The Express. — London, England, 1851-11-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1851. immediately jumped into the river after Pemberton, no d eft r much difficulty and a struggle succeeded 4 .. n bringing him on shore. Throughout the circumstances subsequent 1 , to the disaster, Burgess behaved with the greatest presence of mind and zeal. A pilot engine having arrived at the K'zne of the accident a few hours after its occurrence, the passengers were con veyed on to their destination, none of them being so injured all to necessitate their being left bobind, hut they dill not reach Portsmouth till nearly 6 o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning, seven hours beyond their time. The r aginedriver, Pemberton, and stoker, Martin, were con veyed tai Armidel, where every assistince was afforded the , ~u t the last so_couuts left them in a very hopeless condition. break, and throwing the engine out of gear. If a driver found that he could not stop an engine with the break, it would be his duty first to reverse her, and if that would not do, to throw her out of gear. The coroner observed that Mr. M.Conncll must be examined on the point. Mr. Martin said he thought et was the cream of the whole question. Thomas Forsyth, examined by the coroner—l am an engineer-assistant to the locomotive superintendent, Mr. M'Connell. I wide present with Wm. Howland when the regulator was examined on Monday morning. 1 saw the iron taken oil', and have given similar evidence to what Mr. M'Conn all has given. By the kary—There was nothing irregular in the machi nery exes.pt what has been proved. When a driver cannot shut off the steam, the pressure on the valve maker it more ditHel'it to reverse the engine. It requires a greater me chwaieal effort. By Mr. Martin If a train were going at the rate of six or seven miles an hour the engine might be reversed by a man of ordinary power. In reversing it was the driver's duty to keep his hand firmly on the lever. Reversing was a last expedient. lam not in a position to give evil( ace as to the engine drivers that, I presume, will come from the locomotive superintendent. By Mr. Mayes—l cannot any whether or not Cotton could reverse the engine when it was going at the rate of six or seven miles an hour. Ido not know what his strength is. James Edward M'Conncll, examined by the coroner—l am superintendent of the locomotive department at Wolver ton. It is my duty to superintend the management of the locomotive engines throughout the line. The engine drivers are ad under my charge. There arc printed rules applic chic to them. These rules are read over to them every month, and they sign a declaration that they have received theta and understand them. Their signatures aro forwarded to my office. William Cotton has been a driver on the line ever since IStri. He was made a fireman in ISM, and pre "lonely to that he was a cleaner. I have examined the engine which he drove on Saturday last. Early on Mon day morning I requested the foreman, Mr. Forsyth, to take it to pieces, and report to me. I have since examined the engine myself. I found it, in all its mints, as far as I could ascertain, in good working order. The only injuries ap parent were those done to the buffer valve. and the stay of the steam-pipe. tram the face of the valve I have come to the conclusion, as I see nothing else that would have done it, that the stay must have got between the first face of the valve suit the seat, which would prevent the valve from shutting, and produce the abrasion. There is a twist on the spindle, showing that great efforts bad been used in trying to shut the valve. As far ex the regulator is concerned, that would prevent the driver trout shutting off the steam, but he has other means in his pOWVT of stopping the engine, which are to throw the working valves out of gear and applying a break to the tender. A more rapid mode of stopping the onward motion, although, except in extreme eases, not called fur, is to reverse the engine, which must have the e ffect THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. The coroner's investigation into the causes of this accident was resumed yesterday, at noon, at the (Robe Inn. Weedon. As on the previnux day, Mr. Ilayee, of the legal firm who are the solicitors of the railway company, appeared on the company's behalf; and Mr. Martin on behalf of Coe de m:ware (James Currie's) relatives. Captain ladran, the government inspector of railways, was oleo present. The Comm r mid, in accordance with the and :rstanding of the previous day, he would first take eviden et as to the time at which the different trains left Rugby, and after wari:ii as to the state of the engine at the time of the accident. Samuel Grew examined by Coroner—l am the station master at Rugby. On Satunlay last a telegraphic di.p itch arrived, stating that an engine with 11•111113 ratty had broken down. This was about half-past boar. 1 he message was delivered not to me, but to tile. Crawford. It is my duty to despatch all the trainns and tales tier e, neral superintendence of the station. I am 1,..i.tttl by Piz or eight clerks, and four or five foremen. A foreman named (,coalman despatched the cattle train. I do not know at what time it was despatched. I saw the train mine into the station, but did not observe at what time it left, l Bing engaged at the moment with the mail train. The mad train was a down train going un the Mid land Ilse. The next train which hit for London after the cattle train w..a the one o'clock train from Birmingham ; it arrived at Rugby at eighteen minutes put 2, being due at fitter • minutes mot. The first cattle train left at 1.411. A coal train hit at three. At ten minutes atter tour I started the cattle train, which ran into the passimger train at Weedon. The wheels of the engine slipped to much that it enuid net he got 111011 i at the &ti tian without the assietunce of another engine. The pas sings r tram h:tt exactly at four. The engine used to assist the rink tridu was detached after the train had been got from the siding. At the time I started the cattle train I was not aware of the engine of the other cattle train having broken 11.1111. Mr. Crawford despatched the engine that was telegraph e d fee. Whenever such a communication is numbs, it is 31r. Crawford', duty to send maistance withost waiting to consult me. 1 lielieve it is also his duty to examine the engine. la fore they start. I know nothing myself about the can.:itiun of the engines. I had nothing sit:, that. Cotton drove the engine of the spema• tattle train. Cr.-a-examined by Mr. Martin : Our first cattle train start. .1 at I.asi, and the Biriuingham train started at 2.1 h, th e Midland NW at 2.25, the Lancashire third class one at 2.:t0. The n. xt train which followed the Lancashire one wa. a special tout train, which started from Rugby at three ( idea s . The special rattle train was nut in the regular diet of trins ; it. eendim Wa. announced by a red humid on the eas t train. I did net telegraph the hour at which the spe eial rink train would start ; it is riot usual to do no. The next train that left was the passenger train, which was run into, ; that Lett at 10 minutes past four. There wee • signal of the special cattle train by the coal train which kft ut 3, and another by the passenger train at i. Ti. re is a rule that an interval id five or ten minutes shall elapse before one train fiillows mu other. It is elan to the station mister to detain trains, arioreling to hi. opinion of the weight of the engine and ether eireutiotances; but trains must never follow each other in less than live minutes. From the cireumatances , of stopping the train sooner. The steam, nut being fully shut elf, would assist in retarding the onward motion. I have always found Cotton a very careful man. lie has always performed his illative in a satisfactory manner. By the Coroner—now long would it take to stup on en gine by reversing? Witness—lt detenils on the gradient.. The Coroner—Whit are they in this case ? The Wit:sec.—One in 400 approaching from Rugby. Th?t is one circumstance. A slippery state of the rads would render the power of :stopping leas; and the weight of the train would haven good deal to do with the effect. Looking at all the circumstances, I sheahl suppose that this train, going eight or ten miles an hour, might hare been stopped in five or six hundred yards. The rule with respect to cattle trains limits them to 20 miles an hour, without special orders. An extra speed would in crease the difficulty of stopping. I cannot say, from the ap pearance of tie piece of iron found iu the regulator, bow long it had been out of its proper place. In reversing an engine the driver should keep his bawl on the catch, lest it should fly back. Both reversing the emene and putting on steam in the reverse way arc evidence that the train is going too fast; and both those operations strain the engine. Sometimes the engine flies into forced gear after being re versed. There is nothing in the printed regulations with regard to the mode of reversing an es:gine. To put down everything would make too long a code of regulations. The engine drivers have sill undergone a probation before being appointed to the of ice, and are instructed in their duties. On being asked if he had anything niore to say, Mr. M'Con dell said, I wish to state that I have u very high opinion of Cotton. I have always cousidentl him u careful and experi enced num. which I have just mentioned I judge of the speed at which train...Mudd travel. Cattle trains are considered goods trans, and as ouch meet nit travel at a greater speed than 211 mites per hour. 