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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts front the Morning Papers, Mag 28. [THE TIMES.] A memorial-has, it appears, been presented by the English to the Dutch Plenipotentiaries, on concluding : that famous treaty - which we have within these few days brought under public no tice. This memorial is to us even more decidedly despicable than the treaty for which it was in tended as an apology to the English nation. It is full of congratulations ! on that happy issue of the conferences, which has placed the commer cial interests. of England and-of Holland on such a delectable footing of one-sided reciprocity. It defines . -the Molucca or Spice Islands, of which, in the true spirit of free and enlightened com merce, the Dutch are allowed a monopoly, to comprehend all the rich and - extensive Archi pelago, betweeh Celebes, New Guinea, and Timor. - 1 - t first delivers up millions of unhappy natives to Dutch harshnesi and rapacity, and then gently recommends them to the " paternal kindness" of the Dutch. It is, in truth, no less than a inean cloak for the weakness of those Mi nisters who have been so egregiously, on this oc casion, deceived and bullied by Holland. [NEW TIMES.] Yesterday was - a holiday at the Bank, but .both Exchanges were open. Consols continued with little variation throughout the day at 06 1 4 for the Account. Bank Stock was again lower in price, In Foreign - . Securities but little busi nesss was transacted ;,,Mexican Scrip, however, advanced full one per cent., and that of Colombia about one-half per cent. The others remained without alteration. The Alliance shares which, from the interest existing at ptesent with regard to the progress of the Bill through its final stages were objects of speculation, have varied between 14 and 16 premium. The other shares remain stationary at our former quotations. [BRITISH PItESS.J Lord Lauderdale's Bill to repeal the Acts of the late reign, relating to the wages of persons employed in the manufacture of silk, and of silk mixed with other materials, has been printed, after passing the ordeal of the Upper House, and is now before us. We can discover nothing in this Bill to create the alarm betrayed by the body . of journeymen silk weavers who attended the discussion with so much anxiety. The Acts which interfered with the silk trade, and com pelled a certain rate of wages, were equally im politic and unjust. " Laissez faire" is the best rule on these occasions. The produce of labour constitutes the natural recompence or wages of labour, and will almost generally ensure an ade quate return. It is true the common wages of labour depend every %%here upon the contract usually made between two parties, whose inte rests are by no means the same. The workmen generally desire to get as much—the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to' combine to raise the latter to lower the wages of labour. The latter, however, under the past system of the Com bination Laws, must on most occasions have had a decided advantage, and been able to force the workmen into a compliance with their wishes.— The masters, being fewer in number and more wealthy, could combine with greater ease and effect, and the law did not prohibit their com bination, while it denounced those of the work men. There have been no acts of Parliament against combining to lower the price of work, while many have-been passed against cotnbina7 tions to raise it. In all disputes of this sort, too, the masters can hold out much longer•; the master manufacturer may find other workmen, or even if his trade stands still he could gene rally live for a long time on the property he had already acquired. Many artisans could not sub sist a week, and few for many months, without employment. The workman in the long run may be as necessary to his master as the master is to him ; but the necessity of the last is not so pressing or immediate, though, in disputes with their workmen, masters must generally have the advantage. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Letters have been received from Malta, by the way of France, datt•d on the 4th current. His Majesty's ship the Revenge, Admiral Sir H. B. Neale, .had again sailed for Algiers, and the Cambrian frigate for Genoa, to convey the Mar. uis of Hastings to the seat of his Government. The accounts received 'there from Candia were not favourable to the Greeks, a ° division of the Turkish fleet having appeared off, that Island, and compelled the Ckristians to raise the siege of the different stations in which•the Turks had previously been confined. This success, hori ever, will be only short-lived, for 18 ships of . war, of various descriptions, had sailed from Hydra with rej.g9rcements, and it was therefore expected That the superiority of the Greeks in Candia - would be again immediately restored. In the'Morea the greatest unanimity prevailed amongst all descriptions of the veople, and the ne. cessary means were in