IRELAND.
Mr. Benjamin Hawes has replied to an inquiring constituent, that his seat was not vacated by his acceptance of the place in the War Office, but that he will apply for the Chiltern Hundreds at the opening of the coming session.
Mr. John Reynolds M.P. has been elected an Alderman of the city of Dublin, in room of the late Alderman Keshan. He polled 155 votes against the 77 votes given to his opponent, Mr. Sweetman, tho great Crewel., The long-expected Thurles Statutes are now announced by the Nation as printed and in course of distribution among the Roman Catholic clergy. " They form a thin octavo volume of between 200 and 300 pages, and are, of course, written in the language of the Latin Church. The greater number of the statutes deal with the manner of administering the sacraments in ac- cordance with the Roman ritual. They prescribe the place and time wherever it was found necessary, in order to restore the practice to a strict conformity with the custom of Catholic countries. But the statute most anxiously expected is that which deals with the provincial Colleges. It di- rects the immediate withdrawal of ecclesiastics from all connexion with them, and punishes disobedience by suspension from all ecclesiastical func- tions. The publication of the statutes in each diocese is, we understand, imperative; and hence the Deans and other clerics holding office in any of the Colleges will forthwith come under their operation. There is no direct prohibition against lay Catholics attending them, beyond that implied in the entire withdrawal of ecclesiastical guidance or sanction."
Lately, a large number of the inhabitants of Waterford city memorial- ized the Board of National Education for the establishment of a model school there. The name of Dr. Foran, the Roman Catholic. Bishop of the district, was one of the influential signatures at the head of, the memorial ; the fact was deemed another gratifying.proof that the part taken by the tolerant Dr. Blake in the North was meeting parallels among the Roman Catholic. prelates of the South. But so far as Dr. Foran is concerned, the inference was premature. He has written to the Commission inform- ing them that he signed the memorial under a double error : ho did not know that the Commissioners reserved to themselves the appointment of teachers to the model schools; or that they retained exclusively the power of selecting class-books—he was under the impression that in both these points model schools differ in no respect from the ordinary schools in con- nexion with the Board.
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