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DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.
THE POPE'S BAD BARGAIN-S.

The Nation—the official Moniteur in all things
relating to the Pope's Irish army—gives the follow-
ing particulars in connexion with the return to
Dublin of the 69 prodigal sons who this day week
beSet the office of ,the Morning News, in the vain
hope of obtaining relief in the hour of tribulation.
The .Nation's version of the whole affair is both
amusing and instructive:—
" On Sunday last 40 or 50 men arrived in Dublin,
returned from Rome. They belonged in all pro-
bability to the number alluded to by the correspon-
dent of the Morning News in the letter which we
published last week. We must say, however, that,
as the facts appear to us at the present moment,
grievous wrong was done the poor fellows who came
home, purely through ill health, in not sending
them home quite apart from, instead of in company
with, some of the worse specimens of the Irish
name—runagates who have very properly been
drummed out' in Rome ; who have drank, and
blasphemed, and thieved all along the road as badly
as if they were English militiamen ; and who origi-
nally succeeded in getting to Rome only by impo-
sition, roguery, and fraud, from the first step to the
last. It was too bad, we repeat, that the poor fellows
whom ill health alone, or other equally good cause,
compelled to return should not have been kept apart
from such refuse as that described; it was still
worse that in most cases of those who returned by
Civita 'Vecchia no certificates of character were
given, so that the scorn and indignation due only
towards the ill-conducted were left in several in-
stances to fall indiscriminatingly upon young men
as moral, as well-conducted, and as respectable as
any in the land. The men who have returned
consist of-Ist, about 60, rejected as physically
unfit for employment in such a country as
Italy ; most of these men bore excellent characters ;
.a few only—not 10 in all—were objectionable in a
moral as in,a physical point of view; 2d, about 20
—chiefly ex-constabulary from one particular dis•
trict—of whom it should, in fair play, be said they
were fond of ease and turned tail; no charge of bad
conduct is made against these, that we have seen,
whether civilians or ex-policemen ; 3d, about 30
thorough ruffians, whom even their (unwilling)
companions on the road home—as well as those
who travelled with them going out—declare to be
horrifying blasphemers, whose obscenity of lan-
guage and open thievery, once they left the Irish
shores, was terrible to contemplate. To these three
classes may be added, lastly, eight or ten very pre-
tentious gentry who should never have left the
nursery, yet whose exacting, whining, restless,
discontented spirit would be allayed only by a ' com-
mission.' •It was preferred to show them the door,'
even in the teeth of their threats that when they'd
get home' they would give accounts most terrible to
read. They were told to return, and lie away to
their hearts' content. Here we take the opportu-
' nity of correcting a rumour doing grievous wrong
to a body of young men ever remarkable for all that
is honourable, patriotic, and spirited—the drapers'
assistants. It has been told that these have been
ambitious grumblers, unable to bear hardship, and
discontented at not receiviwg commissions.' This
is, we say, a grievous wrong. It is true that the
majority of those few who made such claims and
threatened to write lying letters were drapers' as-
sistants ; but the result of particular inquiry
we have made is that in proportion to the num-
ber of them in the brigade no class has given more
general satisfaction. They have borne cheerfully
those hardships which have tried the patience of
all the men, and given pretext to the discontent of
a few. The drapers are intelligent, hardy, cour-
ageous, and persevering. But the two or three of
the class who have broken out. have given as much
trouble as a dozen of any other. We have applied
to the most trustworthy quarters to supply us with
la report of the general conduct, of the men froM
each district. Of they 11-conducted men the worst
went from Dublin, Kerry, and Limerick city. The
men who, on the whole, have given most satisfac-
tion have been taken from Limerick county, Tippe-
rary county, and Louth county. We name only
those districts from which the largest number emi-
grated ; but from Tuam, Meath, Galway, Longford,
and Wexford, out of a large number emigrated,
not a single man that we know of has been reported
badly off."

