IRELAND.
Dr. Cullen caused a pastoral of the usual length to be read from all the altars in Dublin on Sunday. The avowed object of the pastoral was to commemorate the peace ; but a very large portion of it was taken up with warlike denunciations against the opponents of Maynooth and the Protestant proselytizers. Two sentences will show that Dr. Cullen finds comfort in some of the issues of the war.
"The late war, indeed, has shed renewed lustre on our holy religion, and ...riven our church fresh claims on the affection and admiration of the world. In the midst of the din of arms and universal strife her rights have been re- cognized and proclaimed in extensive and powerful kingdoms, and she has been restored to the exercise of that freedom to which her Divine origin gives her a full claim. Even in the countries where she was lately perse- cuted in the most cruel manner a new iera appears to have dawned, and we may expect that our brethren in the regions of the East and North will soon be able to enjoy the protection of just laws and to profess their religion with- out fear of-molestation."
Mr. Richard Maxwell Fox, who had long been in declining health, died on Saturday, at St. Leonards. This creates a vacancy in the repre- sentation of the county of Longford.
The first meeting to settle the list of contributories to the Tipperary Bank was held before Master Murphy on Monday : there was much talk by coun- sel, but no decisions seem to have been arrived at.
More charges of forging transfers are to be brought against Knighting, the Dublin railway-clerk : it is now believed that his frauds will turn out to be very extensive.
The Moate Magistrates have committed Mr. George Strevens, nephew of the late Mrs. Kelly, and James Banner, in connexion with the murder—on what precise charge is not stated. Waters was discharged, and ruuthan re- manded.
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