BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, May 8, 1850 BIRTHS April 29, at Pembroke-place, Dublin, Lady Kilmaine, of a son. April 27, at Moyoda Castle, Lady Claremorris, of a daughter. April 27, at Kilrush Glebe, the lady of the Rev. J.F. Robbins, of a daughter. MARRIAGES May 1, in Lurgan Church, the Rev. Robert Sewell, Methodist minister of Cork, to Jane, eldest daughter of the Rev. Wm. Herbert of Lurgan. April 20, in Rathlin Church, R.H. Wallace Dunlop, Esq. of the Bengal Civil Services, to Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. R. Gage, of Rathlin. DIED In Castlebar, on Friday last, after a short illness, John Symes, Esq., of this town, aged 54 years. The deceased gentleman had been in that town on the Earl of Arran's business, and died at hte residence of his friend Charles Malley, Esq. DEATH OF JOHN SYMES, ESQ. It has not fallen to our lot since we entered on our present career to record a more melancholy event than the death of John Symes, Esq., which appears in our obituary of this date. It is only eight years since, in his capacity of Agent to the Earl of Arran, he became a resident in this town. Previous to that time he was a total stranger, but such was his constant and punctual attention to his duties, and such his honest devotion to their discharge that, notwithstanding the post which he filled, rendered so especially arduous during the late trying years, he gained the good-will and respect of both landlord and tenant. In his magisterial duties he - by his strict impartiality and genuine integrity - won the approbation and esteem of his colleagues; and in the circle of his acquaintances his kindliness of heart and tried benevolence, joined to his sterling honesty of character, rendered him the true friend and faithful counsellor of all who had the happiness and honor of knowing him. On Monday morning his remains were conveyed to this town from Castlebar, and interred in the churchyard of Ardnaree, accompanied by an immense number of all classes, parties and creeds - each anxious to pay the last token of respect to one whom in his life time they would have delighted to honor. We regret to communicate the death of the Right Rev. Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus, Lord Bishop of Clogher, which took place on Sunday last. His lordship was in his 77th year and 47th of his Episcopate. The diocese of Clogher is the last which has been abolished by the Church Temperalities Act. Its reserves, which amount to £12,000 per year, go to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the diocese will extend from Ballyshannon on the West coast, across to the neighbourhood of Newry, and down to Drogheda, embracing the counties of Fermanagh, Tyrone, Armagh, Monaghan and Louth. There are 45 benefices in the diocese of Clogher, including perpetual curacies.- Lord Tottenham was created Bishop of Killaloe in 1804, Ferns in 1820, Clogher, 1822. He was uncle to the Marquis of Eli, and brother-in-law to Lord Hawarden. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/