8 JANUARY 1842, Page 4

Dr. Fowler, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns, and Leigblin, against whom

a commission of lunacy was recently taken out, expired at the Palace, Kilkenny, on Friday evening. The deceased Prelate was in the 76th ••Par of his age, and was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in May 1818. Dr. Elrington, Regius Professor of Divinity, and the very Reverend Robert Daly, Dean of St. Patrick's, are mentioned as the probable candidates for the vacant Bishopric.