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Captain °tiny R.N. was entertained at dinner on the 23d February-' by his tenantry in Tipperary, on his return from the Black Sea. The Protestant Rector. of Templederry took the chair, and proposed "the Catholic clergy." The parish priest of Temederry is "Father Kenyon," so conspicuous in 1848 and since. The Father replied to the toast in a spirit and in language not common. He proposed the health of the Protestant clergy of that and the surrounding districts—nay., of the whole country. As long as he bad had the power of reasoning, and before it—at all events, as long as he could recollect, he had been at a loss to understand why a Catholic clergyman could not rejoice in the health of a Protestant minister. (Cheers.) He did not know the reason why they should be sparring and boxinginstead of living in amity and good-will. If it were a Jewish or a Turkish priest he could see no cause for their going to loggerheads. So far as he recollected what he had read, even the heathen could afford to live on terms of friendship, and why should those who had all the benefits of Christianity be violating the principles of Christian charity, forbearance, and love ? Though this state of Gunge might go on for a time it must ultimately come to an end, for mutual toleration must prevail. Bigotry was too revolting to the feelings of the human heart to be perpetuated. They lived there in a retired region, no doubt, but it was a beautiful region, and though small, yet being central, from that meeting would go forth East, West, North, and South, the wholesome principles of toleration and good feeling, and others, seeing the happy effects, might go and do likewise. (Cheers.) Mr. Smith O'Brien, serving on the Grand Jury of the Limerick Spring Assizes, called attention to the large police force in the county. There is no longer any fear of extraordinary convulsion or agrarian outrage, and a force costing so much as 4500/. a year he deemed unnecessary— twice too much by half.
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