The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1825-11-21 00:00:00

RE-ASSEMBLAGE OF THE JEWS. The following letter has been addressed to the Editor of die Journal des Debuts, by the Grand Rabbi, He Colo/Inu, relitive to the roclamation of the new self-constituted Judge and Regenerator of Israel, klr. Noah, of New York, ~suing upon his Jewish brethren, throughout the world, to assemble under his standard at the intended city of re fuge, Ararat, ii: Grand Island, and imposing upon such as ,r, not choose, cc are not able to obey his call, a certain an r,nd tribute pet head fur leave of absence : TO rilE EDITOR. s ta .—The O - f — t - ru - tit - ;hich distinguish your and the well-merited reputation it enjoys in nce l a d to f. r eign countries, induce ate t:• hope that your politeness it ta rat me a piaci: in your next number for tame observations . hm a I address to the public in the interests of lemon and truth. ne 1 rencli and Enplish papers have lately announced the sin. its project of a Mr. Noah, who calls himself the founder of the o A ra rat. in the United Stoics of North .Imerica. Certainly Wilt. Noah was, as he is supposed to be, the proprietor or occupier asgrest extent ( uncultivated land, and confiaed himself to the en. ,•,,guient of .1 en without fortune to run the risk of colonising with haw. promising them at the aatne time mountains of gold, nobody would think of c lapwing his right to follow the fashion of sending !unit project:; but Jir.. oah aspires to play a much more elevated character. He dreams of a heavenly mission ; he talks propheti cally: he styles himself a judge over ; be gives orders to all the Israelites in the amid ; he levies a tax upon all Hebrew heads. it his exaltation he even goes so fir as to make the central Jewish cry:Alcor), of France his Charge d' Aft/tires, end he honours the p r esident of this body with the noble rank of •• Commissioner of I;••,:igration.“ The whole is excellent ; but two triflts are wanting: lit. tht well authenticated proof of the mission and authority of ti r . Noah. %Ey, the prophetic text s Inch points out a marsh in path America sa the spot for reassembling the scattered remains of Israel. To ..peak seriously, it is right at once to inform Mr. Noah, that els venerable Messrs. Ilierschcll and sfeldola, Chief Rabbis at lerdon, and myself, thank him, but positively refuse the appoint mints be has been pleased to confer upon us. We eeclare that accord not to our dogmas, God aline knows the epoch of the Israclitish res toration, that he alone will make it known to the whole universe by signs entirely unetptivccal, and that every attempt en • our rut to reassemble with any unlit/co-national design is forbidden, a s an set of high trew•on against the Divine Majesty. Mr. Noah 1113 dmatless fur oaten that the Israelites, faithful to the principles vt their b e lief, are too much attached to the countries where they d. e n. Red deemed to the Governments under which they enjoy liberty arid protection, not to treat as a mere jest the chimerical cnitulate of a tiseitdo.restorer. At however justice requims some consideratioi: to the absent, we shneld be sorry to refuse him the title 014 visionary of good in terning. Accept, Mr. Editor, the assurance of the distinguished and re specie sentiments tith which I remain lour most liumblz servant, The Grand Rabbi, DE COLOGNA. UNIVERSITY INTALLIGENCE. OXFOan, SA/CROAT, Nov. 11. On Thursday last the following degrees were conferred : m A sirEas Or ARTS—Rev. John Harvey Ashworth, Univer. city College, Grand Compounder James Ciarhett, Queen's Col. lie; Rev. Charles Champnes, St. Alban Hall ; Hobert John Bell. Oriel Collet-7e. BscurLoas or Awes—John Burton Birtwhiatle, Lincoln College. Grand Compounder; William Tshourdin, Fellow of New College ; Frederick Williamson. Christ Church ; Thomas Alban. Wore, ter College : C. W. C. Baker, Balliol College ; Charles Des Vne..x. Oriel College. BACHELOR or blustg.—Alfred Bennett, New Colk,e. THE CHURCH. The Lord Bishop of Hereford has collated the Rev Frederick Twisleton, B.C.L. Fellow of New College, Ox ford, Rector of Broadwell-cum-Adlestrop, Gloucestershire, IS his Lordship's Domestic Chaplain, to the Prebendal Stall in Hereford Cathedral, vacated by the death of the Rev. John Lilly, M.A. Archrteacon of the Diocese. Last week we erroneously stated, from the Worcester Journal, that Mr. T. succeeded Mr. Lilly in his Archdeaconrv. The Rev. Henry Wetherell, M.A. of University College, Oxford, is promoted to the Prebendal Stall in Gloucester Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Ridley. The Rev. Richard Meredith, B.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxforil,fi tromoted to the vicarage of Hagborn, Berks. On two!, oh. the Rev 1;. H. Curtois, M.A. was in stituted by the Lori Bishop of Lincoln to the rectory of East flarkwitii, Lincolnshire, on the presentation of G. R. If ries::e, Esq. of Hainton House. The Rer. Mark Scott, Curate of West Haddon, was on the 9th inst. ills. itutal by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln to ON vicarage of Sinn-sten, in the county of Leicester, who ify ob. &ash _sat dig 116. C. FenWicle. Noon, Fad of Cardigan. .WINDSOR, SUNDAY, Nov. 20. The Princess Augusta, accompanied by her lady in visiting, attended divine service tins morning at the pariah dumb, where an excellent sermon ass preached by the &mend Mr. Melly, Curate of the Pariah, who took his text from the 2 , uh chapter of Exodus, and the Bth verse— " Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy." His Majesty's stag hounds will turn out to-morrow morning, on Kingabeach Hill; and on Friday at Virginia Water; both inornings at half-past ten o'clock. The indisposition cf Mrs. Peel ' , the Laity of the Right Honourable Secretary of State, arnica from her premature coofinement. Mrs. Peel, we are happy to say, is doing well. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Sarah Re bison are staying on a visit to the Marquis and Mar chiones. of Salisbury, at their seat, Hatfield, Herts. The lion Sir Charles Paget is getting better, but he moot put his foist to the ground. The distinguished shooting -party at lip Park, owing to Sir C. Paget's ac cident, is put off to the end of the trouth.