IRELAND.
The upshot of the meeting of the Roman Catholics at Dublin is thua described by a Roman Catholic journal. They sat four days, and the greatest unanimity prevailed. " We deem it inexpedient to state more at present than the simple, but most cheering fact, that mixed education, in every form, from the primary school to the university, has received unqualified condemnation ' • that the national system, as dangerous to faith and morals shares in this condem- nation ; that adrevision of it is rejected as practically impossible ; and that the denominational system, or that of separate grants, is demanded by the hierarchy. On Monday or Tuesday next the synodical address of the -bier- archy to the Catholics of Ireland will be ready for publication ;• and never have the hearts of the Catholics of this nation been more gratified or more gladdened than they will be at the glorious news of united action for faith and fatherland, which, thanks be to heaven, at length, that address will herald."
Richard Pennefather, for thirty years a baron of the Court of Exchequer, and a distinguished ornament of the Irish bench, died at Clonmel on Sunday. He was called to the bar in 1795, and was nearly ninety years old when he died.
An explosion of powder mills at Ballincollig has caused the death of five men. They were engaged in moving powder from a dusting-house at the time of the accident. The whole place was destroyed, a plantation of trees torn up by the roots, and the roofs of sonic adjacent cottages were destroyed by falling stones. A jury has returned a verdict of accidental death.
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