The Sun. — London, England, 1851-11-29 00:00:00

T ,; 4 -4-4 PROTESTANT ALLIANeste. l'ret e g : Le rareeti ng O f the mett.h-r, f , c,n. , :!.9 th: EEto. Titlance was 11 , -id ye s',. ; ; . Ftwu p a ° r the purpose of aeoptieg res,lutiors totio,un„ tiolii2,lPerscutions on the continent, and for pets ,,,e_h+.3th Houses of Parliament for the repeal of the Sotto u° " 4 Endowm en t emeeting, which was tenBl!atbusiasti c , was extremely crowded; and the Nit fore Press ure and struggle at the door indicated eitt k i: re Persons were in attendance than the hall would h er , The gall er y was filed with !tidies. le ee hY a fter noou th e E arl of S ha f tes b ury , who had etes44oanced as president, took the chair. He was tes e. l4l l 4 ted jet ° the hall by a large number of gentle ty.x4intdiaiiracin,deabout the platform there were—the Hon. Captain the Hon. Maude, Sir C. Eard :tole Cator, Admiral Vernon Harcourt, Mr. J. til e, 4elle ' MX., Mr. P. Cator, Sir Peregrine Mai t - Th orn ' drairal Hoe() Sir Heron Maxwell, Bart., Mr. " Th 'ir° • t 3,. r ,.. 4 13 Ir.:, „r. F ree , Peen, Sir William •• I ~ ,a lOl l, l 1 1• P., Sir Thomas Bionic held, Bart.._ r 41 ,.H .7 "" 4 "er, Aeltniral Sir IL:Lay Hart, ' , e3 tria aior Marsh Hughes, Mr. 'l'. Cull , y Smith, 2: .r. Li, Xr. It. ['raw., Mr. W. A. i lankvy, llrel e, Captain Trott r, Leutervlnt-Coionet Mitenec, eiaheen. Mr. Seeley, Mr. J. Cook Evans, Mr. W. Oer:llelis Mr. T. Farmer, Mr. Garra:t, Mr. W. B. Ter G orge RbVP. C. Molynux, Dr. Cex, J. Jordan, 415 0, Dr. C amp b el l , T . Bi nney , C. G oo dh ar t, 'aS(l, if I,Steane, Dr. Langley. D. Wilson. E. Hal % Bearnish, F. Close, J. Stratton, Dr. Bunt ?rittt.',Auriel, C. F. Childs J. Tucker, M. Preston, J. 1 41;Z r ' Parnilton, Dr. Beecham, R. Burgess, A. S. Aft er „"‘e• De r3 Yer, by the Rev. E. AURIIL, t trth e ( rti Of 6 RAFTESBURy Me to open the business 0 -it e t s q• Re said they were assembled upon e tab 's-114%W Qtrne delicacy , but of singular importence. They •e ekr d e o osot to i nst i tute a society, for that had been at %lied te n s , but t o con fi rm and extend an association IN 4 6 " Protestant Alliance," an association com- St % me me members of the Church of Ligland, .and_ k l lteo u :rers of the great Nonconformist bodies, united e pee to-3'or the purpose of offering a consolidated resist -14 aPttl a ggressions — those aggressions alike craftylThe stese,"seainst our spiritual and political liberties. t. Net; °f the matter was short and simple. The d ou . '412 insolence of the Papal power, as exhibite in 414 Year, and the sense of common danger,.bad t_ l4 Co ttl4 °Y to look into the existing state of things, 4 PI), Pos ide r whether we did not present, by our .un td, n 't l /1% ,° 12 3, abundant opportunities to our insidious Ve ri p o - 4 6 , i ' t ,° 0 —(1er)—and to see whether it would t4.eleicir notwithstanding our differences—thaels d ee Perp et enterenees—to unite in one great effort for th• of maintaining spiritual . and politic"l free ((',et\ la and in every other region of the (arth.— ~%eilti- i ? After some preliminary conferences this us- Pril - ro w , E ts formed on the 25th of June, and these were es on which it was based :—" That it appears ti4ll-416 t° form an association which shall combine all Pose d) et' Protestants whose object is not mere to op- , . 411 011: 9 t i te e ent aggression of the Pope, as a violation , of Independence but to maintain and defend ho the ,„ encroachments of Popery the Scrip . tur i a 11 04 the Reformation and the principles of re en e ` r ‘Y, as the best security under God for the tens sPiritual welfare and prosperity of this t: (41 el ,7" - (Oheers ) But the objects of the associa i4ettee : ) ?t . limited to these islands. They desired ti their views and sympathies much . further. as come when events of magnitude in any i ' b rioe se l l i cd not be indifferent to the people of any other el ttl e kie„" l ears hear. ) The association appealed for co - operation to their Protestant brethren se . s t lifi e „ en States —(Hear, hear)—to the Waldensian 47'4 e ; s ' e the subjects of the House of Savoy, now res - " e eP abase t and oppression by the noble :nu-41d liberal Government men of Sardinia.—(Cheers.) e i 4 l l :ll l l e P e a . led also to the people of Sardinia themselves, be e poli t ic were the objects of attack from spiritual d i o t i. power.—(Hear, hear.) Beset by the ti te s ses). san. ,tion of Austria on the one Bide— ts the autocratical insolence of the Pope on eehlhkßear, hear)—that people knew what it was f t ' e r, ` e for political freedom.—(Cheers.) With tle 4lgB ' v iews, and principles, it seemed inclispen triethie":"!sty and inevitable to direct attention to L iolly - ei Within our own realm, the greatest monsment h ( e li thought, and no one could deny of incon- VI of t hear)—that was ever reared by the Ye eet . Imen.—(Hear, hear.) The College of iht fey,, w men .—( Hear , institut e d an d en d owe d by the statesmen " ' ear s le P r ieat hand ago for the purpose of conciliating the dS -- and propitiating . the Irish St4 -4 ed ee transaction was never in Parliament . the ~..° 4* e l l ; i nciPle.—(Hear, hear.) It was maintained etee,-..14-..scy.—(Hear, hear.) But what had been cet eee this sacrifice of principle, this worship of (11 4 of Y r Instead of peace we had found war—i Nee!, Eeeearticiliation, insult—instead of safety, peril.— ' :teed WhAnd what now remained? Maynooth 11 0 more character than this, that it was ' 7l Ples b le ,, L L °oo rd of disappointed hopes and violated 44. e °l‘ (cheers.) Of 4 t e_ l het t h cl e ill iobt't oved the first resolution aty Church lertie;re vival, on th e part of the of Rome, k 'ap er .‘ Pretensions and most intolerant doctrines et~lhate e. e middle ages, of their of the renders it the duty of l alll e i : !- to unite, both for the defence kerlieei 'Rifts liberties, and for the maintenance of temporal ti N Ed truth on which depend alike the kektlitle haPPinofmankind." . d ;, ess -.. this tie log s aid —he saw it written—" What , is the St e , "4 strange medley of seen and pa te tto p ert 4 ll l are A You doing, you gentlemen e ofv YO ti opp o a. '°n3, who meet on the same plot (tti t ell Li :Zti to the Church of Will lesh t EL -ga t, You are going to substitute? You want t ee' r e4 ter,) .4 ,„ r ier great and beneficent influence. — li st °t ied e "ill you tell us upon what basis you moan 4%4. rte ! tr tl r Christian union?" Theseo f w t r h t i t s er ci s u d e t! tee,: t hey tillederstand the first principles f iite l d not understand the principle of our co in- 14 14 d the; r ( . ii e.er, 4EI0 —certainly they did not under the t he s . h a d tlx iPles of English freedom — memory (Hear, hear) t iee' ll eta ef ,°°nveniently sponged out of their was te epe history.—(Hear, hear.) It 00 toset,Otle,were differences—wide differences— the- 41 th -el l, there assembled; but when the . a N tn oblt eitePleettlei e cair bad called upon them , in past time, to - ' \r i t i - ‘, l‘ (ll. ss ,;_ e ttle of the sorest evils which afflicted h_i_me r a e ."' pe till—with wearing and excessive toil— (Hear) SOed 4 m -ell ee end disease stalking in our street t s he 41 4 .° e0e. -44 e - (llear)— w as it over heard when na y )0 11 elly hod with these common enem 03 of humanity tektite% do . 51 Etopped them and said—" Take care don't his I , lll g. That gentleman is a Bap t ist; 'at -'l°ll-°4eY%----(A la to This gentleman w . o tt e h . feeZear are combining establish a ragged sc f b 414 thntiestilential lane, I tell you, I know it for i lter sot he is a Nonconformist—(Laughter) — tit tZe c r - ' I assure you, was seen last Sunday suspicious neighbourhood near Co t e 44 'le e l t wed lac hter)—and that other °tl r ir d l e tt keel l e - "gelet•sql g iare."—(Hear.) Would such l hop li ger % ue listened to?—(Hear.) No, whateverwe oliLite tl e e te e_itt the conflict now opening before us oath Lkegether, brother by brother—(Cheers) ie l)t ! e ... " ; ,.(lie . e l e tu each other, and zeal for the cause of . oee-red cheers.) But our question was_ not t he t : 4 of P t % '° ll with the religious doctrines of n i t !tt tnrs t i i r c)l33 e what we complained of .was, notthat -at the ' 43 us, and, as we thought from the truth, der ould not allow fair debate and tolerant ttl itei l e " ° W e when the scales were turning againste It titi -41413 . --s4 always throw away the sword of theh t he 1 .6 4 : 3 f th i ," the axe of the executioner, b into "%Art te e r i oler, and the bludgeon of the mo the ttlehst.""(Rear, hear.) Now, other s u p x : e ak a e a r d s t hos'e tititl4 and hew upon the Continent the against tl h e e ?leo eettrie°bfiecation were doing their work our c„,i,;(,)...4it,)?-the Gospel. But how was it even! of nee-"" Cullen In Drogheda, under the very wing ~,tetZeti,a c he e t i k t _w2 o ru s en - , whose only offence was tat 31• 4 •Ni. q - b ee ",LGospel to wi . lling y e_ar . s y a a nd mob thirsty (b y I : 4( llti o ,tla at ..:'‘,lraCk e d and followed b mt4 ll:` inqui r '" ‘ he would not say—that was a matter fur 4°ll hle' i et ette 1 37), and they were beaten till one of them 0 01 - t e e;', and the other at the latest ascount was ee1444 h e e e la st breath of failing life under the cruel ph t i k itt tuati received.—(Loud cries of "Shame.. kti c uli ii4V 4 her last, wrote the Rambler—a periotdr 4:Prt,e4tPY the Roman Catholics in this ctit i i v n at ri ci 4 Oath t!'g the sentiments of the more cultivated b ete .lies of England? q l; l hl e ..g t ° l ll liberty in this sense, of a liberty pos yby t : tleetverY rasa to choose his own religion, o by e-4 'tat w delusions ever foisted upon this age tali of all deceit. No man has a right to choose 44pri 4 10 4 o r., None but an Atheist can uphold the Ites (10%, rcligions liberty. Shall I foster that dam_ ko; 1 41 ii 14 e that Socinianism Mad Calvinism, and tie are t‘t, and Judaism, are not every one of them_ hie ° Des to ' murder and adultery ? Shall I hold if ° th e Protestant that I will not meddle with , hi to ,eeie will not meddle with mine? Shall I lead 1 0 5 1; 1 . 