progress, which will spee dily reduce Patras and the castles of Lepanto. —There being .no enemy elsewhere in that part of Greece, the inhabitants were engaged in the' cultivation of the fields., and the Senators in eh acting laws for the protection of property and the future Government of the confederation. At Messolongili the head-quarters of the army re ., warned, and great exertions were making - up to the 27th ult. to discipline the soldiers in the Eu ropean manner. The independence of Greece is now established. too firmly to be enda trgered by the Ottomans:olnd in a few years a Power will be consolidatiild at the head of the Mediterranean Sea, little inferi.or to: any of the European na tions,. This new Empire, from position and from mutual • convenience, will become consitteralii addition to the society of ci vilizr;d nations, and will furnish particularly it most valuable wart for the' consumption of a part of the surplus of labour of British industry and intelligence. Stron g and ,confident hopes were entertained at Messolonghi that before die c o se of this summer the whole of Albania will be cleared of its oppressors. In Lwadia, Thessaly and Macedonia, the prospects of civilization were equally cheering. The part which England has taken in this contest will form one of not the least important pages in her future history, fbr, by the assistance of her citizens, tl►e contest will be brought to a conclusion years sooner than the most brilliant conduct of the Christian population could by any possibility have effected. [MORNING POST.] French Papers to the 26th instant reached us last night by Express ; but the Etoile of Wed nesday alone contains important intelligence. Its details relate exclusively to the attempted revo lution at Lisbon, and are extracted from the Madrid Gazette of the 20th inst. It appears that our faithful and venerable ally was a second time obliged to have recourse to the protection of a British man of war. The first time indeed the necessity was less painful. It proceeded from the advance of an invading army, and from an heroic determination to abandon a throne rather than to surrender its independence to the grasping ambition of a foreign despot. This time the blow was aimed by kindred hands. It was a wife who struck at the authority and liberty of her husband—it was a son who threatened the life and crown of his father and his King ! In the former instance flight was one of the vicissitudes of war—in the present it' was the only preven tive to dethronement and parricide ! Whatever might be the injustice which occasioned the first, it sinks into insignificance before the deep crimi nality and sacrilege of the second. As the chain of intelligence is interrupted from the 6th t o t h e llth, at which period the King of Portugal and his Ministers were on board the Windsor Castle, we know not exactly by what means his -Majesty effected his escape from the per sonal confinement in which he was kept at the Palace of Bemposta.- It is probable, however, that besides the firmness and energy of The Di plomatic Body, which were displayed in a most honourable and beneficial manner, the threats of the British Admiral, may have had some weight.' However this may be, his Majesty succeeded in " transporting himself on board the ship Windsor Castle, belonging to one of his most ancient, powerful, and affectionate Allies," from whence, " as from a point inaccessible to all dissen lions, good order and tranquillity were ex pected to emanate." On the 10th his rebel lious, his infamous son, was ordered to repair on board the Windsor Castle. The wretch dared not disobey the mandate, and on arriving fell at his father's feet, and pretended to explain the means of artifice and seduction which had been, used to induce him to act as he had done. He was par doned, but detained ; and we trust that after the various atrocious attempts which lie made to rob his father of his Crown, he will no longer be per mitted to go at large. As to the Queen, who was the secret spring of the whole, the best thing which can be done is to send her back to her brother Ferdinand. They seem related in feelings as well as in , blood, and she will have some difficulty in making him worse than he al ready is. It will be seen by our'extracts that wise and energetic measures had been taken and were taking, and that it was thought•that in a few days it would be safe for the King to land and return to his palace. [MORNING HERALD.] Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated May 13, 1824 :—" The principal subject of conversa tion and conjecture here at present, is the affair which has taken place at Lisbon, but of the true nature of which we are ignorant. The account given of it in our Gazette of to-day, cannot of course be relied on. However, our Government seems to attach some importanc e to it, as the po lice are actively employed in inquiring into the characters, occupation, and correspondence of the Portuguese of every class who are here some of whom have been already arrested. The day before yesterday, there was a full meeting of the members of the Council of Castile, which lasted from nine o'clock in the morning till one o'clock. In the paper of this morning, there ap peared the following notice To day,at twelve o'clock, will be put in execution the sentence of death passed by the executive military commis sion, on Thomas Franco, accused of treason, and convicted of having uttered in the square de Budia, in the month of November, 1823, the following frightful expression—My sabre is tarnished; 1 wish I could brighten it in the blood of the King; to which he added se veral other equally criminal expressions." This unfortunate young man was, in fact, hanged to day ; his fate excited a great deal of commisera tion, for it was suspected that he fell a victim to ' private malice and false swearing. He was only twenty-seven years of age, and.remarkably hand some and genteel in his deportment. He bore himself with great firmness on his trial, and in his defence spoke with so much good sense and good feeling, that few of those present pre- • saged that his fate would have been so deplor able. He had been educated at the University of Salamanca, and had already entered into the first ecclesiastical orders. He was the son of a notary, in Taressa (a village of New Castile). As he passed to execution, there were very few . dry eyes,at least amongst the female spectators. Yes terday Gen. Digeon set out for Araiquez. The day before the officers of the garrison and the municipal authorities went to felicitate him upon his ar rival. It caused some astonishment that on his entering Madrid he was unaccompanied by a singl e French General Officer. The Secretaries of State and the President of the Royal Council are summoned for to-morrow to Araujuez. A report prevails here that a French Garde du Corps has been shot at Aranjuez, for having vio lated a young tadv. the daughter of one of the first families there. After to-morrow will be celebrated the Feast of Saint Isidore, the Patron • Saint of Madrid, a day upon which the populace get drunk,. in honour of their celestial protector, and during which, ac cording to immemorial custom, several poignard wounds are given and taken. There is no doubt but that this year the number will rather be in creased than diminished, seeing the bad blood that exists between the Negroes and Blancos." PROCLAMATION OF SIR F. ADAM. The following Proclamation, issued by Sir FREDERICK ADAM, upon assuming the function of Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, appears in the Corfu Gazette of the 10th ult. " PROCLAMATION. " Michael r ch F a r e ed l Adam, a enridcks t.George, Ge Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Comixillnder of the Order of the Bath, Knight of the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa and of the Russian Order of St. Anne of the First Class, Lieutenant-General Commander in Chief of his Bri tannic Majesty's Troops in the lonian Islands, and Lord. Hi g h Commissioner for hi s M a j es ty in the United States of the lonian Islands, &c. &c. " His Excellency having received a dispatch from Lord Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonies of his Majesty the King of Great Britain, in which he is informed that his Ma jesty has been graciously pleased, to appoint him, in the room of the late Sir Thomas Maitland, to the post of Lord High Com missioner for the Supreme Protector of the United States of the .lonian Isles, and his Excellency having officially announced this nomination to the President and Senate, his Excellency communicates it to the public by the present Proclamatfon, which shall - Serve as a guide to the Inhabitants of the lonian Islands, and to all whom it may concern. " His Excellency, on entering upon the, office graciously confided to him by his Majesty, and thereby' becoming the organ of his Majesty's unceasing paternal care for the inhabi tants of these Islands, cannot conceal his want of confidence in his ability to execute these benevolent intentions, and this dis trust is the more increased; when he reflects that lie has been chosen/by his Majesty, to succeed the distinguished person whose memory will be ever dear to these Islands, and whose loss can be no more adequately repaired than sufficiently la mented. " But, while his Excellency is profoundly and sincerely pe netrated by these feelings, he cherishes the confidence that he shall be able, at least to a certain degree, to fulfil the benevo lent intentions of the Supreme Protector, as his efforts will be directed to act on the same principles and in the same spirit which guided all the actions of his esteemed successor in ful filling his Majesty's intentions. " His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner also derived courage from the perfect conviction that every endeavour, which has for it object the welfare and prosperity of the lonian people will find an effectual support in the wisdom of the Executive Power, and the patriotism