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Nth) Pubtirationo. This day is published, in one volume, royal Bvo, price 15s. in boards, IG ES T of the CASES argued and determine d in t h e D ARCHES and PREROGATIVE COURTS of CAN TERBURY. the CONSISTORY COURT of LONDON, and the HIGH COURT of DELEGATES; and contained in the Reports of Sir GEORGE Lea, PHILLIP/JOKE, ADDAM s, and HAGGARD. Dedicated by permission to The Right Rev, the LORD BISHOP of GLOUCEST R. By EDWIN NIADDY, Esquire, D.C. Barrister-at-Law, and Deputy Chaacellor of th iocese of Gloucester. London: SAUNDERS and BaNNING, Law Booksellers, (suc cessors to J. Butterworth and Son,) 43, Fleet-street. Zrabtiting. NEW ROYAL MAIL TO' LONDON IN TWEN HOURS. THE Public are respectfully informed that - 1W MAIL COACH will commence running from LI 'ERPOOL to LONDON on and after the sth of July next; it will be despatch ed from the Promising Faeav every Morning at Half-past Eight o'clock, after the arrival of the Government Packets from Ireland. 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The very finest Sealing Wax that is manufactured, 20 or 40 sticks, 4s. 6d. per lb.. Embossed ditto, s s. per lb., _Fancy Co lours:Dold, Spangled, Bronzed, &c., 48 sticks, ss. 6d. per lb. Juvenile Books, in great variety. Lacey's Railway Companion, ls. MEETING OF YOUNG FREEMEN. A meeting was convened, by placard, on Saturday last. in the Large Room at the Golden Lion Inn, of the unsworn free men of the town. T'ee business wag then opened by Mr. H. STATHAM, who advanced to the table, and said, that the meeting was convened for the purpose of taking into con sideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament on behalf of the rising generation of freemen, whose rights were threatened by a clause in the bill at present before the House of Commons. He begged to propose that Mr. Jacques Myers take the chair. This motion was then seconded, and carried by acclamation. Mr. Myses, on taking the chair, said he must regret the absence of a.gentleman who would have filled it much more ably than he could do • but he would perform his duty t o the best of his ability. M r. Myers. after having touched upon the purport of the clause in the bill alluded to by Mr. Statham, said a report had been circulated, that the present meeting had been called at the instigation of the persons composing the Corporation of Liverpool. This he begged distinctly to deny. The business had been altogether concocted by him (Mr. Myers) and some of his - friends. He believed that there might be persons present of opposite opinions to those which he and these about him professed, but he trusted that the business would go on smoothly, without disturbance, audainchecked by any display of party feeling. In allusion to the present situa tion in which he stood, in common with those who had been looking forward to the time when they should become burgesses, be thought that no member of the House of Commons could think it right to disfranchise those who had been accustomed to look upon their freedom as a birthright inalienable, and as much theirs by descent as any property which their fathers might have acquired. MC . . E. CORIIIE, jun., then came forward for the purpose of moving the first resolution. He prefaced it by merely alluding, in nearly the same words as Mr. Statham and Mr. Myers had done, to the clause in the Municipal Bill which went to dis franchise them. The resolution was seconded by Mr. A.LEXANDEII SHAND, and earned. unanimously...--. • - Mr. JOHN FOSTER, jun., moved the second resolution. After informing the meeting that their next duty should be to resolve upon the means best adapted for carrying its wishes into effect, be said that they should naturally hope that those who had in flicted the blow would prevent it, It was not just, he said, that they should be included in a deprivation of right for the sins of others. Ha did not know whether the present freemen had done anything wrung or not, but it was evident that t he y had not, for they had. never had the power—they had never been tried. - Mr. KEAR seal , seconded the resolution without comment. It was carried unanimously. Mr. STATHAM said he should have the honour of proposing the next resolution, whieh was to the ef f ect that a petition be read and adopted, and sent, with a request for their support on its presentation, to Lord Bandon and Mr. Ewart, and the mem bers for the county. ¶Strong symptoms of disapprobation were manifested on the mention of Mr. Ewart's name, which were instantly checked by the chairman.l Mr. Statham then pro nounced a glowing eulegium on the petition. which, he said, would be found to meet the cases of every class of young freemen present—of those under twenty-one years of age, of those who who bad not yet taken up their freedom, and of those who were yet apprentices. Mr. Statham next proceeded to read over the petition, the several clauses of which were much applauded. Mr. Statham concluded by sgaiu bestowing warns praise on the petition, which, he said, he did not believe contained any thiug that any person, of any party, could possibly object to. The resolution was s econded by Kr. Hosk (es. Mr. MTERs then said that he had intimated, at the com mencement of the meeting, that it was his wish that no party spirit should be displayed. He trusted those present would coincide with him, and refrain from any expressions that might have a tendency to show the predominance of that feeling.— (Applause.) he resolution was then pet and carried. Mr. STATHAM now announced that the business of the meet ing was concluded. Mr. MY sus, who performed his duties in a very sensible and Fentlemanly manner, then modestly said that he trusted that if any part of their proceedings had appeared out of strict rule, it might he attributed to the youth and inexperience of himself and his colleagues. On the proposition of Mr. WARNER SHAND, the thanks of the meeting were voted to the chairman. The parties present were then invited to advance and sign the petition. and.requested to wa ke the matter known to their friends, that they might do likewise. imperial Varliament. ~ (Concluded from the Liverpool Standard of Friday.) HOUSE OF COMMONS,—WEDNESDAY. GOVERNMENT OF AGIII. The Agra government bill was read a second time. LIMITATION OF POLLS. On the motion of Mr. ELPHINSTONE the house went into a committee on this bill. 'l'he report, with amendments, was brought up and ordered to be printed. The colonial passengers bill was passed through committee. The savings' bank bill was read a second time. The Roman, catholic marriages bill, and the Hull merchants seamen's bill were also forwarded a stage. PRISONERS COUNSEL BILL. In a committee of the whole house on this bill an amend ment was proposed by the attorney-general to one of the clauses which gave the right to counsel, and counsel for the defence, to address the jury, that counsel for the defence should not have the right of rejoinder upon the reply of counsel for the prose cution. The house divided, when there were for the amendment 26 for the original clause 30. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved as an amendment to an other clause-that solicitors and barristers acting professionally should only have a right to appear before justices of the peace in cases where magistrates have a summary jurisdiction. The house then divided, fur 'the amendment 22—against it 22; upon which the chairman (Mr. Pryme) gave the casting vote against the amendment. • The chairman reported progress, and the house resutned. 'l'he other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at a quarter past two o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JUNE 18. The 'Earl of RADNOR postponed the second reading of the university oaths bill to Friday, the 26th instant. The Duke of BEAUFORT presented a petition from a parish in Gloucestershire, against that part of the beer bill that allows beer to be drunk on the premises. The Duke of SUTHERLAND gave notice, that his noble friend (the Duke of Richmond) would move the second reading of the highways bill on Wednesday next. I'he Earl of ROSEBERY presented a petition from a parish in Scotland a m i gainstany grant of public money for church accom odation n that country. - The Bisbovnf EXETER moved for 'a.copy of the queries sent to the Rev. W. B. Stoney by the commissioners for education in Ireland, in October last, and his answers thereto. Viscount DuNcANDION assented "to the motion, which was agreed to. The Marquis of LANSDOW Ns presented a petition from Melk sham, praying for a,measure for the prevention of drain drink ing, and against that pest of the beer bill which allows beer to be drunk on the premises. Also two petitions from various parishes'in Bristol, to ill e" ktna e etiect. Adjourned, HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, JUNE 18.. In consequence of Carnarvon borough and Belfast borough election petitions being fixed for this day, the gallery was not opened till a quarter-past tour, though, as in neither case did the parties appear, the ballots did not come on. Mr. STRCTT reported from the Monmouth election committee that Benjamin Hall, Esq., the sitting member, watrouly elected, and that the petition of Joseph Burtey and others against his return was neither frivuloui nor vexatious. THE IRISH CHURCH—APPROPRIATION CLAUSE. Captain ALSAGER presented a petition from the eastern di vision of Surrey, signed by 2,090 individuals, against the alie nation of the revenues of the church of Ireland to other than ecclesiastical purposes. As this petition was of so important a nature, as it was so perfectly in accordance with his own feel ings, and as it was signed by a number of individuals for whom he had the highest respect, he begged to call the attention of the house to its prayer. It prayed, in the first instance, that the house would pause before it appropriated any portion of the re venues of the church to other than the purposes to which they were applied. It next called the attention of the house to the Rropriety of making a grant for the endowment of churches in Scotland. 