Sa :

THE DUNGANNON TRAGEDY.
Those who recollect the circumstances connected

with the dismal tragedy at Dungannon—the mur-
der of Sergeant M'Clelland and the nearly accom-
plished butchery of Sub-Inspector Mathew—will
not be surprised that the assassin Holden has keen
found guilty at the assizes of Tyrone. The cir-
cumstantial proofs of his guilt were overwhelming,
and all the ability and eloquence of his council (Mr.
Butt) were thrown away upon the jury, who, how-
ever, accompanied their verdict with a recommenda-
tion to mercy on the ground of previous good cha-
racter; but the judge refused to listen to the re-
commendation, and sentenced him to be hanged on
the 27th of August. Holden was perfectly cool
throughout, and requested as a last favour that he
might be shot, instead of dying by the rope. The
I%orthern TV hilq of this morning has the following
statement in reference to the trial :

" Notwithstanding the atrocity of the crime of
which the prisoner has now been convicted, a feel-
ing approaching to sympathy for him was mani-
fested at the time on account of the circumstances
which had led to the perpetration of the horrid
deed, and since then the heroic fidelity manifested
towards him by his wife has contributed to renew
and keep up this sympathy. The unfortunate wo-
man has, it appears, during the last month, been in
daily attendance upon her husband, as far es the
gaol regulations would permit, and she begged
the whole country round, and raised a
considerable sum of money to procure for him the
best counsel and. advice. The circumstances con-
nected with the murder were briefly that Holden
had become anxious to marry a young woman (his
present wife) and had made application for leave to
do so; it being according to the rules of the force
that no policeman can marry without the consent
of his superiors. While the consideration of his
application was pending, it was somehow or other
discovered that Holden had been secretly married.
On Monday, the sth of December last, he was sum-
moned to receive the determination of the autho-
rities in reference to his application. He attended
in the barracks, where Mr. Mathews (sub-inspector)
intimated to him that his application had been re-
fused, and that, in consequence of what had taken
place in the interval, the determination of the
authorities was that he should be removed from
Dungannon to Newtonstewart, and reduced from
the rank of constable to sub-constable. In the course
of that Monday Holden, conceiving in his mind
that he had been ill used by M'Clelland and
Mathews in this matter, wrote a letter to Head-
constable M'Gowan, breathing a bitter feeling
against the sergeant and the sub-inspector. In the
course of that evening M'Clelland was murdered.
He and Holden left the police barracks together be-
tween 6 and 7, and were seen walking on the road
and turning into the gate of the Rev. Mr. Quaine's
house. Within a minute or two after two thots
were heard, and soon after M'Clelland's body was
found with two bullet shots in it, and a little after
the prisoner was met on the road which he had
walked with M'Clelland, returning to the barracks,
which he left that night between 10 and 11. This,
with other circumstances sustaining the impression
of the prisoner's guilt, was the evidence against the
accused. In the appeal made to the jury in behalf
of the prisoner the highest legal ability was dis-
played. Mr. Butt did not injure the case of the
accused by treating with levity the strong
evidence of guilt '.which had been pro-
duced against him. He wisely, and for the
interest of his client, admitted that the suspi-
cions against him were strong, but called on the
jury not to convict on suspicions, however strong,
nor on anything less than clear, unpolluted
evidence, free from all doubt." I don't say there
is no suspicion in the case. It is a case of very strong
suspicion; but I tell you, in the sacred name of the
law—in the sacred name of justice—that a strong
suspicion will not justify a verdict of guilty. All
this masterly eloquence was unavailing. The jury
convicted the prisoner of murder, but felt themselves
justified in attaching to that verdict a recommenda-
tion to mercy. The judge pronounced sentence of
death. Whatever may be the effect of the recom-
mendation of the jury, certainly no impartial reader
of the trial will call in question the justice of their
verdict of The trial appears to have been
conducted throughout, on the part of all concerned,
with a gravity and seriousness which leave nothing
to be regretted in any part of the legal and judicial
procedure.
No exception can be taken to the charac-
ter or credibility of any one witness produced."
DUBLIN, JULY 29.
THE FRENCH EMPEROR AND THE IRISH PRESS.
The following letter appears in Saturday even-