of the lonian Parliament, and that the zeal of the Government in promoting • the welfare of the lonian people, will produce the happiest results, seconded by the fidelity and attachment which this people have always ma nifested towards their Government, and their Supreme Protec tor, to whose paternal care they are indebted for the Constitu tion under which they live. " The present Proclamation shall be printed in the English, Greek, and Italian languages, and made generally known to the public. " Given at the Palace, Corfu, April 10, 1824, " By command of his Excellency, (Signed) " THOMAS LANE, " Private Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner." TIIE BISHOP OF DERRY. ADDRESS FROM THE CITIZENS OF DERRY, TO THE HON. AND RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE. The calumnious and unmerited attack which was made in the Dublin Evening Post, upon our exemplary and venerable Diocesan, whose exercise of the virtues which become his office, has stamped his worth indelibly upon every heart, excited a burst of indignation in this city, so strong and general, that any thing like it is not in our recollection. The Citizens knowing the foul injustice of the accusation, resolved to stamp with their reprobation the wanton malignity of the libeller, in assailing a character which the breath of calumny had never before presumed to sully, and to rally round his Lord ship to protect him from the poisoned shafts aimed at him— and, in his person, at the religion of which he is a distinguish ed ornament. As the most effectual way of doing this, an Ad dress, expressive of the abhorrence of the atrocity was drawn up ; and on Saturday last a number of Gentlemen by whom it .had been signed, assembled in the Record Office, when the Worshipful John Rea, Esq., the Mayor, having been called to the Chair, it was moved by Alderman Scott, and seconded by John A. Smyth, Esq., that the Very Rey. Dean Gough, the Right Rev. Dri. M'laoughlin, Roman Catholic Bishop, and the Rev. Geo. Hay Presbyterian Clergyman of Derry, accom panied by the rest of the Gentlemen present, should proceed to the Palace' ' and that the ltev. George Hay should read and present the Address to his Lordship, ()tithe part of the Gentle men who bad•subscribed to it, which was accordingly clone. The following is a copy of it :- 111 it LORD—When the characters of men of integrity and honour are falsely and clandestinely assailed, it becomes the bounded duty of every honourable man to detect the falsehood, and rebut the slander. Purity cannot shield a character from calumny—even your Lordship has not escaped defamation. The malevolence of an article inn public print has lately depicted you* as you are not —we owe it to your Lordship to depict you as you are. When you became our diocesan, you f o und a cathedral, with in Who se wa ll s Divine Service had not for a long time been performed. On your arrival a tower was building for the re erection of a spire, and you aided the object by the liberal contribution of nearly one thousand pounds. At a later period it has been determined to complete the improvement then contemplated, and your Lordship has floc ther undertaken to erect a spire at your own expence, which will cost you nearly an additional thousand pounds. In the departments of your episcopal duty which relate to your superintendence of your Clergy, and the disposal of your patronage, whatever the tongue of calumny may insinuate, you stand invulnerable. The Clergy of your diocese feel con fidence under your protection. Scarcely a year has elapsed without finding a Curate, through your means, raised to com fort and independence, and the authentic records of your Church designate Ten, who, by your fostering patronage, have been promoted to parishes within the last five years, not one of whom was in the most distant degree connected with your Lordship. Our numberless public institutions—our daily craving cha rities, bear amble testimony that the funds with which Pro-' vidence has intrusted you, are neither withheld not mis applied. You founded our Charitable Loan by your energies. By a powerful appeal from the pulpit you explained its object, con vinced us of its utility, and obtained for it the means that gave it formation and impulse. You formed also the present Free-school. With indefati gable anxiety for the education of our youth, you solicited and obtained grants for its support. You bestowed upon it of your own means one thousand pounds, and you further endowed it with one hundred a year. When you came amongst us, there was no public institution for the education of the poor. You have since caused one to be erected on the foundation of Erasmus Smyth. At its forma tion you bestowed upon it four hundred pounds, anti you fur ther endowed it with twenty guineas a year. Under the direction of the females of your family, another school has been established, in which, at their exclusive ex pence,. twenty unprotected girls receive food, clothing, and education. We have enumerated