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The Dublin Evening Post authoritatively contradicts the statement pro- fessing to relate the tenour of a letter from Prince Albert to the Lord-Lieu; We are authorized to :nate, that whether as regards the sentiments attributed the Police-constables and the band of rievers under Keyes. t Prince Albert, or the views said to have been entertained by the Presidents of the Queen's Colleges, the entire of the above paragraph is a gross and ludicrous fabrication . It is also utterly false that the Presidents of the Colleges ever wished to have the power of granting degrees conferred separately on their insti- tutions, still less that they wished to convert them into ' nests of sectarianism.' The Presidents of the Colleges well understand that the basis of those institutions is united education, nor would one of those gentlemen continue to hold office were that principle not thoroughly maintained. The organization of the Queen's Univer- sity is being carried out on the proposition and with the fall concurrence of the Presidents; but we are happy to admit, that it has received several and most valuable improvements, in principle and in details, from other and most illustrious sources."

Mr. William Harley Hall, a Magistrate of the County Down, has for- warded his resignation to Lord Clarendon, on account of the dismissal of Lord Roden and the Messieurs Beers. Avowing that he is neither an Orangeman nor a political partisan, nor the private friend of either of the gentlemen disgraced, he declares that he "cannot any longer consent to retain a position which now seems to demand a blind subservience to the Government of the day, or the alternative of an instant dismissal should that Government prove tyrannical and unscrupulous."

Several of the Northern Roman Catholic journals allege in very positive terms that the Orange party meditate a grand field-day on the ensuing anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot; and that ample vengeance will be taken for the insult offered to the body in the removal from the commission of the peace of their accredited leaders, Lord Roden and the Messrs. Beers. The Newry Examiner, a Young Ireland paper, says- " Now, we solemnly and formally warn the Government of the preparations for mutual murder in the county of Down on the 5th of November. Long before the fatal occurrence at Dolly's Brae, we gave full intimation that preparations were being made for a massacre on the 12th of July. The Government were amply forewarned, and yet the massacre occurred, as we had anticipated. The Govern- ment are forewarned now; and if blood be shed on the 5th of November in the county of Down, on their heads will be the responsibility and the guilt."

The Anti-Rent war is waged with increasing activity and organization, and with a total recklessness of fatal incidents. The movement demands its bulletins of daily conflicts, with returns of dead and wounded, and of the prey captured or lost in the various affrays. The Leinster Express supplies a brief picture of one of these conflicts.

On the afternoon of Sunday the 14th instant, Constable Hall, of the Killoughy Point Station, King's County, received information that a party of men were threading the cross-roads in the direction of Clonaslee, with a design on crops. Later in the evening, a number of ears passed the station, followed by a party of men seemingly armed. Hall sent for assistance, and obtained an addition of five men. Between two and three on Monday morning, the tramp of an approaching party was beard, and he drew up his men. Four advanced to the front with him, and six were concealed in the barrack. The head of the advancing party came in eight: about fifteen bead of cattle preceded it, and a large quantity of corn on cars was visible behind. Hall summoned the body to halt. "Upon this, the man that seemed to direct the movements of the party, who was John Keyes, of Caparogan, near Clonaslee, stepped forward and said, 'Constable Hall, don't you know me? Why am I to be stopped? I am but removing my crops and cattle, which are not under seizure.' The constable, in reply, stated that the transaction seemed very suspicions; and said he was determined, at least, to take down the names of the persons implicated in the movement, before he would let them pass. Keyes again expostulated; but the constable evinced a stern determination to carry out his purpose; when the former exclaimed, 'Armed men to the front!' There was an answering motion, which was immediately succeeded by a volley of fire-arms; causing the death of Sub-Constable Patrick Mortimer, inflicting mortal wounds on two others of the party, seriously injuring Constable Balfour, of lionntbolus, on the right hip, also perforating his pouch-box with several slugs, and depriving Constable Hall of three fingers of his left hand. -Four shots were immediately returned by the Police, and it is supposed with deadly effect. One of them was discharged by Sub-Constable Mortimer, after receiving his death- wound ; two by Sob-Constable Gleeson, though his thigh was breken in two places. After the exchange of shots, the assailing party passed off with great rapidity from the scene of bloodshed." Intelligence was quickly conveyed to the surrounding stations, and the country was immediately scoured. Eleven persons were arrested, including three of the inmates of Keyee's house. The road was marked with blood for a long distance. One load of corn had been thrown on the road, to allow the car to be used in carrying off the wounded; but, with that ex- ception, the entire booty was carried off.

A Coroner's Jury has inquired into the death of Constable Mortimer, and returned this verdict-

" That Patrick Mortimer had come to his death by a wound inflicted by a bullet fired from a gun or pistol, on the morning of Sunday the 14th instant; and that John Keyes and Joseph Keyes had been feloniously assisting in committing said milder."

