The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

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ON MoNDAY A DEMTATIoN waited on the bird
Lieutenant with a memorial adopted at an influential
meeting held last week in Dublin under the auspices
of the Protestant Association. The circumstances in
which the meeting originated were these. One
Brennan, a vehement Itontan Catholic, in walking
down Nackville street, suffered mortal effence by the
" thrusting " into his hand of a tract issued by ono of
the many Protebtant religions societies in Dublin,
and forthwith mused the arrest of the offending dis.
triluator, who was brought before one of the pollee
magistrates, Mr. llugh O'Callaghan, of Copel-street
office. Mr. Brenntut thou framed his charge into
one of constructive assault, and, the magistrate being
of opinion that llrennan's view of the law was sound,
orders the distributor to put in bail, or else go to
prison. Considerable agitation followed upon this
decision. A Protestant meeting was held in the
Rotunda to denounce the conduct of the magistrate,
and to prepare a memorial to the Irish Exeettlive,
praying for inquiry and redress. The deputation,
having read the document to his Excellency, received
the following reply frinn ford St. Germans:—
" 1 have listened with much pain to your meneirial. It
is a mutter of deep regret that the meeting on whose
behalf you are premlut shtaild have sanctions-it the list of
language which appears to tne inconsistent with Christian
charity. and to be calculated to prejudice in the public
mind the right of free discussion. The memoriati.ds
impute to R magistrate gross misconduct in his Alec
they say that he mutlaciiiietly, daringly, unconstitu-
tionally, and bigotedly lent himself to sustain the in-
tolerance of a bigot. and to crush the rights of British
subjects ; they de Bribe the judgment pronounced by
him as being dating, IMISic al. and
intolertun—and they sag gent that in pronouncing that
judgment he WAS actuated by improper motives. liming
thus state,' the ease. they pray the to institute an
inquiry into the farts of it. I will not advert farther to
the language of this memorial. but will proceed at once to
remind the memotialists that, if the charges which they
prefer against Mr. O'Callaghan be well founded, his office
can abed him no protection—that he is atnenable to the

law, and that the Court of Queen's Bench in the proper
place in which persona can inquire not only whether that
ja.lonent wan righumuu, but also whether the motives by
which the magistrate was actuated in pronouncing it were
improper. Mat tribunal cart correct an errvr, and can

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ptini‘h an offender. For the., rrietomi I must decline to
comply with the prayer of the memorial."

Mr. Martin intimated tdu►t they had been ►nlvised by
competent legal authority that the Court of Queen's
Bench was not the proper tribunal before which to
luring the matter. His excellency, in reply, said
that he did not think the Executive should be called
upon in this stage of the business to interfere. an by
so doing it would be imusinissing upon the prerogative
of the l•onrt of Queen's Bench. The deputation
then withdrew.

Tiii: reports of damage by the extenshe flisals in
this south of Irdand are extrentely serious. An
estimate of thu gixiss sacrifice of property has
been funned at not far short of lflo,ooo/.. and Ow
loss has fallen in too many instimees upon its poorer
farmers and working tenants. hulateriptions have
been openoil for the relief of the atferers, to which
some considerable sums have already been ecintn-
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howl Jr.A I tatwthaavr 1001.: the .of Ilandon.
5111.: and '2OOl. wn4 the town yowled of
Cork.

ASIATIC CHOLERA lids uppr,ereal in Ireland. In
Dublin several cases have been reported. At Cork
the disease seems to have been imported in an
American sillip„ the Kessetsk. bound from Liverpool
with emigrants. the ba►l been out fifteen days from
leaving the Met44.y, and had been visited by cholera
of a very malignant type. Fitly of the emigrants had
been attacked, of whom eighteen died before treat-
ing Queenstown. ANA, alma has been occasioned
by the event in Cork, but no serious symptom," have
appeared respecting the spread of the epidemic among
the native population.
Tin: Mom lh►. Moots ham accepted the see
of Derry, and the Hey. Henry titittin, lisle Fellow of
Trinity College, succeeds his lordship in the diocese
of Limerick. It is Mated that the translation of Dr.
Iliggin from Limerick to I►erry has taken place at
the earnest request of the I.►ntil Lieutenant, Earl St.
dennans. The object of his excellency in this
einen( was, as has been already suggested, to
place at the head of the clergy ol• the di,s•esc of
I►erry and Itaphoe, in the I'r►testant pr►vincee of
lister, a member of the present Board of National
Educat

