IRELAND.
At a meeting in Kerry in aid of the Patriotic Fund,—Mr. Henry Herbert M.P., Lord-Lieufenant of the county, in the chair,—Dr. Moriarty the " coadjutor " of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry, made a glowing speech in favour of the subscription. "Our soldiers have gone forth to meet the peril ; they have gone forth prepared to die to secure for us the blessings of peace, education, and civili- zation. We must give honour to the brave. We must give honour to those men bearing lordly names, who, laying aside their jewelled coronets and the splendours of their princely homes, have gone to lead our battalions. We must give honour to those young gentlemen—many of them the children of our own town and county—who, giving up the pleasures and enjoyments of youth, have gone forth to meet death by pestilence in the plains of Varna, under the leaden hail which showers from the heights of Alma, or in a still more momentous battle-field, attacking that formidable fortress in which the Russian despot has deemed himself secure. We must give honour, too, and more than honour, to the poor private—the man without whom the battle could not be won—the man who has left behind him what is dearest to man —left both the wife of his heart's affection and the little children that totter- ed round his knee—we must give him something more than honour, we must give him reward. I am sure that while there beats a noble feeling in the breast of an Irishman, the woman or child who bears the name of a sol- dier who has fallen before Sebastopol will not be forgotten by us."
Mr. Ralph Osborne M.P. has been visiting his estates in Tipperary : and while there, he inaugurated the Clonmel Mechanics' Institute, on Wednesday week ; delivering an address on the uses of such institutions, as links in the social chain that connect all classes together, as well as means to education for the poorer classes; putting in a word for the new Government Department of Science and Art ; and citing the names of some of the conspicuous men, Sir Archer Shee, Barry, Jones, Behnes, and Maclise, who were educated in the Dublin schools.
The death of Lord Dunally has caused a vacancy in the representation of the Irish Peerage. The candidates are Lord Portarlington Lord Doneraile, and Lord Talbot de Malahide.
The vacancy for Limerick, occasioned by the death of Mr. Potter, was filled up by the election of Mr. Sergeant O'Brien, on Saturday last—un- opposed.
The extreme Tenant-right party do not manage their affairs with any great amount of harmony. Last Sunday, Mr. Lucas announced to a meeting at Kilkenny, that Dr. Walsh, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kilken- ny, had forbidden a notorious agitator, Father Mathew 0-Keefe, to take any part whatever in politics. The reason for that step, Mr. Lucas politely added, was that Father O'Keefe had written a friendly letter to Sergeant Shee, which the Sergeant had printed in the journals accom- panied by a "false and insolent" commentary. Mr. Lucas says, that "the Supreme Pontiff, who is the successor of St. Peter," will be called upon to decide whether "the clergy, the honest clergy of Ireland, are to be silenced, and their mouths closed for ever" !
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