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BIBLk ASSOCiATION.

lest aigilit a Meeting of die at. Clement Danes, St. Mary-le-
Strand, vid the Savoy HAIM Association, and Ladies' at. Clement
Dawes, ixe. Bible Association, took place at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, the Rev. Mr. Guam Er, the President of the Society, in
the Chair.

The CHAIRMAN haring opened the business of the Meettnp
The SECRETARY read the Report, which was of great length,
and which stated that the receipts d the Society for ti.e last year
were 1211. Ills. 4d.

The Rev. THOMAS Wensent and the Rev. Dr. W/NTEH
moved and seconded the first Resolution—" That the Report now
read he received and adopted."
A ii.
The second Resolution, which offered, on rum of the /Sleet-
ing, a renewed tribute of gratitude to the : 11r. Gurney and
Mrs. (limey, for their patronage and sup if the Institetion,
MY moved and seconded by the Rev. THOMAS ILHERT and the
Rev: THOMAS PINIMITON.

The ihirilioso IM-io-n-,-ileeiaratory of the pleasure the Meeting
felt at the progress of the Institution, was moved by the Rev. J.
HARGRAVE, and seconded by the Rev. S. BLACKBURN.
The fifth Resolution, expressive of gratitude to the Author of
Mercies for the growing prosperity of the British and Foreign Bible
Association, was moved and seconded by the Rev. SPEDDING
aw•w, and Mr. ',Lon).
%Ft r.t.tsst fictisow, Esq. and Mr. W. JONES., moved and
seconded the Resolution of Thanks to the Chairmen.

The Meeting, which was very numerously attended, broke up
about half-past nine.

IRELAND.

Thiat.tx, JAW. 24.
CATIIMIC ASSOCIATION.

There was an extraordinarily full Meeting of the Catholic Assaf
nation this day. At three o'clock Mr. Fitzsisson was called to
Chair.

Mn O'Goensw announced the names of ROMe gentlemen who
had joined the Association, and who, pursuant to Mr. Conway's
resolution, were introduced by two members.
Mr. Pm/weary proceeded on his motion adjourned from the
lam de, Of 111.10011, touching the printing of an Address voted in
IULL. After supporting the motion in a speech of considerable
length, it was put from the Chair ; but there being no seconder it
fell to the pound.
Mr. lantwia, porsoant to notice, moved that the Lords, Ils.
ronets, &c., and the members of the last Catholic Board, should be
applied to, for the rupees of becoming members. He supported
his mo.ion in a spasthelsermilembia isersoaity.
Mr. O'Cosucav suggested, as an amendment, that a Com-
mittee should be appointed foe the purpose of devising maims le
extend the Catholic Association.

Mr. Kt IRAN persisted in his motleeri,
Mr. O'Cowxxt.t. then put his suggestion in the shaped an
amendment, and spoke with great eloquence for some time. No
period was more necessary than the present for the extension of the
Catholic Association to every county in Ireland, through all ranks
of the people. He then sketched out his plan.
Mr. Strict. seconded the amendment in a short bat very an.
Invasive speech.
The amendment was put from the Chair, and carried with a few
dissentient voices.

