The Sun. — London, England, 1839-07-17 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION'. diminish, and shares not in the angry passions which make our enemies so bitterly assail us.—( Loud cheers.) You have- a noble purpose le meeting to-day, for - bigotry is accumulating, rehgeeras rancour is augment ire, the Wesleyan Methodists are abroad.—(Loud cheering.) The Establishment—.he Philp: ti's.—(Laugh- ter.) 'What an appropriate name ! They will find the I pot does not contain so much honey as hitherto. The ' Archbishop of Canterbury—the heir of Shaftesbury who invented the Titus Oates plot.--- , (Laughter h ) Your ancient enemies are abroad. Toryism, - that triumphed over the liberties of the ' people—that diminished their franchises and augmented enormously their burdens—Toryism that has lived on. the spoils ' of the people of England so long, has loosened its ficgers for a time and thrown them off, hut it wants to return, as the ravens of the air, to the carrion ; it wishes to re turn to the public plunder, and the only way it has of returning is that of raising the foul fiend of a No Popery cry.—(Hear, hear. hear.) it is exciting the bigotry of the honest Englishman and the honest Scotch man ; as to the bigotry of the faction in Ireland, they need not rouse that.—( Vehement cheering.) They want, by the •foulest of means, to obtain the most unworthy of objects. Am I exaggerating when I say that this cry has been raised from one end of the country to the other? Do not you find that the news pepers—the milk-and water of the Post has a little prussic acid in ie t when it talks of Catholicity—(A Laugh)—is net the dawdling absurdity of the Morning Herald—that most ludicrous of papers—(Great laugh ter)—awakened into something like vigour when it mixes some of its celours and dips its pencil in b'gotry ? And as to the Tinges—(Great groaning) —that disgrace to the literature of the country—Oh I wish 1 could see again the vile character nun 'called the Irish priests "surpliced ruffians !"—(Cries of " Shatne.") And what think you, one of the writers of the Trines, (Eneas Maedoeneli) lied actually the impudence to come to the dcor- to be admitted to-day. I am glad he did I not come ia,lie would have been put out so f a st.—( H ear , and laugh.) But the bigotry of the country is aroused, and rising. When there was a contest, the day before yesterday, et leswich, what was the title and the cry of the stupid Tory who succeeded ? Why, bigot- y aid the assailing of the Cetholies.—(Hear, hear.) Why it was only last week that a Catholic medical gentlemen who had been for twenty years attending a perish, and who had every claim to be elected as physician to an hospital, having served it gratuitously—(Hear, hear) —he expected to be elected as a matter of course, but they set up another man who bad only obtained his degree two or three years. They procured several men who had promised him their support to stay away, and others treacherously voted against him, and it Was ac tually circulated that it was not safe to leave Protestant patients in the hands of a Popish physician.— ( Hisses.) And this in England, and these things are passing around us, and this spirit is in creasing I flow are you to meet it ? Wlll your ac quiescence in it slifilinish it ? Oh, no. Bad passions augment by acquiescence. The way to meet it is to oppose and confront it boldly—to meet in open day— and here we are hurling defiance at our opponents. You, Sir, have very properly called on this meeting to keep themselves within the bounds of moderation and pro priety. I have this to say for myself, that however strong I may have been in many of the speeches I have made, and I wish some of them had been stronger —( A laugh)—in attacking the enemies of uh. creed and my country, and I believe I have made more speeches than any other saving man, and I know I have been ca rlumniated more than any ten living men—(Hear, hear) —yet there is one calumny which has never been even uttered against me. I sty it b. Lily, and I defy any man to produce the accusation, however false. I have never been accused of saying one word derogatory to the religion of any other human being, and I am not in clined to commence it now.—(Cheers.) The tenets of - every Protestant I respect, the conscience of the Dissenter I respect, and whether it be consistent or inconsistent is nothing to me, it is not my business to enter into the qeestion.—(Hear, hear.) Nay, more, I have scrupulously, and I feel it my duty scrupulously to avoid imputing to any man a tenet which he does not avow.—(Cheers.) I don't believe there is a greater crime than for any Christian to tell another, who says I do not believe in that doctrine, " Si:, I don't be lieve you."—(Hear, hear.) That is a mode of dealing I most emphatically condemn. It is not my practice, •or that of the Catholics, to use that language—do they act so to us?—(No, no.) What is the entire nature of the assaults to which we are subjected ? It is not Ca tholicity, but a spectre which they raise up and call Ca tholicity—they are not our tenets,- but doctrines which we repudiate as they do.—( Hear, hear.) We have this advantage then over them, that we do not impute to others anything but what they avow, and the still greater advantage of being assailed for that which we do not believe and freely reject.—( Hear.) and if you ask what has carried so many of late into Catholic Church, you will find it is that their atten tion having been called to the subject, and being honest and sincere in their belief of what they have been told, they are led to examine and to inquire even by these very calumnies. People begin to say, "Is it possible that the Catholics believe in these absurdities—is it not strange that they should place credence in these unac countahle contradictioni to common sense ?" They then inquire—they look into Catholic books, and they find not a word of these doctrines. Thus cured of one error, they rid themselves of the rest after wards.—(Cheers.) The great exhibition of bigotry on the present occasion has been education. And I now take the situation in which we relatively stand. First there are the clergymen of the Establishment. They say " We have an 'Establishment,' and we must have the money of the people, and then we will teach them as we please."—( Hear, hear.) I say to them, " My good Sirs, eou have money enough already."—( Cheers.) Then there are se v et a l of' the Dissenters, and they say, '• Oh very true ; gh.e money to the Establishment, but Rive us our share—they are entiCed to a good deal, but fie hate Pepery as much as they—give us our share. ( Hear, and laughter.) It is our money—it is the money of ihe pulelic." Tina ; but who is the public?- Is the _Establishment olone the public ? Are the Dissenters alone the public ? I come in as a Catholic, and say, I am the public also.—( Loud cheering.) And yet they i n sist upon excluding us from what is the money of all We are ready to accede at once to the proposition, the so meth as is the money of the Protestant let the Pro, testant have the benefit of it—so watch as is the :none of the Dissenter 3 lot :he Dissenters have the benefit o —but so much as s is the money of the Catholic it is sick:thin; and robhcry to deprive the Ci,tho:ic of the benefit of it.—( Loud cheers.) That is the pcsition in which we stand—they :ay make education exclusive ; we say ;rake it universal. They say, " you are fond of igne rance"—we maintain that we love light. They sayyou are Catholics because you are uninstructed and ignorant. Wo say you are Protestants beeause you don't under- stand oat ho!icity— ( Hear,hear)—and if i g norance makes us Catholics, pray, why do you not pour the light of educatio., upon us and make us Protestants as fast as you can ?—(Che:rs.) Out comes then upon me Doctor Philpotts and the Archbishop of Canterbury—(Hear, i.ear)—and they say we want money, because at the R• formation little was done for the poor. These are the words of Dr. Philpotts and the Arehb,shop of Canter bury ; and then says the Archbishop, we educate a great deal at present. I meet them on both the points.— ( Hear.) Where was he educated that he does not know this fact—that a great deal was done for the poor —yes, that they were robbed, spoiled, and plunch.red— Cciat what they had was taken away—that the reforma tion was the plunderer of the poor, because it tonk away that property which was in trust for educating, clothing, and feeding the poor of this country. 2-: (Cheers) There was no Poor-law before the Re formation. "Surprised that the Reformation did not do something for the poor!" Why, does not the Archbishop of Canterbury know that among other plunder at the thine of the Reformation there were —.- lands with which the charitable Catholics bad endowed 110 hospitals, not to mention the monasteries, priorie,., and convents—there were 110 hospitals in which the poor were taken care of, and which were all too little for the greedy colrtiers of Henry the Eighth. " As tonished!" why they turned out the sick from these 110 hospitals—they sold their beds and bedsteads— they- tock possession of the land—they sold even the glassi of the windows and the frames, and they left ruins to stand a s a mar k i n future t i mes o f the piety and clarity of the Catholics, and of the plunder and de struction of the sick poor by the Reformation. — (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The money applied for the purpose of educating the people then was about 1,700,000/. Where are all the people educated by this money now ? Are they in Kent ?—( Hear, hear.) Let me take the Archbishop to his own Cathedral—and I don't know if he ever was in it—(A laugh)—that Cathedral, in which the great Sai u t o f t h e E ng li s h nation shed his blood, when he placed his hod , / as a shield between the tyrant, Henry the Second, and the people of England.