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the objects of another Association, which is too well known to need a more particular description, we saw the character of Clergymen desecrated by taking a most prominent part .in its proceedings; when we saw the Association headed, and its most obnoxious threats car• tied into force by those who styled themselves Ministers . of CHRIST, I apprehended that a similar charge might be brought against us if the Clergymen of the Estab !jibed Church were to come forward at meetings such as this; but upon more mature consideration, I found that the object of the one was aggressiona—(Cheet !•) while the other was confined to self-defence. I found that the one was associated foe the purposeof s ubverting the Constitatioth while the other was continued for the purpose of defending the Constitution, the religion, and the laws of the con' try.-1 beg leave, Sir, to second the resolution, and therecan be no doubt brit it will meet with the hearty assent if every person present. The Marquis of Eve rose, and was received with deafening cheers, ;hick lasted for some minutes. He said—Mr. Sheriff. before 4 move the Ilesohltion which I shall have the honour to propose, permit me, in the first instance, to congratulate this loyal and Protestant county at the numerous and respectable meeting I now see around me. I believe. Sir, there never was a period in the history of this country which more loudly called for the unanimous exertion of every Protestant in the land than the present crisis —(Hear). We are called upon by the dangers that surround us to express firmly our determination to support that glorious Constitution, the blessings of which we have enjoyed under the mild Gwiernment of our excellent King, and maintain those principles which placed the Huti•e of Brunswick on the Throne of 0 ese Realms. We ate not met here to embarrass his Majesty's Government, who, I am persuaded. are most i•oxiously alive to the present state of this country ; much less are we assembled to discuss that question whoth has so long divided and agitated this kingdom. We ate called upon, in nur defence, to ez• press our determination to stand by the Throne, and the British Constitution, as at present established— (cheer.)—and the connection between the two countries. In an illustrious individual at the head of his Majesty's Councils. I feel confident, if supported, he never will compromise the Protestant cause of Ireland. But, Sir, we must be true to ourselves; we must speak out— (Loud cheeis).—l trust the appeal will not be in vain. that the Billish Parliament and the Bi itish Nation will reflect se. inusly on the transactions that have taken place in this kingdom within the Last five months. The Noble Marquis concluded amid loud cheering. JOHN lawrx, EN.—We are met together, Sir, for the purpose of defending ourselves, and maintaining the Protestant Constitutiun as it is ; and there is not in this tar-famed and loyal county of Fermanagh, a single person disgracing himself by being called a Protestant, who distents from the objects we have in view —(Cheers). I sincerely hope, however, that the cause which has brought us together will soon cease to exist, and the Catholic Association, which is the bane of Ireland and the source of her present calamities, will soon be crushed by the strong arm of the law—(Cheers). I will not de tain you longer than by stating that I shall be ever ready to appear in the foremost ranks in support of the King, the Constitution or the country, and its laws. • General ARCHDALL, M.P.-..There is no sentiment I could utter that would not be in unison with the semis menus of the loyal Protestants of Fermanagh—(Cheers). We now stand pledged as one man to support the Con stitution, and repel the attacks of its enemies —(Cheers, and cries of H No Surrender"). Our Protestant ances tors settled here under the protection of the Govern ment. If the Government will not protect ue, 'and notwithstanding what has fallen from the Noble Ma rquis, I think the Government has been guilty of supine ness, to say the least of it—if the Government is deter mined to withhold its protection from us, we must protect ourselves—(Tremendous cheering). We should join heart and hand, and if the contest should. come r there can be little doubt of the result—(Cheers). The Honourable Colonel Caw:futon—l trust, Sir, that the same spirit which has ever existed in Ferns!. Ink and which has exhibited itself with such splen dominate this day, will spread through this land, and • that we shall have the united force of the Protestants of the empire 'urged in support of the Constitution as now *. established. The Rev. Messrs.Ricuanntios, Youno, and ASTELL, evoke most forcibly to the same effect. The lion. Amnia Cot.; M.P. said—l imbibed my . . first political principles in tie County Fermanagh— . (Ctieers)-..Protestant principles, that