The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dents, OCT. 18.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, with the
Countess of Clarendon, family and suite, will return
to Dublin this evening, and take up their residence
atjthe Viceregal Lodge.
A painful occurrence, with which the names of
some of our high legal functionaries arc accidently
mixed up, occurred a few days since in the vicinity
of Cavan. The circumstance, which resulted in the
death of a gamekeeper, or bailiff, named Charles j
Murtagh, is thus related by the correspondent of a
Dublin paper:
Mr. George Henry Hughes, her Majesty's Solicitor for
Ireland, has lately become possessed of some property,
called Cornadrung, near the village of Seraby, situate I
ten miles south-west of Cavan, upon which there is a I
shooting lodge, to which he invited the Right lion.
James Henry Monahan, Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, Mr. Hughes, a Dublin solicitor; Mr. Gibbon,
barrister, his brother, and brother-in-law, to enjoy the
rural sports of the season; and, on Tuesday, 14th inst.,
the Chief-Justice and Solicitor-General proceeded to amuse
themselves in coursing with greyhounds, whilst Mr.GiSbort
preferred the amusement of snipe-shooting ; and accordingly I
proceeded for that purpose to a neighbouring currugh, the
property
.of a Mr. Ilutton, who resides in Surrey, in Eng-
and, which he lately purchased of a Mr. liming, in the In-
cumbered Estates Court ; brit he, imagining that it belonged
to a Mr. Webb, a friend of his, over whose property he had
liberty to shoot, refused to leave the ground when ordered
in a rude and peremptory manner, so to do by the deceased,
who thereupon, without further parley or ceremony, rushed
at and seized hold of Mr. G.'s gun, to force it from him. A
tussle then ensued, and both Ern to the ground, when the
piece, which was upon full cock, wont off, and took effect in
the left knee of deceased,shattering it in a dreadful manner,
mid part of the charge also tore the trousers of Mr. G., but
without doing much bodily injury. A number of the peasantry
were attracted o the scene by the altercation and report of the
fleck& •' one of whom finding that the deceased had been
wounded, tripped up Mr. 0. and threw him into a bog-
hole, when he offered 1001. to them to allow him to escape.
He was then pulled up out of it, but was immediately after
arrested by one of the sons of deceased and detained in cus-
tody for some time, but was ultimately rescued and set at
liberty by a number of the tenants of the Solicitor-General
I (his brother-in-law), who shortly afterwards arrived nt the
scene of action. The Chief Justice and Solicitor-General
did not hear of the transaction until some tima after it had
occurred, they being at some distance from the seem at the
time, a bill intereep:ing their view of the party. The de
ceased, notwithstanding that a medical gentleman was
promptly in attendance, languished until the following day
(15th), when ho diet. Verdict—" Accidental death.'
The transaction has created a great sensation in the neigh-
bourhood.