FitoM TIIE S ME% which have been elfeeteil in the
Esti cant:ern EST ATE% Co WILT, Rillee the resumpti
of business idler the long vacation, it would seem
that. the "nut for land " this year promises to exceed
that of ally former period, and that, according to pro.
sent appearances, the supply, which but five years
since was Irian its immensity regarded as the fore-
runner of a lease in perpetuity to the commission, now
threatens to fall far short of the demand. Six
estates were disposed of on \lowlay at rates of lair
chase, and varying from twelve to twenty one pqsi,
according to cireumstances. The properties lay in
the comities of Waterford, *Longford, Cork, Galway,
Mayo, and Tipperary. Thu gross sum realised
amounted to i 3,9541/.
M it. .1 All Est 1 WWII, proprietor of the Into Work/
newspaper, 11115 I,lotaiined a el )11111110iiiiil order for a
new trial against the proprietors of the Free mapeg
The ease Wits tried at the last Kildare
Assizes, before Mr. 'Justice t and a spec
jury, when a verdict was found ti u• the defendants.
Gass AND O'llAnt, the engine di iver and stoker of
the goods train whieli rause.' sueli deplorable residta
on the Southern Hallway last month, have been ad.
milted to bail by the Court of queen's Bench.
A Vvary M ELAN4'IIOI.V 01. i rititE•4 1.: took phwe on
the Ith inst., in the vicinity of Balbriggan, Lady
Langford, alio was on a visit at Ardgillan Castle, the
seat of Colonel Taylor, having been drowned on the
seacoast, where she hail gone, acctimpanicil by her
maid, to bathe. Tile sea was lit the tins in R very
lioistAmous state, and she WIIS carried by the waves
into deep water, and drowned before any tittempt
could be niade to rescue her. The body was con-
voyed to Arilgillan Castle, where an iuyuesl WIL`4 held
1.1? the Saturday following. Lord Langford and
Colonel Taylor were absent on a grouse-shooting ex-
cursion in Scotland. The deceased lady was daugh-
ter of the late Colonel Cottony, NA'., 44 Castle.
town, and sister of the present member fur tlio
county Donegal.

IRISH CONTRASTS.

Tnt li)ll.iwing sketch of the present condition ul• Iru
lad, as compared with thatof the great "AKilxtnr•r "
Las appeared in the colunitim of the Belfast
Mercury:—

Ireland hits at length aroused henielf. The filming.
point *tempt to hale panned. owl a Hew era in her Inanity
is already eunnatenced. Sectarian optimality gradually then
away before the workings of stietal advancement , and pm
litical agitation w not (slily les. tittructlie, but far lest' prm
Maisie than it was its Onto'• palmy cloys Shell the pro shots
of I'oncilialiou hall were Wi Mt to Iret el the hit tare OS 'ries
of 'ollege-green. The lanai of saints has also been finned
as the theatre of miracles ; and certainly in no other por-
tion of Queen Victorneadominintis hove litteh niirarlem been
wrought. or %Itch wonders peifonttell, an thole which,
during the past ten years, followed in the wake of Ireland's
current history. In Ig4:1 that extraordinary man, Daniel
O'Connell, wielded ill this country tin amount of political

influence never before equalled. Agitation kept four-fiftlis
of the population is tone contitinous scene of pun eicite•
sent, and poverty held it* eansival amid the wild orgies
of theoretic patriotism. Very different indeed is the
present social aspect of Ireland compared with the perhsl
to which we have just referred. Peace mime* in village
and hamlet ; Bands-quay has ceased to wend forth its le+
eon« on ideal nationality, and men begin to leans that self
exertion M the surest 'male of local advancement. Even
Tipperary, so long famed in the annals of terraria's siirfare,
f.ugvts its former follies ; indolent*. give., 1111A•i• to
indn,u c,
and the results of a ancennsfid industry create fresh CO111•
form, as they also produce more esoistentnient. among the
toe-ople. William Pargan in the real Young Irelintiler of
His example forma a lit ing history tante elispient
in int language than the thiest-turned perio al* of " patniitic"
declaimiste. That one man's exeitiona have given a %Insulin%
to enterprise, and a dignity to toil, which are likely to con-
fer the most important benefits toe hie native laud. Ten
years alto the ery of over population rang limn t 'omissio's-a
to Coleraine ; tile political ee.,nonlist read of the eight
millions," and ran itowling to his gods; and Slulthusiens
senators gated on the lists of births in Irish papers with
the desperation of men about to be jostled out of the
world by hoods of Irish adventurers. Sine.. that period
thousand* anal tens of thousattils of • people. have bicateol
themselves amid the valleys of the United Shoes, In the
lakes of c snails. and to is; hey I the far Pacific. to
theme lands the emigrants f l their litlossur well repaid.
and their enterprise foully rewarded. Every mail steamer
brings with it some pee 111 l istry snit Krum the ensignuit
pioneer to his friends in the eilar try, mid tins the mit,•
vests of one member sif &family cassava:4es others. until, in
many instances,* dozen hon,ehol,l,ill one lawality follow
the track of their leader. Plo, mical ent.rgy, the Ism° and
sinew of our people hating lied st new value set on their
labour. has ceased to be a dreg in the market. Every man
willing to work finds a ready sale for Ilia exertions. Cone
pubtory idleness no longer Moils a place in irt.laitil's
mid paragraphs on the state of the e l
rarely meet the eve in the impels of the day. All these
outward and %Willie signs of better tams lead Its to hope
that at length the people of Ireland have 6. I out thud
simple problem in wild ethics, thud. in the stilvaticeniesit
of any lass, the mensbens oldest i.lass it their oit
shouldecrs to the wheel if the would ywo unsurismste sou.ressfist tip.
Througl 1111 l t the west of Ireland issi 1111 l failures.,
are making satiafactiory prt.greSA, and we are 11,4,1,y to 1,.„r1
that there is not alone a willingness llllals.oramen the
peasantry, lint All wl •ing skill %Melt speaks highly sof
the natural abilities of the workers. The practical 'pent.
lion of the Encumbered Estates t • 1 hip a new
and more energetic race of landowners—men who are in•
thawing improved systems of agricitlture on their estal us,
and giving simple employment to the labourers in their
mieenti Ten years have, therefore, 'lone slimier"
for Ireland : the people are intionivisl in habits :mil in
mond»; their West* seelll 111011 i titeitilily 004-
111 l 141111, with tlwir bettered circumstances. they have
bee yearend as sell as an industrious tieople,