The Westmeath Independent describes an attempt made by a multitude of strangers, with no fewer than three hundred ears, to carry off , the crops of one Comiell from the lands of Ardkeenan. The Pollee were so dodged by signal-fires raised as distractions, that about seventy carts managed to elope with loads: they were pursued and recaptured; but a large body of the Police was required to overawe an evident inclination to make a forcible rescue. The Cork Constitution and the Nenagh Guardian describe similar combinations of the peasantry, with partial success in concentrating the Constabulary on points remote from the one really in view, and in removing the crops. The movement extends into Armagh; where such stubborn opposition has been manifested against the removal of crops by bailiffs, that the military have been called on IP act—without, however, the necessity of fatal violence. The social disorganizatioe of which such facts are the evidence is farther Shown by facts of a different kind. The Galway Mercury of Saturday re- lated a combined attempt by a large body of starving men to extort the Privilege of earning bread by hard work-

" On Monday last, a large body of men, over five hundred, came from the noddy Clare and other distant parts of the countrer, and made several attempts to force themselves on the steward of the railway works noer going.on near this town. Their numbers and threats induced the steward to send for the Police; !she, with Mr. J. B. Kern= R.M., were quickly on the ground. 'W'ilitants were Issued for the apprehension of the leacleni: They dispersed, after obtaining a pro- rinse of workTrom the steward; whotold them, when the works near Forthill were Opened he would be able to employs much largeremmber. The wariante were net into execution, as no breach of the peace warred. A maairkrttie main b e-ef- fie erty was this morning arrested, as one of the leaden3 who used threatening language."

tenant, respecting the establishment of a second University in Dublin, which The King's County Chronicle relates the assassination of Mr. Charles

appeared last week in the corespondence of the Times— Cage, a land-agent at Killoughy, the scene of the fatal encounter between Lord Waterford is showing what may be done in Ireland in the creation of an attached though punctually-paying tenantry. At an agricultural dinner lately given in Waterford, he stated that he had the day before received his yearly Munster rent of 22,000/., and that ho had received his yearly Ulster rents of 14,0001. The secret of this punctuality is revealed by his farther remarks, which disclose a system of liberal but not unduly low rents, and of compensation to the tenant for all substantial improvements. He is thus reported— "A great deal had been said about the reduction of rents; a proposition to which he did not wish to assent, as he did not think the land in the neighbour- hood too high, the average being 11. 10s. per acre. If it were true—as he was sure it was—that an acre properly managed would support a cow and a pig, the profits of both he estimated at the lowest to be 5/.; consequently he thought an acre of land may be put down at 3/. However, if they were overrented, let them come to him and state so to him, and it shall receive his immediate attention; and if he find it so it shall be reduced; or if we cannot agree as to the value, then. let them give it up, and they shall be compensated for any substantial improve, ments effected. His tenants had difficulties to contend with; they had to com- pete with Russia, Poland, and America, in the grain-market, as those countries had neither tithes, county-cess, labour-rate, nor poor-rate; but he was at a loss to know how it was that people were so foolish as to be selling their corn at an average of 19s., whereas at Trieste it is at this moment averaging 1/. 4s. per bar- rel, and purchased by speculators to meet our future prices; and sure be was they were investing in a successful speculation. Oats are selling at is. 6d. per barrel; but he would purchase at this present moment 2,000 barrels at 8s. 6d., and was sure to gain by his purchase."

Thus liberal to the tenant, a generous solicitude about the labourer was only to be expected of Lord Waterford. The report continues- " He had 1,000 acres in his demesne, 300 acres of which were in cultivation, upon which he employed 500 men daily; and he was ready to take 200 men more should they seek employment from him."

A letter in Saunders's Newsletter describes an event "most proud and gratifying "to the enterprise of Ireland—the completion of a navigable highi way throughout the entire course of' the "magnificent Shannon," from its mouth to Lough Allen, and to the source of one of its great tributaries, the Boyle waters, within one English mile of the important town of Boyle. The letter states, that in a year or two more, "the water communication between Limerick and Belfast will be complete by means of Lough Neagh; the Lagan and Ulster navigation with Enniskillen, by means of Lough Erne."

The great fair of Ballinasloe was held on the 4th and 5th instant. The supply of black cattle was larger than in 1847 or 1848; but the purchasea were also more numerous, and prices were tolerably maintained. The supply of sheep was less than in either of the two preceding years; but the demand was so much in advance of the supply, that more were sold and fewer re- mained unsold than has been known for some years: prices were therefore good. The demand for horses was considerable, but the show was poor, and the prices were bad.

It is announced in more than one Irish Roman Catholic paper, that Dr- O'Hanlon has been appointed by the Pope to the vacant Roman Catholic Primacy. Dr. O'Hanlon is a "confirmed Repealer," but has been "unob- trusive in politics" and public affairs.

The Repeal muster at Conciliation Hall on Monday was even less im- posing in point of respectability than that of last week. The adherence ofi two Roman Catholic Bishops, Dr. O'Higgins of Ardagh and Dr. French of Kilmacduagh, was announced with due flourish of trumpets. "The rent was proclaimed at the round sum of 30/.