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The Reverend. Dr. Townsend, meetly made Dean of Waterford, is raised to the vacant• Bishopric of Meath. The. see of Meath yields an annual income of 40001., with extensive patronage ; and the Bishop of that diocese is ex officio a member of .the Privy Council in Ireland.
Mr. John R. Corloallis, who is or was one of the Government Conmsis- simmers of Education, has written to the Boman Catholic Archbishop, of Dublin, Dr. Murray, for information on the. perplexing question of his duty as a parent 'in relation to his children now attending at the anathe- matized Queen's Colleges. The Archbishop's answer would seem to im- ply that the final condemnation of those institutions by the 'Pope• is an evil which Dr. Murray still hopes to see averted. " Mountjoy Square, Oct. 1. "My dear Friend—I have received your interesting letter ; and I need not, I hope, assure you that I participate 'fully in the deep anxiety which you so justly feel ; but I must pray you not to press me to enter at this mo- ment into details on the painful subject to which you allude. ' I may, how- ever, mention that a petition signed by thirteen bishops has probatdy ere this reached Rome, supplicating our most Holy Father Pius the Ninth to refuse his sanction to certain proposals on points yet undecided relative to the subject of academical education. To the decision, to be given thereen, whatever it may be, (though I still venture to hope that it will be favourable to the petitioners,) those Prelates will be found among the first to reveren- tially submit; but, in the mean time, I am not aware that there is amongst them one who would wish to extend the provisions of the Pontifical rescripte already issued on that subject beyond the strict letter of what.the Holy ,See has prescribed.
" I have the honour to remain, my dear friend, yours most faithfully, " J. R. Corballis, Esq. + D. Muastar."
The Dublin Po,eket iniys--" It is very generally rumoured that Major Blackol, M.P. for Longford, is to get a Government appointment in Cey- lon ; and that the Government intend to pet forward their new. Solicitor- General, Mr. Hughes, to represent.that county in his stead."
The Tenant League has sustained the check of a secession, and secured the encouragement of a meeting "the most remarkable in point of num- bers that can be remembered in the annals of the Northern Province."
Dr. Gray, of the Freeman's Journal, and his brother Mr. Wilson Gray, the barrister, alarmed at the perils of the endeavour to establish local so- cieties in connexion with the parent society—a proceeding which under the conspiracy law would make the cooler heads in the capital parties to any treasonable excesses of the heated provincials—have sent in their for- mal resignation, accompanied with addresses declaring their desire still to promote the cause to a "peaceful" issue. The example and influence of the experienced Mr. John O'Connell are said to have had some part in causing this wary secession.
The meeting in the North was held in Monaghan, at the town of Ed- libay, the residence of one of the most determined and vigorous of the founders of the League, Mr. David Bell, the Presbyterian minister. It is said to have consisted for the most part of yeomen, sturdy tenants, and shopkeepers from the neighbouring towns, and to have numbered nearly 15,000 persons. On the platform were a legion of B.omish priests and Presbyterian ministers ; and "a few landowners in the county," though we do not learn the names of these last. A Stipendiary Magistrate, with a force of Police, was on the spot, but had no occasion.to interfere. The speakers were such as had been heard at Wexford and Kilkenny, with the addition of local celebrities. The incidents of general interest on the side of the Leaguers were, that Mr. Lucas "read letters which he had received from the Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. M'Hale, and the Right Reverend Dr. Cantwell, Bishop of Meath, expressing their gratification at the efforts being made by the Tenant League to procure an equitable set- tlement of the relations between landlord and tenant, and wishing a speedy success to the benevolent and patriotic intentions of that body." Mr. Cobden, Mr. Poulett Scrope, and Mr. Sharman Crawford, had ex- pressed an "earnest desire for the success of the movement." Mr. Vesey Dawson, one of the County Members, declined to attend or sanction the meeting ; deeming the League a body not calculated to help on a settlement of the difficulties between landlord and tenant.
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