There is a long, but evidently coloured and partial statement,
in an Orange journal published in Derry, of some smart proceedings be- tween the Primate and the Bishop of Derry. It would seem by the statement, that the Bishop of Derry ordered the suspension of a Curate, until a charge against him forintoxication was decided. Owing to some irregularity in the instrument, the word "dismissed" was inserted in- stead of "suspended." The Curate, it is to be ofererved, was ultimately, on investigation, declared innocent. The affair, nu...47er, occured last January, and the Curate has been ever since in the e.tereise. of his functions,—having, in point of fact, been restored by his Rector brkre the Episcopal suspension was taken off. We should add, that to Rector, Mr. Irving, wrote a libellous letter in one of the Derry papers against his Bishop, Doctor Ponsonby, on the subject of this suspen- sion. The triennial visitation was held by the Archbishop, last Tuesday, at the Cathedral of Derry. On the parish of Donoughmore being called up, the Bishop of Derry complained of the insubordinate conduct of the Rector. On this a scene ensued, which, as we do not choose to copy from a Beresford and Orange journal, we must defer until our next. Suffice it to say, that Doctor Beresford, sans ceremonie, took the part of the Curate against the Diocesan, and even, according to the account in question, with a certain exhibition of temper, which to us appeared marvellous. We confess we should have been glad to. witness this exhibition. And we are sufficiently well pleased in reading it. It shows such good feeling, on the part of the Primate, to the working clergy, and without at all entering into the rights of the question between his Grace and the Bishop of Derry (as to which, indeed, we are compelled to suspect the Bishop is right), Doctor Beresford's zeal for the Curate makes us hope that he will do justice, in the diocese of Kilmore, to a Curate who had the misfortune to incur the displeasure of the Vicar-General of that diocese—the famous Mark .Beresford; Mark being, besides, the son of the Right Reverend Father in God, who pockets eight thousand a year for taking care of the souls of "the bloody Papist rebels" (to use a classical phrase), that rejoice in his spiritual superincumbeney. The case to which we allude is that of the Reverend Thomas Lyons, late Curate of the parish of Drung, part of the union of which supplies the said Mark with a moiety of the 24001. which he enjoys from the best of churches.—Dublin Evening Post.
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