—liamplhire Tdezrapl. The Court-martial on lieutenant &notes(' and En fon Rowe:Vt. of the 53d regiment, concluded on Mon d, hut. The sentence will be promulgated from the War-dice. So. ttich.rd Suiton lad the misfortune to break his thigh on Mo.dlay 'as., wade hunting with his bounds i Lincolnshire. Th; e • other gentlemen have been seriously hurt within the last fortnight in the Burton hunt.—Cam tv•dfe bedrp.n lent. TOE WEI LIN,TON TRII.—IVe are informed by a literary gentleicri to whom his Majesty lately comic scendjil to show some of his suriosities that the King has ' at Windsor a royal chair, compose d entirely out of the trunk of the famous elm b y which the Duke of Welling ton stood at the Battle of Waterloo. We may say of it that it would not shame any monarch to be crowned in such a seat. The Ithtory of the tree is curious. When iris. Children, one of the Curators of the British Museum, visited the plain of Waterloo, about seven years ago, he found the tree in question marked for destruction by the Proprietor of the soil, who told him that so many people ame to visit it, that the produce of half an acre of land was annually lost in consequenci-. A bargain was soon struck, and lir. C. became the on tier of this precious piece of timber, which yields in value only to the Shakespeare mulberry tree. Mr. C. we understand, has supplied the cabinets of several of his literary friends with choice slices trots this arbor Pelliagionirnrie.—Sunday Paper. hew Cucacnra.--Another new church is about to bc hilt in the parish of Marylebone. wh'cli will snake five I le' churches for that extensive and wealthy parish, besides several chapels of ease. The piece of ground agreed upon for its erection is the corner of Albany-street, in the New tOlktopposite Portland-street. file county of York is beginning to feel some interest on the subject of returning four members to the ensuing Par- Lament. Six candidates are already conhdently named— the present two Members; Mr. Fountayne Wilson, Mr. Vf. Buncombe, Viscount Morpeth, and Mr. Etthel. Two other Gentlemen's names are in circulation, supporters of the Conatituti n in Church and Stae, but nut yet spoken of with the same eonthlimee. I n consequence of an application of Mr. Walker, East 11 is Ag ent to t h e H onoura b le Comm i ttee o f W are h ouses, th'y have been induced to lower the rent on all East • Madeira ln in . their cellars and what may hereafter a ttire, from 1-. p er wee k to d. to take place from the I ith i nstant, pet order of the said Committee. 1411 EXATIO N or CAILLILE —Warrants were transmitted on the 11th to the Keeper of Dorchester Gaol, for the li -Ik-ration of Richard Carlile. Esti. cs.ve Grease.—A special messenger arrived in this . city the oth er d ay, after riding nearly 100 miles, at ten m um an hou r spee d , f or the extraord i nary purpose of di "jug that two commas aid afixal E should be omitted in 41 "" ' • certain I ad Chester , 4 • se.nent re.ative to a rat -ro .- -/ Are,. MR. CHAR/.ES KATE. The influence of the press is most diskonournhly employed when it drags forward into notice the conduct of indivi duals, from any other motive than for a public warning or wholesome example. We should have spared the pang which the allusion to Mr. Charles Kaye may occasion to his most respectable family, but that it is coupled in public placards with the title of " Solicitor to the Batik." in this point of view, it appears to us necessary and important to explain to the public the real state of le afair, and to ex onerate the conduct of the Bank Dir from any charge of loose confidence in the servants whom they may employ, or of incautious practice in the management and detail of the vast responsibility placed in their hands. In fact, Mr. Charles Kaye's conduct has no connexion with the situation he held with others, as Solicitor to the Bank. But his dis missal from that Establishment, and retirement from part nership with the house of Freshfield and Co., arose from , the following circumstance. A very young lady (with no competent knowledge of the use to which it might be applied, or of the nature of the instrument) on going abroad, left Mr. Charles Kaye a power of attorney to sell out the stock she held in the pub lic securities. In August last she returned home, and on going to the Bank, found to her surprise that no stock re mained in her name. On applying to Mr. Charles Kaye, be affected surprise, said there must be some mistake, and that if she would call on the following day, any error should he remedied. Previously to her again calling, Mr:. C. Kaye hail purchased equivalent stock, which the party, accepted. The lady, however, being a relative of one of the Bank Directors, mentioned the circumstance to him. Mr. Charles Kaye was then called before the Governors, and, in few but pithy words, told, that it appeared to them that he had lent to himself without security, funds whiclehe could not, as a professional man, have advised his client to have advanced in a similar manner to a third party; that though no actual injury had taken place, still that such unprofessional conduct rendered him an unfit per son to continue as their legal adviser, and that he must be withdrawn from the apnointment of being their attorney. Some discussion took place, which at last ended in the determination of the Governors that he should retire, and they gave him but to the following day to send in his re signation. Up to this transaction his partners had no cause of complaint, or any proof of any one incorrectness by which their articles of partnership had been violated. The dissolution took place in September, and subsequently the sum of fifteen hundred pounds was found to have been paid to Mr. Charles Kaye, and not secured in a mortgage according to the client's directions, or accounted for. This deficiency was instantly made up by the house, and was an infraction of the partnership deed ; hut the partnership had ceased to exist. Soon after, it was il;scovered that Mr. Charles Kaye had, in his character of trustee, made a fraudulent appropriation of the sum of six thousand pounds, and on this discovery be quitted England. The report of immense stuns of money having been paid by Mr. Kaye, in liquidation of his son's defalcations, is totally untrue. We have heard upwards of one hundred thousand pounds named. There have not