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back in the superior cowls. Madigan set al:out a defence, but
not having means to proceed was obliged to abandon it. He
was a tenant at will, without a lease, and therefore exempt
from the Rector's claim. The Rector and his agent were both
made acquainted with this fact, but to no purpose.
The inquest is to commence to-morrow; both parties are
making vigorous preparations for the prosecution. As you may
suppose, the excitement is great through this country, and the
fate of Swiney, so far from deterring or intimidating the peo-
ple, seems but to stimulate them to further opposition. swi,,ey
was the only support of his mother—a widow—and her help-
less family. While the present system lasts, and the same
feelings continue to urge the parsons and their adherents, we
may look forward to many such scenes. They may obtain blood
but no other payment.—Yours." • '
In the Rev. Mr. Beresford's dispritch, published on Sa-
turday, he made a long statement of his communications
with Government,-with a view Of.showing a presumed ne-
cessity for letting loose a band of armed Process-servers on
the parish without guide or control: Mr." Beresford has
given an unintelligible summary of these communications,
but the Rev. Gentleman, in referring to the communications

he has had with the Government, has the candour not to
publish the details. •
We charge the deaths of the two unfortunate individuals
on the rash and ill-advised course of the Rev. Gentleman.
- One circumstance of this tragicid occurrrence cannot be
adverted to. without the most painful.sensations.
We find the hands of the Rev. Gentleman employed
in charging deadly .weapons with the leaden messengers of
death, to be used in hurrying to his last dread account,
with all his imperfections on his head, a human creature
whom the fiction of the law committed to Mr. B3lesford as
his spiritual guide. * ,
The Rev. Gentleman, in his original dispatch, .spoke of
his feelings as \being deeply affected. We have no faith in
ostentatious sensibility arrayed in all the formality of type.
We may just mention here that the Rev. Gentleman
called at our office last evening, to say that, whereas the
auditors at the Inquest scene had been under the impression
that he had pledged himself to provide for the family of the
deceased Mahony, and had applauded accordingly—that
such was a mistake ;—that what he said applied only to the
family of the Process-server Hudson.
The Parish of Inniscarra may serve as a sample of the
Irish system. We shall give a summary sketch of its his-
tory for the last forty years. Its present condition and cir-
cumstances have been sufficiently exhibited. Twenty years
ago, two thousand five hundred pounds a year were levied
off this same Parish as Tithe, and this by depriving the
peasant of the scanty blanket which covered him, and of the
pot, in which he boiled his potatoes. Forty years ago the
same harrassing system was pursued. The Proctor of
that day had his promissory notes of the whole of the Pa-
rishioners, and he was about to process the entire of them.
They were then, as now, unable to pay. The man was
attacked in the night and murdered !
Here is a long continued system cf oppression, injustice,
outrage, and homicide, in a country professing to be Chris-
tian and civilized, to which the Legislature has not yet
thought fit to apply a remedy.
The people of Scotland suffered similar persecution in the
reigns of the last Stuarts. A nation of Presbyterians—an
Episcopal Church Establishment was attempted to be forced
on them—they resisted—rose in arms—the revolution of
1688 afforded them redress. One hundred and fifty years
have since passed away, and seven millions of Irish Catho-
lics have not yet found the means of relievine, themselves
from a like injustice and oppression—Nay, they are threa-
tened by Peel and Stanley—flippant debaters—shallow
Statesmen—that this monstrotis injustice shall be perpe-
tuated—and it would be so if the Tories could regain
power, from which they 'are now happily more than ever
distant.