—(Hear, bear.) Oh, there was a time when 100,000 Engli s h men sought the shrine' of St, Thomas A'Becket to do homage to his name , The Cathedral is still ther e w h ere is tle. shrine—where are the pilgrims, and where are its re venues ? Gone to instruct the people, I suppose. I will now take him there, and in the spot wher., the assassins s'ood when they clove down the sainted Pre late—under the very shadow of its lofty walls—from that spot I would point to the next farm but one, where the people were so educated that Sir William Courtenay persuaded them he was the Saviour come again to re deem the earth.—(Hear, bear.) I would show him that their education and intelligence, under the foster ing care of the Establishment, was such that they gays up the Archbishop and followed a madman, even to the death---(Hear, bear)—and yet the Archbishop, who ought to blush crimson red, when the education of the poor is mentioned, talks of all that was dole for the poor at the Reformation, when within view of the Cathedral from whence he derives a title, and 22,000/. per annum, I don't know bow many thousands of the ignorant and besotted peasantry followed a madman as a saint and a Rede emer.—(Chcers.) I have stated in the House of Commons publicly that in England, before the Reformation, there were 55,000 churches, and 42,000 chantries and free chapels of case. That is to 1 say 97,000 places of worship in which the sacrifice of the new law was daily offered up to the glory of God, and in expiation of the sins of the people, for these chantries and chapels had some one, two, or three priests attached to them. A young gentleman who is lately become an awful theologian, Mr. Gladstone of Liverpool, said that nobody knew that fact excepts me ; he supposed, of course, that what be did not know nobody else could.—(A laugh.) I took no notice of the remark at that time, but I now tell him here, that he will find it not in a Catholic authority alone, hut I refer him to a Protestant one, Sir Robert Atkin, the author of the " History of Gloucestershire," and who, it is said, spent thirty years of his life in ecmpletiog that great work. Another `authority is the Rev. Alban Butler, the author of the " Lives of the Saints,"and for whose authority all whohave read his works must have A profound respect.—( Hear, hear.) Even the infidel Gibbon said of it that it was work of extraordinary merit : that its learning and good sense was the author's own, its prejudices those of his profession. I take the compliment even from Gibbon, and I mention the authority now just to show Mr. Gladstone that he does not understand the history of the Catholics, and next to remind you that there was trot one of the great churches that have been enume rated that had not a person in the capacity of schoolmaster to administer gratuitous instruction and education to the poor. The Reverend Mr. Sisk has told you that there were upwards of six hundred convents. I have a return of them when they were confiscated by Henry VIII., and I find they amounted to 150,0001. of our present money ; and as money was at that time ten times more valuable than it is now, that made it equal to 1,500,0001. a year. Tee people of England would have had all that money for the purposes of education and charity to this day, for each of these monasteries had schools attached to them. I am glad I said convents instead of monasteries, for it reminds me that there were also 400 convents,in which the nuns had their schools. Besides what was the situa tion in which, ducation stood before the Reformation That was the palmy state of religion, when the foul and fatal passions of an abominable Monarch stepped in to overturn it. We are told that— " Love first taught Henry to be wise, And Gospel light shone through Boleyn's eyes." (Laughter.) To be sure, the light did not shine very long. The unfortunate and ill-fated woman dressed herself in all her costly ornaments, when she heard of the death of the sainted Catherine, but before a fortnight the foal monster had made her a corpse. And the bigots that assail us, where do they trace the source of this pious reformation ? Why to the monster who loved, and then struck to death—to the man who affected scruples of conscience, and dealt with his wives as the fabled Bluebeard. Let there be no more said, then, upon this subject, for it is painful to talk of these enor mities and crimes. But I am guilty of no excess—l talk nothing but silent sober history, and if I were si lent, the trumpet of history has already blazoned these facts to the world.—( Hear, hear.) We are told, for sooth, that education belongs to the conscience of the State. Then Mr. Gladstone has found out that the State has a conscience. The State's conscience is a very comical thing.—(A laugh.) First in the reign of Henry the Eighth, when he got the title of Defender of the Faith, the State conscience. was Catholic. Then when he declared himself the head of the Church, and recognised the Six Articles, which included the seven Sacraments, the State conscience became a mongrel thing, half Protestant and half Catholic—half Protestant, because he threw off the Pope ; and half Catholic, because he retained the seven Sacraments. I wish Mr. Gladstone, who is a very clever young man, was thereto decide what the State conscience then was. —(A laugh.) I recollect seeing a caricature of the late Duke of York, who was born Bishop of Osnaburgb, dressed in the lawn sleeves and mitre of a prelate, and on the other side a cocked hat, and the uniform of a field officer.—(Great laughter.) Such, I suppose, would have been the State conscience of that part of the reign of Henry VIII. Then came Edward VI., who threw overboard the Six Articles, and introduced forty-two instead of them. Poor child, he was as Calvinistic as could be desired, for h.s masters were Calvinists. He passed away, and was followed by the unfortunate Mary ; and would to God we could blot her name out of the History of England. I know some palliatives have been offered for the rebellions and insurrections by which she was assailed ; but I enter upon no defence of her—she persecuted and left a stain upon Catholicity in England, which it is impossible to wipe away, even with our tears.—( Hear, hear.) But recollect that it was a Spanish friar, Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, who opposed the bloody Statute— Doo Alphonso De Castrea, who was the confessor of Philip. He preached a sermon in the presence of the King and Queen, denouncing the persecution as incon sistent. with the spirit, and even the text, of Holy Writ ; and so powerful was it, that he actually de layed the issuing of the edict for over five weeks, and he then fled England ; and this Spanish friar was the man who sacrificed his Coart interest to his conscience. —(Cheers.) Then came the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; and what was the State conscience then ? I don't know what was the domestic consci‘ tice—( A laugh)—but I know that she had great worldly glory. I have seen her in history, and in those pageants, when, having got the people cf Engl aid surrounding her, and the leading gentry her slaves, whil e th e t es t of Europe was incapale of touching her flag wherever it flew. I know all this, and I know that female reigns are often the most triumphant—(Hear)—and I trust we are at the beginning of one now.—(Loud and continued cheering.) But I have followed Elizabeth to the bed of sickness and death, and I have seen that mighty monarch afraid to go kick to the bed from whence she had fled for a week, because she imagined that there was fire and flames there instead of bed e!othes, and I have seen her spending the lest four days of her life in an agony, I hope of repentance, but I know of terror and of bitterness. Oa, the State conscience varied from 42 to 39 Articles, for three of them were sent to the winds, and more of them were altered during that reign, as the phantasy of the Queen dictated during foreign threats and domestic dissensions—all was unstable—the only thing in which she was consistent being her persecution of the Catholics. Then came the driveller James 1., who was half Papist and half Protestant ; and then Charles I. What was his State conscience? I believe if he had not been in volved in misfortunes he would not have erred much, for he was good natured. 'Charles 11. persecuted the Protest lets. But turning froth these matters, I ask you scriou: ly if you once lay down the principle that education is to be guarded and regulated by the State conscience ;Is it is called, what would become of England ? (llcer, hear.) Has not almost every State conscience varied up and down like the keys of a piano, and must not the public ha-mony be disturbed by these discordant movements of the State conscience, which is thrust for ward as if it had a body to be killed, or a soul to be damned ?—( Hear, and laughter.) I have shown you that in Catholic times education has abounded ; and I have shown you that since the Reformation it has shrunk acd dwindled away. At Oxford they plundered the libraries of the Bishop of Durham, and the B:shop of Worcester. What has become of them ? There was cot a book remaining, except one or two bought up by a grocer, who had better taste than the Reformation Society, and who preserved them for lite ralure, so that they remain relics of antiquity. If be fore the Reformation education existed in the land, the funds for that education were taken away at the Re ormation. Ti e State and the Church were alike ne-1 gligent of education. Have we not then a right to cone forward and to claim for all—not for Catholics alone, but for the Protestant Dissenters—for every class—the right to be free from the control of the State, in the :management of their re li g i ous : education ? ( Hear, hear, and Cheers.) Have not the Catholics a right to demand this ? How many are we? We sue 7,000,000 in Ireland.