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ARCHBISHOP MURRAY AND HIS CLERGY.
Durmni, JAN. 14.—The following " Address of the
undersigned clergy to his Grace the Most Rev. Dr,
Murray' appears in the Dublin Evening Post of this
afternoon. Following the publication of the receipt of
the Propaganda, this address will produce a considerable
sensation. It is signed by fifty.five clergymen of the
diocese of Dublin, and it remains open fur further signs-
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" My Lord Archbishop, may it please your Grace,—We,
he undersigned clergy, officiating in the diocese of Dublin,
approach your Grace with feelings of profound veneration,
rejoicing that the appearance of your recent pastoral, ad-
dressed to us all, affords us the opportunity of thus publicly
and solemnly testifying the deep-felt sentiments of obedience•
veneration, and love which we have always borne, and now!
more than ever bear, towards your Grace.
" You are, my Lord, under the vicar of Jesus Christ, the
pastor of us all. To you we have all, on the awful day of
our ordination, and kneeling before the altar of the living
God, promised ' OBEDIENCE and REVERENCE.' From th
obligations which we then contracted no power on earth but
that of the Sovereign Pontiff can exempt us ; and, with the
assistance of Divine grace, no other power, nor any other
powers together, shall ever be able to diminish in the smallest
degree, much less to extinguish, the feelings of obedience
and reverence which, as well from inclination as from a sense
of duty, we entertain towards you...our beloved father, our
venerable bishop.
"A day of trouble has come upon us, and the spirit evil,
which is always lying in wait to destroy, has assaulted with
unwonted fury the Church of God which is in this diocese,
The most unfounded and horrifying calumnies have been cir-
culated among the people, as well against your Grace as
against some of your Grace's clergy, Attempts have been
made in many ways, both covertly and openly, to sow bitter
dissension among the faithful, and to alienate their affec-
tions and their confidence from their lawful pastors, from
the clergy who are appointed to instruct them, to feed them
with the blood of Christ, and to watch over them, as having
to render an account 4 their souls. Attempts have been
made to overawe us into the adoption of particular opinions,
and a particular line of conduct—to overawe us by popular
clamour, and by a dread of encountering what, it is well
understood, we would of all things, neXt after the violation
of our duty towards our bishop and the Church, be most
ari3Sloas to avoia—the indignation, the odium, the distrust of
our beloved people—of our people in whose hearts we have
hitherto lived, tor whose salvation we have so often rislsed
our lives at the bed of pestilence, and for whom, whatever may
betide, we shall rejoice to risk our lives a thousand and a thou,-
sand times again, What is particularly afflicting is, that the
faithful have allowed themselves to be thus led astray tik
men, some of whom are not even in name members of the
Catholic Church. These things hay net made us despond;;
for we know that Pelt trials, arid far more grievous trial,
have been the portion not only of particular churches, tut
of the Universal Church from the beginning, and that her
triumph over them is among the strongest proofs that Gold
is her rotector "all days, even to the consummation oft le
world.' But we have been oppressed with grief in witnesi-
log the inroad of principles and feelings that are not of God,
nor according to God, among our beloved people, and the
alienation, however brief, between them and any of us. Tin
these our afflictions our eyes were turned longingly towards
your Grace, You are placed by God, through the appoin -
ment of the Holy See, to govern us who are of your tack, o
vlguide and teach us. You are our shepherd' whose voice e
are bound to hear— that is, to obey, In this day of trial,
when the authority of the good pastor is especially needed,
and his apostolical courage especially tested, we have watch 'd
to hear your voice. We have heard it speaking to us calm sr
and meekly, but distinctly and solemnly ; and your words
have filled our hearts with heavenly consolation, and joy 9-
ceedisgly great. .
" It is now more than half a century since your Greed's
career in the ministry began, and nearly forty years since
your elevation to the episcopacy. During that long, and,
from the circumstances of the times, most trying period, re-
ligion had flourished with increasing vigour and purity under
your councils and example. Churches worthy the majesty
of religion have been raised in all parts of the diocese. Con-
fraternities and approved practices of devotion have been
introduced and established. Institutions, like that of the
missionaries of St. Vincent or Paul, sources of salvation to
millions yet unborn, not only in this, but in every diocese of
the kingdom, have been formed and protected by your
Grace, in some instances not only unaided, but, as
many of us well know, against powerful and most dis-
heartening opposition, and even obloquy and slander.
