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The obituary contains a :record- of the death of -William Conyngham Plunket, Baron Plunket, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. Lord Plunket played re, varied and distinguished part in the first half of the nineteenth century. Barnet Fermanagh, in 1765, he graduated at Trinity

• College, adopted the profession of the law, and was railed to the bar in

• 1788.- "Famed; -everihthen,-. foe Isis gifta,of speech, he was introduced, through ,Lard-Oharleraonti into the Irish Parliament, and won renown by opposing the Government, as -well as many fees by practice in the courts. In 1808,1 Mr..PAniaket appeared as one of the Crown counsel at the trial of Robert Emmett ; , and iii the. autumn of the same year he was made Solieitor.Goseral. . Joining Lord Grenville in 1805, he was made Irish Attorney-Genera in the Ministry of "All the Talents," and quitted office with them in 1807-- In 1.816;.- he defeated Mr- Conker in a contest for the representation of Dublin Univensity; and appeared in the Imperial Parliament as the extenuator of the policy of the Liverpool Cabinet When the Marquis of -Wellesley became Viceroy, on the death of the Marquis of .Londonderry in 1822, Mr. Plunket was again made At- torney-General., . 'Darting the Ministry of Mr. Canning, he was ele- vated to -the Peerage as Baron Plankety and made Chief Justice of the Dublin Court of Common Pleas ; a post he filled from 1827 to 1830. He had taken a conspicuous part in the movement for Catholic Emancipation, and when the Duke of Wellington brought forward that measure, he invited Lord Plunket to sit by his side in the House of Lords and take charge of the bill. Here the career of -Lord

“Plunketin Parliament may be said to have closed. On the accession of the Whigs to power, he was made Lord Chancellor for Ireland ; an office he held until 1841, when he reluctantly made way for Lord Campbell. Be has since lived in the retirement of private life. Al the close of his days he was oppressed with a heavy weight of human infirmity, but still at times showed gleams of intellectual power. He will be succeeded in the Peerage by his eldest son, the Bishop of Team.

Dr. Griffin, the new Bishop of Limerick, Was consecrated on Sunday, by the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishops of Cork and Derry, in the chapel of Trinity College.

Farewell addresses, by the citizens of Limerick, expressive of esteem ap,Laffection, have been presented to Dr. Higgin, on his translation from .2141Fttlkeliele In that of Derry. Among its signatures are included 1..,it . - ' niadda-return to the Commissioners of Income-tax, to "show his

os , XaYcif. of Lord Massy, Lord Dunraven, and the Roman

obri. 4.0 aneffean of Limerick, and men of all classes and creeds.

471n-Bienen, Viear-Gederal of the Roman Catholic diocese of Derry,

alCAlear..Apeet. for the law " ; but at the same time he does not "admit that any A.-Snappitenttoner „or nunds4 of Commissioners have any right to levy taxes

on his biome. He is not pariskTpliest Of Clonleigh and Camila by any authority _of Qatrojiittorte,, h,egel,y_ from the Catholic Bishop

of Perm!' wki4.9 t4te_,A40.444. 14e/f1tel-laWs-deny.," Dr. Brown avers thet kielricome is under Aogf ntdectsiefr that he appoint a cominittm, ;with power, should it genog,4ceedthet,susbeAo hand over all above 991. 19s. to charity. ho mild that sap -he illegelEhe will then demand from his Bishop "another agitistisnt".titAxisie the income.

Telegraphic communication is now complettOretween Streamer in Scotland and Belfast, Dublin and,Queenstown, he,first message from Queenstown to Dublin W33 sent from 4,deatrsihkhragelVto,„the Lord-Lieu-

tenant, on Monday. •'wed