—(Cheers.) They shy we are at least 2,000,000 in Great Britain. I believe that is not exaggerated. In Liverpool we are 100,000 ; in Manchester, 70 or 80,000 ; however, say only a mil lion and a half—we are 8,500,000. What other per suasion has so many attached to it ? Not the Pres ba tcrian, they are only 3,000,000 ; not the Wesleyan Methodists, they are but 1,000.000 ; not the Esta blished Church, they have but 7,000,000. And when one talks of the Established Church, I know a most respectable family in Dublin, stated to belong to the Established Church—the eldest daughter frequents the D,,rbyites (we understood) ; the other the Calvinists ; the third the Established Church—the ,father does not go anywhere—reminding me of Paddy's description of a " bitter good Protestant,"(which in Ireland means an Orangeman)—" He ates meat of a Friday—hates the Papists—and goes nowhere of a Sunday." —(Laughter and cheers.) Have not we a fair claim for our propor tion of the State education aid ? Look to the institutions valuable to the present generation, and tell me which you do not owe to your Catholic ancestors ? Is it the judicial system ? Catholics instituted the Sheriffs, (which by the bye were originally elective)—the County Courts—the Magistracy, who in Catholic times were none of them paid, and there were none of those forms interposed which now render i t so difficult to punish a Magistrate for 'exceeding his duty. Tl:e Catholic Magistrates must have been right, in form and substance, ere he could have touched the hair of an Englishman's head. There were then no station-houses to trundle people into for nothing.—(Laughter and cheers.) The Catholic Magistrates' laws were rigorous e lough fcr the State, at the same time perfectly pre tectiTo; to the people. Above all, Catholics established the trial by jury —the only natural and effective pro tection of the British people.__( Cheers.) Our English Catholic ancestors, too, formed our hereditary mo narchy, and introduced the principle of representation, not nominal, but real, representation. Our Catholic ancestors it was, who built our churches, —and filled our church yards,—and ancestorsour s w pl h e n n did introducedcathedral s Chit s , t i t tn sv i t a s s , our Catholic among us—(Loud c h eers )— our Catholic ancestors gave us all that is v a l ua bl e i n law—all that isli n er w fen nr t n d the f social frame—all th a t i s ennobling in t God—Christianity it se lf was b rought into this counptrov by a poor monk. Oh, we owe all to our Catholic ancestors 1 (Immense cheering) and, forsooth, these John Wesleyites come out upea us and say we shall not be educated ! It. is the old spirit still alive. Oh !do you know how your Catholic ancestors were perse cuted ? How there were penal laws for not going to. Protestant churches, and for not having their children baptised by Protestant clergymen, and against the hus band, when the wife went to mass,—and against the father who sent his child abroad for education— and how then was the gallows and the scaffold' erected for them,—and the cutting up alive, and the embowelling before death,—and the tearing the hearts of the still writhing victims ! Oh let me give you one instance—it is that of John Houghton. This holy prior was the first person who was publicly executed during the arbitrary reign of Henry VIII., for refusing to take the oath of Supremacy, as framed by the King and Parliament. He was, together with Fa ther Humphrey Middlemore, the procurator, ordered to he immediately confined in the Tower p:ieon, where they lay for one month. . . • At this juncture, Robert Lawrence, the worthy prior of Beau Ville, arrived in London, and within two days more, Augustine Webster, a monk of Shene, and prior of the house of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also visited the metropolis They were shortly after brought to their trial before Cromwell, Doctor Latimer, &c. On the 29th of April sentence of death was passed against them in the usual form. They were then sent back again to prison, where they remained five days before they were executed, during which time they suffered inconceivable hardships. On the 4th May, 1535, they were taken from the Tower, and placed on hurdles at full length on their backs. Dr. Reynolds, and the Vicar of Th;atleworth, now Isleworth, were :Aso in like manner drawn with them to the place of execution. Upon their arrival at Tyburn, the holy prior Houghton was first taken from off the hurdle ; the execu tioner then knelt down and asked his . for giveness ; he kindly embraced him, and offered up his prayers for hint, and also for every one then present. After this he was desired to ascend the ladder, which he immediately did, and was attached to the gallows by a thick r,:pe, which it was imagined would not produce strangulation as soon as a thin cord: ...... At the conclusion of [his] prayer the ladder was turned on one side, so that the holy father was suspended from the gallows ; the rope was almost immediately cut, and he fell to the ground while yet alive. As he began to revive, they dragged him to a short distance, and, stripping off his clothes, commenced the work of butchery ; they ripped him up, tore his heart and entrails from his body, and threw them into the fire. The blessed man not only uttered no complaints in the midst of his torments, but, on the contrary, prayed incessantly until his' heart was torn out, and conducted himself with patience, mildness, and tranquillity more than human. When lie was at tho point of death, and almost disembowelled, he exclaimed with fervour—" Most holy Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me in this hour." And credible persons, who were present at the execution, have affirmed that when his heart was extracting, he uttered—" Good Jesus, what will ye do with my heart ?" and then expired. His head was separated from his body, which was afterwards divided into quarters, and thrown into a cauldron to be purboiled ; these quarters were again subdivided, and fixed up in different parts of the city, One arm was nailed to the wall over the entrance into the monastery ; it soon after fell down and was carefully concealed by the monks, who buried it in a cave together with the bloody hair shirt in which he suffered, and a written account of the circumstances attending his execution, with the intention of forward ing the whole, as soon as any opportunity offered, to a convent of their order on the continent. Thus died the good Prior, in the fortv-eight year of his age, and in the fifth of his Priorship." Is it in England that these atroities took place ?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Yes, this was the first victim to the Reformation ; and numbers were executed in the same manner, both Catholics and Protestants, in the reign of Henry VIII., Cranmer passing sentence on them all.— (Loud cries of " Oh, oh.") Here is another instance— it is that of ten monks of the Charter House (which was originally a Carthusian Priory)—it is taken from Maurice Chancey, Arnold Florentius, and other ancient authorities. After every means which dissimulation, hypocrisy, op pression, and cruelty could invent, had been ineffec tually resorted to, in order to induce the pious inmates of the Charter-house to resist the dictates of their con sciences, subscribe to the oath of supremacy, and, in fine, acknowledge the lawfulness of all the King's pro ceedings, ten, whom it was judged impolitic to put pub licly to death, were dragged, towards the end of May, 1.537, from their convent, and committed close prisoners to Newgate. Of these three were Priests, Richard Bird, Thomas Johnson, and Thomas Greens, one was a Deacon, John Davy ; and six were Lay Brothers, William Greenwoode, Thomas Scryven, Robert Salt, Walter Peereson,Thomas Reedyng, and William Horne. It was the King's intention to destroy them privately, by severe treatment ; and to effect his purpose they were confined, with their hands tied behind them, to the walls of their dungeon ; so that they could in no way render any s erv i ce t o eac h ot h er , or even e.a s;st themselves. All communication with them was strictly forbidden, and their prison was rendered insup portable by the stench and filth which surrounded them. persecuted men were able to bear such inhuman treat ment I cannot learn ; but it appears from the following letter, written by Thomas Bedyll, and addressed to Cromwell, that several were already dead by the I4th of June : " My very good Lord, after my moost hartie commen dations, it shall please yor Lordship to understand that the monks of the Charterhouse here at London, which were committed to Newgate for traitorous behavor lung time continued against the King's Grace, be-aimoost dispeched by th' and of God; as it may appor to you by this b;11 in closed. Whereof considering their behavor and the hole mater, I am not sory, but wolde that al suche as love not the King's Highness and his worldly honor wer in like case: . . . . From L o ndo n , th e x iij d ay J une. " By yor Lordship's, at Commandment, "THOMAS BEDYLL. " Tiler be Departed—Brother William Greenwoode, Rcv. John Davye, Brother Robert Salt, Brother Walter Peereson, Tht . r he even Thomas at the Greene. poyn tc f detbe—Brother Thomas Scryven, Brother Thomas Reddyug. " There by sycke—Rev. Thomas Johnson, Brother Thomas Redyng. One is hole—Rev. Bird."