IRELAND.
A Roman Catholic Synod, which has been sitting for some time at -Tuam, was closed with great pomp and ceremonial on Sunday. Dr. APHale occupied the most conspicuous position, and the day's proceedings were terminated by a procession of the high officiating priests from the cathedral.
Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Dean Walter 31-eyler and Mr. Henry George Hughes-to be two of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland. Dean Meyler is parish priest of St. Andrew's, a warm patron and supporter of the National system of Educa- tion, and is in all respeets a moderate and unobtrusive ecclesiastic. Mr. Hughes, it may be recollected, filled the office of Solieitor-General to- wards the close of the last Whig Government. The learned gentleman, as well as his new colleague, is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. —Dublin Corre.spondent of the Times.
• Ireland, it is rumoured, runs the risk of losing her Encumbered Estates Court, and of finding it amalgamated with the old Court of Chancery. It is stated that a Commission is about to inctuire into the propriety of the talked-of amalgamation; and there has already been au outbreak of oppo- sition, confined to no party. On all sides the great usefulness of the En- Cumbered Estates Court has been admitted ; but it is alleged that if the Court of Chancery were so improved as to make it equal in the rapidity of its action to the Encumbered Estates Court, the necessity for the ex- istence of two tribunals would cease.
• The new Irish National Gallery will be built upon the lawn in front of the Royal Dublin Society house, in Men-ion Square. MT. Sidney Her- bert has granted a new lease of the ground to the Dublin Society, and the Society will grant a similar lease to the trustees and directors of the Na- -tonal Gallery. The building is to consist of two parallel wings on either side of the Dublin Society house ; one a Museum, the other a Gallery of Art.
The accounts of the potato-disease vary from different parts of Ireland. In some of the Southern counties it is very bad ; in the North the crop promises to be good, and very large; in the midland counties the disease has appeared in a very decided manner ; from Monaghan "there is an universal cry of failure.'. With respect to other crops, the general pros- ;mots of the harvest are highly satisfactory.
An accident chanced to the Lord-Lieutenant on Saturday. In riding with Lord Claude Hamilton at Baron's Court, the residence -of, the Marquis of Aberoorn, hie horse put his foot in a hole concealed by the grass, and fell. -Lord St. Germans was thrown, his thumb dislocated, and his face disfigured; bat it was expected that he would be quite well in a few days.
Lord Gough and some of his family visited his new purchase, Lough000ter -Castle, last week. They were "hospitably received by the nuns" ; and Lord Gough begged them not to put themselves to inconvenience by hasten- ing away.
Some reports have been in circulation to the effect that Mr. Carden is leniently treated in gaol, and that his "hard labour" is a farce. An ap- parently authoritative contradiction has been made public, stating that he wears the prison dress, and that be takes the usual tread-mill exercise; - but it is admitted that "he is allowed an entire cell to himself, that his man- , servant attends him, and that he is permitted to supply himself with food."
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