23 MARCH 1872, Page 3

The first election of a Bishop in the disestablished Episcopal

Church of Ireland took place on Tuesday in Clonmel. The Synod of Cashel and Waterford elected the Dean of Limerick (Dr. Maurice Day), who is understood to be a representative of the Evangelical section of the Church. The Roman Catholicism of the country produces a counter-current of evangelicism much as a positive magnetic current is said always to create a negative current in its immediate neighbourhood. It is strange that oppo- site errors should seem to be so much more certainly bound up together in real life than even neighbouring and closely-related truths.