been paid as many pence: and, as repulse professional person, circum stanced as Mr. Kaye was, that fact is extremely important. He might otherwise be properly charged with an inex cusable culpability, in continuing a connexion with such a son, with the constant apprehension of throwing a great and responsible and respected house into confusion or disgrace. Having now shown that on this occasion the caution and vigilance of the Bank of England have not been imposed upon or deceived, that in the names of Freshfield and Son is still conducted the legal business of the Bank (and this fact alone is proof of the unconnected character of Mr. Charles Kaye s private transactions), that the credit or conduct of the elder Mr. Kaye is not implicated by his son's errors, we have done sufficient for the purpose of enabling the public to judge of the character of the whole transaction, and to disconnect it from any imputation of misplaced confidence, or looseness of practice in the con duct of the Bank business : the credit, honour, faith, and ability of whose Directors should not only be unsuspected, lute above suspicion. The deficiencies of Mr. Charles Kaye are estimated, at the very extent, at fifty thousand pounds.—English Gentle ness. COTTON. The following statement and calculation is from an in dividual in America, whose means of information are of a high order, and who has taken great pains to ascertain the correctness of his data. We shall only add, that all the ac counts of which we have heard from quarters worthy of dependence, concur in stating the good quality and the great extent of the crop of short stapled cottons. The whole crop of cotton raised in 1623, and ship ped and consume, was - 609,000 bales. CROP OF 1824, wow SHIPPED. From Gulph of 31exico - 260.000 I.ast year . - 173.000 Ire-ease this year _ _ 87,000 From Petersburg . - 30 000 Last year - - 15,000 Increase this year - . - 15,000 From North carolina - - Gb. , .00 last year - - 46.0u0 Increase this year - - 40,000 Crop of 1824 . - 631,000 Crop of 1812 . . . . &moo° Increase of 1824 over Ism - 142,000 bales. It was supposed the growth of South Carolina .and Georgia would be less this year ; but owing to the high prices, every bale has been brought forward from the in terior, and it will prove equal, if not exceed last year. The coming crop will no doubt be +300,000 balm—Manchester Paper. THE TRADE OF BRADFORD. BRADFORD, Nov. 18. Business is proceeding in this town in the same way as before the late strike, except that trade is much more dull than it was in June last. Pieces u well as wages have got down to the old prices, and nothing is now wanting but a corresponding reduction in the price of wool, to put business on the same footing, with respect to profits, as it was at that time. The muter' generally hare received such men as they have employment for, in a very frank and cordial manner. There are, however, still out of work 540 unmarried men, 76 women, and 745 married men, with 1,147 persons dependent upon them for support. A small allowance is still distributed to the unemployed from the funds of the Union Committee, contributed principally by those who bare obtained work; but it has not this week exceeded Is. each to the unmarried men and women ; Is. 6d. to marriM persons with small families; and 2s. 6d. to those with large families. Much distress, of course, prevails, which several highly respectable and benevolent inhabitants in the town are endeavouring to mitigate by charitable contributions. We hail as a favourable omen, a resolution taken by a number of the principal worsted-spinners in Bradford to diminish the hours of labour in the mills. Hitherto forty minutes only have been allowed in the day for meals, but in future the work-people are to have an hour for dinner and twenty minutes for bteakfast. The honour of ori ginating this improvement 'is, we understand, due to Mr. John Wood, jun. ; but the humane suggestion has been cheerfully adopted by Messrs. J. Rand and Sons, Megan. Pearson and Whitehead, and Messrs. W. and T. Marshall. Leeds Mercury. REDUCTION IN WEAVING.—III the paragraph inserted in our last paper, stating that a reduction of one shilling a piece had taken place in the weaving of plaids and carolets, it ought to have been said, that the masters very consider ately promised the men that when the state of trade would allow of it, the sum now reduced should be added again to the price of their labour, without any resistance ou their part.—Leeds Illereer7l. NETHERLANDS BANK.—The Bank of the Netherlands (says the Juurnaldea I)elats) has just adopted a vcry pru dent measure. It has reduced the period of discounts to two months; and raised the rate of discount fr om three per cent. to four ; and it will no longer lend on foreign funds at a lower rate than five per cent. It is even said that it positively refuses to lend at all on the Neapolitan Stock, and that this is the cause of the late declineof that Stock at Paris. THE BRITTSII PRESS. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. POIITSMOUTH. Nov. 19. Yesterday landed here the crew of the brig Victoria, Holland, Master (of North Yarmouth), from Lisbon, bound to Liverpool, laden with lead ore, which vessel foundered in lat. 43, 40, N. long. 14, W. The crew were providentially picked up, after being five days and nights in the boar, by the Danish galliot Balthazar, from Cadiz, bound to Hamburgh. Remain—Rainbow, Dispatch, and Pirangs. In the Har bour--Victory, Warapite, Ganges, Volege, Herald, spar rowhawk, Mastiff, Royal Oak, and Magnificent. The Sparrowhawk, 18, was commissioned on Monday by Lieutenant Crosier. Mr. Greenish, Surgeon, Mr. Re nifold, Purser, are appointed to her. Lord W. Paget, it is said, is to command her. Major-Generalßourke, Lieutenant-Governor and second in-command at the Cape of Good Hope, and family, will embark to-morrow in the Rainbow, 28, Honourable Cap tain Rona, and proceed for that settlement.--The Dispatch, Captain Parsons, for the coast of Africa, is expected to sail on Tuesday next. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 17. Arrived the Reynard, Lieutbnant Hardy, with seventy five volunteer seamen, from Liverpool, and sailed again with thirty seamen, for ships at Portsmoutb. Sailed the Lyra for Liverpool ; Vittoria transport, with troops fur Gibraltar. Captain J. S. Carden, of Torpoint, has taken the command of the ships in ordinary at Sheerness; Lieut. L. Roberta is appointed to the Coast Guard at Cadewe worth, near the Lizard. Remain the Britannia, Genoa, Windsor Castle, Druid, Shamrock, Talbot, Pandora, Nimrod, Harlequin, Victor, Nightingale, Falcon, Dove, and Swallow. A person of this town has invented a telegraph, by which, it is said, the following tiosisierata will he gained : a con siderable saving of time in working, greater accuracy in communication, and impenetrable secrecy in conducting the correspondence. By the application of a comprehen sive tabw'ar arr.angement, .5,776 mesvages may he trans mitted, with only . two signals eacb.—Hamphire Tele graph. LIYERPO . O4, 8 IT;IJ .1:1", Nov. 19. tilloll 0171 c 7 IESPONDENT. ) ANOTHER RTEASLPACKET ACCIDENT. The steam-packet Lee, Callan Colville, sailed from this port on Wednesday evening, and scion after one o'clock yesterday morning, when between Point Lynas 'and the gkerries, came in contact with' a brig, the Enterprise, from Westport, corn laden, bound to this place. The captain and crew of the brig, seven in number, immediately leaped on board the Lee, two of theta nearly in a state of nudity. There were still in the brig, a man and his wife, pas: genera, and Captain Colville instantly lowered and manned his boat to save them ; but we lament to say, before they could reach the sinking vessel she went down, and the ill fated couple met a watery grave. One of the men, who Was below at the time, states that he escaped by the chasm made by the steamer. No blame whatever can he at tached to the Captain of the Lee, which vessel bail a light on the bow, and another on the foremast head. The brig was running before the wind, at the rate of six knots, and her crew, it appears, took the lights on board the Lee, which they saw for some considerable time before, for those of some vessel lying to. The weather was hazy at the time, and had they taken the reasonable precaution of showing a light on seeing these of the Lee, it would not have been our painful office to record this melancholy accident. The Lee, which suffered some damage in her stern, became leaky, and put back to this port to repair. LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LITZRPOOL, SATURDAY, Nov. 19. Our Sugar Market continues dull, and prices down Is. a Is. 6d. About 700 hhds B. P. sold. No sales in Foreign or East India. About 100 puns. Molasses have been sold at 345. a 355., principally at the former price. Yesterday about 550 bap Sumatra and 1.50 casks Jamaica and Demerara Coffee were offered by auction. The former sold at 501. but the greatest part of the Plantation Coffee was withdrawn. About 100 tasks of B. P. have been sold in the week at a reduction of 2s. per cwt. In Cocoa, Pimento, and i-Elingsv nothing dote. Of 700 Mgt of Pepper, wltieh were ofteted yesterday, 200 of middling quality sold at $l. but the remainder, being inferioi, Seas not sold-. Ja Montreal Ashes about 490 Ms. Pots have been disposed of at gas. 6d. for old, and 295. 6d. a 301. for new ; 159 brls Pearls at 31.. 6d. a 31s. 9d. with 150 brls. States Pots at 325. Dyewoods are rather heavy of sale, and only no tons of Campeachy Logwood sold at 71. 172. 611 AIM ; 150 tons Cuba Fustie at 9/. 15s. a V/. 17s. 6d. ; 25 tons Spanish at 61. 15" a 71. ss. ; 100 tons Nicaragua Wood at lilt for large rough, 231. for very ordinary sold, and 26!. DN. for good solid. In Turpentine about 4000 brls. have been sold at 10s. a 10s. 6d. Nothing done in Tar. In Rice only 120 bap Bengal at 245. Considerable sales have been made in Hides; 6500 Buenos Ayres Ox and Cow at 101 d. a 12d.; 6500 salted at CO. to 6,id. ; 600 West India - - salted at 7id. ; 350 North American salted at 50.; and about 20,000 Hone Hides at ss. 3d. a ss. W. each. Rum conti nues steady, 400 puncheons, principally Jamaica. at about 2s. 6d. for strong ones, and Is. Ild. for Leewards up to 2e. 2d. In Philadelphia Quercitran Bark little doing, 15 hds have been sold at 15s. and 40 lihds good New York at Ils. 9d. a 124. 6d. Nothing doing in Cochineal. Madder-roots are dull, and nothing doing. In Lime Juice 20 puncheons base been sold at U. 10s. Valonia 120 tons picked Turkey sold at 21/. 10'. a 22/. ILK and 50 tons unpicked Ancona at 151. A few tuna Sicily Brimstone at 81. 3s. in bond. Olive Oil very dull, and sales so trifling not worth mentioning. In Palin Oil about 200 tone at 261. 10s. a 271. In Safflower there is inquiry, and Egyptian is scarce. In Stannadh the sales are very limited, 270 bags Trieste at 104. a 10 s . 6d. 25 bags Malaga at 17s. 70 bags Sicily at 16s. 6d. a 17s. for fine, anti 14.. for inferior. Saltpetre in good demand, 540 bags sold at 235. a 275. A small parcel of .I.mericon Bees Wax sold at 131. Chinchilli Skins dull; :Nutria Skins in demand, and scarce. At the commencement of the week we had a good demand for Cotton. but the market afterwards became heavy, and continued so until yesterday's public sale, which was well a tt en d e d by the trade, and the quality being fair to good they went off at full prices. The public sales were 1560 bales Upland at 7d. a 104 d. 600 Ala bamas at Bd. a 944. and 1400 New Orleans at 8. d, • I rid., besides shich there have been sold 5140 Upland at 74d. a Ild. 130 Sea Islands at 201 d. a 24. 2d. 70 stained lqd. a I3d. 2030 Alabama and Mobile at 70 a 9fd. 800 New t hlums at 6 , 1 d. a 114 d. 13-11 l Pernambuco at 120. 13411. 730 Bahia at ltd. a 12d. 640 Martin. ham at 11 fd. • I2d. 410 Hamerata and Berhice at 10Ztl. a 124 d. 60 Barbadoes 944. 100 Ccirthagena at 13d. Rid. 280 Egyptian at lid. a llid. 160 Surat 54d. a 7d. 60 Bengal at 61d. which, inclu. ding the sales by auction, make a total of about 15,530 bales. About 1800 Brazil and American were taken fur export, and 1200 American on speculation. IMPORTED INTO LIVERPOOL. FROM woT. 12 To NOV. 18, INCLUSTVE. 195 hhds. Quercitron Bark - 144 Mitts. Sugar, B.P. 27 ma. H i des , and } 3511 d x i 2 brls. es, c0. 0= 2774 t. 91olaares . puns. Home I 325 dry Allies - 572 brls. 3 1925 salt. Logwood . 11 tons. (cotton, West India 44 bales. Flour . . 101)0 brls. American - 238 ditto. Turpentioe - 2264 brls. Inland &. coast 100 ditto. Tobacco - 872 brls. In the folio , From Barbados - - - I New York - - - Virginia - 1 Philadelphia - . - 1 ing verriels : From Quebec - - • 2 Buenon Ayres - I Dublin DISTURBANCE AT THR AUCTION MART.