The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DIMAS. JAN. 29.
The manifesto of the Catholic Defence Association,
prepared by the new English Secretary, Mr. Wilber-
force, and which will be promulgated at the meeting
of that body to-day, was published last evening.
The document refers to the attention which the com-
mittee of the association has directed to the forma-
tion of a parliamentary party, and says:
The ultimate objects of the parliamentary party described
in the resolution must of course be the establishment of per-
fect religions equality—by the repeal of the Ecclesiastical
Titles Act (by which the catholic religion has been do priced
of all legal existence in these islands), and of all other laws
which place catholics upon a footing less favourable than
their fellow-subjects—by the entire abolition of the Irish
ecclesiastical establishment—by a reform which shall insure
fairness and justice to eatbolice in the administration of the
public education grants, of the army and navy, of the
union workhouses, and of every other branch of the public
service; in all which the influence of government is now
' systematically, though unostentatiounly, directed against
our faith, and in favour of the attempts of proselytisers.
But without forgetting there ulterior objects, the associa-
tion fuel bound to declare their deliberate conviction, that
its first and immediate object must be the removal from
office of the present administration, of Which the great
meeting of August unanimously resolved, "That the pre-
sent ministers have betrayed the cause of civil and religious
freedom, and have forfeited the confidence of the catholic*
of the United Kingdom."
Or., of the other objects of the association is thus
referred to :
But the monster grievance which the association desire to
keep continually under the eyes of their fellow-subjects is
the Irish Eeelesiaatical establishment; to which they feel
that no exaggerated language, no exciting appeals to the
common a flee and justice of mankind, can tie so dam aging
as a full, clear, and dispassionate statement of facts. They
have already been assisting aseiktleman admirably qualified
fur the work, in the task of collecting information as to the 1
revenues and official duties of the dignitario and incum-
bents of this organised iniquity. They will take care that
the subject is never allowed to sleep—that all men shall
be forced continually to ask themselves whether it is just,
honourable, or expedient—whether it tends to the dignity
or sa.ety of the empire, to maintain an enormously rich
protestant establishment upon the labours of a starving
catholic population. With this view they purpose to conti-
nually publish in the newspapers, an books, at public meet-
ings, and in every other manner, the most flagrant enormi-
ties—in other words, the principal facts involved in the
present state of the revenues and duties of the Irish Eerie-
eiaatieal Establishment.

The followinTi;the latest report of the state of
Mr. Chambre
Wednesday Morning.—Mr. Chambre has had a very good
night. The delirium is much le.'. The inflammation of
the eye ►nd neighbouring etruoture is so much dimini►hed
that we have been able to trace the course of the pellet into
the eye, and have reason to hope that it has not proceeded
Pother. We are thus enabled to report rather more fa-
vourably, thou Ali his state is still very precarious.
JAMES ST/l0:40, M.D.
E. (). BILUNIIik, M.D.
The Fretting 3fail says :
Mr. Wandestord, whose name has been associated in the
minds of our whole community for a long series of years
with the ideas of justice and benevolence, has been lately
marked out as en object of denunciation, disseminated
through the columns of a congenial press. There was no
reason t doubt the quarter from which the slander came,
nor the industrious efforts which had been made to poison
the minds of the people ; but the evidence of Mr. Wandes-
ford's care and attention to the interests of his tenantry
were of too substantial and visible a nature to be whispered
away by the breath of malevolence; and on Saturday last
the whole body of them, without any distinction of class or
creed, assembled in his own town of Castlecomer, and
agreed, with unanimous acclamation, to record their indig-
nant sense of the outrage. The address to Mr. Wander-
ford, prepared by a committee of protestant and Doman
catholic tenants, was forthwith signed by persons of all ranks
holding lands or houses under hint, and this in defiance of
priestly denunciations and tenant-league intimidation.