1 thr t le k that religion is a matter for private opi -14 r I* "NA h see, lgie . to forget that he has no more right -e, 4:la Views than he has to my purse, or my ‘ i 4 44 *at life blood?" " A Catholic temporal go etid Otts oll id be guided in its treatment of Protest ' 441 ' " er recusants, solely by the rules of expel 'ten:Pting to that line of conduct which t "V best . l Oati u their conversion , and to prevent the e ta Ei ti of their errors." " A fanatic who denied '4 4 4; ~:etaelets' would be put in Bedlam, and his eat Pliced under Chancery. Just such would tst ° ie (tt e • treatment of unbelievers by a Catholic le cite h e git l tt teli:ars and derisive lauhter.) Nor let d it be said % • w ere the speculations of the learned. W e ke 4 ," e ac t i 4 i, th . e yof „ " Hie(); England for Catholic C e e te roe ctrinteing earliest youth? Here was a as -4441'41.4. 4 ; t „ t f in g t , O the reign of Maier, and especially p the uhr reformers, Craumer, tie x It i s e , sod Ridley, and s d e rY should L i lted °Le The se bole country was unsettled and 41 111 ' et eaY, and it was eleurly impossible to stop it . te s. 4 4 4 ' 41 . In this ewe, you know, when men 0 1 % "to cooly, but the fte , e t destroy not only their own s Vre, ,ttiltLy others, they are to be treated as . 1 %.; Vtitli s h ( Ile given ever by the church to the la t Ire 4r, h+ ed* L kt j h 'I%) w 'tt s' l olli let us turn to France. .Among the th e - ' ° Doli e g e nt men there were the journalists _of the Pk "Dre g . VV Eat said, i n August last, the Univtrs .t , entative of the great, Ultramontane and Jest'', ° t , l P er tt I Q t hat t I Y , "r , part I avow frankly my regret is that e Y did not sooner burn Ji.hn Russ, but , t it 4 P 4t tt il e ° h t "Ptally burn Luther; aed I regret., further, th ci tle pl ops 94 not been at th e time some prince suffi. (td e l'e kst sel politic to have made a crusade against e tn e s ant e . That having been commented on, he wrote ktteettele Ott ' l ' t o be e tc e examined and convicted by the church ‘senvered to tc u lar oeer "'" With death. over he se Nothing has ever appe p ared to us ~? S ti N, TIIE more irotosi or more .The poirept repro i:oeo et the e , res_ees Leteisr eel it eruseee egeinst fiette 3 teetieta woalcl nave stemel Rerope three en reels* et discord sold of catastrophe in which Fra nce aed civi may perish." (Laughter.) But, to cite the highest of all authorities, the Pope himself—what was the account given in the Roman Catholic paper, the Tablet, only last month, of the allocation of Pope Pius IX. on the sth of Sep!ernber, I 1850? It releted to the we:cord:it between the Pope :sod bpain; it stated that all eccieeisatical property un ju.tiy confiscated was to be resumed, that all property which hid been or should be given to the Romish Church was to remain immutable and inalienable, and that all colleges and schools, public and private, were to be pieced under the entire and absolute control of the bishops. It went on:— " But it has also been decreed that all the magistrates of the kingdom shall do their endeavour to secure that due honour, observance, a nd obedience shall be shown by ail to the ecclesiastical authority and dignity." To this was added: — ';'het the most illuslrious Queen and her Govern ment promise to give all assistance by their powerful patronage nee' protection to the aforesaid bishops, when, io the exercise of their pastoral office, they shall have occasion to restrain the wiekedin es and audacity of those ruin principally who impiously seek to pervert the minds of the feitlifee, and to corrupt their morals, and when they shall have to seateer and drive away from their flecks the dete, table and dire plegue and ruinous evil of perverse books." (Hear, hear.) Nor were these mere words ; here was their application in the case of a weak published lately by a professor at Turin, who had written two works on ecclesiastical law, in which he had laid it down that the Church should employ moral and religious influence, but n t the power of the sword and of the magistrate, to carry out her views. Upon this cut came a rescript from the chair of St. Peter, " In the sixth year of our Ponti ficate," forbidding the work to be read, under pain of the greeter excommunication. The Pope said— " By such a doctrine and by such maxims the author tends to destroy the constitution and the government of the Church, and utterly to ruin the Catholic faith, since he deprives the Church of its exterior jurisdiction and coercive power, which has been given to it to bring beck into the ways of justice those who stray out of them." (Hear, hear.) Here, then, was a system of the most deadly intolerance against every thought which erected itself in opposition to the doctrines and superstitions of Rome. Would England, the refuge of the oppressed, stand by and not put forth her hand, and give the infl a ence of her policy, to rescue these nations from the grasp of the Pope?—(Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN here stated that ho had received among the letters of apology for absence one from Earl Ducie, who stated that, having formerly voted for the Maynooth grant, he should have been glad of the oppor tunity of giving his reasons for an entire and total change of opinion.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. TIDMAN secretary of the London Mis sionary Society, seconded the resolution, and insisted that, whether Caurchmen or Nonconformists, those en gaged in this Alliance were here of one heart and of one mind, united in tne great principles of evangelical Pro testantism, and not only thinking alike and feeling alike, but determined also to strive together.—(Cheers.) Not that they were going to exhibit the spirit they con demned. He was willing to give to every Pepist the liberty ho claimed for himself—the right to teach, and use moral influence to enforce the lessons he inculcated — (Hear, hear)—but no more.—(Hear, hear.) We were asked " what we wished to set up?' We did not wish to displace Popery in one form to put it up in another. — (Hear, hear.) Let us have a fair field and no favour; let us meet on just and equal terms; let us not have the sword of the magistrate and the thumbscrew thrown into the scale against us.—(Hear, hear.) Let us have an honourable conflict, and we need not fear the issue. The resolution was then put and carried. The Rev. R. BURGESS, rector of - Lipper Chelsea, UR moved the second resolution, which was as follows: " That the recent movements of the Romish priest hood throughout Continental Europe, coupled with their late aggressive proceedings in England, prove the exist ence of a settled purpose to overthrow religious freedom; while their success in France, in prosecutions for the sele of controversial tracts, and in preventing the circu lation of the Holy Scriptures, shows to what an extent that freedom may be curtailed, even under a constitution framed to secure both civil and religious liberty. That this meeting, therefore, approves of the purpose of the committee of the Protestant Alliance to interpose, whenever practicable, in behalf of those suffering wrong at the hands of that priesthood; and it calls upon the Protestants of all countries, and especially upon those of the United Ststes of America, to unite with the peop le of Great Britain in defence of those principles of the glorious Reformation for which our ancestors :aboured and suffered." He should be very glad to keep clear of politics on this occasion, but the Papists, and not they, had entan gled the religious question with politics.—(Hear.) Popery was not a confederacy against the religious liberties only of men; but a political conspiracy against their civil liberties.—(Cheers.) He would briefly refer to the state of things iu France, with which he had had oppo rtunities of' becoming somewhat acquainted.—( Hear.) France pre sented an anomaly such perhaps as history never saw. It was a republic with universal suffrage; the principles of liberty were proclaimed far and wide upon a larger basis than was ever laid in modern Europe, and yet no where was the power of Popery and the Romish priest hood more rampant.—(hear.) The reason was this— the political power of Rome was always greatest where c ivil government was weakest.—(Hear.) It was mar vellous to look at the power the priesthood had acquired in France. Under the monarchy of Louis Phi lippe it was restrained within somewhat reasonable limits. That monarch had the courage to drive back the Jesuits into the shade, and to resist the demands of the bishops to have till education placed in their hands.—(Hear, hear.) But in February, 1843, they came out to offi ciate in public under the shouts of the multitude, and, embracing the republic they despised in their hearts, blasphemously assimilated the trees of liberty to the cross of Calvary.—(Hear, hear.) Ever since that time the Government had been anxious to pay them every kind of compliment. There were eighty episcopalt hose sees in France, and up wards of 40,000 clergy, and bishops and clergy received in 1850 out of the public Treasury a sum of 1,600,000/. for their salaries. There were 240 diocesan buildings maintained by the State, under the name of public works. There were about 38,000 churches, and more than ono half that number of priests' houses, maintained at the expense of the State or the municipalities.—(Hear, hear.) He considered himself cal led upon by his resolution to show that if they founded a constitution to secure civil and religious liberty, still they could not work it with an army of priests against them.—(hear,hear.) Take again the case of France; there the priests had got pos session of four things—the school, the provincial judg ments, the press, and the tribune.—(llear, hear.) They had got possession of the school, the rising generation. Instruction was said to be free, but it was directed by one supreme board, of which the Minister of Public, In struction was of course the president, but which com prised also four archbishops or bishops, three Councillors of State, eight members named by the President of the Republic, only one minister of the Reformed Church, elected by the consistories, another of the Confession of Augsburg, and a member of the Israelitish synagoguewas s —so that the poor solitary Protestant pastor s wamped.— ( Hear, hear.) The composition of the local councils was similar to that of the general board. Louis Philippe resisted the priests having this power, which they had got under the Republic; but the weakness of the civil government was ever the strength of the Papal power.