IRELAND.

The Roman Catholic Bishops closed their deliberations on the Government Col- leges Bill on Friday; when the following resolutions were unanimously adopted-

' That baying maturely considered the bill now pending before Parliament for the extension of academical education In Ireland, and giving credit to her Majesty's Go- vernment for their kind and generous Intentions, manifested in the endowment of the College of Maynooth, we find ourselves compelled by a sense of duty to declare, that, anxious as we are to extend the advantages of education, we cannot give our approba- tion to the proposed system, as we deem it dangerous to the faith and morals of the Catholic pupils.

"That, therefore, a respectful memorial, suggesting and soliciting such amendments In the said bill as may be calculated to secure the faith and morals of the students, be presented to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, praying his Excellency to forward the same to her Majesty's Government, and support Its prayer with the weight of his influence."

. The meeting also adopted the following memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant; which "humbly showeth"—

.' That memorialists are disposed to coliperate on fair and reasonable terms with her Majesty's Government and the Legislature, in establishing a system for the further ex- tension of academical education In Ireland.

"That the circumstances of the present population of Ireland afford plain evidence that a large majority of the students belonging to the middle-classes will be Roman Catholics ; and memorialists, as their spiritual pastors, consider it their indisperumbh duty to secure to the utmost of their power the most effectual means of protecting the faith and morale of the students in the new Colleges which are to be erected for their better education.

"That a fair proportion of the Professors and other office-bearers in the new Colleges should be members of the Roman Catholic Church, whose moral conduct shall have been properly certified by testimonials of character signed by their respective Prelates ; and that all the office-bearers In those Colleges should be appointed by a Board of Trustees, of which the Roman Catholic Prelates of the province In which any of those Colleges shall be erected shall be members.

"That the Roman Catholic pupils could not attend the lectures on history, logic, metaphysics, moral philosophy, geology, or anatomy, without exposing their faith or morals to imminent danger, unless a Roman Catholic professor will be appointed for each of those chairs.

"That if any President, Vice-President, Professor, or office-bearer In any of the new Colleges, shall be convicted before the Board of Trustees of attempting to undermine the faith or injure the morals of any student in those institutions, he shall be im- mediately removed from his office by the same Board. "That as it is not contemplated that the students shall be provided with lodging in the new Colleges, there shall be a Roman Catholic Chaplain to superintend the moral and religious Instruction of the Roman Catholic students belonging to each of those Colleges ; that the appointment of each Chaplain, with a suitable salary, shall be made on the recommendation of the Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese in which the Col- lege Is situate, and that the same Prelate shall have full power and authority to remove such Roman Catholic Chaplain from his situation. "Signed on behalf of the meeting, D. MURRAY, Chairman." "Dublin, 23c1 May 1845."

The memorial was presented to the Lord-Lieutenant by a deputation of the Bishops, on Saturday. According to the Dublin Evening Post, lus Lordship re- ceived the memorial graciously, entered into conversation with the Prelates, pro- mised the utmost attention to their suggestions on the part of Government, and stated as his own opinion, that no serious obstacle was likely to arise on any point but one, namely, the vesting of the appointments in a Board of Trustees; as the Government, he thought, would have a decided objection to such an arrangement, which could not be expected to work satisfactorily.

• A meeting of the gentry and freeholders of Kerry in held in the County Court-house on Monday, to petition the House of Lords In favour of the Maynooth Bill, and to address Sir Robert Peel in terms of gratitude for having introduced such a measure. Mr. Christopher Gallway, the High Sheriff, presided ; and several of the principal gentry, without distinction of creed or party, attended the Meeting. The address was moved by Mr. Herbert of Muckruss, a Protestant, a moderate Conservative, and a very extensive landed proprietor. He said of the Maynooth grant—" I come forward to support it because I think it will tend to extuiguish Protestant ascendancy; which I believe in my heart is equally detri- mental to the Protestant as to the Roman Catholic religion. It is true, Sir, that the chains of the penal laws do not now grate on our ears; the fury of mis- taken coercion does not now grind our fellow-countrymen: but I regret to say that the same disposition is observable in the outcry raised against this measure; the same spirit is recognized, without the will to carry it out. The address was seconded by Mr. John O'Connell of Greas; who said—" It never before came to my lot to move or second an address to Sir Robert Peel; but I do so now as a Boman Catholic as a subject of her Majesty, and as a wellwisher to the peace and good order Of the country. I do so in gratitude for this Parliamentary grant, so beneficial to the people of Ireland. I fully concur, Sir, in what fell from Mr. Herbert with regard to the motives which influence Sir 'Robert Peel in introducing this measure. He has at length seen the necessity of doing full and ample justice to Ireland; and I trust that policy will be ;followed up by complete justice being done to the people of Ireland under the British constitution, and that this country will be placed on an equality with the people of England." The proposed address was unanimously adopted.

