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of men to get together and offer spiritual remedies only a 3 the test of their sympathy. They seem to think that Ca tholicism is the greatest curse of Ireland, forgetting that thirst and hunger, and their thousand attendant ills stalk in the glare of'day through her lonely valfies• Nay, some of them go still further, and pretend to believe that, if con verted, they would at once leap into comfort and tlenty ! Yes, gentlemen, it is well enough for you to determine in Your own minds which is the right road to salvation. You daily sit down to a good dinner. You are wel comed home by the smiles of a cheerful family. You Can indulge in all sorts of speculations before a blazing fire. Your light is never offended by the horrors of abject Poverty. How easy is it for you to abuse " the dema gogue O'CoxicELL," and rail against the Catholics ! You doubtless consider yourselves Christians of the first water; Yet the Gospel, that was wafted to the on the Wings of peace and gentleness, you would trans.% rm hitt) " oppres sion's iron rod." Let me place bekre you one fact, and reconcile it, if you can, with your coarse attacks upon the Roman Catholic Reli"ion- a district whose inhabitants are entirely left to the m'acies of the " brutal priest," and are, moreover, in a im":ot miserable condition, the lateintel ligent and impartip..l .Mr. INGLIS in his " Travels in Ireland," observes—" I 7,alked back to Kilkenny from Cullen in the evening, wie.,.iout any fear of robbery, in a country where 'olf the people are starving. Robbery, singular to tell, is o my'requent occurrence; and I look upon it, that traveller is in less danger on the highways of Ireland, than in any other part of the British dominions." ....When a political reform shall have been effected ; when 1 ! o isands of unemployed hands shall be at work, and wages shall be higher ; when tithes shall be swept away, and the heel of a church—a " Foreign" church—shall cease to dis figure the fair face of IRELA 4 sn—then will be' time to put into the new soil that plant of celestial seed—the Protes tant Religion, But the execution of this mighty design will not be confided to the rashness of such men as 11.1'GREE, CPSULL-VAN, ct id actin omne. It must be done " with Patient care, and wisdom-tempered zeal ;" never forgetting that men who pursue the dictates of conscience are reli gious in the best and truest sense of the word, since religion is but the echo of conscience. In the 19thL century a crusade against opinion will not be submitted to ; quot homines tot sententice is in the immutable nature of things, and th e ravings of such " incomprehensible" noodles as the above mentioned, never yet did any thing but injure the cause they espoused, and excite the undisguised contempt of every man of common sense. MILO. FRENCH PAPERS. COURT OF PEERS—THURSDAY. The proceedings in the Court of Peers commenced by the examination of M. Maillefer, the editor of the Journal Le Peuple Souverain, published - in Marseilles, and against Whom the bill of indictment contained the following charges : —" When the Journal Le Peuple Souverain was established in Marseilles, the editorship was confided to M. Maillefer, rho published in Douai,the Liberal du Nord. In his qua lity of principal editor, 111. Maillefer had the exclusive direc tion of that Journal, particularly in the absence of M. Im hert • and it was on that account he was prosecuted for articles inserted in the nurabers of the 12th, 13th, and 14th of April, and for his personal participation in the events of that period. The article the most seriously incriminated Was the extraord:mary postscript of the numbers of the 13th and 14th, in which it was annnunced that the insur gents of Lyons were masters of the city, and that Louis Phillippe was besieged in the palace of the Tuileries by the Repub,iicans of Paris. The reader of the printing-office of the journal declared that M. Maillefer was among the per- BU S who brought him, in the night of the 13th, the manu script note of that article. The printer had at first attributed it t o a M. Lardier, but M. Maillefer, in his examination of th e 16th of April, presented to the Judge of Instruction a letter, signed " Berard," in which the latter had inclosed the article to the Journal, with an invitation to publish it on his own personal responsibility. M. Maillefer added, that he was not aware who had brought Berard's letter to the Office ; that he had copied it, and sent it to be printed, under th e double guarantee of the author and manager of the Paper. In a subsequent interrogatory, M. Maillefer main tained that he had not written any of the incriminated ar ticles ; that, moreover, the influence of the Journal, both by its publications and the exertions of its editor, had been in- Variably used to restore tranquillity in Marseilles ; that the sections of the Society of the Friends of the People had been convoked fog the purpose of preventing demonstrations that might have compromised the peace of the city, and that it was witb that View that he had had, at the office of the Jour nal, several conferences with members of that society." 'M. Maillefer, having been invited by the President to rise, begged leave to be allowed to explain his personal position in the case. He reminded the Court of his endeavours, at the opening of the debates, to bring his co-accused to make concessions to the exigencies of the . Court, which would at the same time conciliate their in terests and the dignity of their judges ; but although his opinions respecting their incompetency were not altered, the voluntary secession of 28 of the prisoners, the abominable crime Which had sullied with blood the fifth anniversary of the great week, the sinister insinuations which the Government had thrown out against the Repub lican party—the law of intimidation of the 9th of Septem ber ; and, finally, the interest of the cause, placed him under the necessity of presenting his defence, and opposing facts to the calumnies of the bill of indictment. He, a simple plebeian, might be proud of being tried by Ministers, Ambassadors, Generals, Prefects, who were, to be sure, his Peers, as citizens, and he regretted to see the assembly widowed of its noblest illustrations, who protested, by their absence, against the theoretical competency of the Court, Which the above considerations alone had induced him to accept, and he would, consequently, answer the questions the President thought proper to address to him. M. Mail lefer accordingly g ave a full account of .his conduc t dur ing the events of April. He never had been a member of the Society of the Rights of Man, and had often dif fered in opinion with some of his friends who belonged to the association. Although the principal editor of the Journal, he had not so much authority in the councils of the redaction as might be supposed from his title, for 'there were perhaps thirty or forty shareholders in the con cern, who had more influence perhaps than he possessed. Most of the proprietors were members of the Society of the Rights of Man. He was merely charged with what is called the Polemique of the Journal, and did not attend to the news, which was left, when it came in at a late hour, to the reader and other persons of the printing-office. He then explained how the two incriminated postscripts had appeared in the journal. They had, he said, a nzagnetical origin. In the absence of intelligence from the seat of the insurrection, some persons who have faith in magnetism thought it expedient to consult Madame Chabot, a som nambulist, or pythonisse of Marseilles, on the passing events. Her answers were translated into French, from the Pro vencal, and brought, written with a pencil, to the office of the Journal. The investigation made by the Judge of In struction had proved that such had actually