'For his part, he must say that he was only surprised at the smallness of the grant asked for in that case, and he was astonished to find it opposed in any quarter in that house. The petitioners expressed their apprehensions as to the projects which had been avowed and brought forward in that house with respect to church establishments. They, in conclusion, prayed the house to pause and well consider before it decided on a question that agitated the minds of all persons throughout the empire. Major BEACCLERK begged, as one of the representatives for the division of Surrey from which this petition came, to say that it was signed by a very respectable body of persons. He was sure, however, that his honourable colleague would not put it upon the house as a petition representing the feelings of the county-of Surrey. It was signed by 2,000 indi viduals, but not 2,000 voters or electors. Seeing that the county of Surrey was one of the largest and most populous in the kingdom, and knowing that this petition had been carried about the county from one end to the other of it, he was only surprised that so few names were attached to it. The hon. gentleman, be was sure, would bear him out in the statement that the petition had been so carried about. In fact, during the last six weeks he (Major Lleauclerk) was constantly receiving . letters from different parts of the county, stating that this petition was lying there for signatures. He had supposed, therefore, after such exertions, that it would have had 8,0(X) or 10,000 names to it. If the challenge should be given to him, he would engage to take the trouble of getting up a petition signed by 10,000 or 20, 000 persons from Surrey of the very opposite description. (Hear.) It was his conviction that the measure brought forward by the noble lord (J. Russell) would do more than anything that ever was done to further the establishment of true religion in this country. He looked upon the petitioners as wrong-headed and mistaken altogether. He did not doubt their sincerity ; far from it; but, if the course recommended by them should be adopted, he was sure that, instead of carrying that good feeling which religion should into every part of the country, it would have directly the opposite effect. Mr. FRESHFII.D said he was one of the constituents of the bon. gentleman who bad just spoken, and he begged to assure him that he was quite mistaken in his estimate of the state of feeling in the county of Surrey on this subject. (Hear.) If that hon. member w. old only persevere in adopting and acting upon the sentiments he had just avowed, and if he would wait patiently till a dissolution of parliament should take place, he would be furnished with a must convincing proof that he did not represent the feelings of the county of Surrey. (Cheers from the opposition, echoed by ironical cheers from the minis terial benches.) CANADA. Mr. ROEBUCK on presenting a petition from the house of as sembly, Lower Canada, contrasted the intentions of the late and present government with regard to Canada. The former had resolved to act ; while the latter only intended to send out com missioners to ascertain that which was already known. The hon. member also complained that audiences were freely given to two unaccredited persons from Canada at the colonial office by Lord Glenelg, while he, (Mr. Roebuck,) the accredited agent of the assembly, was not allowed to appear in that noble lord's presence. A lengthened discussion followed the presentation of this pe tition, in the course of which Sir George Grey, in answer to a question by Sir Robt. Peel, said that the commissioners' names would appear in the next Gazette. A great variety of other petitions were presented, but none of them possessed any par ticular interest. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, ' Mr. A. Jonns-ropi:eiWtedthat it had fallen to his duty to introduce the subject he had then to bring before the house. It was a question of great importance to the people of Scotland, and had excited great attention there for many years past. A committee had been appointed by the house last year to inquire into the subject. The report of the committee was laid on the table last year, and contained a great deal of very important in formation. That information bad been much wanted to enable English and Irish Members to form a correct notion of what it was that the people of Scotland complained of regarding the constitution of the church of that country. Hon. members might think he was going to iutroduce a motion calculated to infringe on the principles of the church of England, but the con stitution of the church of Scotland was altogether different from that of the church of England, and he considered himself as proceeding upon sure grounds when he took his stand upon the constitution of the church of Scotland. From the time of the reformation the people of Scotland enjoyed the privilege of choosing their own ministers ; and in 1649 Scotland succeeded in securing to itself the invaluable principle that the state should not interfere with the constitution of its church, however much it might interfere in countenancing and supporting the esta blishment. He was afraid the subject was nut receiving that attention from the house which the present state of the church of Scotland merited. Mr. POTTER said, he really thought the question too im portant to be discussed iu so thin a house ; therefore, he moved that it be counted. Strangers were ordered to withdraw; and there not being forty members present, the huuse adjourned at a quarter-past seven o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY. VISCOUNT DUNCANNON presented 'the report of the Irish Commissioners of Education; together with the answers of the Rev. W. B. Stoney, to queries put to him by the commission ers on the subject of education in Ireland. Lord BROUGHAM presented a number of petitions from Scot land against any grant of public money for additional church accommodation; fur the repeal of the tax on newspapers; against imprisonment for debt; and from the radical society of Glasgow praying for the removal of the bishops from the House of Lords. The Bishop of EXETER gave notice, that he would on Thurs day next, present a petition from the Rev. W. B. Stoney, com plaining of unfair and partial conduct of the commissioners of ucation in Iretatitl. 'WILLS EXECUTION BILL. Lord BR 0 UGIIA.tet. in rising to move the second-reading-of the will's execution bill, stated briefly the object of the measure, which was to simplify the law, and to give additional security with reference to the devising of property-. By the law as it at present stood, a will devising real property must be signed by three witnesses, while a will devising personal property re quired nu witness Whatever. Now, it was proposed, that in all cases, whether the reference to the devise of real or personal property, there should be two attesting witnesses. It was thought that the protection of the law in that respect should be extend ed to the latter as well as to the former descl iption nt property, in order to prevent undue influence being exerted in eases %%hero personal property was to be devised. At present an individual might dispose of money to the amount of millions by a memsi randum without witnesses. He had only to say, ' I, John Noakes, bequeath so and so;" and it became a legal instru ment. Such a state of thins as this certainly laid parties open to the operation of interested and undue influence. Many in dividuals had expressed a strong desire that this should he al tered, and that the same security which was given to the devise of real property should be extended to personal property. Ac cordingly, the bill provided that, as in the case of a real estate, a personal estate should not pas, unless the instrument were executed in the presence of two witnesses. It was further pro vided, to render the matter clear, that the will should be in wri ting, and signed by the testator, or by some person directed to do so_by him, and that be should acknowledge the signature in the presence of two witnesses. As the law now stood, in devis ing a real estate, though it was necessary that witnesses should sign the instrument, still it was sufficient if the person making th e will signed it in the presence of one witness, who then also signed. The second witness might afterwards sign, in the ab sence of a third : and a third in the absence of the two fat mer. A wholesome addition was by the present bill made to the law in this respect. It required that the witnesses who attested the instrument should be present together when it was executed by the testator. These were the chief points of the bill; but there were several others which would require consideration in com mittee. There was a clause by which every will made by a sin gle man or woman should be revoked on marriage, except a will made in exercise of a power of appointment. That was a part of the bill which required serious consideration. As the law now stood, marriage, and the birth of a child, revoked a will made by the husband when single, and sometimes operated in such a manner as the testator did not contemplate. A friend of his own, while unmarried, made a will. He afterwards mar ried, and died leaving his wife enceinte. Some months after wards she was brought to bed, the will was revoked, and the wholu estate, amounting to 1:50,0(10 or trio,ooo, immediatCy came the property of the widow and child, without auy reter ence to the parties who were mentioned in the revoked instru ment. This therefoie was a part of the bill which required due consideration. _ _ The debate was adjourned op account of no notice having been given of the intention to move the second reading on that day, Lord Brougham saying that, having opened his case, he should not again trouble their lordships on this subject. Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table the report of the select committee on the patent laws' amendment bill. The committee reported that they had proceeded in the discussion of the bill, and proposed certain amendments, which they recommended to their lordships' favourable consideration. He moved that the bill with the amendments be printed, and referred back to the committee who wished to hear evidence on the subjecb. Agreed to. The Earl of RODEN pesented a petition from the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, in, which he stated he was ready to prove on oath that a conspiracy existed in Ireland to overturn the pro testant religion in that country. The noble earl read the pets ' Lion at length, and declared that he believed with the petitioner in the existence of a conspiracy to overturn the protestant church in Ireland—Adjoui tied. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FNIDAY. The speaker took the chair at three o'clock, and the house was occupied for a considerable time in receiving petitions on a great variety of subjects, but generally of no particular in terest or importance. MAYNoOTH COLLEGE. Mr. JACKSON presented a petition from the city of Cork, signed by 700 respectable individuals, praying the house not to make any further grant fur Maynooth college. The petitioners stated that the grant had been originally made on the principle that out of evil good might come; but the result had been the production of unqualified evil. They stated that the priests sent forth from Maynooth were most hostile to the protestant doctrine and most violent in their efforts to propagate their own. They also complained that those priests made themselves con spicuous at elections, and on all other political occasions. They suggested that the cat holies of Ireland might very well support Maynooth College themselves, as they were rich enough to do so. The hon. member said he would reserve the observations he had to make on the subject until the question of the grant was before the house. Mr. O'Dwysa said there scarcely occurred an election in Ireland at which the protestant clergy were not distinguished fur their violence and activity. Possessing, too, as they did, the right of voting out of their benefices, they uniformly sup ported the anti-popular candidates. Mr. SHAW said that no fair comparison could be made be tween the conduct of the protestant clergy exercising their legal right to vote at elections and the violent proceedings of the catholic priests on such occasions. They had only to look at what was going on in Carlow to see what was the conduct of the catholic clergy. (Hear.) Long and violent speeches weie there made bx catholic priests, exciting the population to vio lence and outrage. Priests, too, were seen dragging freeholders to the hustings. There was no such conduct ever exhibited' on the part of the protestant ciergy; . indeed, if there were, it would be most disgraceful. It was infinitely disgraceful to the catholic priests. (Hear, hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL said he was sure the house would be glad to bear that the information upon which the hon. member had `made that statement was totally false. (Hear.) There were catholic clergy certainly present at the Carlow election; he supposed it would not be denied that they had a right to be there, and one catholic priest seconded the nomination of that most respectable protestant candidate, Mr. \rigors.' But there was not a word in the speeches made by them, as reported in the newspapers, that deserved the character given to them by the correspondents of the hon. geutlemau. If they did say or do anything to excite to violence and outrage, there were plenty of persons in Ireland who would be most ready to prosecute a priest for doing so. As men and citizens the catholic clergy had a right to'come forward and take part in that election, par ticularly ss in the county of Carlow at that moment the Orange landlords were carryin„e_on a most fiendish persecution against the peasantry. But as to the protestant clergy, they interfered in every election. (" No, no.") He would ask where was the county in Ireland where they did not? He could name one who was most active in his own county, Kerry. (‘• Name, name.") He meant the Rev. Mahony, of Dromore. (Hear.) Mr. SHAw.—As the hon. and learned gentleman has thought .proper to assert that my information on this subject is false, I would call to the recollection of the house a recent occasion when the hon. and learned gentleman made a similar statement, and I would remind him and the house of the result of the in quiry that was made on that subject. (Hear, hear.) Mr. O'CONNELI..—I would be glad to know to what the hon. member alludes? Mr. SHAW.—To the case of David Mu;phy. (Hear.) BOROUGH OF STAFFORD. Mr. DIVETT moved that the writ for the borough of Stafford be suspended until the 3d of August.—Agreed to. On the motion of Mr. E. J. Stanley, a new wilt was ordered to be issued for Bury St. Edmund's, in the room of Lord C. Fitzroy. THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION BILL. Lord STANLEY gave notice of certain amendments which lie intended to move in the committee on the municipal corpora tions bill. The object of these amendments, as far as we could understand, was to render the periods fur electing town coun cillors less frequent; to facilitate the publicity of the votes ; and to give to town-clerks the tenure of their offices during good behaviour. The noble lord stated that be also intended to move a verbal amendment to the sixth clause, but he anticipated no opposition to it, as its object would simply be to carry into ef fect the intentions of the framers of the bill with respect to the residence of voters. Mr. C. Bc LLER gave notice of his intention to move an amend ment in the committee on the same bill, to provide that the elec tions for town councillors be annual. Mr. GROTE said he should move an amendment empowering a majority of any town council to direct that the votes at elec tions should be taken by ballot. ( Hear.) Mr. GOULBURN said that in the committee on the bill be should move that the voters be required to pay other rates be sides poor-rates • that their names should nut be placed on the list of voters, unless they had paid those rates by a certain day; and thirdly, that a qualification be established for town coun cillors. _ _ . Sir H. INGLIs gave notice that he should move-Ist, Orat the hill should not come into operation in existing incorporated towns, unless it should be accepted by an absolute majority of the burgesses (a laugh); 2d, that the town council be styled the " Town-council of our Lord the King;" 3d, that the members of the town-councils should not be removeable, except at the desire of an absolute maturity of voters; and 4th, that municipal oaths should be taken by the mayors, town-clerks, &e. Mr. D. W. HARVEY would move that no recorder in an in corporated towq should be allowed to practise at the assizes for the county in which that town was situated. IRISH EDUCATION COMMISSION. Lord JOHN ltussELL brought up the first report from the Irish commissioners of public instruction. DRAWBACK ON SOAP. On the motion of Mr. P. THOMSON a resolution was agreed to (in committee) that the drawback on soap should be Con tinued for three years. MISSION OF LORD ELIOT TO SPAIN. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for the instructions given to Lord Eliot and Col. Gurwood on proceeding to their Tate embassy. Lord JOHN RUSSELL requested Mr. buncombe to withdraw his motion on account of the absence of Lord Palmerston, who was then at Windsor to wait on the King. Lord MAHON, the late under foreign secretary, expressed the Duke of Wellington's anxiety that these instructions should be produced. The motion was withdrawn. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Mr. F. RuXToN moved that a committee be appointed to in quire whether the conditions on which the sum of £20,000, 000 agreed to be ranted as compensation for the emancipation of the West India negro slaves had been fulfilled. Sir GEORGE GREY spoke at great length against the motion. He pledged himself thit the government would see the condi tions on which the grunt had been voted faithfully performed. The motion was withdrawn. SUPPLY. The house then resolved itself into a committee of supply . , pro forma; and the house having resumed, the chairman ob tained leave to sit again on Monday next. On the order of the day for going into a committee of WAYS AND MEANS, Mr. C. FERuussow presented a petition from the East India Company, for a reduction of the duties on sugar and other arti cles, the produce and manufacture of the British possessions 10 India. The right hon. gentleman expressed his opinion, that, on the ground of the great additional expense of the govern ment of India, that country had a fair claim to be put on an equal footing with other British colonies. Mr. CRA SS roßt.) presented a similar petition from merchants of London. Mr. EWART presented a petition to the same effect from mer chants of Liverpool. Mr. Brox monAst supported the prayer of the petition. The house then went into committee. SUGAR DUTIES. Mr. Rica would afford the hon. member for Liverpool an op portunity of making his proposition relative to the duties on East and West India sugar, by placing a resolution in the hands of the chairman. On accepting the office which he had now the honour to hold, he thought it one of his first duties to con sider the very important question of the sugar duties. Having collected all the information he could on the subject, he felt desirous of ascertaining in what situation the question had been left hy the right hon.: gentleman who preceded him in office. He understood that an expectation bad gone abroad that there was an intention on the part of the late government to move the sugar duties of this year according to the present scale. lie was naturally anxious to ascertain this fact, for he felt, that in these times of rapid and extensive fluctuation, it was desirable not lightly to abandon any implied or express engagements of a preceding government. He collected that Do positive engage ateut-Iket been made-on-tiris subject - by his predecestior,' entitle learned from the right hon. barauet (Sir IL feel) that he would have felt himself perfectly free to deal with the question if he hatt continued in o ffi ce. But, while he thought it fair to state this fur the information of the hob. member for Liverpool, and was willing to give his hon. friend the advantage of the state ment wittailltelerenee to his promised motion, he felt it his duty also to state, that an impression had been c o nveyed to the West India interest that the present duties would not be disturbed during the present year. He learned from the re presentatives of that interest, that so far back as the month of March last they had reason to believe, from information de rived from official sources, that the duties in question would nut be interfered with in the present year. (Hear, hear.) Ho knew the condition at the present moment of the West India islands that it required the most prudent legislation, and be trusted, hum the spirit which had appeared in the late debate, that no step would be incautiously taken to prejudice the interests of the West Indies. With a knowledge of these facts, he felt that he had no alternative but to propose for the present year, under the peculiar circumstances, the continuance of the existing duties. He felt the full weight of the obsers a liens made by his right hon. friend; he felt the injustice of the unequal duties to India and to England, and any attempt to defend, on principle, discriminating duties was a task he would not undertake. On the contrary, he was anxious to have this opportunity of declaring that, even in the course of the peseta session, be should not be restrained by the peculiar considera tions to which he had adverted, but hoped to give an earliest of what he conceived ought to be done, With respect to coffee, the house was free to deal with that article ; and in the course of the present session he intended to propose to parliament the equalization of the duties on coffee. ( Hear,) He not only, therefore, made a declaration of the principle, but more, he would do, in the present session, something in furtherance of that declaration. In moving tar the renewal of the sugar duties, tie was not giving any kind of sanction to the permanent con tinuance of discriminating duties ; but due regard must be had to the interests of the West Indies. It was open to the house, after granting the duties for the present year, to make during the present session some arrangement on the subject, which, he thought, ought not to be passed over. lie thought both the West India and the East India interests ought to have an op portunity of knowing what was intended to be done. Ile had now explained the grounds of his proceeding, and it was un necessary to go further. If he did not discuss the question on principle, he refrained on account of existing circumstances, and the correspondence which bad taken place Letween the West India and the }Cwt. India interests. Both knew that the sugar duties were not to be altered in the present year. tie should, therefore, move the renewal of the sugar duties. The motion, after a short discussion, was agreed to. The house resumed, the chairman reported progress, the report was agreed to, and the other orders of the day were dis posed of Mr. flumE brought in a bill to regulate the expenses at elec tions in England and Wales, which was read a first and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. In answer to a question by Mr. s . l4Ett., Mr. Hums said that he had prepared a similar measure for Ireland. Mr. STEWA wt. brought in a bill to regulate the importatien of corn into the Isle of Man, which was read a first time and or dered to be read a second time on Monday next. Sir J. GRAHAM gave notice, that in committee on the muni cipal corporation bill, he should move that licenses for ale houses in boroughs should be granted by the recorder; the mayor, and other justices. Lord EBRINGTON obtained leave to bring ; in, and brought in, a bill to repeal the act o f last session on the subject of weights and measures , and to substitute another measure in its stead; 'he bill was ;eadafiiiiine,a;oriorderedto be read a second ime on Monday next. ['he house then, at one o'clock, adjourned. LONDON LAW REPORT. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.--WEDNESDAY CASE OF LIBEL. CREEVEY V. CARR ANDoTHE - Cs.--11iis was an action of libel by the plaintiff, Henry Creevey, a cowkeeper and milkman, against the defendants, Messrs. Carr, Vousley. Anderson, and Brown, the printer, publisher, and two of the proprietors of the Morning Advertiser, for a libel appearing in that paper on Mon day, the 14th April, 1831. The defendants pleaded "not guilty." Mr. Serjeant Bompas, Mr. J. H. Smith, and Mr. Mansell were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hill and Mr. Hoggings for the de fendants. The libel was a police report of a charge of arson at Hatton-garden, and was of considerable length, but was in sub stance as follows :—" Moore, a sergeant of police, deposed that he went to the defendant's premises with a letter on the preced ing Monday night; that after knocking several times he called to the next door neighbour to light him through-the yard. She led him forward, calling out 'Mr. Creevev,' who answered her, and the policeman entered a shed and found it filled with smoke, and called out Fire,' and retreated, but came back, and seeing a piece of sacking and a piece of wood flaring near a cabin stove, and the prisoner lying on his bed, he desired him to get up, telling him the place was on fire. The accused bade him stamp on it, and became agitated, and the policeman put out the fire, and then_delivered the letter and saw he was dressed. Moore meeting Oakley, another sergeant, informed him it was his firm belief the prisoner had wilfully set fire to the sacking. The floor was burnt'about a foot in diameter. "Mr. Laing asked the prisoner how he accounted for the fire? Prisoner.—l set fire to some shavings in the giktte, and when E went to bed they were bnrning. and I suppose some embers fell on the sacking. I have been robbed to a great extent from my cow-houses and warehouses, and slept there to protect my property. " Mr. Lutwyche said the prisoner's shed and 13 houses ad joining were insured for £7OOO. "The directors of several fire-offices said they never knew a stronger case of suspicion against a person accused of attempt ing to fire premises than the present. "Mr. Laing said he should not detain the prisoner." Mr. Serj cant Bompas stated the case, and urged that the re port was not a fair report in several respects. The plaintiff was throughout called "the prisoner," although he voluntarily at tended, and was never in custody. It would appear by the report that he had insured the premises for £7OOO, but he had never insured them at all, and could not have received the slightest recompense if they had been destroyed, and the direc tors of the fire-offices could not have said what they were stated to have said, because not a single director attended. The publication was proved, and a copy of the affidavit filed at the Stamp-office, that Brown was the printer, Anderson the publisher, and Carr and Vousley (both victuallers) were two of the proprietors of the newspaper, the property. in which was divided into 2500 shares, one of which shares was the property of Carr, and the other of Vousley, was put in and read. Wm. Bolitho stated that the report referred to the plaintiff. Mr. Hill, for the defendant, said the paragraph in question was taken from the Weekly Dispatch, that an action was brought in the Common Pleas against the proprietors of that paper, and a verdict recovered, and that it was hard that the defendants should have an action brought against them merely for copying that report, especially as they had left out a passage bearing hard upon the plaintiff, and, he added, that he should prove it was a correct report. George Oakley, inspector of police.