The Prirome has summoned the Irish Bench of Bishops to
attend ldmi, Lendon, to discuss tool watch the liroceedings of the Govern- ment relative to the Irish Tithe Bill. Already have several of their Lords;:ips proceeded thither. It is rumoured that they will offer no
impediment to the progress of the measure provided they can obtain the witi.drawal of the Appropriation clause.—Dablin Post. [How very obliging in the mitred clergy of Ireland ! but suppose the Commons refun, to provide for the necessities of the poor parsous unless the bill with the dreaded clause is passed—what will the Bishops do then ? Are tie' swell incumbents to starve in the cause of Episeopal bigotry ? Tim I ishops have landed property sufficient to maintain a Church E-m-d.:lehinent of itself, without tithes.] 1:llrineton, Bishop of Ferns, died on Sunday, at Liverpool : his will he added to that of 0,sory, eecording to the provisions of Cletigh Temporalities Act ; and the Bishop of Oseory will now be Bisketp of Ferns.
A or the English and Irish Bishops, convened by the Arch- hi.-11..e of ohury, on the etffiject of the Irish Church and the Bill of Leo! :relsepeth, was held ymeerday, at the Metropulitan Palace at Lambeth.
The 11.,,vi...end. 17,1e. M‘Glice, ene of the Exeter Hall agitators, has scut a challemse to Mr. O'Connell, in a letter published in the Times this inornii:g, to hold a public disputation with him on the subject of Dens's Theology, before a tribunal to be composed of twenty-eight Members of Parnament, clergymen and laymen, fourteen on a side. Of course, Mr. O'Connell will refuse to exhibit himself as a mounte- bank for the gratification of Orange clubbists and political parsons.
.Tames Bell, the trooper of the 5th Dragoon Guards, was hanged in Edinburgh on Monday, for the murder of Sergeant-Major Moorhead, of the same regiment, whom he shot. The executioner, from some blunder when on the scaffold, could not adjust the rope properly; and it had to be done by Mr. Brown, Superintendent of Public Works, who adjusted the rope to the scaffold with his own hands. The bung- ling, however, had not terminated ; for when the culprit jerked aside, the fatal signal with which the drop should have given away ahnost si- multaneously, a few moments' dreadful suspense occurred, during wnich the miserable victim shook with a sort of convulsive tremor, at the same time stretching out his hands in the attitude of prayer, as if to snatch the last moment of intercession. At last, however, the me- lanchely business terminated, and lie died after one or two severe strug- gles. The concourse of people was very great, indeed equal to that congregated at the execution of the notorious Burke. One Policeman fainted during the spectacle, and was carried away. This was the first time the executioner had officiated in Edinburgh, although he bad pre- viously performed the duty twice, at Stirling and Greenlaw. Bell was in his twenty-sixth year, mid was born at Clones, in the north of Ire- land : he was formerly it weaver.—Scolch Paper.
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