The first public meeting of the Catholic Defence
Association was held yesterday, in the hall of the
Mechanics Institute, for the purpose of " adopting
the rules prepared by the sub-committee for the
guidance of the new organisation. promulgating ' the
objects' of the association, and defining the mean.; by
which it is intended to effect the great end of the
Catholic Confederation." In the requisition it was
stated that the meeting would be held at 12 o'clock,
but the attendance was so exceedingly thin at that
hour, as to necessitate a short postponement of' the
proceedings. At a quarter to 1 o'clock, however,
there being no likelihood of a larger attendance, the
business of the meeting was proceeded with, although
nut more than 100 persons were present, including
some twenty ladies, who occupied a limited portion
of the gallery. None of the bishops of the Roman
catholic church were in attendance at the comnwnee-
meat of the meeting, and the platform was then, for
the most part, filled with members of the Roman
catholic laity. The thinnessof the meeting has been ac-
counted for 'by the circumstance that the advertisement
convening it announced that none but members of
the association were to be admitted, whilst compara-
tively but very few persons resident in Dublin had
vet secured for themselves that distinction, by much
the larger portion of those who had entitled them-
selves to be called members, by paving in their sub-
scriptions, being scattered over liigland and the
provinces. The demand for a shilling at the door to
obtain admission to the cheapest part of the room
restrained, no doubt, the curiosity of many who
might have been led to visit the meeting without ,
any wish for the honour of membership. Judging, I
therefore, from the attendance the attliir might be
pronounced a failure. Among those on the platform,
at the early part of the proceedings, were Serjcant
Shce, John Reynolds, M.P., Sir Simon Bradstreet,
J. M. Cantwell, Esq., Rev. N. Walsh, P.P., Rev.
Mr. Marshall, It. Kelly, Esq., Wm. Keogh, Esq.,
M.l'., J. Sadleir, M.P., 'l'. Reynolds, city marshal,
Itev. 1)r. Spina, Frederick Lucas, Esq. (Tlibiet), lion.
Thomas Preston, &e. At a quarter to one o'clock
the chair was taken by Viscount Gormanston
Mr. Reynolds, M.P., said it became his duty, as one of
the honorary secretaries, to state that that was a meeting of
members and associate members of the Catholic Defence
Association, and that it dal: red in its constitution from the
meeting at which the Primate presided in the Rotund() in
the month of August last, inasmuch as the latter was an
' aggregate meeting of the catholics of Ireland—indeed he
might say of the United Kingdom; whereas the present
was a meeting of these who had qualified themselves by the
payment of any sum from 1/. upwards, to be members of
the Catholic Defence Association, and it might almost be
called the second meeting of that association. He begged to
state that since the aggregate meeting the committee ap-
pointed by it had met repeatedly in order to make various
arrangements preliminary to the holding of the percent
meeting; that at all those meetings of the committee the
prelates attended, and that an address to the Catholics of
the United Kingdom, which would be read, was adopted
after a full revision ; and that on tee previous day there was
a large meeting of the committee, at which the Primate
presided, and the rules and objects of the association
were finally determined ou. At that meeting also, Messrs.
Sadleir, Keogh, and himself, were requested to continue to
act as secretaries to the association, and they were deter-
mined until the meeting of parliament to give the utmost
attention to forwarding its objects.
Mr. Keogh then read an " Address to the catholics of the
United Kingdom," and also a statement of the " objects
and rules of the Catholic Deference Association," copies
of which had already been circulated among the requisi-
tionists of the aggregate meeting, some alterations, though
for the gem cal public not very material ones, having, how-
ever, been nude in these documents yesterday. The follow-
ing was added to the list of " objects" of the associa-
tion :—" It will not desist from its labours until it has suc-
ceeded in relieving the catholic people of Ireland from the
intolerable burden of sustaining an ecclesiastical establish-
ment from which they nut only derived no benefit, but the
funds and ample resources of which arc expended in perse-
vering efforts to subvert the faith and overthrow the reli-
gion of the country."
The rules having been fully adopted by the meeting, lists
of names of Roman catholic prelates, nobility, and gentry,
&c., who had possessed themselves of the privilege of voting
an speaking at the association by the subscription of 1/.
and upwards, were then read by different gentlemen on the
platform, and ordered to be entered on the minutes. These
included Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster,
; ' 51. the Roman catholic Primate of Ireland, 31. ; the
Archbishops of Tama, 31. ; Cashel, IL ; Roman catholic
bishops of Meath, Dromore, Elphin, Newport, Plymouth,
Southwark Derry, Cloyne, Troy, Northampton, Blend! g-
host:, Nottingham, Liverpool, Ilexam, Beverley, Salford ;
Marntaduke C. Maxwell, Esq., Terregles, Kirkcudbright ;
W. C. Maxwell, Erg., Scott Murray, Esq., Buckingham-
shire; Robert Monteith, Esq., Earl of Traquaer ' • Lord
Lovat ; Sir K. E. Digby, London ; Sir M. D. Bellew,
Mount Bellew Bridge.; Lord Ffrench, Hon. Philip Stour-
ton, Yorkshire ; Wm. Vavasour, Hazlewood, Yorkshire ;
and a large number of the inferior Roman catholic clergy
of England and Ireland, laymen of both countries, &c.
While the lists of members were being read, the Roman
catholic Archbishop of Tuam, and the Bishops of Water-
bed, Meath, Clogher, and Clonfert, entered the ball, and
ware loudly cheered.
Mr. Keogh referred triumphantly to the nresence of these
prelates as an ample refutation of the statements made in
some London papers that the meeting would not he graced
by the presence of any of the Roman catholic hierarchy.
Ile then proposed the admission of some members, includ-
ing Dr. Hines, bishop iif Guiana, who forwarded a sub-
scription of 21. ; Lord Arundel of Wardour, 5/. ; the Earl
of Arundel and Surrey, lot.; the lion. J. T. Arundel, ;
Nicholas Ball, son of edge Ball, 10/. ; John Bowden, of
Blessington Hall, Lancashire, 21.; Henry Bowden, of
Southgate Howse, Lancashire, and several others. Mr
Keogh read some letters, including one from Mr. Ambrose
Leil Phillips, of Grace Dieu Manor, in England.
Mr. Sadlcir read a letter from Mr. Swift, high sheriff of
London, enclosing a subscription of 5/., and U. the sub-
s ription of his clsplein, the Rev. Thomas O'Connor, and
requesting to be admitted members of the association ; and
alas a letter from Mr. J. J. Bradshaw, of Leamington, en-
closing IL, and making a similar request.
The kbovc were admitted members, together with several
others.
Mr. Reynolds, M.P., stated that, as one of tke honorary
secretaries, he had been told that it was incumbent on him,
as he happened to be the elder of the two, to say something
on the present occasiou. The modesty of his friend the
member for Athlone was reflected by that of the member
for Carlow (Mr. Sadleir), and, being a little more venerable
than either of them, they had given him the priority as re-
garded speaking. His first duty was to congratulate the
catholics of the United Kingdom on the aspect of their
affairs that day. They had enrolled upwards of 600 mem-
bers of the association, including members of the church,
and of the nobility, gentry, and middle classes of the United
Kingdom; and they would never cease a legal and constitu-
tional struggle until they not only repealed the atrocious act
that had brought them together, but also broke ah the other
chains that bad laws and worse government had thrown
around them. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) They had already
said that the act to which be referred was a nullity,
and that the people would not obey it e they said so again.
It had been made felony that a bishop of the catholic church
should assume a territorial title. s%hat answer had been
given to that ? Dr. Cullen lint signed " Paul Archbishop
of Armagh Jail Primate of all Ireland "—(sheers) ; and Dr.

