IRELAND.
The Dublin morning organ of the late Government thus comments on the alleged alliance between the supporters of Lord Derby in Ireland and the Roman Catholics.
" We give full credit to the statements made in the course of the debate by the members of the Government as to their not having made any com- pact or agreement with Cardinal Wiseman ; but it cannot be denied that there was too much of what looked like coquetting with the Roman Catho- lic priesthood at the last elections. Men who had been all their lives dis- tinguished by the ostentatious profession of uncompromising Protestantism began all at once to look with very charitable eyes on the errors of Roman- ism, and seemed anxious to protect the religious interests of Roman Catho- lics against the Whigs. The arguments used, too, by Cardinal Wiseman to induce his friends in Ireland to vote for Conservatives, and the fact that the most zealous champions of the Pope in this country really believed that Lord Derby's policy was Conservative of the Papacy, went far to confirm the suspicion that he was not true to the cause of Protestantism and free- dom. The suspicion, was of course, unfounded, but the effect was the same."
Dr. Cullen has published a manifesto against the policy which has led the French and Sardinians into Lombardy. "Italy," says Dr. Cullen, "the cradle of European civilization, the hal- lowed residence of Christ's Vicar on earth, the birthplace of innumerable saints and Christian heroes, appears doomed to pass through the furnace of affliction ; many of her proud monuments of art will be destroyed, her cities perhaps laid waste, and her beautiful and fertile fields reduced to a desolate wilderness. . . . . Piedmont has been for many years the den and refuge of revolutionists and of disturbers and enemies of the peace of the world. The men who have had the power of that country in their hands have dis- played the greatest hostility against the Catholic religion, to which the people of that country are devotedly attached. They have persecuted and banished some most venerable bishops, and subjected the Church to an irk- some slavery. Convents and monasteries have been suppressed, and their pious inmates treated with the greatest harshness. Church property has been confiscated, public education has been rendered dangerous, and, in some cases, open enemies of religion have been placed at the head of universities and entrusted with the instruction of youth. In fine, under the hypocriti- cal pretence of introducing liberty, a system of the direst persecution has been established. . . . Promises have been made of a most decided cha- racter, that the Pope's states shall not be interfered with ; but, even if they be disturbed by the enemies of the Holy See, we may rest assured that God, who watches over His Church, though He may allow her ministers to suffer trials and persecutions, will turn all such sufferings to His greater honour and glory, and to the advantage of religion. Indeed, if we review the history of the Church in past ages, we shall find that all those who have laid sacrilegious hands on the property and states of the Church, have in- variably incurred the severestpunishment of heaven; and many will re- collect that, even in our own days, the greatest conqueror and emperor of modern times, soon after he usurped the dominion of Rome, was compelled to sign his abdication in the palace of Fontainebleau, the very place in which he had kept the holy Pope Pius VII. in close confinement." Lord Eglinton returned to Dublin on Saturday to wind up his affairs. Much anxiety was shown respecting his successor in the Viceroyalty of Ireland.
Mr. Wean, one of the Judges of the Court of Bankruptcy, died very sud- denly on Wednesday morning at Hathbone's Hotel, Kingstown. He re- sided on Tuesday in his court, and then appeared in the enjoyment of good health. The emoluments of the judgeship are 20001. a year. The Honour- able Mr. Plunket is the second judge, and his ret'rement has for some time been spoken of.
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