The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

TIIE PAPAL AGGRESSION BILL.

The Earl of Winehilseu has issued the following
addms

" Brother PmtestantA, Fl

•It I thought

the 1.111 against the late acts of papal insult and aggression,
as first introduced into the lower house of parliament,
puerile and nugatory, I scarcely need say, in its present
mutilated shape, stripped as it is of the only two clauses
which possessed the slightest merit, that the bill is charac-
terised by the grossest lend most daring insult whi,"4l was
ever offered by any government to the protestant feeling of
this great empire.
" Whether the Church of Rome is again to be trium-
phant, and recover her last dominion in thin protestant
country—whether our long-cherished civil and religious
liberties are now to lx' levelled with the dust—rest upon
your individual and united resistance.
"'the plain and simple question la-fore you now is—whe-
ther our protestant sovereign, or this foreigner, the bishop
of Rome, shall be the supreme authority within these realms
—whether our Queen shell poesess the undivided allegiance
of her subjects on all points, spiritual as well as temporal, or
that intolerant, ambitious, and uninvited foreigner.
" Let me remind you of the memorable words of the great
Lord Eldon, on the posing of the fatal measure of 1829.
After remarking that no oaths contrary to the interest and
ambitious designs of the ehureh of Rome would be found to
be binding on the menilarn of tnat church, he proceeded to
say—. I know that, sooner or later, this hill will
overturn the aristocracy and the monarchy. Nu sincere
Roman catholic could, or did, look fur less than a
'Roman authialin. king and a Roman catholic par-
liament. Their lordships might flatter themselves that
the dangers he had anticipated were visionary. When
Clo,l' d eig.vs shall It Ise arrived, I shall have been con-
signed to the tomb; but that they will comet have no more
doubt than that I yet continue to exist. You have the
word. 4.1 a man who will woo be called to his great account
1 solemnly declare that 1 had rather not be living to-
morrow morning then on awaking find that I had consented
to this measurt , Itches Mg it, as I ,b,, after all the consider-
ation which I have given it, to be an abrogation of all those
laws which I hold to be as neetsaary to the preservation of
the throne as of the church, and intlispensible to the es-
istenee of the Lords and Commons of this realm as that of
the kin 2 and of our holy religi,m. If I had not expressed
this my humble hut firm conviction, I should have been
acting the part of a traitor to my country, my sovereign,
and my God.'
" Can any rational man entertain a shadow of a doubt,
when he dwells upon the tearful pnigress that popery has
nude within tom hind since the panning of that measure,
that imminent danger surrounds o:eery-thing which is dear
to us A. iiitgiirthßlCA and protestant. ?
" By the memory of our immortal ancestors, who cheer-
fully laid down their lives in defence of our protestant faith,
and besjueatheel to us (their degenerate and apt.tatc chil-
dren) those civil and religious liberties which had been
vomits' with their blood, as our best and Mora invaluable of
all earthly inheritances, 1 call upon every protestant of the
empire to spurn from him this grovelling and contemptible
measure, and, sinking all minor dill rences, to unite heart
and soul in addressing the throne for a dissolution of par
[lament, that the sense of the electors may Is' taken on this
important sult.jett, and in declaring to our gracious sove-
reign, in language which cannot be: misunderstood, that
those protestaat principles which placed the Illioae of
Brunswick upon the British throne must be firmly main-
tained, and that protestant England with one voice declares
she will have no compromise with the church of Rome.
I have the honour to be, brother prutestants and fellow-
antrymen, your humble and devoted servant,
WINCIIIIAEA AND NUTTINORAN.
Ilaverhohne Friary, March 10."

BARON Itornsenttn.—Tho Horsing Poi contains
a Iktatemtnt, copied from the Standard, to the effect that
Baron Rothschild has embraced Christianity. This will
appear to every one almost too absurd to require even •
asistrailiction at our hands.—.leteish Chronicle.

THE UNITED STATE. FRIGATE ST. LAWRENCE,
WITH THE AMERICAN CONTRIIIETOINA TO THE GREAT
EXIIIREtioN, arrived off Cowes yesterday. She will reach
Southampton to-day, and will anchor off Netley Abbey,
abuse three miles from the batter town. An Admiralty
barite will at once proceed from Portsmouth to Southamp-
ton, to convey the contributions ashore.

FraTnEa EXTENSION OE COENTT COCRTS.—Lard
Brougham's third bill of the present session, relating to
county courts, has just been issued. There are 27 clauses
in this bill. ?tatters in dispute may he refer td to the
arbitration of judges of county courts. 'f he judges of county
courts are to hold "Courts of Reconcilement" between
parties. The judges of the Court of Chancery may direct
accounts and inquiries to be made by the judges,
of county courts. fhe county court judges arc to hare the
same power as Masters in Chancery in equity proceedings.
According to the 21th clause any two judges of the superior
courts going the circuit within which any county court is
holden may hear and determine appeals from any judgment
of such county court. Barrister*, whether instructed or
not by an attorney, may appear ou behalf of parties in a
cause, and if both parties agree, whatever the action or
amount of the claim may be, such action may be tried by a
county court. Such is an outline of this somewhat novel
bill on the extension of county courts.

