IRELAND.
The Roman Catholic Bishops met in Dublin on Wednesday, and took into con. sideration the Government bill for academical education. It is understood that they object to the bill, because it does not place the religion and conduct of the pupils under the control of their religions instructers : but the final decision, as well as the meeting, was adjourned till Friday.
A public meeting for the town and county of Galway was held last week, to petition the Queen in favour of placing in that town (rather than in Cork) the intended Western College for the province of Connaught. The measure was generally approved by those present, both lay and clerical; but some guarantee for the moral and religious charge of the teachers was desiderated. The petition, however, was adopted by a large majority. Belfast and Derry are also con- tending, for the Northern College.
At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. O'Connell made several motions. He alluded to a letter from Mr. J. C. O'Callaghan, accompany- ing a song which the writer wished to be presented to the Association. He found Mr. O'Callaghan's production to be unfit for public inspection. The song was a battle-song—a direct incitation to fight; and although it came from a respectable gentleman, it was written under a total mistake respecting the principles of the Association. Theirs was not a fighting association : on the contrary, he was so averse from strife that he would not accept of Repeal at the expense of shedding one drop of blood. He would therefore move that the Secretary be instructed to send back both the music and the letter, with an intimation to the writer, that if he conceived them to be in accordance with the principles of the Association, he was totally mistaken; and if he joined them under that impression, the sooner he left them the better.
Alluding to the Collegiate measure, be said that there were some essential parts of it which required lay consideration; and he would therefore move that it be referred to the Committee of the Association to report on the tenth and fourteenth clauses of the bill. With reference to the intended Tara and other meetings, he made a statement by way of caution; announcing that no person was authorized by the Association to distribute placards or ballads at any public meeting; and he would move that the Repeal Wardens be instructed to exert themselves to prevent the distribution of such documents, and also to bring to justice any person uttering disaffected language in the neighbourhood of any public assemblages. He would take care that no more tricks of that kind should be played on them. He 'pre- sented a report from the Committee of the Association on the Tenure of Land Commissioners' Report, moving its adoption. The Committee recommended an extension of the tenant-right existing in Ulster, and the enactment of an ab- sentee-law, which would compel the residence in their native country of all ab- sentees. The Committee likewise stated their belief, that if some great change were not effected in the condition of the Irish agricultural labourer, an agrarian war was inevitable. All these motions passed unanimously.
The rent for the week was 432/.
One little trait of journalism strongly indicates the depth of the hostile feeling which has been suspected to exist among the Repealers against the Young Ireland section of their body, on account of the new Colleges Bill. At a recent meeting of the Repeal Association, Mr. Davis, a barrister' and a member of the Young Ireland section, defended the measure, which had been attacked by Mr. O'Connell and his more devoted adherents. The Dublin Monitor, a journal which maybe called "Whig and something more," and has with much success aimed at main- taining an independent course in polities, published a paper beginning "Honour to Young Ireland," and strongly commending Mr. Davis and his "bearding the lion in his den." The Dublin Pilot, one of Mr. O'Connell's thick-and-thin sup- porters, reprints the remarks as from the "Dublin Monitor, Tory paper,"—[how much bitterness does the use of that epithet sometimes disclose fl—and appends this note—" We believe that the Liberator has not much legal patronage to bestow, and is therefore, fitter game for the 'bearding' of youthful barristers than either: Peel or Sir James Graham. These latter gentlemen are bound to be grateful." With respect to legal patronage, however, surely Conciliation Hall, with ita chances of "monster trials," must be a customer worth propitiating.
Two desperate ruffians have been captured near Roscrea. One 1STRac and his son were going at an early hour to the fair of Templeman, when the two men fired at them and wounded bfRae. Two Policemen pursued the fellows: they turned and fired, but missed the officers; who returned the fire, shot one man in the thigh, and eventually captured both.
Mr. Gallagher, a land-agent, has been murdered in Ballycennel. Gallagher and another person were proceeding through the street in the evening, when tbg. were followed by a man with a loaded pistol; who, putting the muzzle to Idr. Gallagher's back, fired, and sent two balls through his body, and then ran offi Mr. Sherar, a Leitrim farmer, has been fired at by an assassin dressed as a female. His cheek was grazed.
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