'I he •I o'clock train was not an express trail; its totaitittal rate of travelling betweeu Rugby and Witslon is about 31 miles an hour. When I started the .serial cattle train I thouglit it would travel at the ordinary rate of 2t) mike an hour. Two engines were despatched in towel mime of the receipt of the telt graphic message; they left at ahem ait I. On that subject Mr. Livock has fallen into an error. There was an assistant engine un the down empty coal train which detached at Crick, and ran back to trillion, where it woe coupled to the Market liar- Isuough train, which it waisted Irieu thence. I sent an engine to the tunnel in coneequence of information I had remittal from the driver of the down train, and at 4.30 I ant two to %V, cilia'. I was nut aware that an accident had h ippcned here nil half-past 1. The telegrapie message we rreiived on the subject came about half-past 1. I had re ek ivcd a erevioue ineseage trout Mr. Livock at twenty minutes peat 3. Ile askisl when the Birmingham and the I o'clock train left. We told him that it and the Midland train were slipping in the tunnel. The driver of the down train told me this. The special cattle train was sent in nateequi nee of there being u great fair at Rugby. It was nut heavy ; there were only 16 or 17 carriage.; sometimes there are 40 cartilages. I received about 5 o'clock a ti.l.egraphic message, informing me that a collision had oc curri•d. I stopped the trains in consequence. The 4.4.3 train hail then started ; it was an ordinary passenger train and the neat after the special cattle train. rite first cattle train wits late ; it ought to have left at 2.1 min. after 1, and it did not hay, till 1.50. It came from Nottingham. It is not unusual for the wheel, of an engine to aIM. Jain. • Crewed," I.llHllinell.-1 em foreman of the locomo tive di iiartment at Rugby. it I. my duty to examine all the engim•s before they leave my station. I examined the engin, of the cattle train which left at 30 minutes past 1 on Natant iv. It ware in proper working order when it left Rugby at 17 minutes past 4. I received a telegra phic el. match of its having broken down at IV ee don. The manage was, " Cattle standing here." $, lad an t nein,. immediately." That was. the Market liar. botongli train. I desmitchi•d two engines to its assistance. The station-maater, Mr. tirew, was standing close by me when I riceived the message. I examined the engines of all the other trains on the same afternoon; they were all in mucking order. 1 examined the engine of the cattle train twice hethre it started. 1 have examined it since, and knutil it in good onler atter the accident. The works were all good, except that the buffer part was broken. I did not examine the regulator at Weldon. That could not be done without taking the pipes off, which would have occupied three or four hours. 'rhe proper way of stopping an engine is to shut the steam off and apply the break. Engines are not reversed except incases of great emergency. To reverse an engine in likely to do it au injury. If the breaks will not top a train the only remedy is to put the gear out and to reverse the engine. I did not myself try the regulator of the engine of the special cattle train at Itughy, hut I ban a man in the act of doing so. I have never barn an engine driver. I have heard that it is a Common occurrence for as engine when reversed to start into forward gear again. A man of ordinary power can manage by mean+ of the lever. Directly the engine is revered the driver aught to be careful in holding the handle. The use of the regulator is to regulate the amount of steam. There is very little trouble with regulators. If they are not cut they will work for a length of time. By opening the regulator you can always Had out the state of the steam. We have had the engine in question about three years. It is a General rule to work cattle trains with goods engines ; but in this case the load did not require it. The engine was therefore a passenger engine. Examined by Mr. Ilayes—l can tell whether or not the regulator is iu order without taking the engine to pieces. I have no doubt that in this case it WO* in order, and that the driver would have sufficient power to stop the engine. The rules respecting regulators are read over to the engine elzivers once a mouth. The drivers receive a book containing the rzgulatione, which they always sign once a month. There is a notice on the door of the shed at Rugby u to slacken ing speed; it runs thus: "Drivers of espresso, while passing eedon and Rugby stations without stopping, are particu larly cautioned to slacken speed." This notice is in addi- lion to the books. It was placed on the door of the shed at B s Ify the coroner—Each driver has a copy of the rules, which he keeps. The rule which I have read has been on the door ever since it was issued hest year. By Mr. Mayes—lt is one of the rules that the engine drivers shall constantly report the state of the engines. The engines are examined in the first and third week of every month. This engine was examined iii the workshop on h • 7th and on the 21st ; it was sent out in perfect order. By a Juryman—The stoppage in the Kilsby Tunnel sou owing to the state of the rails. John Hooker czainined—l am foreman of the locomotive department at Wolverton. I know the engine that was attached to the special cattle train run into last Saturday; it is No. 67. I examine the engines every time they pass the Wolverton station. I examined No. 67 at Weedun on Saturday, to see' if any injury had teen done to the axles Of wheels, my object being to take it to Wolverton. It is now at Wolverton, and it has not been at work since the accident. It was taken to Wolverton b 7 another engine. Mr. Martin decliaeil to put any questions to this witness, observing that he did not appear to kuow anything very material to the inquiry. Mr. Rowland examined by the Coroner—l am an engine fitter at Wolverton, and foreman in the erecting shop. I examined the engine No. 67, on Monday morning last. The valves, pistons, and reversing motion, were all correct. In taking out the regulator valve, there WAX a small stay which had got loose out of the steam pipe • it was used in the steins pipe fur tarrying the regulator ;od. By draw ing the regulator back it came into the regulator, and was taken out by an assistant. I cannot say whether that would prevent it from acting . Mr. M'ConneU, the superintendent, observed that a piece of iron had been found Au the regulator out of its proper piece. The regulator was then placed on the table, and Mr. M•Connell explained to the coroner and the jury the man ner in which the displaced iron had obstructed its action. There was a marked ..brasion where the iron had premed. The Coroner—That would prevent the driver from stop ping the engine ? The Wituess—Not altogether; it would prevent him from shutting the steam off. By Mr. Martin—There is nothing to lead me to believe that if the engine-driver had kept his hand firm he could not have threw n the engine out of gear, notwithstanding the accident to the regulator. There are three make of Stopping an engine-utting elf the steam, applying the By a Juryman.—Regulators are so little liable to get out of repair, that, without some special reason for it, they are nut examined fortnightly like the rest of the engine. The coroner said, the government insuector being present he thought it desirable to hear his opinion on the scientific part of the question as regarded the machinery of the engine. Captain Lain examined by the coroner.—l am the go vernmeut inspector of railway,. I have examined the engine, No. 67. 