IRELAND.
Monday was a great fair day in Ireland. The priests of Navan, however, determined to stop it in that city, and told the people from the altar that
Monday being a high holiday in their church they ought to prevent the fair. The people took the hint, and assembling in mobs drove the cattle and sheep coming into the town in all directions, and assaulted the farmers and country gentlemen who rode or drove in to attend the fair. The police were power- less and the mob gained the day. There were sixty-three fairs held in other places on that day, and nothing was said, except at Raven, about violating a holyday. It is these improper interferences that bring discredit on the name of Roman Catholic.
The Ajax, screw man of war, has been driven from Lough Foyle by the intermeddling of a Roman Catholic priest with the discipline of the men. He would insist on bringing under the notice of the Roman Catholic sailors, after service, some disputes betweekthat pink of Roman champions, Mr. Pope Hennessy, and the Admiralty.
William Tracy, an elector of Athlone, has put in force an admirable mode of punishing a briber. Mr. Patrick Geoghegan bribed him to vote for Mr. Ennis, giving him the halves of forty one-pound notes. Geoghegan refused to surrender the other halves, and at the suggestion of a lawyer, Tracy pro- secuted Geoghegan for bribery. Judgment went by default ; the full penalty, 100/., was awarded, and Tracy had the pleasure of pocketing thia sum. The Dublin Evening Mail suggests that a wider application of the example set by William Tracy might be useful in checking bribery.
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