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Burgess) must not detain the meeting further, but there was plainly a confederacy to overthrow religious freedom in Europe. The concordat with Spain pronounced the Roman Catholic the religion of Spain, "to the exclusion of every other." For Portugal, let the excellent Dr. Kelley boar witness, and that poor woman who through our intervention just escaped being put to death. If Italy was not involved in the charge why was Guicciar dini here?— (Hear, hear.) Did not Austria, too, intend to put down religious freedom?—(Hisses.) A remark able foreigner lately among us—(Hear, hear) —said that Russia was the rock against which every sigh for free dom broke. Let us hope that England would be the bulwark against which every wave of Papal tyranny should roll in vain.—(Cheers.) The Rev. W. CHALMERS seconded the motion. The Governments cn the continent, in their mad attempts to support a policy which could not live in the nineteenth century—(Hear, hear) —had called in the Romish priesthood.—(Hear, hear.) Whether this alliance was going to lead to a crusade against the Protestantism and liberties of England we could not tell. Hints had been thrown out that the Catholic Powers of Europe would not see their Church disrespectfully treated here; and Lord J. Russell had alluded in Parliament to the pos sibility of a great Popish league. We might yet be called to stand in this resp,!ct in the Thermopyle of Europe.—(Hear, hear.) Let that be as it might, there was enough in the events of the last few months to put us upon our guard. However the ad herents of Popery might disguise the recent Papal aggression, it was manifest that mere tolerati hear was They not what they aimed at —the y had it.—(Hear, had what we know that, if they had tho power, they would withhold from us.—(llear, hear.) Toleration was not what they wanted, but ascendancy.—(Hear, hear.) They were the servants of a master who hoped again to be the autocrat o f the world.—(llear, hear.) We must regard that aggression as the result of the con spiracy agoinat the liberties of Europe. He went for t t e h r o s l o c f s an aggressive movement to car r y the war into the quer ,illbeuftee,angaoitnstte againsth trhaepaleibyerties of Roman th Ca itself; against at politico ecclesiastical organization` which, approppating to itself exclusively the title of the Church,' aimed o n n a l m y e a o t t s r 7 i n g l i a o r n, a a n i d m m ed un a d t mundane objects; which, under the national independ ence an d reploigliitoiucsalfracsecdeoudara.zycfhaetaelr:.l 'The resolution was then put and carrie d unanimously. c h Sir C. EARDLEY m ove d the third resolution, whi was us follows: " That this meeting desires to express its sense of the contrast afforded to this retrograde movement in France and elsewhere, by the protection recently given by the Government of Piedmont to the ancient Church of the Waldenses, and by the firmness with which that Government has withstood the arrogant pretensions of the Papal priesthood. It trusts that the house of Savoy may have the honour of carrying on to completion the work of liberty of conscience, the surest guarantee of civil freedom and national prosperity. Aud it desires o fi f rm the co S n a v r ic d t i i u o i n tin i t n o de ex pe p n r d es e s nc i e ts that in against the theag gressive claims of Rome, the Piedmontese Government may rely on the warmest st mpatby of the people of G a r:a ys t i ß ai r , it d ai t e i i ir . Bin." of all to mention that Mr. Burges , a in r,telriug to France, did not notice two eircutestenees which should be mentioned. One was, that the tracts of LON DON, M. Ronne], which were circulated with perfect liberty (luring the reign of Louis Phbippe, had n )w been seized, and the Government of the Repeblie had put the prin ter and publisher into prison.—(Hisses.) The other ws, that one of the Net acts of M. Leon Faucher, the late Minister, was that of sending a circular to the prefects of departments, enjoining them not to allow the Pro testant version of the Scriptures to be colpolteured. There was one consistory of which he could speak, the colporteurs of which were resolved to go to prison rather than to give up the circulation of the word of God, and the ministers had resolved to take their places and go to prison too. Wes there not a case, then, for English sympathy ?—(Hear, hear.) Last week he waited upon Lord Palmerston with a deputation in the case of a British subject who had been thrown into prison—he alluded to Dr. Marriott, who bad published a tract against the Jesuits, which was circulated in Carla rube. The tract had been seized there. Dr. Marriot went to protest against it, and had been arrested, and wus now in prison —(Cries of " Shame!") Only about a fortnight ago Marshal RadetzV marched into a Pro testunt church at Milan, and turned the congregation out, because he said they had not only worshipped ( which they had liberty to do), but elected a committee in manage their affairs.— (Laughter.) Lest week a friend of his returned from Florence, where he saw in prison parsons who had been sent there for designing and intending to read the Scriptures. A professor of canon law at Turin was excommunicated, although his sentiments were almost word for word with those which Cardinal Wiseman had endeavoured to persuade us were the sentiments of the See of Rome. The Governmt nt, however, greatly to their honour, had appointed a pro fessor of similar sentiments, and he (Sir C. Eardley) hoped the Alliance would assist their continental brethren in their struggle for religious freedom. He hoped that this resolution would be com municated not only by post, but in person. He should like to tree a deputation of Protestant Christians to the continent of Europe, with Lord Shaftesbury at their head—(Hear, hear)—who should speak in the name of British Protestantism in favour of civil and religious liberty.—(Hear.) The Rev. F. CLOSE, incumbent of Cheltenham, who seconded the motion, reminded the meeting of the case of Queen Pomace and Tahiti. Except in one country — Western Africa—there seemed to be no part of the world where we had planted missionaries to which the Popish priest did not track them. We had to fight Romanians, not here alone, but throughout the world. The resolution was put and agreed to. The Rev. C. PREST, Wesleyan minister, moved the last resolution : That, as the nearest and most practical duty of the British people, an earnest endeavour ought forth with to be made to terminate that intimate connexion with Rome into which this Protestant nation was brought in 1845, by the Act which settled upon Maynooth College a permanent national endowment. And that for this purpose petitions to both Houses of Parliament be now adopted, praying for the immediate and total repeal of that enactment." Mr. Prest went over the various pleas for the establish ment of Maynooth, and argued that all of them failed, or had been falsified by the result. The endowment of Maynooth was a national sin and a national blunder, and the sooner we got rid of both the better. The Rev. Dr. BEGG, a deputy from Scotland, seconded the resolution, and said as to the Maynooth affair, that any old woman in Scotland with her Bible and catechism might be matched against the Peels and Russells for guiding the nation to a sounder conclusion.—(Laughter.) Any ony one who looked at Ireland could see that Po pery had cursed that country; and why were we to add to that curse by giving 30,000/. a-year to:train up the agents by which that system was fostered ? Much as we might despise the Pope, he would not be guilty of such an absurdity. Catch him giving 30,0001. to train Protestant teachers !—(Laughter.) There should be a vast machinery brought into operation for the purpose of leavening the public mind, and organizing the masses of Protestants in these three kingdoms.—(Hear.) If they were organized, Popery could not stand before them for an instant.—(Hear.) England might count on a large measure of support in this cause from the other side of the Tweed.—(hear.) There was no subject on which Scotchmen were so unanimous as in their determined opposition to Popery.—(Cheers.) Mr. J. C. Evaies supported the resolution, and recom mended the formation of Protestant alliances in every town in England, as had already been done in York and Bristol. The resolution was then put and carried, and the fol lowing petition adopted : " TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT A SSEMBLED. " The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of London and Westminster, " Humbly showeth—That your petitioners witnessed with great concern the endowment granted by Parlia ment in the year 1845 to the Romish College of May nooth, believing, in common with vast numbers of their fellow-countrymen, such endowment to be indefensible in principle and at variance with sound policy. " That your peiitioners believe that subsequent events have shown that the reasons of expediency by which that measure was then sought to be defended were alto gether founded`; in error; that the fruits of that endow ment have been entirely different from those which were anticipated by its promoters; and that the worst predic tions of its opponents have been fully realized. "Your petitioners, therefore, feeling an increasing re pugnance to that measure, pray that your Hon. House will repeal the Act of 1845, al.d will withdraw the sup port given to that college as promptly as may be consis tent with the engagements entered into with the parties now holding office under that Act." On the motion of Mr. FREWEN, M.P., a vote of thanks was given to the Noble Cbairman by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the vote, took oc casion to refer to what had been said by a previous speaker about the public press, and said he must not omit to speak with commendation and gratitude of one por tion of that press. He himself had drawn very largely upon their exertions. He alluded to the reporters.--- (Cheers.) Whether he referred to their reports of the proceedings in Parliament or of meetings such as the present, he was astonished, and bound to express his gratitude for the great talent and fidelity which charac terized then.—(Renewed applause.) But, having thus spoken of the mighty talent exhibited by the public press, he must be permitted to express his surprise that a writer could be found to say, as was said in one of the journals of that day, "If you get rid of the Church of Rome what will you put in its place? " What a green horn that writer must bel—(Laughter.) What would we put in its place? Why the Bible, to be sure.