The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

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CRIMS AND ITS REWARDS. -If the following para.
graph. originating in a Dublin paper, be well founded it
ca tbe dcilied that in these latter days mere wife-
killers are the most lucky of all criminals amenable to
the laws of the l'nited Kingdom :—" Kirwan, who was
sentenced to death some years ago for the murder of
his wife on Ireland's Eye, and whose sentence was com-
muted to transportation for life, and who was finally
deported to Bermuda, has obtained, through the energetic
and enduring sympathy of his friends at home, a further
commutation of his sentence; and on • report of his
' very proper conduct' while in foreign parts he has been
liberated and will be allowed to return home."

TRANSFORMATION OF THE IRISH CONMTABULART.—
The ICl(kering Moderator report* the conversion of the
Irish constabulary from • civil to a military body :
An order has been issued for five sub-inspectors, six-
teen head-constables, and a proportionate number of
constables of the Inch Constabulary Force to proceed to
Hythe for instruction in the use of the Enfield rifle,
preparatory to arming a force with that weapon.

Mr.irrimi or IRISH Si RUBERM.-A meeting of Irish
members was held on Thursday week, at the North-
umberland Hotel, Dublin, " for the purpose of taking
measures to promote the policy euunciatt4l by the
Catholic Archbialiops and Bishops of Ireland in their
pastrol addresses published on the hith of August." The
chair was taken by M. E. Corbally, M.P. for Meath.
The other members present were—R. M. Bellew, J. A.
Blake, Dr. Brady, J. Pope Hennessy. John Lanigan,
Edward 3l'Evoy, J. F. Maguire, Patrick O'Brien, The
O'Donoghue, and Colonel White. Reporters were not
admitted. The first resolution pledged the meeting to
press upon the Government the just demands contained
in the pastoral address of the Catholic Bishops and
Archbishops of Ireland published last August ; the
second advocated the principles of free separate educa-
tion ; the third assented to such a control and inspec-
tion by the Government of the funds allocated to public
education as would insure that they were not misap-
propriated ; the fourth upheld tenant-right as the
measure of all measures calculated to promote the
material happiness and social prosperity of Ireland ; the
fifth asserted the right of Catholic soldiers and sailors to
the same religious privileges as Protestants; the sixth
demands an improvement in the administration of the
Irish Poor-law Board ; the seventh declared that any
Government which attempts to interfere or to counte-
nance an attack upon the temporal sovereignty of the
lloly Father is unworthy of the confidence of the Irish
people and support of their representatives.

OItANt:E DEMoSt4TRATION.—The Dublin Protcstant
Association have held an aggregate meeting. It was
called to pronounce upon the existing crisis, and Sir. E.
Grogan, M.P., was in the chair. Loud cheers and
Kentish fire saluted the expression of his views, all the
more loud and Kentish as he proceeded to accuse the
Roman Catholic orators of making use of disrespectful
and treaiionable language towards the Queen and Con-
stitution.