M.Hale continued to sign "John Archbishop of Tuam."
(Cheers.) And let him remind Lord John Itusst.ll and
those who advised him to pursue the suicidal course which
he had adopted, that the violation of the act was not con-
fined to the Irish side of St. George's Channel. He (Mr.
It.) had in his possession letters from English catholic
bishops who had signed their territorial titles. (Hear,
hear.) Those letters had been published, and therefore
Paddy was not the only violator of the law. Ile now asked
Lord John Russell was nut the act waste paper? He, as
one of her Majesty's faithful Commons, had violated it as
far as he could, and he had told them this, " before you
imprison a bishop of the catholic church in Ireland—
before you lay your finger on his sacred garment, you
will require to double your army, and to walk
hover the dead bodies of the people." (Cheers.)
What eared he about u law like that, made by a pack
of ignorant and besotted bigots, and concocted in tho
palace of the Bishop of London Without meaning to say
anything bigotted or sectariau against his protestant fellow
subjects, whom he loved as he loved his catholic fellow-
, subjects, he affirmed that he believed the pmtestrint church
establishment to b, at the bottom of this hill, and that but
for that establishment, it never would have been heard of.
Mr. li. mentioned the names of Sir James Graham, Mr.
Gladstone, and other protestant members of the legislature by
whom the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill had been opposed ; aa:a
proceeded to say that after all he was glad it had passed,
fur it had brought about a real union between England,
Scotland, and Ireland. Some people had said
ter nim—
"don't move in this matter, the people are sick of agita-
tion." He said he admitted they were, but that he would
move in it because he would have the support of nine mil-
lions of the eatholies of the United Kingdom, and those of
the whole world besides. Mr. Reynolds proceeded to say
that those members of parliament who were freely ch.len
by the English people voted against the Ecclesiastical
Thies Bill. lie bad been told by English people that
they would rebei if the,- had to pay or the support of a
church to which they did not belong, and the members of
which were continually scolding their faith, as ens the case
in Ireland. He ought not to speak disrespectfully of pro-
teotauts, for many of them were his friends and supporters,
and he would tell the meeting in cuidideuee Ord he had
received written pledges from some of the most determined
protestant/ to plump fur bin et the nest eleeeieu. Thu
general committee named that day would be divided into
sub-committees, and u tivanee committee., and they would
attend to the registration of every city and county in tho
empire, which possessed a constituency containing the ele-
ments of pupuiar power. There were a parvel of fellows
going about in rusty black clothes and presenting them-
, selves to famishing women and childeen with the Bible iu
one hand and a bag of Indian meal in the other. They
made it a algae qua nota that both should be accepted or
none, and an instance hod occurred of a shirring foully
who had been inlinnuished by their pastor relu ing to ac-
cept of some of those tracts in consequence of which the
brute *no was the bearer of them lett them to perish of
starvation. (Ills-es.) There was a great deal of that kind
of proselytism going on in the west and south of Ireland.
A Voiee.—Aye, and in Dublin too.
Mr. Reynolds proceeded to say they would have very
little hopes of suceesa unless they continued to revels,: that
which they;had received up to the present time—namely,
the active co-operation of the heads of the church and of
the superior orders of the clergy. Ile concluded by thank:-
ler the meeting far the patience with which they had heard
him.

