IRELAND

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam has addressed another letter to Sir Robert Peel, dated " Feast of SS. Peter and Paul: He begins—" Sir, it is dif- ficult to reconcile your professions of respect for the Catholic hierarchy with the pertinacity with which you are pushing on your godless scheme of academic edu- cation in defiance of their solemn resolutions." Dr. M'Hale reports the result of the meeting lately held by the Roman Catholic Prelates at Maynooth. " If you

entertain the hope of enforcing your Pagan plan in despite of the resolutions of the Catholic Bishops, if some were for repeating the experiment, allow me re spectfully to predict that you will experience a sad and humiliating d'isappo'int meat. I am enabled authentically to inform you, that not only have the Prelates steadfastly dung to their recent resolutions, but that they were unwilling to peti- tion Parliament on the subject, lest they should again experience the repetition of the contemptuous indifference with which their appeal to the Executive has been treated." He proposes that " the Catholic laity, as well as the Protestants and Presbyterians, should have " their respective colleges, and the sciences taught by their respective professors, under the sanction of their respective pastors." " You will find this more serviceable to religion, and far more propitious to the public weal, than any attempt to draw out to almost an infinite series that 1 and dismal succession of charter-school projects, now of persecution and again fraud, by which the inhabitants of Ireland have been so long and so cruelly wor- ried, and of which the uniform failure affords striking evidence that they never can succeed."

What was meant to be a "great Protestant soiree" was held at Dublin Ro-

tunda and its Tuesdaygardens, on Tuesday the 1st July. About eight hundred persons were present, including numbers of "ladies and little boys, who attended more to the amusement than to the speechmaking. The principal orator was Mr. Ferrand ; who called Ministers traitors to their religion, their country, their Sovereign, and their God; and repeated his declaration that Peel, "the Maroto of Conservatism," was the greatest traitor since the time of Judas Iscariot I All of this elicited vast applause, Kentish fire, and responsive cries; among which was the one—" Peel is an infidel !" The Reverend Tresham Gregg betrayed much annoyance with those who had been invited and had not come. The whole affair is accounted a failure.

The attendance at the usual meeting of the Repeal Association in Conciliation Hall, on Monday, was uncommonly thin. Letters were read from Mr. Thomas Steele, on his pacificating mission in the North, and from Mr. O'Connell, on his bad success in rimming the Colleges (Ireland) Bill, &c. in Parliament. An ad- dress was adopted sympathizing:with Mr. Smith O'Brien under the attack upon him by Mr. Roebuck. fire rent for the week was 3831.

A dreadful affray, terminating with the loss of at least six lives, has occurred at the village of Btillinhassig, in the neighbourhood of Cork. The only particulars as yet published are supplied by the Cork Southern Reporter, and the account must therefore be considered as =parte with respect to the origin of the conflict. There is an annual fair held at the village on the 30th June, which is usually well attended by farmers and others; and a small Police force is always employed to keep order. On Monday last, the fair passed off quietly; but in the evening two men began to quarrel, and others joined in the wrangle. The Police, who were nineteen in number, and commanded by Sub-Inspector Kelly, of Kinsale, interfered, and arrested one Sullivan. The mob called out for a rescue; and in consequence, the Police retired with their prisoner into a low slated house, used as a dispensary, on the outskirts of the village; having first, however, been pelted by the people. The crowd continued to throw stones, flinging them at the house; and, says the writer in the Reporter, "a number of the country-people got into a garden behind the- dispensary, and were throwing stones on the roof until they had smashed it in two or three places. The Police, in the mean time, had been ordered to load; and very soon after they got into the dispensary they fired from the window and door, with deadly effect. There was no Magistrate present; no Riot Act mad; no warning, as I am positively informed, to the people to desist.,• no attempt made to disperse them by a bayonet charge, or a volley of blank cartridge. At the first fire several fell, and the Police then came out; some of them fired again, and again returned; and the whole party once again rushed out; and the people having by this time run in all directions, they turned up by the bri in the direction of their barracks. When they went from the dispensary, a

body of people followed them; and though no attack was, as I can learn, then attempted, one or two of the Police turned round, and again fired, with the same aim and effect that signalized their previous proceedings. Six persons are known to have been killed by the fire of the Constabulary; and it had been ascertained. that twenty-five were wounded, some, it is feared, mortally. The reporter accompanied a surgeon in his visits to many of the sufferers, and found several. very mach injured. One Policeman has been hurt, his head baying been cut in three places by stones, and his lip split. The district is, of course, one wide scene of lamentation, loudly expressed.

The accounts from Cavan represent the county as being in a very disturbed and alarming state. A place called Killethandra has been the scene of a bold semi- military display by the disaffected peasantry. It is said, that on the night of Tuesday week, this hitherto tranquil village remained literally in the undisputed occupation of about five hundred men, armed with guns, pitchforks, scithes set straight, mounted reaping-hooks, and every other imaginable species of offensive weapon, from eight o clock in the evening till four the following morning. For- tunately, no outrage occurred; though the excited narrators declare, that if this armed mob had once been irritated to violence, the people of Killeehandra wind& all have been exposed, defenceless, to butchery. It is surmised that this display of force was intended merely to excite alarm, and it evidently succeeded. in doing so.

The following letter has been sent to a Roman Catholic parish-priest-

.. Priest Brady-This letter is sent to warn you, that unless that Popish cowardly ruffian who murdered Mr. Booth on Sunday Is taken up and hanged and quartered at the next Assizes, you win be shot at the first opportunity ; and for every other Pro-- testant that these Popish villains attack or injure, ten Papists and a priest will be put to death. The day of vengeance is at hand. You are best of your sort ; but an example shall be made.

Signed by order, BLOOD FOE BLOOD. . Immediate-Rev. Mr. Brady, BIlmore, Crosedoney."

A carman at Crossdoney, who said something disrespectful of the "Molly Ma- guires " on the 23d June, was stabbed in the market-place. It is feared the wound is mortal.

Three murders are reported this week. A man has been killed near Borriso- kane, on his return from a fair. His brother was murdered four years ago. At Derrymagoan, n, near Charlemont, two men had a dispute about a moss-bank, when one other repeatedly on the head and body with a spade; so that he died a few days after. A soldier of the Thirty-second Regiment has killed a • comrade in the barracks at Athlone, strangling him in a room where some twenty men were in bed; but no one was alarmed till the deed was done. The deceased had irritated the murderer before they went to bed by some allusions to his wife.

We have heard with great regret that the child of Mr. Booth Bell, who had his arm fractured by a fall from the gig when his father was shot, has since died.—' Northern Standard.

We heard just as we were going to press that the floor of the Petty Sessions, house at Idullinshone gave way, with about five hundred persons. The fall was so sudden, that many were seriously injured, several arms, legs, and thighs beirk broken. The bench, on which were the Magistrates, Messrs. John Miller, E T. Redmond, Parefoy Phe, and the Reverend RC Bryan, remained undisturbed. Dr.. Going promptly attended, and administered relief to the sufferers.—Tipperary Free Press.

Ireland has been visited by very heavy storms of rain with fierce gales. There was a hurricane at Dublin on Tuesday. In Clare there has been a devastating. flood. Bridges, houses, flocks and herds, and growing crops, have been swept away by torrents which descended from the mountains. One human life, at leas t.

has been lost; a girl having been drowned in the flood which carried away the house where she resided. Much damage was done at Kilkenny by the storm of Tuesday.