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answered, for he had told her his Christian name, " I feel
for you a strange sympathy—your image is for ever en-
graven here!" and rith a languishing look she placed her
hand on her heart. " I ought not," she added, "to make
such a confession ; hut what, Narcissus, can a poor weak
woman do when fascinated by such a man as you ?"
And, as she spoke, she became more languishing than ever,
and fell into her adorer's arms. Suddenly she cried,
" You have a diamond ring. Give it me, Narcissus ; I
am sure some woman gave it you, and I should die of
jealousy if you were to wear it !" And she, half-playfully,
half-angrily, pulled it from his finger, and placed it on
her own. In return, however, she cut off a huge lock of
her hair, and said, " There, Narcissus, take that ; and
never, never forget me." As the ring was worth 1,200 f.
Narcissus by no means approved of the exchange ; but,
in spite of his repeated requests, the lady declined to
make restoration. Narcissus at length got seriously
angry, and the lady deemed it prudent to faint in his
arms. The poor man shouted for salts, or vinegar, or
hartshorn, but no one had any, and a fireman eventually
restored the patient by puffing the smoke of his pipe in
her face. In doing this her mask fell off, and the un-
fortunate Narcissus was astounded to see a big pair of
whiskers and a large moustache—the charmer was a man !
Narcissus at once gave the fellow into custody, and it was
subsequently ascertained that his name was Lahure, and
that he was a well-known thief. Not having anything to
say in his defence he was condemned by the Tribunal to
13 months' imprisonment.—French paper.

IRELAND.

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The Coleraine Chronicle says that in a single night no
fewer than 75 sheep, belonging to Mr. Sampson, of Bally-
kelly, were worried to death by savage dogs.
AN IRISH SET-OFF TO ENGLISH POPERY..--The Dub-
lin Warder of February 8 states that in the diocese of
Tuam, Ardfert, and Emley, there have been within the
last three months one thousand five hundred and sixty
converts to the Protestant religion.
The Protestants of Ireland must evidently look to their
arms if they would not have their throats cut. 'We infer
this necessity from the murderous spirit which seems to
be animating the Papists. One Popish priest says in an
incendiary letter to Lord John Russell.—" Do not think
lightly of what I say. We are only sparks, but we are in
reach of the magazine, and we can ignite a power stronger
than you."

A NOBLE COMPOSITOR.—The Leinster Express informs
us that at a display of fireworks which took place last
week, at Birr Castle, under the superintendence of the
Earl of Rosse, a programme of the evening's amusements
were handed about, the typography and press-work of
which were executed by Lord Oxmantown, the earl's
eldest son, who is only aged ten years. The imprint is.
" Oxmantown, printer, Birr Castle."
THE EARL OF ROSSE AT HOME.—The King's County
Chronicle contains a highly interesting account of a
magnificent display of fireworks which took place on the
evening of the 3rd instant., in the grounds attached to
Birr Castle, the seat of the Earl of Rosse. The exhibition
was got up by the Earl and Countess of Rosse, for the
amusement of the inhabitants of Parsonstown and the
neighbourhood, and tickets, to the number of several
thousands, were gratuitously distributed. A large juve-
nile party was also invited to the Castle, previous to the
fireworks. Our contemporary dwells with much enthu-
siasm on " the brilliancy, the variety, the novelty, the
startling splendour and magnificence" of the spectacle.
Lord Rosse himself set off the fireworks, which were pre-
pared at the Castle under his own superintendence.
THE MILITARY ORDERED OUT OF CHAPEL.—On Sun-
day
last the Roman Catholic soldiers of the 6th depot,
commanded by Captain Cruse, also a Roman Catholic,
stationed in t his town, went as usual to hear second mass,
which was celebrated by the Rev. Mr. Connellan, a curate.
When mass was nearly over the Rev. Mr. Connellan ad-
dressed the congregation, stating that a petition against
the measure brought in by ministers to prevent Papal
aggression lay outside the chapel gate for signature, and
that the bill had a tendency to crush civil and religious
liberty. Immediately a movement was observed amongst
the soldiers, for Captain Cruse ordered them to retire
forthwith from the chapel in consequence of the observa-
tions made by Mr. Connellan, a young red-hot Maynoo-
thian, with which the respectable portion of the congre-
gation did not feel pleased.—Nenagh Guardian.
A LADY PLEADING HER OWN CAUSE.—In the Dublin
Encumbered Estates Court, on Saturday week, a lady,
Mrs. Catherine Winter, appeared to plead her own cause.
She took a place at the table where her Majesty's counsel
and doctors learned in the law usually sit, and producing
a bundle of papers, large enough to excite the jealousy of
a Chancery practitioner, proceeded to untie and arrange
them with composure and expertness. On one of the
benches immediately behind sat her brother, Mr. N. D.
Maillard, who seemed content to perform the subordinate
duty of a junior counsel, surrendering the more compli-
cated and technical portions of the case to the superior
management of the fair advocate who acted as his senior,
and who, it must be confessed, discharged the self-im-
posed task with a collected and consecutive fluency and a
rhetorical tact and force which would not have disgraced
any " gentleman of the long robe."

