IRELAND.
Dr. Cullen has published another of those enormous pastorals for which he has become famous. It is, as usual, a denunciation of the proselytizing tendency of the Protestants. The spirit of the document may be gathered from this extract-
" We are no longer assailed by open persecution and cruel edicts, but we have among us wolves in sheep's clothing, lying in wait for the tender limbs of the fold. Confiscation of property, exile, the rack, the sword, so often employed against our fathers, arc no longer spoken of. Education, eharity, the Bible, are now inscribed upon the baneers of those whoie bigot- ry and fanittleiem ffi past days delighted in persecution and blood. Under these false dolours, assumed for the purpose of deception, a system of pecu- niary proselytism, having for its object to make converts by bribes and gold, has been established by the many bigoted and fanatical haters of Catholicity who abound in this empire, and an active and insidious war is carried on creainst our ancient and venerable church. This war is not limited to Dub- in or Ireland ; it has nothing personal in its object; it is a war against Ca- tholicity, extending its ravages to the most distant regions of the Continent. In every Catholic country, under one pretence or another, English money is lavishly expended in endeavouring to undermine the faith of the people, and to introduce a system of doubt, and unbelief. We say doubt and unbe- lief, because Ifrotestantism cannot be.propagated ;, for it is cursed with ste- rility, and has no vitality and no attraction in it It seems probable that Government will take proceedings with regard to the great Tipperary Bank frauds, thanks to the laudable outapeaking of the Master of the Rolls. In the course of the investigation last week respecting the liability of the English shareholders, the Judge said—" I wish to ex- press my - nabouudecl -astonishment that the Irish Government have not thought fit to take any notice of this case. It is of the last importance to the interests of both parties that they should do so; and if they choose to remain quiescent, and shrink from the duty that devolves upon them, of placing this case before the prosecutors for the Crown, I think they will be guilty of a gross dereliction of duty. When giving judgment, I propose to enter into the facts. at considerable length ; and I undertake to prove, that if the Government determine upon continuing to be quiescent, they can have no right to complain if the public 'charge them with connivance at eonspiraen," In consequence, the Attorney-General has notified that he will attend when the Master of the Rolls pronounces judgment ; no doubt, to ascertain if any of the people connected with the bank ought tq be prose- cuted.
On Monday, a oall of 401. per share was made on the shareholders ; but it was suspended for a time in respect to the-English .shareholders and one pr two others.
• Dublin was without its London newspapers of Monday on Tuesday morn- ing—they were burnt in the luggage-van between Chester and Holyhead, a spark from the engitie having entered the van.
In June 1853 there were 2036 paupers in Clonmel Workhouse ; now there
are only 952. .
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