At a Petty Sessions held on Thursday week at Tubbercurry,
in the county of Sligo, six men, four of them of the name of Black, one of the name of Carr, another of the name of Shaw, were connnitted to Sligo gaol, charged on the clearest evidence with having on the 21st of August broken into the house of a man named M.H ugh, and sworn him not to work for Protestants. All these men are themselves Protes- tants and Orangemen. The majority of the Committing Magistrates were Protestants. Mr. Little, the Stipendiary A:aeistrate, in his address to the prisoners, alluded to an expression which fell from one of them—that " lie did not think Scully would have turned traitor"— as proof that they were engaged in a plot. Scully was a witness against them ; and there seems no doubt that they bad combined, or had been hired, to commit the outrage, in order to throw the odium on the Catholics.
Mary Smith and Eleanor Connor, who bad been members of the Protestant Church, made public profession of their faith as Catholics, on Sunday last, at the Chapel of St. Nicholas, Galway, before the Right Reverend Dr. Browne, and the congregation.—Limerick Star.
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