only some of our public charities which feel your humane and liberal interference. In fact, there is not one established amongst us, that has not excited your inte rest, and received your support. Nor do the public charities of our society limit your libe rality. You have been placed at the head of that valuable as sociation lately formedin the North West of Ireland, whose ef fects are extending rapidly and powerfully in improving the in dustry, the arts, the manufactures, and the morality of the place e ?z c e your Lordship and ourselves,rcl o caonulds e nrytroyau.regr aware, nYaotutbo m eisttoay Lord, e u c p u o n n iar i tytliaeida.ctive attention of a patron, y in i whichyour w presence e your " own work s t o pra i se you ;" but when !an individual actually distinguished fo r q ualities that are amiable , is assail ed—one placed, too, upon an eminence which makes him an easy mark for malice to wound, we deem it an indispensable duty to feel the assault as made upon ourselves—to collect our selves around him, protect him from his assailants, and repel their attempts. These are the reasons, my Lord, which have induced us to intrude upon you with this Address. It is one signed, support ed, and sanctioned by men of all religious persuasions amongst us ; for the effects of your beneficence have flowed over all the religious denominations of our country, in undistinguishing streams. We, who best ksow you, ' can best appreciate the vil e ness 'of that article, which anxiously, but impotently, a tt e mpts to wound your r e p utat i on, an d disturb your peace. With in the very walls of that building, for the neglect of which slander has exhibited, you as the object of censure and re proach, your character has been unanimously and triumphant ly justified The enclosed Resolution, passed without dissent, conveys to your Lordship a vote of thanks, at the same time tells the wri ter of the paragraph which called forth this Address, that the assembled parish in which YOU RESIDE, has, with ONE VOICE, pronounced lihn a Libeller, false, scandalous, and malicious. Feeling, as we do, the beneficial influence of your preserice in our society, and knowing your character from daily ob serziaticns, as IN TRUTH IT TB, We have sought for this wa gou likewise to pronounce that article pregnant with malignity and falsehood. May your Lordship live long amongst us, and enjoy every blessing which we who know your worth feel you deserve. We are, my Lord, with great respect, Your Lordship's faithful Friends, George Hay, Presbyterian Mi- Adam Schoales nister of Londonderry Thomas Harvey • P. M'Laughlin, R. C. Bishop Robert Corscaden of Derry Heape Crompton Wm. Scott, M.D. Alderman I James Knox John A. Smyth, J. P. John Hill John Rea, Mayor of Derry - I R. W. Boyd Thomas B. Gough,• Dean of Edward Joyce Derry John Kelso Hugh Lyle, Oak Lodge, J. P. Joseph Kelso James Acheson, Oaks, R. M 4 lntire; Butcher-street Thomas Scott, Willbro', J.P. William Gallagher William Kerr Neal 11‘Clean William Moore David Porter John Thompson James Preston W. L. Smyth Robert Harold Thomas Ramsay P. O'Laughlin, R.C. Curate, P. Gilmour Derry Ross B. Smyth James Conahan Charles !Rea, J., P. Timothy Foy W. K. M'Clintock ' Hugh Foy `C. Galway, Curate of the Ca- William Steen ! thedral Edward Dogherty, R. C. Cu- William Macky rate, Der ry William Marshall John O'Brien M. S. Hill, Alderman ! Samuel Alexander Win. Boyd, Alderman .. Patrick Haliday Archibald Boyd, Burgess John M'Cormick Joshua Gillespie, one of the Samuel Dysart High Sheriffs, J. P. - David Allen ' John Dysart, Mayor of the William Graham Staple of Londonderry Daniel O'Doherty Roger Murray, Alderman I Moses Steen • Marcus M'Causland, Fruit ! William Huffington Hill, J. P. . •, John Huffington R. A. Ferguson, The Farm, William Huffington, jun. J. P. Matthew Shaw , Andrew Ferguson, J. P. John Bond Harvey Ferguson, Burgess Joseph Alexander Conolly Skipton, Beech Hill, John 111‘Clure Alderman Cornelius Kelly James Gregg, Chamberlain John Monteith John Curry, Alderman Ezekiel Graham Thomas Woore, J.. P. John Graham Andrew A. Watt - William F. IWlntire Adam Crompton H. Y. Davenport Andrew Moore Ezekiel Caldwell William Dysart John Graham Francis Gouldsbury, Clerk, William Hunter and J.• P. John Brigham Hugh Lyle, Ashbrook, J. P. William Cooke Irwin Dawson, Capt. J. P. John Allen Harvey Nicholson, Burgess William Waugh J. T. Macky Henry Walkner James Thompson Simnel L. Montgomery William Davenport William Haslett Richard Harvey, Burgess Samuel Major Samuel M'Clintock Thomas Major William Leathem R. A. Stewart Robert Forster John Stewart John Murry, Burgess James Stewart Frederick Hamilton James Hood . Dominick Knox William Moore Archibald Boyd, jun. James Fisher Richard Young, Alderman William O'Doherty John Maginniss, Alderman I CharlesjO'Doherty Alexande; Majo, Burgess James Major Burgess Alexander Skipton, George Franks Alexander Hasson John Chambers Francis Rogan, M.D. William Ball John Gage Ball Tristrim Kennedy William Miller H. Corbett