IRELAND.
The first step in an endeavour to recover the prestige lost by the failure of the Monaghan Special Commission' was made by the Government in Dundalk, at the end of last week. Mr. Joseph Caftan, the printer and proprietor of the Dundalk Democrat, was held to bail before the Stipen- diary Magistrate, Mr. A. French, for trial at Louth Assizes, on the charge of publishing " malicious and wicked libels tending to excite discontent and disaffection in the minds of her Majesty's subjects in Ireland, and to excite hatred, malice, and ill-will between the tenant-farmers and the landlord class of Ireland." The particular passages deemed criminal me not stated. The Dundalk Democrat is termed by the " Law-and-ordei" press, a member of the "Murder press." The more sober Tenant-right journals disown it. The only passage we meet with as an extract from it is this—.
"Let the universal cry be 'Down with the rents ! ' Let the cry be raided in every city, town, and hamlet in the kingdom. Let it be shouted from the house-tops, from hill and plain, from highway and byway."
The Advocate says, that "the Reverend Dr. O'Toole, Vice-President of Queen's College, Galway, is about immediately to proceed to Rome, for the purpose of prosecuting in person an appeal before the College of the Propaganda. It is confidently expected that the decrees of the Synod of Thurles, so far as they relate to the Queen's Colleges, will be reviewed and modified."
Some months ago, we described, on the authority of Irish papers, the funeral of Mr. Sheil, the late Minister at Florence. It would seem as if nothing in life or death from Ireland is unconditionally to be relied oft : the remains of Mr. Sheil arrived at Portsmouth from the Mediterran in the Government steam-packet Merlin, only on Monday last, and be sent to Ireland in the Sprightly steamer, yet to receive honest Irish burial and honest Irish Mourning.
Doyle, a man living at Ballywilliam, has been committed to Wexford Gaol for the murder of his wife and infant child. While the mother was sitting with the child in her arms by the fire, a gun was discharged through window, and the two were mortally wounded. The Police found the wadding which had been used in the gun ; it was part of a common ballad ; Doyle WEB searched, and he proved another instance of the shortsikhtedness of crime —in his pocket was the other portion of the ballad. His motive is said to have been jealouay.
In a faction-fight at Ballinasloe, between the Adamses and the Connolly's, one of the former party was killed : the persons implicated have fled.
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