The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-20 00:00:00

II TO WHEELWRIGHTS. BOROUGH* OF LIVERPOOL. MEETING OF THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS, WINE AND SMUT MERCHANTS, &a. AT a numerous Public Meeting of the. Licensed Victual lers, wholesale and retail Wine and Spirit Merchants, Brewers, and Owners of Public-house Property, held at Eastwood's Royal Hotel, Dale-street, on Thursday, thel9th December instant, to take into consideration the effects which certain clauses of the Metropolitan Police Bill (in tended to be introduced into this Borough) would necessarily have upon their Trade, and upon the value of Public-house Property ; JOHN BENT, Esa., in the Chair; • It was moved by Mr. IVIAY, seconded by Mr. BILYDEN, and agreed to, that— " The accommodation of the Public, and the large influx of persons of all classes, at all times, into the Commercial Town of Liverpool, requires that Licensed Victuallers be permitted to keep open on Sunday Mornings till Ten o'clock, for the sale of Wine, Spirits, _Beer, or other fermented Liquors ; and, therefore, that the municipal authorities of the town be respectfully requested to forego the insertion of the 42nd clause of the Metropolitan Police Act "n any Bill they may apply for in the next Session of Parli nent." Moved by Mr. BaYntx, seconded by . A . 1 4 ,1ARSHALL, and unanimously agreed to— " That a Committee be appointed to p pare a Memorial to the Authorities of the Town, and to such measures, to effect the object of the Meeting, as to ein shall seem to be required ; anti that such Committe shall consist of ten Members of the Licensed Victuallers' Society Committee, and ten other Persons connected with the interests of the Trade." The Chairman having vacated the chair, a vote of thanks was passed to him. Mr. Marshall was called upon to suc ceed him, the Meeting Lavin , - agreed to enter upon the sub ject of GRANTING AND EXTENDING LICENCES. It was moved by Mr. DANsoN, seconded by Mr. CLARKE, and unanimously agreed to— " That a deputation be formed to wait upon the wholesale trade, for the purpose of considy ring of the best means to be taken to prevent the large extension of the new licensing system, and for the drawing up a petition to Parliament, and those parties who form the Committee be, as before, elected." The thanks of the Meeting were then voted to Mr. Marshall. CONTRACT FOR . HATS. BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. THE Watch Committee, having Bete, -tined to adopt a Uniform rat for the Constabulary orce similar to that worn by the Metropolitan Police, he by give Notice, that they will be ready on SATUlumi - , the 1 - st instant, to receive TENDERS:for supplying, by Cont 550 HATS of this description, Fn lire of those previou_ y advertised fOr on the 14th of October last ; and any persons having already sent in Tenders and Samples for supplying thesel lets are informed that they will he returned unopened on application to the Secretary on or before Friday net. A Sample Pattern may be inspected any day between the hours of One and Three o'clock in the Afternoon, at the Office of the Head Constable, until the 20th instant. The Contractor will be expected to enter into a Contract to complete and deliver them on the 20th of April next, to be paid for, in Cash, at the expiration of one month from the delivery. The Cominittee will not retain any Sample Patterns, except those approved of by them for the Contract. Sealed Tenders, separate from the Sample Pat fortis, must be left at this Office, not later than Friday, the 20th instant, addressed to the Chairman of the Watch Committee, and marked " Tender for Hats." By order, CAPES ASIILIN, S.-Tretary. Watch Qffice,3d December, 1839. rHE WATCH COMMITTEE hereby give notice, that they will be ready, on SATunDAY2.9th inst. to receive TENDERS fir supplying by co ract one large iive g WATER. WAGGON, capable of holdi ' seven tuns of Water, for the use of the Fire Police Est- lishment. The Waggon must be made of well easoned Materials, anti similarly constructed to the ene win use, which may be inspected at the Fire Police Stat . n, Temple-court, any day between the hours of ten and tl ee o'clock, and any fur ther information obtained mr app cation to the Head Con stable, at his Office, No. I,_ Fenw ck-street. The Contractors wil he expected to enter into an agreement to complete and deliver the.same at the Fire Engine Station, on or before'the Ist day •of April,• 1840; to be • paid for on approval, in cash, at the expiration of one month from delivery. Sealed Tenders to he left at this Office not later than Fri day, the 27th inst. addressed- to the Chairman of the Watch Committee, and marked ' 4 -Tender for-Water Waggon." ' By order, ' . - • - CAPES .ASHLIN, Secretary. Watch Office, 17th December, 1839. 1%/f ESSRS.- LA CE and ADDISON beg to call the IIVI attention of the Profession to the following List of LAW FORMS, which are kept •constantly on Sale, at their Establishment IN BANKRUPTCY. I.—Bond to the Chancellor, witli Affidavit. 2.—Petition to Ditto for Fiat. 7 3.—Style and Title and Memorandum Commissioner's Qualification. 4.—Deposition of Petitioning Crcdi is Debt. 5. ~ of the Trading. 6. ,', of the Act of Ban iptcy. 7.—Memorandum of the Adjudi firm. .—Warrant•of Seizure. • . 9.—Bankrupt's Summons with re tection. 10.—Witnesses Summons. 11.—Advertisement of the Bankruptcy. 12.—Appointment of Provisional Assignee. 13.—Memorandum of Bankrupt's First Surrender. 14.—Commissioner's Certificate of Choice of Assignees. 15. . „ , with Affidavit of Execution. 16.—Memorandum of the ' Choice of Assignees. . • 17. 9 9 of Adjourned Ditto. . . 18.— „ of Bankrupt's Examination, first and second sheets. 19.—Memorandum of A.puointment of , Audit Meeting. • 20. t, Auditing Assignees'. Aecounts. - 21. „ Adjourned Auditing Assigueee.Accounts. 22. „ First Dividend. . . , „ 23. Adjourned Dividend. • • 24.—8i1l of: Costs.against Petitioning Creditor. . • 25.—Costs in Bankruptcy. • . 26.—List of Debts Otoved at each Meeting. 27.—List of Debts for Certificate. 23.—Affidavit of seeing Creditors sign Certificate. 29.—Memorandum of Commissioners signing Certificate, 30.—Affidavit of Conformity. 31.—Common Depositions. 32:—Depositions on Bills. '33.—MemorandUm of a single Commissioners' Qualifies non. : • 34.—Menuirandum Final Dividend. 35.—Power of Attorney to vote in Choice of Assignees. 36. it to sign - Certificate. 37. " f t to receit - e Dividend. 38.--Allowance for Maintenance. 39.—Assignees' Sanoncms.- - 40.—Af6davit of Debt for Proof at a Distance.. 41. on Bills Ditto.- 42.—Dividend Receipts. Bankrupts' Certificates, on ParclunenL The above Forms'have been revised and apps oved of; on the Plan usually allowed by the Commissioners. Files for the Proceedings. . MISCELLANEOUS. . Writ of Summons, Superior Courts. C. P.. L. Affidavit 'Cif Service of Writ of Summons. Retainers, Debt and Case. Serviceable Process, B. C. Bailable Ditto, . , Declarations, B. C., Debt and Case. Notices of Declaration, Superior Courts. 19 C. P. L. B. C. LINED AND PLAIN DRAFT, BRIEF, AND OTHER PAYERS, NOTARIAL PRESSES' AND WAFERS, &C. The following FORMS of CUSTOM-HOUSE ENTRIES are kept CONSTANTLY ON SALE, and may be procured at the Standard-office : BRITISH GOODS OUTWARDS. 1. Liable to Half per Cent. Duty. 2. Duty Free. *2. For the Fisheries in Newfoundland and N. America. 3. Coals, Wool, &c. liable to the rated Duty. " r BONDING INWARDS. 4.,.A General Form. PAYING DUTY 'FROM THE SHIP. 5. Wine' Or' A)irits. 6. Cottbn Wool: 7. A General Form for all other Goods. FREE INWARDS. 7. A General Form, same as above. PAYING DUTY ON GOODS IN BOND. 8. Sugar, whether B. P., Mauritius, or East India. 9. Cotton WOOL 10. Wine in. Casks, not Cape. 11. Ditto in Bottles, ditto. 12. Cape Wine. 13. Runt, 11.1). 14. Brandy,.Geneva, and other Spirits. 15. All Goods paying Duty per Cwt. except Cotton Wool 16. Tobacco. 17. Coffee, B.P. 18. A General Form for all other Goods. 19. Tobacco Cigars. 20. Tea. COASTING FORMS AND BILLS OF LADING. TEETH. MR. ESKELL, SURGEON DENTIST, of therirm of Es- KELL and Sotcs, Surgeon DentiSts, of Oxliwd-street, London, and Norfolk-street; Sheffield, may tic-consulted at Mrs. LLOYD'S;36,.(late 9.5,) BOLD - STItFET,. Liverpool, OPPORITE THE PALATINE 11-110VSE .. . „ . .--. Mr. E. continues to FIX ARTIFICIAL entirely New Principle, witliout tying or twisting wires: they are constructed in such a Manner that it is impossible to dis cern than from' the productions of nature. The peculiar ad vantages of thesoTeeth are, that they operatoas alowport to those which rt'maitr in the Month, if any, and prevent their ap prOximatitni,.amPeten Loose 'Teeth' are h e ld firm in their sockets by - theiti aid. They 'iday'lle`taken out and replaced by the wearer with fa cility, and will continue securely - fixed owthe ginilS ; they will retain'their . colour, perform mastication, assist articula et timi, and - Cannot he d is ti ngu i s h e d f rom those ' natural growth. The iii‘eOirveniences attending the LOS ' of TEETH ore too well knotvit-to require etiniment ; but, o those who have not - experienced the comforts of Artiti al Teeth, Mr. Eskell is desirous of showing the difficulties lore or less en dured by every individual without Teeth. hen the Teeth fail the destruction' or soekcts invari bly ensues : one cannot exist without the other. The pro ells of absorption commences immediately 'after the tooth i extracted. or. in many cases, the gum and sockets waste way, and cause the teeth to become loose and drop out. When the teeth arc gone and their sockets absorbed, a great vacuum is left in the mouth, which occasions every muscle in the face to be distorted ; and the eyes, the nose, the lips, and chin, are sadly disfigured and drawn from their original position. These Artificial Teeth are constructed to supply this defect of na ture, and gradually to restore the features to that uniformity so essentially requisite to a youthful appearance and perfect articulation. In consequence of the great improvements in the Mechani cal Departments of Dentistry. Mr. E. is enabled to lower his charges to the following scale : A Single Artificial Tooth - A complete Set A complete Set of Mineral Teeth,' Gold} 15 15 0 Plates, highly finished A complete Set of Ineorrodible Teeth; first workmanship, usually charged 25 0 0 Fifty Guineas . - FILLING DECAYED TEETH. Mr. Eskell's celebrated MINERAL TERRA METAL LIC, for tilling. Decayed Teeth, without heat, pain, or pressure. This Mineral is applied in a soft state like paste, to the cavity of the 'Decayed Tooth, however large or small the cavity ; it hardens in a 'second into an enamel, becomes incorporated with the outer shell, arresting theiebY the pro gress of further Decay, and Toothache, and lasting for many years. • Loose Teeth fastened, whether arising from old age, the use of calomel, neglect, or natural diseases of the gums. All other Dental Operations, Scaling, Separating , Extract ing, and Regulating Childre n ' s Teeth, Mr. E. performs with ease and safety. - Mr. E.'s ,system of.practiee combines all the modern im proved methods adopted in London, th e only opportunity of the kind to be met with, without visiting the Metropolis. Attendance from , Ten till Four, at :36, BOLD-,S'TRE'ET. PROTESTANT MEETING AT WARRINGTON. On Tuesday evening a public meeting of the members of the Warrington Protestant Association, and of Protestants in general, was held at the Town-hall, in Warrington. The attendance on the occasion was numerous and respectable. Among the gentlemen present on the platform were Peter Langford Brook, Esq., William Hall, Esq., Thos. Greenall, John Clare, Esq., Thomas Johnson, Esq., Gilbert Greenall, Esq., &c., &e. PETER LANGFORD BROOK, Esq., according to announce merit, presided. Prayer having been offered tip by the Rev. JAS. WRIGHT, of Warrington, , The CHAIRMAN proceeded to address the meeting in the following terms :—ln accepting the honour of presiding over you on this interesting and important occasion, I have placed myself in a situation to which I am very little accustomed ; but still I was - aware that I, in common with every,other in dividual, had a duty to perform, from which it became me not to shrink ; and I can aesure you that nothing but that feeling of duty induced me, inexperienced as I am, to con sent to occupy this chair. I am under a, strong conviction that this is a time when every friend of the established Church, when every true Protestant, ought to be up and do ing, and therefore it xs quit I am now among you. (Cheers.) I come to the town of NViirringtQu with particular pleasure, 'for several of the earliest years of my life I passed in the house now occupied by your worthy vice-president (John Clare, Esq., of Fairfield-house,) There have