been the origin of the postscription ; and if he (M. Maillefer) did not summon the sybil as a witness, it was in consideration of the respect he . had for the Court, as that woman was a half savage, who could not speak a word of French, and that her appearance hafese the house would be a farce only 'worthy of the theatre of l'ariNs. That was the sole rea son why he did not summon that witness, who might have been of the greatest use to him." The letter, enclosing the postscript, was sent to him by M. Berard, a respectable and wealthy citizen of Marseilles ; be had read. it before it was given to the printer, and he could not suppose that such serious facts as those recited therein could. have been ad vaned on so extraordinary an authority.. The interrogatory of M. Maillefer being concluded, the euamination of witnesses commenced. The first examined 'was a tavernkeeper, at whose house 112 'republicans had held a meeting on the 10th of April. He did not know what was the object of the re-union, and he only suspected it was of a seditious nature when the President ordered him not to quit the house. The Mayer of Marseilles entered into a long account of the preparations of the republicans of that city to make a diversion in favour of the insurgents of Lyons, but stated that M. Maillefer, to his knowledge, had done everything in his power to calm the effervescence of the party, and prevent an explosion. Three or four witnesses were then examined, not one of whom could articulate a charge against M. Maillefer. The Attorney-General observed that those witnesses had been merely summoned to give the Court an idea of the state of agitation of the public mind in Marseilles during the events of April. GREECE. (From the Political Gazette of Munich.) • ATHENS, Nov. s.—The 9th of November is fixed for the installation of the Council of State. The number of the Councillors of State are a sufficient proof that the Go vernment not favouring any of the parties in calling toge ther all the distinguished men of the country, wishes to unite them in the great object of promoting the national prosperity, and to submit to their consideration the ques tions which are of the greatest importance. It is a mis taken idea of any body to think that the most eminent talents of the country are here collected ; this is certainly not the case ; but they are the men whom the Greek names with pride as the advocates of his liberty ; the men in whom he places unlimited confidence, and who have risen the more in his esteem because a great portion of those called Granimatikoi (those who have had a learned educa tion) • aim by intrigues and selfish proceedin g s only at in creasing their own influence and fortunes, but not in ad vancing the public welfare. With the public there is only one opinion on the judicious choice that has been made by the Government, and the Opposition has again lost a large ~ _ ~..r..... Mr. thern scrip t that ibute both .esent where h will i7ell as case le top could it the been e y de-_ or, al- must 3ritain l their g and satisfy rs whtt es are it Bri he sea of so for, by Com >onabb, boldly y e cost be;ig h pub-" t great to the nail in ails the horses. iothing parties d must le Post of the , it wilt .sengers to pilY , in any ents, to s' work• Inuary fully at at all 3nting a A place xhibitcd !nee ; or :urrence : at such women, employ- id much !nt, both on them andsome besides 3rs," and as their I would heir eyes nd about a on the this first onus, in, n extra- , r.ty il in bat , on as A in a I°4 vaganee , he many ness the ; Day 15 , n e being i to take full con i will be diem will row right , which at rat more clearer to lvite the vehicles , !onvey to an carlY -untaxed ,ACE. i mails, t At many quickly descrir e no more coaches ; wouritisin grand. I I moved , s charged at paid to 'cars ;fo r a year on ;he last of T? forth the prom ptly req uiring' that - ,f ju'Att' a to vc • body of its friends. Among others the censorious Soar seems disposed to abandon the hostile ranks: The news that his Majesty the Ring of flavaria is corning i to visit liis son has excited greatjoy alliOrig the Whdiii and from the great love and ieSpkt Which the Greeks entertain for the PhilhOlenic rather of their King,. Otho, the day of his arrival will be a general festivity. The communications be‘ween Greece and other State? Will iintin be greatly facilitated. Besidet tlit dpected establishment of steam-boats, tq tttel3 up a constant intercourse with Syra, Malta, P.:74a Vecchia, Naples, Leghorn, Marseilles, Sce., tb.'lre are 'to be likewise steamtboatOtqo Piraeus and Chios, Srayrnia,CotiSiOtil'i4l?.l, kirete, Rhodes, Cyprus, and AIekaWAVIA. A mail between-Greece and the Austriaki States by land is likewise intended, and the 440, trian Government, as we hear, is . having sthani-beats built at Trieste, for a refular eniVoft',cation with Greece, - as well as other countries. The departitre officers from Greece continues. It is reptried that a list of these officers - has been: Made out, who, after the expiration of their Atrlou t ihs, may return to Bava ria, it not being. thOught necessary to re-engage them. (The furloughs here Milk are those given by the King of Bavaria to I3avarian officers, allowing them to serve for a certain time in Greece), According to the Soar, it is intended to save two millions of drachms in the military establishment. A commercial letter from P.erlin, says that, the lirst ship under Greek colours had ar rived them It belongs to the house of Ralli, in Syra, which is said to have made a large profit by this specula tion. The writer of the letter says that the Greek sailors were received in the most friendly manner by the North Americans, and that if all the Greek captains are as ho nourable and reasonable In their demands as the captain of that ship, there is no doubt of a considerable trade between Greece and America. BEP.LIN, DEC. s,—Large detachments of picked men have lately arrived here from all the provinces, for the corps of the Guards, and it is said that a' not inconsider able addition will be made to our garrison, by the addition of the other divisions of the Guards, to render the duty in the capital snore easy. For this purpose, the building of two new barracks is thought necessary. One of them is to be erected near the new drill-house, for the Grenadier Regiment of the Emperor Francis of Austria, and the bar racks hitherto occupied by that Grenadier Regiment, are to be giren to the Regiment of Guards, which has hitherto been ;.11 garrison at Spandau and Potsdam. Together with this change, the powder manufactories, cannon founderies, &c., will be moved to the vicinity of the foams of Spandau. A very agreeable feeling has been excited by the circum stance that the Estates of the kingdom of Wurternburg have publicly acknowledged in this Assembly, that the be neficial effects of the accession of that kingdom to the great commercial Union; founded by Prussia are already felt.