IRELAND.
The Lord-Lieutenant has announced to the Secretary of the Belfast Flax Improvement Society, that Government has made a grant of 1,0001. in aid of its funds. Lord Clarendon has also subscribed an additional sum of 1,0001. to in- crease the staff of practical instructors over the country. We are glad to hear that Mr. D. O'Connell junior is about to receive an appointment. The Consulship of Boulogne is the one named to us; the salary attached to which is said to be about 8001. a year. Mr. D. O'Connell recently resigned the representation of Waterford.—Limerick Examiner. [Is it a bargain and sale? Let us see who succeeds to the vacated seat] The Tullamore Board of Guardians have been dismissed by the Poor- law Commissioners, and two paid Guardians appointed in their stead.
Dr. Kennedy, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, has been called on to deal with a case of denunciation from the altar by one of his clergy —the Reverend Mr. Nolan, P.P., Monsea. In carrying out the in- structions of the courts of law in Dublin, an ejectment notice had been nail- ed to the door of the chapel of Mr. Nolan's parish. This was done because service in the ordinary way was thought likely to prove dangerous. On the following Sunday, Mr. Nolan denounced trom the altar the bailiff who posted the process and the policeman by whom he was accompanied. The language was reported. Mr. Nolan's Bishop was appealed to; he appointed a day for the investigation of the case; on that day, Mr. Nolan made his ap- pearance at Nenagh, " submitted," says the local paper, and acknowledged he had used the language attributed to him; and was suspended by his diocesan.
Dr. O'Higgins, to clear himself from the charge of falsifying the terms of the Papal rescript, has sent to the Dublin Evening Post the copy for- warded to him by the Irish Primate. From that copy itself it seems that the word " defamationibus " had been originally inserted by mistake of the copiest, in place of " diffamationibus."
Mason, the bookkeeper under the Shannon Commissioners, who is accused of defalcations to the amount of 8,0001., was tried at Dublin on Tuesday, on one charge. The indictment alleged that Mason bad altered a check signed by Co- lonel Jones for 91. to 1911.; but as it was proved that the Colonel was in the habit of giving blank checks signed by himself to the prisoner to fill in amounts as they might be required, there was a doubt whether the check in question had not been thus filled up; which, though a breach of trust, would not constitute a forgery : Mason was therefore acquitted.
Dr. Brady, to whom was intrusted by Government the chemical analysis of the stomach of the exhumed body of Dr. Maguire, has reported the discovery of arsenic sufficient to have caused death.
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