Religious orders of men and women, which some whose
public lives prove that they care very little for religion,
now accuse you of betraying what you have always warmly
encouraged and promoted. To you we are indebted for the
establishment of the Sisters of Charity, the Sisters of MereY,
and the Brothers of the Christian Schools among us. For
the illustrious order of the Jesuits you have always had the
highest esteem and tenderest regard. The more distin-
guished members of this and of other religious orders have,
it is well known, in some instances, enjoyed more of your
Grace's confidence than members of your own clergy.. Net
a single instance can be shown in which you have ever, by
word or act, exhibited the least opposition or discouragement,
directly or indirectly, to any of these orders. As to ourselves,
we are bound to attribute whatever claims we have upon a good
name, under God, to the model of priestly virtue which we
have always bad before our eyes ie the example of your
Grace, as well as to your salutary admonitions and regula-
tions. In former times, when attempts were really made for,
the undisguised and avowed object of destroying the liberties
of our Church, your Grace for many years stood the first In
the foremost rank of danger in the defence of those liberties;
and now, while we are being trampled down by another des-'
potism, which threatens to annihilate all freedom of opinion
and action—and while we are doomed to feel that, if we dare to
utter our conscientious opinions, we must expect to be over-
whelmed with a torrent of slander and clamour—and while we
hear the right which the Holy Ghost has ,conferred upon your
Grace of teaching your own flock denied publicly, and in the
most insulting manner, by some of that flock, and your people
ieduced to despise your Grace's teaching, and to receive the
teaching of men, some of whom are not Catholics—when sve
see the people publicly, and, as we know, still more privately,
taught to distrust the integrity of the Holy See, and which lamre
bibe doctrines regardnig the authority of•th;'3l4oPe, _ ail
this, at variance with Catholic faith ;—when w see iiii
this, awl behold your Grace exhibiting the same apostolic
courage in opposition to the tyranny whictit_ensla, vmestuesnednostro,
which you exhibited against the tyranny 4 R
reserved
thanks to
veslave us in former times, we return o
your Grace
the Giver of all good things,
to these days for the defence ofthh°o?hCaismprch's true freedom.
" We, therefore, my Lord, receive iour pastoral iustrUb-
tions, not only with unfeigned submission, but with joy ; 44
we rejoice more than we can express, that au eppertuntty is
thus Presence)} to pa of of f . mg y
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such as it is, of this testimony of our filial love for your Grace
personally, of our undiminished reverence and obedience to
your Grace's authority, and of our increased aonfidence in
your Grace's wisdom and zeal.
"As the disciple whom Jesus loved used in his old days to
address his flock in the language of charity—' My little
children, love one another'—so has your Grace, now so
venerable from your years and your merits, bequeathed to
us the same divine lesson of fraternal love. It shall be
our constant study to adopt this heavenly maxim in our own
conduct, and to communicate the influence thereof, as well
by example as by words, to those to whom we minister.
We do not hope to see the spirit of discord which now pre-
vails speedily and completely laid ; for we know that the
Devil, the world, and the flesh, shall continue to exercise
their influence more or less. But we are happy to be able
to inform your Grace that your words have already pro-
duced much good fruit, and, notwithstanding the strong
efforts of deceitful and evil-minded men, are still producing
good fruit.
" For the rest, my Lord, you do not require our encourage-
ment or approval. Your strength is from on high, whence
your authority is derived. Ecclesiastical history abounds
in examples of holy bishops who had to encounter, in de-
fence of the liberty of the Church, far more grievous per-
secution than your Grace has been yet subjected to. God
alone knows what sufferings are yet in store for you; but
sure we are, that as, like St. Paul, you know not the things
which shall befal You,' so you can manfully declare with the
same Apostle—' t fear none of these things, neither do I
count my life inure precious than myself, so that I may con-
summate niy course and the ministry of the word, which I
grercaecieveodf
Gfror.,.iectsLoxrxd. J2e2s-24 testify the gospel of the
" Alas ! how daring is the spirit of disobedience. It is no
longer content with assailing the venerable successor of St.