I often perused the holy word of God ; theiellaye .I often repeated that pe culiarly Protestant comniandment, which tells us that we are not to - bow down to or worship any graven.image, the like ness of any thing in heaven above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the:earth ; and there I first learned that there are not seven sacraments. (Applause.) :Knowing that we were to meet here on the true .Christian principle, of wilL lingly giving offence ,t 6. no one, whilst we. uncompremisingly assert that which : we believe to -be the truth ;—knowing that we were to iiwet to defend our excellent religion from aggres sion, and our church. from . the: assaults of open and seopet foes, I was determined to join with,you hand-in-hand, heart in heart, in effecting your objects ; and 1 shall be ever ready so to join with all parties,who,will :take up the defensive po± sition which I, think absolutely necessary. (Cheers.) Gretstoier GaLustALL,,,Esq..,,proposed the first r,!solittin, namely, "That we viefewitle great apprehension the progress which. Popery is now making in, these realms, and the coun tenance that, it is receiiing from her Majesty ministers, and that Protestants are called on to irse their most strenuous exertions to oppose the further advance of so greata.national calamity.'' Dr. Mevram, of Dublin, .seconded the resolution. The cheers with which ha was greeted, on risin g , haVing subsided, he then proceeded to sey—My Protestant brethren of War rington, in rising to second the resolution which has been so ably advocated. by the . gentleinan who has preeMed nue per mit me to inform you that I stend here this evening et the .invitation of your cominittee to address you °tithe deplorable condition of my country—to illustrate to . you the agency by which it is convulsed—and to point. out the fearful condition in which the l'rotestants.of Ireland.have been placed by the base and selfish policy of a faithless, government, who have betrayed them to the px ieethood of Romp for their support at the hustings. Tile. English people. have been systemati cally and studiously deceived respecting the actual state of Ireland : you arc not, yet fully sensible that the agitation, by which that country is now demoralized and degraded, is not for the attainment. of any one ,principle of liberty ; you are not yet fully aware that the .agitation e so purposely and so laboriously kept up, is viewed with reprehension alike by its Protestaht. and Roman Catholic; gentry, and that it is alto gether a peasant warfare excited by the priests to effect a se paration between , the countries for the overthrow of your church and foe the ascendancy of that of Rome. Let not, therefore, the advocate for liberty in England expect to find any ally in the popish peasant of Ireland. Immersed in igno rance and in superstition, he never even, dreams of the gloe riutie rights and privileges of freemen. He takes the hue of his politics, as he does that of his religion, from the lips of his. priest alone, and that priest advocates neither reform nor liberty. In every age and in every nation the priesthood of RoMe have. uniformly been the engines and the allies of des potism, and they are themselves the most arbitrary and the :most intolerant of despots. Debarred from those endearing ties which ameliorate the .heart of man, soften down the rigid features of his-character, and attach him to his fellows and -his home, they have no country hut Rome—they avow alle giance but to its uontitie-and they recognize no Christianity but its church. The dominant ascendancy of that church and of their order, arid the-destruction of every other, ever has been and - ever will be the unceasing object of their am bition. The contest in England is,- whether the reins of government shall be entrusted. to the hands of the orderly portion of -society,..or surrendered up to those of the very lowest—whether the gentry shall legislate for the people, or whether the very-mob are to hold dominion over the gentry —whether your church, that sacred 'palladium of gospel reli gion, not alone here,. but throughout Christendom, is to be sacrificed to a spurious.,and infidel liberalism, and. whether the throne itself is to merge into a republic to be re-occupied by the tyranny of some unprincipled and revolutionary despot. In Ireland the contest is, whether the reliftion of the gospel or the superstition of Rome shall prevail—whether that coun try is to be ruled by the uniform and wholesome dominion of the law, or by the arbitrary dictate of the priest—whether its Protestant inhabitants are to continue in the enjoyment of the blessings, of civil and religious liberty, or whether they are to be heartlessly surrendered up by a selfish and reckless ministry to the tender mercies of an ignorant, intolerant, and plebeian priesthood, who are now straining every nerve to subdue them. In England, the sweeping extension of the elective frauchisehas placed the • power of the hustings . teo much in the hends of those who are least competent to exer cise it wisely. In Ireland, it has placed that formidable en gine in the hands of the most pestilent priesthood that ever profaned the sacred name of heaven, to establish their own abhorrent and impious doininion upon earth. In coming forward to testify to the -numerous and highly respectable assemblage by which I now see myself . surrounded, against the monopolising and mischievous ambition of that priest hood, and against the deMoralising influence of their reli gion, I am not swayed -by any hereditary prepossession either against that priesthood or against that religion. I owe' my birth to Roman Catholics. I was sedulously . edu cated in their creed, and my- mind was deeply imbued with all their religious and political opinions: When it was given me to be fully sensible of the great errors of that creed, and to take my religion froth the sacred and unerring word of the Lord, rather than fronsthe lips of erring and sinful man, I at once, in obedience to my rational and honest convic, tions, came out from that Church ; but, in happily escaping from its plagues, I'have inabibed no sentiments of personal or political hostility againSt those who, unhappily for them- - selves, still continue - to believe in it. Ido not stand here as the partisan of any party, neither am I the political opponent of any community, either in your country or in mine, for their religious sentiments. I• do not come here to give a modified expression of my opinions to recommend myself to any body of men, hoWever influential ; but I address you in all the candid and honest liberty of a free man. I always have been, and I am now also, a liberal—but a liberal in the legitimate acceptation of that now much-abused term. I am an advocate for equal laws and equal rights—for the free and uncontrolled exercise of religious - worship, and for the reform of such abuses as may have ,crept either into the venerable fabric of the constitution itself, or into those in stitutions by which that constitution is embellished and sus tained. I, moreover, go further than this, and say, that government should keep pace with the march of improve ment—that it should not remain stationary whilst the sciences of legislation and of political economy vrere going forward — but that it should progress with the orb of intelligence, and receive from that luminary its motion and its light. (llean) But I do not deem it liberty so to degrade the elective fran chise, as to enable the Irish peasant, under the .lash of his priest, to decide the vote in the imperial parliament, and to dictate to the EngliSh nation its laws and its legislators, I do not deem it consistent either with the letter or the spirit of liberty, to prostrate my 'country under the very feet of the arrogant priesthood—of a church whose motto is intolerance. (Loud cheers.) . It is, therefore, s because I am an advocate for the glorious principles of liberty—for the inherent and legitimate rights and privileges of man—that I stand here this day to protest against a church that has ever waged, and that, as long as it is permitted by the mysterious dispensa tions of Providence to remain as a curse upon the earth, will ever continue to wage an untiring and an unmitigated warfare against the rights and liberties of mankind. ' Intolerance and persecution are written in characters of blood on every page of the history of that tyrant church—a church which has shed oceans of blood—which has set man against man, and nation against nation, to maintain its iniquitous domi nion—a church that has - galled in the aid of the dungeon and • of the executioner, to crush the free expression of opinion-- a church which, to repress the progress of intellect, has proscribed, under the severest penalties, some of the finest monuments of human - genius—a church which, under the impious pretext that it is dangerous to read the word which the Lord himself has written for our instruction, has inter dicted the perusal, even of the sacred volume, lest its pure and holy light might dissipate the foul and odious supersti tion which it has substituted for the gospel of our Divine Redeemer. Such is the character of that church, which, under an Unprincipled government, is now again raising its awful head in these realms ; and unless the protestants awake from their apathy ere it he tbo late, the dark mantle of that superstition will again overshadow this .now free and Chris tian country, and it will be again subjereed to the surpliced myrmidons of Rome, who will rule it with a rod of iron, and stain it, as they did before, with the blood of suph brave and Christian men as may have the courage to avow their deep and holy convictions. (Cheers.) If we wish to learn the moral and political influence of popery, we can read in the degradation of. those countries which have groaned beneath its bondage. - (Hear.) • But I will not here appeal to history for illustrations of its debasing character, neither will I travel to Portugal, nor to Spain, nor even to the head quarters of popery itself, for evidence of its im moral influence. 1 will not lead you through the impure atmosphere of Naples or of - Rome, but, (and I grieve whilst I say it) I will bring you to my native land—to degraded and to demoralised Ireland, arid, is the mirror which reflects the distorted andeosanguined features of that devoted country, 1 will exhibit to you the impress of popery. (Loud cheers,) I beg you, in imagination, to throw your eyes over the, line features of that. favoured_ country, on winch '.:Providence has lavished every gift that could render it pro ductive. I next beg of you to review the character Of.the peasantry of that country; mark their intelligence and eapa-' city, their quick appi chension e their ready wit-their patient and laborious industry. They come here to reap the abun dant hardest of your fields ; they perform the most, toilsome, work of your towns and your cities, and their kindly and happy temperament shines out in the midst of the poverty end pri vation by which they are borne down. Remember their brave and manly bearing : they have fought by your side in the battle field, where their blood has mingled freely with yours; and they have kept pace with you in those glorious victories, when England, under the guidance of a hero who has won alike the martial and the civic wreath, achieved the deliver :lnce of Europe. (Loud cheers.) Haying thus pictured to you my country and my countryrnen e as they have been fea tured forth by the benevolent hand of nature, regard now these features as they have been deformed and distorted by the blighting influence of popery. Look at Ireland, with her fertile soil not half cultivated ; her immense resources ne glected ; her mighty water-power running to waste ; pro ductive industry proscribed by combination ; her nobility •and gentry driven from their homes by intimidation; her fields stained by the blood of the protestant; her noble aspect ex hibiting one fearful scene of turbulence and of crime ! Well may I exclaim, " With desolation is all the land made deso late.", I do not require of you to take this picture at my showing ; neither shall I refer you to the daily press for evi dence of its truth. But I will appeal to a higher doeument— .to one, too, at whose door no imputation can rest. In the minutes of evidence lately fait forward by the House of Lords on the criminal condition of Ireland, arising out of the 'no tion of the truly noble Earl of Roden, you will see how feebly and how faintly I have sketched the condition of my country. That invaluable document contains the evidence o: men op posed in their political - and religious sentiments—of noble lords—of judges of the land—of justices of the peace of high station and