--( Hear, hear.) In the reign of Edward the Vlth., six Anabaptists Were condemned by the Archbishop • to be burnt to death—(Hear. hear, hear)—and they were accordingly executed. In Miss Agnews' admirable work, " Ge raldine, a Tale of Conscience,' there is a collection of penal Acts of Parliament against Catholics, from which I will quote. " Act passed in . l.s6S—any person re conciling another to the Church of Rome, shall hive judgment, suffer and forfeit as in ease of high treason. All Jesuists, seminary, and other Priests remaining in England, or entering the Kingdom after 40 days, shall for this offence be adjudged as a traitor and shall suffer, lose and forfeit, as is cases of high treason. Receiving or relieving such a person shall be felons , : cud sending money or relief to such penons shall be punistrable with transportation and forfeiture of pro perty. Any one knowing where a Jesuit is, in the king dom, and not discovering it, shall furfeit 200 marks." " Whet a prize they would have to-day" (said the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, looking expressively towards a particular part of the platform, whither also the eyes of the audience were directed, amidst great laughter.) " Statute passed in 1581.—Any person sa)ing or wil fully hearing mass shall forfeit 200 marks, (that is, 133/. 6s. Bd.) and suffer t.velvemonths' impri sonment, and it shall be treason to be re conciled to the Romish religion, and all eiders shall suffer as for misprision of treason." Statute also passed in 1581—" Any person above the age of 16, not going to church, or usual place of common prayer, shall forfeit 201. per month ; and should he absent him self still, he shall give sufficient sureties for 2001. for his good behaviour, aud shall so continue until he conform himself and come to church. And any schoolmaster who shall not repair to the Established Church shall forfeit 10/. per month." Statute in 1587—" Any per son not getting his child baptized by a lawful Minister shall forfeit 100/. The sheriff, or other officer, may break open any house where Popish recuseants may be." Statute in 1605—" Any person discovering where Mass was said, shall have his own pardon, and one-third of the goods, &c., forfeited by attainder." Statute in 1627—" No child to be sent beyond seas without licence. Any person sending a child to a Papist semi nary beyond seas for instruction shall forfeit 100/, and such child shall be afterwards incapable of inheriting his estate, or making any purchase. No person to keep a. school out of the Universities or. Colleges, unless in the family of a nobleman of the Established Church, under penalty of 40s. per day." Statute in 1670—" Any renon p• rmitting meetings in his house, offices, &c., for the exercise of religion, shall forfeit 201. Justices of the peace, constables, &c. are empowered to break open doors, &c., where they are informed such meet ings may be held." Statute in 1700.—" A reward of 1001. for taking and prosecuting a Popish priest or bishop, for saying mass, or exercising any of his func tions. A Popish priest or bishop saying mass, or keep ing a school, shall be adjudged to perpetual imprison ment." Note.—" So rigidly were all these laws exe cuted, that Lord Scroop was in 1626 accused to the King for conniving at recusancy, inasmuch as he had only convicted 1,670 Catholics in the East Ridinc , of Yorkshire.—(Hear, hear.) These were the laws which changed the people of England from Catholic to Pro testant ; these emaciating and barbarous enactments were the arguments employed to convince the Catho lics.-7(Hear, hear.) Now, hear what Parnell, in his History of the Irish Catholics, records of them. He says, "That such was the spirit of toleration, that many English families, previous to the Reformation, took re. fucre in Ireland, and en j oye d their opinions without molestation ; and that the Irish Roman Catholics were the only sect that ever returned to power without exercising vangeance."—(Loud cheering.) Here is the evidence of another Protestant histaria:.. Mr. Taylor, a clever man, and one now connected, I believe, with one of the Evening Papers in London— , the author of the Civil Wars in Ireland--he says, THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1839. " The restoration of the old religion was effected with out violence ; no persecution of the Protestants was attempted ; and several of the English, who fled from the furious zeal of Mary's inquisitors, found a safe re treat among the Catholics of Ireland.—(Cheers.) It is but justice to this maligned body to add, that on the three occasions of their obtaining the upper hand, they never injured a single person in life or limb for profes sing a religion different from their own."—{Loud cheers.) I have now relieved myself of some little national prejudice, and it is almost excuseable. Well, then, this was the usage we got—the Catholics were persecuted—the monks were shut up in a dark and dirty cell for the avowed purpose of murdering them, and their gaoler writes to his guilty employer that they are 'nearly all gone—their priests were beaten on their heads until their brains were scattered—their gentry were stripped of their property and their lives in danger—in the midst of all this confusion the Catholics became tri umphant—they regained their power, and oh! blessed be God, they did not injure a single Protestant in life, or limb, or property.—( Loud cheers) Let. me return to England for a minute. In the time of Charles 11. there was a most sanguinary conftet between the two sects of Protestants; 800 of one sect died in gaol, to which they had been confined for no other crime than Nonconformity; 275 of them belonged to a sect which I honour and respect—a sect who have always been tl.e chief agents in works of charity —a sect which has al ways lifted up their meek, but firm voices, praying that the chains of slavery throughout the world may be knocked off-275 of them belonged to the sect called the Quakers—they made an appeal to James 11., and, bad as he was called, that Catholic Monarch no sooner received the petition, than 1,400 fathers, wives, sees, and daughters, were - instantly ordered to be released— (Cheers)—from their confinement, and a Royal order of pardon was issued, and the survivors of all the Non conformists went free.—(Loud cheering.) There is still one topic which has been left untouched, and I will now trespass upon your patience for a short time while I advert to it. Oh ! is it not a glorious thing that we are able to claim for Catholicity the honour of being the first to throw aside bigotry, and raise other sects to an equality ? I claim that glory for the Diet of Hungary. Wherever Protestantism has spread it has carried persecution and intolerant bigotry in its train. In the Catholic Diet of Hungary, in which were eight Roman Catholic Bishops, any one of whom had he lifted his voice against the measure, by his mere veto could have prevented its passing; but those eight Bishops in the Diet of Hungary emancipated the Pro testants of that country.—(Cheers.) Again, when the poor hunted Catholics fled from their country and took shelter in Maryland, their very first act, after having obtained a settled Government, was to emancipate the Protestants—the Act of Emancipation was drawn up by one of a much-abused and calumniated order—by a Jesuit. I will quote you one passage from an author not very friendly to Catholicity —from Sidney Smith. Ido love to quote him. He says, speaking of - Catholic deeds in Hungary : " It is impossible to think of tie affairs of Ireland without being forcibly struck with the parallel of Hungary. Of her seven millions of inhabitants, one half were Protestants, Calvinists, and Lutherans, many of the Greek Church, and many Jews : such wls the state of their religious dissen. siens, that Mahomet had often been called in to the aid of Calvin, and the Crescent often glittered on the walls of Buda and of Presburg. At last, in 1791, during the most violent crisis of disturbance, a Diet was called, and by a great majority of voices a decree was passed, which secured to all the contending sects the fullest and freest exercise of religious worship and education ; ordained (let it be heard in Hampstead) that churches and chapels should be en.cted for all on the most perfectly equal terms, that the Protestants of both confessions should depend upon their spiritual superiors alone, liberated them from swearing by the usual oath, 'the holy Virgin Mary, the saints, and chosen of God;' and then, the decree adds, ' that public offices an'? honours, high or low, great or small, shall be given to natural born Hungarians who deserve well of their country, and possess the other qualifications, let their religion be what it may.' Such was the line of policy pursued in a Diet consisting of four hundred members, in a State %hose form of government approaches nearer to our own than any other, having a Roman Catholic establishment of great wealth and power, and under the influence of one of the most bigoted Catholic Courts in Europe. This measure has now the experience of eighteen years." I will read you a passage from another author, the reverend soldier who fills the office of Chaplain to the Chelsea Hospital, the Rev. Mr. Gleig—it is very short, and I will read it : " From the Catholics, though the dominant party in the State, the Protestants [of Hungary] receive no annoy ance. The most perfect harmony, on the contrary, pre vails The spirit of tolerance i s more con spicuous among the Romanists than their rivals."—Rev. Mr. Gleig's " Germany," vol. iii., pp, 111 , 112 . Again, Mr. Gleig says, p. 159 " They Lviz., the Hungarian Protestants] would be very unreasonable, indeed, did they complain that the slightest violence is offered to their conscience." See how the Emancipation has been dealt with in this country. Has it put an end to bigotry ? • No, it has increased it. Even in our own instance, look at the treatment we received respectin g our application for Exeter-hall. Although we offered to pay 401., the usual charge for a day's hire of it, our letter remains wilhout an answer. They could not condescend to hold even so much correspondence with Catholicity as civility demanded.