Lawrence ; it is no longer satisfied with appealing to the
passions of the most ignorant and excitable portion of the
people to overawe the canonical authority of the bishop in his
own diocese, but it is now openly endeavouring to engen-
der a feeling of disaffection even towards the common
father of the faithful, Gregory XVI., and to diminish the
love and reverence of the Irish Catholics for the Apostolic
See—the centre of Catholic unity, to which they have
clung with desperate fidelity for 1,400 years. It is in this
way the crafty spirit of impiety, always commences its attack
on religion. It first alienates their affections from the clergy,
and then robs them of their faith. The assault upon the
successor of St. Peter, and visible head of the Church, ie
commenced in the same manner, and conveyed through the
same channels as that which has been directed against your
Grace. But whether or not the councils of the wicked shall
continue to prevail, and the shafts of slander continue to be
directed against you, we at least shall cling closely to you,
and through you, as the connecting link, to the centre of
Catholic unity. You are our bishop—we are your clergy.
You will cling to the " Successor of Peter and Damascus ;"
and we will cling to you. You are our pastor; your voice
we shall always lovingly hear. You are our good father,
from whom we have never experienced a harsh word, of
harsh exercise of authority. We are your children, and
shall not leave your grey hairs, and your aged and anointed
head, to be buffetted and spit upon. In the day of your
suffering we shall suffer with you • and, as the blessed Law-
rence desired to follow his venerable Bishop, Xystus, to mar-
tyrdom, so, if even that trial should come upon you, we
desire to share it with you.
" Burke, C., Church of the Conception
Black, P., CC., Ballymore-Eustace
Burne, D., C.C., Booterstown
Cassidy, Thomas, O.S F., Harold's cross
Dwyer, T., C.C., Bray
Donohoe, T., C.C. Blackditches
Duffy, P. C.C., Blessington
Delany, J., C.C., ditto
Ennis, J. D.D., P.P., Booterstown
Finn, P.P., Irishtown
Farrelly, P., Loretto House, Rathfarnham
Farrell, A., St. Nicholas Without
Farrington, M., ditto
Fagan, A.J., Cabinteely
Germaine, A. P.P., Blackditches
Hyland, J., 1.P., Dunlavin
Hamilton, James, Booterstown
Hamilton, J., Archdeacon, Marlborough-street
Kirwan, T., C.C., Swords
Kelly, A., C.C., St. Nicholas Without
Kearney, P. Newbridge
Lonergan, 8., C.C., Bray
Lynch, G.,C.C., St. Andrew'sMeyler, ~ Dean, V.G., St. Andrew's
lii'kenna, J., P.P., Rathdrum
M'Carthy, J., Rush
Meehan, C. P., SS., Michael and John
M•Soarly, W. George's-bill
Montague, P., P.P., Naul
Mulhall, E., C.C., Irishtown
Murphy, J., C.C., Narraghmore
Mullally, —, St. Andrew's
Mulloy, J., P.P., Garristown
Mulloney, Rathdrum
O'Carroll, T., D.D., St. Andrew's
O'Carroll, F., CC., Balbriggan
O'Connell, C., C.C., St. Michan's
O'Connell, E., C.C., ditto
O'Farrell, N., St. Nicholas Without
O'Grady, W. V. D.D., St. Andrew's
O'Rielly, .1,, Dunlavin
O'Donahoe, Donnybrook
O'Dwyer, T., C.C., Cuttlestown
Quin, A., D.D., St. Andrew's
Ryan, P. P.P. Donabete
Roach, Rathfarnharn
Rickard, J., St. Nicholas Without
Smith, J., P.P., Balbriggan
Smith, P., C.C., St. Nicholas Without
Smith, P., C.C., Irishtown
Smith, P., C.C., Bally more-Eustace
Stafford, W., P.P., Rathmines
Toole, M., P.P.,V.F., Narraghmore
Tyrrell, J., C.C.. Kilcullen.'
CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT.
The following resolutions have been adopted by fifty-
eight of the Roman Catholic clergy of the diocese of
Cork, The Cork Examiner says that this comprises all
the rural clergy of the diocese, with two exceptions, and
that separate resolutions are to be adopted by the clergy
of that city :
" That we deplore the interference, in any manner, of
the Legislature or Government in the concerns or discip-
line of the Roman Catholic religion in this country.
