The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DVRLIN, JAM. 17.
A third edition of this day's Weekly Freeman con-
tains the intelligence that the Rev. 1)r. O'Toole, the
Roman catholic vice-president. of the Galway pro-
vincial college, has declined to comply with the
decrees of the Thurles synod by surrendering his
office, and has determined on appealing to Rome.
As the rev. gentleman is known to be a pious and
' exemplary clergyman, and is altogether a most
' worthy and estimable man, his example in this
matter will not fail to have a great deal of influence,
and his case will form a final rallying point
for those of the Roman catholic laity who
would stand hy the colleges, if possible,
without open disobedience to their church.
I understand that the Rev. 0"foolc grounds kis
appeal to Rome on the plea that he owes no imme-
diate obedience to any of the Irish Roman catholic
bishops, having studied and been ordained in France,
where I believe he was also for some time on the
mission. his pretty clear that unless he bad some
such ground to go on he would not have adopted the
present course, as the very circumstance of his in-
curring the censures of his church by disobedience
would forfeit for him his office in the college, it
being pretty well understood that priests under sus-
pension would not be retained in an official capacity
in the Queen's Colleges. The Freeman thus com-
ments on the matter:
We can hardly believe that any catholic priest in Ireland
could be funnel to disobey the direct inundates of his Holi-
ness. The idea of appeAing to Rome against Wine itself is
too preposterous for credence. We will, therefore, give the
vice-president the benefit of withholding any comment on
the correspondence which lies before us until the fact of his
refusal to obey beconu s a matter of further notoriety. The
dean of residence resigned his office, we are told, many
months ago. Mould the vice-president, however, continue
to cling to this COUPw then indeed will the Queen's Colleges
have been brought into hopeless disrepute with the catholic*
of Ireland.

Five small estates were sold Testerday in the En-
cumbered Estates Court, and asixtli was put up, but
withdrawn for want of soffieient otf-rs. &rising
Mail, in sonic remarks on the sale of the Earl of
Mountnorris's estates, on Thursday last, to an Eng-
lish purthaber, &apt
At length we have to announce the appcararee of a lam.
English capitalist in the I neuinhered Estates Court. and
his NUCCCSI will probably bring more of hie cl.ois to the
same market. The agent of Mr. Verner Fester, of Stow-
bridge, in Staffordshire, was, on Thursday, ilmlared the
purelnuier of the Mountre ) estates, in the county of
Wesfurd, for a sum of 4.1,200 f. This investment, in one of
the most eivilimal and improved districts of our island, re-
turning at once 51 per cent., and at the termination of
three lives 7i p•r cent., is well worth all the preference
shares which the projectors of Mariposa quartz minty can
scatter among their snliscribers. We doubt not that the
uneertein state of the money market, and the steadily de-
clining aspect of public securities, will turn the course of
many a golden stream from Leadenball.strect into our land
market. _

A western paper states that a Roman catholic
clergyman refused to celebrate mass, on Sunday
last, in a chapel, while a policeman known to he a
Freemason continued to remain there. The police-
man, sustained by his companions, refused to retire,
and the priest, with the remainder of the congrega-
tion, withdrew to a short distance, and performed
divine service in the open sir.
A letter has been received from the Revs. Messrs.
l'eyton and Mullen, the missionaries sent to preach
for the Irish Catholic University in America, giving
la favourable account of their progress, and transmit-
ting a sum of 1001. collected by them in Baltimore.
The official announcemen. of the special commis-
sion for Monaghan has been published. It is nut yet
certain that there will be a special commission for
the county of Louth.
Lord %aux, of I larrowden, has addressed a letter
to the Tablet, containing suggestions for the promo-
tion of a Roman catholic club in Loudon. The an-
nual subscription is to be a, and rooms are to Ist
occupied by the club at a hotel an the vicinity of
ISt. James'iestreet.

