The Press.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

years ago would scarcely recognise it now, so great a change
has been effected in four short years. The swamps and
morassea have been converted into excellent land, and the
callows have been so much improved as to be worth treble
their former value. One field, formerly let for 251. a year,
now brings 701.

DR. WHALE has (published an' article approving
the proposed Crimean dinner, but maintaining that
so transient a reward is not sufficient compensation
for the gallant deeds of the Irish soldiers:—
Such demonstrations have, as they should have, but
little influence on the courage of the masses of military
citizens, as they may be called, of which an army is com-
posed. They aspire to more solid comforts and to more
sacred and lofty rewards. It was for their altars and for
their hearths—pro aria et facia—for all the endearing in-
terests and sacred hopes and engagements that are for
ever associated with those two words of such pregnant
signification—it was for them, and not for any less holy
subjects, that the most brilliant feats recor led in sacred,
or profane, or ecclesiastical history were achieved. Free
altars and secure firesides formed the most imposing
theme by which the Roman generals kindled the courage
of their soldiers. Never was the valour of the Hebrew
people so signally displayed as when they fought to protect
their temple and its worshippers from profanation. It
was the consciousness that they were engaged in the defence
of their holy religion, and supplied with all its consola-
tions, that strung to such a high pitch the heroism of
the champions of the Cross as to perform prodigies of
prowess exceeding all belief if not so well authenticated.
A similar feeling has sustained, under the most disastrous
circumstances, the intrepidity of the soldiers of every
Christian country, who knew that with victory were sure
to be associated the secure tenure of the home and the
free practice of the faith for which they gladly risked the
danger of life itself. The noblemen and gentlemen who
compose the committee for the Crimean banquet are well
aware that such is not the lot of the Irish Catholic soldiers,
who have won their just admiration; and as they are
anxious to prove their gratitude for their protectors I
trust they will labour in all earnestness to procure for
those brave men the only benefits they prize and the only
remuneration that can be adequate to their services.
The learned doctor concludes with a lengthened state-
ment of grievances under which Ireland labours.
MR. BURKE ROCHE has been gazetted as Baron
Fermoy, in the county of Cork.
THE election of a successor to the late Bishop
Murray of Ferns took place on Monday, when the
Rev. Dr. Furlong, one of the Maynooth professors,
Archdeacon Barden, and the Rev. Patrick Keatinge
were nominated for presentation to the holy see.
AN AMERICAN WHALER, the W. F. Stafford, of New
York, has arrived at Queenstown, on her return from
Nova Zembla. On her voyage, which was an expe-
rimental one, she captured three whales by a new
method, first practised by her master, Captain Roys,
and which consists in firing a kind of small shells at
the animal, which explode after entering its body, the
practice of harpooning, as is well known, being both
dangerous and uncertain.

LORD CLERMONT has withdrawn his resignation as
chairman of the Dundalk board of guardians, on that
body having undertaken to abstain from the discus-
sion of political questions. He writes :

I hope that I fully appreciate the consideration thus
shown to myself personally, and am confident that you will
never regret your decision, made on broader grounds, in
the true interests of the union, as tending to guard our
proceedings from undue disturbance in future.