— Frankfort Papers, Dec. 13. DISCOVERY OF A HORRIBLE PLOT. We are indebted to the Dublin Evenino. Post for a let ter from New Orleans, containing the following extraor dinary details. We believe no other account of it has yet reached Europe. " New Orleans, 10th November. " Our City, and all the Southern States, have -been lately thrown into great confusion by the discovery of a plot on the part of the Black population to rise, en masse, on the night of the 25th of Deceitiber, fire the cities and towns, and during the confusion attendant on such a proceeding, fall on the unsuspecting White population. " With them it was to be a regular war of extermination. This was all planned and conducted by White persons, who were to enrich themselves on the spoils. The leader was to manage the attack on New Orleans in person, and-while tide city was in flames, he with his chosen few, were to force the Banks, and make themselves masters of all the portable coin, and then make good their escape ; for it was with this intention they commenced the work. Their dupes, the Negroes, would then have been left to their own resources, which would terminate with their extermination. This would have been worse than the St. Domingo business. " In this city there are eighteen thousan Blacks, who have in their possession a great quantity of arms, and it is dreadful to contemplate what would have been the result. It would be war to the knife with a vengeance. All this was discovered by a young man who was admitted to their council. He published in full the entire plot, with the names of the Agents in the different towns. In many of the States the people seized on those agents, and hung them up at once. In New Orleans the people acted more coolly , they held a meeting ; appointed " Committees of Vigilance," formed military companies. To one of these companies I am attached. We have ordered some suspicious persons to leave the city within a given time, and every thing is in such a way now that should the Negroes be inclined to carry their plan into execution, they will be warmly received, come when they may." The letter then states some late instances of punishment according to Lynch Law. BRIGHTON.-FRIDAY. _ His Majesty and the Landgravine drove out this after noon, in a close carriage and four, preceded by outriders, along the Shoreham-road. ,The Queen has nearly recovered from the effects of a cold, but the weather has not been sufficiently inviting to induce her Majesty to ride out. His Majesty gave audience to the Marquis of Conyng ham, Sir Willoughby ,Cotton, and Sir Charles Rowley, yesterday. Sir Andrew Barnard quitted the Palace yesterday, but is shortly expected to return. Sir Robert Otway, Sir R., Lady, and Miss Whitshed, Marquis and Marchioncss of Conyngham, and Sir 'Wil loughby Cotton, were added to the Royal di aller party yesterday. COURT CIRCULAR. His Majesty will hold a Council on Monday afternoon, at the Pavilion at Brighton. Mr. Alderman Humphery, Dr. Southwood Smith, Mr. Grainger, and Mr. Pitcher, had interviews yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street, on the proposed Metropolitan University. A meeting of the Record Commission was held yesterday at the Treasury. Amongst those present were the Arch bishop of Canterbury, Lord John Russell, Lord Brougham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Lord Commis sioner Bosanquet. The French Ambassador, the Sardinian Minister, and Mr. Poulett Thomson, visited Viscount Palmerston yester day at the Foreign Office. A meeting of the Irish Loan Fund Directors was held yesterday afternoon, in Downing-street, with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Mr. W. H. Hyett, the Secre tary, accompanied the Directors. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE• ARRIVALS. The Earl of Scarborough, at his seat, Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire, from Glentworth, Lincolnshire ' • Lady and the Misses Grey, at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-gtreet, from their scat, The Oaks, Kent ; the Ladies Stanhope, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Chevening, Seven oaks, Kent ; J. Hawkes, Esq., at ditto, from Brighton ; Mrs. Shepherd, at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork-streets, from her seat in Suffolk ; Dawson, Esq., at ditto, from ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Ede, and Mrs. Shelton, at ditto, from Ridgway Castle, Southampton ;'Captain Dalrymple, at ditto, from the North ; C. Wiltshire, Esq., at ditto, from Herts.; Captain S4,well, at Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, from Bath. • DEPARTURES. General and the Misses Buller, from Gloucester-place, for. Viscount Bridport's, Somersetshire ; Hon. Captain Spencer, for Althorp, Northamptonshire; Lieutenant-Colonel Drum mond, from his seat, Sudbury, for Brighton; James Taylor, Esq., from Symmon's Hotel, St. James's-street, for his scat i-n Warwickshire; Robert Unaiche, Esq., for his seat in Ireland; Colonel Dubois de Jenequi, from the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork-streets, for Paris; J. E. Wescomb, Esq., for Thrumpton. Nottinghamshire; Sir H. Fletcher, Bart., from ditto, on a tour; Messrs. Cane, from ditto; for Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. I3oode, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, Bath ; Lord Thomas Cecil, from ditto, for Burleigh ; Sir Willoughby Cotton, Bart., from ditto, for Brighton; Colonel Patrickson, from ditto, for Ireland ; George Carrington, Esq., from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's street, for the Abbey, 11Iissenden. DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning be tween nine and ten o'clock, the report of fire-arms was heard from the bed-room of Mr. Giles, a solicitor, residing at No. 120, Great Russell-street, Bedford-square. On the inthates of the house proceeding there, they found the unfortunate gentleman lying on the floor with his brains blown out, and holding a large horse-pistol in his right hand. A lady, who was accidentally passing in the street, was nearly shot by the bullet, which passed through the window close by her. The deceased was between .sixty and seventy years of age, and a widower, residing with his daughter. The body now lies at his residence for a Coro ner's inquest. We are requested to state that Messrs. Mudie and Son, News Agents, No. 15, Coventry-street, have no con nection with Mr. Christopher Mudie, Princes-street. • ItADlcm, Assoc' AT toNs.—Mr. Feargus O'Con nor, the President of the - Great Radical Association, is about to visit this neighbourhood, for the purpose of form ing :associations in the large manufacturing towns of the West Riding of Yorkshire.—Leeds Times. During the severe and sudden gale on Wednesday week, a fishing• boat, belonging to Porteasiei: was upset among the breakers, on the sands of Cullen, and the whole crew, consisting of eight men, perished. By this melancholy' accident, five women have been rendered widows and 21 children fatherless,--.47dinburgh Courao. FIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1835, PROSECUTIONS OF THE PitEsS.— VAN DIVMEN'S LAND. poses. From the accompanying papers you will see, that by the affidavits which he has produced in refutation of my e'mr,,d; he has established qttite sufficient for my purpose, which was to shoW the Htirtie Oovernment that great abuses existed in the Government of this Colony----Tarticu larlyin the appropriation of the public labour. I have not been able to obtain a sight of any of the affi:lavits except Pendleberry's, bat I have learned enough of their contents to see that the following admissions are made, namely That the superintendent of the Government carpenters did superintend the erection of the house, for Which he re ceived 1001.—that the superintendent of the Government brickmakers supplied the 'bricks by ccntract, receiving in payment the labour of a certain number of Government hfiektnakers, with a certain sum of money in the name of payment for ration's. 'These brickmakers were from the loan gangs, which were established under the pretence of assisting the settlers in erecting buildings on their farms, --j which have, in fact, been employed in erecting fine . palaces for the over _:- , aid public officers ; and have, in reality, formed a fund for the most atrca,7es system of corrupt offi cial jobbing, almost equal to the grant systeul. 