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DUBLIN, JAN. 9.—The Pilot, of to-morrow evening,
will contain the promised letter of Mr. O'Connell, ad-
dressed to the Right Rev. Dr. Cantwell. The following
is a considerable portion of the letter:—
Derry vane Abbey, Feast of the
Epiphany of our Lord, 1845.

MY REVERED LORD,—It was my intention to have
confined this letter to an exposure of the truly shuffling
opinion about, rather than upon, the Bequests Act, pub-
lihed with the names of Messrs. Smith and Greene, by
apparently Catholie authority. But matter of infinitely
greater importance presents itself. The plan of the:
English Government to undermine the Catholic Church'
in Ireland is daily developed more and more. The fatal
facility with which some of our exemplary prelates, with
pious intentions and pure designs, fall into one snare after
another, encoura2es the ancient enemies of our faith and
fidelity to augment their exertions, and to mature their
plans, until they render them, es they conceive and hope,
irresistible.

Through your Lordship I address the people of Ire-
land, and I sadly but most solemnly assure them that we
are arrived at a conjuncture which involves the civil as
well as the religious liberties of the Irish nation in the
greatest and most imminent peril.
I am able to state as certain facts that the English
Government have had for some time past active agents
at the Court of Rome. The one a Mr. Wiliam Pere,
an English Catholic—for no treachery to the Irish would
be complete without the interventi n of an English
Catholic ; the other an Austrian, nominated by the
Austrian Government. The design and object are to
obtain for the British Minister control over the Catholic
hierarchy of Ireland.

The :nodes of obtaining that control are two-fold ;
the first, by making a State pro Vision for the Irish
Catholic clergy ; the second, by a concordat with the
Pope, giving a power either direct and affirmative, or
indirect and by negation, to the British Crown to nomi-
nate to the Catholic prelacy all over Ireland.
The English Catholic agent, Mr. William Petre, has
succeeded in convincing the Pope's Ministers, that he is
authorised to pledge the British Government to give
great countenance and liberal pecuniary assistance
to the Catholics in the British colonies and foreign
possessions. This bait has taken, and has produced
a letter from the Propaganda to the Most
Reverend Dr. Crolly unfavourable to the repeal
agitation. It is said there was some dexterity in pro-
curing this letter. It has, however, been some time in
the hands of his Grace ; but it is not a canonical docu-
ment ; and, at all events, as far as it may treat of mat-
ters of a temporal nature, or matte rs relating to the poli-
tical rights and liberties of the Irish people, it is plainly
void and of no effect.

But the great strength of the English envoy consists
in the support and assistance of the Austrian agent. The
tendency in various parts of Italy, including the Papal
States, to insurrectionary movements amongst the
Italians, causes the great military force kept by Austria
in Italy to be considered as essentially necessary for the
preservation of peace and order from revolutionary
violence. The leaden despotism of the Austrian Govern-
ment over the Catholic religion and the Catholic clergy
in its subject States renders that Government justly
odious and detested at Rome. But its influence and
power over the Roman Court are not one whit the less.
Its power is feared inure than it is hated—the hatred
being mitigated by the supposed necessity for the use of
that power ; and thus the influence of the British agent,
augmented by the Austrian, is almost irresistible with
the politicians of the Roman Court.
I have, my revered Lord, most unquestionable autho-
rity for the statement I thus make. I have it from a
person who is utterly incapable of deceiving, and being
at Rome in a situation in which he himself cannot be
deceived. I have full permission to give the facts to the
public, though I have not that of publishing his name.
I am, however, at liberty to mention his name in any
way consistent with its not appearing in the public news-
papers ; and I accordingly transmit it to your Lordship
in a private letter. _

It is most melancholy and highly deplorable that at
such a moment, and with so powerful a conspiracy on
foot against the Irish Catholic Church, there should be
so animated a dissension amongst the Catholic prelates.
clergy, and laity of Ireland on the subject of the Be-
quests Act. It seems a most inopportune period to
come out with suc► a resolution as that in the appendix
to the pastoral of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin—
a resolution which, instead of being framed to subdue
dissension, and create unanimity, appears in fact and
truth to be a ntere license to' dispute. Under existing
circumstances, I humbly consider it to be the duty of all
sincere Catholics to combine in order to prevent further
mischief.

