IRELAND.
The Presbytery of Antrim have memorialized the Lord-Lieutenant against any increase of Catholics as Commissioners of National Edu- -cation, and have received his Lordship's determination—.
"Dublin Castle, October 12, 1860. " Sir—I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to acknowledge the receipt of the communication, dated the 9th instant, from the members of the Presbytery of Antrim, relating to the Commissioners of National Education ; and I am desired to acquaint you, for the information of the Presbytery, that they have been rightly informed that her Majesty's Government have determined to increase the number of Roman Catholic members, so as to give them an equal share in the constitution of the board.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant, EDWARD CARDWELL. "The Reverenhames Carley, Belfast."
The Northern Whig reports an incident honourable to the character of the Dean of Down-
-" The Dean of Down, the Reverend Thomas Woodward, has most properly prohibited the desecration of the Cathedral of Downpatrick by re- fusing to permit an Orange sermon to be preached to the Orange lodges of Lecale in that sacred edifice on the approaching 5th of November. This is an exceedingly proper proceeding, for which the Dean of Down is entitled to credit. By his timely and prudent prohibition, he has saved the temple of God from the pollution of the bitterest and most unchristian party spirit. The Orangemen must seek some other locality for their display, which might assume the form of -stump-oratory but for the wholesome provisions of a recent Act of Parliament. We hope, however, no respectable congre- gation will permit their house of worship to be degraded by any party dis- play. There is seldom much harm in a party sermon if the aggressive suggestions of the reverend divine be not practically adopted ; but after an -Orange sermon may come an Orange gathering in the open air, and after that riot and murder. We cannot have our Protestant cathedrals turned into pro re nate Orange lodges."
The Cork Herald states, "on credible authority," that one of the earliest measures to be introduced by the Government during the next session will be a bill for the abolition of the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
The Dublin journals contain the details of the murder of Alderman William Sheehy, of Limerick, on Tuesday. It appears to have been an sot of revenge against the deceased, who had ejected certain tenants upon a property he had purchased at Feeble, in the county of Clare, from the En- -cumbered Estates Court. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against some persons unknown, and five have been arrested on suspicion,
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