The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT—ARCHBISHOP
MURRAY.
DUBLIN, JAN. 7.—The story of a conspiracy in Tippe-
rary to murder Archbishop Murray is totally destitute
of foundation.
It appears that an anonymous letter had been sent
from some part of Tipperary to Mr. Knaresborough, one
of the resident or stipendiary magistrates in the county
of Cork, apprising him that a conspiracy with this dia-
bolical object existed. Mr. Knaresborough forwarded
the anonymous letter to Archbishop Murray, who looked
upon the matter either as a mischievous hoax, or a
scheme to deceive the magistrate.
The Monitor of yesterday evening contained the fol-
lowing :
" The greatest excitement prevailed in this city yes-
terday, in consequence of a rumour having been exten-
sively circulated and generally credited, of a conspiracy
having been discovered in Tipperary, the object of which
was to murder his Grace Dr. Murray. As may be
naturally expected, such a rumour spread like wildfire,
and created the greatest excitement. For our own part,
we attached no credence to it whatever ; the thing was
so improbable—so outrageously extravagant, that we
could not bring ourselves to consider it in any serious
light. However, as the statement was confidently re-
peated, we made some inquiries to ascertain whether
there was any foundation for it, and we believe that the
following may be relied on as correct:—
" A magistrate in the county of Cork received an
anonymous letter, the purport of which was that three
devils,' as the writer said, had agreed to take the life of
his Grace Doctor Murray; and the writer requested
the magistrate to go at once and put Dr. Murray on his
guard. The letter was from Tipperary, and of course
the magistrate enclosed it to Dr. Murray, stating the
manner in which it came into his possession.
" Such, we believe, may be relied on as a correct ac-
count of the circumstances which gave rise to the rumour
which has caused such a sensation in this city. We
confess we do not at present attach much importance to
the statement. We are inclined to think that some mis-
chievous person in Tipperary has been at work—that he
wrote the anonymous letter to the magistrate, who cer-
tainly acted very properly in forwarding it to Doctor
Murray.
" We repeat we cannot bring ourselves to believe that
even among the diabolical ruffians of Tipperary there
could be found three fiends in human shape to conspire
to take the lite of such a venerated prelate as Doctor
Murray—and for what ? For merely acting according
to his conscientious judgment in support of the Catholic
Church, of which he is one of its brightest ornaments."
The Freeman's Journal observes :

"The Monitor seems either not to be cognisant of the
fact, or carefully to conceal it—that this rumour was
whispered about for some days, and that the calumnia-
tors of our land—those who would affix upon our noble,
our generous people, the contemplation of a crime of
deeper die than any wherewith our Saxon taskmasters
ever sought to blacken the fair fame of our country—
sought in vain to get currency for their guilty lie, till a
rash clergyman, connected with Westland-row Catholic
church, perhaps in mistaken affection for the Most Rev.
Prelate whose name was mixed up with this foul
fraud—perhaps through over-heated zeal for the new
doctrines he has espoused, that the clergy should be-
come the tools of the Castle, or, perhaps, to demon-
strate the working of Castle connexion—was found on
Sunday last to give publicity to the aspersions against
his countrymen, which he, at least, should have inquired
into before he promulgated."
The Dublin Evening Post of this• afternoon contains
the following:—
" A rumour has been bruited abroad, to the effect that
a Tipperary magistrate wrote to Archbishop Murray of
a horrible plot that he had detected----the object of the
conspirators being to murder his Grisce, because he had
become one of the Commissioners:wider the Bequests
Act. It is even said that the matter was alluded to from
the pulpit of one of the Catholic churches in this city.
Now, we do not know that we should think it worth
our while to allude to this matter at all, if we had not
learned that Mr. Knaresborough, a magistrate of Cork,
had sent a letter to Archbishop Murray, enclosing an
anonymous note, manifestly a fabrication, in which it
was said that such a conspiracy was in progress. On this
information, Doctor Murray, as a seutsible man, could
lay no stress whatever. His Grace, we dare say, saw it
was a trick of the enemy. Why it we►s gotten up—why
such a flagitious libel on the country has been put into
circulation—with all our knowledge of the characters of
your little mischievous political folk wiah which the city
is infested, we really cannot make out. That it is an
Orange lie, we believe—but, nevertheless, the Evening
Mail, though the editor must have heard the rumour,
gabby as it is and virulent, deemed it more advisable, for
the present, to be silent. But we are wasting too much
time on the falsehood.' "

THE CHARITABLE BEQUESTS COMMISSION.
At the first meeting of the Commisoners under the
Charitable Bequests Act, at their office in Lower Gar-
dener-street, the following six commissioners were in
attendance :—The Most Rey. Dr. Wh-atley, the Most
Rev. Dr. Murray, the Lord Chief Baran, the Master of
the Rolls, Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart., and the Right Hon.
A. R. Blake.

The following seven commissioners were absent :
Primate Beresford, Most Rev. Dr. Crolly, Right Rev.
Dr. Denvir, Lord Donoughmore, the Dean of St. Pa-
trick's, Judge of the Prerogative Court, and the Rev.
Sbouldam Henry.
The Secretaries, Messrs. W. P. Mathovs and R. O'Car-
roll, were in attendance.

MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY

OP DUBLIN.

Archbishop Murray is about to convene a meeting of
the clergy of the diocese of Dublin, for the purpose of
petitioning the Legislature to expunge from the Eman-
cipation Act the clause affecting the regular clergy,
which is referred to in the Bequests' Act. In Archbishop
Murray's recent pastoral address, he condemned, in very
decided terms, the clause against the regular clergy,
against which he and his clergy had unavailingly peti-
tioned in 1829.