I was in hopes, when the pastoral of the venerable
Archbishop of Dublin was announced, that it would
contain materials for a general peace and concord ; pre-
disposed, as we all should be, to listen to his Grace with
the greatest deference and all proper submission. I did
hope that a pastoral issuing from so master a mind, and
such venerated authority, would contain such arguments
in favour of the line of conduct he has conscientiously
adopted as should silence all cavil, and satisfy every
scruple.

But, alas! it is not so—it is very far from being so.
The tone and temper—the language and manner of the
pastoral are all excellent. The pastoral is written with
that subdued sweetness of disposition for which the
venerated character of his Grace is so much respected.
But there is nothing to conceal the mistakes in point of
law into which he has been led; or the errors in point of
fact, into which, with the best intentions, he has un-
happily fallen.
I hope I use no language unbecoming that most un-
feigned respect which I entertain for his Grace. If one
word bearing a contrary appearance falls from my pen,
I retract it beforehand, and respectfully seek for pardon.
In this temper and disposition, I submit the following
remarks. I observe:—
First.--,That his Grace has, in his pastoral, repeatedly
admitted that the Bequests Act is defective. He tells
us, page 6, that the Act "is imperfect," He tells us in
page 7, that it is " nothing like a perfect measure." In
page 21, that it has " partial blemishes." He tells us
in page 20, that it contains " a DuscinEvous clause."
Again, in page 7, that it has " defects which he de-
plores."
Secondly,—We must take the Act as it is. Imperfect,
defy dive, and mischievous as it may be, we must take it
as it is. His Grace does not tell us of any pledge or
promise on the part of Government to amend the ble-
mishes, the imperfections. the defects, or to remedy the
mischief. It would indeed have been consolatory to learn
that any such pledge or promise existed. How often
have we been told by the advocates of the Act that such
a pledge was given ? Now, tlys pastoral would appear
to r;e—l may b:4,vori is prelacy,
but it would appear to me—to
berg prPpqr place to afford us that consolation. If,
there
Kelacy, clergy. and people of
Vcll4esc,e ii this 414te, they must taste it with
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Thirdly.---There are other clauses in the statute
which his Grace would certainly condemn still more em-
phatically, if he understood their legal meaning and
operation as I do, ansl if he had not been misled by the
shuffling of the Crown lawyers. I, of course, regret that
his Grace should p.: fer their Opinions to. mine ; but that
preference is one that I accept with dutiful submission
and humility—reserving to myself my undoubted privi-
lege of proving to his Grace that I am right, and that
the Crown lawyers are wrong—a task, I believe, not
difficult to perform. .
Fourthly.—ln page 21, his Grace is pleased to say. that
the Act in question, the 13. quests Act, "confers on us ad-
vantages et the very highest order." He then proceeds
to enumerate those advantages. He says first, "It places
our charities in precisely the state in which we ourselves
wished to have them four years ago ;" and " it gives us
the power of vesting property without trouble or ex-
pense, in perpetual security for procuring glebes for our
clergy, and for building, enlarging, and upholding, or
furnishing, our places of religious worship."
Now, my Lord Bishop of Meath, I turn to you, and
most respectfully assure you, that the venerable Arch-
bishop' of Dublin labours under a total misapprehension
and mistake in believing that the Bequests Act confers
any advantage whatsoever on Catholic cnarities. No
than living is more incapable, more entirely incapable, of
making a wilful mis-statement than his Grace ; and it is
with the most profound conviction of the perfect purity
of his mind, that I dispute the existence of a fact which
he deems certein.
To discover whether the Bequests Act confers any ad'
vantages on Catholic charities, two things are necessary'..
1. To ascertain what was the precise state of the law
respecting Catholic charities in Ireland previous to the
Bequests Act.
2. To ascertain whether any, and if any, what altera-
tion, have been made by the Bequests Act in the law
respecting Catholic charities in Ireland.
