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STATE PROVISION FOR THE ROMISH CLERGY.—A Ro-
man Catholic " Priest of the Archdiocese of Tuara," fa-
vourable to the principle of a state provision for the
clergy, deals somewhat hardly, if not irreverently, with
the resolutions relating to the question adopted by the
prelates at their recent meeting in Dublin. The Tuam
priest seems to think that the bishops have commenced
at the wrong end ; that before they ventured to speak for
the clergy, who, he says, are at present suffering severe
privations, they ought to have furnished to the world
some proof of episcopal disinterestedness, and, as a rea-
sonable justification of this view of the matter, he lets the
public into a secret or two of the prison-house.
Mr. ODoherty was on Wednesday found guilty of
treason. He had • been tried twice before. On Fri-
day the prisoner was brought to the bar to re-
ceive sentence. Judge Crampton addressed the prisoner
at some length, and concluded by saying, that the portion
of the press with which the prisoner had connected him-
self was the chief instrument in the creation of the dan-
gerous agitation that had prevailed. " I must add," said
his lordship, " that I have never read any publications
more dangerously wicked, and clearly designed to excite
rebellion and revolution than those publications which
have emanated from you, and of which you have been
as-
certained by the verdict of your jury to have been the
guilty publisher. Under these circumstances, the court is
called upon to pronounce upon you the sentence of trans-
port ition for ten years."
TRIAL OF WILLIAMS.—Mr. Richard Dalton Williams,
the partner of Mr. O'Doherty in the ownership of the
Tribune, was brought to trial on Thursday. The case dif-
fered from that of O'Doherty in the point that no evidence
whatever was offered that Mr. Williams had written either
of the articles charged as treasonable. The Attorney-
General contended that the guilt lay in the publication,
and that it was immaterial who wrote or printed the arti-
cles. He threw the onus on the prisoner of proving that
he was ignorant of the treasonable nature of what he hed
published. The proofs were confined to the formal evi-
dences of ownership and publication. On Friday the Jury
returned a verdict of " Not guilty," as, though they found
that the prisoner was the publisher of the newspaper in
question, they did not believe he entertained the inten-
tions alleged. After sentence had been passed on O'Do-
herty, Williams was liberated.
THE WHIGS AND THE PRIESTS.—Monday night's
Dublin Herald contains the following statement A.
correspondent, the same whose accurate information ena-
bled us to anticipate Inspector Trant's disclosures respect-
ing priest Fitzgerald, has put us in possession of the
following startling narrative :—He states that a head-con-
stable, in the neighbourhood of Clonmel, told two gentle-
men, one of them a Protestant clergyman, in the Clonmel
court-house, on Thursday week last, ' that he had given
most important information as bearin,g upon Mr. Meagher's
case—namely, that he had seen him at the head of several
thousand men in arms, and two of the Carrick-on-Suir
priests with him, two days before the outbreak at Bailin-
gassy.' This man happens to be a decided Protestant,
and gave information of what he had seen. He was taken
up to Dublin, and when it was found that his informations
could not be made available against Meagher, without im-
plicating equally two Romish priests, he was not called
upon to appear as a witness at all."
ARCHBISHOP WHATELY.—EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS.
—The Jubilee Meeting of the Church Missionary Society,
held at the Rotunda, in Dublin, on Thursday last, was
the occasion of a most extraordinary scene. The Arch-
bishop of Dublin was presiding over the meeting ; and on
one of the speakers making a complimentary allusion to
the " venerated Prelate" who occupied the chair. hssses
and other marks of disapprobation proceeded from some
of the parties present, alleged to have been members of
the late Protestant Operative Association, and friends of
the Rev. T. D. Gregg. Order heving been restored, the
business of tLe meeting proceeded, till the Archbishop,
having business to attend to elsewhere, rose to vacate the
chair, when he was assailed with fresh hisses, shouts of
"Maynooth ! Maynooth !" and other exclamations. The
Dean of St. Patrick's having been called to the chair in
the place of the Archbishop, and a vote of thanks to his
Grace having been proposed, the uproar was renewed.
The vote of thanks was declared to be carried, amidst
cries of " No, no !" and hisses. The chairman having
dissolved the meeting; Mr. T. H. Thompson, of Leeson-
street, who had previously asked leave to address the
meeting, but was refused, ascended the platform, and, in
a speech of considerable violence, justified the opposition
which had been manifested against the Archbishop. He
was proceeding to read an extract from the Archbishop's
" Christian Duty of Educating the Poor," when his voice
was drowned in cries of " Shame, shame," from the friends
of the Archbishou, he was knocked down from the plat-
form, and ultimately given in charge to the police. As it
appeared, however, that he had not used or threatened
any violence, but that the whole fracas was a mere " matter
of discussion," as the magistrates termed it, the complaint
against him was dismissed, and he left the office, threat-
ening to bring an action for false arrest against the rev.
gentleman, Dr. Fletcher, who had given him in charge.
CHARACTER OF DR. WHALE.—Dr. M'Hale practises
the profession (of beggary) on a much larger scale than is
known in St. Giles, or Clerkenwell, or the Borough, for
in fact he has a much larger field. Throughout his whole
career he has been sedulously employed in binding the
Celtic population of Ireland in the trammels of beggary,
and burying it under the squalor of barbarism. He is
always re-opening the sores of his country, administering
fresh goads to its morbid sensitiveness, deluding it into a
certain idea of the dignity of idleness, protracting its
quarrel with civilization, and instilling that sentiment of
class which produces honour among thieves, recognized
walks among beggars, and many other corruptions of
fraternity. Does heaven send a blight on the land and
warn a wretched race against the habits of savages and
the food of swine, Dr. M`Hale is ready to assure his poor
dupes that the act of Omnipotence is the fruit of Saxon
oppression. Does Government undertake the most im-
possible task of carrying seven millions of people through
a winter of famine and lavish its treasures with an unheard-
of profusion, Dr. M`Hale is ready to arraign, to misre-
present, to vilify, to denounce, the whole agency and
means necessary for that purpose. If half a day's work
is required, he calls it cruelty ; if half an hour's walk to
the meal-store, he calls it wilful murder. If clerks are
employed to pay wages and surveyors to measure work,
he calls it embezzlement and proclaims that all the money
• has been squandered in jobs. If the English public in a
season of great straitness makes a voluntary subscription
for the Irish, larger than any voluntary subscription for
any purpose anywhere since the beginning of the world,
Dr. M`Hale suppresses the fact altogether, or, when it is
thrust on him, calls it an heretical device. If a perma-
nent system of public charity is founded on the principle
of making property do its duty to the poor, Dr. M`Hale
gives his prompt encouragement to the selfishness and
perverseness of those who, possessing the land and re-