Anthony G. Cary William Pitt Kennedy Alexander Lecky, Burgess William C. Lecky Henry Scott, Curate of Inch James M'Crea Moss. Hempton 'William G. Marshall J. Fenton, Bellevue, J. P. Charles Morton, Surgeon H. Babington William 111 4 Corkell - George M'Connell James Preston William Wallen Benjamin Damns John AI. Dysart Joseph Young William Campbell George Foster David Brown JameaConyagham David Gilmour James Park Denis Doherty Thomas Collins Thomas White David Baird George Lyon Robert Young Robert M'lntire, jun. Thomas Davenport Joseph Black Thanes Beattie William Ewing, Clerk William F. Roe, Curate of the Chapel of Ease Mathew Philsen Robert Ferguson John Bond Andrew Bond J. L. M'Crea John Smyth James Christie, Curate of Faughanvale J. E. Miller, M.D. W. D. Smyth Acheson Lyle Thomas Shepherd R. Wm. Bolid, Bond's-hill James Ferguson James Pigott John Boyle James Murray John Alexander, Caw John Nicholson. His LordshiP received his fellow-citizens with that unaffected kindness which has ever marked his intercourse with them, and was pleased to return the following reply : GENI;LEmEN—I know not to what terms to resort; for I feel that no language can convey the emotions inspired by this affectionate and too indulgent address. I had perused the publication to which you refer with the anxious sorrow,at tendant on a wounded reputation, and the still more dispiriting apprehension, that the establishment which I am boand to up hold, might be shaken by the bolt hurled at one of its professed defenders. _ But, Gentlemen, these anxieties have not sunk so deeply, that your consolations are insufficient to efface them ; nor need the assault be dreaded, which you unanimously assemble to repel. You have been pleased to particularise several of the mani fold relations by which we are connected—to bestow upon the discharge of them the honour of your valued praise ; but, Gen t/emen, 1 cannot accept of such a flattering eulogy ; conscience admonishes me how ill I have deserved it—yet, let me assure you, that highest among the earthly rewards to which I aspire, ranks the approval of those who, like you, possess the capacity and opportunity to decide upon my professional career. With some of you I am united in the spiritual bonds of re ligious communion ; with all, by the ties of social intercouse and Christian fellowship —all will receive my most unfeigned thanks, and credit the declaration, that as long as Divine Pro vidence shall vouchsafe to me the enjoyment of mental facul ties, so long shall the memory of this day be cherished amidst the dearest recollections of my life. THE DUBLIN ROMAN CATHOLIC MEETING. (ilbstraeted.f!-om the Dublin Freeman's Journal.) t n the SaturdayN i e e il last, t s l t g , ao youngf the D Ge u n b tl l e i m n an Catho lic r os e , and Aa addressed s d o r e c s i s a e ih io e nA 'Assembly. He commenced by condemning the ' anarchi cal infatuation" which, he declared, incited the Catholic pea santry to violence and bloodshed, by proclaiming the Protestant Clergy and Gentry as the implacable enemies of Ireland, and thus proceeded :—But I will ask, who is really the enemy of Ireland and her peasantry ? Is it not that man, who with wily, treacherous, facinating, and impassioned eloquence, harangues a credulous, warm-hearted, and generous peasantry, arguing them into the belief, that the Catholics are a persecuted race, whose blood is wantonly and frequently shed with impunity— whose property, privileges, and lives, have not the support and protection and advantage of the laws, and that they are aliens to the Constitution P I will tell the Catholics that they nourish in their own bosoms their most formidable, because their most insidious enemy, a man who wishes for any thing rather than Catholic emancipation, as it is called, and whose projects and designs are calculated and intended to retard that measure.— This is not rhapsody, but the candid sentiments of an honest heart—and would that those who now hear me , that the man whose dangerous eloquence— Mr. LONERGAN—Mr. Chairman, this is more than ludi crous, and the gentleman has now arrived at such a stage, as obliges me to call him to order. Mr. O'Goßmax (the Secretary)—Allow me to inquire, Sir, if you are a Member ? Young Gentleman—No, Sir. Mr. O'CONNELL—Is the Gentleman a Catholic ? Young-Gentleman—No; I am a Protestant. Mr. O'CoNNELL.—Oh ! then, the Gentleman must be heard. _ _ _ Mr. CONWAY thought it would lead to interminable con fusion if every person who chose to come out of the street, should be permitted to occupy the attention of the meeting, and create disorder and uproar by idle and intemperate speeches. 