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education and regiteetabtlity, were misused, knockedtbmt, rabbet e
atheir hats and umbrellas, and 011111 Wist cowardly ill-treated tit
those miscreants, who are a disgrace to the conottes Plod whim I
here more thak.cmee seen Insult the most respectable persons of
huh scam The foreign gcutlenien lum speaking of were ad.
rised to have the fellows taken up and prosecuted for the assault
and robbery, but Use aroma they gave is remarkable, stud every
Englishman meat wish that it may not lie lust—' What use prose-
cute? Voile Magistrate, as usual, would laugh at the charge, and
sneer It our promincialion, toutersd or administering justice: this
country like Turkey—more blackguard inure tight before the
Now, it really requires, we think, no great *bare of
penetration to discover, that the leading facts of this state-
ment ate of home mantlfi, tare, anti that the treatment it-
etitied by these " several Arrign geutlenten," whoever they
may have been, " with their luggagy," of whatsoever sort it
wad, must be so grossly czaggcrated, as to lose all the out-
line of truth.
This Correspondent, on making as grave and public au
accusatien, should have given a clue to the name of r roe
one at least of these "several foreign gentlemen," or to his
own. That they should have been knocked about in open
day in Gracedittreb-street, and rubbed tg" their hats and
anther:las, and yet that neither this Correspondent, who
p►ofes:ses to have been a looker-on, nor any other person,
should have interfered to procure any one of " the half dozen
miscreants," as he terms them, who committed this feloni-
ous outrage, to be taken into custody, is a curious tale, and
one which requires some better evidence to palm it upon
our credulity than this account carries with it. But it
seems " the foreign gentlemen" were advised to have the
fellows taken up, and " prosecuted for the assault and rob-
bery ;" and this brings us to their reply to tkia good advice,
whids gave birth to the long-winded article in tb.Chroniele
in favour of the " turban'el Turks."—" What use prose-
cute ? Vont Nlagiatrate, as nsttal, would laugh at the
charge, and sneer at our pronunei::tion, instead of adminis-
tering justice: this country like Turkey—more black-
guard, more right before the Cadi !" Can any one
It riously believe for a moment that any such answer
was ever made by these " foreign gentlennew?" Why there
is not the slightest plausibility ■bout it. The beginning
and end of this sage reply is in the dipped 'English of
; it is in the Massa style—" What use prosecute?
This country like Turkey—more blackguard more right
le•fore the ('all." But Me ninlJle of the sentence is in
complete contrast ; it is not only given in language of the
best usage, but has its period polished and well rounded ;
" Your Magistrate, as usual, would laugh at the charge,
and sneer at our pronunciation. instead of administering
justice!" As ustaal—tiler.s its! how eame these " artery!
.hreign centlemg u, triM their luggage," to be so wt•ll ac-
quainted with the conduct of those in whom our laws have
vested the care of ad !styling justice, as to pronounce
their eantempt of it to be as usual! Is it likely, nwreuv,r,
that these foreign gentlemen, who were so familiar with
our language as to express themie•lves with so much purity,
would predict that tin ;r prononeitttion ,could be :owes-4 tl
No such thing. Their language. is like a glass of half-and-
half: the English is the centre, and broken at
!milt end, Iteany this l'orrespondent of the Times must
get up Isis next attack ttp;ol the Magistracy of the country I
in hot; r style, sir he will use de even as a purveyor of
abuse tv hroni,