DESIGNS ACT ESTENSION.—The object of this
measure, which has been referred to a select committee of
the ]louse of Lords, is to protect new inventions in the
Great Exhibition, by extending the Designs Act to inven-
tions provisionally r•gistend, and also to foreigners in ex-
hibiting their intentions.
SEITCRE OF Fora THOUSAND GALLONS OF
Wiiisay.—A seizure of considerable magnitude has just
been made by order of the Commissioners of Inlaud Revenue
—viz., of 24 puncheons of whisky, ranging from 20 to 30
over proof, and amounting in the gross to 4,000 gallns, at
Downe's Wharf, East Smithfield, ut which place it had re- ,
cently arrived by one of the trading steamers from Scotland.
Proceedings will be instituted fur the recovery of penalties
to the amount of 1,0001. In consequence of these frauds
being brought to light, an order he been issued by the
csiminissioners that from henceforth all spirits arriving in
the port of London shall be measured, instead of gauged by
the callipers, as heretofore.
Cottisfir.l AND Loss err• LIFE.—We have to re-
cord another of these casualties which will go far to render
the present season memorable to the suittals of steam navi-
gation on the Clyde. The screw steamer European, Cap-
tain 314Callum, sailed on her passage for London about ten
minutes past twelve on Sunday morning, and when off the
Clod' about 1 o'clock, was run into by the schooner Castle,
hill, of Bangor, from Belfast to Glasgow, laden with lime,
which went down almost instantly from the effects of the
collision, and one of the crew met an untimely death. The
following particular we have learned from Captain Wel-
lum :—The night was dark and overcast with clouds, with
strong breezes from the south-west. The steamer at one
o'clock was off the Cloth, about a mile and a half from the
shore, and to the east of the lighthouse, which appeared
to be about 21 nob s distant, when the look-out reported
• vessel a-head carrying no light. As scion as it was
dheovered what course the vessel, which was running free
with the wind, was pursuing, and that she was on a (nurse
parallel with the European, Captain NVCallum held on,
but ordered the helm to be starboarded to increase the dis-
tance between the vessels, all the steamer's lights being
exhibited. Almost immediately, however, the schooner
was observed to port her helm, and bear right down upon
the European, which stopped and reversed her engine and
endeavoured to hug the shore still closer, but almost im-
mediately afterwards she came in contact with the
schooner s waist aft the forerigging. The unfortunate
vessel must have suffered very severely, as she only re-
mained above water fur about four minutes, when she
went down, leaving her masts sticking in the European's
rigging, and the crew, which consisted of the master and
three men, struggling in the water. The steamer's boats
were instantly' got out, and three of the men picked
up, but the fourth warn never seen. The master of the
schooner, who was one of the survivors, states that his
vessel bore no light, as he had caused it to be taken in
when past the (loch, imagining that he should meet no
more steamers or other vessels at that time of the night.
The crew were engaged in taking in the foresail, which
prevented them from seeing the steamer's lights, and when
they were observed, the master states he het self-posses-
sion, and gave the usual order to " port " the helm,
which, as we have said, had the effect of throwing her
right serum the steamer's bows. The European has not
suffered much damage ; the principal injury she has sus-
tained being • split in one of her plates on the starboard
bow, from which she made so much water. that Captain
Id•Callum judged it prudent to put back.—Sorth British
Mail.

NECESSITY FOR RAILROADS IN INDIA.—At pre-
sent it is cakulatest by Mr. Chapman that one million eight
hundred thousand bullocks traverse the few routes prac-
ticable across the Ghouls, in carrying the traltic between
the interior and Bombay, of which one hundred and eighty
thousand convey cotton. These animals travel in single
die, at the rate of three mike an hour. over tracks worn by
the feet of their predecessors, depending for food and water
on what can be picked up on the way, sometimes delayed
by torrents swelled with the melting of the mountain snow,
sometimes *teaseling through morasses, sometimes driven '
mad by heat and drought, sometimes struck down in thou-
sands by an epidemic, and left to rot on the risidside,
polluting the air and poisoning the water, to the grievous
damage of the droves that follow in their track. Coder
such opposing circumstances, it is not extraordinary that
our commerce with India makes slow progress. Reforms
of laws and of rules, improvements of docks and piers on
the coast, will do little towards establi•hing a steady com-
mercial barter of raw material for manufactured goods be.
tween England and India, until we have tapped the in-
terior, where the great agricultural districts lie.—Dictena's
" Wore."