11 0 GuTcril meat, as soon as it was deprived of that fertile source of jce6- . bing, very adroitly substituted the Assignment Boa;tl and loan gangs, as a fund for rewarding servility , an d.an instrumen: for the ruin of any man who dared to express any complaint against the numerous measures which have now nearly com pleted the destruction of this once flourishing Colony. It would be tedious to enumerate instances in proof of the use that has been made of the loan gang ; but I think that Captain Montagu's contract viiith •Pendleberry, and his employment of Brown, is such a glaring instance of the abuses of the system, that no impattial person vrill doubt the rest. It is important to look at the conduct of Colonel . Arthur in making room in the Councils for two such near . relatives as Captains Montagu and Forstef- - - - --the first Colo nial Secretary, and the second Chief Police IS,lagi4rate, both of his own making. I hate rie doubt but the reports regarding Captain Montagu's use of aoitermnQnt materials have been grossly exaggerated, as I have found on inquiry, 'after I (Tot a key to the circumsta n c es. But the fact of the building being carried on by eonvictlnbenr, and by super intendants in the pay of Government, and the bfieks being confessedly taken from the man who had control of Govan talent brickmakers, will show you. that there was a sufficient colour for the rest of the cline es: You will observe the admission, in O'Connor's affidavit, or the' appropriation of a large quantity of iron stone ; but O'Connor's statement is not true in that part, where lie asserts that this iron tiiffie was considered the property of the persons on whose land it was quarried ; it being well known that the Government gangs were employed to quarry that stone for the purpose of forming the New Wharf f and that the proprietors of the land from which it was taken derived an ample com pensation from the increased value of the land, which was at least five hundred per cent. when the cliff was retrieved, and its base brought to the level of the 'Wharf. It is true that several of the proprietors who stood in favour with the Government, did obtain stone, quarried on their own lands by the Government hands, which was no more than a proper and reasonable accommodation, had it been given in general and impartially. But my attention was first directed to the cir cumstance, by a complaint, that while Captain Montagu was getting those stones, a small supply had been positively refused to r -3)15r. Askin Morrison, and other of the proprie tori,;-bnt_4ho in place of being a relative of the Gover nor's, viaSAhen engaged in a law suit with one of Colonel Arthu'r's Members of Council, which terminated in Mr. Morrison's obtaining a verdict for 1,5001. That Captain Montagu's house was principally, if not entirely built, and the materials prepared by convict labour, is a fact too noto rious for that gentleman or his friends to attempt to deny but the atrocious loan gang system, and the authority of the Governor, would afford a ready and convenient cloak for this. But I can prove from my own knowledge, and con firm it by many witnesses, that not only the convicts who may, to suit a purpose, be classed as part of the loan gang, but even numbers of the chain tang, who are neVer sup posed to be lent under any circumstances, have been openly and repeatedly employed, in and about the erection of this house, and the improvement of the grounds. It is, how ever; due to Captain Montagu, to admit that he was by no means a solitary instance of such proceedings. The sys tem is general amongst the favourite public officers, who are designated as the` Faction ; and it was purely for the pur pose of exposing that system, that I was induced to publish the charges against Captain Montagu, and for publishing those charges, I am quite certain of being convicted of libel, and sentenced to an additional fine and term of imprison ment, with every aggravation that vindictive feelings and unlimited povVer can inflict upon me. But under those suf ferings, I console myself with the hope that the condition of the unfortunate free inhabitants of this colony will attract the notice of a reformed Parliament, and that an enquiry will be instituted, which will show that I have merited com pensation in place of the punishment I am suffering, for that I I have done a service to society, and not committed an The following is a letter from the Editor, of the True Colonist, now in jail, to Joseph Hume, Esq. ; M.P. Hobart Town, April 24, 1835. Sin—The last letter Which I had the honour to address to you would prepare you to expect ttie tteeet!nt . of My being tried, convicted, and imprisoned, for publiFliitig the several matters referred to in my lotqt. o(ictri td you of the lath V6rtiary, cod to tlid mate ill the fa.la iq the ;te, Colonist d tchh o:l4l:ebb:cutiar,id;rwwivalliceil6ld.tip;piayro_ci.c.ii: beg your attention in these cases are, that the fuels set pea ft2nlllib6 iv;hlt!lt I wetilti 'tortilla the matter charged .as libellous; were not only ad 13;_it IL, the eidefiCe t 4341 ' 4 "1.1,1 , ,irt. In the first case, (the alteration of the date in O'',Jonnat grant) you will observe that the isolated case i tself is coin paratively little consequence, and probably would not have justified the language that I made use of in bringing it under public notice---but if you look at it in connection with the ease of Captain Stianston and Broughton's estate, you will see at once the dangerous practices which it was My object to expose. And when you 'consider the u_nli mited and apparently - irresponsible power _exercised by the Executive Council, with respect to the titles of land, and the facility with which the Governor can dispense with the advice or consent of his Council, as evinced in O'Connor's case, you will perceive the fearful predicament in which the rights of the poor ignorant people or persons absent from the Colony must stand in questions of disputed titles—and you will also discover how very little reliance the Colonists can place on the Exectitive Council, as possessing any d e _ gree of influence over ilic acts of the Governor, being only a shield from individual responsibility on his-part. Had I merely published the facts. of the case, vrithout the ac companying matter, I should have failed in my object of attracting the desired notice to these facts, by placing the proof . of them on record. Although these facts, and a great deal more, were, either admitted or proved in the proceedings on my prosecution, the Chief Justice has sen tenced me for their publication to imprisonment for four months, and a fine of 601. In the second case, (the appropriation of the hay, g rown on the Government land, by the labour of per sons fed and paid by the crown, to the private farming speculations of Colonel Arthur, on his own private estates) according to the intention intimated in my last, I preferred a charge at the police-office against the person who was in charge of the Government farm, for embezzling the hay. For the manner in which this charge was treated by the Maaistrate, I beg to refer you to the accompanying papers, where the proceedings are fully reported. At the same time I pre ferred a charge against Captain Montagu, for appropriat ing Government materials and labour to his own private purposes—but the manner in which my charge in the hay case was met, with threats of prosecution, with the refusal of the Magistrate to summon the witnesses necessary to prove my-charge, or allow me to conduct the prosecution in the case, rendered it quite useless for me to attempt pressing any charge which implicated any Member of the Government. For the notice which I published relating to the removal of the hay, I was prosecuted and of course convicted, and sentenced to be imprisoned for eight months and to pay a fine of 1201. In this case, as in the former, the facts published by me were all admitted by the At torney-General to be true ; and strange facts were elicited by him on the cross-examination of my witnessess, corrobo rating the purport of my article ;—namely, that a great portion of the public property and labour, is appropriated to the private profit and advantage of. Colonel Arthur: The