The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN., MONDAY MORNING.
• CARDINAL WISEMAN.
The Cardinal preached yesterday in the Church
of the Conception, :Marlborough-street. Long
before his arrival, the street was literally blocked
upby hundreds of anxious faces on the look-out for
the scarlet hat, A large body of police were on
duty, and when his Eminence drove up to the
church, arrayed in full cardinalite costume, a tre-
mendous rush was made to get a view of the illus-
trious stranger. There was no cheering, but the
people evinced their respect in a much more credit-
able way by raising their hats as the Cardinal
ascended the steps at the porch of the Church. The
inside of the building was crowded to suffocation,
and the collection, at the increased price of admis-
sion, must have been something enormous. His
exit is thus described by the Free»zan:—
" His Eminence made a brief stay in the presbytery,
where a number of introductions took place, and hg' was
then conducted to the carriage in waiting to convey him to
the residence of the Archbishop in Eccles-street. The
street in front and in the neighbourhood of the cathedral
and presbytery was literally blocked up with thousands of
people, and when his Eminence appeared he was greeted
with oft-repeated-peals of enthusiastic cheering and waving
of hats and handkerchiefs. The people pressed around the
carriage, and some' ardent men, notwithstanding urgent
remonstrances to the contrary, insisted upon taking the
horses from the carriage and -bringino•' his Eminence in
tridmph to Eccles-street—a compliment which was paid
him amid hearty cheering_ with surprising vigour and ex-
pedition."

THE CORMACKS AND THEIR SYMPATHISERS.
Another old Roman Catholic journal (the Water- 1
ford Chronicle) has some judicious remarks in refer-
ence to the meeting the other day at Nenagh,
celebrated as it now is by the eloquence of Father
Kenyon and his fellow sympathisers :
" As regards this particular case a great outcry has been
raised throughout the length and breadth of the vast
county of Tipperary ; men of experience in Tipperary
have not hesitated to term this trial and execution
a ' judicial murder,' and to aver that it was a sacri-
fice at the shrine of landlordism. The history of Ire-
land has too many instances on record of hasty trials
and speedy executions in years gone by ; of men, trouble-
some from their patriotism to the superior powers of
that day, being entrapped and removed out of the way ; '
but we do not think that an occurrence of the present
day should be judged of by the deeds of the past, and
we should be much surprised indeed to find that we
still lived in those dangerous times when a judge and
jury could be found:ready to , aid in making victims of
two Irish peasants We do not think that such can
happen in the , nineteenth century ; we think that
Ireland has attained that commanding position to make
such an event almost an impossibility, and, therefore, on
this ground alone, if on no other, we cannot join in the
verdict of guilty against the judge and jury who tried the
case. However, we think an inquiry would be of no harm ;
if there be no grounds for the accusation, then one result
will be that the spirit of justice will be found to have been
in this instance above reproach, and much obloquy will be
removed from innocent parties. If there be grounds for the
accusation, then is the inquiry imperatively demanded, and
justice should be visited on the delinquents. '
The Tipperary Examiner, too, the persevering
champion of the Cormacks, is thoroughly ashamed
of the exhibition made at Nenagh :
" The case of the Cormacks is not the first that has been
injured by injudicious advocacy. We looked forward to the
meeting at Nenagh as the legitimate conclusion of the agi-
tation upon the piestion. A calm and deliberate efpres-
sion of public opinion would, we hoped and believed, have
been delivered there, and the Government would not re-
fuse its attention to a fair and reasonable petition emana-
ting from such an assembly. But, as the strength of a
chain lies in its weakest link, and that is the part in
which an attempt to sever it should be made, those who
wish to prevent any review of the circumstances con-
nected with the trial assail the weakest point of the meet-
ing—namely, the attack upon the past political career of
Judge Keogh, and the very coarse and ill-timed jest about
petitioning Parliament to hang him. How strong soever
any man's feelings may be as to the impropriety of such
a jest, and that it was intended merely for a joke, and that
it was taken by the meeting solely in that light, is placed
beyond all doubt by the laughter with which the absurd
suggestion was received, and by the gross and palpable
absurdity of the proposition itself. Had it borne the most
distant resemblance to an expression of even an earnest
wish it would have been checked and repudiated by the
chairman and the entire meeting instantly as an atrocity
not to be endured."

HONOURS TO IRISHMEN.
Mr. Brew, who has held the post of Inspector of
Police in Cork, and who has been selected to fill the
important position of Inspector-General of Police
in the new British gold region, volunteered during
the war with Russia, and held an arduous place in
the Commissariat all through the Crimean -cam-
paign. The appointment is worth £l,OOO a year.
Sir Frederick Hughes, who has recently received
the honour of knighthood from the Queen, is a
native of Wexford. He served many years ago in
Persia during a period of great difficulty in that
country, and has received from the late Shah the
order of the Lion and Sun. When the Russian war
broke out Captain Hughes volunteered his,services
to the British Government to proceed to the East,
and more especially to Circassia, accompanying his
proposal with plans for the investment of the great
military pass of Vladi Cauease, with the view of
cutting off Russian communication with the Trans-
Caucasian Provinces:—
" These plans, says a local paper, were approved, and his
services accepted by Government, and having been fur-
nished with arms and ammunition he started on this laud-
able though dangerous mission. The elements, however,
were not propitious, and the entire material of the expedi-
tion, including a large portion of warlike stores, furnished
from his own private purse, were totally lost in the
unfortunate Prince during the now historic gale of the 14th
of November, 1854, in the Black Sea. Captain Hughes
soon afterwards visited the Naib' or Viceroy of Schamyl
at his mountain home in the very heart of Circassia, to
whom he was accredited by Field-Marshal Lord Raglan
and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, our Ambassador at Con-
stantinople. Having conducted that mission to the entire
satisfaction of the authorities he returned to the coast,, and
made a close reconnaissance of the fortress of Anapa, then
garrisoned by 13,000 of the enemy. In the performance of
this service he narrowly escaped capture." ,
THE TIPPERARY BANK.

It is stated that the unfortunate creditors of the
Tipperary. Bank swindle, who trustedto the chance
of settlement by compositions, have received two
dividends, amounting together to 3s. 6d. in the
pound.