-011 Satur day, according to public notice, several shares of the In dependent Gas Company were put up for sale at the Auction Mart, by Mr. Williams, the auctioneer. They were 231. shares, and the Company was described as a valuable and improving concern. On asking for bidding., Mr. Williams was interruirted by two gentlemen, who wished to know what the prospects of the Company were? Mr. Williams replied, that he had no doubt the Company would iu a short time produce a handsome dividend. The gentlemen said it was impossible the Company could pro duce any handsome dividend ; the Company had sold gas considerably below the price charged by other Com panies; and they also knew, although it was stated to the contrary in the conditions of sale, that the Company would not allow the transfers of the times to be assigned to the purchasers. The auctioneer offered to make a condition that if the tranfer was not made the deposits should be returned. The persons who attended the sale were per fectly satisfied with Mr. Williams's proposition ; but the two gentlemen created so much disturbance in the room, that Mr. Williams, finding it impossible to proceed with the sale, passed the lots, and told the two geistleineu that actions would be commenced against them. CATHOLIC MEETING. [ From the Dublin Freeman's JouMtaLl On Wednesday last, pursuant to a published requisition. a meeting of Catholic Gentlemen was held in the Catholic Rooms, ilurgh qua. • CURT RUSSELL, Esq. of the County Louth, was called to the Chalr. 31r. O'GORMAN, Secretary to the Catholics of Ireland. was about tn'read the proceedings of the late Catholic :fleeting, when Mr. O'CONNELL rose and observed, that there was no connexion, in fact or truth,. between the present Catholic meeting and those held on any former occasion. The meeting then hssembled was held in pursuance of a district requisition, and it was the object and policy of the Catholic Gentlemen, that there should be no connexion whatever between the weekly meetings, and therefore it would he inconsistent and irregular to read at the present meeting, any report of what occurred at any former one. Mr. O'Gon sta is was under an impre ss i on that a portion of the business for the present meeting was arranged in the meeting last Wednesday. There were, he thought, some notices of motions. Here the Rev. Mr. L'Estange, Mr. O'Connell. Mr. Finn, Mr. Conway, and: some gentlemen of the Press. stated that there were not any notices of motions given on the last day, and that if ally appeared on the book, it must be owing to some error and mis apprehension. _ Mr. O'Goawaw examined the book. and found it was the pro. credingx of a Committee he had been reading, which led him into the error. Mr. OTotINT:r.r. then rose and said. that it should by the first ditty of the Catholics, in their renewed efforts for emancipation. to be perfectly nareful that they did not violate any existing law, hut would always how to it, however penal, with the dutiful submission of faithful subject.: but, in order thott their obedience should be both rational and limited to the extent of the law, it would lie ne cessary to understand what the law really was, that it should be familiarised to the eyes of every Catholic that as no infraction of the law is intended by design, so they shall not he led into it by accident. With that view a few individuals undertonk an investi gation of the existing state of the law. at*rtspPet, political public meetings In Ireland, with the Intention or publiNhing, and putting into cietulation, their opinion on the subject. The burden of the labour had certainly fallen upon hi. (Mr. O'C.'s) shoulders. He hail, accordingly, endeavoured to fulfil his duty, and he would read for the meeting a document containing his own views on the Ruh_ jest, which had been confirmed by the sanction and approval of his friends. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to read a docu ment, of which the following is a copy REPORT. The law, as applicable to the subject before us, is distinguish. able into the provisions of the common law, and the enactments of. the statute law. By the common law all meetings for the specified purposes were perfectly legal, pmvided they were peaceable. Thu there should he no actual breach or the peace, nor anything which a rational and firm man could josh , construe into a manifest tendency to a breach of the peace. w as a ll t h at t h e common l aw required as a limit to the otherwise unrestricted and universal right of holding such meetings. ' As common law, it was immaterial whether such meetings were held in the open air, or within the walls of any building, all that was required was that each meeting should be in its nature peaceable. ft is manifest, therefore, that the common law did not prohibit but in its spirit encouraged the holding of select or delegated meet ings. In an assembly of select or delegated persons there ought to he, on the ore hand, much more of deliberative wisdom and calm consideration than could possibly be found in large assetnblagts of penplt. On the other hand, there must necessarily be more danger of riots, tumults, and breaches of the peace, in the greater than in the smaller assemblies. The common law, therefore, gave a pre ference, if we may use the expression, to select meeting. of a de legated or chosen few, to the casual and more precarious composi tion of popular meetings. We conceive that the common law is not altered at present in this respect in England. The English enjoy the right of discuss. ing their grievances by a select and chosen few, and are not cons pellet' to appeal to the first elements of society whenever they have ' a serious charge of public complaint. Not so the unhappy Irish. The privileges of bringing their complaints before the proper tribunals, in that solemn and deli berate way most conducive to success, has long been denied the Irish people. So long ago as the year 1793, an Act was introduced into the Irish Parliament. It was introduced into Parliament under the sanction of the late Earl of Clue—a man who combined with great personal activity the moot rancorous animosity to his Catholic countrymen. 