IRELAND.
Dr. Paul Cullen will not lose any sheep if by the unsparing issue of " pastorals " he can keep them in the fold. One of the portentously lengthy productions of the prelate was read in all the chapels of Dublin on Sunday last, by way of preparation for the coming festival of the Purification of the Virgin. Dr. Cullen denounces tract-distributors and proselytizers with his wonted vigour. The English, he says, expend enormous sums" in the attempt to "proselytize our people!' But com- pare the state of morals in the two countries-
" While the Judges are expressing their delight at the lightness of the calendar, and the absence of crime in the largest and most Catholic counties of Ireland, though poverty and misery still prevail in them to a considerable extent, England presents a very different picture. Need we speak of the suicides, the child-murderings the poisonings, the burglaries' the sale of wives the degrading immoralities, the innumerable munlers that are re- corded from week to week in the columns of the public press, and which cannot be read without horror and dismay Do the emissaries of the Bible Societies wish to reduce the Irish popu- lation to a condition like that ?
The Council of the Tenant .Right League met in Dublin on Tuesday. Seven Members of Parliament were present, and a goodly collection of
Roman Catholic priests ; but the attendance on the whole was rather thin. It was decided that the Tenant-Right Bill should be intrusted to Mr. Moore and Mr. Maguire.
The Belfast Xetes-1,elter states that there are at the present moment in the South and West of Ireland agents from America, who are pri- vately ascertaining the feeling of the people relative to an American in- vasion of this country. We believe that the Government are fully in possession of the circumstance.
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