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and curate of
Dingle, where he has been the chief instrument under
God in fostering the work of reformation going on there
so successfully for some years past.—Kerry Post.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.-At the meeting on Monday,
the Lord Mayor, who had been so well abused during

ie week by his friends, the Repealers, took the chair.
A letter was read from his " lordship" explaining his con-
duct with regard to the omission of O'Connell's name
from the list of toasts at the recent banquet—the letter
also contained his subscription of XI. A communication
from Dr. O'Higgins was also read, inclosing subscriptions
to the amount of £4l. The assembly was addressed by
Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Timothy O'Brien, and Mr.
Ford on the subject of the Dublin Improvement Bill. A
Mr. Burke, of Tintrim, spoke at considerable length on
various subjects, and concluded with an attack on Mr.
Shiel. Alderman Hyland, of Kilkenny, next presented
himself, and in moving the adoption of a petition to the.
House of Commons from the Roman Catholic clergy of
his locality, stated that there was not a more peaceable
county in Ireland than that of Kilkenny, though there had
been between eighty or ninety ejectments issued at the last
quarter sessions; a large number of which were against the
tenantry of_ a judge of the land—Judge Crampton—who,

ne supposea, snouia any outrage occur in consequence,
would be sent down to try the offenders. Mr. Hyland
spoke with great energy, striking Ins knuckles against the
table with considerable force at the close of every sen-
The rent was said to be £lO7.

CATASTROPHE IN ROSCOMMON.—On the 26th of last
month (Wednesday last), a melancholy event took place
at Ashford, in Roscommon, which threw the neighbour-
hood
into an unwonted state of excitement. The facts '
are briefly these, as stated in the Dublin papers :—The
bailiff of the district, Mr. Peyton, proceeded to execute a
law process issued at the suit of Mr. George Church, of
ick-on-Shannon, against Hubert R. Waldron, Esq.,
, of Ashford, near Drumsna, the object being to dis-
1. The bailiff took with him a number of the police
force; but, on reaching the entrance gate to the country
house, was met by Mr. Waldron, who, with his son and
other persons, stood inside armed, and in an attitude of
defence. The gate was closed, and the bailiff demanded
admission, which was peremptorily refused by Mr.
Waldron, he stating that he was an old man, and had but
one life to lose which he did not much value. The
bailiff explained that he must do his duty. Soon after,
the bailiff's men endeavoured to force the gates with
crowbars. It appeared that just before this a gun in the
hand of one of the police had exploded, which, it was
explained to Mr. Waldron, was by sheer accident. He,
however, still resisted the legal entrance of the officers.
It is stated that Mr. Waldron then fired from within the
bars, and wounded one of the officers. The police im-
mediately fired (whether by order of the bailiff or not
does not appear), when the affray became general, and
twelve to fifteen shots were exchanged through the bars.
Mr. Waldron was shot dead on the spot. He was fifty-
five years of age. One bailiff's officer was severely
wounded, as was a police-officer. The officers afterwards
discovered a quantity of fire-arms in the house, and several
armed men. The son of Mr. Waldron, aged fifteen, was
taken " prisoner" to the county gaol. Some of the pro-
perty sought to be seized was left on the premises, there
being no sufficient force to protect it. An inquest will
be held by the magistrates—and, no doubt, some official
enquiry will be made as to the real facts.

THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The special commission
for the county of Tipperary was opened on Monday, at
Clonmel, whither the judges had proceeded on that day
from Limerick. The Lord Chief Justice delivered an able
address to the grand jury, in which he enlarged on the
necessity of repressing the disposition to crime and out-
rage which has spread terror through Tipperary and the
neighbouring counties. On Tuesday, a man named John
Lonergan was indicted for having murdered Mr. Roe, at
Boytonrath, by firing a gun at him. Several witnesses
were examined, and their evidence showed that the pri-
soner, who had been ejected by Mr. Roe from some land,
because he had not paid his rent, and who had used threat-
ening language respecting the deceased, was going towards
the spot where the murder was committed, in company
with another man, a short time before the fatal shot was
fired. One witness, a girl about fifteen, and a niece of the
prisoner, who had gone out of her house when the report
of the gun was heard, admitted that she had seen the
smoke, but refused to answer the question whether she
had seen any one she knew. After shedding a torrent of
tears, she said that she had not seen any one in the grove
whence the shot was fired ; but when further pressed and''
questioned wl3Pthor teen any one in the field, she
wept bitterly, and refused to answer. The Chief Justice
then ordered her to be committed ; but she was again
brought up, and owned that she saw the prisoner in the
field next the grove, that he was .coming from the ditch,
and that she saw the smoke on the road. Some other
evidence was heard, and the jury, after half an hour's con-
sultation, returned a verdict of guilty. Denis Brien, Pa-
trick Ellard, Patrick Mullanphy, Patrick Hickey, end
George Hewitt, all young men under thirty years of age,
were then convicted of assalting Edward Mullanphy, and
his wife and family, at Knockadreen. and injuring his pro-
perty. The Chief Justice sentenced them to be transported
for seven years. This case was the first since the opening
of the special commission in Limerick, upon the 4th of
January, which seemed to excite feelings of sympathy upon
the part of the audience in favour of the prisoners. Two
or three women in the gallery began to weep the moment
the sentence was pronounced, and had to be removed from

WHALE'S REPLY TO LORD SHREWSBURY.--ThO
Freeman's Journal devotes nearly seven columns to the
long-threatened reply of Dr, M'nEtie to Lord Shrews-
bury. A 5 to " points," you might as well look for &,;;,--
neri on a balloon; indeed, this pamphlet is just as flatu-
lent as the " great Na§sau." The letter is prefaced with
an appropriate quotation from the Council of Trent, inti-
mating that " in former times" certain prelates had de-
meaned themselves too submissively towards ministers of
state and other exalted individuals. The English earl, it
will be recollected, confined himself principally to an ex-
pression of his surprise and regret at the apparent sanc-
tion given by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland,
to the vile and deadly calumnies uttered by their clerical
subordinates against the upper classes. It was, indeed, a
species of gentle remonstrance ; no more. But how does
Dr. M`Hale treat it ? He commences by sneeringly ask-
ing the noble lord where he had " taken out his commis-
sion to encroach on the Divine authority of bishops ?'
To interfere in the matter at all lie pronounces to be " a
foul conspiracy against the lives of the Catholic people,
and the character of the Catholic hierarchy." The lay
peer had the courageous boldness to affirm that Popery,
as it exists in this portion of the United Kingdom a
conniver at injustice, an accessory to crime, a pestilent
sore on the commonwealth." But the spiritual lord
meets the allegation by ridiculing the letters as "erratic,"
and assuring its author that his astonishment and the sur-.
prise of Englishmen in general will only have the effect of
strengthening the accused parties, himself among the
number, in their " determination" to persevere. Then as
to the assertion that education had been scandaloasly ne-