— (Cheers.) That was what they hold out as the great substitute for those enormous impostures on the reason of man. In conclusion, the gentlemen present that day had taken upon themselves a mighty obligation, and they must meet it upon the peril of their responsibility. The time was at hand—the conflict would be sharp—but by the blessing of God the issue would be final. The Rev. Dr. STEANE closed the meeting with prayer. The proceedings did not terminate till some time after five o'clock. C ALIFORNIAN MINES. Extract of a letter from Grass Valley, Nevada co., California, July 18, 1851. " Of the mills now going up at Grass Valley, one is by Sir Henry Huntley, on the Union Quartz Mountain, 2i miles from the village of Centreville. This vein been the longest work ed of an y in the township. The Chili Mill, small power having been in operation upon it for about ten months. The mountain is owned by two companies, one, and the oldest, the Union Company, and the other the Wolf Creek Gold Mining Company; the latter is organized under the General Incorporation Act of California, and has a money capital of 100,000 dolls. An arrangement has been made by both companies with Mr. Huntley to work the vein for half the gross produce, which will give an annual dividend on the stock of 100 per cent. per annum. This mill goes into operation in December of this year." (From the San Francisco Post, Oct. 1.) From all parts of the state we hare the most encou raging intelligence of the success of the miners, and we hazard nothing in saying that the present yield of the mines exceeds that of any former period. The season, so far, has been very favourable to the success of the various damming companies throughout the state, and the result has been large yields in that department of mining. The prospects for the approaching rainy season are still more encouraging. During the dry season great numbers of miner:, who have not been operating along tho beds of creeks and rivers, have been engaged in raising dirt in the dry diggings to wash when the rains afford them the requisite supply of water. Besides, a steady business is now being prosecuted by the various quarts companies, particularly in the vicinity of Nevada City, and along the tributaries of the San Joaquin. These companies will be able to prosecute their labours as well in the rainy as in the dry season. It may be well to remark that the quartz besiness appears to be that which, to a considerable extent, is attracting the attention of capitalists as a source of investment. The extensive outlay for costly machinery, in order to prose cute this branch of mining successfully, necessarily limits it to those who have accumulated the requisite capital by other and cheaper moles of mining, and to those other capitalists who are ready to make heavy investments. It appears to be a matter of debate among miners as to the comparative richness of the northern and southern quartz veins. The companies, however, established in either section upon an economical basis, are doing, so far as we can ascertain, as well as the moat sanguine could desire. Many fail of suucess from the want of a practical acquaintance with this mode of mining. From what we hear, we are led to expect for the approaching winter, a very large increase upon the yield of the lest. A deputation on the County Rates and Expenditure Bill, headed by the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterd,ay, at his official residence in Downing-street. TILE RUITORD POACHING CASE.—The Mansfield beech of magistrates have decided on committing for trial at the next assizes, the four men, Sims, Roberts, Bawskill, and Alvey, charged with the murder of Roberts, Lord Scar borough's gamekeeper. Bail was applied for in the case of one prisoner, but was refused. The evidence is at present incomplete, but it is expected that much additional light will be thrown on the case before the commencement of the assizes. _ _ [ADVERTISEMENT.] ITGlloway's Ointment and Pills wonderfully frcacious in curing several Wounds in a per son's Leg.—Extract of a letter trona Margaret Jones to Messrs. Russell and Watson, of Bacchus Marsh, Melbourne, Port Philip, dated Jan. 6, 1851. " Gentlemen,—Since I ap plied at your stores for a supply of Holloway's Ointment and I have made a sound cure of my leg after havingsuffered from several wounds in it for snore than two years. I tried previously many doctors in the country without obtaining any relief whatever from their remedies, but by using Holloway's valuable medicines for a few weeks every wound is healed, and my leg is now perfectly sound."—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Rollowiq's gstollishment, 244, Strand, London. SAT UR D.AY TILT PROTZ - 2STAITT ALLIANCE. (Fertll t'e Times.) There is nothing more otlieult in human affairs than to rl:serirn;nato th e ee,act point at which activity be comes hurtful, end apparart inertness the wisest and most efficient policy. Deep-laid intrigues have been frustrated by too earnest a desire to urge them on to their final corsumreation, aid battles have been lost in the moment of victory [roma natural wish to push the advaetage to the uttermost. Gaston do Foix had gained a splendid triumph at Revenna, if he could have been content with what he had wm, but in the rash attempt to ride down ie retreating battalion of Spanish infantry he fell, and with him deparnd the success of the arms of France. We put it to those excellent and zealous persons who met together yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, under the auspices of Lord Shaftesbury, whether it is not possible that their cruse may bo better served by apparent incction than by the most strenuous and de• terunined efforts. Since therevolutionary crisis of 1848 Popery has had tolerably far play in every country in Europe. Trembling Governments have only been too e h e a ct p e p si y l t s o tr c e t a il i l i li n be th rt e ie l s 'o of pis t a h s ? t i h r e s i u r b a j lly, and to barter the crease of coercive power (seer the spiritcts for of f a re slightv o n The consequence has been that, in spite of the Con cordat which she has dictated to Spain and the momen tary ascendancy acquired in Austria and France, Rome by again linking her destinies to those of Governments already nodding to their fall, has voluntarily prepared for herself a succession of self-sought reverses tied hu miliations. In our own country the Pope has assumed the right of perfectly free action, and neither Queen, Church, nor Parliament have been suffered to check his arrogance, or to control his aggression. In Ireland, by a similar abuse of usurped jurisdiction, he hes pro scribed the Government schouls and colleges, dsciared open war against the far more respectable part of his own bishops, and placed the government of his Church in the rash and incompetent hands of Primate Cullen. We will not apply a vulgar proverb to his Holiness, but will content ourselves with remarking that he has em ployed the liberty which he enjoys most efficaciously to ruin his own cause. The result has been that the con versions to Rome, once so frequent, have been arrested, that the spirit of the English people is more than ever alive to the dangers of Romanism, that the more sober Roman Catholics draw back with shame and fear from the intemperate zeal and preposterous credulity of over-zealous converts, end that the people of Ireland seem on the very print of emancipating themselves from a spiritual tyranny whose deformity was hidden by per secution, and has been only revealed at last by its L I marked antagonism to education and enlightenment. Agreeing with the speakers of the Protestant Alliance in the denunciation of the intolerant, unscrupulous, and encroaching spirit of the Roman Catholic priesthood, we would put it to them whether it is possible by reviving political agitation on the subject to accelerate the doom which the present policy of the Court of Rome is infal libly preparing for itself. We see more and more evidences every day that the Ultramontane party of the clergy are separating themselves from the laity, and that the free action which is left to the Romish Church by the cessation of Protestant meetings is tending to dis gust her best and most honest supporters. Nothing could arrest this tendency to dissolution, except some aggres sive movement on our part which might have the effect of uniting, from fear of a common danger, the elements whose dissociation has commenced. All the invectives of the Irish hierarchy and their representa tives have failed to persuade the people that the Eccle siastical Titles Bill is really a measure of persecution. At present they have no grievance greater than the existence of the Queen's Colleges, and with that misfor tune to the Roman Catholic Church their flocks cannot, it seems, be induced to sympathise. It might be ex tremely impolitic, in the present state of things, to pro vide them with such a grievance. _ When Sir Robert Peel, in 1845, proposed his perma nent endowment of Maynooth we did not support him; and assuredly, if that question were now in debate, we should see no reason to alter our opinion. It was un answerably shown by Lord Shaftesbury and several other speakers at the meeting, that no one of all the consequences anticipated from this measure has been attained. It was, indeed, a mere fragment of a policy, the only chance of the success of which was in being carried out as a whole. The necessary complement of the permanent endowment of Maynooth was a State provision for the Roman Catholic clergy, and it was obviously not worth while for a Minister to propose the one who shrank from carrying out the other. Con ciliation is a game which cannot be played by halves, and therefore the endowment of Maynooth appeared to us, and still appears, taken by itself, a political mistake, and a needless trifling with the Protestant feelings of England. Sir James Graham admitted in Parliament that this measure shook the Government to its centre, a danger which would certainly never have been in curred had its profitless results been foreseen. Still, however, the measure has keen taken, and it is a widely different question whether we shall undo what we ought certainly never to have done. To those, indeed, who look upon such an act as a national sin, and regard the contest for the repeal of this law as a sort of Parlia mentary crusade, or battle of Armageddon, the ques tion presents no sort of difficulty. But