3he Act is entitled "An Act to prevent the Elec tion or Appointment of Unlawful Assemblies, under the pretence of preparing or presenting petitions to his Majesty or to Patna. mint.' That Act prohibits the electing or appointing any persons I to represent any place, or any portion of the people, under the, " pretence of petitioning" for any alteration If the law. It must be observed, that Lord Clare, violent as he certainly was in hi. hostility to the political rights of the Irish people, dtd not venture to gn the length of boldly enacting that such elections or I selections should be illegal, if made for the purpose of petitioning the' Legislature. No. That was a length which even Lord Clare and the Govern. ment would not go at that time, althougiresesiliod at some attempts vowdeln England and Scotland, about that period, to hold assem ' blies of delegates, with alleged revolutionary views. Terror and hate combined did not carry the letter of the law further than to prohibit the selection of delegates under the pretence of preparing petitions, he. • But what the Legislature did not do, subsequent judicial con. struction has done. No man unimbued with the monstrous falls des which sometimes disgrace our legal intendment' could ever have supposed that, in a penal and restrictive Act any Court could for a moment tolerate the notion that pretence and purpose were synonimons. But, behold, whilst Alr.Saurin ruled this county as Attorney-General, and whilst Chief Justice Downes..(he has since been made a Lord) was Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, they solemnly decided that pretence does really and truly mean purpose, and that when an act is done under some particular pretence, it is in truth dune for that identical purpose. The statute law, thus enacted and thus construed.—a constriction against which we beg leave respectfully, but strongly to protest— I deprived the Catholics of Ireland of the power of making any selection of those to whom they would intrust the conduct of their cause. And it left our deliberations subject to all the evils inci dent to the transitory ebullition of popular and unconnected as. semblies. To remedy this evil, the Catholic Association was invented. It could not avoid all the advantages which the statute of 1783. intr oduced ; hut it removed some, and mitigated all, and had it been permitted to pursue its peaceable and constitutional course, it would soon have borne down all the opposition which bigotry re. sorts to, and it would have combined almost all the Protestants and Catholics of Ireland for the promotion of civil and religious liberty, and the promotion of peace, order, and good-will amongst all classes of Christians. In the midst of career of utility—but not until after it had principally contributed to tranquillize Ireland, was the Catholic Aesociation suppressed; and alas I we owe this suppression rather to those who call themselves our friends than to the frank and un disguised hostility of our enemies. We consider the law for the suppression of the Catholic Anode. tion as the greatest injury and insult that Catholic people have ever sustained. For every other enactment, however perfidious or atro cious, there were found some plausible though delusive pretexts. For this nothing could be discovered but the example of the un constitutional law of 1793. and some idle and weak pretences, to influence the conduct of mere children. We respectfully recom mend to the Irish people to bear in deep and lasting recollection I the evil produced by that statute, and t o l e t th at reco ll ect i on I stimulate them never to relax their constitutional and legal exer. tions, but to use none other to procure the re p ea l o f th at A ct . The most unconstitutional statute is plain and explicit in its provision.. It however is a legislative declaration that the decision of the King's Bench in Ireland, under Chief Justice, now Lord Downes, was untenable and unfounded—for it prohibits meeting, in express words, either under the pretence or for the purpose of petitioning Parliament. If pretence and purpose are synonimons 111 law, as Judge, now Lord, Downes gravely !decided, thi s statute would not have resorted to the legal tautology of using both words to express only the same idea, as such use naturally implies that these different words do really expms different ideas. This legislative condemnation of the doctrine of 3lr. Saurin, confirmed as it was by the Court of King's Bench, affords, however, but a tardy and melancholy consolation to the Catholics, who are the living victims of the former unfounded and irrational decision, and also of the present unconstitutional and oppressive statute. The law in Ireland, with respect to public meetings, is regulated by these two statutes. The first—the Act of )793, technically deseribetPas the 3.1c1 Gen. 111. chop. 20. The second is the Act of last Session, called the 6th of (leo IV. chap. 4. The latter is the Act to suppress the Catholic Association. B 7 the first of these statutes, the only things prohibited are— First—The electiqn or selection of delegates or representatives under the pretence of petitioning the King or Parliament. Secondly—The accepting of the office of delegate or representa tive, to act under any such pretence. Thirdly—The acting as such delegate or representative, if elected, or chosen with that view, or assuming to be a delegate or represen tative, although not elected or chosen in point of fact. Thus stood the law, until lately, with the addition made to it by the Court of King's Bench ; namely, that pretence meant pur pose ; so that the Catholics were precluded, by the statute and su perinduced construction, to desist from seeking for redress from the Legislature, through the instrumentality of any selected or dele gated body. The second statute has added the following prohibitions :- Ist. It prevents any society or body of persons, meeting either under the pretence or for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature, to continue their sittings for more titan fourteen days. 2dly. It prohibits any such society, or body of persons, to appoint any Committee, Secretary, or Treasurer, or other officer whatso ever, to continue fri office trots than fourteen days. Illy. It prohibits any such society, or body, to appoint any Committee, Treasurer, Collector, or other person, to collect, levy, or receive, any contributions from his Majesty's subjects. - • • - • - 4thly. It prohibits any such meeting to appoint any Committee, or seloct body, in the whole, or in part of any former committee, or select body, nominated within the preceding six months, by any meeting, which would he, in itself, an illegal assembly if continued for snore than fourteen days ; or to appoint any Secretary or other officsir appointed by any such meeting sithin the preceding 5iL months. 