His Grace has baen led to believe that the law has
been altered for the better. I have the most, thorough
conviction that the law has been altered for the worse.
In order to test this matter, I beg leave to refer to the
opinion which I gave to you, my Lord Bishop of Meath,
on the 24th of August last. Your Lordship will find
that I laid down the law in the following words :
" To the first question arising on the state of the law,
previous to the recent statute, my answer is, that before
the recent Act there were no restrictionpor limitations
on charitable donations and bequests in Ireland for any
Catholic purposes. Any such restrictions or limitations
that now exist are the creation of tile late statute.
" This should be kept constantly in recollection.
Before this new Act it was lawful to grant by deed, or
bequeath by will, property of anv amount for. Catholic
purposes. This power continued in each individual
until as shortly before death as the rational faculties
continued. In particular it was lawful to grant or be-I
queath property—
" Ist. To build and endow Catholic hospitals.
" 2d. To build and endow Catholic convents for nuns.!
" 3d. To build and endow Catholic schools.
" 4th. To build and endow Catholic orphanages.
" sth. To build and endow houses of refuge for 'Ca-1
tholic males and Catholic females, paupers and penitents.!
" 6th. To build and endow Catholic churches andl
chapels.
" 7th. To build and endow houses for residence of the
Catholic clergy.
" Bth. To endow with glebes Catholic archbishops,
bishops, and priests, and to grant or bequeath to them
lands or mon to any amount of value.
" 9th. To create funds for maintaining the sacrifice of
the mass, or other stated or specified prayers for any
number of persons, or for any length of years, for the
benefit of the living ..r the dead.
" 10th. To endow Catholic sodalities, (sr guilds, for
teaching the Catholic Catechism, or Catholic prayers; or
tor instructing in the proofs of the Catholic religion.
" 11th. In short, it was lawful for Catholics by deed,
or by will, to convey property for every imaginable
charitable purpose, although exclusively limited for the
use of Catholics.
" Nor were these charities the less valid, although
Protestants might be permitted by express words, or by
impdeation, to share in the benefits of the charitable
purposes.
" Thus, in fine, before the passing of the recent sta-
tute, it was competent, in point of law, to endow all
manner of Catholic charities and religious purposes,
with one exception."
What room was there, then, for additional advantages?
None but what my Bill would have supplied.
Such was the opinion which I gave and published in
the month of August last. The exception ailVeVo
was that relative to the regular clergy, of whom more
hereafter.
Such was my opinion. It emphatically assorted that
all Catholic charities of every kind were, before the Be-
quests Act, perfectly secure. All—all—the regular
clergy excepted.
Such was my opinion—published in all the newspa-
pers ; contradicted by nobody. The Crown lawyers
have not contradicted this opinion in any way directly
or indirectly. The authorities of the Castle so coin
pletely acquiesced in my opinion that no query on these
points was put to the Crown lawyers. I have my judg-
ment corroborated by the acquiescence of the Castle and
of the Crown lawyers.
But what is better still, every point to which I alluded
in that opinion has been confirmed by solemn judicial
determination. I allude in particular to the cases of
" The Dempsey Charity," " The Hevey Charity," "The
Kearns Charity," and particularly " The .L"Arcy
Charity."
I have brought the papers with me here in the D'Arcy
charity. The ether cases were decided by Lord Man-
ners, Lord Plunket, and the present Master of the Rolls.
The D'Arcy Charity was established by the decree of a
greater lawyer than any of the three—the present Chan-
cellor Sugden. All appreheitions, such as those that
might have been entertained in 1840, were thus termi-
nated. There existed no longer, and there does not
exist, any question on Catholic charities. Even an an-
nuity granted in perpetuity for celebrating mass for the
soul of the testator has been decreed to be a valid cha-
rity. How much do I respectfully wish that his Grace
Doctor Murray would have condescended to have looked
at this state of the law before he persuaded himself that
the Bequests Act had conferred any advantages on Ca-
tholic charities. It had not room or space to do good.
It is admitted by his Grace to do mischief.