MR. MACAULAY, it is maid, has delayed the publi-
, cation of the third and fourth 'Mumes of his History of
Englanu in consequence of his having obtained some new
ieformation relating to King William the Third. King
William, it is asserted, figures as the chief personage in the
, narrative—and the greatest stress is laid on his conduct sub-
sequently to the revolution.—Atlienasum.
, FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REYORM.-111
, the Marylebone vestry meeting on Saturday last, Mr.
Nicholay presented a memorial, signed by a number of the
. inhabitants of Oxford-suet And its vicinity, asking for the
. use of the board-room of the Court-house for a public meet-
, ing of the ratepayers on parliamentary onl financial re-
. form. After some opposition the mition was ultimately
. agreed to.
PRESERVED MEATS FOR THE NAVY.—M. Soyer
- has sent us a letter, describing an t lamination made by
, him of the naval putrid meats. Ile concludes by saying:—
, I would strongly advle for the future (specially if those
• preserved meats are to be cured abroad, as the last contract
r appears to have been done) that official persons well tie-
r quainted with those important processor, who really only
• require cleanliness, care, and a little judgment, be sp-
. pointed to examine the quality of the meat, not only when
r preserved, but also in a raw state, and previous to the pur-
• chew of it by the contractnra, in or out of England ; and it
would be even more gratifying if government was to under-
take it, and cause thine preserves to be done in the various
victualling yards, where abundance of r om is there untie-
cupied. No canister. besides, ought to contain more than 6
pounds of meat, the same to he very slightly seasoned with
, bay salt, pepper, and aromatic herbs in powder, such
as bay thyme and bay leaf, a Mall quantity of which
would not be objectionable even for invalid.. That no jelly
be added to the meat, but that the meat, and the meat
alone, should produce its own jelly, and that with the bones
and trimming of the above a good stock should be made
without vegetables, well reduced and skimmed, to form a
very strong transparent demi-glace, and that six pound
canisters should be filled with the same, bearing a special
mark, and one of these allowed to every dozen of the others;
this demi-glare, when diluted in water would make six
gallons of very good broth, with which any. kind of soup
could be made in a very short time, otherwise divide it into
portions with the meat; ordinary vegetables of any kind,
so very beneficial on a long sea voyage, may be easily pre-
served separately-, at a trifling cost, with the greatest faci-
lity:, and used in perfection in at. climate."
DISCOVERY AT TIIE OLD HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
—On Saturday afternoon no small degree of excitement was
created by the discovery of a body imbedded in the walls of
St. Stephen's Chapel. While the workmen were chipping
an old stone wall of the chapel they came upon something
rolled up in canvas, and un partially uncovering it a human
form was disclosed in a perfect state of preservation. A
wooden pastoral staff was hound by its side, such as was car-
ried by the mitred abbots of the olden time. The discovery
created intense excitement, and huudreds of persons flocked
to the spot. Mr. Barry was sent for, and in the meantime
the remains are strictly guarded, in order that a satisfactory
examination may be made by competent persons. It may
be remembered that the walls, in which this interesting
relic was discovered, form part of the chapel built by
Richard the Second, in 1398, the money for the purpose
having been raised by a tax imposed on all foreigners
then residing in the kingdom. The body was found
in the wall of the crypt, under the high altar,
where in the old monasteries there was generally to he
found a small chapel, underneath the great public church.
To be buried in this IscenCon was a mark of distinction, re-
served for the founder of the building or for some great be-
nefactor of the establishment. The body just discovered is
obviously the remains of a high ecclesiastic, and from the
feet of its being buried with crossed-legs it is surmised that
the deceased dignitary was one who had visited the Holy
Sepulchre. The body is closely encased in cerecloth, which
will probably be difficult of removal.
THE EDUCATIONAL SCHEMES.—Thccongregational
and other voluntaries are going to make a grand struggle
against the Manchester schemes of education. An influen-
tial body of them are to leave London at the commencement
of next week, and meeting deputations from other totems at
Manchester they will make that place the centre of opera-
tions, and take counsel together at three successive con-
ferences and meetings on the '2nd and 3rd of February.
'the result is to be that they will raise funds to meet both
the national public school council and the promoters of the
Manchester and Salford local scheme (who are renorted to
have 9,0001. to spend) before parliament, there to oppose,
in or out of committee as may he necessary, and defeat
them if possible. The Society of Friends had a meeting a
few days ago at Manchester, to see if they would not co-
operate with them, but though as a body they oppose the
church scheme emanating with the clergy of Manchester
and Salford, they are divided as to the national elan, which
is for secular education. Theirs will, therefore, hoe only
individual support.
FRIGHTFUL. ACCIDENT FROM NAPTllA.—Atiother
accident, resulting from the incautious use of menthe, oe-
curved, late en Friday nig!it, to two persons, father and
son, named (Joule, tailors, residing at 74, Wardintr-street,
Oxford-street. As they wire engaged in charging a naptha
lamp, the spirit became suddenly ignited, and in their agi-
tation the contents of the vessel were upset over their
clothes, and they were instantly corder.' in flames.
Screams of distils. weir heard to issue from the apartment,
and in a moment the tether rushed into the street, mum-
loped iti tire. Many persons hastened to his assistance, and
by the speedy application of shoals and sundry other mil-
-1 cies of clothing, the It uses were 1.0011 subdued. The poor
' man's clothes were entirrly consumed, and his body was
most dreadfully burnt. He was couveyed to the Middlesex
Hospital. where Ins life is despaired of. The sun, although
much injured. s
THE KAF I t VAR .—On Friday mein of the
iul:ubitana of tzei%..tme:.cr:wd.oaarto: recover.
)ih lnie
axle,
at Town
w • I 9_
thetions
of the present war at the Cast
the line of policy adopted b government in '
the native tribes, were carried unanimously.
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