1 der cted my attention chiefly to the valves of the regulator, and to the reversing apparatus. I did nut minutely examine the rest of the engine. I think the reversing apparatus was in good order. Tho regulator was iu the state in which you see it. It was the day before yesterday that I examined it, and you have the same materials that I had to form an opinion upon. It is nut now in good working order. The face of the valve has beam cut apparently by some obstacle between it and the seat. The effect of the stay interposing would be to pro vent the driver form shutting off the steam ; he could only chase the valve so far as this obstacle would permit him. it would deprive him partially of one means of stopping the train. In a ease of emergency it is a comparatively easy task to reverse au engine, and throw the engine out of gear; but that was a very extreme measure; it has led to many accidents; and in this case the state of the regulator would render it more difficult fiur the driver to avail himself of it. The Coroner—Do you consider that it follows from the reversing of an engine that the train must have been going at too great a speed ? The Witness—l think a driver of great experience and judgment would look to the state of the rails, unit take care to run at such a speed as would obviate the necessity for reversing the engine. At the same time I think it right to observe, that I think the practice of reversing engines is far too general. By a Juryman—l could not say without trying the en gine, whether or not it was impossible for the driver to Ireverse it or throw it out of gear. Alfred Bird, a boy, examined—l am a clerk at the Tele graph-office at the Weedon station. Last Saturday I telegraphed to Rugby to say that the cattle were standing at Weedon, and requested that an engine might be ISMS directly. This was at 9 minutes past 4. I received no reply to that message. I telegraphed to Wolverton at 52 minutes to 7 to tell them to scud an engine to 'sVeedun. The Coroner—Did you not telegraph a second time to Reel ? Witness—l don't remember. There were so many mes sages on the slate that afternoon that I bad to rub them off the slate, Mr. Martin—Did you, after nine minutes past four, tele graph to Rugby that an engine had failed, and was gone with a pilot ? The Witness—Not that I remember. The Coroner asked whether there were any more wit nesaes ? Mr. Bedford (the superintendent of police) replied in the negative. of it. PROTESTANT ALLIANCE. GREAT MEETING AT FREEMASONS' HALL. Yesterday a public meeting, summoned by the Protestant Alliance, was held iu a reemasons . Hall, to con sick, the propriety of petitioning parliament to revoke the annual grant to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, and of expressing the sympathy of the protestant people of ' this country with the struggles of the peoples of the con tinent for civil and religious liberty. The great hall was densely crowded throughout the entire of the proceedings, and even the staircase was almost impassable from the numbers who arrived too late to obtain • better position. The chair was taken by the Right How the Earl of Soarreisacae ; and amongst theft present were Mr. P.' Foskett, Mr. Seeley, Admiral Gordon, Rev. T. Nolan, Rev. Dr. Bunting, Mr. Evans, Rev. Dr. Cox (Stepney), Rev. —' Gowring (Kennington), Sir C. E. Eardley, Rev Ed. Auriol (St. Dunstan), J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., Rev. F. Clow, Rev. Dr. ' Steam (Camberwell), Rev. J. Perot, Rev. Burgess (Chelsea), Dr. Beecham, Dr. Tidman, and various other in fluential representatives of the episcopalian and noncon formist bodies. The proceedings having been opened with prayer by the Rev. E. Annul, Rector of St. Dunstan . s.in-the-West, The noble CHAIRMAN rose to open the proceeding., and was received with loud and protracted cheeriest. lie said—We arc assembled here this day upon a subject of some delicacy, but of singular importance. (Hear, hear.) We are met here to-day, nut to iustitnti—for that is al ready dune—not to institute a society, but to confirm and to exteud an emaciation called the Protestant Alliance. (Loud cheers.) Au association conflated of some members of the church of England, some members of the great noncon formist hodies—(hear, hear)—united together for the pur pose of offeririg a consolidated resistance to the papal ag gression—(great cheering)—that aggression alike crafty tad bold, againet our spiritual and our political liberty. (a Hear, bear," suit cheers.) Now, the history of these craw actions is short and simple. The outrageous insolence of the papal power as exhibited during the past year—(hear, hear) — and a sense of the comineu danger, have induced many to inquire into the present state of things, and to consider whether we do not present by our unhappy divi sions, abundant opportunities to our meidiuus and daring fue—(hear, hear)--and to see whether it would not be pia sible to combine in wine effort many of those who, notwith standing their differences—l rejoice to ivy, thank God, millet differeuces— (loud cheering)—might be induced, not withstauding those differences, to enter into one great effort for the purpose of mainlining spiritual and pulite:el free. duct both in this and every other region of the earth. Well, now, after several per limitary coutarences, this lieseciation wan funned on the aanli June, and these are the principal opinious upon which it was 1111.3:4—‘. That it appears dean able to form an amociati tttt which shall combine all classes of protestants ; whose object is nut mervy to oppose the re cent aggression of the papal power as a ViOhlthlll of our national in d epe udence, but to maintain and defend against all encroachments the policy and scriptural doctrines of the Re tummies and the prima pies of religious liberty, as the hut eecurity, under God, for the temporal and spiritual welfare and prosperity of this kingdom." (Cheers.) Such is the basis of our assuciatiou, which we recommend to your netiee, your sympathy, and your co-operation. (Hear, hear.) And it 111 my duty and my pleurae, as chairman of this conference, and as chairman of this meeting, to Kay how cordial, how friendly, and how higiamindeil were the feelings of all parties who engaged in these confereitees , how, rising to their great task, they consented to sink all minor differences; and here we ore, by God's blueing, united I believe in heart, as I trust we shall be in action. (Loud cheers.) lien: wu ore to-day, desirous of puce, but, if necessary, ran refusing to enter into war. (Tre mendous cheering.) Oh, there are many . modes by which we may act beneficially uu the medic mind. We can net by exhottation ; we can act by example; we can Act by iliffueiou of toe word of Chia, and by the diffusion of healthy, sound writius on these subjects, especially by the diffusion of such a work as has been recently published in Edin burgh, bearing the cupionieue and appiopritite title of the e lialwails," si hich is extremely cheep, adapted to the necessities of the time, and singularly euitad to the intelligence of the people. (Hear, hear.) But better, let us go farther. Wu do not limit our views to the compose of these islands, we are not bound by the four Me.; we dare, under thin blessing of God, extend our views and our sympathy much farther. (Hear, hiar ) The time lam come when events of magnitude in any nation, cannot be i elillareut to the people of any other nation. (Hear, tear.) We appall, turn, for sympathy and co-ope ration to our protestant brethren of the United States of America. (Loud cheers.) We appeal for the sympathy mid co-operation of the Wahlensian Christians, the subjects of the House of Savoy, who are now rescu ed from their deep abasement and oppression, by the noble trawled and liberal government of Sorilinia. (fanol cheer's) We appeal for sympathy and co-operation, aye, to the people of Sarlinia itself, because they, like ourselves, are the objects of the attacks of spirituel and political power, beset by the haughty domination of Aastria on one siele—(hisees)— moil the automatic insolence of the Pope on the other. (Ifisses.) They know what it is to struggle for politicd freedom, and therefore we appeal to men who know their danger, and value their institutions. ( Hear, bear.) We appeal to them for that sympathy which 1 know they rejoice to give, and which from us I know they will be rejoiced to receive. (Loud cheers.) Aye, we appeal to every protestant in every region of the earth, to every main In whatever region he may live, or whatever sun may shine on him; we appeal to every man who ' , elute those great and glorious gilts of Providence, civil and religious liberty. (Loud cheers.) Now we come to the third consideration. With these feelings, these views, and these principles, it seems indispensably necessary—nay, inevitable, that we must direct our attention to something within our owe I realm-, the greatest monument of folly I think—(hear, hear) —and, no one can deny, of inconsistency—(hear, ' hear)—that ever was raised by the hands of fallible man. (Loud cheers.) You know that the college of Maynuoth was confirmed by our statesmen a few years ago fur the purpose of conciliating the 'Lomat% priesthood, fur the pur pose of propitiating the Irish people. It never, even in the two houses of parliament, was defended upon principle. (Hear, hear.) It was m iintained only on the ground of expediency. (Hear, hear.) We were pro mised that we should have on the two opposite shores of England and Ireland two temples of concord, nodding to each other like (log and Magog. (Cheers and laughter.) What has been the result of that sample of principle, that worship of expediency ? Have you attained conciliation ? (No, no.) have you purchased peace by the sacrifice of your honour ? (No, no.) Ipso, how came the rebellion of ISIS--the sedition of O'Brien and Mitchell ? (Hear, hear.) If so, what say you to the proceedings of the synod of Thurlets—what say you to the ravings of John of 'team, or to the more cautious, but not less wild and mischievous de clamations of Paul Cullen ? (" Hear, bear," and