Such having been, I will say,
unquestionably and un-
doubtedly, the state of the law respecting Catholic cha-
rities before the Bequests Act, I proceed to consider
whether there has been any alteration for the better,
either in substance, or in machinery, by that Act. In
substance it is clear there could be none. Let us see if
there be any in the machinery.
This is the second point, as relating to any ameliora-
tion by the 'Bequests Act. To discuss this point the
most respectful way is to use the very words of his
Grace in page 21 of the pastoral, where he purports to
show forth the advantages derivable from the Bequests
Act.
It must be admitted that he does not purport to make
a very powerful case for the Bill. There is rather a
show of "empty boxes" than anything powerful or
weighty, in the way of advantage, even upon his Grace's
own showing. Anxious, as he most justly was, to place
those advantages in the strongest point of view, he con-
fines his praises to those two sentences.
Fir ,t.—(These are his words : I repeat them)—" It
(the Bequests Act) places our charities in precisely the
same state in which we ourselves wished to have them
tour years ago." Secondly.—" And it gives us the power of vesting
property. without trouble or expense, in perpetual se-
curity—for procuring glebes for our clergy—and for
building, enlarging. and upholding our places of reli-
gious worship.''
Now, if his Grace had been perfectly accurate in the
advantages, in point of law, which he thus describes, yet
I most humbly and respectfully submit that the Act
would afford no great bonus—and certainly none such as
to hold out any great temptation to laud the legislation
it contained.
It is my duty, however, to point out the inaccuracies,
in matter of law, into which his Grace has been led.
I take his two propositions separately and distinctly
from each other.
The first is in these words, respecting the Bequests
Act :
" It places our charities in precisely the state in which
we ourselves wished to have them placed four years ago."
In this respect his Grace alludes to a memorial that
he sets out from page 9 to paste 13 of his printed pass
toral— a memorial presented by the Catholic Prelates in
1840.
is-, 'that the Prelates, in 1840,
and even that little has not
askAeldy faonrs wv
eerryrleistpt
little
fnudl
el yed
been obtained by the Bequests Bill. Here is the prayer
of the memorial :
" Your memorialists, therefore, entreat that the Board
of Irish Charities may be rendered more generally use-
ful and popular, by the introduction to it of Roman Ca-
tholic Commissioners, or by some other measure which
may have a tendency to place their charities on the seine
footing as those of their Protestant fellow-countrymen."
It is quite true that we have got the Roman Catholic
Commissioners ; but those Roman Catholic Commis-
sioners do not place Catholic charities on the same foot-
ing as those of their Protestant fellow-countrymen.
There is no equality among the Commissioners. There
is a decided majority of Protestants. .%; I'gu 1.
t Protestants
and five Catholics cannot be 4aid, with any arithmetical
accuracy, to be on an equal footinS% How can it be said
that the charities are on the same footing, when there is
so decided a majority on the one side, and so deeiqskft
minority on the other ?
If five be equal to eight, then indeed the Cathii
and Protestant Commissioners are on the same footing
otherwise, not. In plain ti uth, the placing some Ca-
tholic Commissioners on tlu Board, renders the Catholic
inferiority on the one hand, and the Protestant supres
macs on the other band, more distinct, conspicuous,
and emphatic.
I could say more upon this comparative estimate being
deemed as if the Catholics had obtained the " same
footing'.'—but I shudder lest I should let fall one single
.

I have thus extracted from the pastoral the only ad-
vantages that are stated or suggested by it to arise from
the Bequests Act ; and I do respectfully submit that it
is quite manifest that no solid or substantial advantage
is thus stated or suggested to be derivable from that
Act; at best, it really is but a mouthful of moonshine.
-It is said, indeed, that there is much importance in the
recognition of the episcopal and archiepiscopal character
of oitr prelates, as well as the right succession in our
parish priests. But the decision in the D'Arcy charity
has mitigated any notion of this recognition being valu-
able. In that case the Most Rev, Dr. M'llale was ad-
mitted as a co-pl,4intitT with the Most Rev. Dr. Murray,
expresily as the successor to the late Archbishop of
Tuatn, the Most Rev. Dr. Kelly. This suit was emu:
plete before the Bequest: Act came into operation. Suc-
cession was, therefore, recognised in principle.