of long experience, and also of stipendiary magis trates, and of officers of' police, promoted by Lord Normanby, and holding office at the pleasure of the government. I h ave carefully, and I must add, also, I have painfully perused the four large. volumes containing that report; and the heart sickens at the appalling history of outrage With which it teems. Almost every sheet of that voluminous report tells you the. story of. blood. If a farmer discharges a refractory' labourer—if a steward acts faithfully towards his employer—. if an agent distrains for rent—if tr landlord ejects an insolvent tenant—if another enters On the field from which a former one has been removed—they each, for these respective acts, incur the danger of being murdeaed ! If a man bids at a public auction for goods distrained for tithe or for rent—if he gives evidence against the assassin or the inceudiary—if lie prosecutes those who have. injured hint—if, as a magistrate, lie be active in the discharge of his duty--if he expresses an opinion hostile to that of the priest, or votes against the can• didate whom he has proposed. he incurs the danger of. being I murdered. As we peruse the pages of this evidence, we find them tilled . with the details of atrocities arising out of such circumstances, and that murders on murders have been com mitted from causes such as I have now enumerated. o . We learn, also, from this report, that the murders committed by the popish peasantry cf -Ireland are not the result of want; they arc not the acts of one or More- abandoned men, com mitted for the sake of plunder;—they ere cold-blooded, deli berate murders,. systematically perpetrated - for intimidation or revenge. A peasant council sits in secret conclave, to.se lect the victim that is to be sacrificed The district for miles round is cognisant of the intended crime, its inhabitants arc all parties to the leurdere-theasseesin is:brought from a dis tance to shed - the blood of a man whom, perhaps,. he never saw, and at whose hand he never received injury,. Instead of such a monster being regarded with. abhorrence, his arrival is hailed by the popish peasantry; theyufford him the-rites of hospitality, they place him on the scent, they point out to him his victim, they pant in isreatidess•expeetation for the result, and when the deed.of blood is accomplished, they afford him concealment and protection.. - We are informed, also, in the lords' evidence., that • murder is a market able commodity, and that its price varies from 155. to 50s. Such is now the awful condition of my country, and swills the moral influence of popery, that assassination, so prevalent: in those kingdoms where that superstition prevails, flourishes pre-eminently in Ireland. The next feature that strikes us on the perusal of this important document is the total disre gard evinced by the popish peasantry of Ireland, and evinced by them alone, for the solemn and sacred • obligation of an oath. Perjury prevails at the inquest of the coroner, at civil bill and assize courts—it . stands on, the witness tablee-it presses on to the jury box, where those inipanelled and sworn to give their verdict according to. the evidence, pronounce that verdict in opposition to time charge of the• judge, and in opposition also to the direct and unimpeached testimony of the witnesses • and this odious crime,.which strike s at the very foundation oicivic society, so far from being regarded. by the popish peasant as a violation of the commandment of the Lord, is rather regarded by him in the light :of a social and religious duty. (Hear.) If you demand of me why perjury is-so prevalent amongst the popish peasantry of Ireland, my reply will be, that it is caused alike by the example of .their priests and by the precepts of their religion.:. In illustration of the regard entertained by, the bishops.of that church for the sacred obligation of an oath, I will content myself with referring you to the speeches and publications of the Rev. Mr. M`Ghee, conscious that I should only impair the sharp ness. of the impress .which that learned, able, and uncompro mising. champion of protestantism has indelibly marked upon their foreheads by any additional illustration. On referring to our parliamentary document for information on this head, we learn that the priests habitually attend the inquest and criminal courts, that they tamper with- evidence, to frustrate the•ends of justice, to screen the popisirpeasant who is guilty, and to procure the condemnation of the protestant who is in nocent. The most open and unblushing perjury prevails at the • hustings, and it cannot be denied that it .is. committed, not, alone under the sanction, but by the instigation of the priest. ' He causes the wretched peasant to vote, he is aware that,: in immense iv:inters of cases, his qualifications is ticti .ious, and he is never heard to raise his voice to warn him against the crime of perjury. Ile - tells the deluded peasant that he is - voting in the cause of his religion and, of his God, and that the "end sanctifies the means. So far for priestly example : now for this precept : it is laid down in the canons of the church of Rome that all oaths arc to be regarded as perjuries ( q uasi petjuria) which militate against its interests ; and divines of that church, whose works hold a prominent position in the library of Maynooth, have laid down the doc trine—that acts otherwise sinful, cease to be so, when its in iterests are concerned. The priest, pra c ti ca lly s p ea king, i s to his blind followers the infallible church, and consequently becomes the ultimate authority to decide what oath should be observed and what oath should be violated—what act is sinful and what act is meritorious. Ile thus enforces or annuls at pleasure the obligation of an oath—he preaches obe dience to the law, or he stimulates to its violation—he con firms the oath of allegiance, or heexcommunicates his monarch —refuses to give to Caesar the timings which are Ctesar's, and pronounces an unchristian rebellion to be a holy warfare in the cause of his church and of hie Lord. Thus these solemn duties and obligations, which to us are fixed and invariable, and which we test by the unerring standard of the Bible, and by that alone, arc made to assume to the followers of the church of Rome precisely the hue that suits the object of the priest ; the land-marks of their moral and religious duties are ever varying, and are always moveable at his pleasure • the volume of the Lord is laid aside—it ceases to be regarded: - and the crafty and sinful priest, labouring for his purpose, becomes to his enslaved and darkened followers, the oracle of their duty to their neighbour and to their God: , Can you then be surprised that popery should flourish under such a priesthood and under such a religion? (Repeated cheer ing.) The Irish peasantry are the people of all others who are the most servile followers of the priest; in all their social, domestic, and religious relations they yield him the most implicit obedience—their doors fly open at his approach —they are perpetually kneeling before him, according to Dens, as to God—to confess their sins and to receive his heavenly absolution. • They receive as gospel truths the various super stitions which he teaches them ; they look up to him as the arbiter of their eternal doom: In the midst of penury they submit to all his exactions, whilst, with the most unblushing effrontery, he sells them his extreme unctions, his masses, and his other heavenly merchandise. No class of protes tantsithat 1 know of arc near so observant of the precepts of • the gospel as the Irish peasants of the observance of their church—and in the degradation and vices of that .peasantry, behold the withering fruit of their superstition. (Hear.): So much for the moral influence of popery in Ireland as.we read it in the lords' evidence; and on referring to the sameelocu ment for illustrations of its political influence, we learn that a formidable and widely -spread conspiracy now prevails amongst the popish peasantry ; and mark, gentlemei4 it is confined to them alone. The object of this . conspiracseis to separate Ireland from England, and subject it to Rome, We learn from this evidence, that this conspiracy is hatched and matured in ribbon societies, and that these lodges some times assume charitable and religious denominations ; that they have illegal oaths, and that, like the priests, the ribbon men swear. allegiance to Roinethat obedience to that odious power is the mostprominent part of the ribbon oath. These lodges have. one common purpose,- and are in constant com munication with each other. Their signs and pass-words are current throughout the kingdom, and travel through it with wonderful rapidity ; they have county delegates, parish masters, and body-masters under the parish-masteree e but the leaders who put all these lodges in motion are unknown. It also appears, in evidence, that fire-arms and, ammunition abound amongst these conspirators; that they obtain them from pawnbrokers ; that they eubscribe aumegst themselves for their clandestine. purchase. They have been detected bringing theta over from England.. We learn also that they aspect to receive them, ,if they have not now already re ceived them frohe America, In their eager pursuit after arms, they break open houses—trot for plunder, not for food, not for raiment—but for arms, It .appears also that, as in the instance of the Wexford rebellion, they are aleo angakied in manufacturing pikes, The same . dOcument also in forms us that they are all sworn to turn out at two hours' notice, either for outrage for murder, or for rebellion. Such is now the condition of Ireland. The same document has also informed us, that these ribbon societies have multiplied •in an eminent degree, and have assumed a far more treason able character during the administration of Lord Normanby. [Dr. Meyler then proceeded to read from the report of the House of Lords, tome of the evidence in support of the. charge. He then went on to repudiate the charge of dise loyalty brought against the protestants of Ireland, and said]. -Whilst Ireland is demoralized and degraded—and I hesitatee not to assert, demoralized by the spirit of popery—Whilst it is fearfully convulsed from its surface to its very centre whilst intimidation, outrage s and murder assail us on every side—whilst an extensive and treasonable conspiracy prevails amongst the popish peasantry—the protestants of Ireland are now, as they have always; been, loyal to the throne of Eng- • land; their hands are riot alone i nnecen t of blood, brit they have kept altogether apart from those atrocities and crimes which now constitute the every day history of Ireland ; and -the much-calumniated orangemen have not only. remained passive, but they have voluntarily - dissolved their association in obedience to the law. From this most valuable do cument do we now learn this, and the - information should sink deep in the breast of every Englishman, that the crimes of Ireland are the crimes of the popish peasantry alone, under the tuition of the priests, and under the excite ment of the immediate organ of that priesthood. (Hear.) In referring to this document, a document for which the public is indebted to the zeal and ability of a noble lord, whose moral and Christian virtues embellished the unsullied, uncompromising, and consistent course of his public life—a - document which, under Providence, may yet be the means of preserving these countries, by dissipating the false notions entertained respecting the real eqndition of Irelend, and - from the valuable information which it has, in an authentic form, now placed before the public—from this authentic . document we now learn, from official sources of the highest authority, .that preparations for rebellion now pervade the country—that treasonable societies are multiplying and organising themselves on every side, and that they are now preparing for the coming event. I shall here express my hopes, and I trust also that they are yours, that the same inquiry may be resumed in the ensuing parliament, and that the noble lords may apply themselve more than they have yet done, to ascertain the doctrines taught by the priests to the people, and the character and results of their political interference. Far be it from me to be. wanting in personal respect to a noble lord, or unnecessarily to assail, even his nubile ohgeaeter, but speaking of the late lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and in that capacity alone, I trust that the result of • , that inquiry will lead to the impeaehment of the Marquis of Normanby. (Loud cheers.) [Dr. Meyler the n e n t ere d into a detailed examination of the measures adopted by Lord Nor, merrily, and the evil consequences which resulted from their adoption. Ile proceeded]—lt is time for the English na tion to consider, seriously and dispassionately, the condition of Ireland, and the tenure by which its connexion with Eng land can be maintained. Gentlemen, permit me to assure you that that connexion can be alone maintained by a coin . 