those who look on this matter in a light purely political may well pause before they suffer themselves to be hurried by zeal, by irritation, or disappointment, into a step the first effects of which may have so impor tant a bearing on the future destinies of Ireland. No intelligence could be more agreeable to Dr. Cullen and his associates than the announcement that the English Government bad determined to withdraw all Parliamentary support from Mayuooth. They would feel at once immensely etrengthened in their efforts for the formation of arc Catholic University, against which there is at present no more powerful argument than that the existence of the College at Maynooth rend-re such an institution absolutely superfluous and gratuitous. The withdrawal of assistance which had been granted by Pitt and Percival, by Liverpool and Wellington, would be easily tortured into a recurrence of the policy of the darkest times which preceded Catholic emancipation. On this subject the minority of the Synod of Thurles would probably feel as strongly as the majority. Nor can we doubt that the position of the Established Church in Ireland would would be coLsiderably weakened by the severing of the only 111:k which binds the majority of the nation to the State. If it offend Protestant zeal that we should be contributing to the teaching of what it deems error, it must be remembered, on the other hand, that the Irish Roman Catholics are compelled to support a church to which their objections are equally strong and equally conscientious. We believe the h u atw it e ra c m ou o l n d ta i n n e n p o ar r t e y sp th ec a t n b b e y petteorsneringve the interests of and unsettling the question of religious endowments. That the settle ment existing in Ireland is not the one which would be adopted now, were the matter open for fresh discus sion, may be seen from the analogy of our colonial churches, where Pretestant and Catholic are alike sup ported by the State on principles of the strictest reli gious equality. We have shown that the Maynooth gran ought not to have been imposed alone, and it may be very questionable whether it could be repealed alone. It were but poor policy, fur the sake of a few Protestant cheers, to rush into a measure the results of which lie far deeper than is, at first sight, apparent. Possibly, many of Lord Shaftesbury's Nonconformist allies might view with satisfaction a complete re-adjustment of ec clesiastical property in Ireland. The Protestant Al liance is enthusiastic and unanimous against the Pope, but on every other question of policy it is a mere rope of sand. The revocation of the endowment of the Ro man Catholic College would be looked on by many Protestunt Dissenters as the first step towards the vo luntary system. Will the contingent furnished by the Church of England sympathise in the aspirations of their allies ? COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Nov. 28. The Queen and Prince took their usual early walk yesterday morning. The Rev. Mr. Birch had the honour of dining with her Majesty in the evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, arrived in town yesterday from Frogmore, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House; and in the afternoon returned to Frogmore. Dispatches were received at the Colonial office yester day from the Governor of the Gambia. Dispatches were sent off to the Governor of Canada, and the Go vernors of the other North Ameridan Provinces. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council, sat yesterday in the Council Cham ber. The Lords present were—Lord Cranwortb, Sir J. Knight Bruce, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, and Sir Edward Ryan; the appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, " Lunt v. Burnett" (the Fanchon), part heard, was resumed; and an Finney" from the Hi g h C our t of Admiralty, " Burns v.nney" (the E uro p a ), was commenced and adjourned.,, 1 IRON IN FRANCE.—The annual iron fair held in sat the month of November , at C hal ons , has just concluded, and has been remarkable for th e exc eed i ngly limited amount of results d which it pro duces, n s the eco nomy b us i ne ss transacted. Prices, however, were fairly main tained. The great su b j ect of conversation io both n from amongst its t f org emasters was a new preparation known by the name of el iar bo inn V fu u e l l c , ai a n , n d and r which,from the t is said, superior is likely to effect a great alteration in metallurgical matters. DEATH FROM ExCESSIVE DRIN KING —Y es t er d ay Mr. W. Carter held an i nquest at the Brown Bear Tavern ' S ou th war k -bridge-road , respecting the death of Mrs. Esther Elizabeth Cope, aged 44, late organist to the church of St. Saviour's, Southwark. Ihe deceased occupied apartments at No. 2, Morriss-place„ Bridge-street . , and had been some years engaged as organist at . St. Saviour's Church, but for irregular conduct had been discharged from her appointment. On Thursday morning, she was found lyi ng d ea d i n b e d. There were no marks of violence, nor anything near her to account for death ; but Mary Brooks, the servant who waited upon her, stated that she had procured for her mistress gene rally three pints of br and y daily for the last ten weeks, which she usual y mixed with water. Deceased always had a glass by her side. Mr. Wooldridge, the surgeon, had been sent for, and prescribed for the deceased,who told witness to throw the medicine away, for brandy would do her more good. The surgeon, who was called to see the deceased, said that when he visited her he generally found her suffering from the effects of drinking large pantities of brandy, and no doubt she died from exhaustion consequent upon ouch habits of in temperance. The coroner remarked upon the case, when the jury returned a verdict, • ghat the deceased died by the ex -1 cessive drinking of brandy." THE 110LIENVELL-STREET NUlSANCE.—Notwith standing the proceeding of St. Clement Danes' late vestry meeting, held only, a f ew wee ks since, and the recent con viction of the notorious bugdale for selling indecent prints, Sze., the denizens of Hol;:well-street are now pursuing their illegal traffic with more effrontery than ever, and at some of their shop windows they have even dared to exhibit placards, headed, " Holywell•street Pest," announcing the " Selling-off" of various indecent publications. How long will this state of things be permitted to continue 'eraser. NOVEMBER 29, lB5l . THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NURTH-WESI ERN RAILWAY. The coroner's investigation into the causes of this accident was resumed yesterday, at noon, at the Globe Inn, Weedon. As on the previous day, Mr. Ilayea, of the legal firm who arc the solicitors of the railway couspaey, appeared on the company's behalf; and Mr. Martin on behalf of the d ceased's (James Carr:.;',} relatives. Csptsin Laffan, the Government inspector of railways, was also present. Samuel Grew, examined by CORONER—I am the sta time master at Rugby. On Saturday last a telegraphic despatch arrived, stating that an engine with some cattle had broken down. This was about half-past four. A foreman named Goodman dispatched the cattle train. I do not know at what time it was dispatched. I saw the train come into the station, but did not observe at what time it left, being engaged at the moment with the mail train. The mail train was a down train going on the Midland line. The Lott train which lett for London after the cattle train was the one o'clock train from Birmingham; it arrived at Rugby at eighteen minutes past two, being due at fifteen minutes past. The first cattle train left at 1 50. A coal train left at three. At ten minutes after four I started the cattle train, which ran into the lassenger train at Wettlup. The wheels of the engine slipped so much that it could nut be got along at the station without the assistance of another engine. At the time I started the cattle train I was not sware of the engine of the other cattle train having broken down. Mr. Crawford dispatched the engine that was telegraphed for. Cotton drove the engine of the special cattle train. Cross-examined by Mr. Martin—Our first cattle train started at 1.50, and the Birmingham train started at 2.18, the Midland one at 2.25, the Lancashire third class one at 2.39. The next train which followed the Lancashire one was a special coal train, which started from Rugby at three o'clock. The special cattle train was not in the regular list of trains; its coming was an nounced by a red board on the coal train. It is open to the station master to detain trains, according to his opinion of the weight of the engine and other circumstances; but trains must never follow each other in less than five minutes. Cattle trains aro con sidered goods trains, and as such must not travel at a greater speed than 20 miles per hour. The four o'clock train is not an express train; its estimated rate of tra velling between Rugby and Weedon is about 30 miles an hour. When I started the special cattle train I thought it would travel at the ordinary rate of 20 miles an hour. Two engines were dispatched in consequence of the re ceipt of the telegraphic message; they left at about half past four. James Crawford examined—l am foreman of the loco motive department at Rugby. It is my duty to exa mine all the engines before they leave my station. I examined the engine of the cattle train which left at 50 minutes past one on Saturday. It was in proper working order when it left Rugby at 17 minutes past four. I re ceived a telegraphic dispatch of its having broken down at Weedon. The message was, " Cattle standing here. Send an engine immediately." That was the market Har borough train. I dispatched two engines to its as sistance. I examined the engines of all the other trains on the same afternoon; they were all in working order. I examined the engine of the cattle train twice before it started. I have examined it since, and found it in good order after the accident. The works were all good, except that the buffer part was broken. I did not examine the regulator at Weedon. That could not be done without taking the pipes off, which would have occupied three or four hours. The proper way of stopping an engine is to shut the steam off and apply the break. Engines are not reversed except in cases of great emergency. To reverse an engine is likely to do it an injury. If the breaks will not stop a