IRELAND.

The Dublin Evening Post publishes the following document, as a "cir- cular addressed by the Holy See to some if not all of the Catholic Pre- lates of Ireland."

" Illme. ac Rme. Domine,

"Qum in reigns, nonnullis abhine mensibas, per publicas Anglia ephemerides disseminantur super peril= politicarum studio Tie nonnalli ecclemastici yid abripinntur at abuso. aliquarum Ecelesiaram Hit:erniensium ad negocia civilia in iisdem vel pertractanda, vel coadjavanda, neenon super homicidits, gum iterari r Hibernian narrantar, sacrisque ministris affignntur, utpote gum per quorum- tea istis in S. concionibus imprudentiam, ant etiam e suggestu indirectam provocationem in antecessum designate, vel saltem iniqua rati habitione compro- bate, S. hujus Congregatiissollicitudinera excitare jare merit° debent. " Qeet, licet sibi persuaffere, minime possit, verum ease, quod tante cum rumore jactatur, et virus ecclesiasticos oblitos, Ecclesiam Dei demur"' ease orationis dotter% at non negotiationis, vel civilium studiorum officinam, mosque pads ministros, die- pensatoresque mysteriorum Dei, haud se implicare negomis meculanbus et a san- guine et ultionibus abhorrere oportere; nihilomions sue qualm maxima interesse, dneit, opportunas plena:Nue de hisce omnibus informationes exquirere,ut qumoam fides publicis hujus modi diffamationibus danda sit, videri possit. Qaapropter amplitudini mire has litteras dandas, ex mente etiam SSmi. Dni. Nri. Pit. PP. IX. statui, ut quamprimumjustissinue huic nostne sollicitudini facere satis dignetur, sammenitis interim mons omnibus ministris, ut quierentes semper qua' aunt Jean Christi, fidelinm sibi commiasorum salati alacres incumbent et impigri, Deoque militantes mundanis rebus se non immisceant, enixeque curent, ne ulla ex parte, ministerium eorumvituperetur, et illi qui contra aunt Midi habeant dicere de ipsis.

"Interim Deum preeor, ut amplitudinem tuain din sospitem ac felioem servet. " Amplitudinis tuai.

'4' Roue ex Aed. Sac. Congiegationis de Propaganda Fide. Die 3 Januarii, 1848.

"Ad Officia Paratissimus. J. PH. CARD. FRANSONIUS, PREF. Reverendissimo, &c.430."

• The Latin is accompanied, in the same journal, by the following English translation.

"Most Illustrious and Reverend Lord—The reports now for some months cir- culated by the English newspapers, concerning the political party strifes in which some ecclesiastics have allowed themselves to be carried away, and the desecra- tion made of some of the Irish churches for the purpose of aiding and promoting secular concerns—nay, more, the reports which have reached us relative to the murders which we are informed, are so frequent, and by reason of which the clergy have been stigmatized, and some .of them charged with imprudence, and as giving indirect provocation from the pulpit, or, at least, extenuating the guilt of those murders—these reports must surely awaken the solicitude of the Sacred Congregation.

"This Sacred Congregation cannot bring itself to believe that such reports, so extensively noised abroad, can be true; nor can it believe that ecclesiastics have forgotten that the church of God should be the house of swayer, not of secular concerns or the meeting.place of politicians; neither can the Sacred Congregation believe that ecclesiastics have ceased to recollect that they are the ministers of peace, dispensers of the mysteries of God—men who should not involve themselves in worldly concerns—in a word, men who should abhor blood and vengeance. Ne- vertheless, this Sacred Congregation deems it its duty to require satisfactory and speedy information concerning all these matters, that it may know what import- ance it should attach to the above-mentioned damnatory reports. Wherefore, at the suggestion of his Holiness, I have deemed it my duty to forward this letter to your Lordship, praying you to satisfy this most reasonable solicitude of the Sa- cred Congregation; and meantime, it exhorts you to admonish the clergy, that, seeking the thiugs which are of Jesus Christ, they sedulously apply themselves to watch over the spiritual interests of the people, and in nowise mix themselves up with worldly affairs, in order that their ministry may not be brought into dis- repute, and those who are against them may not have wherewith to charge them.

'I pray God long to preserve your Lordship. "Rome, from the Congregation of the Faith, Jan. 3, 1848.

"J. PH. CARD. Fitansosn."