are dearer to me than the lite's breath I first drew within your county— (Cheering). I have been long absent from my native shores; but believe me, my frier. s, that absence has • only served to strengthen the impressions early made ' upon me; the feelings imbued upon my mind, and die • sentiments impressed on my heart when young, have • only been confirmed by maturity; and I return to you • just what a Meeting constituted as this would desire—. • iCheers). Tire Itqman Catholics set k nothing but that ' to which every loyal Protestant should be opposed; as • such I attend here this day, and shall be most happy to assist in any, and in every way in the establishment al Brunswick Clubs.throughout the country. ARTHUR BROOKE, Esq.—There ren ans little for me to say, Gentlemen, upon a subject which has been so often and so ably discussed; but I conc. ive it to be a duty I owe to myself and to the Protestants of this county, to avail myself of the present opportunity of coolish: publicly forward and candidly making known what my sentiments are upon a - question rf such mhmen • tons importance, and the principles upon which I have become a member of this Club— (Cheers). It Gen tlemen, upon the film coalition that the Brunswick Constitutional Clubs have been enstitoted lot the pur . pose of supporting the Government, and strengthening the law of the land, which, unfortunrtely, has hitherto been found incompetent to pot donut !! übtrate the di signs and intrigues of that artogar t and self •colistittited . 'body, theßomanCatholic Association. If ewer there was a tinse,Crehtlemen,that a doubt could hoer r usted 45 t the propriety of granting concessions to the Roman Catho lics, that time must have ; gone by—Mea )—and the system of intrigue and iniimidoli n %bids has been acted upon foi the last year, and i.ar t cu'arly doling the Clare E ectiois—(Heal—by the k Wig C4tl olic Asso ciation and the Cistholic Pi iesthood, must be a con- Mincing proof, even to the nicht liberal-minded Pro testant, that if power was placed i the ends of the Roman Catholics, it must tend to the subversion of the Protestant Constitution, and ultimately to its total over throw—(lannense cheating). eat, Gentlemen, there is one thing I should wish to inculcateohat while we act' with firmness and decision, let our proceedings be governed by a spirit of mildness and moderation, in a Minuet worthy of Protestants and the cause we espouse., ' leafing all violence of party spirit and bomhast to such tharagan as constitute the Roman Catholis Association. After a few MOM Resolutions Ware passed and the thanks of the Modes wove voted tethe lifis Shad, it *as adjourned. • •PRISON DISCIPLINE. The following observations are taken from a sermon just piiblished, which was preached in St: poillip's Chapel, Regent-street. for the benefit of she Society for the Improvement of Psison D and for the It , - formation of Juvenile Offenders, on Sunday, June 22, 1828 ; by CHARLES JAMBS BLONIFIELD, D. D. Bishop of Cbesttr, niw bishop et London. The tesnatlts are sound and judiciou-, displaying great practical sense, combined with a very reflecii .g hum inity.l a ' It is no longer necessary to prove by argnmef t. that the true end of punishment is the prevention of time; 'or that such prevention is to be accomplished ptincipally by two methods,—the collection and re formation of the criminals themselves, and the tel. gions and moral improvement of those classes which are most :pissed to temptation. These methods I con sider to be incomparably the most effectual; without overlooking the impoitaoce of a due apportionment of punislittient to crime, and of establishing, in the opinions and expectations of the people, a certain and uniform connexion between the offence and 'its appropsiste penalty. The latter measures of prevention fall within the exclusive province of the civil government; the former upon a wide and promising field for the ries tibni of individual charity; not to the removal, or suspension, of that duty which is incumbent upon the state, but in furtherance and aid of its endeavours. Sr It naturally bappetts..that in the process of moral improvement, as connected with the provisions of civil polity, individual sagacity, or benevolence, is almost be forehand with - the sta e. It is not only unshackled by the same rest aints of form and custom, but it acts uncles the influence of higher and more sacred motives. It is ge nerally considered, that men's temporal, not their spiri tual intesests, are wide, the case of the Magistrate; and that he is no otherwise concerned in the maintenance and propagation of religion, than as it is connected with the interests of s iciety. No roan can' be ignorant in how great a degree religious conduct bears upon Vie *Ware of society ; and for this the State endeavour: to provide,' on the one hand, by an established church ; on the other, by the