cheers.) What say you, last of all, to the irruption of Cardinal Wise man, with all his coxcombical suite of intrusive bishops (" Hear," and cheers.) No ; every argument has proved unsound every attempt has failed; everything has proved tile reverse of what had been predicted. (Hear.) Instead of peace we have found war, instead of conciliation we have found insult, instead of safety we have found pail, and, what now remains ? Maynooth remains with no other character than this—that it is the miserable record of disappointed hopes and violated principles. (Loud cheers.) Having referred to, and quoted from, Mr. Glad stone's work on the relation between church and state, as argument against the grant, the noble chair ' man went on to say: There are many other argu ments by which I might assure this great to Maynooth, 'the Coroner then addressed the jury. lie said there upon which I will not touch, because my business is could be no doubt that the deceased met with his death by to indicate the order of proceeding, and not to enter accident. The only question was whether any criminality into details which may more properly be left to other attached to any party who was connected with it. Atter speakers. What I have proposed is the order of this day's stating the precise manger in which the accident occurred, deliberations. I exhort you, from the bottom of my soul, he observed that the regulations of the company were evi- as you value those great and mighty privileges which God dently adapted to guard against danger ; he referred espe- has conferred on you as individuals and as a nation—as you I daily to the signalling and the intervals which elapsed be- value the welfare and honour of the Christian faith—as you tween the starting of the trains. At theWeedon Station, how- value the prosperity of the whole human race, and as you ever, there were no sidings, nod this was to be lamented, as prey for the coming of the kingdom of God in your daily had there beet sidings this accident would probably not prayers—to go forth from this hall, notaatisfled with hearing have oecurree. There seemed, however, to be great daft- a few discourses, not satisfied with cheering the speakere on culty in forming sidings, as there was a government em- the platform, but animated by a solemn resolution to give ' bsnkmeat on the one side and a canal on the other. As effect to the votes you now pass, persevering in the fear of regarded the station-master and the officers of the stations Almighty God ; fur without perseverance we can never generally, they appeared from the evidence to have done prevail—(hear, hear)—and I have no more doubt than I their duty. At first he thought some blame was have of my own existence that it will please Almighty God to be attached to the Rugby station master, inasmuch as he to give to you and to us, as a body, a final and complete appeared to have started trains when he knew that there victory. (The noble earl resumed his seat amid loud and was • stoppage on the line. It now turned out that the protrac t e d c h eer i ng .) telegraphic message was not received until after he had Mr. COLQI:HOVN rose to move the first evolution:— started the trains, and consequently he could not be held ii That the revival, on the part of the Church of Rome , of responsible for the accident. He now came to the engine th e l o fti es t pretensions and moat intolerant doctrines of the driver. They had been told that it was one of the com- 1 papacy of the middle ages, renders it the duty of all pro- pany's regulations that engines should not travel at a I testants to unite, both for the defence of their civil and re. speed of more than 20 miles an hour. It had been 1 ligious liberties, and for the maintenance of that revealed ro pved that in this instance the train was travelling at truth on which depend alike the temporal and eternal hap- ' the rate of 28 miles an hour, and though under other , piness of mankind." lie said that he stood on that plat- circumstances that would be simply an offence against ; form en grounds somewhat different from those occupied by the company, in this case, an accident having ee - . other gentlemen around him, inasmuch as he had not had coned, it was for the jury to consider whether ! th e honour of becoming a member of the Protestant Alliance. the driver had not thus endangered the lives entrusted to ' For its zeal and its merits he could chum no praise, for he his charge, and whether, if the train had been going at a ' had so tar had no concern in its manifestations. Ever since proper speed, the accident would have occurred. One of the passing of that disastrous measure to which the noble ' the witnesses named Robinson had told them that when • earl in the chair had referred for the additional endowment' the train was passing the auxiliary signal, he felt sure that it o f alaynooth College, he (Mr. Colquhoun) having contended could not be stopped in time, which showed that in his : in parliament against that measure, had cooperated with opinion the train woe going faster than usual. Oa the o th ers in 'eosin an unvarying testimony and in pressing other hand, evidence had been given that the regulator of ' forward a constant effort against all stub similar measures. the engine was out of order, and that the driver was thereby ' He bad, therefore, taken no part—perhaps it was his shame deprived of one means of preventing a collision, and to- and his blame, but such was the fact —in the gether with this must be taken into account the proceedings of this alliance. When, however, he perceived state of tne rails at the time of the accident. If , the announcement of its resolutions—when he saw that it the jury thought that the driver was driving so was comina forward in the metropolis of England, em carelessly and recklessly as to have exhibited gross bracing in its ranks men of various divisions and persua ' culpable negligence, of course they must find ban guilty of sions, political and religion., and appealing fur sympathy manslaughter ; bat it had been well observed by a learned and aid to all the protestants of the empire—he felt it would judge that it was not all negligence that amounted to have been a desertion of principle if he had failed to come manslaughter. All the evidence went to show that there all spoke of had been • redaction of spa d; the witnesses . forward and to contribute his share of good wishes in the great stra ;gle in which it was engaged. (Hear, hear.) He speed of not more than eight or ten miles an hour when the haul not hesitated to offer co-operation. It had been asked, collision occurred ; showing that the driver endeavoured to i n speech and writing, what was the meaning of this strange I reduce the speed before the train entered the station. They ' medley of setts and parties?—what were all these gentle ' haul heard the opinion of the government iuspeetor as to men of various creeds doing on the same platform opposed the state of the engine; and the real point fur them to de to Rome ? It was said, " You wish to displace the church termine was whether the death of the deceased was the 'of Rome, but what are you going to substitute ? You result of accident or of gross and criminal negligence on the wish to pull down her great and beneficent I part of the driver. [ union, but will you tell us on what basis you The room was then cleared. After the lapse of a few I mean to ground your church union ?" Laughter.)( minutes the following verdict was delivered :—" The jury ' He thought that the gentlemen who wrote and said these are of opinion that the deceased met his death by a cattle- things were innocent of understanding the first principles train running accidentally into a passenger train at Wee- of this question. (Hear, hear.) They did not understand don, but without blame to the driver, on account of the the principle of our common faith—he was quite sure they engine being out of order and the rails slippery. The jury did not understand the principles of English freedom—and cannot let the opp rtunity pass without recommending, for they had conveniently and effectually sponged out of their ' the better safety of the public, an alteration and enlarge- memory all the facts of English history. (Cheers.) It was I ment of this station forthwith, it being too small for the very true that these were wide differences among the gen i quantity of traffic without a siding." tlemen constituting this alliance. It was quite true that if 1 The inquiry terminated at about half-past 4. the members of the alliance were to engage in some vision- ary scheme 01 some amalgamation of all christian per suasions and all political parties, they would signally and ludicrously fail. It was quite true that many of the gen tlemen whom he saw near him, and with whom he was now acting, held many opinions essentially different from those which he himself maintained, and that they were men of truth, and of honesty, and of principle, who would stand by their opinions and their principles. Still they were all co-operating together, and he could sea nothing to excite so much surprise in that co-operation. When the