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Britain-street, Dublin, the wife

Upper Parhament-street.
same day, at Newton, Templegoe, Dublin, LOUISA O'HARA,
Esq., C.E.

Uri the 4th instant, in his 67th year, Mr. JAMES SHUCK
FORD, of Clapham, Surrey.

ISame day, 'at ChWra-ilow, Newington, London, aged 66
years, Mr. T. M. TRIQUET.
Same day, of consumption, at her residence, Hctham-street,
aged 29 years, Mrs. MILLER.
Same day, HENRY, youngest son of W. WRIGHT MANI-
FOLD, Esq., Rodney-street.
On the sth instant, aged 18 months. ELIZABETH MARGA-
RET, (laughter of Mr. RICHARD SMITH, Liverpool Arms. Hotel, Chester-street, Birkenhead.
Same dav, at 77, Grove-street, aged 22 years, Mr. THOMAS HENRY 't I UAW.
..

On the 6th instant, aged .0, Mr. THOMAS :PIER
LOW.

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Same day, aged 9 months, of hoping cough, WILLIAM,
son of Mr. JOHN A. DUTTON. 3, College-lane..
Same day, at Ox-house Hess, Upholland, aged 63, NATHAN
GASKILL, Esq., deeply lamented by his family, and much and
deservedly respected by all who knew him.
Same day, aged 3 years, EDWARD DAVID, youngest son of
Mr. JOHN LI2:DERS, watch manufacturer, London-road.
On the 7th instant, at his residence. Eldon-place, after a se-
vere affliction, aged 47 years, Mr. WILLIAM COLLIER., of
her Majesty's Customs, of this port, and late of Cadished, in
this county.

Yesterday, EMMA WATSON, the infant daughter of Mr. G
P. FORWOOD, Oxton, Cheshire.
Same day, at his resieenee, Bright-stri
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The priestly receptacle of a knowledge of guilt Is
dumb. , His lips are sealed. We hear him in
public denouncing, for alleged oppressions, the
class doomed to fall beneath the assassin's blud-
geon or musket. Sprung from the peasant class
himself, and still little removed from them in his
sympathies and his interest, too often the great in-
fluence which he possesses in virtue of his sacer-
dotal office is used rather to increase the acerbity
of the popular feeling, than to erect a spiritual bar-
rier between crime and its consummation.
The religion of the people of Ireland has in it
something of vitality, or it is an empty profession.
The Roman Catholic priesthood of Ireland have a
certain sway on the minds of their flocks, or the
vaunted discipline of that church is a mere pre-
tence—vox et preterea nihil. Are the religious ad-
visers of these organised bands of murderers—these
approvers of murders, before and after the fact—
cognizant of what is going on around them ? Are
they aware of murder perpetrated, or to be Derpe-

traced, and make no sign ?. The question is a seri-
ous one. It concerns the temporal and eternal fate
of a whole people, taught to believe that, as a fal-
lible man, invested with the power of absolving
from sin, inclined to be merciful and approving, or
harsh, the otherwise well defined crime of murder
is a praiseworthy or a damning deed. The Roman
Catholic population of Ireland, we are told, are
strict in the observances of the duties of religion ;
regular in their attendance at the confessional ;
rigid in the keeping of their fasts, the performance
of their penance, and the maintenance of the privi-
leges and immunities claimed for their church.
Yet all this external conforming appears to be not
at all incompatible with the practice or the know-
ledge of deeds of blood. We are bound in common
charity to conclude that they lay bare the surface
of their hearts only to the priesthood; that there
is a dark recess which they never open to his view,
the key of which is kept only by the Ribbon con-
spiracy, whose mandates are regarded as more
binding, and obeyed with more fear and respect,
than the mandates of their church and their God.

The record of the last of these hideous crimes
whioh has reached our ears affords ample proof of
the inefficacy of the Romish system in Ireland to
repress the criminal acts of its people. We quote
it from the Dublin Evening Mail :

" STROKESTOWN, Tuesday night.—As Major Mahon
was returning home from a meeting of the board of
guardians of Roscommon Union, this evening, he was
shot dead by an assassin, about four miles from Strokes-
town. The melancholy occurrence took place about 20
minutes past six o'clock.

" Major Mahon has been in possession of the Hartland
property for a couple of years. The tenants owed three
years' rent, amounting to £30,000.
" At first the tenants refused either to pay rent, till
the land, or give it up. Last year, however, a large por-
tion of them agreed to leave the country, and Major
Mahon, at his own expense, chartered two vessels, and
sent a number of the tenantry to America. Long, how-
ever, before this occurred, it was well known in the
country ,That Major Mahon was a doomed man. His
name stood first upon a list of 12 gentlemen, all of whom
have been doomed to death on account of their refusal to
continue the conacre system. The failure of the potato
crop saved them for the time. As Major Mahon has
been taken off, there is little doubt that other gentlemen
will soon follow.

" Major Mahon, within the last few clays, was publicly
denounced, in one of the reports to head-quarters, as an
absentee, and one who refused to contribute to the local
subscriptions of the neighbourhood."

It was " well known " that this gentleman, en-
gaged though he was in active efforts to promote
the welfare of his tenantry, was to die by violence.
It was matter of notoriety to hundreds of his own
tenantry and his neighbours. Hundreds of these
people must have approached the confessional, and
received the absolution of their priests, with the
knowledge of the coming perpetration of this deed
of blood locked fast in their breasts, At this mo-
ment, doubtless hundreds are acquainted with the
name, the person, and the hiding place of the
assassin ; if indeed a hiding place is regarded as
necessary amongst a people, whose sympathies even
bear more strongly towards the criminal than to
his illfated victim. Should the law be enabled to
reach him and to visit upon him the penalty due
to his offence, he will doubtless in his last hour
at length make a clean breast, and unburden his
soul to his priest; and probably, such is the
strangely contradictory course of perverted human
nature, he will die loudly protesting his innocence !
the minister of God, who
And more strange still,
has heard the truth from his lips, may hear also,
without contradicting it, the lie with which he per-
mits his soul to be hurried into the presence of his
Maker..

It has ever been held that the Church of Rome
wielded a spiritual power strong enough to crush a
far more potent machinery of evil, than that which
binds together the ribbon conspiracy in Ireland.
It is clear, however, that beyond the utterance of a
few feeble protests, that church is not disposed to
interfere, although it is only fair to presume that,
through the confessional, its priesthood possess
details sufficient to enable them to hand over its
leading agents to justice, and to free the mass of
the peasantry of Ireland from the slavery in which