ehactineets of its criminal law. But these enact inentt do not. as indeed they cannot, touch the hidden springs of action, the first principles of conduct t and they may perhaps be, either 'in themselves, or in the mode of their application. injurious to tie motel stale of those who die dotted) , affected bythem. Tne Magistrate looks to die interests of the community, n 4 to those of the individual who is putiislieJ. How to combine the two, and to make pro- ision for them both, is a problem to be determined by experiment. It is here that indi vidual charity may tender its aid, and lead the way to those improvements, if not in the principles of criminal jurisprudence, >et in the application of it. rules, wt,ich 'would escape the observation, and fail to awaken the 'sympathies of those who ate intrusted wnh the govein• meat of the State. " Individual charity is actuated by higher and holier motives than those of secuisi policy . ; and considers man, not solely, nor even priumpally, as a member of the body politic. but as a responsible moral agent—as the heir of lite eternal — as a serv.int of GOD—as a disciple of ',UM Cu aisr, It is therefore earnest and anxious in its inquiiies after the most probable methods, not merely r f .preserving unbroken the bond of civil peace and unity, and or preventing the injuries which the commission if crime inflicts upon the integrity of the social fabric; but of saving souls to the Luau—to Rik, who bath no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. _ . " The grand principleof prevention is this—and it is a principle which the state can only indirectly enforce, but for the enforcement of which in every possible di rection and degree it ought to make provision—that men should be convint ed, not only of the unlawtulness,, but the sinfulness of crime; that they should he disin clined from its commission by the influence of more pervading and more constraining motives than the animal fear of punishment ; that they should be taught, to regard it as infinitely detrimental to their own into rests. To conimutocate these views and motives to those who have actually incurred the penalties of the law,- and so to recover them out of the snare of the devil, and to those who are 'peculiarly exposed % by the circumstances of their condition. to the temptaticnis of dishonesty and vice, is to strike at the very root ,f crime; end to purify the sources of that liuntain, which may be made to send forth at the same place either sweet waters or bitter When the heavy hand of justice has fallen upon its despisers, and the wicked are matte to useable, and the thoughtless to consider, are all the ends of good government answered ? are all the demands of Christian policy complied with? Surely not ; it the criminal be turned back upon society, wits' all the dis grace of punishment. but, with none of the improve• ment of discipline—furnished with no higher motives of right conduct than those of fear, which act only in proportion to the chance cif detection. and the probable severity of punishment—taught by bitter experience the evil consequences of crime, yet disqualified by the very process of correction for the pursuits of honest industry. " The restraints and penalties of the law may be de-, vised with sagacity, and in theory judiciously propor tioned to the offences which they are intended to coerce; and yet, since the details of their application must of necessity be intrusted to persons, sometime, of a less enlarged wisd..m, sometimes of a less comprehensive charity, than those who enacted them; it may happen, it provision be hot carefully made to guard againti the chance of these defects, that the wise and b neenlent intentions of the legislature may be defeated; the season of correction may be made the oppottunity of corrup tion;. and the pimp, instead cf a school of discipline and reform, may become the fat ir house of a moral pestilence, in which those who are dying of the plague, a n d those who are only suspected of infection, are crowded together in one promiscuous mare of disease and de-th. "In this case it is clear that the offender is treated with injustice and cruelty. The puni s h ment w hi c h was justly decreed against him, is aggravated by unautho tized circumstances of horror - -circumstances ; which inflict an undesigned but irreparable injury upon his, soul, without add ng in any degree to t:.e awlutness' and exemplarity of his punishment. " It is not easy, certainly it has not been usual, for he Government of rcountry to descend to a considesisa, tion of all the circumstances and details which attend the execution of its penal laws; and it bat been a deice in the administration oran such laws, that it has I.)oke.l', more to prevent the Increase of crime by the influence of a salutary terror, than to diminish its actual amount by reforming the offender himself. But the speculations' of Christian