—( Loud cheers.) How different their conduct on other occasions! Suppose some itinerating forger—( Loud cheers)—a calumniator, one who went about using forged documents, and when found out calls it "an ingenious device."—(Tremendous cheering.) Sup pose such a man were to come here, would Exeter hall be refused him ? No, its portals would be opened wide, Members of Parliament would vie with each other for the honour of presiding ; and would Nobles and Earls stay away ? Oh, no, they would be there in pro fusion ; they would honour the calumniator' and forger, because he would abuse and vilify the Catholics.— (Cheers.) Yes, the use of the roo m w h ere we have beens,even thoughsooftenfo nr,ullsae offen dfarled to pay for was re f use d us, for it, b ecause we wanted to vindicate ourselves from the foul calumnies ?_(Cheers.) is co n d uc t suc h I?e f e r I s V . ) i i i h s They whether . heaped upon us. I will ask the Earl e sac this the Ballot is is fair u n ? . E I n s g i l t i sh English ;b ut as I have described ? It is bigoted, unfair, and un just. Will the Protestants treat the Catholics of Hun gary in the same way ? No, they have better feelings. Nor should I forget to toll you the Catholics of Bavaria acted in a similar spirit with their brethren of Hun gary ? Now looking at the books even of our opponents and contrasting the conduct of the Catholics in power with the manner in which we are used, I ask every honest man to judge between us. — (Cheers.) On the one hand a feeling of honesty and conciliation, oa the other the extremity of suffering under barbarous laws, ' all that wa s p erse C u ting anal tyranni ca l remained even on the Statut e Book till very recently, an d then they p w u e g r were m pot nt t o re t hmeo rightsved because eoc of conscience. uLnsecin they e were fou n d to b e re ce. No, ne i t h er P eel nor Wellington ever said so—they enly said they gave it because there were disturbers in Ireland, --(Cheers and laughter.) They did not say it was wrong —they said it was important end expedient that persecution should cease because there were Agitators in behold who would not be quiet. They did not look at the Book of Life for its peace inspiring wisdom—they looked at the military book and there they found that two-thirds of the soldiery wore Ce tholics.—( Lon a and continued cheers.) Yes, the hero of a hundred fights, and the most crafty of states men, gave way before the Pais of the county Clare, — (Loud cheering.)—as Pat himself would say, " for a raison he had."—(Laughter.) In former times, to which 1 have alluded, there were the thousand minis ters and their thousand schools of Catholics, encourag ing and teaching religion, and learning, and knowledge of every kind=it was persecuted until Catholicity was almost frightened from the land. Oh those who lived in those days deserved eternal praise—(Loud cheers) —as he trusted they were now iu glory: Your family, Sir, was a renowned family before the time of the tarp( d Conqueror.—(Cheers.) Talk to me of your P;tt. Nobility as before the Catholic gentry of England ! They are as mushrooms, bred in the counting-house, or purchasing their Nobility which degrades them by ve nality. When I look around the and.see intellect and genius returning to the old &tar, I am filled with gra. titude—they were increasing the glory of the Church, and while I have faithful Ireland backing me—(Cheers.) why should I fall before the Methodists of John Wes. i c y ?—( Tremendous cheering.) Why should I fall before bigotry and intolerance? It may be thought that I have been egotistical, but in my conscience I believe that my re li g i on d eserves pra i se , an d l e t th e God who sits a b ove judge of my sincerity. Let me upon our opp onents to l oo k a b roa d, an d then t urn , • trittr eyes to hom e , as t h ey o f ten taun t us w ith. L et that decide the qu est i on b etween us . M ora lity, it was boasted, always accompanied Protestantism. I utterly deny that Protestant morality is better than that of Catholicity, and in pr oo f o f i t I am furnished with the evidence of Mr. Lain g, a s t ern Scotch Presbyterian, who wrote a book of hi s t rave l s i n N orw ay, only lately. In Norway the Refor mat i on too k most speedily—in Norway, where the clergy have the sole direction of the education of the people, only one-third of the mothers are married, and one out of every 41 was con victed of crime. He says " Sweden is in a more demoralised state than any na tion in Europe."—Tour in Norway and Sweden, p. 108. " Among the crimes in the rural population there were 28 cases of murder, 10 of child murder, 4 of poisoning, 13 of beastiality, 9 of robbery %jai violence, and this rural po. pulation is only 2,735 ; 000 individuals; and, as appears by the official returns, the criminality among them is only about the proportion of one-fourth of that of the town po. pulation of Sweden "—P• 110. " In despite, however, of the demoralising effects of a mal-admin;stration of laW, and of religious and. political discord and excitement to outrag e , the Irish nation stands very far above the Swedish is the moral scale."—P. 112. " The proportion of illegitimate to legitimate births is as one to'two three-tenths in Stockholm. _ In no other , Christian community is there a state of female morals ap proaching to this."—P. 113. " The Church is evidently the most influential body in Sweden ; these 3,000 clergy, or rather 1,276 parsons holding full pastoral charges, elect from their own order ne of the Chambers of the Diet."—P. 247. There is now a Catholic Chapel in Stockholm—let him enlarge that and he will put an end to much of the crime—let him do so, and though it is the first in 300 years, he will live to see the good effects of it. Let the confessional be filled, and the houses of vice and infamy will become empty.—(Loud cheers.) Upon this point I must again quote our friend Gleig. He says : " I have ventured to assert that Prussia is not a reli gious and moral country."—Vol, 1. p. 120. " Whoever will take the trouble to investigate the his tory of Protestantism in Germany throughou: the last 80 or 90 years, will find that the spectacle presented by it to the eye of the Christian is exceedingly sad. Throughout that extended period, the Reformed divines have not only rejected for themselves all belief in the divine ( rigm of Christianity, but have laboured with is zeal worthy of b.-tter cause, to instil their own pernicisus opinions into the minds of others."—lb. p. 120. " When we come to the region of morals, I should say, that though higher than that of Prussia; the standard in Saxony is not very elevated. There is here the same lamentable deficiency of religious principle, which we find ail over Protestant Germany."—lb. p. 234. Romanist in his teeth—(Cheers)—could he not be civil to us even while he was praising our virtues ? he might be civil. But after all I like Gleig ; he was a gallant soldier once, and he is a gallant Parson now. Look at what he says of Protestant Prussia ; is it a flattering picture—does it say much in favour of Protestantism? What is the Court ? The Court is Catholic, and the Court and the upper classes are omitted from this cen sure. Let the bigots calumniate us as they please, I refer to these evidences. These are Protestants who say these words—they are not mine, I anly repeat them. Your esteemed Chairman has told you that there is a strong feeling of religion in England. Blessed be God, infidelity makes little way amongst the people; and sectarianism, although it may be mistaken in its object, is to be suspected as emanating from a religious spirit. Many a pure heart is lifted up in error to the God of truth, and God seeing their purity, will not allow them long to go astray, but will pity and pardon the erratic judgment which would be right if it knew how. Yes, we must look with respect upon their immense subscription of 107,0001. a-year for the distribution of the Scriptures. Why, I knew the folly, the vanity, and inanity of that mere distribution un accompanied by oral instruction and missionary zeal and piety, but still we must respect the men who make such sacrifices, and I would that it pleased God to let the light of his truth shine upon their disinterested virtue.—( Hear, hear.) The French papers of Satur day last brought me an article, a translation of which I shall read to you. We hear of Protestant missionaries armed with guns, and carrying out their wives and families, but here is an account from the neighbourhood of Tongking in China— " CATIIOLIC MISSIONARIES. " Since the horrible persecution in Japan there has ;seen seen nothing equal to that which actually rages against the Christians in Tongking. The reigning Prince has resolved to extirpate Christimity altogether from his State. A de cree of death has been published against all the missionaries. Eighteen have already perished, the greater part having been decapitated; and among others, two Bishops, natives of Spain—the one, Vicar Apostolic, and the other coad jutor Bishop of the Eastern Tongking. Two missionaries have died of famine and fatigue in the woods where they lay hid. The Rev. Mr. flarard, a Frenchman, who was Bisbee and Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Tongking, has pe rished of a sickness brought on by the violent persecution which he went through. Desolation reigns amongst tl unhappy Christians of Tongking. There has already ar rived the first list of martyrs. In that list we find— " Ist. The three Bishops above earned. " 21. Three Priests, natives of Spain. "3 i. One Priest, a native of France. " 4th. Nine Priests, natives of Tongking. " sth. The Abbey Jacarl, a native of Savoy, put to death after an imprisonment of five years. " 6th. A young student of Divinity. " 7th. A French missionary, who died in endeavouring to escape to Cochin Chita." Only think of the melancholy catalogue, when you heal so much of Protestant missionary zeal. There an. nine native priests—they must Live been educated ane instructed in the Latin language, as well as theoloo-y before they were ord a i ne d. But they have sea l e d their faith with their blood ; and as the blood of the martyrs. in former times, was the seed of the Church in Europe. it is not presumptuous to hope that those saints whe have raised their bloody and blessed bands to the God of glory, and laid down their lives in his honour, mitt conduce to the spreading of Christianity, even in that remote and benighted land.