IRELAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 71, 5 September 1874, Page 9

IRELAND.

The Salaries and Woek op the Cottntx Chairmen. Extract from Parliamentary Return No. 80 of the year 1871, showinff . the salary received by the chairman of each county in Ireland ut the year 1869, and the number of days in which each chairman sat in that year.

■W^?tE °%™ £** GEB^V Xsr THiNK.-The special correspon1™ «Th tadoaSil^K.t adoa Sil^K. r itin ° from Be ' lia °n April 25, says:-" The Roman Catholic nobility of this realm has given a thousand proofs of its deeply -rooted loyalty to the house ef Hohenzollen, and has shed its blood like water for the Prussian Monarchy • from it* raixks have been selected the most intimate and dearest personal fnends of the Sovereign-the only man, not of royal blood! who ever addressed William I. by the familiar 'Thou* ofDmiSSi Xruderschaft (German Brotherhood) having been a lately deceased Eomanist nobleman one member of family is at tL present foment BXx\eAivomth^m,nan dominions, because he a member of the Society of Jesuits It is not unnatural that these loyal Catholic ShT^-1 111^ 119 WeU U8 P^M that their Bishops I ??? ? tr7 U *T f"Tl Xh& ? the Whole exißtence of their eccleS! astical establishment should be threatened, and, as I said before tnafe they should >be forced to perceive before them a divided dnfcy-to choose between fealty as their Lehnherr, and submission to the com* mands of their spiritual lord. They hare done their best to avert the calamities that have fallen upon their Church ; they have passionately endeavored to move the will of the kindest-hearted of mSnarchs an? men, whom political necesity h»s forced to steel his soul against their entreaties, with which no one who knows him can for a moment doubt that he profoundly sympathizes ; and even now, at the eleventh hour, though thoroughly dependent, they cannot quite abandon the va£ hope that something m the nature of a mild miracle will accrue to intervene betweenMaterEcclesia and the terrible mishaps threatenine her And I am, upon such good grounds, convinced that this forlorn afpiration of theirs is shared by the large majority of the Protestant nob&ty, who fully appreciate the mtense natural Conservatism of BomSa Cathohcism, and regard the present raid upon it with high well-born.

■KOVIXCE. Ulster. do do do do do do do do COUKTY. Antrim ... Armagh ... ,*. Cavan ... %j. % j. Donegal ... ,'*) Down ... „, Fermanagh ... „, Londonderry ... Monaghan ... Tyrone ... ,], SALARY. £1,100 1,100 800 1,100 1,100 900 1,100 900 1,100 NO. OP KAYS SITTING. 75 70* 35 52 63 Si 60 3** 76 Total for Ulster ... £9,200 459 Munster. do do do do do do Clare Cork (E. Riding) '"' Cork (-W. JRiding) ... Kerry Limerick ... ' ... Tipperary ... "Waterford 1,100 1,100 900 1,100 1,000 1,100 '900 '56 113 67 62 68 62 40 Total for Munster £7,200 474 Leinstet. do do do do do do do do do do do do Carlow ... Dublin (County) . Dublin (City) "Kildare Kilkenny ... King's County Longford ... ... Louth .., ,„ Meath ■ Queen's County West meath Wexford Wicklow 700 900 2,250 700 1,100 700 700 700 700 900 700 900 700 23 30 81 19 30 23 ' 18 32 30 28 23 so 33 Connaught. do do do do Total for Leiaatcr Galway ... ... Leitrim „, Mayo ... Boscommon... Sligo £11,650 1,100 900 1,100 900 900 227 57 30 5S 30 59 ! Total for Connaught £4,900 227 *■!?*• .o T «tal for Ireland... £32,950 1,599, * Estimated. • AVerage payment for each day's sitting in 1569 ... £20 12s. oa. N .B.— -Since 18/0, in consideration of the additional work throwa upon the chairmen by the Land Act, there has been added to the salary of each first-class chairman a sum of ... 300 per annum Ditto, second-class chairman ... ... 200 Ditto, third-class chairman ..." "* ioo " These additions bring the total of the salaries' to £40,150 per mnanj. The extra number of days' sittings imposed on the chairmen ay the Land Act average, as well as we can make out, 6 per annum or each chairman, which brings the total number of day's sittings to L.797, so that the average payment for each day's sitting is now nearly 623, mstead of £20 12s. The average payment to each County Court Fudge an England for eadx day's sitting is £11.— Boston ' Pilot '