IRELAND.
The Earl of Clarendon, accompanied by the Countess, returned from England to Dublin on Saturday.
Viscount Monck died on Friday, at his residence in Merrion Square, Dublin; and is succeeded by his son, the Honourable Charles Stanley Monck, who was born in the year 1819. The present Viscount took a prominent part in the organization of the Irish Reproductive Committee, a society which subsequently merged into the "Irish Council."
Some of the Irish papers state that the inferior clergy in the West and South, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, have been reduced to utter destitution by the impoverishment and thinning of their flocks, through famine and emigration. The Dublin Evening Mail declares that for some- months past the Roman Catholic Bishops of the South have been dividing their incomes with their clergy- " We have heard from coMpetent authority," says that journal, "of three re- spectable Roman Catholic priests, in a Western county, being forced by necessity, to have their names placed upon relief lists. We have been informed, we believe truly, that a beneficed Protestant clergyman who has been largely intrusted with the distribution of relief, and who discharged the trust with honour, has within the last few weeks petitioned a relief association for permission to appropriate half a ton of the oatmeal confided to him, to the purpose of saving his children from starvation."
The cholera is ravaging Connaught. It appeared in Ballinasloe -Union Workhouse on Monday, and twenty-two cases out of eighty-seven had. proved fatal on Tuesday afternoon.
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