Mr. O'Cowiitt. rose for the purpose of altering a notice he
had already_given, concerning the period of exiling the Aggregate
Meeting. It was originally fixed for the 2d of February. He
should, with the leave of the meeting, postpone it to the 13th.
There were various reasons for this, but there was one which he
would mention. It was intended to submit to the Aggregate
Meeting the propriety of being heard at the Bar of the House of
Commons by Counsel; The measure was not without precedent,
and instanced the case laid by Sir Toby Butler before the Irish
Parliament. for a breach of the articles of Limerick. Ile said
that the violation of the articles still continued. The object would
be, to solicit Parliament to repeal certain oaths which the Catholics
were compelled at present to take, in contravention to the articles
of that treaty. It having been suggested that an Irish Barrister
would not be heard before the English Legislature, Mr. O'Connell
derided the idea. It was, and he would state it as almost front his
own knowledge, the opinion of Lord Colchester--no friend, cer-
tainly, to Catholic Emsncipation—that the Catholics could be
heard as a matter of right. Ile had consulted some friends, and
he would mention partiettlarly Mr. Charles Butler, of Lincoln's
Inn, and they fully concurred in the propriety of the cause. It
was said, in the Dublin Kietiing Post, that this was the opinion
of Mr. Brougham. The statement was erroneous; he did not
mean to say that this was not Mr. Broughtun's opinion; but he
had not, as a matter of delicacy, been consulted as to the course
which it would be prudent. In the present unprecedented state of
the Catholic question, to pursue. After several other observations,
Mr. O'Coonell moved that an Aggregate Meeting should be called
on the 13th of February.
The motion was put and carried without a dissentient voice, and
the proposition received very general approbation.
A Committee was then appointed foe the purpose of devising'
means to extend the Association, consisting of nine Gentlemen—
the
Chairman and Secretary. Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Shell, Mr. C.
3PLoughlin Mr. N. Mahon, Mr. Kirwan, Mr. Clinch, Mr.
Coppingkr, and Mr. Conway.
Mr. hitt EL asked what the Burial Committee were doing ?
Mr. CONWAY replied, that every thing which remained for them
to do, bad been dome. They waited on Archbishop Murray, and had
received frem his Grace all the eneouragement in the laudable de.
sign they could expect. Nothing no* remained to beck= but col-
lect the money.
Mr. Sum t, gave notice that he would the next day move for a
Committee for this purpose.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH 4 DUBLIN.

SATURDAY, J•NUARY 24.

LORD FARNHAM.

This being the first motion day in term, the Court sat at eleven
o'clock. After a few motions were disposed of
WALLACE rose to move for a c. itlitional Order for A crimi-
nal information against Lord Farnham. The application was
grounded on the affidavit of Michael Lynch, father to Michael
Lynch, obey of twelve years old, for a gross abuse of his laird-
ship's Magisterial authority. The affidavit went to state that the
aforesaid Michael Lynch, jun. was charged by the wootirarger of
his Lordship, with having cut some brambles off a tree in his
Lordship's grounds; said Michael Lynch was summoned before
Ate Petty Sessions, in which Lord Farnham and a Rev. Mr. Ito-
binion were the only Magistrates presiding. The Sessions were
held at a place named the Dispensary, which Dispensary was his
Lordship's gate-house. The charge of his Lordship s wood.
ranger was not received on oath by the .fitting Magistrates. After
the wood-ranger had charged the boy with the offence, Lord
Farnham declared he should be immediately whipped. The tither
of the poor boy besought his Lordship to take pity on himself
and his poor family, who frequently went to bed without their
supper, for want of fuel to bod their potatoes. The son also fell
on his knees to his Lordship, and implored his mercy. His Lord-
ship told him "It wont do," and to get up directly. His Lordship
then gave him in charge to a constable, and gave directions to
one of his men to prepare rods. Shortly a very large one was
prepared, upon which it was remarked that it was too large, and
too severe. There was a small bunch taken from it, and Lord
Farnham ordered the bailiff to strip the boy. One of the constables
' proceeded to flog the boy, under the direction of his Lordship, who,
conceiving that the constable was not laying on severely enough,
actually took the rod out of his hand, and proceeded to Rog the boy
h imself.

Mr. WALLACE WAS proceedinglto state further particulars of
the affidavit, when

The CIIIJF:E JUSTICE said, 46 31r. Wallace, you have stated
quite sufficient ; take your order.