Attorney-General prOduced the report of Commis sioner Bigge, to show that the Lieutenant-Governor for the time, was entitled to the profits of the Government domain ; but it only showed that the farm of 180 acres, the one to which I referred in my last, was then cultivated for the use of the Lieutenant-Governor, and that was not at the expense of the Crown. I would respectfully claim your attention to the very disproportionate rate of salary, re ceived by the two Governors, and that in addition to his salary of 2,5001., Colonel Arthur derives from the produce of the Government domain, cultivated at the public expense, emoluments which cost the public, including rent and labour, at least 1,500/. —admitting the appropriation of the land and labour, to be permitted by the Secretary of State, with the sanction of Parliament. It will not escape your notice, that the hay was not appropriated to the purposes of the Lieutenant. Governor's official establishment, but to the pri vate farming speculations of Colonel Arthur. Besides these two prosecutions, I was tried on a third for libelling an attorney, named Rowlands, whose practice had excited particular complaint here, where the law 'ex penses are generally felt to be a system of legalized plunder upon the community. But you will be able to discover the enormity of this particular case, by the accompanying papers referred to on the margin, and You will judge what the or dinary practice of the colonial lawyers is, when you com pare this case with the declaration of the Chief Justice, " that Mr. Rowlands had acted with honesty and inte grity ;" of Justice Montagu, " that he had shown great kindness" to the poor man who was his victim ; and the gra tuitous testimonial of the Attorney-General, " that there was not a shadow of imputation on Mr. Rowland's charac ter." I trust that the interest which you have so generally taken in the affairs of your oppressed fellow subjects in this colony, will induce you to give this case a careful perusal, and that you will take the trouble to direct to it, the notice of some of those gentlemen who have more particularly devoted their attention to the important subject of Law Reform. It would be impossible for me to convey to you any thing approaching to a correct understanding of the wide-spreading ruin which the lawyers have inflicted on this colony, even could I attempt the description with safety in a letter which will be published here, and you will estimate the danger which I would incur by publishing the whole truth on this subject, by the circumstance of my being sentenced to fine and imprisonment for publishing the conduct of Rowlands to Luck. -It is proper to inform you, that this man, Rowlands, who is pronounced by the Judges and Crown Lawyers to have acted so kindly and honourably, was, on a former occasion, complained of to the Court, for certain of his practices as an attorney for two ignorant 'men named Stynes and Troy—the particulars of which are well known to both the Judges and the Crown Lawyers. He gave those men 3801. to induce them to withdraw the complaint, and you will observe that this was not in payment of any claim, but a gratuity for not pro e - ceedine• with the charge. Mr. Gellibrand, who was the legal adviser of the complainers, afterwards filed the affi davits in the Courts, being apprehensive, as I am informed, that lie might incur censure, if not a prosecution, for being accessory to the compounding of the affair. These affi davits were afterwards, on the motion of Rowlands, with drawn, and Justice Montagu, in granting the motion, se verely censured the conduct of the parties, not for com pounding the a ffiuir, but for having made the complaint ! ! The gentleman who will deliver this letter has got copies of the affidavits filed in Court, which will throw considerable light on the state of the administration of justice here, when considered in connection with the case of Rowlands and Luck, for which I am convicted of a libel. The private note which accompanies this will also throw considerable light on those proceedings, and account for the dreadful state of the administration of justice in this unfortunate colony. But it is due to the Chief Justice to state, that he is, with the exception of the Sheriff (Mr. ,Bannister) the only Public Officer in the Island greatestwho is universally held in the respect, for never having in any shape, directly or indirectly con nected himself with any private jobbing. It is due to Mr. Pedder to say, that the highly honourable tenor of his con duct has secured to him, as an individual, the highest de gree of respect from every man of every party, even from those who blame him for having permitted the lawyers to work the ruin of the Colony. The evils which the people have suffered under the administration of a Judge of such upright and fastidiously honourable principles, arise from the inveterate Tory prejudices which regulate his public acts, and his almost superstitious adherence to the anti quated principles and practices of Courts of Justice. Al though he sees and deplores the outrageous extortion practised by the lawyers 'of his Court, yet he is afraid to put forth his hand to correct it, lest in doing so lie should' disturb some of the venerable cobwebs and dust which his early prejudices have taught him to revere in a Court of. Justice. He appears, also, by his own con fession, to have lost that authority over the lawyers which belongs to his office—for when I was on my defence, in the case of Rowlands, he checked me for some irregularity —adding," The conduct in this Court is most indecent, for 1 by the manner in which the opinion of the Court is questioned and replied to, one would think that the Judge was upon his trial in place of the person before the Court. I do not say this in reference to yoitr conduct, for I make every allow ance for a person unacquainted with the general practice of a Court, conducting his own care—but here it is the general practice of the persons belonging to the Bar." This May in some degree account for the atrocious extortion which is to lerated amongst the lawyers here, while a Judge of Mr. Pod der'.s character presides in the Court, who has kept his own hands so perfectly clean from every stain, that, in the midst of such a system of usury and official jobbing as pre vails here, the breath of slander has never lighted on his name—although he has been very generally accused of al lowing his inveterate political principles greatly to sway his conduct as a Judge. There is nothing connected with this Colony that demands the attention of Parliament more than the atrocious system of plunder carried on by the law yers, and sanctioned by the Judges. Since I have been in prison, Captain Montagu, the nephew by marriage of Col. Arthur, whom his uncle got appointed Clerk to the Council, and whom he has now made Colonial Secretary, and Mem ber of both Councils, has obtained from the Court a rule for a criminal information against me, for charging him with appropriating the. Government materials for his own pur offence. Connected with my trials I would earnestly solicit your attention to the law, which Colonel Arthur has imposed on the people of this Colony, in the room of the British Institution of Trial by Jury. Under this law, ordinary of fences are still tried by a Military Jury of seven officers, nominated by the Governor, who each receive fifteen shillings a day for this duty. Amongst those are many who are reckoned standing Jurymen, and others who are expectants for some of the numerous civil appointments so lavishly bestowed by Colonel Arthur, on military officers, to the manifest injury of the regimental discipline, and to the great detriment of the Colony. From this it must ap pear to you that the Governor posseises a very undue in fluence over Juries so constituted in any case, where the accused, from