Mr. Scrjeant Shte (of the English bar) neat came
forward to addr‘ss the meeting. He Iran by ex-
pressing satisfaction ut the statement of Mr. Reynolds,
that the Catholic Defence A,somation was int.:tided to
be an association for work rather than for talk; that It
was pledged to adhere to the practically probable means
of success—that th..y were not to forget that it might ho
impos.ible to obtain the repeal of " the Evelt,lastical
.......

'Liles Bill," unless in addition to the support of the Unman
C.:101011ra airy:and, they could secure the support of u large
and influential portion of the English protestant people.
I (Hear, hear.) They should bear in mind, in arranging
their plans of operation, that while there were but Ivo
members of parliament for this country, there were up-
wards of :MO members for England in tho House of Com-
mons; and that unless they su ririped their course in that
association as to deserve the support of a very considerable
portion of that English representation, all their talk and
all their work would ha utterly and eetirely useless. (Hear,
hear.) It was necessary, therefore, for themselves if that
was to be en association for work rather than for talk, to
consider what means they had best take to coneince a
people, just and sensible upon all subjects except the sub-
ject of the catholic religion in Ireland—what means they
had of convincing them that their quarrel with their
catholic fellow-subjects was unreasonuble—and he had
not himself the smallest doubt, living us he did its that
country, and having daily opportunities of knowing what
were the thoughts and feelings of intelligent meta resident
therein—that if the pieweedings of that association were con-
ducted in conformity with the address end rules brought
under their notice that day, they would succeed in &staining
the support of a very eensuleralde portion of the English
people and of their representatives. (Hear.) Perhaps tit',
would ask him, was it possible that so favourable a result
should take place, when they n collected that this bill had
been passed through both houses of parliament almost by
acclamation, that a very small minority voted against it, and
that not more thou one twentieth of the whole peerage of
England and Ireland had voted in their favour. (Rear.)
His answer was, this was the first bill ever passed iu thu im-
perial parliament, on the motion of the monster of the
crown, Aid, the same minister declaring it to be con-
trary to his own better judgment. (!Ivor, hear.) Tao
worst part of the act, however, was 010 clause intro-
duced by Sir Frederick Thesiger, upon which Lord John
Russell awl his party had divided the house, but which
they subsequently allowed to pass through both houses of
parliament. Now lie was persuaded that when this fact
was brought prominently before the House of Lords end tho
House of Commons they would be very much inclined to
revise the act of parliament they lad SO unjustly enacted—
to modify its provisions, and to iepeal what they bound to
be injurious to the best interests of the country, and irre-
concileably opposed to the feelings of the Hannan catholic
subjects of the crown. (Cheers.) Iles firm convic-
tion was, that the people of England would repent of what
they had done when they came to understand the matter in
its true light ;.and he was equally satisfied that the course of
action determined on by the committee would in the end
succeed in obtaining the restoration of their religious and
political rights (Applause.)
Mr. Reynolds stated that the receipts amounted, in the
whole, to '750/., exclusive of IG/. I2s. taken at the door.
Lord Oonnanstown then quitted the chair, and Mr. Ser-
jcant Slice was called theft.), after which the usual vote of
thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting sepa-
rated, giving three cheers for the Catholic Deleuee Asvo-
elation. . _

The Tablet of this morning has an attack upon tho
" management " of the Defence Association, which
forebodes little of good to the preepects of the nascent
body.
The following answers have been received by the
Marquis of Westmeath, from Lord John Russell and
tho Poor-law Commissioners, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of the resolutions adopted last week by tho
Carrick-on-Shannon board of guardians :