ATROCIOUS Mr ants.—A report having reached Newcastle,
on Saturday afternoon, that a man, named John Harnett, had been
murdered in the mountains, near A bbeyfeale, Alfred Furlong, Esq.
immediately despatched • party of the police and military to the
spot, to prevent the removal of the body till an inquest should be
duly held ; and at an early hour next morning, Mr. Furlong and
Mr. s'ercy proceeded to the place where the body lay, accom.
'poled by Mr. Cox, who held an inquest thereon, which lasted till
nine o'clock that night, at which hour the Jury found---" That de-
erased came by his death in consequence of various wounds, in.
Slimed on his face and head with some sharp substance or imam-
men, by means of which his skull was broken. and his brains
knocked out : anti that such act of violence was wilfully committed
by some person or persons to them unknown."
On Monday morning Mr. Furlong sent a petty to apprehend all
suspected persons, who were forthwith brought into A bbeyfesJe for
examination ; and in the course of the day. Mr. Furlong, Mr. Sara
gent, Mr. Percy, Mr. Daniel Harnett, and Captain Popham, with
a party of the 241 th, proceeded to the supposed scene of the murder,
and on a diligent search,were so fortunate as to succeed in tracing
the foul act in the most Clear and satisfactory manner. On their
return to Abbe Peale, a laborious invests aeon took place before
Mr. Furlong, which lasted till two o'clock on Tuesday morning,
and ended m • complete discovery of the perpetrators of the tour.
der, viz. Mony Flynn and Daniel Flynn, of Ballybehy, I.P.trry,
fanners, and Charles Dawley, servant boy to the former, who are
all in custody, and have since confessed their guilt.--/riak limn.,
EXECUTION Or THOMAS WARD. This day, at two o'clock,
Thomas Ira,d was executed, at the drop of kilmainbam, pair.
avant to his sentence at the late commission, for a highway robbery
committed by him at Saggard. Previous to the unhappy man
being brought out, Mr. Dunn, the gaoler. very humanely re.
quested his relatives or friends to tfithilraw, lest his seeing them
should disturb the resigned state of his mind. Shortly after, \Paul
came forward : his demeanour was truly penitent and resigned ; he
exclaimed, " Lord Jesus have mercy uram my pow soul !" In a
few moments after, he said to the assemblage—" Boys, take warn.,
ing by me, and avoid bad company." Shortly after this espies_
lion, the rope having been properly adjusull. he was launched into
eternity, and died almost without a stniggle. Ward's unhappy
mother was at some distance; but not in view of the melancholy
and spectacle which her son presented. She was on her
knees, her hands extended towards heaven, indulgirg in tit: most
piteous moans—a heart-rending object to all who saw her. Some
commiseration has appeared in pnnt for this unhappy man : it has
been said, that he ought to share in the clemency extttrdtd to,
others, convicted at the same time. But we rather apprehend that
those who have thus expressed their sympathy, were nut aware of
the atrocious circumstances which distinguished Wr.ni's case from
the others. Even the Learned Judge (Jeiih) held not no hopes
of a mitigation of the sentence of the law; for he einpliatically ob-
served, that crime was on the increase. that outrages similar to
those of which the prisoner was found guilty were become very
frequent, and that an example should be made to stay their pro-
treas.—Dublin Patriot.

NEW SOUTH IVALES SHIPPING INTELLIGEKCI.

The following was brought by the Surrey, Capt. Power,
strived in the Downs :
ARRIVALS AT PORT JACESOIV.—JtaIy 3d, the Slaters. Puke:
18th, the Ann, Yrankland I and 29th, the Woodlark, Brown—from
London.

August N, the Avon, Sumner 7th, the Berwielt, kffery ; and
the Elisabeth, Duty—from London.

July 14th. the Urania. Newton ; 31st, the Andromeda. Muddle
—from Leith; 14th, the Admiral Cockburn, Briggs—from the
Mauritius; Slat, the William Penn, Brows, and the Recovery,
Fotheby—from Cork.
SAILING!! FROM PORT JACKSON—JuIy 15th, the Imaltania,
Langdon, toe Leyden, via the Derwent ; and 21st, the Brampton,
Moore, for Neil
Ausust .d, the Mercury, Edwards (fishing); and 12th, the
, Urania, Newton, toe Rio Janeiro.
The Avon, Sumner, had Leen to the Derkent, previous to het
arrival at I'ort Jackson the 2d August.
PASSENGERS PER SOAVE E.—Dr. Carlisle, ; Dr. Price,
R.N.; Mr. Dugurd, Mr. WlC:ldly. Mr. Dixon, trod Lieutenant
White. Captain Heine, of the Surrey, hail remained at Sydney.
The Litsitania, longdon, lied proceeded to Hobart Town, and
was to sail from thence to London the 15th September.
The Regalia, Collins, was to sail from Port Jackson the 211
AlitNat, for Hobart Town and England.
he John Bull, Collet, Was loading at Sydney with wood, snd
was to sail for Liverpool in September.
The Woodlark, Brown, ea+ going to Maeruarre River, to r-.
tarn to Sydney, and load with the season wool, and to sail for
England in November.
The Berwick, Jeffery, was to load for England, but note:peeled
to sail until December.