—(Loud cheers.) I have shown you that in this country the Catholics founded colleges and Italia, and schools and hospitals, but that zeal and devotion was not confined to the male sex. Females of the highest rank devoted themselves to the charitable task of educating the poor, and when the convent doors were opened, and the nuns had to come forth to the world, England presented a spectacle the most extraordinary and admirable. Not one of even the youngest or loveliest of that devoted body would forsake the vows she had pledged to God on entering these sacred walls.—(Cheers.) These were women of your own family, and even in these days they have devoted themsalves as the daughters and sisters of your - ancestors; and have — offered themselves to God as a pure sacrifice of fidelity and charity.—(Cheers.) It was a mighty example ; but on the other side, tell me a single crime that was not perpetrated—robbery, peculation, spoliation, assassina tion, murder, the scaffold—the blood of one wife, fol lowed by that of another—crime of the most obnoxi ous nature, every timing degrading and disgusting to human nature. Do I calumniate it ? No ; for did not the mere reading of Halen's " History of the Reforma tion," induce the Protestant daughter of Chancellor Hyde to become a Catholic ?—(Much cheering.) Need I remind you of the closing scenes of persecution of the horrible Titus Ooates' plot —a thing the tnost extrava gant, the most incredible, and the most impossible— but because two or three miscreants swore to what was so utterly absurd and impossible, the leading men of the clay were slaughtered.—(Hear, hear.) And when the ancestor of Lord Ashley, Lord Shaftesbury, was asked, how can you insist upon such cruelty and in justice ? his reply was, " Oh, if we cannot make the people of England believe greater nonsense than that, there is no use in governing."—( Hear, hear.) Two Parliaments were induced to declare that the plot was true. It was an absurd lie, and every man now admits that to be the case.—(Hear, bear.) Two Houses of Commons and the House of Lords believed it—time city of London actually raised barricades with wooden costs and iron chains, and Sir Thomas Player, when Urging upon them the importance of preparing to resist it, said, who knows but we may go to bed some night and wake in the morning with all our throats cut. —(Great laughter.) And of this Titus Oates' plot— of this horrible conspiracy —seventeen persons, including an Irish Archbishop and an English Peer, Lord Stat. Gerd, were the victims, the King hitnself being afraid to rescue them. Who did this ? Not the low and the vulgar as they are called, but the Lords and the Corn inoes, the Judges of the land, who wiped their blood stained hands in the ermine—the witnesses were ears shme, wile (lid not use the danger but the Testament of God, and human blood flowed on this occasion of and folly, and crime. Oh, I ask you if the Wesleyan Methodists could accuse the Catholics o , such a crime—if they say that in Catholic France. or in Catholic Spain, that there was not a popular out-break, but with a judicial pro ceedieg. In the former country, indeed, there was the horrible massacre in the time of Charles IX., but they must not forget that there were previous to it three Protestant massacres which the people thuS has; end brutally retaliated. But let there show me any instance in which there was so infamous and villain ous a conspiracy got up under the semblance of a judi cial proceeding. There was perjury before the Magis trates,perjury before the Grand Jury, perjury before the Petty Jury ; and the Judges, the Sheriff, and all were perjured, and the sin of perjury was followed by the sin of the murder and blood of the innocent victims. No eouatry on the face of the earth has ever been so stained and stiematised,and when the Wesleyan Methodists come our upon me, can I not taunt them with the very first pcint in their history in 1780, when John Wesley their founder, attempted to get up another Titus Oates' plot ; when the Catholic Chapels and the houses of several Catholics were burned, and we have seen here to day the grand children of some of the persons whose pro perty was burned on the occasion. They destroy e d also a quantity of Protestant property—they burned the King's Bench, they burned Neregate, and they were right.—( A laugh.) They were going to seize and plunder the Bank, when some one at length awoke, and the first Wesleyan blow at Catholicity was extin guished in the blood of its victims. They are ready to he at us again—they want to keep time Tories in power, and they have denounced the reasonable and rational determination which was come to by the Queen's Ministers on the subject of Education, and for which they deserve our eternal gratitude.—(Loud cheers.) When they found that amiable and excellent young person, who now to the pride of her sex and the glory of her country fills the throne of this country, and may she long and happily fill that throne.— (Vociferous cheering.) When they found that she in her gentleness and goodness leant to what she herself had proclaimed . the principle of freedom of conscience, they again came out and sent their circulars all over the country to rouse up the op position of their party to it.—(dear, hear.) They have organized a million of property, hnd they have organized a despotism in religion, but I don't care for that, it is no concern of mine. They are not able to repeat the Titus Oates' plot, nor the burnings of 17:80, but they do all the mischief they can—they calumniate, they libel, they attack, they assail us in our creed, and they call on Parliament not to do us justice. They stir up against us every organ of iniquity and injustice, but I will meet them in the arena of justice and truth and principle, and I tell them, blessed be God ! the time is come when they can no longer be powerful.—(Cheers). I have done, and it is high time for me. I only beg of you in conclusion not to despair. Lcok abroad ! Look to America—there was only one Catholic Bishop in America when the revolu- timi was over ; there are at the present moment twenty three 13i,hop and one Arehbisnop.—(Loud dicers.) Look at Protestant Germany. Read Mr. Gleig's account of the Protestant religion in that country, and here is my conselatian. thst the first imen in literary world in that caaatry have fat ssksa Protestant and embraced the Catholic faith. aessed be God, the banners of Catholicity are peaceably and quietly advancing and extending, they are growing larger and wider every day. Look to Holland, the focus of Protestantism. The last returns of the popu lation some few years ago showed that the number of Catholics was exceedh,gly small. What is it. now With a population of two mnons and a half she ha nihe hundred thousand Catholics.—(Great cheering.) Catholic churches were every day bring built, and tie King of Holland, ill as he h.s treived the Catholics of BAjum, treats with fair play his Catholic Dutch subj , ,:s and I will add that be his noiat. (nor: faithful or at tached.—( Hear and cheers.) Look to Iretand.— ( Vehement cheering,.) See her churches throsgrd, her altars crowded, and these churches themselves erecting in every part of the country. Take the siogre fact of 10,000/. being contributed to build a single church in Dublin, 8001. of which was collected in half pen (Chsers ) A of about 21,0001. has be e . . sum expended upon another, and where did we ge , all the money. Not from the rich, for they are but f!w, and stingy enough they are—{ Hear, hear, hear, and a laugh)—but from the poor and the humble Cath tea ; and the Rev. Mr. Innis, that exemplary clergyman himselt told me that he has often said to the poor people, " Don't subscribe any more, you are ten poor." The man looks in his face and says, " And do you think my neighbour will tell me that he has built a church for me ?"—(linmense cheering.) Yes, such is the answer, for good humour mingles with the poverty and the piety of the Irish Catholic.—(Hear, hear.) They increase not only in numbers but morality, and at that church six thousand apptoach the altar every Sun dsy, and enjoy the greatest delight and blessing the world can bestow is the adoration of their God. —(Cheers.) Look at its increase at home—come to England, and I ask is there one of you who does not know some one, two, or three converts to the ancient Church.—(Hear, hear.) You have had them on the :able to-day, and you can see that it is not want of in telligence or information that has led them here. Oh yes, the dove undefiled is but one, and spreading its an gelic wings over the world, and taking into its sacred nest nations, and people, and countries ; the dove of peace is on the waters, and turbulence, and crime, and violence, and hate, which has defiled the face of Chris tianity, disappear More its presence. The waters of enmity and bitterness will be withdrawn from the face of the earth, and the dove will come back to the old and ancient ark with the olive branch of peace. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman concluded amidst the loudest and most enthusiastic cheering. The Rev. Mr. MACDONNELL, of Birmingham, se conded the resolution. He had just arrived from Bir mingham, to take part in the glorious meeting of the day. After the very eloquent and impressive speech they had just heard, and at the late hour of the day, he would not trespass at any length upon their time. The Member for all Ireland had told them not to despair, knd truly there was 'Ma ground for it.