whatever cause, may be obnoxious to the Lo cal Authorities. But to silence the strong remonstrances of the Colonists on this subject, as well as meet the animad versions that were expected from yourself, and other inde pendent Members of Parliament, the Attorney-General introduced a clause, into the Jury Act, providing, that in all cases where the Governor, or any Member of the Coun cils, or any Naval or Military Officer on full pay, was di rectly interested, the trial should be had before a Jury of Inhabitants, taken from the Special Jury List. But the manner in which this. Special Jury List is framed makes such Jury in all those cases more objectionable, if possible, than a Military Jury ; for this Special Jury List is princi pally composed of persons designated Esquires, an arbitrary distinction conferred at the 'discretion of the police autho rities, principally upon Public Officers and Clerks in the various Government Offices, several of whom arc not even householders ; while many of the most wealthy, intelligent, and upright citizens, are thus excluded from sitting on Spe cial Juries, which can alone try criminal cases—and to com plete the evils of this law, the accused is denied the right of challenge. Nor can a verdict be set aside by reason of any disqualification in any of the Jury, although such should be discovered after the verdict. An instance of this occurred on the first prosecution against me. After the trial, I moved an arrest of judgment on the ground that Mr. Henry James Emmett, jun.,• one of the Jury, who is a Clerk in the Secretary's Office, and had then just returned from some months' absence at the Mauritius, was not a householder, nor possessed of any real property in the colony. But the objection was over ruled, because I had not taken it before the trial, although it was only made known to me five minutes before I ap plied to the Court. By the gentleman who will deliver this, I have for warded two petitions to the House of Commons, which I respectfully solicit that you will do me the favour to pre sent. I will also write to Mr. Bulwer, to solicit him to support the prayer of my petitions. If you will do me the kindness to take any trouble in my case, I will of course leave it entirely to your own judgment, whether to present or withhold one or both of the petitions ; or to bring the matter under the notice of the Secretary of State. 1 trust that your having done me the honour to commence a cor respondence withme, and the fact that I am suffering en tirely on account of my endeavours to serve my fellow colonists, will render it unnecessary for me to offer any apology for giving you this trouble, without having the ho nour of being personally known to you. With respect to the general public affairs of the Colony, the dreadful effects of Colonel Arthur's system are so gene rally felt, that even the Government Press does not attempt to deny the existence of the prevailing distress. Numbers of the agricultural settlers are leaving the Colony to seek a re fuge in the interior of New South Wales ; and should Colo nel Arthur remain here for another three years, every man who can possibly leave the Colony, except those who are the immediate objects of his patronage, will hay . deserted it. The Government ppople . arc attempting to ,scribe this to the land regulations ; but .the fallacy , of this must imme diately appear, when you, consider that the same regaila tions p reva il i n N ew South Wales. It is aindersto,od. here that Colonel Arthur ha's applied 'to the Secretary of State for power to renew the former system of gratuitous grants of land. There is no doubt that such a measure would pro duce th e most beneficial effects, could any guarantee be de rived for the impartial exercise of that power ; but expe rience teaches us that in this Colony it would only become a source of the most corrupt patronage and abuse under the present Administration. Indeed - the power which Colonel Arthur possesses in the disposal of the convict labour, en ables him to keep the OeloniSts in . a complete state of sla very. The great objection to the sale of Crown lands con sists in withdrawing from the hands of the settler the capi tal which he might otherwise poSsess for the improvement of his laud ; and also in the 'propriation of the proceeds of those sales. The former might be obviated, and impar tiality secured, by selling the land by public auction, with out any fixed minimum price, in lots, to suit the several applicants, allowing a very liberal credit, at a reasonable rate of interest, as suggested in orr,) of tl:e accompanying papers. 1 am led to believe that several gentlerr.en lave adresrsecl you very fully, in privatelitters, by this oppartuaity, I have no doubt but you will find that they all confirm the statements that I have made. I will esteem •it a great obligation, and you will be conferring a favour on the Co lony, by forwarding to me, as you kindly offered, any Par liamentary papers that may be printed, having reference to the interests of this Colony. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servantf GILBERT ROBERTSON. Lobby of the Felons' Gaol, Hobart Town, April 21, 1835. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ELECTION. KETTERING, FRIDAY NIGHT, SEVEN O'CLOCX.— Liberal interest has, I regret to say, suffered a defeat to day, which no efforts that can b 2 made to-morrow will be able to repair. No artifice has been left untried, no in fluence has been withheld, no chicanery neglected by the Tory party ; and the glorious result is, that. Mr. Maunsell is placed at the head of the poll, by tile most ignorant, drunken, and brutal electors in these kingdoms, who have been treated and fed, and driven up to the poll the whole day, like herds of swine. FIRST DAY. STATE OP TILE POLL AT FOUR O'C:DCK. Maunsell. !--lanbury. KlAtering ClipstOn Oundle ..... 4,, Wellingborough 340 338 Peterborough l5O 225 .The 1,721 1,105 Majority , 613 When the poll had closed for the day, Mr. MAussr.u. appeared on the hustings, and briefly returned thanks to his numerous friends- for the 'support they had that day given to the monarchy, the religion, and the best institutions of the country. Mr. Hanbury ap peared as a candidate professing the principles of the exist ing Government, and that there was a coa lition between that Government and Mr. O'Connell was proved by Mr. O'Connell's letter, Mr. Shell's avowal, Lord John Russell's acknowledgment at Bristol, and the mode in which places of every description were showered by the Irish Govern ment upon Mr. O'Connell's puppets. Mr. Hanbitry had said he hated Mr. O'Connell. He (Mr. Maunsell) be lieved he did ; for be had known him long, and placed im plicit reliance on his veracity. But he had pledged himself to support the Melbourne-O'Connell Government, and he had no doubt he would do so. The speaker concluded a few desultory observations, which were nearly drowned by the vociferous howlings of his own party, and the hooting of the other, by expressing his conviction that the da y of his return would be a very proud one, not only for North ampton, but . Great Britain generally. It must be recollected that a large body of electors still remain to be polled, and that although the result of to morrow's proceedings is not likely to influence the probable result of the election, still it may diminish Mr. Maunsell's gross majority considerably. ADELPHI THEATRE. The new I3urletta by Mr. Jerrold, entitled Doves in a Cage, was last night produced at this theatre, and met with the most flattering success. Mahelink (Mrs. Nisbett) a rich heiress and niece to Bezelat,a merchant (Mr. Younge), has for some time been favoured with the addresses of one Prosper (Vining) a harum-skarum •spendthrift, whose sole motive for expressing to her a passion which he does not feel, is to obtain possession of her fortune, and