A SUBSTITUTE FOR TITHES.—There are of lands, re-
jecting all considdation of tithes, houses, farm-steads, mar-
riage and burial fees, and other incidental sources of in-
come, eight hundred thousand acres in possession of the
clergy of the Establishment. The Established Clergy pos-
sess one twenty-fifth part of the whole of Ireland, or one
twenty-seventh part of the profitable lands. The number
of clergymen of the Establishment are about two thousand,
or, at the very utmost, two thousand five hundred. If,
therefore, the profitable lands of the Church were equally
divided among its spiritual members, each of them would
enjoy 240 acres of land. Now, we are fully warranted in
' saying that 240 acres of land, free from the charges of rent,
agency fees and tithes, would afford an ample maintenance
for a family in a respectable rank in society ; because we
know that the Protestant legislature, of which the Protes-
tant hierarchy forms a part, has fixed on a salary of 751. a
year, being the rent of the same number of acres of profit-
able land, as a legal provision for a curate and his family.
The plain, necessary inference from these facts is, that
the Church lands Of Ireland, or more strictly speaking, the
profitable part of them, without taking into consideration
what are called wastes, but which are not without their
value, would be amply sufficient for maintaining in respecta-
bility the whole of the Establishment, without abstracting
from the earnings of industry a single penny, in the form of
tithe, fee, er other exaction, of any kind whatsoever. If
the higher grades of the Protestant Church feel inclined
to protest, as we think they would, against this equal divi-
sion of land, let the 600,000 acres be parcelled out in what-
ever proportions their ideas of justice dictate—let the
twelve Bishops have 50,000 of these acres among them,
which would give each of them an average of upwards of
4,000 acres (rent and tithe free), and the working. Clergy
would still have an average of 220 acres each, which might
also be cut up
,into inequalities proportionate to the various
gyacles of the scale of spiritual ascendancy. What, then,
Is to become of the tithe ? Extinguish it—give it back to
the cultivators of the soil, whose labours have produced it.
Call on the landlords then to contribute a fair proportion of
their earnings for the support of helpless indigence, and the
instruction of those without the means of self-education.
This, we repeat, is the common sense and common honesty
of the subject.—Freeman's ,Journal.
About sixty of the most influential members of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, including many of the principal merchants
of this city, assembled, pursuant to notice, on Sunday, in the
great room of the establishinent, for the purpose of giving
expression to their feelings at the deplorable events of the
previous Friday in the parish of Inniscarra ; and of marking
their sense of the course adopted by Mr. Dan. Geran, sen.,
of Rushmount, in order to exhibit to the world his abhor-
rence of tithes, by preferring incarceration to being coerced
into the payment of the imposition. The proceedings con-
tinued for a considerable time, and resulted in the formation
of a committee to prepare a suitable address, to be pre-
sented to Mr. Geran, from the independent citizens of
Cork : and the meeting broke up.
In the neighbourhood of Bormeen, near Navan, county
of Meath, on Monday, two men, about to serve law process
upon a person named Brangan and others, at the suit of the
Hon. and Rev. Dean Packenham, were attacked by a nu-
merous party, severely beaten, dipped in a bog-hole, and
compelled to tear the process.—Evening Packet.
An honest farmer, named Cosgrave,.of Ballivavarry, has
just received a writ, at the suit of the deceased Bishop of
Cloyne, for 121. 16s. 9d, tithe arrears and costs.
At the Belfast Registry Sessions some important deci-
sions were made. The result of the registry is most tri-
umphant for Reformers.
The Dublin, Mail luxuriates in an almost unexampled- .
felicity of diction. After reading the following paragraph
Which graced its Conservative columns on Wednesday, it
will not be denied that our Contemporary's phraseology and
polities are equally correct :—" A Blow-out at Galway.—
Mr. O'Connell having insinuated one of the joints of his tail
into Galway, expects to make room for his head and shoul-
ders to follow. He will dine with the Galwaygians on the
the 18th instant. He will meet with lots of the " Patriotic"

—he may lack., indeed, as the Bodkin points out, some few
of the aristocrats—but what of that ? The Begging-box
will return to his hands on the 31st laden with Connemara

coppers:

11EETING OF THE COUNTY WENFORD.—On Monday
last a most respectable and numerous meeting of the land-
holders, freeholder 6, and other inhabitants of the County
Wexford, took pla'.:e in the Court-house of Wexford, for
the purpose of adapting an address to his Excellency the
Earl of Mulr:ave, congratulating him on his appointment to
the Vice-royalty of Ireland, and also on the successful po-
licy pursued by 'him since his arrival in this country. The
meeting was convened by a requisition, signed by seven ma-
gistrates of the county, directed to the noblemen, clergy,
freeholds s, and other inhabitants of it, in consequence of
the Hig:n Sheriff having stated,,in pursuance of a very nu-
merow,ty signed requisition, that he did not consider it ex-
pedient to convene the county for the purpose set forth in
said I.•equisition. Lord Carew presided.

• Au Isle of Wight Paper states, that notwithstand-
ing the weather has been so severe, daisies and other flowers
is the hedges and fields give the appearance of spring.
DEATH OF THE VERY REV. Dn. FI.A.NNERY,
P.P.—A. sensation of general gloom pervaded the town
yesterday evening, when it was announced that the venera-
, ble pastor of this parish had breathed his last. The mo-
ment the sad intelligence had spread, the inhabitants imme-
diately testified their regret f 0,.• one who had been long
among them,. assiduously mi..iistering to their spiritual
' wants, and comforting many under their temporary affiic-
, tions, by placing shutters to their windows, and sfmne of
them by closing the..r shopF,. The Very Rev. Dr. Flannery
was 'upwards of 80 yen...s age, and was parish priest of
Clonmel for years.—Tipperary Free Press.—['f here is
a very curic,us fact connected with the life of Dr. Flannery.
Shortly ar.ter he became parish priest of Clonmet, the Rev.
Getiticr.nan baptised a son of a decent Roman Catholic
inbab;.tant of the town, named Sullivan. The child at his
baptism was balled Murtagh. He has since grown into a
rectory of the Established Church—is the paid agent of
the Orapge party in abusing the religion of his fat her and
mother,
and goes by the name of the Rev. 21 fortimer
Evc ;ling Post.