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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 333, 5 September 1879, Page 9

The Boston correspondent of the London Guardian, a Church of England organ, writes : '• The number of unemployed clergy is becoming a public scandal. Many of them, with their families, are reduced to the greatest distress. They aie forced to giTe up one place, and go almost hat in hand begging for some other — degraded in the sight of the community, m thai ol the church, and, most of all, in their own eyes. Clergy m the East are writing to the West to Uy and find something to do theie ; clergy fiorn the We&t are coming back to the East to besiege womed and worn out and helpless Bishops for vacant parishes heie. And cleigy both at East and West, are beginning to talk seriously of the necessity of giving up tl.e mmi&tiy and returning to secular work for the support of their families..''

The letiun of The O'Gormau Mabon for Clare was made the occasion on Ascent-ion Thursday of a great popular demonstration in Ennis. A pioeesbion — one of the laigcst and most imposing, it ia said, scon in Emus' since ihe Repeal meeting at Ballycoree m the days of O'('ot;nell — escoited the new number iiom JSewpark into the town, mi.icL was gaily dccoiated. All the local trades' societies, with their bauneis, and the i lid pei ante organwtions of various tow us in the county weie repieseiiteel on the occasion. Altogether theie ( on Id liaidly have been less than twenty thousand, peibons assembled. Bevcial bands played national airs during the maich. It is needless to add that the greatest enthusiasm pievaiied, and that the political feeling manifested was intensely patriotic. Amved at the O'Conncll Monument, The O'Gorman Mahon and others delivered addresses in keeping with the character of the demonstration. — Nation.