- Catholic meetings to protest against the omissions in the
Jury-list and the exclusion from the Jury have been held at Galway and Lime- rick. At Galway, the titular Bishop Browne threatfully insinuated that if Government continued to prosecute the Roman Catholics, the people might relinquish the use of exciseable commodities, and might direct their representatives to support Mr. Sharman Crawford in stop- ping the supplies, to extort redress of grievances. Limerick furnished a contrast to this episcopal escapade; the titular Bishop Ryan preached to his flock the doctrine that it was sinful to combine against the esta- blished authorities, or to speak with disrespect of those who rule over them ; quoting chapter and verse.
A meeting, attended by upwards of fifty Liberal noblemen and other gentlemen of mark, was held at Lord Charlemont's house in Dublin, on
Thursday, to consider the course most judicious to be pursued in the present state of Ireland. It was unanimously resolved to petition both Houses of Parliament for redress of leading grievances ; including, says the Dublin Monitor, "the state of the representation, the acknow- ledged abuses of the Church Establishment, the oppressive and unequal amount of taxation to which this country is subject ;" and to make the petition the groundwork of a substantive motion in each House.
The Dublin correspondent of the Times mentions a rumoured Go- vernment measure of reform-
" I have heard it stated, on what deserves to be considered a competent au- thority upon such a subject, that there is now every probability of a measure being submitted to Parliament, perhaps in the course of the ensuing session, having for its object the total relief of Roman Catholics from the payment of the tithe rent-charge. A High Church dignitary, supposed to be in the confi- dence of Sir Robert Peel, is I am informed, at present engaged in making the necessary inquiries throughout a diocese as to the number of persons, being members of the Roman Catholic Church, chargeable with this imipost, and, ate nearly as can be ascertained, its amount."
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