8 AUGUST 1846, Page 7

IRELAND.

Mr. J. J. Murphy, the new Master in Chancery, is nephew to Dr. Mur- phy, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork, and brother-in-law to Mr. (YComiell's son Morgan.

Mr. Daniel O'Connell junior was elected for Dundalk on Friday week, without opposition.

The Dublin and Cashel Railway has been opened to the public, from the capital to Carlow. The first traffic-train ran on Tuesday. The line is said to be in admirable order.

Mr. O'Connell appeared in his place at Conciliation Hall on Monday. His son Daniel, the newly-elected Member for Dundalk, was the Chairman: the Young Ireland party did not make their appearance; but the hall was thronged without them.

Letters from the Roman Cafholic Bishops of Ardagh and Meath, accom- panying money, (74/. and 901.,) denouncing "Young Ireland," and ex- pressing unbounded confidence in the Liberator, were read, and ordered to be inserted on the minutes.

The Bishop of Ardagh—the formidable Higgins—thanked God that there were neither schoolboy philosophers false and sanguinary Repeaters, nor Vol- tairian newspapers, in his diocese. fie had witnessed with sorrow the disgraceful sums that had lately taken place at Conciliation Hall, and had felt the deepest indignation and disgust at the shallow sophistry and flippant impertinence ex- hibited by-the-few young men who so childishly-style themselves "Young Ireland." "Excessive vanity and Quixotic conceit," continued the Bishop, "may blind some men so far as to make them believe that they are almost your equals in the service of your country; and urge them, perhaps, under this pitiable delusion, to set themselves up as your rivals in leading the Irish to nationality: but they ought to know that the clergy and faithful people of Ireland will have-no other leader than their revered Liberator; and I feel thoroughly convinced, that if it were the will of Providence to warn you tomorrow of your near dissolution, the Irish nation would unanimously adopt, as their political guide, that man alone whom you would bequeath to them as worthy of their confidence."

In allusion to the construction put upon certain strong passages in O'Connell's monster-meeting harangues by the Physical Force party, the Bishop of Meath stated that he had been often charmed with O'Connell's eloquent and soul-stirring addresses on these occasions; but the idea that he was recommending an appeal to physical force never entered into his mind or crossed his imagination.

Mr. O'Connell addressed himself at once to the schism which had Occurred— He repeated his old assertion, "that the greatest amelioration of human insti- tutions was not worth the shedding of a single drop of blood." He would main- tain that position, and laugh to scorn those who prided themselves on a species of pocket courage; violent men, who talked of fighting when there was no fighting to be done. What did the Young Ireland party suggest? Why, that no Re- pealer slmuld benefit his country by taking dike; and next, that the Repeaters should become Physical Force men—advocates of murder and robbery! Any connexion between the Aessolstion and the Nation newspaper was fraught with the greatest danger; and he would therefore submit a motion, that the Committee be directed to consider whether there be any such connexion; and if there be, whether it is for the safety of the Association that it be continued? The Nation had asserted that AL Ledru Rollin offered assistance, and that it was offered by "a surer source" from France. Now, he admitted that it was offered by M. Ledra Rollie, publicly, and refused publicly; but he denied that any other offer of assistance was made to the Association, publicly or privately; and, if offered, he called on and defied theNation to say to whom it was offered; and if it was proved that even his beloved son John ;mined in the reception of such a proposition, he would have him expelled from the Association. He eulogized the Whig Govern- ment for the late offi ' appointments they had made in Ireland; and now saw a prospect of greater good to the country than under any past Government. Mr. O'Connell's motion WAS agreed to unanimously. Rent, 410/.

"John of Tuam " has addressed a remonstrance to Lord John Russell against the Government proposal to withdraw assistance from the Irish people, through the means of public works, after the 15th of August—

He entreats the Premier not to suffer that auspicious day, which has since the introduction of Christianity into Ireland been held a festival bringing joy and glad- roils to the penple, to be looked, forward to asss monument of national mourning.

As well might his Lordship issue an edict of general starvation as atop the sup- plies which the feeble creatures are striving to earn with the sweat of their brows. The Archbishop implores Lord John not only to extend the present relief on an enlarged scale into the middle of the month of November, but not to suffer Parlia- ment to rise without adopting prospective measures for meeting the similar but severer calamity of the coming year. The reports relative to the failure of the pre sent potato crop are neither vague nor exaggerated. "Having recently passed through extenaye tenets of country, and made a minute examination into the state of the potato, I can bear testimony not only to the premature withering of the stalks, and consequent decay of the roots, hut under stalks of which the leavens were still green and sound the roots were diminutive in size said in a state of rapid decomposition. • • • • It is not on the miserable and peddling scale of levelling hills on a mail-coach road that the physical wants of a numerous people are to be relieved; but by those extensive and necessary improvements which, while they mitigate distress, will afford to the Government an adequate remunera- tion—sach as the emotion of 4vays and piers along the Western and Southern coasts, by which the existing misery would be relieved, and courage given to the hardy natives along those coasts to explore and cultivate the rich and abundant fisheries on which a few or any benevolent statesman could draw for supplying the wants of the people. • * They know they are improvements which au Irish Legislature would not delay." But, much as the Irish -heart is set on a Do- mestic Legislature, from its perfect adaptation to meet the wants of Ireland, Lord John Russell need be under no apprehension that the change will be sought for by either violence or insurrection. The Irish people abhor the impure sources from which the Physical Force faction have imported their dogmas of infidelity and disaffection; and such being the case, the Bishop submits whether it may not be "worth the while of a profound statesman to pause, and consider whether, for the sake of vitiating the Catholic religion and weakening the influence of its eriest- hood, it is not hazardous to erect Infidel Colleges for the propagation of an infidel and revolutioaary mauia." A great part of the letter is devoted to this topic.

Mr. Meagher, who apostrophised "the sword" at Conciliation Hall on Monday week, has been attempting to practise his "physical force" theories on the body of Captain Broderick. Last Saturday evening, Mr. Meagher approached Captain Broderick in one of the streets of Dublin, brandishing a small stick in his hand as though preparing to inflict a blow. Captain Broderick seized the stick; and friends interposed. The assailant was handed over to the Police; whaplaced him under recogamances to answer the charge on Monday. On that day the charge was heard. Mr. Meagher' it seems, had been driven to desperation by the re- fusal of Captain Broderick to fight him for some offensive expressions at Con- ciliation Hall; the Captain's refusal resting on the point of honour' that he could not fight a man whose conduct he had previously characterized as "in- famous," and who had declined to ask satisfaction then. The Magistrates disposed of this childish affair by binding both parties over to keep the peace for seven years, under penalties of 500/.

Previously to the sailing of the squadron of evolution from Cove Harbour, lase week, a court-martial was held on board the Queen, to try James Sayer, a marine, for assaulting two sergeants and a corporal, his superior officers. The prisoner had been misconducting himself, and was ordered to be patio irons; he resisted, and struck the noncommissioned officers. Witnesses proved these facts: the prisoner was not drunk at the time, and he intentionally struck the sergeants and the corpocal. Sayer had no defence to offer: he was sorry for what had happened and threw himself on the mercy of the Court. He was found guilty, and seal tenced to be hanged; the President holding out no hopes that the punishmen- would be mitigated.