Dowuag-street, Oct. 13, 1831.
My Lord,—l have bad the honour to receive your letter
of the 9th inst. The matter to which it refers is under tho
consideration of the government. —1 have the honour to be
your obedient servant, J. ltussatb.
The Marquis of Westmeath.
Poor-law Comniission.ofFice, Dublin, Oct. 13,1831.
My Lord,-1 ant directed by the commissioners for ad-
ministerin; tile laws for the relief of the poor in Ireland to
acknowledge the receipt of your lordship's letter of the 10th
inst., forwarding copies of resolutions passed by the board
of guardians of the earriek-on-Shannou union on the Bth
instant, relating to the annuities which have bom charged
to the union iu pursuance of the provisions of the act 13
Vic., cap. 14. Imu at the same time to state that no dis-
cretion so vested in the commissioners with reference to tho
application of the provisions of the act referred to. I have
the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient ser-
vant, W. STANI.Er, Secretary.
The vacant chair of law in the Queen's College,
Cork, has at length been filled, the appointment
having just been given to Mr. Michael Barry, of
Gardiner-street, in this city. Mr. Barry is a Roman
catholic, but has taken no part whatever in the pre-
sent Roman catholic movement in this country, and,
I believe, has little sympathy with its promoters.
Rumour gave the appointment sonic time ago to a
gentleman of nearly the same name, Mr. Michael
Joseph Barry, of the (h,k ]h/sorter.
The Marquis of Londonderry, having learned that
a tenant-right meeting is about to be held on his
property at Newtownards, has adopted the some-
what arbitrary proceeding of issuing the following
notice to his truantry:
MEMORANDUM FOR OFFICE. TOWER OF OARRON, OC-
TOBER 13, Ml.—Understanding there is to be a Tenant
League meeting at Newtownards, I hereby make known to
the tenant farmers on my estate, that those who think pro-
per to attend, or take part in such meeting, shall never i.:-
ceive Irons me hereafter the tenant right always hitherto
enjoyed and granted to thou by my ancestors mid myself.—
VANE LONDONDERRY."
The committee charged with making preparations
for the meeting have replied to this notice by tho
following resolution :
That this committee have heard read with surprise and
indignation the foregoing manifesto—that they dare not
doubt its authenticity, and cannot but regard it as worthy
of Lord Londonderry. At the same time they tako leave to
consider the issuing of such a circular as an infringement of
the free action and civil rights of his tenant farmers, which
they recommend them to resist with spirit, by attending
universally the meeting of Tuesday neat; and the commit-
tee submit that these proceedings on the part of landlords
amount to such an invasion of the liberty of freemen as to
call loudly on the government and the legislature for such
a tenant right measure as will put an end, once and for ever,
I to such acts of attempted despotism.—(Signed) WILMA%
Mooltz,ll.D., Chairman.

NARROW ESCAPE.—Mr a. Fanny Kemble, whilst
riding on the Grand Parade, Brighton, on Thursday last,
was thrown from her horse with great violence near to tho
kerb, and had a narrow escape of a very serious injury.
She was conveyed to her hotel, but after a few hours Mrs.
Kemble quits rallied, and gave the reading which was an-
nounced for that evening at the Newburgh rooms, where
she met with a hearty reception from a crowded audience,
several of whom evinced great anxiety ns to her safety.

UNIVERSITY AND CLEIUCAL.
titErSAMISTA.
John Blain, to N. Vizepriatipal al the Troining College,
W Mehl ster.
Rte. :•.inioel Cason, to Prt Choy, Lyneash:re.
Iles. It Ilea
Icile,cl llootgotnerphire.
Itor. F. Ffrench, to Kimberly' Curacy, Notts.
T. Hem Fletcher, to Holy Craw with St. GOca
Covey, S'areasbury.
Aar lioyrarta, t. be rice-prineipal of tho Training
College, F:setar.
Jotti Drydca Halpern, to St. Nicholas Perpetual
Coney, East Urstten. Wilt.. Value, 601. Patron, tha
Vitas of Great iledaya.
Ray. (how Glades lloste, to Buckle ham Curacy,

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key. William Welshman llow, to Whittington Rectory,
Sa:op, Value, I,OOW. l'atron, W. W. llow, Esq., Oa
this turn).
Res. Charles Philip Paul Pa'dull, to Fe'minium Curacy,
Pierre Alt.
lies. MeleLle Lee, to tridpott Rectory, Don't. Value,
166 L, with residence. Patron, Earl of ileriester.
R. v. Edward Ileary Lovelock, to St. Andrew Curacy,
Wildenhall, Suffolk.
lie..Sogustras Chester Master, to r,rl4.thnrpe Perpetual
Curacy, Notts. Value, WIS. Patron, Earl M,nrers.
It, r. ltotart Matson, to Spent, y Carey. Li,coloshire.
Ker. Charles Packer, to St.Mirk Perpetual Cur.sey,
Longwood, Yorkshire ; value, 1.101. and residence; patron,
the Vicar of Huddersfield.
Res. Edward John Parry, to b., Classical Professor,
Trinity Colierp-, Toronto, Upper Cona.li.
ltes. J. Pugh, to Sutterton Curacy, Lincolnshire.
Rev. W. Itothery, to the Episcopal Chapel, Selkirk,
geoti.o.d.
Rev. henry Richard Somers Smith (Rector of Little
Bentley), to ArLeigh Heausty-house: diocese ltoche.ter.
1t.,, Alfred Laker summon. to be Consular Chaplain of

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