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The Lord-Lieutenant has appointed Archbishop Crolly, Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland, to be a Governor and Director of the Armagh District Lunatic Asylum. The Dublin Evening Mail thanks Lord Heytesbury for this practical and appropriate refutation of a recent libellous allusion to Dr. Crolly's state of health.
A correspondent of the Mail tells a fact which confirms the belief that the Roman Catholic clergy would not very obstinately resist any plan of endowment when put in a tangible shape. The Honourable Frederick Ponsonby gave a site for a glebe-house on his estate at Cloghan, to be held in trust for the priest of the parish by the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests; and he also contributed a considerable sum to- wards its erection; Lord Rosse and other parishioners adding more money. Dr. Higgins, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh, remonstrated against the acceptance of the gift by the present parish-priest, the Reverend K. Egan; who is said to have been much beholden to his diocesan for early preferment; moreover, Mr. Egan is an enrolled Repealer and an Inspector of Repeal Wardens. It was to have been expected that he would refuse the offered glebe: he accepted it.
A monster-meeting at Castlebar, on Sunday, was spoiled by torrents of rain. The Repeal accounts, indeed, represent the numbers who escorted Mr. O'Connell in procession and attended the meeting as amounting to 80,000; but other accounts represent them as infinitely less, and consisting of a more ragged crowd than usual. The meeting was followed by a dinner in a pavilion; but even under cover the diners were invaded by the bad weather. Mr. O'Connell's chief speech, that of Dr. M'Hale, who was among the guests, and others, were of the old stamp. Mr. O'Connell declared that his object was to preserve the connexion with the British Crown; and after that, to emancipate the Crown from thraldom under an oligarchy of which " King Peel " is the instrument. A passage may be taken as a sample: he was speaking of the connexion placed in " extreme jeopardy by the wickedness of the British Minister, by the rancour of Stanley and the treachery of Graham"— He defied any rational man to say that the connexion can be long maintained underpresent circumstances after his death, and when his influence was gone. He had, thank Heaven, obtained and possessed such influence over the present generation, or at least that portion of them of his own time of life; but who could answer for the consequences—who could answer for the rising generation, when his voice was heard no more among them? His policy then really was to act as a drag on the revolutionary cat: but after his death, he could not promise that it atould not ran with such a rapidity as to frighten the one country and emancipate the other. He believed the restoration of the Irish Parliament was -absolutely essential to a continuance of the Connexion; for it was hardly worth having withobt 'the protection of a domestic Legislature. He repeated again, that Ire would subriiit to it, but he would not preach to the young people of Ireland to do eo: hs w. give them no other advice, but when the control was gone they
might act for ves. " The pro .gs of the Repeal Association on Monday, in the absence of Mr. O'Conn I' were destitute of interest. The rent for the week was 2181. The Pilot prominently announces " an adhesion in prospect." At a late Repeal meeting in Kenmare, a Mr. John Hickman Mahony spoke thus—.
He said he was a Conservative at present, but it was because he did not under- stand the question of Repeal. He would study it; but he would take time—he would not do anything in a hurry—CA Voice, " You're just the man we want r —and when he should have made up his mind on the subject, he would perhaps astonish the county Kerry.
[We suspect that Mr Mahony has here shown a peep of the motive common to these startling neophytes—the love of " astonishing."] A Cork paper states that the scion of nobility reported as having lately joined the Repealers is the Honourable Mr. Lawless, son of Lord Clon- curry.
Mr. Sergeant Murphy announces to the electors of Cork city the resigna- tion of his seat as their representative. It is to be gathered from his address, that professional considerations have conduced to his determina- tion; but the ostensible reason is a resolution passed by a large portion of the constituency, and forwarded to him in June last, declaring that he had forfeited their confidence on account of his dissent from Repeal.
A meeting of Orangemen was held at the Town-hall of Enniskillen on Friday; the Earl of Enniskillen in the chair. A Committee reported that they had agreed to a new system of laws and ordinances for the Orange Society; which had been laid before Mr. Napier, Q.C., and pronounced to be perfectly legal. The questions submitted to Mr. Napier were these- "First—Whether the Orange Society, retaining its former name, and acting by affiliated branches, can be reorganized consistently with the law as it exists at present?
"Second—In what manner, if at all, the reorganization can be effected; and he will please peruse and remodel the rules so as to render them conformable to law?
" Third—Is it lawful for a Magistrate holding the commission of the peace to advise or encourage such reorganization?"
Mr. Napier replied to these questions in a written opinion of great length, which the Committee declined to publish. The substance of the opinion
was-
First—That the Orange Society may be organized consistently with law, re taming its former name, and acting by affiliated branches. Secondly—That this can be done in two ways, which are detailed in the opinion; and that the rules and ordinances as now settled by counsel are lawful. Thirdly—That it is the constitutional privilege of every Magistrate to advise and encourage the proposed organization.
The Cork Examiner imputes an act of atrocity to some soldiers of the Six- teenth Regiment, in the town of Buttevant. An ill-feeling existed between the townsmen and the military. " On the night of Sunday week," says the paper, " two soldiers had a scuffle with two civilians; which, we understand, resulted in the defeat of the soldiers, who retreated to their barracks, and after a short time again appeared in the town accompanied by a large body of their comrades, to the number of fifteen or sixteen men. The party searched everywhere for the persons who had been engaged in conflict with their comrades, but without suc- cess; and, failing in the object of their pursuit, they laid violent hands on a young and inoffensive man, Denis Coughlan, a baker by trade, crying out at the same time, ' We'll cramp him!' They then surrounded him, and seizing him by the back of the neck, they pressed his head down on his breast: when they let him drop, he was a corpse. An inquest was held; the surgeon of the regiment was examined as to the cause of the man's death; and a verdict was returned, "That the deceased came by his death from a rupture of the heart"!
The Examiner has since qualified its statement, retracting that portion which declares that people saw the soldiers " cramp " the deceased: the surgeon exa- mined was not the regimental one. The death of the young man is still, how . ever, " involved in doubt and mystery."
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