IRELAND.
Dublin is about to give a banquet to the soldiers now in Ireland who have a medal or medals for service in the Crimea. The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided at a meeting held on Monday to devise measures for raising the funds. The Lord-Lieutenant sent 501. as a subscription, and his example has been followed by other men of position. Among the speakers, were Lord Talbot de Malahide, Mr. Butt M.P., and Lord Gough. Mr. Dargan has promised to cover in the ground that may be selected by the committee for the banquet. Lord Gough said he felt "a species of fraternity, he would almost say paternity, towards the army at large." He announced an interesting fact. Mr. Alderman Reynolds suggested that some of our gallant allies should be invited. "Now," said Lord Gough, "it so happened, that yesterday I received a letter from Marshal Duke de Malakof4 whom you lately knew as Marshal Pelis- sier ; and, among other things, he stated that he proposed to fulfil a pro- mise he made to me when in the Crimea, that he would come to visit me in Ireland. I thought it would be gratifying to you to hear this. I sin- cerely hope that he will come; and I am convinced my warmhearted countrymen will give him a truly cordial welcome on his arrival in this country." This announcement was much cheered. "We must ask him to the dinner," said Colonel Browne.
The Committed of the Church Education Society have just issued an elaborate circular with reference to their present position and prospects. The gist of it is that the Society will stand fast by its claim to include an unrestricted use of the Scriptures in its system of teaching. Here is a specimen of its strain-
" We have lately heard of an instance of a mistress of a school conducted on the principles of the National system asking a child, 'Where will all liars be sent to ?' and receiving in answer, 'To Purgatory.' And because she knew that it would be contrary to the rule of the system to disabuse the child's mind, she resigned her situation and emigrated to America. We have heard of another who was appealed to by two children, the one asserting that the Virgin Mary was to be worshiped, the other that she was not ; and the mistress knowing the restrictions imposed on her by the rules of the system, refused to answer either. Will our brethren of the Church in Eng- land be content to see the Irish clergy and laity brought under such a yoke of bondage, and compelled to imprison the truth in unrighteousness '? Shall the liberty. which is conceded to Protestants in all other parts of her Majesty's dominions be denied to Protestants in Ireland ? Shall Romanists in England be aided in educating according to their principles, and Pro- testants in Ireland be denied all aid in educating according to theirs."
Mr. Spooner has informed the Belfast Protestant Association that he intends next session to renew his attempt "to put down the national sin of supporting the idolatrous College of Maynooth." The College, he has no doubt, "is doomed." "How long it will be suffered to remain, it is hard to say. At my time of life' seventy-three," he adds, in a letter to Dr. Drew, "I cannot expect to be permitted to see the full success of my exertions."
The officers of the Tipperary Militia have not taken the rebuke of Lord Seaton quietly. The Adjutant has sent a letter to the Nenagh Guardian, utterly denying the justice of the censure implied in the General's memo- randum' and calling for the publication of the evidence given before the court of inquiry after the suppression of the mutiny.
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