IRELAND.
Accounts from Dublin state that the Ministerial concessions to the Irish Roman Catholics, in the modification of the bill before the House of Com- mons, seem only to have made the national feeling "more rampant than ever." Meetings are held all over the country ; and a serious point of union has been offered by the formation in Limerick of a permanent " Ca- tholic Association," for the protection of unrestricted worship, "and the appropriation of the revenues of what is called the Established Church, to secular purposes."
The address of the Irish Catholic Prelates to the Queen has been pub- lished. While offering unhesitating allegiance in temporal matters, it reserves that allegiance in spiritual matters which belongs solely to God. It declares the law before Parliament to be subversive of those principles of religious liberty which have descended to her Majesty as a precious in- heritance, "and which have been strengthened in her royal bosom by the deliberate judgment of an enlightened mind," and "the kindly sensibilities of a heart that pants for the happiness of all her subjects." Sir George Grey intimated that "the address was graciously received by her Ma- jesty."
Archbishop Murray has testified his virtual disapproval of the project of a Catholic University, by a letter in which he declares he has " given no orders" for a collection in the churches of his archdiocese on behalf of the University ; and in another letter he has declared the institution to be of " doubtful possibility."
While Timothy Clomp, of Rathbeg in King's County, was returning home at night, two men assailed him. One named Morgan fired a gun at him; but as Cloran was unhurt, the assassin snatched another gun from his com- panion and snapped it ; this also missed fire. Then Morgan attacked the man with the butt-end. Cloran's cries frightened the second assassin away, and brought Cloran's -wife to the spot. The couple struggled with Morgan, and Cloran struck him a blow on the head with a stone, which caused his death some hours after. A Coroner's Jury gave a verdict of "Justifiable homicide," and recommended Cloran and his wife to the consideration of the Govern- ment for their "valorous conduct." The man who ran away has since been taken. Cloran is a bailiff; he had been placed in care of a bog, in the place of a man dismissed, and had purchased a cow and an ass which were seized for rent : hence the attack on him. " The peasantry look upon Cloran as a doomed man." Morgan was a tailor, and was probably hired for the mur- der, as he had no connexion with the property on which Clorau is employed.
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