I have thus, in a manner which, I sincerely hope, is
as perfectly respectful as I fervently wish it should be,
canvassed the defence of the Bequests Act contained in
the pastoral of the Most Rev. Archbishop. The defence
has singular advantages in manner and in matter. In
manner, from the serious and sweet train of piety in
which it is drawn up. In matter, from the unquestion-
able talent and ability of the venerable writer; and from
the obvious sincerity which it displays. His Grace has
contemplated the Act in a point of view which, however
delusive, has fascinated himself. It is only surprising
that he has not equally fascinated others.
Nothing but the inherent errors in the Act could
prevent his Grace's defence from being complete. But
how could any defence of the Bequests Act be successful,
when that document contains, by the confession of his
Grace himself, "blemishes,'' "imperfections," "deplorable
defects," and a clause mischievous to charity ? Admis-
sions made from the spirit of truth and sincerity which
distinguish all the life of the venerated Prelate.

But what a vindication do not these admissions
contain of the opinions of the majority of the prelates
and clergy who have condemned the Act ! Ido humbly
trust that they will also palliate, if not justify, the de-
cided hostility which I have felt it my sacred and solemn
duty, ungifted layman as I am, to exhibit to this statute.
Let me now drop all further allusion to the pastoral,
and confine myself to the Act itself. My objections to it
are numerous, strong, and, I think, decisive. They are,
as briefly as I can state them, these :
First.—l object to the Act on principle. We are not
promised any amendment of it; but no amendment of it
would satisfy me. It contains the principle which lab •
hor, of a direct connection between the Catholic Church
and the State. There cannot be religious freedom
where there is a connection between the Church and
State. In such a connection the State always predomi-
nates, and tyrannizes, more or less, over the Church.
Religion should be free. It is a matter of an eternal
concern. The Church which teaches that religion should
be free from the shackles of man's power, direct or in-
direct.
Secondly.—l object to the Act upon principle; as it
creates a connection between the Catholic prelates in Ire-
land and the Irish Government. This objection has no-
:thing personal in it as far as relates to the three vene-
rated prelates who form part of the commission. If any
men could be entrusted vtith the delicate and difficult
office of acting in such a connection, there certainly could
be no objection to these prelates. But the Catholic
Church of Ireland is not to be over-ridden by the Govern.
ment, even by the unintentional intervention of the most
respected of the prelacy.
Thirdly.—l object to this statute, because it gives
the Government the power of making selections and
picking choices among the Catholic prelates—enabling
the Government to select one if they please, as being
more loyal than another, and rejecting others as not
being equally loyal with the chosen. In short, the Act
gives a power to the Government to adjudicate as it were
upon the character of our prelates—to estimate their
character, and to select amongst them by way of
preference. This objection appears to me quite un-
answerable.
Fourthly.—l object emphatically to any connection
between the Catholic prelates and the present Govern-
ment. Was not the Duke of Wellington bred up in the
worst school of no-Popery politics ? and when he
yielded Emancipation did he not expressly retain all his
prejudices against Catholicity ? Is not Sir Robert Peel
the man who organised the Orange system in Ireland ?
and ought he not to hate those who could not overcome
the errors of his judgment, but forced him against his
inclination to grant them their politial rights ? We
have humiliated Peel, and it is utterly impossible be
should ever forgive us. Is not Sir James Graham an
avowed, or, at all events, an ill-concealed fanatic ? Is
not Lord Stanley the determined champion of Protes-
tantism in every quarter of the British empire ? I ask
it in shams and in sorrow, ought our prelates have any
connection with such men ?

Fifthly.—l object to the Act on principle, as forming
a connection between our prelates and the Irish Govern-
ment—that Government which owes its existence to the
virulent and anti-Catholic and anti-Irish feelings of a
majority of the English people ; feelings that were exas-
perated to the utmost virulence by the powerful writers
of the Tory press—a press which distinguished the Ca-
tholic people of Ireland as " a filthy and felonious multi-
tude," and characterised our clergy as " surpliced ruffians,"
and a " demon priesthood."
