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The appointment of Mr. Theobald M'Kenna is fiercely attacked by the Dublin Evening Mail ; which draws from it a singular conclusion. At the elec- tion for Dublin in 1841, Mr. M'Kenna voted for O'Connell and Hutton' and against West and Grogan; and at the last election he voted for Lord Mos- petit and against Mr. Gregory: Mr. M'Kenna, infers the Mail, must be a Repealer; and therefore Lord Heytesbnry, who appointed him, must be so too.

"Why, you old ass of the Mail," prettily exclaims the Pilot, " it is because Lord Heytesbury is not a Repealer that the man is appointed. It is because he is not a Repealer—cannot strangle Repeal by force, and would break down the confederacy by soft sawder, bribery, or any other means within his reach—that Mr. M'Kenna has been appointed, and that several others of the same class will be appointed, to the exclusion of Orangeists, who make themselves fools but not formidable. Gentlemen Catholics, of moderate talents and moderate politics, thank O'Connell and Repeal—your harvest is set in !"

With equal candour, the Nation observes-

" The vacancy in the Chief Clerkship, caused by Mr. Pennefather's promotion to the office of Under-Secretary, has been filled by the appointment of Theobald Iftlienna, Esq. He is a Catholic barrister, in some practice, of some address, and considerable manner. While we see in the current of such appointments a feeble but malicious design to bribe down Irish freedom—while we see and defy this, we fairly admit that the appointment is a good one; and we are not sorry for it."

At Be/fast, on Wednesday, Lord John Chichester was elected Member for that borough, in the room of Sir James Emerson Tennent, without opposition. Lord John, though brother to the Liberal Marquis of Donegal, is a Tory, and is pledged to vote for the repeal of the Maynooth grant. Be was prevented by illness from being present at the election.

The provincial papers report various Orange meetings and displays on the Twelfth of August; all of which seem to have passed off without dis- turbance or any striking incident

A great Protestant meeting was held at Lisburn on Wednesday, to ex- press sympathy with Mr. Watson, the dismissed Orange Magistrate. The Marquis of Downshire presided, his Countess by his side; and there were present, Mr. Watson, the Earl and Countess Annesky, Colonel Verner, several Justices of the Peace, and many clergymen. The numbers are estimated by the Repeal authorities at 6,000 or 7,000, by the Orangemen at 40,000 or 50,000, by the reporter of the Times at 13,000. Many came with their Orange insignia and music. The speakers and the meeting re- echoed some strong terms: Ministers were "the villains," Sir Robert Peel -"the traitor" and "Judas," the Roman Catholic religion "damnable and Idolatrous." The clergymen were the most spirited orators: the Reverend Mr. Hudson was eloquent about "the Orange lion with his mane erect," "Repeal, Popery, and Peelery crouching before bin"; the Reverend Mr. Leslie was pleasant touching "the infernal priests," their "long gaiters dad black coats"; and he asked "who the Devil was Mr. Pitt," that he sehould recommend the grant—" let him be fifty Pitts, ay, or the Bottom- less Pit, he had no right to do any such thing." Resolutions denouncing Ministers, and a memorial praying the Queen to reinstate Mr. Watson, passed unanimously.

A public meeting was held in the Market-house of Armagh, on Thurs- day the 7th instant, to memorialize the Lord-Lieutenant, praying that one of the three new Colleges might be erected in that city. The meeting was attended by most respectable and influential persons, including clergymen and laymen of the several Irish sects. Among the speakers in favour of Ar- magh was the Reverend Dr. Crony, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the province and Primate of all Ireland who made an important declaration— It was well known, and every liberal-minded man should acknowledge, that the middle class of society in Ireland stood in great need of an impartial, enlightened system of academical education. The Government had provided well for the poor of the country, in respect to instruction; and it was gratifying to 'mow that the gentlemen who composed the National Board, although on religious grenade yet had constantly managed their business in uninterrupted concord and harmony. Not long since, he witnessed, in the Dublin Model School, a vary lags number of teachers, of different persuasions, living together in the most perfect harmony, and united in purpose. From such enlightened teachers, with proper books and lessons of paternal love,1 it might naturally be expected that a spirit of Christian charity would be soon diffased throughout the land. Thus it was evi- dent, that the system of mixed education provided for the poorer cheeses had been so far successful in this country, and must naturally be equally so in a College of mixed education, if managed in the same Christian spirit. After stating that the Roman Catholic clergy had expressed objections to the Colleges Bill, and that the alterations made in it by Government were satisfactory, Dr. Crolly proceeded. By the bill as it at present stood, no pupil could be received into any of the mew Colleges unless he would lodge with his parent, a relative, a guardian, or in a house duly licensed by the President of the College, for the very purpose of pro- tectiog his morality. Besides, the bill gives full power to have Chap. of every religious persuasion duly appointed, for the purpose of superintenduig the moral conduct of the students, andgiving them pro.per moral instruction, at such hours as will not interfere with their scientific studies. This being the most important point in the measure, and one to which most objection was urged at the outset, he was determined, as far as he was concerned, to give their Provincial College a fair trial; which could not be done unless it were placed in each a situation that the students from the nine counties in Ulster as fir as possible would have equal access to it, and which could be evidently best accomplished by erecting it nearly in the centre of the province; a position it would occupy if situated in the ancient city of Armagh. Among the advantages in favour of Armagh, the Archbishop reckoned a prospective one—

The most enterprising gentlemen of the province, who were at present engaged in making railways for the improvement of the country, had chosen it as the most eligible place in which all the railways in Ulster should terminate ; so thee,

by a proper arrangement with the proprietors of the i railways the students from every part of Ulster, at a very. small expense, could he conveyed n e morning to the College, and in the evening return to their parents' houses.

