NEWS BY THE MAIL, IRELAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 56, 23 May 1874, Page 11

NEWS BY THE MAIL, IRELAND.

An outrage of unparalleled daring has- taken place near Casfclebar, iir the West of Ireland. Every Tuesday an officer of the Natiuual Bank at Castlebar goes to Newport, nine miles distance, and does bunking business there. At three o'clock on a late Tuesday Mr Fitzgerald, the cashier at Custlebar, left Newport for Castlebar. He occupied a seat in a car driven by a man named Hamilton,, arus wsw accompanied by the bank porter. About three miles from Newport, about a dozen meu armed with muskets, suddenly sprang from behind v dkob> and fired a volley at the car and its occupants. The horse was sbo* dead, and the cashier desperately wounded, one of the bullets lodging in his neck. The assailants then took from the well of the car the bank cash-box and cam dit off. The carman and porter were allo .i cJ to escape, and they ran back into Newport and gave the alarm. A large, force of police scoured the country all through the evening, but no arrests have yet been made. It is said the cash-box contained nearly £5000. A Melbourne contemporary asserts that, from 1852 to 1672, the sum of £1.4,380,000. was remitted from America to Ireland, for the purpose of defraying the cost of passages of families and friends from the one country to the otherLord! Chance l lor O'Hagan — The Irish B.ir mustered strong on the Lord 1 Chancellor's last sitting in. his court, to bid hi 3 lordship farewell. There was a large number of silk gowns, while the outer bar and the solicitors appeared in great foece, with a court crowded with the general public. Mr Law, M.P., late Solicitor-General, addressed the Lord Chancellor on behalf of tho bar, when Lord O'Hagan answered in a brief speech, towards the conclusion of which his lordship manifested marked signs of deep emotion. He indicated plainly that he was about to enter upon a more active field iv the House of Lords. It is remarkable that Lord Cairns, the Lord Chancellor of England, and Lord O'Hagan, the ex-Lord Chancellor of Ireland^ are both natives of Belfast. The arrival on Saturday, Febk 7th, of Mr John. Duabair, the newly-elected Home Rule M.P. for New Ross, at Chapelizod wa» the occasion of an enthusiastic demonstration of popular welcome aud 1 rejoifing. The people of Inchicore, Palnaerstown and Cliapelizod, learning that he was to pasa through the last-named plac« on his way to Brooklawn, the re.-idence of Mr Alleyn, with whom he is at present on a visit, resolved to greet him in a manner which should testify their personal esteem for himself and their deep sympathy with, the patriotic principles he so victoriously represented. There has lately grown up in SJigo a large and magnificent buiWing, which, even as an ornament to the town, is- deserving, in its present state of special notice. It is nut many years since John street possessed no other ecclesiastical building than the good old parish church of St. John's, a building peculiarly attractive to the EjH-copalian Protestants of Sligo. Now within a stone's throw of that venerable build-ng, id to be seen another fur greater, far higher, aud far more elaborate, an* l when completed, will prove one of the fiu< st building* of the sort m Ireland, and has a very substantial monument of the indefatigable zeal aud active exertion of the Bishop of tbe diocese, Dr Gillooly. The Rev. Thomas Kiriane, C.C., of Templeinore, Tipperary, Irelaud, joined the English pilgrimage to Para} Its Monial last year j he writes, " With the sanction of my Ordinary, the ilost Rev. Dr Leahy, and his Grace's blessing, I propose to collect the pious offerings of the faithful to- present a banner to the Sacred Heart of Jesus — a baimor worthy of Irelam'^ and to be borne by the hands of Irish Pilgrim* to the Holy Shrine at Paray le Monial, as an offering of love, thanksgning, reparation, and petition, to tho Sacred Heart of our Blessed tiuviour. An extraordinary escape of military prisoners took place from Kilkenny barracks at an early hour on Friday morning, Joa. 20th. From all that roulJ bo learned, it would appear that they were six soldiers — five artillerymen of Major Bilfour's battery and a private of the 55th Fusileers — ia custody, awaiting a trial by courtmartial, for various offences. Tho <im.rd-b.ouse is a building of one storey, and the cell forms a porLiou of it. It stands at an aagle of the barracks, the back of the house being to the road. Wheti tbuj sentry was posted at two o'clock, the prisouei'B were apparently asleep, but when the next relief came at three o'clock a.m., to the consternation of the sergeant of the guard, it was discovered that the cell was eaipiy and that the prisoners had escaped. The means by whiuh the nun had got out from the prison was by forcing up some of tlu) slates frout the side of the roof, which was not railed at tho top nest the roaJ, down through which they dropped. One of the meu muse have bwn wounded by the fall, as there was blood discovered ou tbe road wuob the deacon'- was made.