noble lord in the chair had called upon them in past times they had all as now not hesitated to obey his wise and benevolent bidding. (Cheers.) When the noble earl had led the way in grappling with some of I the worst evils which afflicted humanity—when he had dealt with pestilence and disease, and ignorance and crime, stalking through the streets like armed men—was it to be supposed that they, having received their summons in the name of common humanity, to aid in the good work, would have been withheld by the suggestion that one of them was a baptist, another a nonconformist, another an episcopa lien, another a presbyterian, and another a free church man? (Cheers.) Any such suggestion would he received with scorn and derision. (Clietc , ) Alter some faith( r observations Mr. Colquhoun said that the papers in Paris was one which sooke fur the great ultra-montane party—the Jesuit party — teat perty to which, as he had been told when in Paris by a French abbe, the whole Roman catholic church in France looked as a leader. Hero was what the editor of the Cairo.: mid last August:— " I avow my regret not only that they did not sooner burn John Huss, but that they dd nut burn Luther; and I re gret further that there had not bean at the films some prince sufficiently pious and politic to have made a crusade against the protestants." (Laughter.) And when the writer was taxed with this monstrous doctrine, he defended it, and said, " A heretic examined and convicted by the church used to be delivered over to the secular power, and punished with death; and nothing could be more natural and necessary. A prompt crusade against Luther would have saved Europe.. ' (Laughter.) He (Mr. Colquhoun) would go on, and give them the best of all authorities for the position he had taken up. It mi ;lit be said he was quoting from unauthorised documents which the human Catholic church neither ado Ned nor guaranteed. l Ile would therefore go to the fountain-head oh all—to his Mainers the Pope of home. What his holiness had said he (Mr. Colquhoun) woule out take from an heretical paper, but from the pure Pada. (Laughter.) lie referred to the " Allocation of our most holy Lord and Pope, Pius IX., held in merest consistory of the sth September, 1850." This allocution, met the ablet, was full of hope and good. Everything, said the Tablet, was changing, but the char of Peter stood like a rock amid the fluctuations of Europe. (L 'tighter.) He perfectly agreed with the Tablet as to thin immutable rock of Rome. It did not change. With the lapse of time it kuew nu modideetion ; intellect and civilisation rose and increased : but the chair of Peter remained unals tered—etereotyped as strongest hypocrisy. (Cheers.) The ellecutiou in question related to the concordat made iu 1850, between the Pope autlSpaiu,whereby the kingdom of Spain, and it was melancholy to consider the fact, mooted and re instituted the church of Rome on her former basis. (Hear, hear.) ply this allocution all " unjust deprivation •' of ecclesiastical property was to be cancelled and such pro. Perty resumed ; all schools and colleges, public end titivate, are placed under the sole jurisdicti el of bishops ; end all the magistrates of the kingdom arc called upon and required to See that due honour and obedience be paid to all ecelesiasticel authority and dignity. In this concordat further the " most illustrious Queen and her goverument" promise to give " all assistance by their powerful patrouage and protection to the aforesaid bishops, in restraining thu weakness and deceit of those !new, who impiously seek to pervert the minds of the faithful and to corrupt their morals, and in driving away front the flock the dire plague and ruinous evil of perverse books ?" This would show that whatever efforts tne alliance might make in Spain, they must expect to here to light the magistrate as well as the priest. (lkar, hear.) Ile now came to another proof. Ile had to refer to a work which had been published lately by a professor of Turin—the capital of that country . which alone of all Italy, he was about to Bey, winch alone of all central Europe, retained the principles of civil and religious liberty. (hear, hear.) The profeesor had writteu two works—one Mk the illstittl• lions of Ecclesiastical Law, and a Treatiese on University Ecclesiastical Law. Theme it might appear, were harmless.. books. But the professor said, in the course of these works, that the church had nu coercive power. He allowed the church the tail authority of mural and religious influence; but he said the church had no right to use the power of the sword of the magistrate to carry out her views. Fur this out came a rescript front St. Peter's chair, in the 6th year of our L'outificate," signed by Cardinel Lambrumhini, " under the ring of tics fishermen." And that rescript announced Bed the wore of the Turin professor was prohibited; that no tine was to read it; 'hat if a prhed reed it he was to be struck by suspension; that it' a layman read it he was to be struck by the still severer blow of excommunication—a serious sentence even in Ireland, but in Italy mewing ex conenuuiteition aud death. And all this because a coercive power was denied to the church to bring back them who hail strayed from her fold. (Hear.) Was England then, the refuge of the oppressed, to stand quietly by aud see this fearful crueatie ageing spiritual and i constitutional liberty? (Hem.) But if we wanted to secure religious liberty Mauer( we must secure it at home, and that could wily be dune by bringing the force of public opinion aud sentiment to bear upon government anti upon peria mutt, SU as to emigrant their steps into the direction we wished, whether willing or unwilling. (Cheers.) Swift or slow their pace might lie ; would it were swift for the sake of them who Battered, but if it were slow it routed with the ' people themselves to quicken it. (Hem.) He prayed them that they would take no rest, suffer no pause, until throughout the world, especially in that part of Europe in whien the couflict now raged between religious liberty on the one head and the most fearful tyranny on the other, the contest was decided in favour of the right. They had emancipated the slaves whose bodies were manacled, but nut always their souls, and he trusted they would carry their I emancipation to the consciences and minds of the (limn. thralied suffering spirits which were longing to read the gospel. (Hear, hear.) By so doing they would open to them the read to a glorious immortality, carrying balm to the anguished heart, and accusing to it, be spite of Pope or priest—(loud cheers)—the power to read, to think, aud to pray, which would make mankind peaceful and virtuous here, and happy hereafter. (Loud ewers.) The CHAIRMAN interrupteil the proceedings to read a letter from Earl Duck, regretting the noble writer's in ability to attend, but the pith of which was contained in the following passage. Earl Doris said—" Besides this, haying formerly voted fur the elaynooth grant, I should have much wished for an opportunity of giving my reasons fur a total change of opinion." (Loud cheering.) Dr. TIDMAN then rose to second the resolution. He mid that, us a member of ono of them non conformist communions that had ever held evangelical protestantism as the true faith--(cheers)—a faith which had never proved recreant in trying times to the merest cause of civil and religious freedom, had cordially accepted his present posi tion. (Cheers.) It was quite true that they did not re quire to be told that they held difference of opinion founded upon deep conviction on questions of ecclesiastical policy, but when they came to sue cuminou principlis of pro testantism, they were all, he trusted, .of one heart and of one mind. (Cheers.) And furthermore, whatever might be their minor differences, they came there determined to strive for their common faith, undeceived by the sophistry, and undismayed by the arrogance, of humanism. (Loud cheers.) Whatever might tie their other differences, the bible was their sole and common ground of Christian faith and Christian duty, and no proceedings based on those grounds would meet with the opposition of dis- Denten. (Hear, hear.) He would further ven ture to say that with regard to the great design of the sacred volume, whatever might be their difference in minor matters, they all agreed in that great principle of protestantism, that the only mode of redemption was faith in Christ. (Hear, hear.) If he (Dr. Tidman) under stood aright, tho ieasis of all reformed creeds was the right of private judgment, and with that right how few minds could be expected to come to exactly the same conclusion. Whoever complained of variety in our philosophers and poets, and he maintained, that while they all maintained due subordination to God, the 4arieties of protestan tism were only so many evidences for its purity and truth. (Cheers.) Lord Fielding had sought refuge in the unity of popery, and no doubt he now found himself perfectly at home. (A laugh.) But what was that unity ? Where was the page of its history on which was found agreement, or concord, er peace ? And oh, could they only get a peep at its internal history, what plotting and intrigue would they not discover—everything, in short, but the spirit of Christianity and peace. (Hear, hear.) Should they look for it in the dungeon of Sableo, who only escaped by telling a deliberate falsehood against his own convictions ? or should they go to the demolished walls of Port Royal, and see their own scholars and saint, persecuted to the death ? (Hear, hear.) home had, in short, but one point of unity; and that was, hatred of every party but her own. (Hear, hear.) They, on the other hand, were agreed as to what popery was. They thought it was a violation of Chris tiauity, and a monstrous contrast to that system which made Christ the sole governor and guardian of the people. In one word, they believed that popery was Antichrist. (Loud cheers.) They further believed that the Pope, whether he was Alexander the Monster, or Joan the Impos tor, or Pius the Ninth—'hear, hear)—they believed, because God had declared it, that he was the man of sin, and the son of perdition. (Hear, hear) He wished to give utterance to these solemn truths, which others might cell bigotry and intolerance. (Loud cheers) But let him explain. lie hoped that in this great alliance they would not dishonour the cause by exhibiting the spirit they con demned. He would give to every papist the liberty he himself claimed as a Christian, or Christian teacher, but he asked this as his right, that he might teach, and use moral force to communicate the lessons he approved of ; he asked for no other means, which he felt convinced would only en cumber the cause he wished to support. (Hear, hear.) There were men who while they ate protestant bread supplanted protestant principles and taught ltomanism in the most insidious and disguised form. (Great cheering.) Better was it to have Cardinal Wise man, with all his pomp and insolence, than popery gilded by sophistry, and put forth with all the subtlety and eloquence of philosophy. (Hear, hear.) He was net then displeased at the results of the late mission. He did not think they would hear any more of an endowment of the Roman catholic priesthon t, (Hear, hear.) These states men had had their eyes retorted, and would keep them open, and the prime minister would lie a brave man who should now say, " Let us endow the priest ." (Loud cheep.) Once more l et them gird themselves for this conflict. They PS., the character of the foe, and they must expect a hard bat tle, but it was a battle between the spirit of good and the spirit of evil ; and already he hear.) the sounds floating in the breeze, " Babylon the great is fallen." (Loutlcheers.) The resolution was thou put and carried by arc's :nation. The Rev. RICIID. BURGESS moved the second reso lution : " That the recent movements of the Romish priest hood throughout continental Europe, templed with their late aggressive proceedings in England, prove the existence of a settled purpose to overthrow religious freedom ; while their success in France, in prosecutions for the Kale of con troversial tracts, and in preventing the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, shows to what an extent that freedom may be curtailed, even under a constitution framed to secure both civil and religious liberty. That this meeting there fore approves of the purpose of the committee of the Pro testent Alliance to interpose, whenever practicable, in be half of those suffering wrong at the hands of that priest hood ; and it cads upon the protestants of all countries. and especially upon those in the United States of America, to unite with the people of Great Britain in defence of those principles of the glorious Reformation for which our ances tors laboured and suffered." (Cheers.) The rev. gentle man commenced by observing that lie had attended this meeting without any compromise of his conscience, having seen net one sentiment or syllable in the resolutions of which he could not heartily approve. lie had been placed prominently forward on 0113 occasion togive his experiences attic system of the Roman catholic church in France ; and this part of the subject was one of particular delicacy. It was. however, not the fault of protestants that the question of the Roman catholic church was entangled in politics. Popery bad two characters. Not only was it a secret con federacy against the religious liberty of men, but it was also • political conspiracy against civil rights; and having that twofold aspect, it was difficult to speak of popery, and to minflue the comment to the religious question. (Rear.) L France the political and the religious questions had been peculiarly complicated. In France at this moment was to be seen an anomaly unparalleled in the history of the world. France was a republic, based on universal suffrage, professing to lay liberty on wider foundations than had ever before been known in modern Europe ; and yet at nu time was the power of Rome in France more rampant than at this moment. (Hear, lacer.) This was explained in one sentence. The political power of Rome was always great et when the civil government was weakest. (Bear, hear.) This proposition was true as applied to the whole history of Europe. It was specially correct as regarded France. Before Feb., ISIS, they saw the priesthood of France restrained within somewhat legitimate bounds by the government of Louis Philippe. The government of Louis Philippe had found it necessary to its very existence to keep down the priests, and that governntent had the courige to drive back the Jesuits into the shade from which they had prematurely crept. The government of Louis Philippe was bold and strong enough to resist the demands of the bishops that education should be placed in their heeds. But in February, Pile, all changed. The priests embrace d the republic that they might turn it to their own purposes. The priests headed the insurgent multi tudes in Paris, and blasphemously assimilated the tree of liberty to the cross of Calvary. hoe the priest of Rome was a monarchist to-day, a republican to-morrow, just an he saw the best chance of governing men. (Cheers.) The people believed the priests, and accepted their leadership ; and thee. , who would have derided the ceremony of a coro nation by an Archbishop of Rheims carried their arms to be blessed by the priests in the Place de la Concorde. And the priests had gained all the advantages of the course they had I taken—the republic had passed into their hands. (Hear.) Not a railway was now opened, not a machine set us mo tion, not a pillar set on owl, not a piece of canvass spread fur a tent, but the priest was called in, and his blessing implored. (Bear, hear.) Let the material resources of the papacy in Frauce he looked to. There were SO episcopal sees, each one with a bishop or an arelibishop. There ware upwards of 10,000 pri.ets and clergy; and these bishops, and priests received out of the public treasury, or did in WO, the sum of 1,600,000 t, so direst payment, in the chaise of salaries. There were 240 diocesan buildings, all niain tained by the butte in the charucter of public works; and throughout France the traveller might now see hundrtsls of workmen engaged in repniring old abbeys, cathedrals, and other ecclesiastical buildings., which hail seen falling into ruins, neglected and uncared for, since the time of Louis Quaturze. There were 38,000 churches, and more than that number of private religious houses, all maintained at the expense of the state, or of the municiealities. This sum, for maintaiaance, would amount toes much as was paid direct to the church in salaries; and thus, in the republic ot France, at this moment, three millions sterling per annum were paid to the papacy out of the public treasury. Besides all this—and others had made higher estimates—there were the surplice fees. These could nut be easily ascertained— perhaps they were hard to get at at home—(laughter)— but they probably amounted to 200,0001. a year. Was it not overwhelming to contemplate the wealth derived by the Homan catholiesln France tiront the taxation of the peiiple ? (Hear, hear.) Then there were the 2,500 religious houses and the seminariet lrem whie:i the noviciate priests issued, ready and trained for Roman rebellion. All this vast army was under the single direction of the bishops, and the bishops again were under the guidance of the Pope. The Pope, therefore, was a generalissimo even more powerful than the Minister of War, with his 100,000 troops at hi. con u naud. (Hear.) The French priests were mere tools in the hands of their superiors. The largo muss of them, the rural clergy, hail no independent, civil, or po litical existence whatever. This was in that France which in these days inscribed on her banners, Frater nitt Egolite." (Hear, hear.) The resolution assorted that the position of the Homan Catholic Church, as it was found in France, was irreconcilable with constitutional liberty ; and he was prepared to prove that. The priests in France had got entire and effectual possession of four things, that was to say, their power woo such as to interfere with the even