'nullity of. religious belief, and by one common seutinient of opposition to the encroachments of Route. Your bond of .union is the Bible. (Loud cheers.) The glorious revolution. of 1688, which established the reigning civil liberty: .in, these realms, cemented also the loyalty of the Irish protestants to the throne tf Great Britain. From, that period, the Dish priests e -the same yesterday, to-day, and for everhave been incessant in their efforts to sever that connexion. .You know, not here the Irish priesthood—you know not the t ru e charac ter of that power by which Ireland is lines, 'mind always has been convulsed. The priests of your country arc a far more ,decorous and orderly body of inc 4. than they are ie mine— they . proceed frpm a . more respectable atetion in .societye- • their education is far superior—they lead more moral and abstract lves—they devote their . time rather to the discharge of their religious duties than to political excitement—they have ;le yet, no furious and bigoted peasantry to wield against their landlords, and to intimidate the country-Hthey look rather. to a jesuitical than to a rebellious agency for the ascen-, dancy of their religion, and they feel, also, that England is their country. I shall forbear front placing before you the portrait of the Irish prieet ; 'wither shall I, at present, delineate his education, his character, or his mode of life; „I will speak of him in his public capacity alone. It is to Route he vows allegiance—his personal, political, and religious pripeiples ell concur in rendering him disloyal to the throne of England, The Irish priests pant for separation, and for the ascendancy of their church, and they look to the brute arm of the peasant as the instrument by which these their new avowed objects may be effected. They keep the peasant in ignorance to perpetuate their influence. The superstition which they teach causes him to look up to them for salvation, and they coerce him to obedience by the dread of their • anathema, and by the theeet of withholding their absolution. To exercise over him an exclesive control, they separate him as much as pos sible from his landlord, whether that landlord be protestant or Roman catholic : they draw a line of cireumvallatim; around him, and excite him to the *most hostility against protestants and their creed : they teach hint that every form of gospel religion is a damnable heresy, that every protestant is a child of hell, and on his road to perdition, and that it is a mortal sin, of the deepest dye, to enter into a protestant • church for time purpose of religious worehip. The deluded peasant is initiated to regard with horror the Roman catholic • whose eyes have been opened to the errors of his creed,- and who haS the moral courage to obey the dictates of his honest conviction. The peasant also, froM early life, is excited to the utmost hatred against England; his mind i$ hieessantly kept alive to. the contests that formerly prevailed between the countries. Rebellious songs, lying prophecies, mutilated and distorted scraps of history, superstitious legends, and every other device, arc employed to keep alive this factious and fanatic hostility. The unhappy and deluded peasant, thus perpetually goaded on by his priest, , refuses to settle down into the sober paths of industry ; lie considers the condition of his country unsettled, and, he longs for a change —fur a separation from England—fur the expulsion of the protestants for possessing- their lands—and for the ascen- dancy of his holy church. In the causes which I have now enumerated, you will diacoartarmthe keaPalements'of , the it:ran i berdination, the crimee e And .tlae rehellious propensities- of the Irish peasantry. One, or two preats in a few localities may partially aid thewliTg justice, and the hiudly diapetsi tionie'of-aotne few, sedpauci boni, may lead them to discon-a rageatheae atrocities . of :these few I would say, apparent ra)4 'mutes in liniyite But as long as such seed sown in the minds of the peasant, no other f r Uit s c an spr i ng up from such iestructinif. .: The priest is the perpetual lea ven. that-wilt not allow the infueinted passions of the peasan— try to subside: it. is he wh:nlans the flarnes.of rebellion, and he never will teach-him otherwise than so es to render . him the tool of his avarice and of his embitioM It is the ever meddling -and restless pricattlietpaevents the re - atrial concord that would. otherwise result between theSproprietotandehe tiller of the soil ; and if, like a poatta#uns e rpeteor, he did .not intrude e hinaeelf to disturb the harthonion s . balance of • our seCiarsYilian, the peasant would revolve round the or derly sphere of his landlord. -.lris iii vain tnexpeet trim- Irelatid till you emancipate the p easan t , f rom hi s priest; and teach him Christianity.: It is in vain - to expect the due ascendance of the-law, till you destroy the political influence of the electioneering.pricataand.restrict him to his --mass-house. If you wish to have independent members from Ireland, yon must elevate:the elective franchise. (Cheers.) The peasant is not now free to exercise it.. The priest arrays, hint against his landlOrd, and the latter will not grant a lease to be wieldectagninst himself. The elevation of the elective franchise would be a boon to the peasant, anti a harrier to priestly enceoaehnient..' The protestant and Roman catholic gentry. would most :cordially. (eineur in such an enactment. As it now is, the priest has reduced theta to be as cyphers on their property ; and it is not from amongst them that the members of parliament are now -selected. The Roman ca tholic .gentry, satisfied with the freedom of religious wor ship, are adverse to priestly dominion ; they spurn alike the dictation of the peasant and the priest ; they are as strongly - oppmed to the temporal ascendancy of their priesthood as you are—satisfied that such an ascendancy would reduce them to a far more degrading bondage than that from which they have been relieved. The agitation which now pervades Ireland is forced on the country by the priests ; and it would longsince.have subsided if Lord Normanby, in that imbecile recklessness by which that vain and frivolous .lord is characterised, had not thrown the weight of the govern- . went in the scale Of peasant and priestly turbulence. 'You' are led here to regard Mr. O'Connell as .a .personage of great political influence in Ireland. No impression can be more erroneous. He derives all his influenee from the priest,' and, if that influence were now withheld, I, rest satisfied that there is not one single town or county in, Ireland that would return him to parliament. From birth, from property, from character, be derives no political aecendency. His impor tance is derived from being the . organ of the prieet. His Whole life has been one scene of selfish anti turbulent:excites molt. He commenced his ewer as a4iberal. iii religio n-- offered his services in succession to every party in the coun try, and was declined by them ail. • He then, as a Bernier resource, fell back on Popery, and aitated as a Roman Ca tholic alone. The priests then, finding Miriam able organ for Popish purposes, collected his rent, and he froWeapiessly promotes their objects in return. They send to parliament the members- whom he selects, and, he e paes that power to control the government and to promote the objects of his priestly masters. Such is the sum and substance of the aa thority of Mr. O'Connell! and it the priests withdrew from him as a public man, he avouid be as nothing in Ireland.— [After alluding to the tolerance of the ,Proteatant eburches towards each other, Dr. Meyler proceeded]—Slayery and popery always have, and ever, will be, inseparable. Its very essence is intellectual bondage—it represses the fiee expres sion of opinion —it arrests the progress of thought—it also exercises the most arbitrary dominion over the reasoning powers—it darkens the finest intellects—deteriorates the purest mind—it contains within itself the undying germs of intolerance and superstition, and they can neither be Soften ed by time nor ameliorated by experience. You should ever bear in mind the golden maxim of the ever-glorious .Eliza beth—a There can he no peace with - Rome." • (Loud cheer ing.) With that chinch you cen form no compact, no treaty, no compromise. You must subdue that odious power, or consent to become its victim. In Ireland the work of des truction has already'commenced ; - the: peasantry are armed, and drilled, and disciplined for the field; an organized con spiracy pervades its Popish districts ; the cry of blood has gone forth ; the priestly organ has told them. from Carlow that it must be shed. The , priest holds the peasant as the slip holds the blood-hound ; and the Protestant knows not how soon the mine, over which lie now rests in apparent se curity, may he canted to explode. The exterminating sword is suspended over Bur heads'; it waits but for the word of the priests to descend ; and it is the dictate of policy; and not of humanity, that yet causes it to be suspended. In the cities . the Protestants are yet safe. In the country they lutvelici titer freedom of actibn nor of opinion : they are there sub jected to every indignity, and liable to every outrage; they are constrained, from dread, to subscribe to the support of a superstition which, whether viewed'under a religious .or a political aspect, they must regard with abhorrence. In their visits to each other they are obliged to carry arms, and the pistol has become an essential appendage to the dinner table: There exists in the rural districts of Ireland an imperium in imperil) too powerful for the law. The denouncement from the altar is follotvad by murder. We learn, in the lords' document, that it was the prelude to that•of Lord Norbury ; and Ireland, under the twofold curse of a treacherous go vernment and of an apostate church, is reduced to one . wretched scene of turbulence, where, to use the ever-to-be remembered words of time Tipperary magistrates—" Neither life nor property is secure." Well may the Protestants ex claim, in the words of your immortal bard— " Alas, poor country ! almost ashamed to know itself — You cannot be called our mother, but our grave !" The Protestants of Ireland call on you for aid and for sym pathy ; they are defenceless and unarmed, and they have no government to look to for protection. When they were emancipated from the shackles of Rome, they brought to England the rich treasure of their loyalty and resolve. They stood by her in bad times, when Rome excommunicated her monarch, and enlisted foreign levy, domestic treason, and every other unchristian expedient to subdue her. • They now again take their position by your side whilst the work of trea son is going forward, under the excitement of the priest, and under the sanction and approbation of the government—and they claim your protection in return. • The principle of Pro testantism and of Popery is now again at issue in Ireland, and the government you have sent over to us advance the latter, to sustain themselves in- power by its -agency. We will not submit tohe so governed.. We will .not bow down before the priestS, because their support may turn the_ cale in your party contentions. Whether you send us, as-the re presentative of the crown, an infidel, a radical, or a conserve• tive governor, the Protestants' of Ireland will not barter their religion, nor sacrifice their liberty, to assist the objects of shuffling and unprincipled statesmen. We will : stand on • .our - own rights and privileges, and on the sacred principles of Protestantism, and on these alone we arta ,prepared to, stand or fall with the British nation. (Loud cheers.) The link that. binds us together is a holy one, do -net let, it be snapped asunder by the priest. Wjth the loss of Ireland you would merge into a second-rate power, and that country Would :be arrayed :against you. in -thOlPopish confederation which is now extending its influence over Christendoma •Rest satisfied- that,- with Pis, . the war ufathe-reformation will have again to bcfought—and that I relitnit ia thehattle-field, where the banner of Rome again,le. unfurled in this, I trust, her last crusade against the religion of the gospel and the li berties of mankind.:; ,Wouldthat I could, front these walls; -send forth my'voiceltethe Paoteatants-of England, and call on them - to beware—tonrousothentselves to a sense of their own danger and of ours. - - stwould say ttathem, raise up -your voices on: high,- and •let. your war-cry. he "No Popery,"—let that cry resound from.every village and hamlet in England, and when it passes across the channel to our shores, it will animate us to our defenee# and we with, with renewed energy, re-echo it back again. from Ireland. The Irish Protestants are now prepared to take their stand on the pass, like the . Lacedemonians of old, and with nervous arms and deter mined hearts they will fearlessly abide the issue of the _ cOn ilia, and they dread not the result.. Though outnumbered by the slaves of Rome, yet strong in their moral and intellec tual elevation, in their honestantegrity of purpose, and in the holy cause in which they are engaged, th ey regadnot all the brute force which the priests of Rome -can array against them; and should the powers of light and darkness again mingle in mortal conflict in Ireland-a-and I doubt not but . they soon willeathe Protestants of Ireland will go forth re joicing in their strength, and with the Lord of Hosts for their guide, and the Bible - for their banner, they will assert their liberties as they did before, and separate the living from the dead, that the people may be saved. (Loud and repeated cheering.) . The resolution was put from.