—(Loud cheers.) He congratulated the meeting upon seeing a gentleman of so ancient and respectable a family presiding on the present important occasion—it was gratifying to find the Aristocracy of the country taking that situation which became them as the leaders of the people.— ( Loud cheers.) Before he proceeded further, he would read the resolution, which was one of great importance, and which they had not yet heard.— Toe Catholic religion had never been established any where save by means which the Scriptures recom mended and the Apostles had used ; and it had never aeon subverted but by means which the Scriptures orbade—as at the Restoration—(Cheers)—by means such as the corruption of the Bible from the correct vairsion which had been circulated by the Catholic Church long before that of T)ndal, which their mistaken ~]low-countryinen of the Anglican Church had lately been alebrating as the first. English translation of the Bible. tadeed the Anglican versious had been admitted to be rosslv, horribly inaccurate.—( Hear, hear, hear.) When . hat worthy successor of Henry VIII., George IV., ex ... iiioited to his unfortunate Queen conduct similar o that of the former Royal monster, the Bishop of London argued that the King could do no wrong poli ,ically or morally.—(Hear, hear.) Whenever any be neficial measure was to be carried for the people of i..ingland, the Established Church always cried out that it was in danger ; and that was the cry raised, when it was attempted to diffuse the blessings of national edu ,:ation.--(Hear, hear, hear.) The Church in danger ! —(exclaimed the Rev. Gentleman)—Prove to me that the Catholic Church can be in danger, and I will become Protestant immediately. I will never belong a moment to a Church which can be in danger.—(Great cheering.) He should be ashamed to belong to a Church which could not be supported, save on the misery and igno rance of the people.—(Cheers.) He begged respectfully to dissent from a passage in the speech of his Hon. Friend Mr. O'Connell—when he said that the English people had aright to send James 11. about his business. His Hon. Friend had often uttered similar opinions, and seemed thereby to intimate his gratification that James the Second had been expelled. Now he (Mr. Macdonnell) had studied the history of that Monarch, Ind could not find one instance of persecution on his part which could justify his expulsion.—(Cheers.) The resolution was put and carried unanimously. Scirio CLINT, Esq. (the Secretary), then rose to oropose the ninth resolution, and said that at that late ( - tour he would not detain the meeting by any lengthened description of the claims of the Catholic Institute upon heir support—it would only be necessary to mention the name of the Widow Woolfrey—(Cheers)—in order !o estabish those claims. This splendid victory over bigotry, intolerance, and injustice would never have been achieved but for the Institute. Considering too the ;cod effects svlach had been produced by the circula- don of their tracts, he could not but regard it as an institution for the propagation of the faith as well as ;)r the protection of Catholics from oppression. He :vaa happy to say it had the marked approbation of all the Bishops ; but the best proof which could be given if its value was the alarm which its establishment had weasioned among the Exeter hall gentry. But to ahom were all these good effects owing ? To whom 'iJonged the high honour of originating this Society ? The muting would anticipate the reply Mr. O'Connell was its founder !—(Great cheering.) 9th. That we earnestly recommend to such of the Catholics if Great Britain, as can amply afford it, to enrol themselves universally in the Catholic Institute, so as to be ready, with meekness and clnrity, to give a reason for the Faith that is in hem, and to vindicate, in the true spirit of Christian mildness, , he ancient Faith their fathers held to God. Mr. THRELFALL, of Manchester, seconded the re6o uf ion, which was carried unaniircusly. On the moth!) of Mr. SMITE', seconded by Mr. iNms, the followifie-, resniutlon etas agreed to 10th. That petitions, founded upon such of the foregoing re -solutius as relate to Education, be prepared, and means t .ken :o procure signatures; and that when signed the Chairman of this meeting be requested to present one to the Route of Com nons, and that one of the Catholic Peers be requested to pre 4ent the other to the House of Lords. On the motion of PHILIP H. HOWARD. Esq., M.P.. s,eonded by PHILIP JoNEs, E-q., of Llanarib, " That he best thinks of this ni ,, eting are due, and are hereby to Scipio Clint, E , A., fur 11 . 16 able and zealous , xertions as Secretary," Mr. CLINT haVin; acknowledged the compliment, Mr. P. HOWARD, M.P., was voted into the chair, n d thanks were .ord:Illy presented to the Hor.. C. Langdale for his services as Chairman ; he having ,ricfly returned thanks, the vast meeting separated about seven o'clock. THE CORN LAWS. The Bank of England is contracting the circulation, by 'ai.:ing the rate of discount to 51 per cent., and advancing money at that rate on good bills of exchange only. The commercial embarrassment which this measure has oc casioned, and the still greater evils which may result to manufacturers, traders, and, in fact, all classes of the com munity, are all clearly traceable to our absurd, iniquitous, and suicidal system of Corn-laws, which first deprive the Continental nations of the possibility of taking our ml nufactures in exchange for their produce, and then, when a season of scarcity, occasioned by a bad or deficient har vest, occurs at home, compels us to send hard cash abroad to purchase corn, which, but f or our a b sur d l eg i slat i on, we might always have i 0 abundance in exchange for our broad cloths and hardware in the regular way of trade. But the vil does not stop eve n h ere, f or i t not only deprives us of a never-failing resource in seasons of temporary difficulty, hut permanently drives us out of many foreign markets, by compelling those who would be our customers, if we would ' let them, to become our rivals by manufacturing for them selves. Thanks to a bountiful Providence, the appear ances so far are in favour of an abundant harvest, and the danger of a famine which would bring about a repeal of the Corn-laws with a vengeance, is so far averted ; but the evil may occur any day --and terrible will be the respon sibility of those short-sighted and selfish monopolists, who, for their ow n pr i vate a d vantage , u phold theini quitous system. In the meantime, the present state of the money market, and the depressed condition of the manufacturing, trading, and commercial interest, must necessarily direct the attention of many persons, who, v hilst they escape d w i t h out pa l pa ble injury, never gave a thoug' t to the subject, a r perhaps were amongst the su p,,i ficial clamourers in support of the starvation law—to t' at fru'if u l source o f m i s chief from Which they themselves now suffer, in common with thousands upon thousands of ilis it fell.3w countrymen. For our own part, we have been le' g co ivincc. , d, that if the aristocracy be supported by th e people, the country would be infinite gainers by p a yi ng than at once as many millions directly from the national Treasury, as they now wring from the people by the ma chinery of the Corn-laws, leaving trade free and commerce untettered.—Liverpool Mercury. A week of precisely the kind of weather that was most wanted after the late rains, namely, dry, warm, and sunny, with light breezes, has brought u s su dd enly into the mitlstof the hay harvest in Yorkshire. Scarcely any fields were cut before Tuesday, but since that day the operations in the fields have been very active; and if the present glo dons weather should continuo, the crops, though light, „..„.=._ T P / u ,, bli s s e ;e n d o b ili v e ::. I N '11 0 1)0 1 I „? 1' f!r tr ' a lc r : d . . i n n ' will be well got in. We hardly need say that the weather tans also been most favourable to the crops of grain and to every other kind of vegetable growth, so that the promise "Nn‘ohni:l2l.)(=intrt:ndd,anatti the emiuty of IlirlAlesex.—Wednes.!ay, July 17: 1 s 9. for the corn harvest is exceedingly good.—Leeds Mercury. ~~ EVENING EDITION. ASSIZE INTELLIGENtIi T E MA RKETS 7 (Y ES TERDAY). THE PLEASURES OF DELIRIUM.—In speak ing on the subject of delirium, Abernethy observes—" De. liriurn seernA to be a very curious affection ; in this state a man is quite unconscious of his disease; be will give ra tional answers to any question you put to him, when yea rouse him; but, as 1 sitid before, he relapses into a state of wandering, and his actions correspond with his dream ing. I remember a man with a compound fracture in this hospital, whose leg was in a horrible state of sloughing, and who had delirium in this state. I have worried hira, and said,' Thomas, what is the matter with you ? how do you doh?' He would reply, Pretty hearty, thank Sou; nothing is the matter with me—how do you do?' He then would go on dreaming of one thing and another. I have list , -ned at his bed &de, and I am sure his dreams were of a pleasant kind. He met old acquaintances in his dreams, people wain) he remembered lung syne ; his former corn. panious, his kindred, and relations ; and he expressed his delight at seeing them. He would exclaim every now and tt,en, That's a good one,'—' Well, I never hoard a betterj ke—ah, ah, ah ' give us your fist, my old ft Plow." —Phpic and Phyzieians SHEFFIELD PLATED WINE COOLICRS, A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing .Silverstaiths, 14, Coruhill, London (opposite the Bank of England), have for choice in their warerooms a Selection of PLAIN and 0 RNA ENTAL ICE PAILS, to which they wish to dire. t attonti on . The price of the Plain Tub-pail (now much in use), :U. los. the pair ; the Classic Vase (very neat), M. Bs. th e p an . ; t h e Victoria Pattern 15/. the pair ; the Dresden Cooler, 19t. the pair, &c., all of which are strongly mounted with Silvoir, and nave Silver Shields for Engravi ng the Crest or Coal. of Anna A pamphlet is published, with drawings of the above and other articles of plate generally, which may be bad on applica tion, tree of cost. LADIES' BEST GOLD CHAINS...