DREADFUL CATASIROPII.E.—Yesterday week, a small
farmer, named Patrick AV Gough, who lives at Kilrocklin,
in the parish of Greggan, went to the fair at Camlough to
sell a cow, and having transacted his business, he returned
home somewhat inebriated. His wife and he quarrelled,
and she was obliged to run out of the house to escape his
anger. Thinking that she had hid herself in the bed-
room, he proceeded there with a lighted candle in search
of her, when unfortunately the light came in contact with
some Aix, and in an instant the interior of the room was
in a blaze, which quickly reached and consumed the en-
tire dwelling. 3.l•Gough's children, four in number,
were in bed in a loft at the time, and every one of them
perished in the flames. The unfortunate man himself
would, in all likelihood, have shared the same fate, had
not the wife rushed into the flames and assisted him to
make his way out.
The Earl of Enniskillen has put forward a second mani-
festo, in consequence of the refusal of Sir G. Grey to
present the address to the Queen from the Loyal Orange
Body, which we noticed a short time ago. In it, the
Noble Earl traces the history of Ireland from the volun-
tary dissolution of the Orange body, in consequence of
the resolution of the House of Commons in 1836, to the
present time. That event was followed by the " General
Association," changed in 1828 to the " Precursor
Association," and by the monster meetings of 1843,
which led to the reorganization of the Orange body as a
necessary measure of self-defence in 1842 ; since which
time its signal services to the cause of loyalty and' order
have been graciously acknowledged, through the very
functionary who now revives the fact of the dissolution in
1836, as a reason for intercepting its addresses to the
throne.

A SAMPLE OF WHAT WE ARE TO EXPECT
FROM POPERY IN IRELAND.

An Irish Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Dr. Cahill,
has recently been addressing a correspondence to Lord
John Russell, on the subject of his proposed measure
against Papal aggression. His concluding letter contains
the following specimen of peculiarly Irish bluster :--
" This letter, my lord, closes my correspondence with you ;
but in my next letter, which I 'shall write to the Catholics of
Ireland, I shall propose a plan of co-operation against your
bill, which I hope will combine into one body every man in
Ireland who values his liberty or his life, and I hope to call
into existence the largest and the most powerful confederacy
ever, perhaps, heretofore united in Ireland against the mons-
trous and scarlet tyranny of your threatened bill. The Catholic
clergy will call the people of Ireland, parish after parish,
county after county, to meet in the churchyards which your
legislation has filled—in all a million of my countrymen buried
in untimely death. We will address them from the red graves
of the murdered dead, and we will raise a shout of horror at
your cabinet which will be heard all over the earth ; and you
can only stop our mouths, as you have often done before to
our countrymen, by the martyrdom of your laws. And pray,
sir, I beg of you, do not think lightly af what I say. We are
only sparks, but we are within reach of the magazine, and we
can ignite a power stronger than you. With truth and justice
inscribed on our banners, we will pledge ourselves before God
and our country, that if you put us down, it will be only by
taking our lives."

A very pleasant gentleman this Mr. Cahill to be
entrusted with the power given to the priesthood of Rome
by the infamous canon law !

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The Rev. Hibbert Binney, Fellow and Tutor of Wor-
cester College, Oxford, is appointed Bishop of Nova
Scotia.

Government has abandoned the clergy reserves in
Canada to the absolute disposal of the provincial legisla-
ture.

Four candidates are announced for the Lord Rector-
ship of the Mareschal College, Aberdeen, viz., the Earls
of Eglinton and Carlisle, Lord Ashley, and Alfred Ten-
nyson.
The Cambridge University Commission met on Wed-
nesday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. Present, the Bishop of
Chester, the Dean of Ely, the Rev. Professor Sedgwick,
and the Rev. W. H. Bateson (secretary).

ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION BILL.—A cor-
respondent of the Times points out that this bill, as now
worded, subjects bishops of the Episcopal Church of
Scotland to those pains and penalties the Legislature
means to apply to Papal dignitaries.
THE CHAPLAINCY AT ANTWERP.—The Rev. P. G.
Hill, who for the last six years has filled the Chaplaincy
at Antwerp, to the satisfaction both of the Bishop of
London and of the great body of his congregation, re-
ceived, on the 24th of Jan. last, through a self-elected
" Church Committee" at Antwerp, notice that in conse-
quence of a " satisfactory testimonial from the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury of Mr. Byron's fitness for the chap-
laincy of Antwerp," he is " recommended accordingly in
the room of the Rev. P. G. Hill." Mr. Hill, thereupon,
,wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, explaining the
circumstances of his appointment to the chaplaincy, six
years ago, by the Bishop of London, whose license he
holds, and requesting " His Grace to examine into the
use made of his testimonial, and to favour him and his
congregation with the result." The following is his
Grace's answer:—

Lanaheti, Jan. 29, 1851

TO THE REV. P. 0. HILL, ANTWERP.
Reverend Sir,—ln reply to your letter, I beg to state that I
received, about a fortnight ago, a letter from Lord Palmerston,
which mentioned that " he had thought it better to remove
you born the chaplaincy," and desired to know whether, in
my opinion, Mr. Byron was a " fit and proper person to be ap-
pointed British Chaplain at. Antwerp in the place of the Rev.
Air. Hill ?" To which I answered in the affirmative.—l re-
main, Rev. Sir, your faithful servant, J. B. CANTOA R.
Mr. Hill has again written to the Archbishop, to point
out to his Grace the fact of his latter being liable to be
interpreted as S recognition of sufficient authority in the
Fogeign Secretary 11) remove a chaplain.