philosophy, and the energies of an active piety, have led many wise and benevole nt indi v id ua l w take a personal interest in this great question of po licy and religion ; and to prove ezFerimentally, tt the cost of mach pains and labour, and in opposition to ebleis prejudice, the possibility, and consequently the sacred duty, of combining bath objects of punisnoseat. the secoeity of the public, and the reformation of the criminal. "T. drat this. without dimming justice of hes wholesome tenors, is RR . undertaking wroth, of V children and servants of that, ALMIGHTY Hausa anc: &woe, who desireth not the death of a sinner ; worth). of the of that TRACHitt who csme not to call the tighten's., but sinners to repentance; worthy the followers of that lIEDIMUARR. who was in all thing maple like unto his brethren; that he might be a into caul and faithful High Priest—to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. It there be joy in the pie :vice of the angels of Goo, over one sinner that to penteth.. Loa , acceptable a service is renoered to the SAVIOUR himself, who died to procure and Multiply that joy, when those, who are most in danger of peri•h ing us their sins, are rescued from the jaws of death, and restored to the possession of an interest in his re• deem ng mercies " Tea/rest the progress of those who are already entered into the broad way that leadeth to destruction, and are hurrying along the downward path of sin, is a task which requires and deserves all the ingenuity and per severance of Chris , ian chrrity. The methods of ac complisting it ate various; but the ultimate tendency of all should be a reformation, not merely of habits, but f principle—a purification of the heart—a renovation of the inner man by the effectual Grace of GOD. It is something to make an offender feel the temporal incon veniences which his crime has brought upon him—it is something to convince him that a course of honesty and industry is the most advantageous to him,. in a wordly point of view—ir is something to initiate him into those useful arts, by which he may raise himself above the temptations of indigence; bit it is infinitely more than all this, to min the disobedient to the *radon' of the just ; to quicken those who are dead in trespasses and sins, b) the efficacy of Gospel faith and love; to make tiles who were sometimes darkness to be light in the LOAD; and to send them forth into the wistld, emancipated item its evil influence, transformed by the renewing of their mind ; teconciled unto GOD by Jesus CHRIST, and enabled by his Spirit to walk windy of the voca. tion wherewith they are called. It is true, that in the case of those wins have been hardened by a long inteicourre with the deceitfulness of sin, this wink of reformation is an arduous and unpromising, and, except to the pale vering energies of Christian charity, a hopeless task. Still it is to be attempted s none can tell helot elisnd, in what degree the endeavours of the pious and humane. to bring a sinner to CHRtST, will be blessed and prospered by Him, who desireth not the death of the nicked, but rather that he should turn bons his ways and live. No, e nay presume to limit the wonder-working efficacy of that word, which is quick and powerful, and *bat pet than any two-edge d.sword,and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the, earl. As in many splendid instance, belive, so it timy again in any case, be found effectual, and mighty, through GOD. to the pulling down of the . s rong bolds of sin in the heart; casting down imagina tions, and evety high thing that ezalteth itself against •the knowledge of GOD ; and bonging into captivity every thought to ;fie obedience of CHRIST. It is in the arplication of this remedy. no less than in the pieven non cf Lite, that the benefit; of an early education are strikingly perceptible. Upon the uneducated ignorant utt-tly unacquainted with the truths, and pre cepts, and prohibitions of the Gospel, the word of ex hortation falls poweiless and unheeded. The soil, which was never cultivated, has by neglect become harder than the rock; and the good seed is scattered upon it to no purpose. But the offender, whose early yeass were spent in die school of Christian instruction f aequired there a knowledge of the leading principles of eeligion, an acquaintance is kb the contents of Gov 's wori , ,which, although it has lain dormant and inactive in the mind for many years, recurs to the sinner's conscience in the season of correction and sorrow; enables hint to com prehend the bearing of those arguments, by which the friendly voice of charity seeks to reduce him to the way of life; and the Holy Scriptures, which he had known as a child, may even then make him wise unto salva tion, through faith, which is in CHRIST J 11.115. "Still it may be said, that experience has given us ' but slender rounds of hope ; that Vie cases are