31r. JAMES O'CortNELL was for having the Gentleman heard with patience. The Young Gentleman resumed—Embolden by your success in creating distrust in the peasantry, deitroying their confidence in the magistracy, and establishing a hostility to the Protestant Clergy and Gentry, you proceed with confidence in your power of working mischief—but let inc conjure you to beware of your danger, and to reflect, that although the progress of the laws may be occasionally slow, yet, when they overtake delinquents, punishment is certain—and "that, should you continue Your present wicked course of proceeding, that terrible fate frel overtake you which has befallen so many of your wreto l L and deluded countrymen, who h ave b een impelled to blood s 7 rapine, and have consequently sacrific e d th eir li ves to the ° fended laws. Mr. CONWAY called to order, and if the gentleman W l' not some specific motion to propose, it was unreasonable him to trespass upon the meeting with such a calumniods ture, and it would be unwise in the meeting to permit hire to proceed. Mr. O'CoNNEL—It is impossible to interrupt the gentians° , lie professes to be a stranger and a Protestant, and therefore hear him to the end. (Here some voices called " Chair," and others " Prooeea Mr. JAMES O'CowNELL—Gentlemen, I most earnestly el l ! treat of you to hear the young man. We have often had oee s i sion to complain of being maligned and calumnlatetl behin d our backs, and when we could not defend ourselves f. but her e the foe comes face to face ; here, though we suffer the poison t° work, we can administer an immediate antidote. Mr. O'GoRMAN—WiII you favour us with your name, Young,Gentleman—l shall not state my name.—(A genera cry of " hear, hear," then followed.) The CHAIRMAN, addressing the young Gentleman, saki"' ". Sir, you have appealed to the Chair, and as the meeting have unanimously agreed to hear you out, you are now at liberty r° proceed." The Young Gentleman, hesitatingly, replied that he 'wol la not resume his address. CHAIRMAN—" Then, Sir, if your object in coming here tra e merely to make a speech, you have now an opportunity of tifying your ambition, and of having you r self heard • be . you come.here with the expectation, or in a nti c ip a ti on o f ban* prevented from addressing the Meeting, I am happy you WI been disappointed. You are now, Sir, given to understanut that you have the option of proceeding if you please." The young Gentleman again declined to address the Meeting any further. Mr. O'CONNELL rose to reply to him. The following ar e extracts from his speech : " Oh, Heavens ! in what society has this young lad beep reared, that at his age, and with his education, he should haf,e acquired opinions and feelin g s, th e m e re ex p r ession of whir,. makes humanity shudder ! Amongst w h a t o th er cl a s s of men than Orangemen could he have imbibed such unchrisi tian ideas ? They could not have been engendered by' WV thing spoken in this room. He professes to be a Protestan!l but did one Christian sentiment drop from his lips during h", canting harangue ? Is he a Prote s t a nt f r i en dly t o c i v il ag e religious liberty ? The fanatical animosity with which he charges atrocities upon Irish Catholics, without st a ti n g one single fact to justify his calumnies, prove that he is not a friend to toleration, and that his shallow mind, perverted intellect , and habitual prejudices, have so overwhelmed common sense , that he has been unable to acquire any -knowledge of passing events, but from the statements of the Minister, the Orang e Magistrate and his myrmidons; and, from these authenti c sources, the people are to learn, spite of daily and woeful e perience to the contrary, that forsooth the laws are impartialli administered—that the peasant has no grievance or oppression' , ecclesiastical, civil, or criminal, to complain of—that the Cath°' lie gentry enjoy - all the privileges and benefits of the Constitutio n "'This young gentleman may be but the tutored agent of some ploding, hoary miscreant, who, " sick at heart,"in seeing the Ca' tholic Association rise to importance, spite of calumny and wig' representation, dreads its determination to make known to the world the abuses of power, to proclaim the oppression of the task-masters of Ireland, the intrigues and profligacy of a fae; tion, obnoxious to all good men—a faction that has grown oiu and rich in power, by the basest arts and the most corrupt in sinuation—a faction which has lorded it over the land withou t controul, and spread its roots in the dark, even to the bag', ment of the British throne.' This may be an expiring effort tyranny and weakness, or it may be the mere wanton pran' of privileged insolence in this young exclusionist, anxious for the exercise of his inherent right to insult an oppressed and de' graded people—for he may he a bravo hired by the Orange Club to assail my character and motives ; but, Sir, I have aO passed that time of life when mere personal ribaldry can mahe me forgetful of the obedience I owe my Maker, and of duty to my family, and would to God, Sir, I had ever been guided by the same feeling. Then let this juvenile Intoleran t report to his employers, that I withstood his impotent rage, tin' moved by the vile calumnies to which it .gave utterance—tha t his slanders were to me but as play-things to a boy, w hich , after amusing him, he