In place of answering Lord Shrewsbury's appeal to free the Irish Catho- lic clergy from the charge of sanctioning murder, the Archbishop of Tuam replied in a long letter with a string of fierce but vague counter-charges against the Earl, as a calumniator, a bad son of the Church, &c. To this epistle Lord Shrewsbury hassmade a rejoinder through the columns of the Morning Post, elaborately contradicting the several accusations. The Earl convicts the Bishop of barefaced misrepresentations. For example, Lord Shrewsbury had said that "to the eye of England" the Irish Catholic Church was tainted by the guilt of a few individuals; and that "the pub- lic voice in England pronounced the Church "to be a conniver at in- l‘ustice ": Dr. M'Hale represented Lord Shrewsbury as entertaining that 147.00'n'snilinkf. and as "deliberately asserting" that the Church was trouble that Lord ShieNesolikliale's attack was not worth the space and taken upon itself the duty to which ueea_ trot, especially since Rams has

L'ss Trish Prelates.

The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas has contradicted sus, that he was about to resign on a full salary and stand for Dublin naive' shy. Mr. Napier is to be proposed by the Reverend J. H. Singer, D.D. Mr. Richardson, barrister, is a candidate; and claims support as an advo- cate of tenant-right, of the Whig Government, and the National Education system.

A number of noblemen and gentlemen have resolved to start a project, under the title of "The Farmer's Estate Society of Ireland," with the ob- ject of purchasing eligible estates in fee, as they come into the market, and selling them afterwards in small lots of not less than forty statute acres (24a. 2r. 31p. Irish); the preference being given to the tenant in posses- sion, if unobjectionable in other respects, and the purchase-money taken in half-yearly payments. The capital is to be 1,000,000t, in 50,000 shares of 50/. The project has Lord Clarendon's warm approbation. The Com- mittee includes the names of the Earl of Courtown, Earl Devon, Lord Monteagle, Sir Edward Borough, and Sir David Roche, Mr. Monsell, M.P., Mr. Fagan, M.P., and Mr. Guinness, M.P.

We understand that a strong force of Police have been sent down and placed over two townlands near Thurles, where a man named Brown was murdered lately: they are to be paid by the occupants, and remelt' then till the assassins are given up to justice. The lands if the deceased's rela- tives are not to be taxed.—Tipperary Constitution.

It is the intention or the Government forthwith to send an additional re- inforcement of Constabulary to every townland in Ireland where an 'out- rage of Whiteboy character, no matter how trivial, is committed, unless the perpetrators are speedily arrested by the inhabitants of the locality and brought to justice.—Limerick Chronicle.

The Special Commission has adjourned at Clonmel, till the 21st of this month. Some of the prisoners last committed will be tried at the As- sizes.

The capital sentence on Ryan (Puck) and Dea was executed at Limerick on Tuesday, in presence of an immense crowd; Ryan's great notoriety and Dea's ex- treme youth collecting number's from distant parts. The criminals proceeded to the place of execution with slow but firm pace, each with a crucifix before him, and attended by six priests, reciting as they went along the litany for the dead. Both had made a formal declaration of their guilt and of the justice of their sen- tence. The bodies were interred within the prison.

The public executioner of Limerick has refused to officiate on the prisoners sentenced by the Special Commission.

The fate of Frewen, now under sentence of transportation for harbouring the murderer Ryan, has considerable effect on the practice of concealing criminals. Carrel, an outlaw charged with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Conyers in Limerick, and Cady, charged with acceding to the murder of Madden in Tipperary, forsaken by their friends, have yielded themselves to gaol. Seven men were arrested at Clogban on Tuesday, on the charge of Ribandisre, and of having cut out the tongue of Patrick Doherty, lately Sir Charles Style's bailiff. They were arrested on the evidence of MeGinty, an approver; who has betrayed five or six hundred members of the illegal confederacy, most of them respectable farmers. Thirty or forty persons implicated have absconded.

The Coroner's Jury have returned a verdict finding that Mr. Herbert Kelly Waldron was shot by George Church, aided by Thomas Peyton, Esq., Coroner, and two others. The verdict adds—" From the legal difficulties connected with the transaction, we leave it to another tribunal to decide how far the accused parties were justified in so doing. We fully acquit the Police of any participation in this affair."

The remains of Father Thomas Maguire have been exhumed, and the stomach sent to Dublin for the trial of its contents by chemical analysis. The confidential housekeeper of the priest declares that he stated several tunes, just before death, that he had been poisoned by some pills. Five of Dr. Maguire% relatives have been arrested under an order from the Government.