IRELAND.
We have just heard that the grant to Maynooth is to be increased to 28,0001. a-year, and the College and establishment. to be kept in repair at the public ex- pense. The restrictions and regulations which are to accompany this enormous increase are so ludicrous, that, solemn as the subject is, we can scarcely refrain from smiling while we announce them. Three additional visiters are to be ap- pointed-le—Dahlia Evening Maid The Queens opening Speech and Sir Robert Peel's explanation have created a-hubbub in Ireland, in various gutters. At a meeting of the Dublin Protestant Operative Afsociation, the Reverend Treeharn Gregg, the O'Connell of that Orange miniature association, declared that the concession on the score of May- nooth College was "the most frightful intolligence that had ever reached the Irish shores." On the other hand, the paragraph in the Queen's Speech stating that the agitation has ceased, has made the Repeaters burst out with angry denials; and the Town-Council of Limerick have gone so far as to meet and resolve- " That, as loyal and dutiful subjects of our most gracious and beloved Sovereign, we seize the first opportunity amee the appearance of what is reported to be the `Queen's Speech,' to assure her Majesty, that that portion of it which relates to the cessation of agitation in this country is ' a mockery, a delusion, and a snare '; and that, reiterating our unabated allegiance to the Throne, we feel it our duty as Irishmen, to proclaim our undying resolve legitimately to obtain for our native land her legislative independence."
The Archbishop of Tuam has come out with another epistle, in which he expresses the opinion that a meeting of the Prelates is necessary to restore unity to the hierarchy; unless " the necessity of their meeting should be spared by the three Episcopal Commissioners [of Charitable Bequests] resinaning an office which has already excited such general dissatisfaction." "If this disastrous con- nexion continues, it is onl# God alone that can preserve our body from divisions, ruinous to peace, productive of scandal, and perhaps terminating in what is sought—the complete subjection of our free and glorious Church to the yoke of secular tyranny."
The proceedinge at the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association were of little interest. Mr.Dillon Browne, who took the chair, fiercely attacked Mr. Montesquieu Believe-, fot having hinted, in the House of Commons, that the Irish clergy are not sincere in their opposition to the Charitable Bequests Bill; and he receded these lines-
" Toekey of Louth, be net too bold, For we know that your father was bought and sold, By English preferment and English gold."
Mr. O'Connell read a letter from Dr. Cantwell, Bishop of Meath, enclosing 1341. from hints& and the clergy of his diocese. A number of other sums having been handed in, Mr. O'Connell set to with an attack against the Queen's Speech—one of the stupidest he had ever read—mummery and trash—ridiculous and absurd. He celled to mind that the promises of the previous Speech towards Ireland had not been fulfilled, and he assumed that those now made would be broken. He elated upon the Irish to resist the new eurrency bill with which they are threatened. He objected strongly to the friendship expressed towards that they the
Emperor of Russia. He condemned the appointment of the new LordeLieutenadi of Mayo—the Earl of Lucan ; who had been dismissed from the Bench for oaII- ing another Magistrate a "miscreant," and bad refused the site of a house for the, Sisters of Charity at Castlebar. After an attack on the Charitable Bequests Act, he announced some good moos. Letters had been received from Rome which stated that the Court of the Vatican had disavowed Mr. Petre. He had stated: that this person was a Catholic—he was wrong in stating so. The Catholics of Rome had lately waited on his Holiness for the purpose of disavowing any con- nexion with Mr. Petre; and they were graciously informed that no representations coming from such a person would be attended' to. This was good news. The rent ter the week was 5141.
Mr. Steele, the - head pecificator," is busy in Northern Tipperary holding. meetings to denounce the system of agrarian crime; the Roman Catholic clergy insisting hint.
' Four persons are in custody, charged with being concerned in Captain M`Leod'a murder: one is Mr. Percy's gatekeeper. A man has been murdered near Darr-- manway: along with some friends he was assailed With stones by a party of men posted behind a wall; one of the stones struck him on the temple, and he diedt two days after. Kiernan, a small fanner, escaped a pistol-shot fired at him night on the high-road: the assassin then struck him on the head with the butt-, mid of the weapon, and made off; Kiernan, however, had wrenched the pisted• from him. A girl at Foxborough, near Athlone, has murdered her mother, •ini a fit of insanity. 'Three persons living near alountinellick have been fired at and! wounded, one dangerously: one of them rented a farm front which a tenant basil been ejected, and the others were the "driver" on the property and his wife.. Two ruffians have shot at a farmer living near Coalieland: the bullets perforated' his hat and -grazed this arm.
Sixteen persons, nine women and seven risen, have been drowned in the Bar of Dundrinn, in the county of Down, by the upsetting of a boat in which they, had been fishing for muscles. The beat was capsized by running against a wreck..
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