The proceedings at the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday possessed rather more interest than usual. In a speech de omnibus, Mr. Smith O'Brien censured Mr. Hume's threatened motion for a call of the House of Com- mons as ungenerous. Mr. Hume had sent private letters to Mr. O'Connell and to himself, in which he endeavoured to convince them that the best course they could pursue was to attend in their places in Parliament; and he challenged Mr. Hume to publish the replies which he had received to those letters. When he failed to convince them by argument, he endeavoured to obtain the coercive authority of the House to compel them to abandon their labours for the amelioration of their native country.

The plan for establishing Provincial Colleges in Ireland occasioned some rather warm discussion. Mr. Smith O'Brien gave his opinion. It was impossible to exaggerate the advantage of good academical education; but he could not ex- press approval of any plan which did not provide for the religions education of all classes. Let the Catholic clergy superintend the education of Catholics; let the clergymen of the Church of England superintend the education of Protestants; and so on with all other sects. He thought that such a course of proceeding was compatible with the objects of the bill; and he was glad to find that, while the Catholic Bishops did not express disapproval of, and consequently gave a tacit sanction to mixed education, they did call for a system of religious education. He also objected to the measure upon the ground that the appointment of Professors by Government would lead to political corruption and tergiversation.

Mr. O'Connell hastened to avail himself of the first opportunity of delivering his opinions. He came there to denounce the Government plan of education—to denounce it from one end to the other, and to denounce the system it was founded on. If he were silent on this topic before or spoke in measured accents, he now, as a Catholic, authoritatively condemned before, execrable bilL He had had some sad forebodings; he had apprehended that divisions might arise among them, and that the cause of Ireland might be weakened, as it had often been lost before, by domestic dissension; but he was proud to say that he was mistaken, and to an- nounce that dissension was impossible. Why did he say it was impossible? Be- cause he came there to work out the great Christian principle of doing by others as he would be done by—the principle which would turn this world into a region of charity, and create peace and good will among men. He held in abhorrence those who would check the progress of education. The redeeming quality in the bill, then, was, that it was brought forward with the view of advancing educe- ttoa but in every other respect it ITIO defective. Ile insisted that Catholics should have the same exclusive right of religious education for their own children as he would concede to the Protestants, the Presbyterians, or the Dissenters. This right was not provided for by the Government bill; and he therefore pro- nounced his anathema upon it, and would never assent to it. He also denounced it as a politician; and in a political point of view his opinion was, that a more atrocious bill was never attempted to be introduced. He condemned it as a ne- farious attempt to corrupt the rising youth of Ireland—to bribe them with a little Latin and Greek to become sneaking sycophants—to forget their love of country and forsake the cause of nationality. What education could be given that could at all mitigate the horrible disgrace of the corruption which would ensue if this bill were made law? The Professors would be like the Revenue-officers, or officers in the Police. As long as they continued unfriendly to their country they might remain in their places; but if they suffered a word of a patriotic nature to escape their lips while in these colleges, how long would they be lecturers ? In France a similar attempt was in the course of being, made at present; and what a triumph to the patrons of Infidelity there would the passing of this bill be! It WAS " mockery, a delusion, and a snare "; and the opinion given by the Catholic Prelates regarding it put an end to it altogether, in his mind. Having read the resolutions and memorial agreed to by the Catholic Bishops, Mr. O'Connell proceeded to speak in terms of condemnation of the system of mixed education. A great outcry had been made in favour of German education, but Ile denied that any good fruits had sprung from it.

Mr. Henry Grattan and Mr. John O'Connell followed their leader. Mr. Barry objected to several of the provisions of the bill; but expressed him- self strongly in favour of a mixed system of education, in consequence of the service it would render to the national cause by promoting harmony and good feeling between the Catholic and Protestant youth of the country. Mr. Conway replied to Mr. Barry at sonic length; approving of every effort that could be made to promote harmony between Irishmen of every persuasion, but contending that the experiment should be made upon men, and would be dangerous to the religious principles of mere youths. Mr. Davis began by saying that he would reply in a very few words to "his zealous Catholic friend Mr. Conway." Mr. O'Connell—" Is it a crime, then, to be a Catholic ?" Mr. Davis did not intend to assert such a thing. Mr. O'Connell—" What, then, was the meaning of your sneer?"

Mr. Davis proceeded to eulogize the memorial put forth by the Catholic Bishops; from which he collected that they were not adverse to a mixed system of educa- tion, and also that they did not claim exclusive control over those collegiate insti- tutions.

Mr. O'Connell replied to the arguments of these opponents; persisting in his unqualified condemnation of the MIL and declaring that he could not lend his sanction to any but a separate system of education. In their resolutions, the Prelates declared that they felt themselves, anxious as they were to extend the advantages of education, bound to withhold their approbation from the proposed system, as they deemed it dangerous to the faith and morals of the Catholic people. "The section of politicians styling themselves the Young Ireland party, anxious to rule the destinies of this country, start up and support this measure. There is no such party as that styled Young Ireland.' There may be a few individuals who take that denomination on themselves. I am for Old Ireland. 'Tis time that this delusion should be put an end to. 'Young Ireland' may play what pranks they please. I do not envy them the name they rejoice in. I shall stand by Old Ireland; and I have some slight notion that Old Ireland will stand by me." (Loud cheers.)