—Knew the plaintiff for four years, he was a cowkeeper. 'rook the plaintiff into cus tody at the desire of Mr. Laing, the magistrate. Was present at the examination. The report was a fair report of what took place before the magistrates. Mr. Laing made some observa tion that it was a strongly suspicious case. Cross-examined.—Witness went himself round to the fire office to inquire if the plaintiff was insured, and stated that he bad done so to the magistrate. No fire directors were examined. The plaintiff was first examined on a Wednesday, and under his own recognizance he came up on the following Saturday. Re-examined.—Witness told Mr. Laing that some directors had told him they never knew a case of stronger suspicion. Witness found that the plaintiff was not insured., Thomas Moore, police officer, also stated that it was a fair report. Witness stated that the fluor was burnt, but not that it was burnt a foot in diameter. Daniel Horton.—W as a reporter, and furnished his report to the Dispatch, and not to any other newspaper. Edward Clarkson, sub-editor of the Morning Advertiser.—Cut the _fierier from the Dispatch, and struck out some parts of it. Mr. Sergeant Bompas, in reply, contended that it was an un fair report, and that although the defendants had called Hor ton, they did not dare to ask him a single question on the ac curacy of his report. The Morning Advertiser, with its 2,500 shareholders, all publicans, was the mast dangerous paper to circulate such a report in. The plaintiff could not put his foot I in any public-house in London without meeting with a charge. Mr. Baron Gurney said there must be A verdict for the plain tiff, and the jury were to consider the damages. The defend ants showed that the report was copied from another paper, and that they had left ont an offensive passage, and that would pro bably operate iu mitigation. A very serious duty was imposed upon those who had the mighty engine of the press in their hands. If the publication had been a full, accurate, and fair report, the defendants might be justified ; but the case of re ports at police-offices was somewhat different from other reports, because it was only pi eliminary ; the observations were mostly ex parts on one side, and that adverse to the party, and it there fore behoved the reporter not to report every piece of idle gossip that might be spoken, but to content himself with that only which was material. The defendants had not proved the report to be correct ; they might have examined the reporter, who by the production of h iss own notes might have shown that he had made a fair teport, but they did not examine Horton on the subject. The two policemen said it was a fair and correct account ; but that it certainly was not. There was no director at.the office, which anybody who read the report would suppose there must have been. But another important fact was, that the plaintiff had not insured, whilst the report stated that the sheds and houses adjoining were insured. People did not wil fully set fire to their own premises, except with a 'view to de fraud insurance offices. Another mistake was, that it appeared asif the whole examination took place on one day, butit turned out that it was on t wo days. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Is. Mr. Hill applied, but his lordship refused to certify. COURT OF ADNIRALTY--TUESUAT. THE CANADA.—This was a question of some importance to the shipping interest. It was an appeal on the part of the owners of the Canada from a decision of a magistrate of Nor thumberland, by whom they were adjudged to pay wages to a seaman named Temple, with costs, after the admiralty depute of Leith had pronounced against the claim of the seaman, on the ground that he had been guilty of drunkenness and insubordina tion during the voyage. The Canada was bound on a voyage from Leith to St. Petersburgh and back to a British port. At Cronstadt, the mariner, who was cook, refused to go on shore to prepare victuals for the crew, cooking on board ship . being pro- !Wilted in the Russian ports; but the most serious charge was, that Temple had endeavoured to induce the crew while in . the North Sea, to desist from their labours at the pump, the vessel having got on a rock, until the captain and mate had taken a turn at the pumps. Had the suggestion been acted upon, the vessel and her valuable cargo must have been lost. For these acts of bad conduct the owners refused to pay the sea man's wages. The admiralty depute at Leith decided that the owners had acted rightly, but the magistrate of Northumberland, before whom the mariner subsequently brought on his claim, de cided that Temple was entitled to his wages and costs. The owners from this decision appealed. No appearance was given for the mariner, and the case was heard by direction of the court exparte, The King's Advocate, for the appellant, contended in the first place that the seaman had lost all claim to his wages for his gross misconduct, which almost amounted to mutiny, and that the admiralty depute at Leith, before whom the facts were stated, having decided against the claim, the magistrate of Nor thumberland was not warranted in deciding that the wages must be paid to the mariner. Sir John Nichol' said the case was one ofa peculiar cast, and, having gone over the facts as stated in the affidavits, said it was sufficiently proved that the mariner had not performed the law ful commands of the master, and had been guilty of disobedi ence and bad conduct, nearly approaching to mutiny. The court of admiralty at Leith, a properly constituted authority, had decided against the claim, and, without imputing any mis conduct on the part of the magistrate of Northumberland, in the decision be had come to, it was the duty of him (Sir .L Nicholl) to prunouce against the award, and dismiss the captain from the suit. - THE BRITISH QUEEN.—This was an appeal from tite,decision magistrates of Kingston-upon-Hull in a suit commenced by two mariners for full wages while the British Queen, in Which they were engaged as carpenters, wintered at Memel. It is the custom of vessels sailing to the northern ports to make the crews sign an agreement, that, if the ship is detained through the winter by the ice, the officers and men should re ceive only half wages. The two seamen in this case were hired to go to Memel, but objected to the articles. The vessel was detained at Memel from November last till the April following, but on the return home the owners refused to pay full wages. I The magistrates of Kingston.up o n-Hull d ec id e d n favour of the mariners, and from this decision they appealed. Dr. Burnaby appeared for the owners, and said there could be no doubt but that, as the vessel was detained by the ice, the :men were only entitled to half wages. He trusted the court would not oppose the decision. Sir J. Nicholl regretted that the decisions of the local autho rities were not more frequently taken, as, unless a strong case was made out, he would not reverse the sentence appealed from. This voyage had occupied a considerable period, and the poor mariners were not to be kept abroad blowing their fingers and kicking their heels upon half-pay unless it was clearly shown that by the severity of the weather the vessel could not return home. This voyage had occupied six months and twelve days, and it was not satisfactorily proved to the court that the ice pre vented her from returning home before the winter set in, which would have enabled the seamen to obtain other employment. The case of the Houghton'had been referred to, but there the vessel had been overtaken by the ice after due diligence had been used to obtain a cargo before winter set in. Here nothing of the kind was proved, and it was not clear to the court that it might not Le the interests of owners to allow their ships to win ter abroad, so as to take advantage of the first of the spring, and arrive home when the markets were exhausted, thus reap ing considerable advantage, the seamen receiving only half pay. lie considered the award just and reasonable, and he, therefore, pronounced against the appeal, and dismissed the mariners from further proceedings. On Tuesday last Edward James, Esq., M.A., of Brazenose Cotlege, Oxford, was called to the degree of barrister-at-law by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. " Nobility," as Mr. Burke observes, "is a graceful orna ment to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. °mires Boni nohilitati semper favemus