-the chair, and carried without opposition.. WILLIAM Hera., Esq., proposed the second resolution, of which the following is IL copy ze —i . 4 lhat.we pledge ourselves 'to ule our utmost exertions to support the,.ancient oonstitu tiou of this country, with which Protestantism is inseparably interwoven, and regarding that constitution as based upon the true religion of the reformation, in the discharge of our duty, at citizens and Christians, wc.will use all our endea vours to .uphold and extend the influence of that religion, in all its integrity, in all the departments and relations of the state." a - Professor BUTT, of Trinity Coll., Dublin, rose amidst great cheering to second the resolution. lie said—This resolution, sir, is a comprehensive one ; it is, in fact, just as comprehen sive as the duties of a Christian as a member of the state. I have conic here from anothereountry, at some inconvenience to myself, because I- knew, from the tone of the invitation, : that I was to meet men not prepared to advocate anything short of the utmost demends-of principle ; and 1 do rejoice in raising my voice, however humble, when I make one more advocate of the good old protestant principles of England. And if I venture to allude more particularly to matters rela ting to. that country which is the land of nay birth and which, notwithstanding all my admiration o f your noble country, you will pardon :no in saying, is the country of my heart, I hope you will not think that - I am travelling beyond.my re cord : for on the contest-now going forward in Ireland depends the protestantism of the world. (Applause.). There the battle for the liberty of mankind is to be fought ; there is to be decided the question whether the blessed light of civil and religious liberty, and of the word of God, is to advance over .the whole earth, or .whether the despotism of Rome is to be - established in all its dread supremacy, to crush, not only the liberty and the conscience, but even time hope of mankind. (Cheers.) [The learned gentleman then entered . at length upon the evidence on the subject of Ribbonism in Ireland, end charged the present government with a dieeet connivance of the treasonable projects and murderous practices of that organised contederecy. Ile neat alluded. to .O'Conneirs language at 'Carlow,- in which he told the mob that " blood must lee shed,"] This. was. proved by Mr, Vienoleg on oath. Others offered to substantiate it en oath. Mr-.. O'Connell, however, still held, her majesty's m commission : of the,Peace— (cries of "Shae ");—a n d w hil e th e speaker-ad that. speech was permitted to pollute the bench - of justice by. his presence, the Irish government could not escape the charge o f b e i ng abetters of bloodshed. (Ch eers. ) . H e must still trespass on them by a few more facts. He bad asked their attention to the evidence of Captain DeSpard as to the mode ofconnnunication adopted by the ribbonmen—each person receiving a message communicated it to three, and each of these to three others. This, perhaps, might throw light on a strange event in the history of Ireland. • In the summer of 1832, when.the war against the Irish church was at its height—when crowds of the peasantry assembled every day to despoil the clergy of the nretestant chureh-,in the dead of night, from one end of the island to the other, men traversed the'country, bear ing in their hand s a lighted turf. No prOtestant's house was visited by these messe4ers ; but at the house of every Roman Catholic the visit was paid, and at the dead 'of night, without airy apparent cause, without any known concert, they rose at the summons, and each person bore the mysterious symbol . with all his speed, until lie had delivered it to three others, who again started off on this wild and singular mission. And thus in the course of-a -single night, this fiery cross traversed the length and breadth of the ialand, visitipg every Noise ex= cept those in which a protestant lived, and with such rapidity that its speed of transmission actually exceeded that of the mail. This might seem strange to Englishmen; but it had unquestionably occurred. It had never been explained, never understood, unless, indeed, they could understand that it was the ribbon signal—sent through the country to test the per- Action of their organization—to try by experiment the ra pidity with which their orders could be conveyed—whether in a single night they could not command a general movement of the peasantry for their intended massacre Of the protestant people of Ireland, (Loud and continued cheering.) The learned gentlemen then referred to some documents to show the Peal state of feeling among the popish peasantry of Ire land, Mr. Wyse, a privy councillor, a Roman catholic mem - her of parliament, • had written a history of the Roman Cam tholic Association, .from which he would read an extract : " The people had greatly misapprehended the objects of the association, and in many instances could not be convinced that they had recommended the suppression of all former divisions and discords, with any other view than to prepare the people for a general and insurrectionary mOyeuient. ' When will she call us out'?' was more than once heard in the streets of Memel, difring-the'greateirovineial meeting of ' last August, and frequently answered with. a finger on the mouth, and a significe it smile and wink from the bystanders. Many' f these peasants, teo,s had arms concealed in the ' mountains near the , towns, and reserved for the coming oc casion with great caution and assiduity." And again, " Mr. O'Connell exclaimed in ia , passionete tone •of invective, at the meeting at Clomnel, ' Oh ! would to God that our excel lent viceroy, Lord Anglesey, e - ould but only give me a coin mission,eind if those 'Men t/i ' blood - ehould . attempt to attack the _property and persons of his Majesty's loyal subjects, with a hundred thouseed of my brave Tipperary boys, I would soon drive them . 'into the sea before me.' This was said in the warmth. and wantonness of the•moment-a sort of rheto rical apostrophe, not intended to go beyond mere rhetoric; but the- shout, or rather' the thunder of fierce voices, with which it was simultaneously- sent back, spoke volumes of dread and danger. The commission from the Marquis of Anglesea -WAS. forgotten ; the ' if' was forgotten ; they al ready imagined- themselves in fall pursuit. Nothing was re membered but O'Connell and his hundred thousand men." But.'What was it that stimulated this fierce passion to such a degree that their -own leaders became alarmed, and feared they could not restrain them from the work of protestant ex termination. Hear Mr. Wyse again:-" They believed, with very little information and very local views, that they had the government on their side, and that the only enemies they had . to contend with were the orangemen of the north and the Brunswickers ssf the south." (Mr. Butt then read several extracts in support of the preceding charge against the Papists 'of Ireland. He then procceded)- He brought forward this evidence to. show them the real character and objects of the popish party in Ireland. If they hoped to get rid of the difileulties of Ireland by conci liation, they ought, at least, to know folly the lengths to which they should go to satisfy the popish party. They must give them up the country ; they must destroy protestantism, establish popery, and restore the confiscated estates. (Loud cheers.) If they were not prepared to go this length, conci liation was folly. Every concession short 'Of this had no .effi-et - in satisfying or pacifying. It but stimulated their hopes, inflamed their ambition, and added . to their power to demand the rest. (Great cheering.) Ile had dwelt thus long'on Irish topics, - beeause he felt satisfied that the battle of . English. .proteetantietu was now, being : fought on Irish ground. (Cheers.) ' Experience itself 'night satisfy them that-every attack they permitted on the prOtestantism of Ireland weuldloon.be.followel by one,.pn that of England. • Some years ago, ten bishoprics had been suppressed in the church-of -Ireland ; the people of England had silently ac quiesced; in : this iniquitous spoliatienes-how long was the precedent established Lefore their own venerable cathedral establiShreentS had been assailed ? (Cheers.) -Church-rates had been taken from the Irish .church-it had been followed by on attempt to abolish them in England. (Hear.) Popish privy cduneilfors •hedebeen'iippointed in Ireland ; it was en dured without . a murmur • Englishmen--saw the enemies of their faith sit et the council board of the sovereign herself. (Loud - cheers.) - A system of ethiCation 'had- been adopted in-,lreland, ,which ; dishonoured the word of God.. (Hear, and cheers.) It was acquiesced in by Englishmen, and; by 'a just reteibetion, they had seen a similar system forced upon theinselves e -in opposition to their wishes-to the voice of the great majority of their representatives-to the remon strances ef their --and teY .had seen an Irish Roman . Catholic - placed .at the head of their national . education. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Every insult to Irish protestant ism they 'perthitted, was justly punished by a similar insult to theirowns •( Ilenr, hear.) , Nay-more-murder in Ireland hadieng been screened by a repetition .of the crime s -Con- Victiona'had beenn - prevented by the Murderof time 'witnesses, and , England hrul looked calmly on, instead -of putting forth every energy of her mighty empire to crush the syspei of blood. (Hear, bear.) Let them - mark the retribution of their criminalnegleote-already was the same practice recom mendedstlmegh not yet put in force in happy England ; and and in Wales, a seditious publication, connived' at too long government, their governent, had openly reconimended that witnesses • should be murdered to prevent convictions, at Monmouth. (Great cheering.) - For their own sakes, then, they could not permit the degradation of Ireland to continue-the boasted unity of their empire forbade it. England had taken Ireland into partnership for better for worse-(cheering)-incorpo rated her with herself-she could not permit the plague-spot to rankle upon Ireland without absorbing the poison through the frame of her imperial constitution. YoU have no choice, continued the speaker, you must civilise and Christianise Ireland, or, Ireland will uncivilise and unchristianise you. (Immense cheering, which lasted for a considerable time.) • England had already felt the evil effects of the contagious _ demoralisation which came from the other side of the chan nel. What he feared for England was, not the increase of democracy-not.the spread of any set of political opinions the-reel danger was in the, gradual lowering of the. tone of national feeling-in the subversion of national morality-in the passing away Of • that chivalrous sense of honour and of right, which once- had been. the ~cheap. ,defence of England. (Cheers.) Who that looked at public events must not now painfully feel this-that men and - actions -were now endured without rebuke, that would not once have been, for a. moment, tolerated ? Let them look teethe House of Commons : how melancholy the contrast between the debates of the days gone by and the scenes now enacted Ahem-(mar, hear) ;-to the court, composed of the most profligate of the nobility, and where Robert Owelt "was presented by the prime minister of Engiand to their queen. (Treineedous cheering.) Every - measure . that was proposed, bore the impress of this demoralisation. ' Let them take the ballot as an instance the ballot, that professed to substitute for the good old spirit of English manliness-(great • cheering)-ethe cowardice of secret voting-that would make Englishmen skulk ' like cowards to the-exercise of their dearest rights. Had they read the defence_ that one. of their representatives-no, he was proud to say the man 'represented no •English •censtitu ency-(loud,cheers)-a gentleman who dated Ins letters from Windsor Castle-lied dared to make for the ballot in an as sembly of English gentlemen.. He did not deice that it en tailed falsehood and hypocrisy. No s but he said that in the voter falsehood . and hypocrisy were justifiable and right. (Cries of " Shame.") These advocates of purity--these pa negyrists of the people-ghey tell you you are persecuted-(a laugh)-they oiler you a peotectimn--but a.protection which you do not need if you are net cowards, which you cannot use it you are not liars. They presume you both ; and then they tell you they _do nothing to degrade the :character of Englishmen. (Enthusiastic cheering for sonic time.) ,Now this very subjeet-thie painful subject of the lowering of their national feeling-brought him at-once to the more immediate subject of the resolution. The resolution stated the only remedy-the protestant' religion in all its purity influencing the state-protestant ascendancy. (Vehement cheerieg for some time, followed by a hiss from one corner of the room ; some confusion ensued, when a gentleman ceied-Out " three ~ cheers for protestant ascendancy," which were most entlea siastically given, the whole assembly rising and waving their hats,) When the cheering had subsided;-Mr. B. proceeded : -I thank the individual who, by his solitary hiss, attempted to mar the unanimity of th e mee ti ng ; t o him we owe this glorions burst of protestant feeling-. (Loud cheers.) - But I will tell vou what I mean by protestant ascendancy. - l i meen -and where is the Christian that will object to what I say? that the word of God should be the rule of national politics, as it was intended to be ; that every influence and. power of the state should be exercised in accordance with that blesSed book. lam perfectly satisfied that as there can be no high - personal rectitude or character in one -destitute of religion, so I am perfectly satisfied th a t it i s i m p oss ibl e f or any na ti on to keep up a high tone of moral feeling, nationally, without religion. Religion meet be the basis ; and, if there was one class more than another which is interested, and strongly in terested, in upholding the protestant church and the protestant religion, it is the middle class of this. country .- (loud cheers)-because, of this 1 am fully convinced, diet if you extend the boundaries of the Atwell, eelarge the means •of ministration, promete the spread of instruction through the land, you need pot fear how far..oe how wide political privileges are extended ; but, leave the people in ignorance, leave them without religion, and every political privilege will be an engine of power that they will use for their own de struction. (Much cheering.) More than this : when you appeal to the humbler classes of - society in favour of the mo narchy-when you appeal to them for the crown-when you appeal to them for the rights of property, they feel that you are talking of things in which they have only a diminutive interest. Appeal to them, also, in supportof the aristocracy, and you talk to them of a class from which they feel that they are separated by the repulsion of rank ; but talk to them of the Bible-of that sacred birthright which places them, as immortal beings, on the same level with the hi g h es t an d th e mightiest,- and you touch a chord that vibrates in every ho nest heart-you talk of that in which every mechanic in the land has the same interest as the proudest end the richest. (Great appleuee.) It is just beCause the resolution does this -because it appeals to the people of England in the cause of what is emphntieally the poor man's church, that I feel a plea Sure in standing befere . you to advocate it; for if there is an institution 'which - softens down the inequalities of ,rank, without_ disturbing the just gradations of society, it is the - Church of England. No matter what may be the gradations of rank, there is in every parish one man who is of none-who is on an equality with all-who, in the course of his high office, denounces the vices and follies of the rich, whilst he sympa thizes• with the afflictions of the poor, thus introducing something of that higher and better world, where there are no distinctionS. (Applause.) I may be told that these are scenes known' in England, but not in Ireland. Nothing of the kind.. The church clergy in. Ireland are the same as those in England. In some pieces there may be few corn- ' municants ; perbapS there' may be' twenty persons only to meet round the altar of the, prOtestant faith ; but if we are to believe the words of our Lord,- who said,." That whereVee two or three are met together in any mine, I will be amongst them," we :have. a .warrant for the, maintenance of divine worship. The Irish church is ae outpost of British freedom and civilisation in Irelaiel. In every parish, even in the 1 wildest and remotest districts, there is an educated minister to show the misguided peasantry what true religion can snake of a mans. And noteethstanding the war which has been ! excited against the clergy . of -Ireland, - there have _been and , still are many amongst them, who, when disgrace and sorrow have lighted upon time peasant, step forward to protect him, and to .administer .spiritual and temporal succour. The estimation in which they were held is manifested, by one fact. The poOr fellows who have removed to a distance froth their native homes sometimes send back their little earnings to their. friends ; but the person employed to .forward the money is never the popish prick, but the clergyman of the established church, although the.sender be a Roman , catholic. (Loud cries of " Hear,hear.") . If you tolerate assaults on. the Irish church, you give encouragement and hope to those whoa are diSpoSed to-make- assaults on your own-end, they who attack the one arc very likely to be. the, persons to attack the , • other. (Bear, hear, and 'Cheers.) By the act. of union, you likidged your faith to the protestants of Ireland to support - theirchiarch e and would you break that pledge? If you do, God's providence will bring retribution on yourselves. ' (Great applause) It' there is anything that ought to excite the spirit of. Englishmen to extend. the reformation, is it net that simple extract from the letter of Dr. M' Hale, in which he tells von that Ireland will bring back this country to ' popery ? Will you suffer that ? (No, no.) . Yet every pub lication of the Rom c p a u t b h l o i l e ic it s jo i n sro co p i o n s e e s s otulitiswiatiti some fresh ultimate aim ; every more pompous announcement of their hope of this. The contest that is going forward is for the protestantism of Europesof the world. It ought to bring a blush into the face of every Englishman, when he reflects on the de g eneracy of 'hie country in the present age, as contrasted with that of Elizabeth. When the Iluguenots were, by a blood-stained decree, banished from France, Elizabeth received them here ; and as a cup of cold water, given in the name of Christ, never goes unrewarded, so did it happen in this instance; for the refugees introduced some of those manufactures to which yon owe your prosperity as a nation. (Cheers.) In the present day,, Austria sends forth ae inhuman edict, mid the protestants of the T yrol arc obliged to abandon their homes. But who receives them ? - Are the arms of protestant Eng land opened for the reception of the homeless Tyrolese pro test .n . s ? . Oh, no ! They are received by a catholic monarch in his dominions ; the King of Prussia has gained the honour. (Much cheering.) Bet. for this contrast of our age with that of Queen Elizabeth, I may perhaps be accused of disloyalty, the charge which the ministerial organs are instructed to bring against the conservatives of England, and it is also brought against the protestants of Ireland. When the world was in arms against England, when the Roman catholics of Ireland were leagued together in conspiracy, when the fleet was i n mutiny at the Nor e , when France was endeavouring to disseminate her infidel and republican opinions in England, the protestants of Ireland forsook not their king, but were true as their own principles. (Cheers.) And who are they that bring against us this disloyalty ? It was first brought by men who were nursed in the lap of treason, by those who owe their power to the mob, and, who would to-morrow destroy the crown of England, if by so doing they would secure. a few more years of power. (Great applause.) Disaffection to Lord Melbourne is, disloyalty to the queen, and if we dare to state that the court of the queen has been made Profligate by the • men in whom she confided, we are branded with disloyalty. I stn loyal, independent of the personal character of the sovereign, because my loyalty is founded', not on the fact of the political predilections of the sovereign, but on the belief that the pow ers that be are ordained by God. (Cheers.) My loyalty, which I drew in with my first breath, would lead me to abhor the ministers who have brought dishonour and reproach on this ancient monarchy, and to resolve, with the blessing of God, if it were in my power, to.rescue the crown from the tyranny that embittered the declining years of our beloved monarch. and that has shadoWed with unpopularity the rising sun of another. (Vehement applause.) It there is one po litical crime loony than another which ought to draw down retribution on the heads of the guilty and intriguing minis ters—if there is one crime more than another which ought to provoke the indignation of all loyal men, it is the foul, the unprincipled ese which these ministers have made of the ad vantage which their position gave them in. relation_ to, the queen. (Renewed acclamations.) They were the ministers when she came to the throne; they found her - young and in experienced, ready to rely altogether upon them, and having no opportunity of learning the sentiments of her people. And what did they do ? Before the clay was cold on the breast of William the Fourth, they wrote in her name a letter to Lord Normanby, declaring her approbation of his govern ment of Ireland ; ,of that Lord Normanby whom this expo sure of his conduct, made in this respect, has almost banished even from whig society. (Loud cheers.) They compelled her to commence her reign by an insult -to her loyal pro testant subjects—to those whose loyalty had changed with no time—had survived neglect— " True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." who, when the world was in arms against England were faith ful at her side—and when French gold and domestic treason would have taken Ireland, preserved it by their own strong arm to the British crown. (Continued cheers.) And Mr. Shiel, now thra viceleresident of the board of trade, had gone to Clonmel, and there had boasted that his sovereign was a writer of election squibs. (Hear, heat.) Whatconservative would dare to indulge in so disrespectful an allusion to his queen ? (Hear, hear.) God forbid that he should throw a shadow of blame upon his queen! it was as ungenerous as it was uneonstitutional. (Cheers.) iler ministers were , to blame—they had betrayed both queen and people, and while those ministers were unimpeached, let. no one dare to hint the.most remote insinuation of blame against the sovereign whose confidence the people of England had permitted them to betray. (Cheering.) ,The learned gentleman concluded by an appeal to the people of England to take their stand in. the coining struggle between popery and protestantism. Other nations might remain neutral. England could not. She must take her part—a great contest was now going on, whether mankind should again be fettered by the tyranny of Rome. He hid, however, no fear of England—her-protes tant Spirit was awaking in different places and districts with out concert, yet simultaneous as if the impulse that moved ;them was something higher and better than of earth. Their protestant meetings throughout the country broke forth like the watchfires on the hills which denoted a general rising of the people ; and the enemies of protestantism might just as well attempt to stay the revolution of the earth that would bring back the light of day, as to stay