IRELAND.
The Dublin Protestant Association has met with a rebuff from the Lord-Lieutenant. They presented a memorial to him, complaining of outrages against tho Px.oteetants during the late election. But they went further : they said they had observed "with intense pain and indignation, that for a series of years past faithfulness to Protestant principles has been looked upon as unworthy the countenance of the Executive authorities, especially in Ireland ; and that the profession of principles avowedly hostile to the British constitution has been a sure passport to Executive favour." The Executive, they said, "seems to have become a dead letter ; while the lives of Protestants are placed in jeopardy, liberty of conscience outraged, the laws violated, and truth dishonoured."
Lord Carlisle replied through Colonel Larcom. He said, that although he had never recognized this self-constituted Association, still, out of deference to its respectable members, he had given its representations due consideration. In future, he will adopt a different course. "As for the first time within his recollection, he has in the office which he holds under her Majesty, in common with his predecessors and official colleagues, been exposed to remarks of a highly disrespectful and disparaging character from an association of persons in no way authorized to address him in any collective capacity, he must henceforth decline to receive any further addresses or communications from the body styling itself the Dublin Protestant Association."
The Association has rejoined ; denying that it had any intention of using offensive language, and standing upon the rights of its members, "as citizens," to address the Lord-Lieutenant, as it had addressed the Queen, the Houses of Parliament, and the Secretaries of State.
The Master of the Rolls placed Mr. Vincent Scully on the list of contributories of the Tipperary Bank, notwithstanding the transfer of his shares to a third party. Mr. Scully appealed ; and on Wednesday the Lord Chancellor gave judgment, reversing the decision of the Master of the Rolls, and ordering Mr. Scully's name to be struck off the list.
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