thereby re store his own. The uncle, who sees through tbe design, has recourse to a very singular expedient, and one which we think not very likely to have many imitators, to defeat the schemes of the fortune-hunter. He feigns bankruptcy, and as his niece is nominally a partner in the concern, he contrives to get her arrested and confined in the Fleet, where not long since her spendthrift lover had also been compelled to take up his abode. The "clones" thus meet in the " cage," each, however, being ignorant that the other is a prisoner, as Cherub( Wilkinson), one of the gaolers, intimates to the gallant that the lady has merely come on a visit, being one of those charitable and amiable beings who enterprisons to relieve the distresses of the unhappy inmates, with soup and blankets, while he secretly informs her that the genaerrian had come on a similar errand, of friendship and humanity. .An amusing scene ensues, each being anxious to conceal from the other the teal and degrading circumstances of the case. The truth is,-however, at last discovered, and the thoughtloss rake, who had formerly followed the .fair illabellah for the sake of her money, finds so much nobleness of mind in his intended victim, that be repents of his meanness, and falls truly in love with her, although he conceives her to be pennyless. The uncle, who had imagined that the wild foxtune-hunter would think no more of his niece, after he had met her a poor friendless pri soner for debt within the contaminating walls of the Fleet, is thus disappointed in his scheme by the unlooked-for sense of virtue and honour which had sprung up in the heart of Prosper. He tries, however, another plan—he offers to discharge all his debts, and restore his fallen for tune, if he will sign an agreement to renounce Mabellah for ever and quit Eng-laud within an hour. Prosper, how ever,' refuses—sure of Mabellah's love, he will rather re main a prisoner than renounce her. The uncle ienow sa tisfied of the disinterestedness of his affection,' und the lovers, of course, are made happy. The character of Carbuncle, a riveter of the chains of matrimony, after the fashion of the noted Blacksmith at Gretna ,Green, was well sustained by Webster. The most finished acting of the evening was, however, that of Mrs. Nisbett. THE LOSS OF THE NEVA. (Copy.) Admiralty, Dec. 16, 1835. Dear Sir,--I have received from the Under Secretary of State for the ileme Department a copy of your letter, stating the existence of an impression on the public mind, that there had been some great neglect on the part of Government,' or of their agents, in the hiring of ships for the conveying of convicts, or in the fitness of persons who . _ navigate them. The Board of Admiralty have directed a minute inquiry to be made into this subject ; and from what I have already learned, I do not hesitate to express my conviction that such impression will turn out to be destitute of any foundation, and that unavoidable accident has been the sole cause of the melancholy events which every person must most sin- cerely deplore. With reference, however, to the loss of the cva, I transmit you the copy of such parts of the report of the Committee of Inquiry, asticaibled at Launceston, by order of the Govern - or of Van Diemcn'A Land, to investigate the circumstances of this event, as boar upon the question ; and I trust that until the result of the inquiry ordered by this Board can be known, the information. rontiined in them will go far to allay in your mind, and in ti,at of any person to whom you may think proper to conitntmicaw them, any such impression as that mentioned in your I have the honour to be, &c. _ ( Signed) C. WOOD. Joseph Hum?, " That the Committee itave further ascertained that the vessel was built ay-lull, in Yorkshire, in the year 1818, and had recently undergone a thorough repair, and was newly coppered ; that she was a good and substantial vessel, and was well found in all kind of store; , , as well as furnished with two good chronometers, and other necessary instru ments, for the safe conduct of the vessel ; that during the voyage the greatest regularity appears toqave been ob served by every person on board, and the most humane at tention paid to the unfortunate prisoners. " The Committee learn, that on the noon of the pre ceding day, the ship was by good observation in the lati tude of the north point of King's Island, and distant from it, by calculation, ninety miles ; that they then steered E.N.E., having the wind W.N.W., a good look-out was kept for the land, which was discovered at two A.M. right a-head ; that the vessel was then hauled to the wind en the larboard tack, for the purpose of clearing the Harlin . mer reef, being then, as they supposed, nine m il es from 'the land, the wind blowing strong, the night was moon light and ocopsional clouds. " In closing this Report the Committee have to state that they have paid the greatest attention to this melan choly investigation, and have done their utmost to elicit the causes of this sad occurrence, and feel it their duty to the late surgeon-superintendent, and to the master of the vessel, to state. that it is their opinion that no blame whatever can be attributed to them, the officers, or the crew ; that the reckoning appears to be as correct as possible, which must be inferred from their making the land at the very tine they expected. And the course steered was such as they conceive every judicious seaman would have adopted, and which would, under the usual circum stances, have carried him at least fourteen miles to the northward of the extreme point of this reef, as laid down in the chart. The Committee can only attribute tl.c.sliip getting on the reef - to the extraordinary strength of the tide in the first instance, the reef being improperly held down, or an erroneous opinion formed by the master mud crew of their distance from the land, when the ship was hauled to the wind ; or, more probably, the concurrent influence of seve ral minute errors, which united, have caused the dreadful catastrophe upon which we are called to report. We annex the examinations taken before the Committee, upon which we have formed our opinions. • (Signed) " We bare ", " GEORG bI•DE A RE, Major Commandant " W. LITTLEJOHN, Police Magistrate. MAT. CURLING FRIEND, Lt. R.N., Port-officer.' The living of Milton Abbott (vacant liy tfte death of Dr. Jago) has been presented, by his (*ace the puke of Bedford, to the Rev. St. Vincent Love Harntniek, son of Sir S.,llaouniek, Bert, SPIRIT 0,7 THE PUBLIC JOURNALS A paragraph in the .Standard of last night is so worded as to lead to the inference that her 1,1.0yal Highness the Princess Victoria is in an infirm stat e of health :—" Her Royal Highness (who is now at Ramsgate) took carriage airings, it is said, daily durity the last fortnight; and she teas able to walk to the car riaprre without difficulty." The meaning which the writer intended to convey evidently was, that it was. with difficulty her Royal Highness walked from the house door to the carriage. Now, we can state, on an authority on which we can confidently rely, that during the last fortnight, the period referred to, the carriage was ordered daily for their Royal Highness.-ts the Duchess of Kent and the Princess, gene rally within a few minutes of twelve o'clock ; that when driven to the Pier, on arriving there, they, with two ladies in waiting, alighted, and promenaded the eastern and western Piers for a period se.idoin falling short of an hour,.and often exceeding it. They were then handed into the carriage by Sir John Cyli roy, who almost invariably attended them, and drWent for another hour on one of the roads leading from Ramsgate, where the party (including the Princess) a t, :n ost b:?iformly again alighted, and walked, attended by a a ti°3tm;) for another hour. On returning to the carriage they we ,:e then driven home to Albion-house , the alternate riding a :_id walking occupying nearly four hours. So much fur eill .the inference' intended to be conveyed by the Standard. We are happy to have it in our power to allay the apprthensions the paragraph might have created in the people, who naturally take a deep interest in all that relates to 11: . Royal High ness. We believe that the ankles of the Princess - were weak before she visited the sca-side: ; but the fact of her taking so much exercise on foot, afft;.rds the most satisfactory proof that her Royal Highness is in excellent health and strcril.:,:th.