Worcester Daily Spy

CATHOLICISM IN IRELAND. Judging from the language of the Irish press, there is a revolution going on among the population of Ireland.— The Dublin Nation (Roman Catholic) says:

"It is true that the altars of the Catholic church have been deserted by thousands born and baptized in the ancient faith of Ireland. The west of Ireland has deserted the ancient fold."

The Dublin Tablet says:

"We repeat, it is not Tuam, nor Cashel, nor Armagh, that are the chief seats of successful proselytism, but the very city in which we live."

The Dublin Evening Post says:

"We learn from unquestionable authority, that the success of the proselyters in almost every part of the country, and, as we are told, in the metropolis, is beyond all the worst misgivings we could have dreamt of."

This testimony is further corroborated by the reports of the Irish Missionary Society, which characterize the movement as above spoken of as the "New Reformation." Many thousands have abandoned the Roman Church, so that, already, Ireland can scarcely be regarded as a Roman Catholic country, inasmuch as, out of a population of six millions and a half, nearly 1/3 is Protestant.— To effect this result divers influences have contributed, prominent among which are the labors of "The Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics," organized in 1849, under the Presidency of the Duke of Manchester. This Society has now 342 agents. In the district of West Galway, where in 1840 not 500 Protestants were to be found, there were in May, 1845, nearly 6,000 converts attending church service, while 3,500 children were taught in the Bible Schools. In Dublin and various other places mentioned the Missions and Schools are prosperous, and it is stated that 30,000 persons are known to have left the Church of Rome within two years.—Syracuse Standard.