Hickman, who has other agencies, makes it a point of principle, never to lend money to a landlord, by which means he avoids those imputations which are so frequently and justly brought against those who trade upon the embarrassments of their employers, in order to get them into their power.
"May 13 .-- There are two newspapers in the town of Castle Cumber, conducted upon opposite principles: one of them is called _The Castle Cumber True Blue_, and is the organ of the Orange Tory party, and the High Church portion of the Establishment.

The other advocates the cause of the Presbyterians, Dissenters, and gives an occasional lift to the Catholics.

There is also a small party here, which, however, is gaining ground every day, called the Evangelical, an epithet adopted for the purpose of distinguishing them from the mere worldly and political High Churchmen, who, together with all the loyalty and wealth, have certainly all the indifference to religion, and most of the secular and ecclesiastical corruptions that have disgraced the Church, and left it little better than a large mass of bribes in the hands of the English minister.

In such a state of things, you may judge how that rare grace, piety, is rewarded.

There is, besides, no such thing to be found in this country as an Irish bishop, nor, is a bishop ever appointed for his learning or his piety; on the contrary, the unerring principle of their elevation to the mitre, is either political, or family influence, or both.