train the only remedy is to put the gear out and to reverse the engine. I did not myself try the regulator of the engine of the special cattle train at Rugby, but I saw a man in the act of doing so. I have never been en engine driver. I have heard that it is a common occurrence for an engine when reversed to start into forward gear again. A man of ordinary power can manage by means of the lever. Directly, the engine is reversed the driver ought to be careful in holding the handle. The use of the regulator is to regulate:the amount of steam. There is very little trouble with regulators. If they are not cut they will work for a length of time. By opening the regulator you can always find out the stato.of the steam. We have - had the engine in question about three years. John Hoskar examined—l am foreman of the loco motive department at Wolverton. I know the engine that was attached to the special cattle train run into last Saturday; it is No. 67. I examine the engines every time they pass the Wolverton station. I examined No. 67 at Weedon on Saturday, to see it any injury had been done to the axles or wheels, my object being to take it to Wolverton. It is now at Wolverton, and it has not been at work since the accident. It was taken to Wolverton by another engine. Mr. Rowland, examined by the CORONER—I am an engine fitter at Wolverton, and foreman in the ,erecting shop. I examined the engine No. 67, on Monday morning last. The valves, pistons, and reversing mo tion were all correct. In taking out the regulator valve, there was a small stay which had got loose out of the ;steam pipe; it was used in the steam pipe for car rying the regulator rod. By drawing the regulator back it came into the regulator, and was taken out by an assistant. I cannot say whether that would prevent it from acting. Mr. M'Connell, the superintendent, observed that a piece of iron had been found in the regulator out of its proper place. The regulator was then placed on the table, and isle. M'Connell explained to the coroner and the jury the manner in which the displaced iron had °heti acted its action. There was a marked abrasion where the iron had pressed. The CußoNEß—That would prevent the driver from stopping the engine? The Witness—Not altogether; it would prevent him from shutting the steam off. By Mr. Martin—There is nothing to lead me to be lieve that if the engine-driver had kept his hand firm he could not have thrown the engine out of gear, not withstanding the accident to the regulator. There are three modes of stopping an engine—shutting off the steam, applying the break, and throwing the engine out of gear. If a driver found that ho could not stop an engine with the break, it would be his duty first to reverse her. and if that would not do, to throw her out of gear. The CORONER observed that Mr. M'Connell must to examined on the point. Mr. Martin said he thought it was the cream of the whole question. Thomas Forsyth, examined by the CORONER—I am an engineer-assistant to the locomotive superintendent, Mr. M'Connell. I was present with William Howland when the regulator was examined on Monday morning. I saw the iron taken out, and have given similar evidence to what Mr. M'Connell has given. James Edward M'Connell, examined by the CO RONER—I am superintendent of the locomotive depart ment at Wolverton. It is my'duty to superintend the man agement of the locomotive engines throughout the line. The engine drivers are all under my charge. There are printed rules applicable to them. These rules are read over to them every month, and they sign a declaration that they have received ,them and understand them. Their signatures are forwarded to my office. William Cotton has been a driver on the line ever since 1845. He was made a fireman in 1840, and previously to that he was a cleaner. I have examined the engine which he drove on Saturday last. Early on Monday morning I requested the foreman, Mr. Forsyth, to take it to pieces, and report to me. I have since examined the engine myself. I found it, in all its points, as far as I could ascertain, in good working order. The only injuries apparent were those done to the safety-valve, and the stay of the steam pipe. From the face of the valve I have come to the conclusion, as I see nothing else that would have done it, that the stay must have got between the first face of the valve and the seat, which would prevent the valve from shutting, and produce the abrasion. There is a twist on the spindle, showing that great efforts had been used in trying to shut the valve. As far as the regulator is concerned, that would prevent the driver from shut ting oft the steam, but he has other means in his power of stopping the engine, which are to throw the work ing valves out of gear and applying a break to the ten der. A more rapid mode of stopping the onward motion, although except in extreme cases not called for, is to reverse the "„,engine, which must have the effect of stopping the train sooner. The steam, not being hilly shut off, would assist in retarding the onward mo tion. I have always found Cotton a very careful man. He has always performed his duties in a satis factory manner. By the CORONER—How long would it take to stop an engine by reversing? Witness—lt depends on the gradients. The CORONER—What are they in this case? The Witness—One in 500 approaching from Rugby. That is one circumstance. A slippery state of the rails would render the power of stopping less; and the weight of the train would have a good deal to do with the effect. Looking at all the circumstances, I should suppose that this train, going eight or ten miles an hour, might have been stopped in five or six hundred yards. The rule with respect to cattle trains limits them to twenty miles an hour, without special orders. An extra speed would increase the difficulty of stopping. I cannot say, from the appearance of the piece of iron found in the regu lator, how long it bad been out of its proper ',lace. In reversing an engine the driver should keep his hand on the catch, lest it should fly back. Both reversing the engine and putting on steam in the reverse way are evidence that the train is going too fast; and both those operations strain the engine. Sometimes tho engine flies into forced gear after being reversed. There is nothing in the printed regulations with regard to the mode of reversing an engine. To put down every thing would make too long a code of regulations. The engine-drivers have all undergone a probation before being appointed to the office, and are instructed in their duties. On being asked if ho had anything more to say, Mr. M'Connell said, I wish to state that I have a very high opinion of Cotton. I have always considered him a careful and experienced man. Captain 'Allan, examined by the CORONER—I am the Government Inspector of Railways. I have examined the engine, No. 67. I directed my attention chiefly to the valves of the regulator, and to the reversing appa ratus. I did not minutely exam i ne the rest of the en gine. I think the reversing apparatus was in good order. The regulator was in the state in which you see it. It was the day before yesterday that I examined it, and you have the same materials that I had to form an opinion upon. It is not now in good working order. The face of the valve has been cut apparently by some obstacle betwe en i t and the seat. The e ffect of the stay interposing would be to prevent the driver from shutting off the steam ; h o could only close the valve so far as this obstacle wo u ld permit him. It would deprive hi m partially of on e means of stopping the train. In a Case of emergency it i 3 a comparatively easy task to reverse san eng,itle, and throw the engine out of gear; but that was a very extreme measure; it 1146 101 l to many ucci- Centt ; and in this cue the state of the regulator would render it more difficult for the driver to csail biunclf of it. The CORONER —Do you consider that it follows from the reversing of an engine that the train must have been geirg at t oo great a speed? The Witness—l think a driver of gr eat experience and judgment would look to the state of the rails, and take care to run at sacli a speed as would o b v i ate the necessity for revers i ng th e engine. At the same time I think it right to observe, that I think the practice of reversing engines is far too general. By a juryman --I could not say without trying the engine, whether or not it was impossible for the driver to reverse it or throw it out of gear. Alfred Bird, a boy, examined --I am a clerk at the Telegraph-afice at the Weedon station. Last Saturday I telegraphed to Rugby to say that the cattle were stand ing at Wuedon, and requested that an engine might be sent directly. This wea at nine minutes past t(:ur. I received no reply to that message. I ic4rgraphe , l to Wolverhampton ut fifty-two ►uinutes to seven to tea them to send an ungii,e to Weed..n. The CORONER then add ressc d the jury. Il e sl id there could ho no doubt that t deceased wet with his death by acculcnc. The only question was whether an y criminality attached to any party w h o was connect ed with it. They had heard the optmon of the Government inspector as to the state of the engine; and the real point for them to determine was whether the death of the deceased was the recut of accident or of gross and criminal negligence on the part of the driver. The room was then cleared. After the bps() of a few minutes the following, verdict was delivered;—" The jury are of opinion that the deceased met his death by a cattle train running accidentally into a passenger train at Weedon, but without blame to tbo driver, on account of the engine being out of order and the rails slippery. The jury cannot let tbo opportutity pass without recom mending, for the better safety (.f the public, an alteration and enlargement of this station forthwith, it being too small for the quantity of traffic without a siding." The inquiry terminated at about half-past four. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. Font), Nov. 28.