... - .1 I Oea columns of Friday last contained a brief account of the confirmation of ninety-nine Roman Catholics, by the Lord Bishop of Tuam, in the picturesque village of Oughteraid, county of Galway, on Tuesday, the 10th instant. We have now to report the gratifying intelli- gence, that, in prosecuting that tour, the bishop pro- ceecled, oil Wednesday, to CastlelcirIe, where lie ad- ministered ...

... WE: insert elsewhere an important document-the report from the Encumbered Estates Commissioners to the Lord Lieutenant, with respect to their pro- ceedings under the Commission. It has a melan- choly interest in one point of view, showing, as it does, the immense proportion of landed property which has passed out of the hands of its hereditary owners, the rental of the estates already brought ...

... A Bill to provide for the better Distribution, Support, and Management of Medical Charities in Ireland; and to amend an Act of the Eleventh Year of her Majesty, to provide forthe Execution of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland. ,Prepared and brouight in by Sir William Somerville and Mr; Attorney-General for Ireland.) run preamble ?? it is expedient to ?rovide for the better ...

... Eocal Intelifgence, Ma. WILrAs's CONCyRrTS.-Considerable interest is excited among musical circles, in our town and neigh- bourhood, by the announcement of these approaching performances, from the celebrity of the vocalists who are engaged, the character of the music to be perform- ed, and the preparations in progress for giving the fullest effect to the sublime compositions of Mendelssohn by ...

... Q?ovv?ponbciicc. THE CLERICAL AGITATORS. I TO TIME EDITOR OF THE BELFAST REWS-LETTER. Sin,-In your publication of the 21st inst., I perceive an extraordinary document, an epistle from the Rev. Julius Cwesar, of Newtownards. I am certain that the readers of it are heartily satisfied, under the conviction that Julius Wrote at the time of periodical inspiration -the full of the moon-at no other ...

... PAR LIAMEN T. IN the House of Lords on Monday, after some un- important business, the Marquis of Lansdowne, in moving the adjournment of the House at its rising, until Friday, (~this dsy),topk occasion to state the leading particulars connected with the resinion f the Whig Cabinet, and to announce that he and his colleagues held office only nominliy, until that Cabi- net could be reconstructed ...

... COOKSTOWN.- NEW GAS WORTiS. IN the neighbourhood of this thriving town the har- vest is, to a great extent, saved. The grain is, gene- rally speaking, heavy; and, with the solitary but im- portant exception of the potato crop, everything is in a most promising state for the demands of the ensuing year. The report of the potato is, from this quarter, we regret to state, not of such a clieering ...

... TIHE CHURCH. The visitation of the diocese of Armagh xvill be held on Tuesday (to-morrow), when his Grace will preside in person. Joseph Radeliff, Esq., IL.D., Vicar-Gene- ral of the diocese, wvill assist his Grace on the occasion. Divine service will commence at eleven o'clock. On Wednesday, a meeting will be held in the Ton- tine roomis, Armagh, oin behalf of thie Society for the Propagation ...

... THlE LOSS OF THE PASHA STEAM-SHIP. IN our telegraphic despatch, in anticipation of the late overland mail, we briefly announced a serious calamity having befallen the Pasha steam-ship, one of the Pon- insular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's fleet, by'coming in collision with another of the com- pany's vessels, the Erir. The receipt of the mail yes- terday'brought details of the ...

... T'Ia most remarkable man of any age or country is My Uncle. It is neither in fatuily pride, nor in a gush of gratitude for overwhelming obligations in the nature of debts paid, or fortune inherited or expected; but it is on mature consideration, and with the light of Tooke's Pantheon, Lempriere, and the Biographic Universelle, beaming from my book-shelves, that I persist in the conviction that ...

... EXECUTIONS IN AMERICA.-HORRIBLE SCENES. Timt execution of three men took place in Chestertown Kent County, United States. - The prisoners were aged respectively as ?? Taylor was fifty- one years of age, in February; Nicholas Murphy was forty-eight years- of age, and William Shelton was but twenty-five. The parties murdered were William Cosden; his wife, Mary Ann Cosdon; his sister, Amanda ...

... T'IE CONCORDAT WITH SPAIN. A.sPLE is the reward to be rendered to that happy nation, which, in the present days of Papal extremity, avows its fealty to the Triple Tyrant. Spain- the last lagger in the race of civil liberty and Euro- pean civilisation-has just bid for the immunities which it is in the power of his Holiness to confer, as the spiritual autocrat of Catholic Christendom. She ...