The gentleman organgrinder," who gave his name to a policeofficer in Dublin as John Kiernan, arrired at Balbriggan, on Jan 26 end phed his vocation through the town. He was well-known as the owner of some property in the neighborhood of Nobber, county JHeath; and it is stated that he had undertaken to play his organ in every lown in Ireland within twelve months, and put up at the hotels living oq the earnings of his organ. That day ended the twelve months, and, it is stated, that he had deposited his donkey, cart, and organ mtu an auctioneer of that town to be disposed of, and departed for Dublin by the evening train. A lecture was delivered by the distinguished Domiflicau Friar and orator, Father Burke, at the pro-Cathedrol of St. Nicholas, in Gal way, on the evening of the sth of Febuary. The doors were opened at seven o clock, and for hours previously the rfreel; was blocked with persons already waiting to gain admittance. At the hour prescribed for the commencement of the lecture, the church was crowded to excess —in lact, there was scarcely breathing room. The subject—" TempoliS^r r°pe"-w 09 one which afforded full scope for the w£ *nr-°(! h he. c 1C f l T er ' a " d Certainl y il met with justice at his -Si I «• Z i miR ht ,, he ?e? c prOU< ? of "• as Btated by the Bishop, and well might the walls of old Galway ring with pride. When the announcement was made that Messrs Butt and OShaughnessy, Home Rulers, had been elected for the city of Limerick, tl.e city was in a state of wild excitemeat all the evening. Tar barrels were lighted in every direction ; a display of fireworks was improvised, and an immense procession was formed in Bank Place and the adjoining Malls. Every band in the city and every flag and banner that could be had were brought into requisition, while Borne -hSh° P *fT hu ?? red . J° un & wen bore torchlights in their hands, which added considerably to the brdlianoy of the effect. The procesprevaTled ° PkCeat 8 °' clock ' The g reateßt «°thusia 9 ni On Saturday, February 2lst. Sir Robert Stew P rfc, Mus. Doc gave fvJki. NT °i, leDt T 8 ° n mußic in the E «mination Hall, Triiiity College, Dublin. The subject was "The Life and Writings ot Handel/ Sn« frl Ure T7 aS /?. m ' rub y ii [ lußtrated b - v Toeal ™d instrumental selec tions from Handel s works by Sir Robert and several accomplished amateurs. " The name of Handel," remarks the • Orchestra, P has a peculiar interest for all lovers of music who are citizens of Dublin as it was Jhere his great genius was first fully recognised." Sir Robert in the course of Jus lecture, remarked that England was not a mus.cai country, giving as evidence of this that «he had no national opera which kept the stage, unless the works of Balfo and Wallace (two Irishmen) could be so considered. " What," asks the ' On-hestra ' imparts the present mania for < The School for Scandal ?' Has not -London been cricked of late with Sheridan's master-piece ? Is there The population , of Qaeen's County, when the last census was bt of ™° "i"r I<o '7 1 ' ° f WhOm 7 °' lßß arG ° BtholiM - The nu «' Shi T li9 , m tllß Same count y is 89 ' of thef *c onlvll are Ca ho hes, fiye of whom are non-resident and six resident. So 'that the Catholics, «],o form the great bulk of the population have only six rtfo SS n rr o a rtL tO ,T PtCSent XtK th T ° Ut ° f 8 °- Jtn-ne,?ndei?mS he p?n,?L 1 the , ' tll . tesmun be who ca » expect political contentment or SS 1 Xn 1 SZ7 whe " e such * stattf ot ' ihin * s is ed t0