the moral revolution which, with equal certainty, was progressing. (Tremendous cheering, which was continuedfor a long time, and succeeded by the Kentish tire.) . • , The Rev. Jemes WRIGHT, of Warrington, moved the third resolution—" That the thanks of this meeting be given to the gentlemen who have so kindly come over from Ire land to lay before. the inhabitants of this town and neighbour hood the fearful progress which popery is making in Ireland, under the fostering protection of her majesty's ministers, to wards the subversion of the protestant church, and the total subjugation of that country to the power of the papal see." The Rev. Cii - KRI,U,S GAYER, of 'entry, in the county of Kerry, seconded the resolution in a speech of considerable length. E 6 related several very interesting anecdotes cen-' nected with the conversions which had taken place in the town of Dingle. lie said—l come from the town of Dingle, in which there is a population of five thousand Roman ca tholics, and three hundred protestants only ' • in the barony there are thirty thousand papists, a n d no t eight hundred pro testants. Kerry is the county of O'Connell, and I may tell you, parenthetically, that he is thought less .of in his own county than in any other. I have laboured for some time amongst the Roman catholics in that part of the country. and I am rejoiced to inform you that within a little circle of three or four miles, there have, during the last four years, been 400 converts from the church of Rome—(applause)—and I am sure, if I were to count up the whole of the converts within the last eight or nine years, in the county of Kerry, they would amount to between a thousand and twelvo hun dred. To be sure they make no great show, because they are all scattered about • but if they. were ga th ere d t oge th er they would make a goodly. congregation. There is one con gregation composed entirely of converts from the church of • Rome, the minister included e hnd where all speak the Irish language, and where worship is performed in the only tongue which three millions of Irish can speak. The resolution was then unanimously adopted. JOHN CLARKi., Esq., amidst immense applause, rose to move, " That the thanks of the meeting he given to Peter Langford Brook, Esq., for his dignified conduct in the chair." lie said it was impossible they could separate with out returning their warmest thanks to the chairman ; for he had not only come from a distance to preside there, but when applied to, he did not lose a moment in answering that he was at the service of the protestants. The meeting did not wait for the motion to be seconded, , but simultaneously rose and .gave three times three hearty rounds of applause._ The CHA'tittil ax having briefly acknowledged the compr ment, The Rev. Mr. WRIGHT intimated that the association wr.s about to send up a memorial to the Queen, praying that she would cancel the recent appointments of Roman cathc,l:c., and a vote of thanks to Lord Roden for his protection of the protestant cause, and for his exertions in the appointment of the committee of inquiry. The. meeting terminated at a quarter past ten. THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE .LIVERPOQL STANDARD, SIR,—I hope that the promoters of the Collegiate Institu. tion will call a public meeting, and thus bring the merits o: this much required institution into more general notice. The rancour with which this institution is attacked by the radical papers shews how much they dread its formation, and augurs well, in my mind, for its comFlete success; and, if I required an argutnent to convince me that those few dis sentient clergymen who oppose -it are in the wrong, I shall find it in the affected approval of their conduct by the ene mies. of our institutions, in ; church and state.i That these gentlemen are sincere in their opposition, I have no question, but I think they are'mistaken, and I have no doubt, when they see the institution at work, and the good it will un doubtedly do, they, from being opposers, will become its supporters. An attempt is minle to prove that in their opposition to the Corporation Schools, the friends of the Collegiate Insti tution are acting inconsistently. In opposntg the systemin - the Corporation Schools, the theme taken up 'is, if I understand correctly, that the free use of the authorised translation' of the Bible—in the whole Of the school—is disallowed, and. that prayer, in opening and closing the school, is discountenanced. Now, can these ob jections be made to the new institution ? Certainly not, for there is to be no restriction on the free use of the Bible, and no prohibition to prayer : the only concession made is, that, in the case -of dissentersi the use of the church catechism is not to be enforced. And, en passant, I would observe, that the - catechism is not omitted, in the case above mentioned, froth the idea that there is any doctrinal point in that excel lent formulary to which the orthodox dissenters object, but merely because the Eosin of Bibleism observed in the church, and treated of in its catechism, does not accord with the mode adopted by them. You will perceive that I allude to our. practice of having God-present in our form of Bibleism. This form, I, of course, as a churchman, think the best, for one reason, because I believe it to accord with the practice of the early Christians ; but beyond this, no enlightened churchman will go. In believing that it has the stamp of divine command upon it, neither scripture nor reason will bear us out. Further than this, the objections of orthodox dissenters do not extend ; if they did, if they objected to the catechism on the ground that it contained doctrines in which they did not believe, I should be the last to approve of its disuse, though, by such non-approval, it might debar one-half of the youth from entering it who are likely to make use of the in stitution, The object of the Collegiate Institution, I understand, is, to provide a litf.rary and scientific institution, in addition to a preparatory school for the education of youth ; and, in order to. make it generally useful, it is necessary to form it upon an enlarged scale. For my part, I could have wished it had al lowed dissenters upon its Committee. But this proposal, though it met with the approbation of our, excellent Bishop, as welt as the Rectors, and many of the Clergy, was nega tived, partly at the suggestion of the Wesleyan ministers at present resident here, who stated, that " they should have more confidence in it if its Committee were confined to Churchmen ;" at the same time, in order to secure unani mity, those members of the venerable Church of Scotland, who were anxious for the formation of the institution, gave their consent : and it is hoped, not may that members of those communities, but of others, will participate in its be nefits, for it is a great mistake to suppose that all dissenters hold the latitudinarian opinions upon education professed by such persons as Mr. Councillor Blackburn. It is an alarming fact that, independently of the literary knowledge imparted, in lectures to adults, in the Mechanics' institute, as many as fifteen hundred youths are now being educated at that place. Fifteen hundred young men ; who will, in a few years, occupy the upper stations amongst us in the town, are b eing educated without religion, 'in a place from which the Holy Bible is carefully excluded, and where the hallowed sound of prayer is never heard, and upon the Committee of which the papist and the Socinian have the complete sway ! Gracious Heaven ! what amass of impiety and irreligion may be expected to stalk abroad in this place in a few years. • • _ Let those Christian parents who, thoughtlessly, have sent their children there, reflect, and instantly withdraw them, •and let those who, because they could not have all that they may wish in our institution, and who have been opposing its formation, come forward and support it without any further delay. It has the stamp of Gou's truth upon it, and it will —it must succeed: - The country seems,, at this time, to be divided into two parties—those who are for educating the people with, and those who are for educating them without the Bible. Our institution proposes to adopt the former plan. And let all those who are really friends to scriptur a l ed uca ti on come amongst us, and give us their aid ; and as we propose not to confine our schools to the higher, but to extend them to the lower classes, let every one who has it in his power to con tribute give us whatever he is able, remembering that He, in whose cause we are engaged, looks not to the amount given, but to theintentions of the giver, who, while he is not un mindful of the . abundance of the rich, is pleased with the mite of the poor. We are about to enter upon the season when the Church commemorates the gift of God's Son to our world—a season of holy rejoicing, and at the return of which our hearts should be filled with joy and gratitude, and, whilst we imitate the shepherds at His nativity, in singing to Him our hymns of praise, let us not forget the example of the sages in present ing to Him our gifts. On this occasion, and at this season, I hope it will not be thought out of place if I conclude my letter with one of the collects of our truly Catholic Church. " 0 Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings. without charity arc nothing worth, send Thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of Charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before Thee : Grant this, for Thine only Son Jesus Christ's sake. Amen."—l am, Sir, yours, &c. A CHURCHWARDEN. ELGIN DISTRICT OF BURGHS. —The candidates for Vic re presentation in Parliament of this district of burghs are, Mr. Duff of Haddo on the Conservative, and Sir Andrew Leith Hay. of Itanncs and Mr. Grant of Carnousie on the Liberal interest. The friends of the three candidates are now ac tively engaged in canvassing the constituency, and seem to be ai►ticipating an election on an early day. Mr. Grant finished his canvass here on Saturday week, and afterwards proceeded to visit the constituency of Peterhead. Mr. Duff has been busily engaged during the last ten days in canvass ing the electors of Banff, Maeduff, Inverary, and Kintore, and is expected to be here in the course of a few days. Sir A. Leith Hay's factor, Mr. Gordon, Bucharn, has issued an address, stating that Sir Andrew will, on an early day, per sonally wait on the electors to solicit their suffrages, snd call ing on them to reserve their votes until he make his appear ance amongst them. The on dit respecting. the Hon. Fox Maule is, that in the case of Sir John Campbell being ap pointed to the office of Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, the hon. gentlernan . will succeed Sir John as one of the, repre- . sentatives of the city of Edinburgh.---,Elyin Courant. THE NEW. COUNTY CONSTABULARY. On Wednesday an adjourned meeting of the jnstices of th e peace for the county in general ann ua l sess i on was held 1 :1 the Sessions-house, Preston, f or th e p urpose o f rec eiving . 311 . taking into consideration the r ep or t s - o f th e v i s iti n g jast ice i of the several prisons in ref erence t o th e new pr i son act, tw t for appointing a fit person to be chief constable of the count) . t and also for transacting other business relating at large. The attendance of mag i s t ra t es f rom a ll p ar ts of th e , county, especially from Liverpo o l an d M anc h es t er , was veilgreat, great, no less than 128 being p r e sen t. Sh or tl y a ft e r. elev en o'clock business com m e nce d by th e H on . Ri c h ar d, POP tie Wilbraham, at ilbraham, M.P., being re ques t e d t o t a k e th e ch a i r . d The Cu AMMAN, in opening the b us i ness , b r i e fly' eXPI n V the general nature of th e b usiness to .be brought-before court. ro court. to the county Mr. T. B. ADDISON said the first subject for the aitenti? a of the court would be the reception and consideration of the reports of the visiting justices of the several prisons in relcr," ence to the new priso n ac t. N ow t h at was a su bj ec t which would occupy the entire day, and if it were entered into, th e important question of th e a pp o i n t men t o f c hi e f co n,t3bi would be delayed, so as not to receive the consideration tl which it was entitled. Under these circumstances be begge d to suggest that the consideration of the visiting justices-reT ports be postponed.