flings to the wind—that in him were' cognised an epitome of those odious peculiarities which distin‘ guish the heartless Orangeman, and that his monstrous atla' city in coming into an assembly of Catholics, whom he charge`.' with the vilest atrocities, but dared not to support by one proor , served 'but to excite our quiet contempt, whilst we could n efr i withhold our pity at his early desertion of all tho se am i a ble sun honourable principles and feelings necessary to the professio n of a Christian, and fo r di s ch arg i ng th e d ut i es o f a goo d o itize n ; and pe o r o am d t e s u y b e je u c ti t t ; .. and nuosw,prSoiere, proceed a v t i o n cheering.) Mr. KTRWAN followed M r . O'C onne l l. In the course "21 his address he observed, th a t t h e speec h o f the young gentle' man " had been conned over at t h e f am il y coterie. " Upon which the latter sa id, " Si r, you are wrong. " Her e g bu th s u itt s es i s n ., s , t_ru ( c G te e d n 't e i l business."—(Gener a there were loud cries of " Order, order," and, " Sir, your name," when the Gentleman, in a voice loud, but broken Wi th agitation, declared, " that if he gave his name he would be murdered in his bed!!!" A thrill of horror pervaded th e meeting for some minutes. 111 r. KIRWAN—Sir, I have heard the declaration of tha t most inconsiderate:young man with indignation and disgust , and if the agitation which has pervaded the breasts of all, should in some measure affect mine, I trust I shall be par,' doned all looseness of expression, as well as all overheat zeal ; but really, Sir, there is a limit (as Burke says) where forbearance ceases to be a virtue--a man may suffer the indig; nities which have been offered to himself, but he should tieb, suffer those which are offered to his country—(Cheers)—atw' Sir, so long as I have a tongue to give utterance to the feeling' of my heart, I shall not fail to characterise the conduct of all man, however young or however old, who dares in my pre' sence to cast a stain on the character of the whole country The inconsiderate rashness of youth, or the peevish garrult' ty of age, shall give him no protection, and unless he shield himself under an absolute incapacity of judgment, amount' ing to an impenetrable stupidity, I shall give him no loop' hole by which to retreat from that animadversion which he 6 0 justly merits. Sir, I give the person who made the atrocio o declaration, which you all heard, in the amazement propiw' tioned to its absolute and utter falsity—his choice of the alter; natives to which every national calumny must be reduced ; and I tell him he is either so incomparably ignorant as to the chit' racter of the Irish peasantry as to be incompetent to•form an opinion, to have made a charge so egregiously calumnious -- ; or he is so transcendantly wicked, knowing that character, ond being therefore competent to judge, to have framed a vile libel, and a wicked lie. After some further observations, Mr. Kirwan sat down, and the stranger applied for his card, upon which several gentlemen said Mr. Kirwan should not give his card unless the gentleman, produced his own, or told his name. The gentleman refused to give his card or disclose his name, and declared, that if Mr. Kirwan withheld his card he would brand him.--The gentle.- man, with his companion, immediately afterwards retired. - -- Mr. Kirwan was at the irtant in the act of writing his address, and when he found the arrangers had left the room, lie followed them.—We were informed that he was stopped on the passage by some gentlemen who forcibly detained him for a few mo ments; and when, escaping from them, he got down stairs, the gentleman had departed. - We are sorry to understand, by letters From the North, that the differences between the ship-builders of Sunderland and Shields and their servants, which have now existed nearly three months, to the great inconvenience of both parties, still continue. MARRIED, On Tuesday, at St. George's Church, Pay, Esq., OW, tain of the King George cutter, to Miss M argaret Huson, Folkstone, Kent. On Wednesday, the 26th inst., at Westmeon, Hants, Mr— Charles Waterworth, surgeon, New Kent-road, to Jemima, eldest daughter of Mr. H. Hicks, late of Nelson-square, Black friars. _ _ _ On the 17th inst., at St. Martin's Church, Island of Jerscri Lieutenant Francis Noble, R.N., third son of the late William Noble, Esq., Sumner-hill, co unty o f F ermanag h , and grandson of Brabazon Noble, Esq., Donamoyne, county of Monaghan, Ireland, to Martha, widow of the late Captain Ware Adam son, Ist Royal Veteran Battalion, and third daughter of NV Cozens, E . sq., Rou ge Bouillon, Jersey. • DIED. On Thursday', the 13th inst., at his residence in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, in his 35th year, William Haslewood, E sq . On the 24th inst., at his house in Camden Town, James- O'Brien, Esq., aged 73. On Sunday, the 23d inst., at Mount Boone, John Seale:- Esq., aged 71. 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