Mr. Steele having spoken against the bill, Mr. O'Connell rose again, and begged to apologize, "in the most ample manner," for having used the term "Young Ireland"; not having been aware that they had disclaimed the appella- tion.

Mr. Davis declared also, that, as Mr. O'Connell had alluded to it, he was glad to get rid of the assumption that there are two parties in the Association. "I protest on my own part, and on the part of my friends, against such a notion. I never knew any other feeling, except in the momentaiT heat of passion, among them, but that they were bound to work together for Irish nationality; that they were bound to that not merely by a strong affection—an affliction which it would seem affectation in me to express—towards Daniel O'Connell; a strength of afflic- tion which I have expressed in my most private correspondence, and for which I would have been ridiculed for its intensity—yes in my most private correspond- ence, the dearest and closest I ever had: I expressed it then—I express it now— I have no other desire towards him now." (Mr. Davis here became much affected, and at down for it moment.)

Mr. O'Connell—" I will say, I never felt mare gratified in my life than by this kindness. If it overcame him it overcomes me also. I thank him most sincerely and heartily." (Here he shook hands with Mr. Davis in the most cordial manner, and also appeared much affected.) After a few more words in a similar strain from Mr. Davis, Mr. Smith O'Brien, as belonging to "Middle-aged Ireland," moved a resolution inviting Mr. Barry, "who belongs to the section of Young Ireland, if such a party exist," to draw up an address to be presented to Mr. O'Connell and the other State-prisoners on Friday. The motion was seconded by Mr. Grattan, and carried unanimously. The Association adjourned till Thursday. Time rent for the week was 3301.

After the meeting on Tara Hill, on Thursday week, Mr. O'Connell was escorted in procession to the town of Navan; where there was a kind of monster meeting in the open air. The procession is stated by the Repeal papers at 50,000; and at the meeting, according to one account, "200,000 men poured out their welcome to the Liberator of the Irish people "; while the " Liberator " himself reckoned them at 100 000. Here Mr. O'Connell made a speech of the usual Repeal pat- tern—" Engiland's adversity is Ireland's opportunity "—on the Maynooth Bill "the English people were emphatically against us "—"a yell, a hellish yell was raised from one end of the land to the other "—" We will most scrupulously obey all the existing laws"—" Let the man who is not at present enrolled among the Repeaters of Ireland pay the Repeal Wardens residing in his district the sum of one farthing weekly, or Is. annually "—"I am ready to take the instalment and ask for the remainder immediately afterwards," and so forth. In the afternoon, there was a banquet, in a pavilion erected for the purpose. It was big enough to accommodate 900 persons; and the Committee, it is stated, issued 820 tickets, besides invitations to the guests. Mr. Nicholas Boylan, for- merly a Justice of the Peace, sat at the head of the table: besides Mr. O'Connell and his immediate retainers, the principal guest was Dr. Cantwell, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath. Mr. O'Connell made another speech, denouncing the Colleges Bill, Ix. &e.

The Northern Whig repeats as not improbable a rumour that Mr. Emerson Tennent is to be appointed Government-Secretary at Ceylon. Lord John Chi- chester has already offered himself to the electors as a Conservative; and three more candidates of the same party are already talked of—Mr. Johnston, Mr. Dunbar, and another. The Liberals talk of Mr. Shafto Adair and Mr. Robert J. Tennent.

Leitrim and Monaghan are in a very disturbed state; the Molly Maguires being; active in crime. A Monaghan paper makes a strange statement—" We had con- versation this week with several of the peasantry upon the subject of a recent murder, and were not a little startled with a belief prevalent among them. They deplored those frequent fires and murders, but attributed them to some Govern- ment plan. In plain fact, they stated their firm belief that the perpetrators of the

outrages were' Castle hacks,' employed by Government agents, and enjoying im- munity for crime. If they were not so,' say they, they would soon be caught: the people will not take them, because it is useless, as they would be let off again upon some legal pretence or other. If the Government did not give it a passover sanction, it could soon crush it.'" Mr. William Abbott has been murdered in daylight, near his own residence, while returning from the town of Aria. He was set upon by four men at six o'clock in the evening, and so severely beaten that he died in a few hours. It is said that no reason can be assigned for the crime but Mr. Abbott's being a Pro testant.

The wife of Mr. Gallagher, who was murdered in Ballyconnel, has died from the shock she received on beholding the body of her husband. His mother and child are also represented to be dying. One Blucher,living near Ballingarry, has strangled his wife, and afterwards attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat and ripping open his abdomen with a reaping-book. The man is not dead. Jealousy is stated to have prompted

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