—Morning Chronicle. We direct the attention of our readers to a commu nication (in another column) received by Mr. Hume from Mr. Charles Wood, Secretary to the Admiralty, in answer to a letter addressed by the Hon. Member for Middlesex to the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, stating the prevalence of an im pression that there bad been some great neglect in the hiring of convict ships, or in the fitness of persons ap pointed to navigate them. We have already expressed our opinion, the result of an inquiry into this subject, that there was not the slightest foundation for the sur mises of some of our Contemporaries, that the Neva was not in the best repair, and quite fit for the voyage. However, the Board of Admiralty haveordered such a minute inquiry into the subject, that the public will be put into possessiOn of all the - facts of the case, and enabled to decide with certainty whether blame does or does not attach to any quarter. In the meantime the extract from the Report of the Committee of In quiry, assembled at Launceston by order of the Gover nor of Van Diemen's Land, which accompanies the letter to Mr. Hume, must go far to remove any im pression on the public mind that the Neva was not sea-worthy, or that she was improperly navigated.— Morning Chronicle. • The feeling of Englishmen on behalf of that con stitution under which their ancestors for so many ages have enjoyed, almost exclusively among the nations of the earth, the blessings of liberty in thought, word, and action—that sentiment is like one of the old tough weapons, by the victorious use of which England was for centuries distinguished—the bow—which, bent in whatever direction, or with what violence it might, never once lost its elasticity, or failed to resume its form. The constitutional spirit of our countrymen has within this twelvemonth been severely tried ; it has been tugged at, and twisted, but has ,never snapped, nor been permaPently warped from its natural inclina tion. The re-action of the bow is now manifest in many parts of England, and no doubt need be entertained that the mind of, the people is in substance as fresh ;le d healthy as before the revolution doctors began to drug and blister it. We refer with joy and thank fulness to the report of the great meeting at Bir mingham, to celebrate the first anniversaay of " the Birmingham Loyal and Constitutional Association." The object of this display of honest and high principled resolution in support of the British monarchy—and the religion, laws, and liberties of Britons—the vast amount of property, intelligence, rank, and character, ley which it was attended—the spirit which reigned tliroeghout the whole of the pro ceedings, and the sentiments and course of policy to which that important assemblage of loyal Englishmen there congregated, have solemnly F ledged themselves, and all whose minds they can fairy'influence, will speak for themselves more impressively than we can describe them, and will show the world that England in all her noblest attributes is still unimpaired and per fect. Birmingham, since the accession of the first Whig Ministry under Lord Grey, has been the centre of popular movement, and has been noted more for extoavagance than sobriety in its appetite for political change. However confident, therefore, we might have been, that in the spread and reflux of c onstitutional feeling ovee this country, Birmingham must have experienced sooner or later her i'ull proportion of the universal inherit, it would, we confess, have been a surprise to us, no less than a gratification, that the formidable commueity in question should at so early a day as this have exhibited a political revulsion so decisive, had we not been conscious how deep was the stake possessed by Birmingham in the general well-being of the kingdom, ' and how' well qualified her sagacious and reflecting inlia bi:.3nts must be, whenever they turned their attention to the subject, to "eAimate the dangers in which a headlong course of revolutionary violence must inevi tably plunge the liveselpd properties of us all, the en terprises of commerce aad the fruits of industry. The Address to His Yi",;jesty, prepared for the Members of the Association, and :low aceiving hourly additions to its numerous signatures, is drawn up ,in clear and straight-forward terms. It disguises nothing ; it shrinks not, sneak'.; not, but tells things by their pro per names, and applies to that of which it disapproves - no hesitating or timid reprobation. The constitutional . .11e,A,pf Birmingham declare to his Majesty the intense • aex i e l / 4 #led platen with which they view the possibility of anatile attempt on the part of his Ministers " to renew theie f-sli rnd dangerous measure of last ser.- sion, which, after being adopted by a small majority of time House of CcYnnixis, wag s happily, ,fi» - the country, rejected by the House - o f Lords." They state, that while the "ostensible " objec: . of that measure is to ~ Apply the surplus revenues cf L.'me Church to general' purposes of education, it has a riireest and eviaent ten- deney to subvert that church , an d to stilistztate Po p er y 'Or*.::‘:.• in its " darkest form e' and indeed we must add ,. how could it be otherwise ? when the inowly so plun- dered from the Protestant church would he dis- .. . bursed by the hands of the llomish priestlviod, mid : , turned into an engine. for extending under the name - -i of education the sway of that priesthood over tneir perverted flocks. The Association manfully proclaim the Irish Church spoliation " measure to i:ave beenasrung from his Majesty's Ministers, as the - F ricc of a par- lianientary support, indispensable to their ecntinurnice i n (filet-, by one whom they themselves had solemnly denounced to the co►n as a dangerous agitator !" This is an unmerciful truth from the lips of the Bir mingham Association, and the more so, because it ;s the echo of precisely similar accusations from every part of England. To the I; L ay- wor k-men of those : Ministers who, with the wild phrenzy of conv icted cri minals, still cry out that they arc innocent , even after sentence is pa s sed, and who deny a ba r g ain witwithO'Connell, the terms of which are kno wn to ever y child in the empire, w e answer, in the words of our powerful and valuable colleague in this good cause, the Standard, " was,there no compromise on the part of the Whig Minis ters" (who brought forward last session the spoliation clause, after having) " but eight months before voted against Mr. Ward's resoluticns, ' to bind themselves to the great ptineiple' of secular appropriation, by a vote pledging them for ever and ever ?" There is no re sisting this. True and most useful is the proclamation by the men of Birmingham, that " it has been proved beyond the possibility of doubt, that the resources of the Irish Church are by no means too great for the spiritual wants of the " (Protestant) " people ;" but even if the attempt to establish the existence of such a sir: plus had been as successful as it is extravagant and vain, . the Association " humbly but earnestly protest against • its application to any other than strictly Pro testant ecclesiastical purposes,"—the very - words cm .. e . irwa ~. on in ~~ - I 111