The Catholics of Ireland harc lately manillated great
irritability with respect to the proceedings of the Bible Sa-
cietics. They have made scrotal irruptions into the meet-
ings of the " itiblemen," as they somewhat singularly
stigmatise their fellow Christians, and after a " well
fouglites field," they hare, by dint of numerical strength,
generally succeeded ei rt urn:is in previnting the medi-
tated site ot' spreading a knowledge of the 11'ord of Goo.
A Dublin Taper, by far the ablest and moat respectable
advocate of the Catholics, in a sp•eial address to Mr.
CA NNI NG, predicts, that " many years will not elapse
bek.re the Ilone which is now beginning to kindle
must be quenched in blood." The Foreign Secretary is
told that " the drum ecclesiastic" is beating in Ireland,
and shrewd hints are green that she fall of the monarchy is
not far disemt. " if die drama be not cut shert in the first
act." The labours of the " 'missionaries of insurrection"
are thus d.scribed in the conclusion of this strange letter:—
" These Itinerants aro plannetr the dragonj teeth—they are
Iny!ng the foundation of a 11. ly 11 ar— 01,1 are r..:rally turtling the
Word of Jtat•s into a saurd. Sonic of them think, perhaps, that
they are preaching peace; but their language is that a .debaser,
uout, aid inltuleliCe. Fur tlolis sake, -Ir. CANNING:. take this
country out of the hands of empiric% aud madmen. If there should
be a liar, and that this tempt./ einitintimi to be f utLd—But
we willingly leave the setactiee unuoiAlted."

Now, all this might with propriety, as the writer else-
where himself suggests, be " laughed at," if we were nut
perfectly agreed with him that the matter is becoming
of much too serious a nature. An Englishman who
knows little of the state of Ireland would suppose that
this article was the production of " some unfledged lad,.
full of the characteristic warmth of his country. Its
that case, certainly, we should join with the juvenile
essayist in lamenting that Ireland unhappily, as be al-
leges, abounds to so great an extent in " empirics and
mailmen:" but when the public on this side of the Irish
channel, leant that this article proceeds from the Editor of
the leading Catholic Journal, they will excuse us fur say-
lug a few words by way of co •ntary upon it. " .111..1y
War!" With whom ? about what ? The C..tholies and
Protestants are agreed in considering the Bible as the fowl-
dation of their religion. The latter subscribe to zircu-
late them g persons who cannot afford to purchase
them, and the former i tttt nediately exclaim, that there is a
at sign to rob them of the " religion of their fathers !" But,
say the " the missionaries fling texts in our
:ILYA, and charge our religion with idolatry soil paganism."
flow is this charge to lie refuted, but by reference to the
contents of the book which the Catholics ',impose at the
outset to plosuu !Jere, in Eugla.d, the Sectarians arc
allowed to circulate all kinds of tract's. The Established
Church does not its If in danger from the treatises
a all the " Atitintnians. Friskers, Flingers, Junipers,
Seekers, and S winiatis," that ever existed.
Who flow the Mote to divot/ front Ow Bible?
Our eler4y fear nothing from the distribution of Bibles.
They assist in the wink ; but it seems, threats arc to be
darkly insinuated, that milers the 4,:uvciument step in to
percent Christians from meeting to consult respecting the
distribution of Bibles in Irclatal, " if there should he a
war"—alal then we le,re a myrterious pause. What
thought does this writer labour with that lie dares not
titter? We c.lll emerge 111111 that !With. r the Government
our the people of Elig!and will is terrified by the recur-
rence of evils aml dangers which they hare so tidally littler.
alr...nly surmounted. In r,tielusints, as friends to the
rathol.es, whose present conduct we deeply egret, for
their own sakes, we would advise them to r modera-
tion and propriety, lest it should be fund inespedit nt to
grant suture power to bands so prune to abuse what they
pos.scss.

We refer our read, ra to the proceedings last night at the
Albion t'itapd. The Rev. Mr. Ft i rent a has made out
a else to the satisfaction of, tot the Synol et rtainly,—but
at least of his congregation, and, in despite of the at menet.
of suarenslon, the Rev. timtlemati remains in posscasion
of his pulpit. We know not bow the seathoblers of the
chapel reconcile their conduct with a Wine of duty towards
the Synod, hut we votress it appears to us a subversion of
every principle of church government. It is their affair.
however, and not ours, and we are not disposal further to
go into the trite:ion, than by this Observation ci