6thly. It prohibits all societies connected with other societies 1.. y. separate branches or divisions. It prohibits all societies in which any oath or declaration, not required by law, i s t a ken ; and f rom w hi c h any persons erg in anywise excluded because of their professing any [arm of faitll allowed or tolerated by law. Such is, as far as we are able to ascertain. the present state of thd law in Ireland on the subject before us ; It will be perstived at once, that however mischievous and unconstitutional thin late ea, tote may be in other respects, it does manifestly and beyonticontraf. diction, by the prohibitions Mentioned under the tlth and 6th heads, render all Orange Lodges illegal, and makes it an indictable Offence be an Orangeman. It is, upon the whole. obvious. that to constitute a crirffelindh't the first statute, that of 1793, election or selection, or the acting as an elected person or delegate, is necessary* nothing else's prong: bited by that statute. It is also obvlces, that to constitute a crime under the seennd statute, so far all the Catholics are concerned, there must bee con tinuation beyond fourteen days, of some Society, or Committee, o!! officer. It is in the continuation beyond fourteen daft that the grime is made to consist ; if there be no continuation beyond fdurtein days; there is nothing to bring any society or meeting withtn the pro: visions of this statute. It follows conclusively, that there may beat many separate and distinct meetings had as any persons may choose to call god bold ; if they are separate and distinct, and have no link of conheition by adjournment, er Committee, or officer, or otherwise, they ar6 perfectly legal. Continuan:e of any meeting or society held httspeeilled purposes is the crime; repetition of meeting, stripped of any link of' connec tion. is still quite illegal. It is considered that it would be advisable, in case separate and distinct meetings are called, not to appoint any person as chairman who has been in the Clair of any other meeting for the purposes above specified, for the six months next preceding. There is no direct prohibition in the statute against therepeition of the same chairman within six months, but a forced and violent construction of the statute may perhaps extend the Act so fat, and lt is better to keep perfectly clear of giving any pretence to allege that the law has been violated. The Cathnlics • should, in every respect obey the provisions of the law, whilst they anxiously and zea lously endeavour by constitutional means to procure the repeal of every thing 'oppressive in that law. It appears to us, free front all controversy, that the New Cetho lic Association does not come within the prohibitions of thjs statute -and that it can continue its sittings and renew its officers and Committees without any possibility of impeachmest. There only remains fee us t 6 observe, that the 6th George 111, Chap. fah, has expired. it was the one of the six Acts which cloned the reign of George 111. that rendered illegal certain assem blies whet, money was taken fur admission. It 'foes indeed ap pear plain that such meetings as the Catholic, hold did not come within that Act at all—but that at present is quite a superfluous quesitton, because the Act h av i ng expired with the last day of the last Session of Parliament, it is now legal to recelife money for admission to any assembly. As the lair. therefore., prevents the taking of money for admis sion to public meetings, it appears that there can be flOsbetter C.r mote certain method found to keep any meetings sepatateanddia.- tinct from each other than to make the power to attend each meet ing depend on the payment of a sum of money, gis tog a right le. attend for one day. and no longer. By this tue.itai the individuals who may Attend public meetings cannot be called delegates or re presentatives ; they arc nut chosen or :elected by ally person. They meetings themselves cannot be held to be contiguous. because a separate and diitinct right to attend each Meeting must be acquired for that meeting alone ; and he who attends one meeting will not thereby acquire any s p ec i es o f r i g h t to atten d soother. The coca tinuation, therefore, of each meeting will be but ohe day ; there will be no society or continued assembly to come, by any posaible construction, within thp recent st a t ute . B ut i t i s st ill permitted to hold, and as repeatedly and is frequently as the Catholics tinny please. separate, distinct, and unconnected meetings. It is our duty to obey the law ; but It is also our sacra duty to devise and act upon sit legal moans left us to rise superior to thc vexatious provisions of statutes calculated to crush oir first hopes, and retard our peaceful but unextinguishable determination to procure freedom of conscience and justice for our native laud. DANIEL ,Chairman. The reading of this Report was accompanied and dillowed by re peated cheers ! Mr. O'Oon MAN said, the document could not be received as a Report from shy Committee. Mr. &Cow NELL did not intend it as such, but as a aubstan• five document. Mt. CONWAY moved, and Mr. HOARE seconded a resolution. approving of the advice and opinion conveyed by the document read by Mr. O'Connell. The motion passed nett. eon. Mr. O'Cosrez Lt. said, that in preparing thedoeurnent just teal, he had to consider one subject, that rendered another painful. He alluded to the respectable and learned gentleman who acts as Seen. tary to the Catholic meetings: it became necessary sacernii, whether his appearing in that capacity at repented meetings, was legal or otherwise; and he was convinced. after the most. mature consideration, that Alr. O'Gorman's repeatedly officiating- pas per. ' lectly