The Express. — 1862-10-14 (London, England)

THE POPE AND THE IRISH BISHOPS.  The Lord Primate and several of the bishops of the protium of Maher, having been unable to attend the canotdastion of the Japanese martyrs in Rome (says the ' Ulster Obserrer), sent to his Holiness au address, to which they have received the following reply : " Venerable Brethren, Health and Apostolical Benediction—Your exalted and conspicuous fidelity, love, and respect towards ourselves and the chair of Peter breathe forth in ezzdry line of the letter which you sent to us on the day of the month of August last. For when you could not, in accordance with your wishes, be present with us on the occasion of the canonisation of marry saints, solemnized by us on the Bth day of June last, you fully declare in this letter that you fervently adhere to everything that our venerable brethren, the bishops of the catholic world, present in Rome on the Feast of Pentecost, in the celebrated address which they presented to us, openly mid publicly declared, and even proudly gloried in. Animated by the same sentiments, you too bitterly bewail our sorrows, and forcibly condemn and abhor the wicked aod manifold conspiracies, the impious and sacrilegious attacks by which the enemies of God and man, following the ways of iniquity, wage an unholy war against the catholic church, the apostolic see, and our own persou and by which, discarding all laws, human and ' divine they seek to subvert our civil authority, and deprive us of the principalities of our See. These exalted sentiments have brought no small consolation to us in the midst of our bitter trials--sentiments which, deserving of the highest praise, clearly and openly demonstrate how much you, venerable brethren, have at heart the cause of the catholic church, of the apostolic see, and of truth and justice. Wherefore, we are confident that you, relying on the Divine assistance, and sustained by yourpiety and episeopal seal, will not relax your exertions, and that, partacuLally in this sad and trying crisis, you will, with renewed alacrity and courage, fight the good fight, diligently eon. gull for the well-being of your flocks, expose and refute the dangerous fallacies and errors of designing men, and courageously repel their unholy ooslaugbta. Continue then, in conjunction with your clergy and faithful people, to pour forth, without intermission, your fervent prayers to God, that He may arise end judge His cause, and support us by His effectual assistance ; that He may sustain His church, and, in the might of Hie omnipotence, humble her enemies and the enemies of the Holy See, and bring them from the ways of perdition to the path of justice and salvation. Finally, we wish you to be assured of the special affection with which we regard you: and of this let the apostolic benediction be a certain pledge, which, from the bottom of our hearts, we now impart to you yourselves, venerable brethren, and to all the clergy and faithful laity committed to your care. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, on the 4th day of September, in the year 1862, being the seventeenth of our pontificate.. Pros, P.P., IX."  THE CONVICT CATHERINE WnHON. —A memorial ham been promoted to Sir George Grey pea y*/ that the iceteuce of death pamed oyes Oatberise Whim Xr.Jostem Byle• atithe last MilleioE of the General Wishes' Court may be remitted, but, op to last night, no istillatiO• had how received by the authorities of Newforec that her lit. will be awed. Should no oilcial soomannicotion mach them the Bifs will proceed to savvy oat the lame moteme of the law upon the wretched woman mat Monday rearegag. Mrs. Wilms, so far from ocerfeming beam guilt, perliela in the statement that Mrs. %MM, for chose murder she has beat etedleased, died a weed death.