IRELAND.
The Lord-Lieutenant held a chapter of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, at Dublin Castle, on Tuesday, for the investiture of the Duke of Cambridge and Lord Carew with the riband and badge of the order. TheFreemon's Journal has heard from a party on whom reliance can be placed, and it can "all but vouch the accuracy of the statement," that Mr. More O'Ferrall, late Governor of Malta, was offered the order and riband of a Knight Commander of the Bath; but refused to accept the honour "from the hands of an Anti-Catholic Administration."
The Freeman's Journal has reported festivities at the town of liens which marked the departure of the Reverend Robert Mullen, on the mis- sion of raising contributions for the Roman Catholic University from the Catholics of the United States. Mr. Mullen fiercely attacked the prelates and priests of his own faith who have opposed the founding of the Uni- versity; comparing the position of the Irish bishops, divided between Rome on the one side—Clarendon, Lord John, and the murdering Whigs, on the other—to that of Antioch disturbed by the claims of three rival bish- ops; and declaring the bishops and priests who favour the Godless Col- leges and hold back from the Catholic University, to be, "as much as in them lies, scattering what is of God and favouring Antichrist."
The Dublin Evening Mail states that the Spanish Government has made a concession of two hundred and fifty square miles of country on the banks of the Guadalquiver, in Andalusia and Estramadura, for coloniza- tion by Irish settlers. The settlers are to have "exemption from taxes for twenty-five years ; admission of their furniture, clothing, and agri- cultural implements, free of duty ; privilege of felling timber for build- ing in the royal forests; power to appoint their own municipal authori- ties." It is explained that the land is in a district which was unpeopled by the expulsion of the Moors, and has never since been fully occupied.
At Dargan in Clare, a fox entered a cabin, seized an infant from a cradle, and carried it off. The fox was pursued, and dropped the child ; but so severe a wound had been inflicted in the infant's throat that it soon expired.
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