was the saying of a wise and good man. It is indeed one sign of a liberal mind to incline to it with some sort of partial propensity." GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING IN LONDON On Saturday a meeting was held in the great room of Exeter Hall, for the purpose -- " of proving to protestants of all denomi nationi, by authentic documents, the real tenets of the church of Rome, 'as now held by the Roman bishops and priests of Ireland." Lord Kenyon in the chair: - The meeting was attended by the Earl of Roden, Lord Man deville, Lord Bandon, and a great number of the protestant members of parliament from Ireland. The Rev. Mr. M‘Gee, in opening the business of the day, adverted to the statement which had - been circulated respecting the tenets of the Roman catholic religion. The rev. gentleman then referred to " Den's System of Theology," the book from which his statement of the tenets of the Roman catholic religion would be taken, a book recognised by the catholic bishops as a standard of authority revealing their peculiar opinions. The book was published in 180, and up to the present moment was received by the entire Irish catholi6 bishops and priests as the authoritative standard of their theology. He had written to Mr. O'Connell, requesting him to attend that meeting to im pugn, if he could, its authenticity. The rev. gentleman then read a resolution to the effect that the meeting considered it had been satisfactorily proved that the book in question was the re ceived standard of the Roman catholic& _ _ Before the resolution was put, the chairman asked if Mr. O'Connell was present ? No answer being given, an Irish Roman catholic gentleman rose to address the meeting. The chairman decided that he could not be heard, as it would be contrary to the regulations of the'meeting. A special exception had been made iu - favour of Mr. O'Connell, but he was not in attendance. The resolution was then put and carried. The Rev. Mr. M‘Gree then observed that the book asserted the most unscriptural and mischievous doctrines. Among the principles which it affirms are :—First—That Protestants are heretics. Secondly—That by baptism all protestants come un der the church of Rome. Thirdly—That no toleration is to be granted to prutestants, but that the rites of their religion ought to be extinguished. Fourthly—That protestants are to be com pelled to return to the church of Rome by corporal punishments. Fifthly—That these corporal punishments are to he—confisca tion of property—imprisonment—exile—and death ! The rev. gentleman then requested Mr. Tottenham to read extracts from Dens' work, in older to prove that these charges were established against the church of Rome. Mr. Tottenham immediately proceeded to read passages from the book. With regard to the first position, "that pro - testants are heretics," it contained the following passages in the form of question and answer : How many kinds of infidelity are there ? Answer :—ln the new dispensation' there are three ; viz., paganism, Judaism, and heresy; to one of these all other kinds of infidelity may be reduced. What is paggan►sm ? Answer is the infidelity of those who neither profess Christ in figure, nor in the manifestation of the truth, or who do not acknowledge that any Messiah or Christ has come, nor expect that he will come,—such are idolaters, atheists, deists, mahometans, &c. &c. What is Judaism? Answer:—lt is the unbelief of those who confess the Mes siah or Christ, in a figure only, or who deny that Christ has come, but expect that he will yet appear. What is heresy? Answer:—lt is the unbelief of those who profess indeed that Christ has come, but who reject his doctrine as to any part as proposed by the church; such are . Lutherans, Calvanists, &c. What kind of infidelity is the greatest sin ? Answer:—lf the infidelity is considered objectively, or in re ference to the subject matter of it, then paganism is worse than judaism, and judaism worse than heresy, because the pagan errs in more particulars than the Jew, and the Jew in more than the heretic. But if considered subjectively, or in reference to the pertinacity of the will and the resistance to the faith, then heresy is the worst, and judaism generally worse than pa ganism, because heretics are wont to have a greater knowledge of the truth of the faith than Jews, and Jews than pagans, and so gene Vally heresy is the greater crime. Are heretics then considered to have faith? Answer:—The question is not about a heretic merely in matter, for it is certain that such a one does not lose faith; but about a formal heretic, or one who pertinaciously disbelieves one article of faith which he hasinown to be sufficiently pro posed by the church. To this question theologians, with St. Thomas, commonly answer, that whosoever with pertinacity disbelieves one article of faith, has neither an act of faith, nor a habit of faith about the other articles. This is thus proved : a habit of faith cannot remain in him, because this is lost by the sin of heresy, which is directly opposed to faith, as the council of Trent teaches, where it says, that faith is lost by in fidelity ; but heresy is infidelity, therefore faith is lost by it. Nor can the act of faith be given in such a person, because be rejects'the formal object of faith, without which an act of faith cannot be exercised. On the second point, namely, "that by baptism protestants come under the domination of the church of Rome," Father Dens says : " Although heretics are without the church, nevertheless they remain by reason of baptism subject to the church, whence she justly seizes them as deserters from the camp of the church, and so they are under the obligation of returning; but the apostle is treating of those who have never entered the church, or who have not been baptised." 'rhe chapter on " infidels and heretics subject to the law" contains the following passages :—" Heretics, schismatics, apos tates, and all sander persons, who have been baptized, are bound by the laws of the church which concern them, nor are they more released from her laws than subjects rebelling against their lawful prince," Objection Ist.—Heretics are not in the church, therefore they are not subject to the church. "We answer by distinguishing the antecedent. If it means that heretics are not in the church, as far as relates to the union of charity and the communion of saints, we grant it; but if it means that they are not in the church as to SUBJECTION, WE DENY IT, for they are made by baptism subject to the church, and they remain PERSONALLY SUBJECT TO THE CHURCH where sover they may be." Objection 2d.-,The church seems to relax her laws in respect of heretics, because by , urging the observance of the laws she cannot expect - any good effect. "We answer by denying the antecedent, that is, by denying that the church seems to relax her laws in respect of heretics. The contrary appears from the universal mind of the church; but as to their sins, the church merely holds herself permis sively for higher reasons, lest perhaps she might seem with an open scandal of the faithful to favour heresy, while heretics should derive advantage from the pertinacity and be freed from. the burden of those laws to which the faithful a re sut s isorsa hence the same reason of relaxing her discipline would hold for all bad christians." On the third point, "that of the non-toleration of protestants," the following appears in the work of Dens "Is it lauful to tolerate the rites of unbelievers? "This is answered, first,—The rites of the Jews, although they sin in exercising them, may be tolerated with a certain de gree of moderation, because from thence great good accrues to the church, namely, that we hat e a testimony to our faith from our enemies, since by their rites those things which we believe are represented to us as in a figure. "It is said, 'with a certain degree of moderation,' because if there be any danger that the Jews by their rites prove a scandal to christi rns, the church can and ought to moderate, or even to prevent it, as may be expedient. Hence it has been decreed in the sth Book of becretals, Gth chap. 3 and 7, that it may not be lawful for the Jews to have many synagogues in one state, nor to build new ones in many places. "We answer secondly,—The rites of the other unbelievers, namely, of pagans and heretics, are not in themselves to be tolerated, because they are SO BAD THAT No TRUTH Olt UTILITY CAN FROM THENCE BE DERIVED TO THE GOOD OF THE CHURCH. "Except, however, that some greater evils might accrue from some other source, or some greater good be prevented. "The cause cf unbelievers is not doubtful to the judges of the church as that of the apostles was to the Jews, but it is clear that it is certainly false and condemned; whence it is not to be tried or approved, but extirpated, unless there may be some prudential reasons which may induce us to tolerate it." On the fourth position, viz., " that the protestants are to be compelled to returfi to the church of Rome," the same authority has the following:— " Are unbelievers to be eompelkd to join themselves to the bosom of the faithfislt "1. We answer first—Unbelievers who have never been bap tized cannot be compelled to receive the faith in the first place, not by the church, because she has no jurisdiction over the un baptized, according