legal • fur he was not appoint e d t o t h e offer by,cha severe! meeting!, b ut, having been paid the well-deneved compliant' ce nominating him at the aggregate meetings as .tereetart els the Ca tholics of Ireland, that compliment is followed up its aU suisseep:z: minor meetings, by accepting of his volunteer services ax•their cretary ; and as it is upon that understanding that Mr. O'Bormrs officiates at Catholic meetings, his presence is perfectly legal. Mr. O'CionleAN said, he was quite scare that e had po other title to appear as Secretary t o t h e C at h o li c Meetings that of courtesy ; which was extended t o hi m by gen tl emen permitting bins to give his volunteer services in the capacity of Secretary to the meeting. Mr. LUKE PLUNKETT thought it the safest mullet tottiquest of Mr. O'Gorman to report the proceedings of the meeting. Alr. O'Costiegt.t. differed with great respect from his learned brother barrister, Mr. Plunkett. Mr. O'Costxm.t. said there was another subject of vital import to which he requested permission to call the attention of the nice:- ing. Had the collection of the Catholic Rent been permitted to continue until now. there would have been Fifty Thousand Pounds in hand, and if they were once in possession of that sum, heliad no doubt,but emancipation wc uld soon follow. TI ley hactst present Th,r, teen Thousand Pounds principal, and it was his opinion, that notht beyond the interest should be extracted front that amount, whittt ought be preserved solely for political purposes, as there will Le a fund sufficient for charitable purposes created by the New Assosi ation. But he was not content with thirteen thousand ?minds. There had been lately a kind of storm raised through Lnglatd and this country, and the political atmosphere was not yet ECT' fectly tranquil ; but when the tempe s t s h a ll su b s id e ( an d f ie 'soul t be foremost in setting an example of good temper and forbear. :wee), the spirit of liberality evinced last year by the Plotestatts would again coalesce with Catholic energy ; which thought may sleep is not dead, and require s n o s t en torian voice to rouse it into action ; for he thought he himself possessed the power of exerting it. The Learned Gentleman said he could not all for the samttinn. or authority of any public meeting or body; but there was no prohi bition to our individually appointing peoons to collect " the To succeed in the collection, it will be necessary to make it Appel:. that the objects for which the Rent shall be collected are diitinte• rested, pure, and useful : anti although the late Catholic Assoc:a. don had one of the most efficient, correct, and talented aecefs, whose accounts were kept (hear, hear) ; and notwithstanding those accounts were audited and published under the confirmation, and sanction of two Protestant and one Catholic merchant, of the IlVst eminence and character, yet it was asserted some few days 'line in a newspaper, that It was not known what had become of the Cain e . lie Rent ; therefore it would be incumbent on the individual col lecting the Rent, that its receipt and expenditure should be ec• accurately accounted for, that neither ignorance not malice could affect to be unacquainted with it. If he could not induce tattle individual to undertake the collection of the Rent beton a fort night, he would himself assume the duty, and It should not be bit fault if there was not a treasury for the Irish people equal to their wanta.—(Cheers ) That a portion of the Catholic Rent, expesidad on twelve prosecutions,. had effected great and obvious good, could not be controverted ; and it was no small prospect of Irish . - quillity, that not even the power and master hand of Orange loth enee, applying all the stimulants of York influence. had been able to excite thespirit of resentment in the Irish peasantry, nor the re newal of outrage amongst the Irish Orangemen. THE RENT. Mr. DOWP.T. O'Retat.r was quite averse to any project t::. might have the effect of diverting the funds of the New I.:Athol:I: Association from the glorious purpose of emancipation and the pre. servation of the Catholic religion. Sir E. 8EL7.74W, who was received with constelerableapp:ause e suggested, as smatter of pniderice. that some opiniona of etniustet lawyers, not interested in the matter, should he obtained. Mr. O'Cort woo said, that, as the Parliamentary Session *ill approaching, they should not fritter away time. her was no per. son who would more regret or deprecate any violation of the hese than he would, but die Association ran no risk by the colle.:• non of the Rent, as Mr. O'Connell was prepared to take the re sponsibility upon himself, and as there could be no gewlernar more competent to the undertaking; he wished Mr. O'Connell every success. LEINSTER MEETING. It was resolved, that a meeting of Catholic stecreesnee of erre. tics im Leinster, now in town, should be held at the Ciiiholss Rooms, on Friday next (to-morrow). FOURTEEN DAYS SITTINGS. Mr. O'Cox at ELL now addressed the Meeting, and said that b's pitied the Irishman whose hear did not warm at the anticipation of the Catholic Aisociation meeting for fourteen day. in Janw ary next, when they would wesemble for all the purpoalar which they originally inet.—(Cheers, and hear, bear.) Theicait tings would commence at ten, and hold till five o'clock each day, aad the close of their session slioakl be celebrated by a mend na tional dinner. to which the sixty-nine Prep and the Bishop" of Norwich and Rochemer should be ievited; be tbereforc lurnenett to recommend the of January next, for the re-assembling of the Catholic Association. Agreed to. • ' ' • Mr. Sat.tt, observed, that it was a matter of consideration whe ther measures should not be taken to carry into effect, on the meet. ing of the Irish Catholic Association, the union so anxiously de. sired by the English Association. The Duke of Norfolk would enter warmly into the arrangements. Mr. Sherd said he stunt re. sume the subject on the next day of meeting. • - Alter thanks to the Chairman the Meeti• g broke up. • I les. led Kt a 1 as id pin t of and tae t TP I4 u. et a d w i but the r the 430 y urc e fall P lir" 110 g law" • Y o Mat/ to 141 traLl chin Thit i!cht ny 1 3 %e It 1 tl e e ,Oll three so 13- ti ult., e anti from IT ll' n'tara