Sixthly.—l object upon principle to any connection
between our prelates and the present Irish Government
—that Government which selected for the highest judi-
cial authority Chief Justice Pennefather ; and for the
judicial bench Lerroy and Jackson ; and for the Mas-
ter's office in Chancery Litton--three of the most violent
enemies of Catholicity which the Irish bar could produce.
Seventhly.—l object upon principle to any connec-
tion between the Catholic prelates of Ireland and that
Irish Government which issued the tardy Clontarf pro-
clamation—a proclamation to which was affixed the name
of that very, Lord Donoughniore
co-commissioner of the Most Rev. Doctors Crolly and
Murray, erd the Right Rev. Doctor Denvir. How little
could Lord Cloncurry, when he talked of the " projected
massacre" at Clontarf, imagine that he would ever, see
Lord Dononghmore enrolled in the seme corps of corn.
missioners with any of our revered prelates
Eigh4ll7,-.4 object .upon principle to any contyctiou
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word which might be construed into disrespect to his I between the Catholic Prelates of Ireland and the Go-
Grace the Arcbishop. I therefore leave many, many vernment that persevered in the monster prosecution
objections unstated. I have, however, shows that the , against the leading Catholics, and so constructed the
timid memorial of 1840 asked but for little indeed, and I jury that they were able to strike off all the Catholics
that ever' such little has not been obtained by the Be- from the panel, and thus, as far as in them lay, repealed
quests Act. • the Emancipation Act. Are these jury -selectors to be
So much for the first advantage alleged to be obtained the familiar companions of our prelacy?
by that Act. I come to the second and only remaining [The remainder of the letter of Mr. O'Connell has not
one.
yet beers received at the Pilot-office. The concluding
Secondly.—(I repeat once more his Grace's words : portion, we understand, will extend to two or three co-
"It gives us the power of vesting property without lumps.]
trouble or expense in perpetual security—for procuring
COUNTY OF LIMEracK —ATTACK ON RlL-
glebes for our clergy—and for building, enlarging, and
upholding our places of religious worship." BALLYOWEN HOUSE.
The Limerick Chronicle contains the following:—" On
How I rejoice in being able to bear my humble tests- The
morning last, between the hours of two and three
moray as a lawyer to the legal accuracy of the pastoral
o'clock), Kilballyowen House, the family seat of The
when it does state the law accurately ! The latter part
of the sentence does so perfectly. O'Grady, was visited by an armed gang of incendiaries,
It shows, however, that the only Catholic charities. who posted a Rockite notice on the entrance, and fired a
which are capable, by the Bequests Act; to be vested in shot through his hall door, which perforated the curtain
the Commissioners according to the 1-sth section—the
drapery, and struck the opposite wall, after which the
enabling section—are two, and no more. ruffians departed, firing a second shot, but not daring to
f First.—For procuring glebes, including residenees for force an entry into the mansion. This violent outrage
was committed in the centre of a populous and cultivated
our clergy ; and, secondly, for the building, enlarging,
district, near the town of Bruit, and in the neighbour-
and maintaining our places of worship.'
Now, these were all perfectly valid charities before hood of a police station, which, like most others in the
south of Ireland, is so weak as not to afford sufficent
the passing of the Bequests Act. All that Act does in
for a vigilant patrol. It is enough to observe
this respect is to enable these two charities to be vested strength
that the threatening notice was of a murderous nature,
in the Board of Commissioners. Before that Act, and
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at present, and in all future time, totally independent of but of which The O Grady and his family were not aware
until daylight, when the midnight mandate was revealed
the " Bequests Act," these identical charities could and
can be vested in trustees of the party'sown choosing, and in all its cowardly atrocity. The Rock legislators are
that in perpetual and perfect security, now aiming at high game, and will not be deterred by
All the Act does is to enable a Catholic donor to the ordinary force of the law, whose provisions are quite
vest such charities as the above two, but no other, in the inadequate to arrest the evil spirit which roams abroad,
Board of Commissioners, eight of whom out of thirteen fearless and unchecked, through the rural districts.