NEWSPAPER
,!
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(1‘
ing's issue of the Tipperary Ex='
of which has often clenlared his did.
P4l
'Charges of enmity to the Pope which it
many of the Irish Catholic journals agahlt Nilo- s
Leon 111. The letter is introduced at considerable)
length by the editor, who gives it as a complete'
justification of his own views of the French policy
in Rome. The following is the translation :
" The Emperor's Cabinet, St. Cloud, July 6.
"Sir,--When in a country the press passionate'',
persists in forgettieg itself in order to calumniate
and misrepresent the intentions of a foreign sove-
reign, nothing can be more pleasing, or even more
consoling, than to see a clever and disinterested
writer rise up spontaneously to defend him. You,
Sir; have been that writer ; you have had the
~singular merit, in resisting the general overwhelm-
ing impulse, to oppose a conscientious judgment
to false interpretation, and a calm voice to the
' clamours of malevolence • thus success has
gradually crowned your efforts, and if the error
be not totally destroyed, it is, at east already much.
.enfeebled, so much power does truth bestow on him.
whom she animates with her inspirations. I have,
then, with real satisfaction, submitted various arti-
cles published in your esteemed journal to the Em-
peror, and his Majesty entertains for them the sense
of gratitude the sincere expression of which he
charges me to address to you. Accept, sir, the as-
surance of my most distinguished considerations.
" The Emperor's Secretary, Chief of the Cabinet,
" MOCQVAII,D.
"A. W. Harnett, Esq., proprietor and editor of the
_Limerick, Tippeaary, and Waterford Examiner,
Clonmol, Ireland."

• " KINGSTOWN, July 28.
The Leinster has arrived at Kingstow4 in 25
hours from Southampton.

THE CIVIL WAR IN

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A letter from Constantinople, dated July 18,

The letters from Syria AVI:ile11. ;lave. reached Con-
stantinople since pre,date" of. my last, add nothing
material to the, account.l t hen gave of affaifis in the
Lebanon. On the 4th'blf rif fst, r i;ift- 145t:111.137
ance in Beyrout would appear to have ceased. The
steamer which should bring us more recent intelli-
gence has not yet arrived. On Sunday evening (15th
inst.) each of the Embassies received a telegram from
Smyrna to the effect that a vessel had just. entered
that port from Beyrout with news of a massacre of
'4OO. Christian's at Damascus by the Mdssulman
population of the town. The. Oth is the date assigned
to this occurrence, the account of which has been
confirmed by information received at. the Porte. The
American Consul is said to have been wounded.
The Consulates of France and Austria were burnt,
and their occupants seem to have owed their lives
to Abd-cl-Kader, in whose house they took refuge,
and who exerted himself to the utmost for the pa-
cification of the town. The English Consul, Mr.
Brandt, was, I- believe, - not molested. It is
impossible to describe the dismay which the re-
ceipt of this disastrous intelligence has caused at the
Sublime Porte. Not without cause did Ministers
look upon one another in mute and unconcealed ap-
prehension. They have troops in Syria ; and the
force in Damascus itself cannot have been inconsi-
derable; but that force is some 30 months in arrears
of pay, and has not been wanting in symptoms of
disaffection. Not one word of an attempt made by
this force to maintain order appears in the telegrams
which have reached Constantinople, while Abd-el-
Kader, a foreigner and an exile, is described as the
champion of order in the town. What if the troops,
that have been despatehed in such numbers since
affairs in Syria first took an alarming turn, should
prove no more worthy of trust than the soldiers of
the army of Arabistan ? It is to be hoped that the
receipt of ampler details will serve to reassure us
on this point, but I confess I shall be much relieved
if our next letters from Aleppo, and one or two of
the other large towns, contain no untoward intelli-
gence. There are some rtiasons to apprehend that
Druses and Maronites have exhausted themselves in
the late struggle, only to give way to. a more seri-
ous conflict between Mussulmans and Christians.

