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In reference to the potato dearth, the Dublin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle mentions a curious fact- " The Government Commissioners have issued a new set of queries, from which one of the principal questions contained in the first list has been excluded. This query was to the effect 'What measures would you suggest as remedies for the distress ?' The answer supplied in a vast number of cases was—' Repeal of the Union and Repeal of the Corn-laws.' Those replies were' of course, forwarded to Dublin Castle for the information of the Government. The result was the can- celling of the first set of queries, and the issuing of a new printed form of inter- rogatories, from which the question as to remedies for distress was omitted altogether."
Informations were laid before Mr. Justice Burton, on Monday, against Charles Gavan Duffy, proprietor of the Nation, at the suit of the Crown, for a seditious libel—namely, for the notorious paper on railroads and the conveyance of troops.
The proceedings of the Repeal Association on Monday last were un- unusually dull. Mr. O'Connell alluded to the " Gutter Commissioner" of the Times, and charged his companion, the " reporter," with inaccuracy. For instance, the reporter drew an unfavourable contrast between cottages on the estate of Mr. O'Connell and those which he saw on a neighbouring property, that he supposed to belong to a Mr. O'Sullivan, and which he described as " clean, commodious, and well kept"; the lands also being " in a better state of cultivation ": now, both the cottages and the lands are Mr. O'Connell's! The necessity of returning Repealers to Parliament, a retrospect of the progress of Repeal, (which is to be consummated within the present year!) and the like, were Mr. O'Connell's topics. He proposes that the Repeal Members should all come to-London and attend in Par- liainent at the beginning of the session, to aid in removing the restrictions on food, and then to resume their attendance in Conciliation Hall. The rent for the week was 4481.
In a letter written from Dublin, on the 1st instant, the Times Commissioner denies the truth of Mr. O'Connell's recent contradictions, but with little specific argument; leaving the dispute pretty much where it stood- ' Mr. O'Connell complains that we picked out the wretched cottages, and passed by the good ones. This is untrue. But, according to him, there are no wretched cottages; and if there are not, how could we pick them out? The truth is, that on each townland of his that we saw, eighteen or nineteen out of every twenty cottages are most wretched: the one or two decent cottages on a townland were always picked out for us, and we invariably entered them, and your reporter has faithfully described them. Mr. O'Connell says, he will' make me a compliment of the glass windows'• which in his peculiar phraseology is ac- knowledging the fact to be as I stated it, that his comfortable cottages' have got no windows. I think I may fairly' thank him for nothing' here."
Judge Keatinge has delivered an opinion against the claim of Mr. Denis Caulfield Heron, a Roman Catholic student of Dublin University, to be admitted to a scholarship. The Judge considers, that while the statutes secure to the Roman Catholics a liberal education in Trinity College, they reserve the scholarships for Protestants. In accordance with that opinion, the Visitors of the University have finally rejected Mr. Heron's claim.
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