but hew, in which old and practised offenders have been effec tually reformed by punisliniient, even when accom panied ,by the kindest and most judicious instruction. Be it sot yet none will presume to deny, that instances of such reformation have occulted, however rarely ; and is not the bate possibility of its being effected in a single instance sufficient, I will not say to justify, but to re quire all the exertions of Chi istian chai ; which, great and painful as they may be, are not more than com mensurate to the value of a soul ? And is not one ease of genuine repentance and tinning ut.to GOD—one vic tim rescued from the great destroyer r f souls—one trophy raised, by the grace of lion over the passers of sin and death. a large and abundant recompense to those who have been p. milted to become instrumental in so chat amble a work ? Know, that he which converteth the sinner born the error of his ways. shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. 4 ' But the pretest ut unsuccessful experiment, by which *lw unfeeling or the timid may seek to excuse their indifference, tails them in the Case of juvenile offenders. Heir, at least, experience is on the side of benevo lence: whatever encouragements to fresh exertions can be derived from past success, is enjoyed by those who have entered upon thus department of Christian charity. That class of criminals, whom it is the most important, it is also the must easy to reins m. lf, as the Prophet says. it is good fur a nianthat he bear the yoke its his yoith, it i s th en , al s n..m os r easily laid upon him; and its burden is the lightest and the least galling. Upon the treatment which a youthful delinquent receives, wh n detected is his first offence, depends, in all pi obability his character and conduct for tr.. Remainder of his life, and his prospects in eteinity. To consign bim, when only suspected, (and therefore presumbd by the law to he innocent), or even when convicted of a slight offence. to a common punishment, and an indiscri initiate intercourse with the most hardened and eban doued criminals, is to force him into moral contagion,and probably upon spiritual destruction. To punish, with out insti meting him, tends only to harden and brutalize his mind. To dismiss him, aler a period of confine ment, a ithosit any attempt to replace him in that state and capacity horn which he has fallen. is to throw him back of necessit, upon evil companions and evil practices. 4, To avoid the first of these evils, no effort ought to be spared by the Government of a Christian el un ary. It it dues not acknowledge the duty, which, in the eye of sound policy and true piety. is . incumbent upon i of providing for the religious education of the people. it is at least under an unquestionable obligation.not to aggravate. by its detective institutions, the arils of ignorance ; nor to follow a process for the correction of its most helpless members, which must inevitably render them more vicious and depraved. But the restui ation of an offender to society, when the demands of public just ce have been sstisfted. a delicate and difficult work, which requires all the care, and atten , ion, and perseverance of Christian charity, employed in humble reliance upon the blessings f Him who can alone give the increase. Witt. respect to juvenile offenders, we have reason to prat'. , his goodness in basing prosp..ted. in • remarkable de gree, the expel invents which have kitherto been made ol a scale, infinitely .clisquate tot e erigencie. of betas., alyd to the duties of thi. gre t Christian natinn, h et sdfficiently large to justify the asseition, that the wad of reclaiming and reforming youthful criminals is • work so full of encouragement and hope, as to have l l° , come a fit subject for legislative provision, and natial l i expenditure. indeed, it is well worthy of consideratio ns even in 11n economical point of virgin how far a mod e , rate expenditure, bestowed upon the education cf pe er children, might be the Means of curtailing, and rend e ,. leg tinnecrssary the cumbrous and costly machinery ° , punishment, which is now employed to constrain, ru ts crush ) as useless or nokious, members of society, who have becoine ata for want or early insiroctio:Z THE EVENING STAR. LON DON . TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1825. P.RICB OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCt Ku& Stock NW 6 et et India bads 114 3 par Cent. Red. 8511 1 let My South Sea Stock Spot Ct. Cana. mg 1 f 1 Old Annuidel si per Cent. 931 et die New Ditto 116 i 31 per Cent. lied. 9.3 i 1 , 1 jet d 41000 Rachel. mil 74 4 per Ct. New,loll I 4500 Ditto 26 S i per Cent. 1626, 103 i et slit 4100 and 4100 Ulits 74 Lows Ann. let j et die Cowmen:id India Stock Consols for Acct. 1164 FOKRION FUNDS, TWO 01:1.00K. Buenos Ayres Bd. fp C. 47 De Acculit 4110111.14 lid., 6 per Ct. Ram 1i5k.1922,5 pet. 13k