" That in an especial manner we protest against the
Charitable Bequests' Bill, as containing clauses irrecon-
cilable with the usages and discipline of the Catholic
Church, highly offensive to the Catholic clergy of Ire-
land in general. and particularly injurious to those of
the religious orders, as also unwisely and unnecessarily
tending to frustrate the benevolent intentions of the faith-
ful, and to deprive them of that right in the disposal of
property, to which they are justly and constitutionally
entitled.'
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE PIKENIX PARK.
Mr. Davis, one of the county coroners, has received
the following letter, in reply to a communication trans-
mitted by that gentleman to the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests, together with the finding of the
Coroner's inquest in the case of the children who were
drowned at Knockmaroon-hill on Saturday se'nnight :
" Office of Woods, &c., Jan. 11, 1845.
" Sir,—l have, on behalf of the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Woods, &c., to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 7th inst., transmitting a copy of the
finding of' the jury at the inquisition held on the bodies
of the four children recently drowned at Chapelizod,
consequent on the giving way of an embankment in the
Pheenix Park, and also an inventory of the damage done
to the houses and property of several poor families who
have been sufferers on this occasion ; and I have to ex-
press to you the extreme concern felt by the Commis-
sioners at a calamity which has been productive of so
distressing a loss of life and destruction of property.
" The Commissioners have directed an investigation
of the moat rigid kind to be forthwith instituted into the
causes which have led to this accident. and in the mean
time have issued directions for such assistance as may be
immediately necessary for the relief of the unfortunate
sufferers on this occasion being rendered.—l am, Sir,
your most obedient servant,
" CHARLES GORE,
" Henry Davis, Esq., 71, Dame-street, Dublin."
THE PAPER TRADE.—The paper-makers of Ireland,
several of whom are now in town, held a meeting yester-
day at Messrs. C. M'Donnell and Son's, when it was
unanimously agreed to forward a petition to Parliament.
praying for a total repeal of the duty on paper, and
three of the gentlemen present were appointed to prepare
the same, which will be ready for signature early in
February. of which due notice shall be given.
The Earl of Kingston is at present entertaining a dis-
tinguished party at his hospitable mansion, Kingston
Castle. Amongst the visitors are— Lord Lismore, Sir
W. W. Beeoher and lady, Lieutenant-General Lord
Downes and Miss Downes, lion. Francis Prittie, Mr.
and Mrs. Prittie, Colonel Chatterton and lady, John
Hyde, Esq., Castle Hyde, Captain Warner (4th Dra-
goons), Captain Price, &c.
rliE REGISTRIES.
LISTOWEL SaTunosy.Conservatives, brought up
and registered,--
1 ; Liberals, brought up, 16; admitted, 8;
including six re-registered.— Tralee Chronicle.
of
effßec°teds"min"tilh.rs
nearly _ _ _
True it is, that 300 voters have been re-registered,
Lord De
but these are principally the freeholdersbewere not three
Freyne's property, and many
of
fbevre are scarcely 600
years registered previously. Toohoernetyha,nviethninot
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—Roscommon Journal.
WEXFORD.—The registry for the county and borough
the franchise Libeorualts Conserva-
tivesfanadli3stortiotice:
terminatedhaving
o obtained
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amounting to 145. Two Liberal votes were added to the
independent constituency of Boss, and twenty-seven to
Wexford, thus fortifying the previously impregnable
positions of those constitutional fortresses.— Wexford
Independent.
THE ARNY.—There are at present fear recruiting
prtios item different regiments quartered in Clonmel.—
Tipperal y Con.stitution.
The lion. White Hedges, of Macroom Castle, is about
to lead to the hymeneal altar the accomplished sister of
Henry Arthur Herbert, Esq., of Muckross. Prepare-
ilons were lately being made at the new and princely
residence of the latter gentl man for the joyous occasion,
and the tenantry on his numerous estates were about to
be bidden to the festivities, when, I regret to say, the
siekvrebre4t,llness of Mr, Balfour, the father-in-law of Mr.
put a stop to the intended union. The
nuptials will now take place in London.— Tralee Chronicle.
OUTRAGES IN ROSCOMMON.—On Thursday night,
about eight o'clock, four ruffians, one ariped with a gun,