The memorial, which was unanimously adopted by the meeting, set forth the following advantages offered by the city—its central position; it being the metropolitan city, and the residence of two Primates of all Ireland; its valuable public library and royal observatory; its healthi- ness; and the fact that the population of the district consists of Church Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Presbyterians, in nearly equal propor- tions. A deputation, headed by Dr. Crolly, was appointed to present the memorial and back it with further representations. [Our last Postscript reported the presentation of the memorial.]

At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, a letter was read from Mr. O'Connell. He set right a misunderstanding, by declaring that in speaking of the registration of Repeal voters, he did not mean to super- sede the present Repeal Wardens ; to whose "zealous virtue" he paid the tribute of high praise: but he again pressed upon the Association the nee cessity of the registry. He then proceeded to contrast the conduct and magnitude of the Repeal " demonstrations " with those of the Orangemen, much to the disadvantage of the latter. Some speeches were delivered,-e by Mr. Steele, giving an account of his visit to Enniskillen ; and by Mr. John O'Connell, abusing the Colleges Bill, hinting that he "deplored" the statement of Archbishop Crony in its favour, touching upon Archbishop Itl'Islale's opposite opinion, but promising the submission of the laity to tl ultimate decision of the Bishops. The rent for, the week was 2251.

In a letter to Mr. John O'Connell, Dr. Cantwell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath, thus responds to that gentleman's hinted doubts-

" I lose not a moment in removing your doubts as to the sentiments of the Roman Catholic Prelates, clergy, and laity respecting the godless Acedemieal Bill. That hateful measure has come forth from the Parliamentary Committee, like most other Imperial measures, worse by its amendments. Hence the horror of its despotic and Anti-Catholic provisions has not lost one particle of its intensity. I fervently hope that the Catholics of Ireland, under the guidance of your illus- trious father, will not cease in their exertions until they rescue our unfortunate and long-persecuted country from the infliction of this seductive and dangerous measure."

The Times has at last sent its "Special Commissioner" into Ireland; and his first letter is dated at Cavan on the 14th instant. He begins his series of reports with some general remarks on the state of Ireland, and the probable direction in which to look for causes and remedies: but these comments are not so close or valuable as his reports of fact may be ex- pected to prove. The first letter even grows striking when he begins not to deduce conclusions, but to describe the symptoms of the state of the country: not that the facts stated are severally new, but that, taken cumulatively, as ordinary features in the aspect of a town, they acquire a stronger meaning- " On walking through the town of Cavan, the walls are seen to be placarded with the proclamation of his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, declaring the county to be in a state of disturbance, and to require additional police force. Armed police and soldiers are everywhere seen about the town. Notices offering rewards for private information relative to the secret society commonly called Ribandrnen, or Molly Magnires,' and directing the arrest of 'all vagrants and suspicious persons,' are everywhere stack up, and sufficiently indicate some social disturbance. The resolutions adopted at a public meeting held in the town of Cavan about five weeks ago are also distributed about; the first of which, pro posed by the Marquis of lieadfort, Lieutenant of the County of Cavan, seconded by Mr. Robert Burrowes, Deputy-Lieutenant, states- ' That we deeply deplore the extensive system of lawless violence which has for some months past prevailed in this county, rendering both life and property insecure. Murders, under the most atrocious circumstances, have been committed in the open day ; numerous houses have been robbed of arms and money, and the inmates of several of them have been severely Injured; anonymous threatening notices, couched in the most sanguinary terms, are daily issued to most respectable Individuals; and other outrages have been perpetrated—all, up to the present moment, with perfect

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[The Commissioner then alludes to the case of Mr. Bell Booth, who was shot in open day while returning from church in a gig with two children: a meeting of Magistrates was held to demand the interference of Government] "Is. their address, the Magistrates state that the assassin then fled across the country-.- 'A crowd, at least twenty, (people who were passing on the road,) almost Instantly collected around the body ; but, although urged in the strongest manner by a gentle- man present, who, from a late accident, was unfortunately unable himself to set the example, would not go in pursuit of the assassin. Such is the state of Intimidation to which even most respectable persons are reduced by the scenes daily occurring.' "Disgraceful as this testimony is, it is not a solitary instance of such conduct. It sounds oddly to hear this same community calling upon the Government to send them armed police to protect them, when twenty men in open day allow a single assassin to walk quietly off, after committing a most shocking murder in the midst of them—to bear them call on Jupiter to help them when they will imt set their own shoulders to the wheel. It Is clear that they might have appre- hended this assassin if they would; and it follows also clearly, that this commu- nity is divided, and that one part of it tacitly permits an assassination which the

other pert of it wants the power to prevent. What can any Government do in such a ease as this? That which one half the community abhors the other half of the community looks approvingly on.

"ft is denied by one party that society is in the state that has been represented; and it is asserted by them that there is no cense for fear, and that this was an individual act of revenge, executed by a hired stranger. Unfortunately, these acts are rather common; and, whether there is cause for fear or not, it is a fact that extensive excitement and apprehension prevaiL It is said that the funeral of Mr. Booth was attended by upwards of two thousand armed men; and that though his sister-in-law was so near to the villain who fired the shot that she closely observed him, yet she dare not attempt identification. Some farmers told me that they are under such apprehensions that they come to town armed; and I myself saw several farmers driving home with their cars in clusters, for mutual preteetion, having upon each car a short gun."