Do. Ilcands,l624, 19 Spanish Ns 3 p Ct. 116 Do Acct lsj Do Asct. 115 Danish lids. 3 p Ct. Do. Acct. BKITIItH AND FOREIGN SHARKS. TWO (Mite& Nh*LLht PAM Anglo 31ezican 100 95 Iksiliau 31 20 Potosi Ls Paz & Penw. Asso. 14 3 Ditto Consolidated 10 Marine Alliance 100 1 SI 74 73 7, It is rather startling to hear, that anothet fleet 4' Russian men•of•war is immediately eapected to p aw through the Downs from the Balic. Our Deal eons, pondent informs us, that the pilots of that port an is momentary expectation of the arrival of lament at fifteen sail of tessels of war, on their way to joie, the Russian fleet in the Mediresrahean ; and a kite, which we have seen states, that ruse of these Russian ships bad already passed by, as a large ship was seen in the offing on Sunday evening, which was supposed to be a She however kept close to the French shore, and palmed her course down Channel. It was therefore ebourbi l that the whole squadron would probably continue** voyage without tluching at an Englith port. Surely 'all this must excite some uneasiness as to the intentices of our magnanimous Ally. Of all the demands of Russia for the obtaining of which the present war against Turkey is caged, that of the liberation of the commerce of the Black Sea ap• pears to have met with the most general approbation, particularly en the Continent. The Autocrat ((Russia has assumed, it is said, the character of a Liberator, and associating the general freedom of commerce with Oats( his own trade, demands an unmolested passage of tbs Bosphorus for vessels of all nations. Such an acquisition, it effected in its literal sense, would indeed be highly beneficial to every commercial Power, though the au. vantages reaped byßussia, in having her southern ports opened to ships from all parts of the world, would far exceed those likely to be obtained by any other natio.. But supposing the Porte to be reduced to a condition of helplessness, or ultimately driven out of Europe, and the Russian Eagles planted in Constantinople, what is then I to be the security of Europe for the freedom of this passage?. or in whose keeping is it proposed to be placed? The Porte has certainly ale ays been faithfel to Treaties concluded with her, and claims in this respect full as much confidence as the Essence. Any change of events that should put the Bosphorus and the D4lO dandles into the hands of Russia, whether as undis puted mistress of them, or as tru tee for the rest of Europe, mini tbe regarded without apprehension. Oar merchants may judge from the consideration shown to British commerce by the present blockade of the Dir. danelles, how much their interests would be likely to be advanced by their being in any way dependent on the caprice of NICHOLAS or his Imperial successors. The French Papers received last night add little to the information previously received, respecting the state of affairs in the East of Europe. They merely stet- that a confident hope was entertained at Odesss, of the speedy fall of Varna, and coccur in representing the Russian array in so distie,sed a state, in their retreat from Schoml4, as to make the Euratom desitals peace. Last night we received Dutch and Berlin Papers; the latter contains a blandest() of the Emperor NICHOLAS, issued at St. Petersbtugh on the 20th ult. ordering s levy of four out of every Svc hundred men thoroughote the Russian Empire. This Manifesto, though it telto of the success ut the Russian arms against the Ottomsa Porte, is emstrained to admit that the Turks will not submit to any terms. According to the estimate, the levy will produce about two hundred and forty tboe• sand men, and it is ordained this new corps shall be ready is two months from the Ist of November. We limit received this morning Hambergh Papers to the 9:h; and the Algaseine Zeitousg to the Bth instant. Their contests possess no interest— STOCKHOLM, sit I*. 21. da Combs, wbo bap used for Ike or cis Tars ao Ports Cigars* d'Afairse in this city, bee sold Ms fermium sad tato Mose in the pantry, subsea be will wait to see abet torn the slain of Ms eamotry will taint. The Court traits bias whit the seme tined= as before. San. 16.--In erase to encourage the cow wens of Sweden with distant commies, ws ooderstand that the Closentmenat Wends shortly to Woe a Decree for the diabetics or the dudes of cos. mina on pods caning direst from such COINNAIII. Wand= die Governateot has, so special application, wily declared that pre' Juce and lIMMIteCtILI re brought direct from the Cape of 6 ' 44 Hope in Swedish ships, Sc which shall be **pseud to that armour. .had *ay a todostiets in the duties d swims awl coovur sfll 3 per dad. and has pat tly illowsd a redaction if Ca per corn. on do "KW Fidel _, b sim a days a *ohm Om q day IN ibe D tassel {..day *bend Via tbs A Vs* F Bs trcor 1 9 / 4 Se 'ick tilos Nwlio, %rem Nitleo ear Alt an Gra IL°. - I ei SO t‘ NI 0 d 1 1 t 1 al Mg em et