The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-20 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION.

During the late contest for the representation of
Mayo, the stipendiary magistrate (Mr. Kirwan), to
whom was entrusted the charge of preserving the
Queen's peace, bad the indiscretion, to use no harsher
term, to address in his official capicity a letter to the
Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese, thanking that
right reverend functionary and certain of his subor-
dinate clergy for their " heroic" exertions towards
the maintenance of order at a period of great public
excitement. This, considering the position which
Mr. Kirwan occupied, naturally caused some asto-
nishment ; so much so, indeed, that on the first ap-
pearance of the letter the Nation new.: paper pro-
nounced it to be a hoax. The document, however,
was perfectly genuine, and, the attention of the Go-
vernment having been directed to it by a memorial
Presented on behalf of the gentry, magistrates, and
inhabitants of Ballina, praying that the Lord-Lieu-
tenant would be pleased
to grant an inquiry upon
oath into the charges preferred against Mr. Kirwan,
an answer has been returned by the Under-Secre-
tary, stating that, the prayer of the memorial shall be
Th complied with. e investigation will take place im-
mediately.

LORD SIaILEWSDURT ON JESUITISM.
The Dublin Telegraph contains a lengthened report
of the " collegiate exercises at Mount Melleray
Abbey," in the county which took
of Waterford ,
place on Monday last. The " Lord Abbot" pre-
sided, and, in the course of the proceedings, the Very
Rev. Dr. Fogarty, of Lismore, read the following
extract from a letter which he had received from hi 4
friend, the " noble Catholic Earl of Shrewsbury,
dated from Palermo, in which his Lordship, speaking
of the system of collegiate education,
sought to
be established in opposition to the Catholic system,
5 vs—

1` As to the. academical plan of education for Ireland,
I am more averse to it than ever, for it may very
natu-
rally lead to all the mischief which a system professing
to train the intellect, hut utterly disrearding the dis-
cipline of the soul, did-in Christendom some six centu-
ries ago. You may remember an account of this given
in a few words in the early Pages of the Life of Cardinal
Langton, by one of the
Oxlord school. It was an
admirable illustration of the present odless scheme.
If you have not the book by you,. do get it. You
should have all the lives of the English saints by the
Newmanite divines. They are admirable works,
full of knowledge and religion.
one of them brew's() Cathoqcs, and the publisher into
the bargain. How different is the system hero (Pa-
lermo)! The Jesuits have, and so have other collegiate
establishments, beddes the pensioners, a gratuitous
school of 800 students each. They live with theirfant
blessed Virgin, and Catholic inTsthreucwtiroitis
Iles and friends, but they are obliged to go every day
through a religious retreat of at least eight
mass, and on 6undays to mass, sermon, office of the
and
every
one
nrn4llY. Moreover, they are recommended to go to con-
session once a month. They May choose their own
confessor anywhere, but they must bring a certificate of
having been at confession. Besides these, they have a
sodality of the most pious, who are encouraged to
attend extra religious exercises. With such helps as .
these the system might answer well enough, but in Ire-
landcarry it on as it ought to be. WO are in There are
there will be none of these advantages.
90 Jesuits in the establishment, et not sufficient to
days
with
the people here. It is really a treat to live in a
Palermo,
Catholic country. There are 64 convents in
:ll in good order-23 of women and 41 of men—per-
humanity, and
forming extraordinary works of charity,
civilisation among all classes by whom they are sur-
rounded. I wi.h we had some of them in England."
TELE SIXMILE.BRIDGE INQUEST--TIIE VERDICT.
The long-enduring patience of the much pleased
the ends of justice were satisfied,
length. been rewarded, and, after a waste of fourteen
public has at
days, the most exemplary of coroners deemed that
de-
livered a rather elaborate charge to
sips
jury, who
retired shortly before three o'clock? and at twenty
and yesterday
minutes to five the foreman caused it to be announced
in open court that twelve of their number had agreed
to a
verdict. At this time the court was densely
crowded, and the utmost anxiety was evinced to learn
the result of this most protracted inquiry. The jury
having come into court, the foreman announced that
twelve of the jurors bad agreed to a particular finding,
and they resolved to have the verdict drawn up ia a
Gleeson (first),
legal form.
:
The CORONER then read the finding, as follows "
We are satisfied that John C. Delmer, J.P., John
Th°l-nPsou, John Dw ver. James Sharpe, Tiaonlas Clarke,
had not ag James postings, William Barnes, John
and John Carter, soldiers a the 31st Regiment, aro
Five jurors dissented from
guilty of the wilful murder of Jeremiah Frawley:,
Their
names are—John Holmes, I. B. Walton, William
the verdict.
U 311", William Morrig, and Patrick Mahon.
Mr. William Mahon stated, that although they
orders to
quit the soldiers of all criminality, and that they
would reed to the above verdict they did not ae..
all have aeed to a verdict of manslaughter
beroylnishsoiedlrdetirye r.fitshreewi.rhovseerpersonaaict
ag t
to
were not identified. The
five dissentient jurors also acquitted Mr. J. C. Del-
"lege of having either fired himself or given any
The jury were then requested to again retire and
the eause of death in the
other :cases ~._namely, Michael Connellan, Michael
Colm '—'n
Mr. Graydon then a
--in, Tbomiis R an James Casey. and James
pplied to have the eight
soldiers admitted to bail. In consepuence of the
extraordinary and incredible verdict which had been
given in, against even the opinion intimated in the