IRELAND.
A meeting of the Irish bar, attended by men of all parties, was held in the Library of the Four Courts on Tuesday, to consider the propriety of raising some testimonial to the memory of the late Lord Plunkett. The resolutions were moved and seconded by the Attorney-Genera), the So- licitor-General, Mr. Joseph Napier, Mr. Whiteside, Mr. O'Hagan, Mr. Sergeant Howley, Mr. Brewster, and Mr. Butt. It was determined that a memorial should be erected ; and a committee was appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting.
At a meeting of priests at Kells, to forward the views of Mr. M'Evoy, Dr. Cantwell's nominee for the vacant seat in the representation of Meath, the chairman, the Very Reverend Mr. M'Evoy, thus discoursed on the subject-
" We have seen those pious and learned and laborious ministers who have within the last few weeks given the benefit of the priceless blessings of their ministrations to the people of Kingstown, those ministers of the altars, those sanctified servants of the Lord, about to be sent into the dock upon a charge which these good men have again and again declared to be false. Would you know what is the nature of that charge ? It is that of committing to the flames a thing which pretends to be the Bible, but which is a vile and blas- phemous perversion and corruption of the Word of God. It is for committing to the flames a volume which, if I myself, in the absence of Attorneys-Gene- ral and Solicitors-General, were going to commit to the flames, I should take it up with a pair of tongs for fear of soiling my fingers—(Tremendous cheer- ing)—and so with the tongs would I hurl it into the consuming fire ! " (Re- newed cheering.)
Denunciations from the pulpits of Meath against all voters who sup- port Mr. Meredyth have become the subject of public comment.
Vladimir Pecherine, a Russian by birth, and one of the Redemptorist Fa- thers at Kingstown, was on Wednesday committed for trial by the Kings- town Police Magistrate, on a charge of complicity in burning the Holy Scriptures. It was distinctly sworn that Pecherine "stood by' while the Bible was burnt among other books; but it was not shown that he gave orders for their destruction, or that he knew the Bible was one of the books set on fire. He was admitted to bail. Informations have also been sworn against John Hamilton, for tearing a New Testament and throwing it into the fire. Fragments of both the Old and the New Testament, taken from the ashes, were produced in court. The prosecution caused much excitement in Kingstown, but the presence of a large police force preserved order.
A lamentable affair has occurred in Dartfield, Galway. Some tenants of Mrs. Blake were to be evicted ; resistance was expected, and an armed force went to effect the clearance. The tenants declared they would only resign their holdings with their lives ; remonstrances by the officers of the law were fruitless ; the tenants offered resistance, and wounded some of the military ; then they were charged with the bayonet : several were wounded, and one, it is thought, mortally.
Some miscreants have pulled down a beautiful stone cross from the door- way of a convent at Parsonstown, and broken it to pieces. Persons of all creeds indignant dignant at the wanton outrage.
The Earl of Listowel had dug a pit to catch foxes, on his lands at Conva- more, in Ireland : while walking in his grounds, he stepped on the treacher- ous covering of the pit, and in his efforts to avoid falling into it he dislo- cated his shoulder.
A balance-sheet of the Roman Catholic University has been published. Up to the 4th October, the receipts had been 58,070/. ; 28431. had been expended in the process of collection, and 8384/. in founding the University and pay- ing the cost of the establishment for the first year.
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