—This suggestion was adopted. The CIIAIRMAN stated that the.next business was the ar pointment of a chief constable, or head, of the intended eon' stabulary force. Mr. T. B. ADDISON, before the appointment was ma t l: rose to move a resolution, of which he had given notice. conceived it was the intention of the framers of the new act, that whatever was done under it should be done with th e , concurrence of the m6° "agistracy at lar g e. If h e (M r . Add. were the chief constable, he should tremble at the vast amount. of responsibility imposed upon him, unless he acted wider the magistracy ' and had every o pp or t un it y o f t a ki n g thei r opinions. By the pint he intended to propose, the chief co!" stable would have his responsibility lessened, and the naaN; strates would be doing what was expected from them. fi t begged, therefore, to move the following resolution :--" a constabulary committee he 'appointed, consisting_ of "'- magistrates, from each of th e h un d re d s o f L ons d a l e , Anaou n , derness, Blackburn, and Leyl an d, an d f our magistrate, 11.°11- each of the hundreds of Salford and West Derby, to-super. intend the appointment, organization, pay, clothing, distri bution, and . .management of th e consta b u l ary f orce ; ~ prove of all expenses, and examine all accounts, relaun, such force, and to report on all matters relating thereto 11 ' the general session. That such committee. remain ci ffic . e , till the meeting of the court for the dispatch ,ofbusine. , l" September, when the court will consider as to its rene".l,, That the first meeting of the committee do. take place in ~'"h ' e Court-house, Preston, at the. rising of this. court. That committee,.or such of them as attend the first meeting, lw e appoint a chairman and a vice-chairman, and: that ally of them, the chairman or vice-chairman being one, have Pe wer to act." dire Mr. WILLIAM MAasnAr.r. seconded the motion, and e - pressed his concurrence with Mr—Addi. , oo's views. Mr. R. T. PARKER, M.P., di s s en t e d f rom th e pro pos i t io n ' on the ground that the act of parlianient imposed the sponsibility upon the chi e f constable. He was not, howT ve oppOsed to the appointment of a committee to confer with ther, .„ chief constable, but he was o pp os ed t o t h e suggest i on of I.': moving the responsibility whi c h oug ht to d evo l ve up on IS to the magistrates. - Ile would the re f ote move m , as an a", meat, that Mr. Addison ' s motion be agreed to w ith the.„o , ception of the words " app o i n t men t , organ i zat i on, distrai t ' tion, and management" o f th e consta b u l ary force. A MAGISTRATE seconded th e amen d ment. the The Rev. J. T. Howro N o bj ec t e d to t h e mot i on , 09 f re ground of principle. It went t o cr o p t h e c hi e f cons tahle? .. his responsibility, and t o d epr i ve t h e general b o d y o f „ strates of their privileges, by delegating their duties t° committee. He was strongly opposed to the proposition• r t Mr. POUT, M.P. contended, that the - -act of parliame. confided all the powers referred to in the chief constaho' alone. • Mr. THORNILY, M.P., inquired whether the act of 1 0 , t ? liament did not rest the appoi n t ments i n t h e ch i e f constabl e The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative. The question was then put, and Mr. Parker's amenda h° declared to be carried. ti er The Rev. J. T. HORTON said he would propose 3 00— amendment— of Mr. T. B. AnntsoN rose to o r d er . Af ter t h e decision the court, on Mr. Parker's ame n d ment, i t was not c o ' ll P e. tent for any magistrate to propose another. The Rev. J. T. MORTON contended that the learned g en i i tleman was in error, and l i e a pp ea l e d to t h e hon. eloit°l3i whether it was not comp e t en t f or , him now to wov e -3 amendment upon the general question. • , I is certainly my view. • The Rev. J. T. HORTON said the - amendment he intelq e to propose was, that the court take' into consideration subject of the appointment of a comm i t t ee at th i s day t a he months.' I•lis objection to M r . Addi son ' s propos i t i o n, had already stated, was founded upon principle. Th at position went first to crop the chief constable of his leges, and afterwards to d epr i ve the magistracy-'of th t By delegating that, which th ey were all hound , to ( 10 ,, the committee, they were settin g a prece d ent w hi ch b e hop eu t he magiStrates of this county would nevrr sanction. 13 Y aj terins of the act, the chief constable was empowered 0 f e et minister the duties of the office in his own w a y'omitY , him, therefore, hold the situation upon his own respons" - 1 0, without having any committee to tell him how to 0 1. 0, t he clothe, distribute, and manage t h e consta b ulary f orc e of county— the The CHAIRMAN said the resolution went only so far as payment. Mr. HoRToN apprehend e d it was t h e b us i nes s Of cre court to fix that ; that the rates sent down by the home se, le i r tary sufficiently showed. But the qiiestion he put to." intelligence was this--if the individual, w hen aPP m eo l wanted the magisterial s anc ti on f or w h at he m i g ht do, it to not this meeting be adjourned for the purpose of giving o I him ? Let him come and say, if he thought Po l l' ef 'Onm have 500 men ready t o be appo i nte d , b ut I want the san' e l by of the magistrates ;' i n that case-let every thing be ( 1 1, a n an adjournment of the session s , f or th en t h ere w ould .3 ig open 'court, and not be a committee.' Ile .conclude u . moving the amendment. - Mr. DAWSON seconded amend. The CHAIRMAN put the the question, and ment thenmendole n w a t 0.5 s carried by a large ma j or it y . M r. Addi son ' s motion • consequently lost. Mr. W. G. GALE moved, that the court do now lo y i u g to the appointment of a chief constable.—The motion ha been carried— The CHAIRMAN an nounce d th a t e i g ht eandidat" n i 3 ls• Before fhe mentioned their nameS the situation. and had he wished sent in th to I eir testitno hav e the pi e ?, efor sure of the Court as to the mod e i n w hi c h the votes - be taken. j ir . u t, A long and wearisome dis cuss i on f o ll owe d u pon tl,' P ti v in which Mr. MARSH ALL , M r . T . B. Avoisus,' al,st GREENE, M.P., the Rev. J. T. HoHORTON,N, Mr. W 3l • Mr. DAwsoN, and the CHAram AN engaged. C 01 ' 1 % ; re' s diven,ity of opinion was manifested, but at last i t ` c d t he solved that the votes sh ou ld b e t a k en a f ter t h e fash i°ll - 0 61 ballot—the person who had the lowest number - 4o eti re the candidates had been reduced to two. The CHAIRMAN then announced the names of th e dates. The first was Capt. Woodford, an officer 11°1(14,1.'10r adjutancy of the Royal. Lancashire ; the secoDocoot Henry Leader, of Londonderry, an officer in the Iris li tim oo Guard service ; the third, Lieut. Fabian R.::.. a g e !!:. e tro" whom many of our readers will recollect as a very t he yelling agent of the British and Foreign School , Soe le '.4esrs' fourth, Capt. Helinsworth ' • the fifth, Lieut .- Col. Captain in the 3d Dragoon Guards ; the sixth, Cal),t• Forri; of the 37th Regt. of I n f a nt r y ; th e sevent h , Mr. Joh n and the last, Mr. J. F.K of the P E Freik. be tee' The CLERACE then proceeded to read t d w ere timonials of the candidates. Those of Capt. Woodfo r o f 5.e" of a very high character, and they included the nanl es „d veral general officers, as well as oth er military men , a r ice"" of several leading cou n ty gen tle men. M r. Leader s o f very numerous, and they spoke in unqualified tertotorri' character and efficiency as an officer of the Irish Coast 00' Lieut. Fabian's we might almost call volurninous . . o 4o ° ,; Helmsworth did not appear, and consequently his nials were not introduced to the court. Liut.-Col. " —e it ilas:" were very bulky, and from them it appeared that til e Div officer held his commission as lieutenant-colonel ill ) , DiO f tish Legion, which served in Spain under General row Evans. Capt. Willis's testimonials were exceedillg b : rous, and many of them were from general oftie er ,;le 0 . ; other two candidates did not appear, and the sam e therefore observed towards then, as towards CaPt• of worth. titi °° Mr. DAwSoN, before the voting, called the att e be ing ra the Court to the necessity of the chief constable m op ie some degree acuainted with the practices of the Pf 1 0 l lowingt he thatcoasts, called disgraceful"u're h c a k b e i r t s . ," H in e p o u ri t ler iu t e o st p io re n v s e t n o t t t r i i e s eth :c see n ° to the candidates. s e Capt. W OODFORD acknowledged that he had never 0 iDe wreck. the h e Mr. LE ADER sa id h e had seen three, one of whien„ t ees under his comman d save d , and in the o ther two i",,s`:riii6 tl3O succeeded in preventing th e wrec k ers f ro m Pie" — 11 53 ill-fated vessels. but h e Lieut. FABrAN said he had seen no wrecio , o ber , been in c o mman d o f vesse l s an d o f cons id era ble 101 , men. Lieut.-Col. O ' MEARA stated that the commiss l4 3,l v' o r in her- Maje s ty' s serv i ce was t h at o f C ap t a i n ill , goon Guards, and that he had also served with the , 2d West India regiment. ADP'al' Capt. WILLIS', in reply to Mr. HO R TON and Mr 1) 1 , 3 ,1 e ° 3c , said that frequently, f or a f or t n i g ht t oge ther, ' c - 0 0je t l o fr manded detachme n t s o f his corps, which served?'" h ere , er e tion with the police in I re l an d ; an d th a t he had s e re years in Bermuda when some prisoners confined t t he prevented making their esca p e . vote ° idl e The CLERK of the PEACE th en co ll ec ted the v 0 er e magistrates in a hat [each magistrate writing then r t he y candidate he voted for on a s lip of paper], au aee la counted by the CHAIRM AN . Th e numbers we ' v to Captain Woodford .. .............. 4., • Lieutenant Fabian .... . ............ • 33 Captain Willis . • 21 .. ' • 1 Mr. Leader 2 0 .... fi tli Lieuenant-Colonel 'eara , • q Liciit.-Col. t O'MCara and O Mr. M Leader were conse u' , •il 0° withdrawn. The number of magistrates who voted WAS 123 ; C' n e e il tj ai el i ' l , ° : vote at all ; and another wrote on his slip, a -, g ,, e sO it t• i , who hates the absurdity of the ballot system." ",,eitY file magistrate gave to Capt. Willis's name, the 1'. ° ,,. s e. to somewhat original orthography, by spelling it W"' s s peri s o clerk of the peace professed on meeting with this l' ils irW. s ; be tumbled to make out the writing, but the lion. cliteri came to his assistance, and' eventually hieroglyphic was deciphered as above. On the second balloting, the members were — 51 Capt. Woodford.. ..... .. • • 4.2 Lieut. Fabian • • ........... .... •• • • • ?.1 „„vii , Wiis ........ • ~,• itliuhog The 120 ._00ii!..,. and then came the " tug of war" between the twrilorwei' the rit 1. 1 rivals. The numbers the third and last time of c"'" (•,5 Capt. Woodford. .................... • • • • 50 Lieut. Fabia n ... .......... r ........ • • • • ~..-15 e t/ 115. • A m l a a g jo is r t i r t a y te fo s r v C o a ti p n t g . I ,l l: a o s o , dfi ti i i r i d s P . tiio • e, re The number of magistrates to The CH AIRMAN th en announce d the electio n to h 3s3. ' 0 o on Capt. Woodford. , SeP Th Mr. J. F. FOSTER, chairman of the Salforu r t. : for said he wished to submit a proposition to the CO ., ° o iiit e . l ioie court had decided that no committee should be ePi ..oo ,e l ; s g , the purposes set forth in the resolution agreed to c hie f tb ° ago ; but it appeared to him that if they left I I ! ~ 10 14 .41 istrate without the means of communicatiiiro.,,id,,'" i 4 magistrates, as a body, they would be doing tlei o t, .' oc ii:,f ili t introduce great confusion and inconsistency. e r .i l so y I u os y: different parts of the country. There would b ' 1 ,senti 3 ;Ol e ; 1., i o—' l pe- t .. arising on which it would be important stable „i i absolutely necessary that the chief consta:hst; with the magistrates at large. The in a g! ta bi t c e s% 3ll"l , e v i b l " ll; sessions had certain control over the '' con:atters tu „ to,, chief constable ; there were also several nr . , __ c ore, !;,,i I they came under the control of the session; tu s f,,, l i diou,',„.ci; reared to him necessary, that some uniform s a v i r ro t I tT y D er adopted, or else the practice would differ in coeq uel eit h and in all probability the country would.i._'were r i ler t je applied to thr the allowance of expenses NO '' 0 1 : 1 i n o,A ii ti right nor reasonable. For these reasonsl,saconicr '' ..i .,g 0 .0 give the chief constable an opportunity l' o f s eeu' d joill, magistrates, and to give them'an opportunity Court s l i g ia uniform system, he begged to move that ethis_TV'6table,..j:e, .. to some given da in order that the ehi l'," loet itu,', l o o `.' that the magistrates should have informa to ► enabl e report what proceedings . be had taken intitoutleas to tl t i b t , oo Pi in which the constables were distributed, A it s r .L. 8 t • ' s,( Th ( eulty ter-s e quart' ti, dt aim t 11,1 1 viewt • on to be . Al E!ood lali in g ere the (J i c c