IRELAND.
A Dublin journal has published a curious letter from the Pope to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, in reply to an address of sym- pathy. The Pope says that all the recent events in Italy " went on and were perpetrated under the instigation and encouragement of those whom it ought to have most concerned to respect the law of nations, and to preserve untouched the patrimony of the Roman Church. From day to day it becomes more manifest what wicked schemes these men are de- vising against us and the civil power of the Apostolic See, and very lately, in a lucubration full of hypocrisy, they have lent all their efforts to deceive the simple, to diminish and weaken the common consent of men in recognizing the civil power of the Apostolic See."
The body of Mr. Hugh Massey O'Grady, so long missing, has been found in the river Pallas. As he was known to have been suffering from derange- ment of intellect, a Jury returned a verdict that he "came by his death by drowning, while labouring under temporary insanity."
A letter from Ireland says, "another great storm has rendered memorable the winter of 1859-60. It commenced on Saturday morning, blowing vio- lently from the South-west ; increased in force as the day advanced, and before eight o'clock in the evening, and up to sii on Sunday morning, it blew a hurricane of far longer duration than the tempest which swept over Dublin on the 6th of January, 1839. The storm appears to have been gene- ral in the South and West. In Galway it was felt with great severity, the gale being accompanied with thunder and lightning and torrents of rain. Throughout the whole of yesterday the wind blew freshly, and it was not until very late in the evening that the weather moderated to any very per- ceptible degree. The Holyhead mail-boats were nearly seven hours late, and the mail-trains due this morning were also materially delayed. The telegraphs were unable to work last night, and, in fact, everything has been disarranged by the unprecedented severity of this protracted gale."
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