course of civil justice; they hail got pusses sion of the schools • they had invaded the provincial justice seats; they had subdued the press to their purposes; and they had command of the tribune. All this he would show. The law of ilstruction in France was very explicit. The 9:h artieleof the constitution declared that instruction was free; and the fact was a mockery of that declarition. Instruc tion was under one supreme board, who had the controul of the whole education of France ; and the composition of that board was such as to give an easy predominance to the Homan catholic bishops. The priests had also invaded the provincial judgment scat ; and this might readily be shown. (The rev. gentleman at some length detailed cases, in illus tration of this assertion, in which the sous-prefects and other magistrates had interfered, at the suggestion of the priests, with the preachings of protestant pastors and Mii . . . ion:tries, and with the circulation of protestant tracts.) The; priests had likes ise subdued the moos. For proof of this, he referred to the present aspect of the French newspapers. In Louis Philippe's time a principal feature of the t rench journal was the fettilleton; which was usually a novel or romance, and which generally was nothing more than a vehement attack upon the Jesuit.. [Eugene Sue's books were all published in that way. Some of these attacks being marked by blasphemy and obscenity. The feuilleton had now disappeared. All the journalists, except Emile do Girardin in the Presse, had cringed to the Jesuits, and they had now to exclude all such things lest they should lose their circulation. Here, at this point of his observations, he could not forbear his tribute of admiration to the glorious press of this country. lie did not say but that there might be occasions in which individuals had to com plain, but as regarded that portion of the press which had the largest circulation, he might safely say that they, in England, were in far happier circumstances then people in France. (Cheers.) In England subjects were treated without fear or favour. If a bishop did wrong he was told so ; and if a nonconformist became a little too violent be was corrected. (Cheers.) When, indeed, he took up our papers and considered the wonderful productions which day after day they gave the world, he was overwhelmed with astonishment at the power brought to hear upon them. (Loud cheers) Ile had now detailed all the resources of the papacy in France. They were truly gigantic. But he was far from despairing, The papacy might have political power; but its moral power was daily decreasing, and its religious power was going to. (Cheers.) Ile knew of what was doing for protestantiam in France, and he knew what ought to be done ; and he said without hesitation, that as soon as the military coercion was removed, one-half of France would ha members of the protestant faith. (Loud cheers.) Over all Europe the papacy was now con spiring against the liberties of mankind. But he believed its days were numbered. (Loud cheers.) It was said the other day by a remarkable foreigner who had visited our shores, that Russia was the rock against which every sigh for freedom broke. He would adopt somewhat of that beautiful metaphor; and he would say that he hoped Eng land would be the bulwark against which every wave of papal tyranny would roll in vain. (The rev. speaker re sinned 114 scat amid great applause.) The Rev. W. CHALMERS seconded the resolution. Ho appeared ther e an as representative ttaotitveen of fr the hearty bcri a T s and co-operation. He believed that the battle of European pro ' testantism was to be fought in England. Englund was the Therinopylm in this campaign, and he did not doubt , that Englishmen would worthily bold that pass. (Cheers.) The resolution was put and unanimously agreed to. Sir CtiLLINO E. EAItDLEY rose to move: "That this meeting desires to express its sense of the contrast afforded to this retrograde movement in France and else where, by the protection recently given by the government of Piedmont to the ancient church of the Waldenses, and by the firmness with which that government has withstood the arrogant pretensions of the papal priesthood. It trusts that the house of Savoy may have the honour of carrying on to completion the work of liberty of conscience, the surest guarantee of civil freedom and national prosperity. And it desires to express its firm conviction that, in maintaining the independence of the Sardieban crown against the aggres sive claims of Rome, the Piedmonteac government may rely on the warmest sympathy of the people of Great Brit a in ;" and in so doing he had the permission of the chair to say a few words on the previous resolution. One fact he wished to mention was, that the tract of M. Rouraet, which had circulated freely in France during the reign of Louis Philippe, had been recently seised by the officer of the re public, and the publisher thrown into prison. One of the lust acts of Leon Faucher was to issue a circular commanding that the protestant version of the scriptures should not be eofporte by the colporteurs of France. Last Friday, he had waited on the father-in-law of their noble chairman, Lord Palmerston, on behalf of Dr. Marriott, who hail pub lished and circulated a tract against the Jesuits in the protestant city of Carlsruhe, and by its protestant duke had been thrown into prison. Another fact. Not a fortnight since Field-Marshal Radetski had marched into the pro ; testant church at Milan, and turned out all the cunarega , thin, alleging that a committee they had appointed to regulate their affairs was a socialist club. (Laughter.) In Florence two persons had been sent to prison for merely contemplating the reading of the Scriptures. (Hear.) There was an agreeable contrast to suck a state of things is the conduct of the present government of Piedmont. One remarkable feature in the government of Marchese d'Azeglio was, that ho gave perfect freedom to the Waldenses, and sanctioned the erection in Turin of an Italian protestant church. (Cheers.) They all knew the circumstances attending the death of Santa Rosa, who had been the advocate of the Siccardi laws, and who, dying, was refused Christian burial by the priests. Ihe priest who refused was expatriated, but the Bishop of Turin took his part, and he also was expelled. Thu Archbishop of Cagliari then took up the cause of intolerance, and was ex pelled like the others. Ile (Sir C. Eardley) thought that the conduct of the court of Turin in these matters did them honour. (Loud cheers.) Again, Professor Naix was ex communicated for publishing, as the sentiments of the sea of Rome, precisely the same opinions which Cardinal Wise man published in this country. His book was put in tho index expurgatorius, hut the government immediately ap pointed Signor Parini, a man of the Brune principles as his colleague. Tho Archbishop of Turin had, from his place of exile, issued a decree against their lectures, no that it was clear that a battle was about to be fought in Italy for tho principles of religious freedom. (Hear, hear.) He hoped that the people 01 England would sustain it with their purse. He should like much to sec a deputation of English protestants hearted by their noble chairman—(loud cheers) going over to the continent to speak iu the name of British protestantism a word for civil and religious liberty. (Cheers.) In France and in Turin the cause was ripe, and even in Portugal it was quivering in the balance. Thera Saltlanha was struggling to establish it, and any move there would certainly vibrate to M,alrid. He should like to hear of some men who knew Germany going to Berlin. His conviction was that they must get rid of Maynooth. teat cheering.) In saying so he was only repeating what he had told the Prime Minister in 1.815, and if he was agoiu deaf to their protestations, they would have a protestant confe rence, which would soon make him yield to the will of an united people. (Loud cheers.) Rev. F. M. CLOSE, in seconding tho resolution, wished to call attention to the fact that the tyrauuy of Rome ex tended to Africa, to Asia, and to the Islands of the Pacific Oemn. They could not spare even a harmless and innocent queen. lie (Mr. Close) would say to them, "Do not forget Queen Poniare." The resolution want unanimously agreed to. . . The Rev. C. PRESTON was then introduced by the chairman, but in consequence of a person rising at the end of the hall, and insisting on addry s-ing the meeting,there was considerable confusion. Silence having been at length obtained by the admirable conduct of the chairman, the rev. gentleman proceeded. Ile moved the fourth resolution:— " That, as the nearest and must practical duty of the British people, an earnest endeavour ought forthwith to be made to terminate that intimate connexion with Rome into which this protestant nation was brought in 1815, by the act which settled upon Maynooth College a perm.nent national en dowment. And that for this purpose petitions to both houses of parliament be now adopted, praying for the im mediate and total repeal of that enactment." Ile