are Protestants, instead of vesting them in trustees all "In thelarge circle of the resident landed gentry of this
extensive county, there is not one who could be deemed
Catholics, if he likes. The Bequests Act gives him that
choice. He may choose the Protestant majority Boaru
a less obnoxious than The O'Grady, for he is not only a
of Commissioners if he pleases, in preference to Catholic considerable proprietor, who gives constant employment
to upwards of 100 men in the year, but also a most indul-
trustees. I venture, with respect for his Grace, to think
encouraging landlord, whose farms in the most
that few Catholics, if any, will be foundto make such a gent,. . • •
fertile portion of that district, are let upon fair and mo-
derate rents, to a respectable and comfortable tenantry.
the pastoral tells ti, s that the " Bequests Act"
chßoiucet.
It is, however, conjectured that a property of the late
enables Catholics to vest these two charities in the
Board of Commissioners without trouble or expense in Air. Wise, of Cork, recently out of lease, has occasioned
this revolutionary symptom. The O'Grady has offered perpetual security.
There is no explanation given how the ~
a reward of 50/ for discovery and conviction of the mid-
expense and night gang implicated in this outrage ; and we con& trouble" are to be avoided, or how the " perpetual se- dently trust that the Government and the magistrates of
curity" is to be achieved. Not the least. I cannot con- the Limerick district, who are to meet on Saturday next
ceive how it is to be done. It is quite true that to vest at the county Court house, will not be tardy or negli-
the property in Catholic trustees there must be incurred gent in the discharge of an important duty at this crisis.'
the expense and trouble of having prepared for execu- SERIOUS MILITARY Row.—The Limerick Chronicle
lion a deed or a will.
contains the following curious statement:--" The sergeants
But precisely similar trouble and expense must be of the 73d entertained the sergeants of the 6th on their ar-
incurred in preparing a deed or will to vest the property rival in Dublin from Chester, for which the latter resolved
in the commissioners. The original expense and trouble to return the compliment, and at Christmas both parties
are in both cases the same. met at dinner. All went on happily until the spirit of
It is also quite true that, in the mode of preserving the company rose to an extraordinary pitch. A scuffle
charitable donations and bequests by the intervention of ensued, and the officer on guard felt it necessary to
trustees of one's own choice, there are, from time to report the circumstances to Colonel Bunbury, of the
time, expenses incurred in changing incompetent 67th, who at once ordered the bugle to sound for ' turn
trustees, or in substituting a new trustee upon the death out.' The great body of the troops answered to the
of a former trustee. These expenses, however, are much call, and a party was ordered to the scene of the riot and
mitigated by the modern practice of substituting to take the sergeants into custody. As soon as they
trustees, by petition to the Chancellor, without a perceived the guard the sergeants of both corps seized
plenary suit.
hold of pokers, bottles, chairs, and stood upon the de-
On the other hand, it is to be observed that the fensive, threatening death and demolition to the first
Board of Commissioners is necessarily a fluctuating who approached. Officers came forward and remon-
body ; and that any misunderstanding among them- strated with the rioters, who were taken into custody,
selves can be solved only by the medium of a plenarsuit ; the entire expenses of which, whether the suit be
y lout not without inflicting some blows on the officers and
men. The colonel of the 67th received a blow of a stone
well grounded or not, must, recording to the Bequests An investigation was held next day by the General, and
Act, come out of the charitable funds. It is, therefore, the men admitted their ' error'. (?) but protested that the
sufficiently clear that, on the grounds of saving expense, Irish whiskey had taken away their senses. The colonel
little indeed can be achieved by means of. the Bequests interceded for them, and after a lecture on their con-
Act. Nay, there are many contingencies by which, in duct, they were permitted to return, with a warning
acting under the Bequests Statute, the expenses may be against whiskey."
greatly enhanced. Any difference of opinion in the
Board can be solved only by a plenary suit. With that
worst consequence, that in every case of a suit, whether
justly instituted or not, the costs come out of a charity
fund. '