—An awful accident occurred on the South-Coast Railway last night, in consequence cf . the neglect of an engine-driver to attend to a naeger . The last train from London leaves Leendou-bridge station at seven o'clock, and on its arrival at Brighton passengers for Shoreham, Armada!, Chichester, and Portsmouth are dispatched by a branch train leaving Brighton at 9.50. Last night this train was sent off at the precise time, the greatest regularity being ob served on the Brighton and South-Coast Railway. A. goods train leaves Portsmouth at 7.30 daily; this train also started at the accustomed time. These trains arrive at the bridge over the river Arun about the same time; and, inasmuch as the bridge, which, as most of our readers are aware, is moveable, so as to allow of the passage of brigs of considerable tonnage from Little hampton-harbour up to Arundel, and i s consequen tly of light construction, is a single line, the greatest care is necessary with regard to the signals. " First come, first served," is the principle acted upon. Either train being discerned by the signal-man has the " all right " signal displayed for its guidance; and at the same time the red, or " stop " signal, is exhibited on the other line. These regulations being duly observed, accidents would be impossible. It seems that at 10.15 last night the up goods train was first discerned, and consequently the " all right " signal was displayed, the " stop " signal being at the same moment given to the down passenger train. The goods train was an unusually long one, consisting of nearly forty trucks. The engine and tender and the first part of the train crossed the bridge, and had diverged from the single line on the " up " rails, the remaining portion of the train being partly on the bridge, and partly on the western side of the river, when the pas senger train (its driver paying no attention to the " stop" signal) came up, and, of course, precisely at the point of junction, dashed against the goods train. The con sequence to the, goods train was, that three carriages were shattered to splinters and thrown off the up line. This was the only casualty, so far as the goods train was concerned ; but the results to the passengers' train was more serious. The engine, tender, luggage box, and two second-class carriages were thrown off the down rails and toppled over the embankment, here about twelve feet high. Fortunately there were only four passengers in the train; three having arrived from London, and the remaining one having booked at Brigh ton. Two of these entirely escaped injury, and the other two were but slightly bruised, but the stoker, Martin, of Portsmouth, was seriously, and, it is be lieved, fatally injured, his skall being broken and his brains driven in. The driver, John Pemberton, of Portsmouth, seems to have escaped injury from the con cussion; but seeing the serious consequence of his negli gence, he at once determined on suicide. Jumping on the engine from which he had been thrown, he seized his jack knife and out his throat; and, this attempt not being effectual, he threw himself into the river. Bur gess, the guard of the passenger train, had a miraculous escape. He was in the break carriage which went down the embankment. It was crushed to pieces, but the guard escaped with a few slight bruises. He crawled out of a smashed window just us Pemberton jumped into the water. Quick as thonht he divested himself of his jacket, plunged into the titer, and, with assistance, dragged him out. Mr. Su damn, of LittieharuptoL, sur geon, was quiekl:, on tho spot, and as soon as informa tion re ached Brighton, Mr. W. Verrill! and Mr. J. Law rence, jun., surgeons at Brighton, joined him. The re quisite attention was paid to both Pemberton and Mar tin by the medical gentlemen, by whose direction they were both removed to the hospital at Chichester. It was expected that Pemberton v.,;uld recover, but not the slightest chance remains for the stoker, Martin. The account given by Pemberton of the cause of the accident is this:—He said that after leaving the Arundel station, he looked into the fire box, and that the glare blinded him so that when he looked up he could scarcely see anything. The first thing he did see was a red light waved to and fro, the next, the light of the ap proaching train. Ho acknowledged also that ho only was in fault, and that he entirely lost his presence of mind. Before he was removed to the Chichester Hos pital he declared his determination to commit suicide; and in consequence he is under the close surveillance of two men. As quickly as possible information of the disaster was conveyed to Brighton; and, at three o'clock in the morning, Captain Mackenzie Shaw (superintendent of the railway there) went down to the spot; and at six o'clock the passage was sufficiently cleared to allow the goods train to leave. No obstruction occurred to the passage of either the up or down trains which followed. On reaching the spot this morning, our reporter found Mr. Laing (chairman of the directors of the rail way), Captain Shaw, Mr. Craven (superintendent of the locomotive department), with Mr. Saddler (foreman of the fitting department), Mr. Smith (superintendent of the carriage department), Mr. Yates (inspector of the ways and works), and Mr. Greaves (contractor for the maintenance of the permanent way on this part of the line), all engaged in superintend tending the efforts of 50 or 60 workmen in clearing the line. Already one of the broken carriages had been conveyed up a temporary inclined plane to the rails and removed; another was brought up in our reporter's presence; and the engine which, although much broken, is said to be capable of repair, was undergoing the lifting process. It was moat fortunate that the bridge was not open for the passage of a ship. Had this been the case, and the signal been neglected, the train would have gone plump into the river. We understand that the Admiralty originally objected to a double line bridge, on a c c oun t o f the time which it was thought the extra weight would cause to be consumed in removing the vi a d uc t obstruc tion to the navigation of the Arun; but thi s , th e secon d accident which has occurred on the spot, both which would have been avoided by a double line bridge, will probably lead to the application of such a remedy for such accidents. Strange to say, only three of the rails of the permanent way were displaced by the accident. FINE o'CLocx.—An inhabitant of Chicester, just arrived here, states that the stoker Martin was dying when he left the city. Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar and his bride were passengers by the previous train on their way to Good wood, where they spend the honeymoon. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 23. . . _ STOCK Exca&NGL—The share market has been firm again to-day, and a considerable advance took place on va rious stocks. The principal transactions, however, were in Great Western, Original Stock, which closed at 861,i—Alid land Stock, 57—South-Eastern and Dover, 2l 9-16. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 28. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was scarcely so good to-day, snd we had less business generally doing. The transactions were as follow;—Caledonian, 16!y—Eastern Counties, 7 1-16—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 8 dia. —Lancaster and Carlisle. Thirds, OA p.—London and Nort h 117—Ditto, New Quarters, 3% p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 34—Midland, 56%—South- Eastern and Dover, 21 %—York, Newcastle, and Berwick 1 (Extensidon,is. Nos. 1 and 2), 6 di s.—Dutch Rhenish, 4 1 -16 MANCHESTER, Nov. 28. SProor EXCHANGI. -We have had another active market to-day, and prices had an upward tendency. The transactions were as follow :—Caledonian, 16%—East Lanca shire, Quarters, 15%—Manchester, Sheffield, 7 —North and Lincoln shire, 311 4—Midland, 563/ _North British, Staffordshire, 7% dis.—Shr o p s hi re Unions, 8% dis.--"Sout?: Eaatern and D over , 21% n.--Amber ate burn, Preference (B), 17 1 / B —Bristol and Exeter, 79—., t °,-" burgh and Glasgow, 27 1 ,., tive®t Preston, and Riding Junction, 1346 p. n. STOCK ExcruNGE.— 131R111641}1iAr a lll ra ' ount o f business has been NOY 28. done in the s h are market to-day, and pr i ces generally were A fa . pretty well supported. It closed a shade lower. The trans actions were as follow : - Coventry and Nuneaton 25y p. London and North-Western, New Quarters, 3% P. -- Shropshire Union, 31. 80. 9d. dis.—South Staffordshire, 2% GrMo y r. y J es o t h e n ni M ay o , o a r t e t A he ir c ey ,:lo h n a i d ai. a offi n c i o n . terview with Earl A fatal affair occurred at Leigh a few days since, through the practice which prevails too commonly amongst ignorant country people of " doctering" themselves. A woman named Hannah Brown, nearly forty years of age, having been taken ill, sent a messenger to a medical man living two miles from the :village, and received a bottle of medicine, the medical man promising to call and see the patient in the evening. Before he arrived, however, the woman determined to be bled, and the operation was per formed by a shoemaker of the neighbourhood, who had bled her several times before. She died a few minutes after he had tied up the arm. A coroner's inquest has resulted in the verdict of" Died suddenly, from the effects of having been bled by a nun-medical niau."—Salisbury Journal. EVENING, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WATERFORD AND KILKENNY. "The ordinary half-yeatiy meetin g of t 173 rop riaturs iu thin company was lidt . yesteld: l3 ,, fq the London Tav e rn, Mojor-Generai M'Ll.od . in the chai r , w h en the ' report of the directors was submitted to the shareholders. (The report appeared in The Sun of yesterday.) The CHAIRMAN having intreduced the business of the day to the consideration of the meeting, requested Mr. Bates, the managing director, to Explain any parti cu l ars upon which the proprietors might be willing to get in formation. Mr. BATES accordingly entered into an explanation, from which it appeared that the line of the Waterford and Kilkenny Company was at that moment in sotive prosecution beyond Knockwilliim, for which the direc tors were entitled to credit, since it might be in the re collection of many of the gentlemen present that only two years since doubts were t•ttertsined whether they would be able to get even to Kneckwilliam. With re gard to the financial colidiiien ~t the company, during the last six months the capital account had been swelled by c(rtain krge pO3 - umut: , , and the only of which he ntert;,itn d nu .3 , ropthy for was the subject (It law ex ; pauses of Irletel. The traffic.: reefipta he considered highly sai.lsct, , ry. but the wetkit.g expensks were higher than they ougtit to 1a answer to question 4, Mr. PATES said the capital account would be closed at 450,0001., but he hoped that it would be less than that account. The report was unsnimouily adopted, and aftcr a vote of thanks to the c•hrirmau and Mr. Bares, the meeting separated. RAILWAY RET URNS TRAFFIC RETU 7 •N - S FOR THE PAST WEEK. Mlles opened, SAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts. 100. j 1861. BRITISIL Ab.zdeen • ..... •• • •• •• " Belfast and Bally m ena. • Belfast and c ounty Down.. •" • • •• • • • • " • • • • • Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York Bristol and Exeter ..... Ca1ed0nian.......... •• • •••• • ***** Chester and liolyhead • :• :• :• •• • • • Cork, Black roc k , and Passage . :: • • • Dublin and Ball as t Junction ..