believed it was now very generally conceded that the endowment of the Maymnith College was a nwasure which hail fully realised the predictions of those who had opposed it, and which had falsified the expectations of every one of its sup porters and friends. (Cheers.) The endowment had never been asked by the people of Ireland : they had themselves never supported the colleges; and it had never been popular with them. In opposing this endowment its opponents were therefore offering no insult to the people of Ireland : they were only refusing an unjust aid to the Roman catholic priests of (re bid. (Cheers.) The people of Ireland had spoken out about their own education ; and they had spoken out in defiance of the priests. The "Godless Colleges" were po pular, and well supported by the Roman catholic laity, despite all the fulminations of the Synod of Thurles, and notwithstanding all the intrigues of Primate Cullen. (Cheers.) The endowment of Maynooth College was a question of conscience and principle. (Cheers) It wits a question whether they were to give their aid to a conspi racy againet Europe to a church which aimed at supreme temporal awl political power—a charch which he believed to lie antichrist—a church which he would un church as foul and unworthy. ((groat cheering.) Let him he understood. Ile said this of the priests, not of the laity. lla was not pomosing to uuehristianise all Roman catholics. There were Christians among the Roman cattle lies, and Rennin catholiro had gone to the glory which was to be more fully revealed hereafter; but this hail nut been by the aid of the papacy, but in spite of it. The Rev. Dr.BEGG (intrutluced as one of a deputation from Scotland) seconded the resolution. Mr. J. C. EVANS supported the reedutinn, and ex plained at some length the provisiens of the Mayouoth Act. Ile could not let the subject of Piedmont piess with out reminding dissenters that it was their own Cromwell, who had first interfered on behalf of tho " slaughtered saints" of Piedmont, turd their own Milton had penned t h e mandate. (Loud cheers.) Mr. IRE WEN moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was carried by aceantation. The Earl of SHAFTEsIi CRY expressed hie deep grati tude for this vote of thanks. lie rejoiced at the vigour and unanimity which had been displayed by that great meeting, and he doubted nut but that its ialtienee would be felt to the very extremeties of the empire. (!less.) His Rev. friend, tir. Burgess, had alluded in terms of di served eulogy to the press of this kingdom. In that eulogy he (Lord Shaftesbury) fully concurred. lie fully appreciated the talent and diligence, and the high tone of our public writers, but he wished to speak in terms of especial commendation and gratitude, of one class of writers for the public press, to whom he was meat indebted —he meant the reporters. (Loud cheers.) lie was sure the meeting would agree with hint that, whether in speak ing of the reports of parliamentary proceedings, or of public meetings like the present, they must express their astonish ment and gratitude at the great talent, fidelity, and zeal which was displayed by the reporters. (Loud cheers.) The proceedings terminated, as they had Comm ttc:d, with prayer. MILITARY. DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL STElNSON.—Lieutc nant-Colonel Steinson, of the East India Company's ser vice, who had retired in 1819, after many years service in the Madras army, died on CIO 21st lied. This officer had received the company's silver medal fur the war iu .tva in 162 i. (From last niiihtbs 6,w: hr.) WAILOVVICV, Nee., 24. 4th Rec. of Fort.-Cept. A. Iteruskrxusu, from It p. unatt., to be mob, sire U. ninon, who exc►. loth F.--Capt. S. B. Lana, from 13n1 F., to be capL, vice Moore, who exch. 2lrt F.-Lieut. W. P. Coua•utroou, trent the 37th F., to be first lieut., trite Evan.. who each. 35th V.-Capt. T. Setaxo, 'rum the 53rd I'., to he expt., vice Cooke, app. to tle eXrd F. 37th F.-Vir-t brut. 11. F. EYANN from the 2:14 F., to he lieut., vice lingwood, who exch. F.-4. apt. V. 11. WoIAINT4O,I, from the Ind F., to he rapt , sloe Cnekburn, who exch. 43rd V.-tMpt. T. H. CACKSVILV, from the iZna F., to be emit, vice Wilkinson, who exch. 73th F. -Capt. T. C. DUNBAR, from the 95th F., to be capt., eke C.ond. Wflt, who each. 33rd V.-Capt. G. F. Moore, from the Ihtl. F, to he cap; , vite Loh, who cub.; Capt. E. It. COWL; hum the 'ink 1., to tu rapt., vice Spring, app. to 35th V. 95th F. - U. ut..l. N. Steeper, to be tljut., one Dowdell, prom. alith V.-Capt. H. W. Cnionwre, (root the 35th F., tube c.pt., vice Dunbar, who exche. Sim-v.-To be Aulea.de.Carrip to the Ouren.-Col. C. MKNZII - 11, Ce the Royal Marines, vice Parke, prom.; 'ol. T. WKAKINO, of the Royal Marines, with the rank of col.. vice Owen, prom. Beever.-Bres. Lieut.-Cob J. A. heit.t.{, una to be col. le the .—The commission of Brevet-Alojor 11. H. H. Rostra. (a staff ollker of pensioners) has been doted lith November, 1' a, and Oct 1 Ith Now ober, 1851, as previously stated. laaserinc In the Leafless Gazette of 21st instant.—Brevet : For Major A. J. HADFIELD, CB., Itc., mad Major A. J. lIAIWIELU, of the Rost ladle Compsny's Forms, to be lieut.teol., by brevet, in her Ma jesty's army in the East Indies only, oommiaalon to be doted Iltb Nov., 1831. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. RI. Royal Reit. of Artillery.-11m. LicuL C. J. Dowse to he first lieut., vice Plum, resigned. Corps of Royal Fancineers.—Brev. Major W. C. Foesco to be lieut.. col. vies 'MP, der.; See. Capt. I'. 1. Baia amour to be apt., vies Fortes; First Lieut. O. Ross to be sec. rapt., vice 14dnbrgge; Sec. Lieut. 11. C. Etrumarwes to be first lieut., vier Rosa. The date of the promotion of the urtiennew boned officers has been altered to 31st August, 1851, viz.: - Litut..Cel. T. Demo, Capt. J. W. Dosoori, Sec. Capt.. D. Gatoom, b. e Capt. 11. W. BAIILOW, First Lieut. E. Batons; Atm. C..pt. A. I'. U. liMllll to be emit, vice Whitmore, der; First Lieut. W. M. 1,01.1 s to oe me. mot., wk. , Ross; See. Lieut. C. E. Comssii.Ltsu lobe first lieut., vice Inglia. ,ADXIR . II.TY,.Nov. ill i Corps et itopi blarineo.-1 eu .T. WRALINO to be 001. see. commandant, rice Whylock, who nit% on lull pun; lir,. Wei. P. Gnou.s to be Ileut..col , vice Wearing, protn.; Filet Lieu!. and kljt. C. W. ADAIR to be rapt., vice 0rR13 , 1111, prom.; See Lieut. E. (Litman to be lira lieut., nice Adair, pren.; Ibtlt,Licut. T. V. Coons to be adjt., vice Adair, prom: to tare. THE REFORM CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER though chiefly confined to delegates from Lancashire and Yorkshire, will be attended, there is reason to believe, by reformers from Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The evening meeting will be addressed by Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Gibson, and other gentlemen. A deputation front Yorkshire held a prelimi nary interview with the reformers of Manchester on the subject on Saturday last, but ita proceedings have been kept strictly private. The Yorkshire deputation included Mr. Carbutt and Mr. Edward Baines, of Leeds ' • Mr. It. Leader, jun., of Sheffield ; Mr. Milligan, M.P., of Bradford; Mr. ; T. Crossley of Halifax, who represented on this occasion the West Riding Registration Association. The gentlemen who recicved them on the part of the Manchester Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association were: Mr. O. Wil -1 eon, Mr. Bright, M.P. ; Mr. Henry, M.P. ; Mr. Kershaw, M.P.; Mr. IL Ashworth, of Bolton; Mr. T. Ashton, of Hyde ; Mr. T. Baxley, president of the Manchester Cham ber of Commerce ; Mr. W. Rawson, Mr. John Platt, Old ham; Mr. H. Rawson, Mr.McCartney, Mr. S. P. Rubinson, i Mr. Royle, Mr. C. Walker, Rochdale ; and Mr. C. E. Raw lins, of Liverpool. NAVAL ADMIRALTY, Nov. 28.—APPOINTMENTS.— Surgeon W. J. Oraggen to Rapid; Second Master J. P. C. Clements to Inspregnabk. DEVONPOIST, Nov. 27.—The Crane, 6, Commander J. J. Donnell, sailed on Tuesday, for the coast of Africa. She takes out Mr. Gabriel, arbitrator at Loaudo. The Magicienne (steamer) is being fitted for commission. The Rosamond (steam sloop), Commander Campbell, has drawn charts for the North American and West Indian stations. She had her compasses adjusted yesterday by Mr. Thomp son, the Queen's harbourmaster ; will be paid advance wages to-day, and, probably, sail. The Desperate (steamer) is undergoing some alterations in her stowage accommodation at the suggestion of Mr. Brown, the second-master attendant at this dockyard. The Sanspareil, 81, has received a portion of her machinery, and is to be fitted fur service with all possible speed. FARM BUILDINGS AND THE House TAX.—Various inquiries have been made to the Board of Inland Revenue as to whether farm-offices, such as byres, barns, and build ings for the purposes of the farm, are to bo included with the farm-louse so the valuation for inhabited house duty - sad, stric 4 be cenz e qu t c o n t c h e e , t f h ann ey ha are ve no d t ec t id o ed be t!?!! , f A lti . T_wpich deem Herald. , C.* : • CA ,'7% . 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