Lord and Lady Mulgrave have been visiting the Duke of
Leinster' at Carton the Duke invited a party of Ministerial supporters to meet the Lord. Lieutenant and his Lady. While staying at Carton, Lord Mulgrave went over to the Catholic College at Maynooth • diere he was presented with a flattering address by the chiefs of ;hat Insti- tution.
There has been a meeting at Clonegath, in Carlow, to take measures for preserving the ejected tenantry of Lord Beresford, Colonel Bruen, and other Protestant landlords, from starvation. It was attended by the majority of the farmers, traders, and peasantry of four parishes; and by the Catholic priest of Clonegath, who suceesfully used his in-
fluence to prevent disorder. The details of the sufferings of the poor wretches, turned out in the depth of winter to perish on the road- side, by hundreds, was quite heart-rending. As an instance of the ferocity with which the orders of the landlords were executed, it was stated ut the meeting, that
" An adjoining farmer allowed one of the ejected families to build a temporary but on his land, until Providence should enable the wretched creatures to pro- cure some other residence. Soon after the agent of the landlord both of the farmer and ejected man was passing by ; and seeing the but and learning the use for which it was intended, severely rebuked the farmer, and asked him how he dared allow such a thing to be done ? The farmer replied, Where will the poor people go to, since they must go somewhere ?' Sir,' said the agent, ' you should not allow the land to be disfiguted." Then,' said the farmer, how can they live, or where will they go?' What think you was the agent's reply. It was this—'What Me Devil do I care ! CAN'T TIIEY EAT EACH °VII es In the province of Armagh, at this moment, are clergymen in full orders, of exemplary character, and of ability fully equal to the dis- charge of the parochial duties, who have been curates for fifty years on a pittance so small that 75/. a year would be riches. Some of these men have families of sons and daughters, who labour, with the clergy- man himself, on a few acres of rented ground ; neither wife, nor son, nor daughter, having shoe or stocking. There are sonic of these men who exist upon the eleemosynary kindness of their neighbours, being literally fed as paupers from house to house. There are some Of these men who are enabled to subsist only by the assistance volmitarily sent to then] from the Roman Catholic peasantry of the parish.—.Thiblin Evening Post. [By the Ministerial Bill, which the Tories rejected, these men would have been decently provided for.]
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