Last night's London Gazette echoes the announcement in the Dublii
official document of the newly-appointed Charitable Beci-diiis Com- mission.
Mr. O'Connell keeps up his agitation against the Charitable Bequests Act. On Wednesday, at one of the almost daily meetings in Dublin, there was some rather violent language against the Prelates who joined the Commission. Mr. Scott, an elderly gentleman, who acted as Mr. O'Connell's professional agent at the celebrated Clare election in 1828, went so far as to say, that if he could for a moment suppose that Dr. Mar- ray was acting in the least degree through interested motives, he would re- fuse the further payment of dues to the Church. Mr. Loughlan, also aa attorney, declared that he would not resort for religious consolation to the Prelates in question, nor to any under their control, but would go to the regular (monastic) clergy, whom it was attempted by the bill to drive altogether from the country. Mr. O'Connell deprecated this [open) insubordination ; and assailed the Prelates in a more insidious style— With all possible respect, he declared it as his conscientious conviction, that a more unhappy event, one more pregnant with danger to the purity of Catho- licity, or to the full flow of charitable benevolence in this country, or an event more calculated to put them in the power of bitter and unrelenting enemies-- enemies who never bestowed a boon without intending to betray—could not have occurred at the present moment. He regretted exceedingly that those venerated Prelates had decided upon accepting of such an office; for by so doing they had divided the country into a defeated and a victorious party. He be- longed to the defeated party. (Cries of " No 1") Yes, they were a defeated party ; for already had the Mail and other Orange journals sung out their /o triumphs! • • • Yes, it was a triumph over the Bishops who dissented from the measure, over the fourteen Bishops who protested against it, over the 1,200 priests who protested against it, and over the almost unanimous feeling against it of the people of Ireland. It was a melancholy thing for one part of the Catholic body to triumph over another. • • • Let them not conceal it; it was a triumph, and the victory belonged to their common enemy. Re also complained that the Roman Catholic Prelates did net get their full and diocesan titles in the Gazette. Under the bead of "Trinity College, Dublin, December 18th," the Morning Chronicle favouably contrasts Lord Heytesbury's with Lord De Grey's ecclesiastical appointments ; praising the promotion of Mr. Collins, a Liberal Tory and advocate of popular education, to the Deanery of Killala, and of Mr. Higgins, an able, conscientious, and discreet parish-clergyman, esteemed by all parties, to the Deanery of Limerick. The same writer remarks that Bishop Tonson of Killaloe, " a Whig-made Prelate, called a special meeting of the clergy last week, to protest against the National System of Education, and they
did protest accordingly. Hear this, ye Whigs, and wonder how you made him !!"
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