— The weight is given by comparison with the weight of Soie reigns, being more easily referred to than if stated in ounags and dwts. The quality of the gold is warranted equal to any that is worked into art:cles of this description. Price of the Cable Pattern, or Matted Ring Pattern. Same weight as 3 soya. £4 4 0i Same weight as 6 sous. £7 7 0 Ditto as 4 soya. 55 0 Ditto as 7 sovs. SI 8 0 Ditto as 5 soya. 6' 6 0 Ditto as 8 sovs. 9 9 0 The following patterns are One Guinea dearer than the above but cannot be made lighter than the weight of ive sovereigns. The Cage pattern The Chinese pattern, The Ring and Bar p a tt ern I The Victoria pattern. THE NEW FLAT GOLD WATCHES. With well-finished horizontal movement, in double bottomed engine -turned case, jewelled, silver dial, _ . warranted - Ditto, with gold dial - • T. COX SAVORY'S, (Seven Doors from Gracechurek- s t reet ) . Watchmaker, Silversmith and Jeweller, 47, Cornhilis tom N.B.—The Horizontal Construction is particttlarly reconr. mended for its superior accura c y. ....---.......... Ina On the 13th inst., at Leamington, the Viscountess Dillon, of a daughter. On surg eon th , Brie 13 ghton, th inst. of a the daugh lady te rof Edmund :Joseph Turn er , Esq., On the 14th inst., at Bl ackheath -road, Greenwich, the lady • of William Wickenden,, Esq., of a son and heir. I On the 14th inst., at the Grove, Blackheath, Mrs. Rickards, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., the wife of Richard Dart, Esq., Albion street, Ilyde-park, of a son. ED On th e 6 t h of April, at Wa MARRI ltair, Major T. L. Green, of the 50th Regiment of Native Infantry, to Susanna Jane Leicester Poulton, dattg!.ter of Major C. Poulton, Madras Army. On ti 3e 16 th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square,. Henry Willi am Des Voeux, Esq., only son of Sir Charles Des- Voeux, Bart. to Lady Sophia Gresley, widow of the latA. Sir. Roger Gresley, Bart., and daughter of the late Earl of Corentry:• DIED. On the 28th ult. , at Brighouse, Yorkshire, the Rev. NV..' Faulkner, 8.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, and incum bent of Hang* -Heaton, Yorkshire. On the 13th inst., at Leamington, Francis Fortescue Tar - ville, Esq., of Bosworth-hall, Leicester, aged 89. On etth 13th inst., al.. Barnsbury.place, Islington, Mrs. Grey, relict f he late WilliaLn Grey, E Stock-Exchange, aged 77. s q ., of Highbury and the On the 14th first., at u Surgeon 11to her Edward Majesty'sC e ol a e , m al a r n i, E P s r q., Principal Veterinary , g fessor of the loyal Veterinary College, and Fellow of the Royal Society, &c. ROME CIRCUI4—CHRLMSFOIin, JULY 16. The Commission for the county of Essex was opened on Monday, and yesterday bu3iness was commenced in both Courts, Lord DENMAN presiding in the Crown Court, and Chief Justice TINDAL at Nisi Prius. When the Grand Jury had been sworn, Lord DENMAN addressed them at some length. Elizabeth Biss, who was eqnvictcd at the last assiz.s of t e murder of her male unbaptized child, but upon whom jalgrnent was respired on a p.int of law raised in to r f a vour by ttie C tinsel, was then pot to the bar to bear the Of th• Court. Lout) DEN M dciivi.ring judgment said, tb, pri r nad b en iaffic c for he murder of her child, an i a vi' dtct of Godi% had he n returned against her, but u tam:tit 12,4 been stayed on account of a point of law loan her Counsel raised on her behalf. That point bad s;iit!, b. en brought under the notice of the whole of the Ju•ige=, end the decision they had come to was that the indit7 , ment wits bad. The verdict must therefore be quached. and the prisoner was entitled to her discharge. Th, rtunatc young woman who appeared to be very ili tiA weak, was then removed from the bar. (From the London New Price Current of July 16.) SUGAR.—TiIe importers of Sritigi Plantation Sugar during the past week having submitted to a reduction of 6d for brown and Is for yellow descriptions, caused buyers to come forward more freely, and for refining descriptions there was a good demand, particularly for strong sorts. Jarna:cA and Trinadad good brown at 625, Grenada, Ja maica, and Trinidad mid yellow 63s to 645, good mid Ja maica 65.;, fine with much colour 675; at public sale 28 &c. Tobago sold at 63s 61 to 65s 6d for mid to good yellow, - This afternoon 130 Idols. Barbadees Sugar were sold at pace; 6d. u:.der those of ttie last sale ; fine went at 664 Sid to 68s, mid, to good 64s 61 to 66s per cwt. REFINED._ For home consumption common descriptions of goods have been in good demand, and brown lumps, of which the supply is small, have brought 80s to 80a 6d; but the better qualities have been taken sparingly at former rates. Small sales in Crushed Lave been executed at 34s per cwt. Bastards have been taken freely, and former quotations have been supported. Treacle at the rates previously established. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 33' 3d to 333 6d per cwt. MAURITIUS. —The trade have purchased cautiously, but in prices little variation has occurred since we last wrote. This afternoon 5,267 bags were offered at public sale ; brown and low yellow descriptions sold at full prices, but colcury sorts were only partly disposed of at barely. pre vious rates, low mid and mid yellow went at 62s 6d to 635, good mid to good 63s 6d to 655, fine 665, good mid brown 61s 6d to 62s per cut. EAST INDIA—This afternoon there was no auction of Bengal, but 1,125 baskets Java, 1,512 bags Siam, 363 bags and 168 cases Manilla were offered ; the Java was all taken in at its full value good yellow at 24s to 265, ordinary 22s 6d to 235, a few lots washed were sold at 22s 6d to 23s 6d. Siam were also taken in, middling to good white 25s 6 , 1 to 295, which prices are on a par with those of the last sale. Manilla only partly found buyers, at the late rates ; fair to good yellow sold at 22s to 23s 6d, damps 203 to 20s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.—This afternoon 194 chests and 70 brls Brazil were off'ered at auction, which sold Is under former rates. Mosasses.—West India have been in steady request, and have brought former rates ; 34s 6d to 35s paid for good Dominica, and 32s for common Demerara. COFFEE —British Plantation has been taken sparingly by the trade since this day week. Good qualities have declined in value 2s to 3s, but ordinary and fine ordinary sorts have maintained their previous currency within Is per cwt. Ceylon has maintained its former currency. This afternoon there was no public sale of any kind, and the plicate purchases were limited in both East and West India, but prices have undergone no further change. Cocoa.—Nest India has maintained its former cur rency ; middling to good red Grenada at 445 to 48a 6d, god middling red to good grey Trinidad, at 47s 6d to 52s 61 p,r cwt. Rice. —East India has been in good request, and have commanded full prices. Bengal at 14s 6d to 15s for good, and 14s for middling white; Java 12s to 12s 6d for white, lOs 64 to 11s 6d foryellow, and 9s 6d to 108 for ord yellow mixed. TEA. —The Tea sales, which commenced yesterday, con sisting of 31,300 pkgs, were well attended by the trade The prices obtained are as follows—Congou, but mid blackish leaf, is 2d to Is 31, but mid blackish leaf Hung Muey kind Is 4d, but mid rather coarse and rather blackish leaf is 4d to Is 51d, but mid Souchong kind blackish leaf Is 5d to Is 6d. mid blackish leaf Pekoe flavour up to 2s Id to 2s lid ; Twankay but mid brightish leaf to 5d to Is 511, a few lots Is 44d; Young Hyson but mid wiry brightish leaf, 3s ld, mid and good mid 2s 6d to 2s 6/d ; Gunpowder but mid brightish leaf rather course 4s 4id to 4s sd, hut mid rather small 2s 8d to 4s ; Pekoe but mid old little flowery, 2s lid up to 2s 10d, good mid flowery 2s loid to 3s id; Souchong but m id rat h er bl ack i sh leaf Is 3d to is 42d ; Orange Pekoe but mid strong 3s to 3s 3d Imperial but mid mixed rather course 2s 4id per lb. To-day several breaks were taken in at even higher prices. 9,700 pkgs passed the sale, 4,300 of which I found buyers. Taosow.—For P. Y. Candle on the spot there has been a good demand for the time of year for consumption, and prices have advanced to 48s 3d to 48s 6d for first quality. For delivery in the last three months there has been more business doing, and several contracts have been entered into at the advanced rate of 48s per eVit. SA LTPETRE. —This afternoon there was less demand for Rough, and 2,042 bags Calcutta at public sale went off without spirit, the better descriptions at former rates, but ord sorts barely maintained their previous currency, refrac tion 11 to 111 1 - per cent sold at 23s 6d a 245, 91- per cent 23s 61 a 24,, 51 per cent 24s 6d a 25s 6d, 4i per cent 1 25s 6d a 26s per cwt. INT TGO. —Up to yesterday afternoon, 5,644 chests have passed the sale, 1,420 of which have been withdrawn, 1,100 1 taken in, and the remainder sold : Bengal, purple and violet has been sold at 85 6,1 a 9s 3d, good to flee violet • 8s aBs tid, ord and mid do 7s 3d a Bs, violet and copper 6s 8d a 83, consuming qualities good and fine 6s 6d a 7s 9s, ord and low ditto 5s 3d a 6s, low and trash 2s 9d to ss, Oude, true] 2s a2s 3 1. Madras 3s 6d a6s 3d. Kurpah 3s 9d a6s 9d per lb. To-day the rates previously established were fully sup ported. )