• • • Dublin and Drogh e d a .... •. • • • • . Dublin and Kingst own . .. Dundee and Arbroath Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Jur•letion Dundalk and Enniskillen East Anglian ................ ........ East Lancashire .• .......... Eastern Counties and Norfolk Eastern Union Edinburgh and Glasgow • Edinburgh, Perth. and Dundee...... Exeter and Crediton........ • Furness Railway ••• ••• • • • • Glasgow, and South-Western........ Great Northern and E. L........... Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western .... Irish South Eastern • • • • • • • Lancaster and Carlisle Lancashire and Yorkshire..•..... Leeds and Think Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... North London and South Western. Blackwell . Western - th_CO • a : si Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. London Londonderryo n n d d nn and and 3 Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Manchester and South Jtinction Maryport and Carlisle ....•••••••••• and Enniskillen Midland Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... Monkland s•• • • ..... •••••• • • • • • • • Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • ...• • • .• • • North British • • .• • • • • • • • • • • • • North Staffordshire • • • • ...... North-Western Scottish Central• Scottish Midland .... Shrewsbury and Birmingham ...... Shrewsbury and Chester • • •... Shropshire Union South Devon.... ..... South Eastern•—• • South Wales South York., Doncaster, and Goole • • Taff Vale ......... ...... Ulster. • • . Waterford and Limerick......... West Cornwall ...• • . .•••••...••.. Whitehaven Junction ............... York and Newcastle, and Berwick ... York and North Midland • FOREIGN. Central of France ......... Dutch Rhenish .......... Maria Antonia Montereau and Troyes .......... • Northern of France .. •. •• •••• • • . Orleans and Bordeaux.. • • ....... Paris and Lyons .... • ..... Paris and Orleans . Paris and Rouen. .. Paris and Strasburgh .... • Rouen and Havre .... Tours and Nantes•• • • • 994 20,376 3,492 6,410 11,473 5,714 5,118 2,242 1,242 723 20,448 4,478 12,258 18,338 5,301 7,040 2,116 2,514 IRELAND. DUBLIN, FRIDAY.—The Cullen project for closing the gates of the ,Queen's College goes on " swimmingly." Letters have been received by the working committee hich give a racst flourishing account of the result of the raid on the pockets of the American sympathisers. A sum of not less than 1,000/. has been already netted in the city of New York, and hopes are held out that contributions to a fourfold extent, may be expected he• fore the world is many months older. Father Mullen, it is anticipated, will work wonders the moment he seta foot on the :;hercs of the Unit:d States. The total con tributions towards the university up to the present con sidrrably excez d :30,000/. THE ACTION AGAINST THE CHIEF SECRETARY.—An application was made )esterey in the Court or Queen's Bench on the part of the plaintiff in the ease of " Gu ch v. Somerville," to fix a day for the trial. It is an action for wotk and labour, brought against the Chief Secre tary for Ireland, and stood drdt in the list for Monday, and from the official uitnesset, to be examined it was desirable to have the case heard on a day selected for the purpose. The Chief Justice inquired if notice of the application had bun given to the other tide? Counsel replied that there wee net time sufficient to give any notice. The Chief Justice observed that in the absence of the opposite counsel he could make no order on the subject. _ _ THE CHANCELLORSHIP OF THE UNIVERSITY.—It is stated that a portion of the college authorities have come to a resolution to select the Lord Primate as the suc cessor to the late King of Hanover in the office of Chan cellor of the University. His Grace has for a long period held the appointment of Vice-Chancellor. The teeling out of doors continues favourable to the claims of the Earl of Bosse. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-office by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] When made up in From what) PLACES. I l General Post-office I port dia- London: patched. I_ When due. America (by Brit. pkt.)N Dec. 5 .. ~'Liverpool.. America (by U.S. pkt.) N Dec. 9 .. • • Liverpool .. America (by U.S. pkt.) M Dec. 3 .. Southampt. Africa (West coast)" N 14th of the month Plymouth Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo.' Dover .. Belgium .. •• N, Daily • • .. , Dover .. Brazil .. .• M 9th of the month Southampt. BUCROS Ayres .. M 9th of the month 'Soathampt. California(viaChagres) M 2d & 17th of month Southampt. Cape of Good Hope 11,14 th of month Plymouth.. Constantinople* N 7th 17th 27th of mo 'Dover .. Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. ISonthampt. Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri.' Southampt. Chili •.. • • . M 17th of the month Southampt. France M& N Twice daily .. .. Dover Greece* • • . • •• N 7th 17th 27th of mo , Dover • • Hambargh N Tuesday & Friday London •• Holland .. M Wednes. & Satnr.lLonden .• Honduras . N 17th of the month Sonthampt. Ireland .. M& N Twice daily Holyhead .. India(via Southamp.) hi 20th of the month Senthampt. India (viaßlarseilles) 8 th& 24th efmonthiDover • • Mediterranean (via N Sth&24tkofmonth Marseilles) •• Mediterranean (via M 2d of the month.. Mezic° M 9th of the month (via .. M, 20th of the month I Madeira • • .. f 7th,17th,19th,27th Malta* • • •• & 30th of month Naples* 1 4 7,6 th 15th 25th of me Papal States* N ,sth 15th 25th of mo Peninsular.. .. Bi 7th 17th 27th of mo Peru M 17th of the month Tuscany* .. N sth 15th 25th of me , West Indies hl 17th Of the month West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Southanipt. Dec. 5 * The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed by French p acket via Marseilles. CaLiroam.4.—Mails to and from California, via the United State{ are now despatched and due by every American packs* The direct Havre mall from London via Southampton during this month will be made up three times a week only, instead of daily. Dec. I Dec. 4 Dec. I I Dec. a Nov. 28 Daily Dec. 16 Dec. 16 Dec. 5 Dec. 3 Nov. 30 Dec. 5 Tu. Te. Sat Dec. 20 Twicodally Nov. 30 Tees. sat. Mee.Thur. Dec 20 TwirPdAlly Dec. 24 Dec: 2 ISonthampt. Dec. 2t Dover • . !Dec. 2 soSoi Doverunthamtham p pLI D D IT ec. e0ev.. 5 1360 Dover •• Dec. 2 Dover • • 'Dec. 2 Sonthampt. Dec. 6 Sonthampt. De c.. 20 Dover • • Dec. 2 Sonthampt. Dec.. 20 i f n o r g e m a b a o n u t a s t e l v i e r t . i c o ' a c u l o n e o k n , , s a i s c S e Samuel c L I e a s s e t , t a o m t h a n e s e a m r r e l) l y q,_ ue e il d lna i el s . LOVE, JEAL OUSY , AND S UlClDE,— Th urs d ay morn was proceeding to hi s wor k , h e observed the body of a f floating on the su r f ace o f t h e wa t er . H alarm, and the body, which taken on shore, woman, about twenty-five years of age, as -- but life was f oun d t o be quite afriend,extinct. In her pocket was in which she found a long letter addressed to ac cuses her mother of unkindness towards her, acknowledged that for the last two months she had been violently attached was that of a w w e e gave ll- we ll-dressed dan instant young ee sh gives, and that jealousy o a n n am whose name she also gives, sup caused by younga • w ffe m ction of her lover, was the sole Caine planting her is herthea to a young man, whose mind to self-destruction, and her first of her making up intention, s h e said, was to have cut her throat. The letter all bold hand, and concludes by wishing and a happy new year. The body was removed to the King's Arms rover's inquest. i t e t n en ds in a a m g e o r o ry d h is e rwfrri MINERAL RICHES OF GREENLAND.—d letter from Copenhagen of the 17th says :—" Intelligence has been re ceived here of the commencement of proceedings on the part of the scientific expedition sent out some time back to ex plore the mountains of Greenland in a mineralogical point of view. At the very commencement of their operations, near Julianchaab, an abundance of copper ore was found almost on a level with the surface. Afterwards, immense masses of ore of from 2001bs. to 3001bs. weight were rolled down the mountain, containing 60 per cent. of pure copper. The en gineers at the head of the expedition write word that con sidering the great analogy which exists between the forma tion of these mountains and that of the Ural chain iu RusJiat they shall not be surprised to find gold and silver." HINTS TO MOTHEIL2.--If you wish to cultivate d 's gossiping, meddling, censorious spirit in your children, an be sure when th e y come h ome f rom c h ur ch, a visit, o other place where y ou d o no t a c company then 3 with que4tions concerning what everybodyawo4, 't did—and if you always nd do it in their every body loc,ked, and what everybody said find anything in all this to censure , hearing. how p lyt theta . The British Telegraph C om p an y have just con- eluded an arrangement with the Lancashire . and. Yorkshire Railway Company for the us e of their lines for tele gra phic purposes, by which the important commercial and manufac turing districts extending from Liverpool to Goole will de rive great advantage. £1,291 bh6 136 836 549 3,586 7,765 2,360 473 926 605 3tlo 608 643 3,193 12,940 1,921 3,695 2,262 310 3,270 6,216 3,57 13,13 b 3,997 14,901 412 39,607 G 55 8,149 7,690 106 6,025 661 20,529 1,206 762 2,320 3,403 4;i4s 405 1,426 432 565 1;674 1,595 9,313 716 1,169 2,059 859 305 233 13,378 7,111 3,442 h 42 3,998 13,101 1,985 3,319 2,201 347 3,b33 10,301 14,353 3.767 15,924 9il nu 8,362 8,565 165 I► 7 6,439 466 248 13,404 7,625 3,288 780 264 85% 894 94 , ) 4 .6% 440 12% 539% 173% 244% 496 126 57 21% 63 442% 13434 240 fr il .9 , P $ 11 " 1" I. "11 d ,i- q~