to the Ist Corinthians, chap 5, ver. 12 : " 'What have I to do to judge them that are without ?" nor even by secular, although their superior, because they have only a political power over them, which merely respects the public peace and tranquillity. " The same also is proved by the example of Christ, the doc trine and practice of the church, and the form prescribed to the apostles in preaching. Matt. x. "If, with St. Augustine, you understand the words of com pulsion, properly so called, then they are understood of here tics and schismatics who have at some time made profession of faith, and who can, properly speaking, be compelled. " We answer 2dly to the question, that unbelievers who have been baptized, as heretics and apostates generally, and also baptized schismatics, can be compelled by corporal punish menus to return to the catholic faith and the unity of the church. " The reason is, that they by baptism are made subjects of the church, and therefore the church has jurisdiction over them, and the power of compelling them -by ordinary means, to obe dience, and to fulfil the obligations contracted in their baptism. "This also obtains in the case of those who have been bap tized in their infancy, or who, compelled by fear of any neces sity, have received baptism ; as the Council of Trent teaches, Session 7, Canon 14; and the 4th Council of Toledo, Canon 55. "You 'may object—No one believes against his will, but the will cannot be compelled, therefore no one can be compelled to the faith. " We answer by denying the consequent.. _forhe is nat_eueas.„ - Oiled to believe-against his will, but that front being unwilling, he should be made willing. " You will urge again —N• one can be compelled to baptism, therefore no one to the faith. " We answer with St. Thomas on this—' As to vow is the part of a willing mind, but to pay what is vowed is of necessity, so to receive the faith is the part of the will, but to hold it when received is of necessity, and therefore heretics can be compel led to hold the faith.' " Meantime it is not always expedient that the church should use this right, as will appear from what shall be said hereafter. —Dens, Vol. H., pp. 73-81." On the last point, namely, " that protestants are to be vi sited with confiscation of property, imprisonment, exile, and death," Father Dens' work speaks as follows : "Their temporal goods are for this very cause itself confisca ted; bat before the ,execution of the act, the sentence declara tory of their crime ought to proceed from the ecclsiastical judge, because the cognizance of heresy lies in the ecclesiasti cal tribunal. I" Finally, they are also justly afflicted with other, corporal punishments, as with exile, imprisonment, &c. " Are heretics justly punished with death? " St. Thomas answers 22 quest. 11. art. 3. in carp. —yes; be cause forgers of money, or other disturbers of the state, are justly punished with death, therefore,• also, heretics, who are forgeri of the faith, and, as experien ce testi fies, grievously dis turb the state. "This is confirmed, because God, in the Old Testament, or • dered the false prophets to be slain ; and in Deut., chap 17, v 12, it is decree d th it if any one will act proudly, and not obey the commands of the priest, let him be put to death. See also the 18th chapter. "The same is proved from the condemnation of the 14th Arti cle of John Huss, in the Council of Constance." The reading of these extracts excited an interest which it is impossible to describe. The Rev. Mr. M'Gee then addressed the meeting. He said, that no one could pretend ignorance with respect to the volcanic state in which Ireland was placed. A demon spirit walked abroad in Ireland—he had shown what the doctrines of the Ro man catholic hierarchy were; and was it to be wondered at, when such doctrines were inculcated among the people by the priests, that the misguid e d peasantry should be turbulent and lawless, and entertain en unconquerable hatred against all whom.. they regarded a s heretics? R e f err i ng to the " Death's bead and cross bones"—that symbol Of terror and assassination resorted to by the member for Dublin, Mr. M'Gee .aid,—before he came to the meeting a friend of his, a clergyman, residing in the South of--Ireland, sent him the document which be held in his hand. This document contained a representation of that dreadful symbol, which had been hung over the door . of a vic tim of assassination, and at the bottom of it were written these words—" These he is." [Her e th e rev. gentleman displayed the document to which he alluded, and the very sight of it. pro duced a manifest thrill of horror throughout the meeting : it re presented a skeleton on a coffin, with the dagger of an assassin" piercing the breast.] A fac-simile of this print had been pub' lished in a Kilkenny newspaper so long ago as 1832; and, therefore, if he did not know what was intended by it, the hon. member for Dublin bad shown a marvellous sympathy in the feelings of those by whom such intimations of destruction were given; or, if he did, for what other use could he have employed this dreadful warning but that of intimidation ? (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman then went on to show that, according to the doe- • trines of the .church of Rome, the murder of heretics was justi fiable • and this would appear from a note appended to an edi tion of the Roman catholic bible published in Dublin by a bookseller named Coyne. It was asserted that this edition was published under the authority of Dr. Troyralthough he subse quently denied the fact; but, however that might be, there could be no doubt that such a doctrine was held hy all Roman catholics, inasmuch as it was one of the tenets of the Romish religion, that the bishops were to purge the dioceses entrusted to their care of heretics, and that they were not bound to inter fere with the tender mercies of the inquisition! (Hear, hear.) He would now refer to that protest, or rather pastoral address, of the Irish catholic bishops to the priesthood of Ireland on this subject, on which both Mr. Sheil and Mr. O'Connell relied. That address contained fourteen heads; under the eleventh the following oath was given, viz. :—" I not only do not believe, but I declare on my oath that I detest and abhor, as unchristian and impious, the belief that it is lawful to murder or destroy any person or persons whom I may consider heretics." Here, then, the Roman catholic clergy were ready on oath to disavow this doctrine ; but, if they were sincere in this, why did they cause to be re-published and distributed throughout the whole of Ire land, " Dens's System of Theology," in which that doctrine was openly and broadly maintained? (Cheers.) The adop tion of the one involved the falsehood of the other, and either they were guilty of the grossest perjury, or no such doctrine ex isted in their church. He, however, had shown that it did, upon evidence that no man could doubt ; and he, therefore, put it to the meeting whether the protestant clergy of Ireland could, in the words of Mr. O'Connell, " assist the Roman ,catholic priests in educating the people of that country ?" At a minister of the religion of peace he must say that they could not; as a minister of God he must say that if they did, they would be guilty of the foulest apostacy from ail principle; and rather than that such a state of things should come to 'pass, he would prefer see ing the temporalities of the church of Ireland perish, the annihil ation of protestant principles, and the ministers of that church martyrs in the cause of their religion. (Loud cheering.) The Rev. Dr. Cooke, a presbyterian minister, addressed the meeting at some length. He regretted that some of the beads of the Roman catholic church were not present to vindicate their religion from the imputations which had been east upon its The only war in which they were engaged was war against the most pernicious principles. He had been accused of proclaim ing a ukarriage on a platform in Belfast, between the different . branches of the protestant churehesof Ireland, and ofa4rificitig the opinions or his own' presbyterian church. What he did proclaim was a threefold marriage----a marriageof concurrence in things in which they agree in mutual 'forbearance, in things wherein they differ, and in cordial co-operation against the common enemy. (Dr. Cooke was frequently interrupted in the course of his speech by yells and exclamations from this farther end of the room.) Ile challenged the Roman catholic prelates or priests to meet him at any time they pleased,-to a public disputation—in Dublin, if they preferred it—in a fortnight. Ihe gentleman who first interrupted the proceedings said he would accept it. Dr. Cooke said, in conclusion, let the Roman catholics of Ireland either substantiate the statements and tenets of Domino. Dens, or become protestants at once. He and his friends sought nothing more than that the catholics should abjure error,. and embrace the truth. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan said that the interruptions which had that day been given to the proceedings had been to him the source of scene comfort, because it showed what the Roman catholics felt at the exposure of the errors of their pesti lential church. He felt pained, on the other hand, at those'in terruptions, because it showed that the prelates of the .catholic church had not accepted the challenge which had been given to them to defend their church; they were afraid to meet the friends of the protestants on that platform (loud cheers,) and left it to those laymen, of their community to make up by want of cour tesy their deficiency in argument. (Loud cheers.) Among other doctrines contained in Dens' Theology was that of the infallibility of the pope, and cei taint) , that doctrine should have rendered the people of. England cautious how privileges were conferred on the Roman catholics. But the effects of the.:doc trines laid down in Dens were dreadfully visible in all parti"of Ireland. He should now pass on to the subject of tithes, and he, would ask when first resistance to tithes was made ? Why, not until after the emancipation bill had passed. Then it was that the rights of the protestant clergy were, for the fi st time, ques tioned; and the band which the dark confessional box had in this might be - inferred, although it could not be ascertained. The rev. gentleman gave a glowing picture of the horrors which attended the efforts that were made, from the year IS3O down to the present time, to collect tithes, and of the blood which hail been shed in the course of those attempts. Murders were perpe trated to an incredible extent without offended justice being ap peasedby the sacrifice of the deluded criminals; and when he stat ed that, in one county alone, no less than 187 persons had been murdered, although one victim only was brought to the scaffold to atone for his crime, the meeting would see the full extent of the peril in which the protestant people of Ireland were placed. This, however, was the result of the doctrine which was taught by the Roman Catholic religion on the subject of the duty of judges and juries; for by that doctrine it was maintained, that those who shed the blood of catholic men should themselves suffer death. If any one doubted that such a doctrine as this was entertained by Roman Catholics, he would refer him to the Roman Catholic-bible, in which (in a note to the 24th verse of the 27th chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew) he would find it laid down in so many words. It should not be forgotten that Roman Catholics were pledged by their church to a foreign s•ate ; aid this brought him to the question of perjury, which - those who had obtained privileges in the constitution had, in his view of the matter, committed. He would not say that they had committed moral perjury, because that was a matter re ferable to the conscience ; but he would say that those persons to whom he alluded had been guilty of actual perjury, and with actual perjury he boldly charged them. (Cheers.) By the oath taken by those representatives of the people who were Ho me. Catholics. they strictly uledsed themselves to maintain the established church'; but how hal they kept that oath? Why, as 'their religion inculcated, by seizing on the first opportunity that presented itself of doing that which it bound them not to do ; but there was no evasion, or any act of baseness and treachery which was not suggested by the tenets of the church of Rome. (Cheers.) It had, he knew, been attempted to show that this charge of perjury was utterly groundless; but had any one ar gumkt been advanced which did not rather fix it more heavily upon them ? He was satisfied that there had not, and that the only means they had of excusing themselves was, by taking shelter under the evasions with which their religion so abun dantly supplied them. (Cheers.) Mr. O'Sullivan concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the tenes of the church of Rome are no longer a dead let ter, but that their baneful operation in Ireland is visible in the ' sedition and disorganisation which prevails in that country. ' The resolution was seconded by the Rev. Mr. 111• Gee, and carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was then given to the deputation from Ire-. ' law!, after which the meeting separated, having lasted from eleven till five. DEATH OF THE EARL OF COURTOWN. We regret to announce the death of the Earl of CourtowN K.P., which took place on the 15th, at Cloisters, Windsor Cas tle, the residence of his brother, the lion. and Rev. R. B. Stopford. The late earl was in his 70th year, having been born August 15, 1765, exactly six days before his present majestl- He succeeded to the title in 1 . 810, having married, in 17911, Lady Mary Scott, eldest daughter of the third Duke of Buc cleugh. By this countess, who died in 18'23. he has issue his shiest son, Viscount Stopford, (the family name,) now Earl of - Courtown, who represented for some time his native county Or Wexford in the imperial parliament. The present earl is in his forty-second year, and married a daughter of the fourth Duke of Buccicugh, Lady Charlotte Albinia Montague 'Scott. Her ladyship died in 1828, leaving the present ear), who is still a widower, three sons living, the eldest of whom, James George Henry, now Lord Stopford, was born in April; 1823. The late Earl has left several other children—Edward , late of the Scotch Fusileer Guards; Henry, Archdeacon of Leighlin ; Montague, a'captain in the navy ;,and three tiau4h -. ters—Ladies Mary, Elizabeth, and Jane, one of whom is married to Mr. Abel Ram, of Gorey, county of Wexford. The late Earl, who sat in the Imperial Parliament as Baron Saltersford. held office under the last two tory administratioi s as captain of the Yeoman Guard; and by his demise there is a vacancy in the number of Knights of St. Patrick. RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yesterday the ten o'clock first-class train from Manchester was delayed upwards of an hour in consequence of the Fire Fly engine breaking an axletree. Another engine was procured as speedily as possible, and the train taken forward to Liverpool. DEATH BY Dirowitsri.--On Sunday morning last, a person named Bolton, a brazier, residing in Wigan, was found drowned in the canal near the town. On the inquest, which was held' the following day, it came out that the deceased had gone to Hindley, where he received an account, and afterwards went to one or two public houses, and had drank freely. About two o'clock in the morning .he was seen by two boys on the canal banks, to whom be. said he _had bean intaxicated the and had fallen asleep ou the road. He then inquired the nearest way to Wigan, and was advised to take the turn pike road. This, however, he declined doing, but proceeded along the canal banks, and about two hours after he was tonna , standing erect in the canal, quite dead. The jury returned a verdict of Found Drowned. The deceased has left a pregnant widow and nine young children unprovided for. Tue. ANCESTOR OF EARL MULGRAVE.—DIVINC. The first diving bell was nothing but a very large kettle, sus pended by ropes, with the mouth downwards, and planks to sit on fixed in the middle of its concavity. Two Greeks at 'foledh , in 1588, made an experiment with it before the Emperor Charles the Fifth, when they descended in it with a lighted candle, to tS considerable depth. In 1683, William Phipps. the son of a' blacksmith, formed a project fur unloading a rich Spanish sh i p sunk on the coast of Hispaniola. Charles 11. gave him a ship with everything necessary for his undertaking ,• but being up , successful, Phipps returned in treat poverty. He then endea voured to' procure another vessel, but failing, he got a subscrip tion, to which the Duke of Albemarle contributed. In 1687, Phipps set sail in a ship of 200 tons, having previously engage d to divide the profits according to the twenty shares. of which the subscription consisted. At first all his labours proved fruitleas, hut at length, when he seemed almost to despair, he was fortu nate enough to bring up so much treasure, that he returned to England with £200,000 sterling. Of this sum he got E'2 o , oo °: and the Duke £90,000. Phipps was knighted by the ki n g , and. laid the foundation of the fortunes of the present house of Mul grave. CHINESE APVERTISMENT.—The following is a specimen of the manuscript bills, or advertisements, which it is the custom. in China to stick up against the walls, when children have been stolen, apprentices have run away, &c.:—" Chaugh-Chaoulia, who issues this thanksgiving advertisement, lives outside the south gate, in Great Tranquillity Lane, where he has opened an insense-smoking-mosquito shop. On the evening of the 12th inst. two of his fellow-workmen in the shop. Neahung and Atik, eins ployed a stupilving drug, which, by its fumes, sunk all the part ners in a deep sleep, during which they robbed the shop of all the money, clothes, -&c., which they could carry .away. Next morning, when the partners awoke, no trace was to be fotmnd of these two men. If any good people know where - they are, and will give information. a thanks-offering in flowery red paper of four dollars will be presented. Decidedly I will not eat my words. This advertisement is true. Neahung is about twenty years of age, short stature, has a White face, and no beaosi. Atik, whose surname is not remembered, is upwards of twenty years of age, is tall, and no heard. Reign of Taotikwaug, 9th' year; 9th moon. 3d day.'' THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. JUN ‘.Z3, 1835..