The official paper has, during recent occurrences
in Syria, withheld all information from the public.
With a self-delusion little inferior to that which in-
duces a child to cover his eyes. when he would not
be seen, the Turkish Government has flattered itself
that if no notice of the events which were passing
appeared in its own 'organ, no excitement would,
prevail in the public mind. AccOrdingly, up to yes-
terday, people have been looking in vain for some
information in the columns of the Journal de Con-
stantinople. Compelled at last by the tide of events
to break silence, that paper yesterday published the
following paragraphs :
"The steamer which arrived at Smyrna, on the
15th, has brought news from Damascus of a most
regrettable nature.
" While the troubles in Mount Lebanon appear
to be subsiding, disorders have broken out in a
fresh place.
" In consequence of a collision, which the troops
at the disposition of the Governor were it seems
powerless to prevent, a certain number of Chris-
tians have, according to these despatches, lost their
lives, and even some Consular establishments have
not been respected.
" We still hope that fresh information will ar-
rive, to mitigate, at least, these events, as disastrous
as they were unexpected (aussi eruels qu' imprevus),
and we are firmly convinced that the high mission
with which Fuad Pasha is charged ; that the ex-
tended powers that have been given him ; that the
force, moral and material, at his disposition, will
suffice to bring about a prompt re-establishment of
order, after the exemplary chastisement of the
guilty."
The effect produced here by these few lines has
been disproportionate even to the importance of the
information conveyed by the telegraph. During
the time that battles and massacres were of daily
occurrence in the Lebanon, the Government jour-
nal made no sign, or, at most, made a passing al-
lusion to its Syrian correspondent's letters, which
it did not publish. Is it to be wondered at if peo-
ple now say, "matters must be bad indeed when
. the Journal de Constantinople is constrained to
allude to them in this manner?" Nor is the excite-
ment, which the conduct of the Government thus
tends to aggravate, of little moment. There are
those who consider the state of this capital itself

highly critical. lam not of the number; but fears
for the saty,ty of the Christian population are en-
tertained in quail ers where sound information
should exist, and by persons whose opinions ono
cannot altogether disregard.
Daring the last few days, and especially through-
out the whole of yesterday, a conflict between the
police and the schismatic Armenians has been im-
minent.. Near the Adrianople Gate of Stamboul is
an Armenian cemetery. It has no doubt always
been used as a place of interment of the'schismatie
Armenians. There seems, however, to be as little
doubt that Protestant Armenians have been con-
stantly buried there without opposition or hind-
rance on the part of the more numerous sect of
their fellow-countrymen. On Saturday last the
body of an old man, a Protestant Armenian, was
carried out for burial. No previous dispute had,
so far as I can ascertain, arisen between the two
sects as to their respective rights of sepulture in
this cemetery. On the funeral reaching this place,
a large number of schismatic Armenians were
found assembled there. These declared that they
would allow no Protestant to be buried among the
remains of members of their own Church. The Pro-
testants persisted in their intention to proceed with
the interment, but were forcibly prevented from so
doing. The police were called in to enforce what
the authorities would seem to regard as the rights
of the Protestants. The mob of schismatic Arme-
nians increased, and the force of police present was
not sufficient. Throughout Sunday and Monday
the body remained on the ground awaiting burial,
the authorities not deeming it prudent to send
troops to clear the ground by force. Throughout
the whole of yesterday there were between 4,000
and 5,000 persons collected, and a collision was
hourly expected. Matters had then assumed so
serious an aspect that Sir .Henry Bulwer, who had
received repeated communications on the subject,
deemed his personal interference necessary. His
Excellency proceeded from Therapia in
i the Ban-
shee to Constantinople, where he had interviews,
first, with the Grand Vizier, and subsequently with
the Armenian Patriarch. Ihe result was that the
body was allowed to be buried last night by the
police, 200 of whom were inattendance. These
facts are significant,---in the first place, because it
is certain that, for some political purpose, the
schismatic Armenians were put upon behaving as
they did ; secondly, as serving to show the extreme
reluctance of the Turkish authorities to suffer even
the slightest collision between their own soldiers
or police and the Christian population at the pre-
sent time.
Fuad Pasha sailed et. Thursday last for Beyrout,
where he should have arrived yesterday.

RUSSIA AND THE ASIATIC TRlBES.—Russia has
exercised great prudence in her conquests among the Asiatic
tribes ; she has always respected their religion and supersti-
tion; and no priests have accompanied her Cossacks. She
has thus avoided many difficulties which other Powers have
fallen into where the soldier and the missionary have
marched together, From my knowledge of these people. I
believe it is impossible to make converts among them. They
are not like the Africans, who are but little more advanced
in civilisation than the animals of their plains. The Asiatics
are descended from a race of conquerors; and their tradi-
tions extend back into remote ages. Robbers they are ; but
neither pilferers nor pickpockets. Great hospitality, and a
wild spirit of chivalry, still exist among them,-1):0111 At_
kinson's Travels in the .4nzoor.