND.
Archbishop M'Hale, and the other Roman Catholic Prelates of Con- naught, have adopted a resolution in conclave, to act immediately on the Pope's recommendation of forming a Roman Catholic College independent of Government.
In the Dublin Commission Court, Mr. Duffy's plea in abatement was objected to as informal, and was thereupon amended. In its amended form it was contested, and after argument was overruled by the Court. A plea of "not guilty " was then pleaded to one count, and the other counts were generally objected to in Coto, as wrongly assuming the law. The latter objection was itself objected to by the Attorney-General, and ultimately was withdrawn and readvanced in the form of a particular objection to each count after the first, as bad in law. The arguments commenced on Monday. On Wednesday, the Judges overruled the whole of the objections, and called on the prisoner to plead on all the counts. He pleaded accord- ingly, and demanded a copy of the panel: this was refused, and he chal- lenged the array: triers were appointed, and the impartiality of the panel was certified by the triers.
Conciliation Hall is actually sold to the Reverend Dr. Meyler, as a chapel of ease to Westland Bow.—Evening Packet.
A Dublin correspondent writes—" The Society of Friends have con- cluded a negotiation for the taking of a farm of 400 acres of the lands of Knock Abbey, in the county of Galway, for the purpose of establishing a model farm to be worked under the supervision of a committee of the So- ciety. The farm, which is nearly in a state of nature, is within fourteen miles of Ballinasloe.- The Norfolk farmers, to whom I alluded some time since as being upon a tour of search for a locality for agricultural invest- ment, have also taken a farm in the same locality."
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