IRELAND.
The Board of Dublin Aldermen have voted the freedom to Lord Howe, because his Lordship is opposed to Ministers and Reform.
The Reverend Robert Daly, at a meeting of the Kildare Place So- ciety, held in Dublin on Wednesday last week, related a circumstance which illustrated the utility of the schools, and gave him considerable satisfaction. A female pupil, of about eight !gam old, happened to wal- low a button-mould, which in three days caused her death. She showed perfect resignation to her fate ; told "a Christian woman," who at- tended her, "I am not afraid to die, for I know that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners ;" and died repeating texts of Scripture committed to memory at school. We fear the Catholics and Liberals have nothing to equal this case; it is a very strong one.
A Catholic clergyman has been arrested under a charge of being im- plicated in the late fatal affray between the people and the police at Knocktopher. The Dublin Register says the clergyman's name is Ma- gennis; and that he is a friar, who has incurred the censure of his spi- ritual superior for irregular conduct, arising, it is said by some, from--
mental aberration, and that he has not filled any spiritual office in his church for some time.
Within the last few weeks, several incendiaries have arrived in this part of the country, who pretended that they were Whitefect, who were sent from a neighbouring county to swear in and prepare the peasantry in this neighbourhood for a rebellion. One fellow in particular lately came to a neighbouring parish, and did every thing he possibly could to excite the peasantry to commit outrages. A. few nights back, this man took suddenly ill, and died at a floater's house a few miles from Water- ford; and what was the astonishment of the unsuspecting people, on discovering, by a paper found sewed up in his pocket, that this pre- tended Papist, Whitefoot and rebel, was a purple marksman belonging to Lodge 155!— Waterford Chronicle.
Patrick Hartigan, John Brady, and Peter Donnelly, convicts from
. the hulk at Cove; 7,--; Lis:Co.i.ief: ;m.o. '2:: rf!"Irsday. evening, by a detachment of the 17th Lancers, and were forwarded' to ranus gaol under a similar escort, for trial at the approaching assizes. These fellows are charged as principals in the well-known murder of Patrick Donnellan, the faithful servant of Mr. Synge, of Dysart, near Corofin. .....L inter ick Chronicle.
Mr. Faikner, the curate of Templemore, positively denies that he has been murdered, notwithstanding the allegations of his political friends to the contrary. We know not how the affair will terminate; the public seem inclined to believe Mr. Fidkner.
The Law Officers of the Crown have served notice on Mr. Pierse Richard Barron, the proprietor of the Watelybrd Chronicle, that be will be prosecuted by them at the Dublin commission, for an alleged libel published in his paper in Waterford.
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