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settlement of a most tlifficult and irritating question.
"As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic nor
Protestant Episcop titan, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an
Itishmr.n. My interest in this matter is not local or
sectarian. I have endeavoured to study it, and to re-
gard it, as becomes an Englishman levier justice and
freedom, anxious for the tranquillity of Ireland, the
welfare of the empire, and the honour of the Imperial
Government. I believe that statesmanship does not
consist merely in preserving institutions, hut rather in
adapting them to the wants of nations, and that it is
possible so to adapt the institution& of Ireland .o the
wants and circumstances of Ireland that her peollf may
become as content as the people of England and Scot-
land are under the mild monarchy under which tee live.
Some experience and much reflection have conviuried me
that all elf ins on behalf of industry and peace in Ireland
will be in great part unavailing until we 4 radieste the
sentiment which is universal among her Catholic po-
pulation, that the Imperial Governrcant is partial, and
that to belong to the Roman Catholic Church is to
incur the suspicion or the hostility of the law. A true
equality' establi,hed among Irish sects would put an
ib we lepuartmifio,sdp. her
Then,e of Irish
social
end to this pernicious but all pervading sentiment; and
Catholics, whether priests or laymen, would feel that the
last link of their fe tars was at length broken. Supremacy,
on the one hand, and a degrading inferiority on the other,
'A*ooL
i
too,
Christianity would appeal to the population, not as a per-
secuting or a persecuted faith, with her features disfigured
by the violence of political conflict, but radiant with the
divine beauty which belongs to her, and speaking with
irresistible force to the hearts and conic aces of men. I
abneda politicalbiished' lifean d
wouldthew
know not if the statesman is among us et o is destined to
settle this great gm stint'; hat, whoever la- may be, he
will strengthen the Me oarchy, earn thri'gt at' tilde of three
kingdoms, and build up for himself a tasting tsotown.
I am sensible the* in writing this letter, unit in express-
ing the views it eootains, I run the risk of being misun-
derstood by acme h mest men. and Ink, subjt:ct myself to
misrepresei taiiou ital. abuse. Lis under a sulemu
sense of duty to my t, try, and to the interests of
justice and religain, that l have v. toured to write it. I
have ereleavouref to divest myself of all feeling of pre-
ference for, or hostility to, any of the c'.ll ches or sects in
Ireland and to form ot,y judgment in tnis matter upon
principles tomitted by all true statesmatvhip, and based
on the foundations of Christian justice. It I should suc-
coed in directing the attention of any portion of those
must deeply interestei to some mode of escape from the
difficulties with which this question is surrounded, I
shall willingly submit to the suspicions or condemnation
of those who cannot concur with me in opinion. I wish
this lung letter were more worthy of its purpose. As it
is, I send it to you, and you may make whatever nse of
it you think will he likely to serve the cause of • religious
rqnality in Ireland:

[PRICE SD.

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" Believe me very truly yours,
"Rochdale, Oct. 25 "JOHN BRIGHT.

ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY.

A. few weeks ago, in clearing out the ruins of an
old chapel at Nuneham Regis, in Warwickshire,
which had been pulled down, all but the belfry tower,
about 40 years since, we thought it necessary to trench
the whale space, that we might more certainly mark
out the boundaries of the building, as we wished to
restore it, in some measure, to its former state. It
had been used as a stack-yard and a depository of
rubbish, by the tenants of the farm on which it was,
ever since its dilapidation. We began to trench at
the west end, and came on a great many bones and
skeletons from which the coffins had crumbled away,
till, finding the earth had been moved, we went
deeper, and discovered a leaden coffin, quite perfect,
without date or inscription of any kind. There had
been an outer wooden coffin, which was decayed, but
quantities of the black rotted wood were all round it.
We cut the lead and folded back the top, so as not to
destroy it; beneath was a wooden coffin in good pre-
servation, and also without any inscription. As soon
as the leaden top was rolled back a most overpowering
aromatic smell diffused itself all over the place. We
then unfastened the inner coffin, and found the body
of a man embalmed with great care, and heaps of
rosemary and aromatic leaves piled over him. On
examining the body more closely we found it had
been beheaded; the head was separately wrapped up
in linen, and the linen shirt that covered the body
was drawn quite over the neck where the head had
been cut off; the head was laid straight with the
body, and, where the joining of the neck and head
should have been, it was tied round with a broad
black riband. His hands were crossed on his breast,
the wrists were tied with black riband, and the
thumbs tied together also with black riband. He had
a peaked beard, and a quantity of long brown hair,
curled and clotted with blood, round his neck ; the
only mark on anything about him was on the linen
on his chest, just above where his hands were crossed;
on it were the letters " T B," worked in black silk.
On trenching towards the chancel we came on four
leaden coffins laid side by side, with inscriptions on
each ; one contained the body of Francis, Earl of
Chichester and Lord Dunsmure, 1653 ; the next the
body of Audrey, Countess of Chichester, 1652 ; ano-
ther the body of Lady Audrey Leigh, their daughter,
1640; and the fourth ths bo,ly of Sir John Ander-
son, son of Lady Chichester by her first husband.
We opened the coffin of Lady Audrey Leigh, and
found her perfectly embalmed and in entire preser-
vation, her flash quite plump, as if she were alive, her
face very beautiful, her hands exceedingly small and
nut wasted ; she was dressed in fine linen trimmed all
over with old point lace, and two rows of lace were
laid fist across her farehead. She looked exactly as
if she were lying asleep, and seemed not more than
sixteen or seventeen years old ; her beauty was very
great; even her eyelashes and eyebrows were quite
perfect, and her eyes were closed ; no part of her
face or figure was at all fallen in. We also opened
Lady Chichester's coffin, but with her the embalming
had apparently failed ; she was a skeleton, though the
coffin was half full of aromatic leaves. Her hair,
however, was as fresh as if she Hy( d ; it was long,
thick, and as soft and glossy as that of a child, and of
a perfect auburn colour. In trenching on one side
of where the altar had been ,we found another leaden
coffin with an inscription. It contained the body of
a Dame Marie Browne, daughter of one of the Leighs,
and of the Lady Marie, daughter to Lord Chancellor
Brackl.y. This body was also quite perfect, and
embalmed principally with a very small coffee-coloured
seed, with which the coffin was nearly filled, and it
also had so powerful a perfume that it filled the whole
place. The linen, riband, tee., were quite strong and
good in all these instances, and remained so after ex-
posure to the air; we kept a piece out of each coffin,
and had it wattled without its being at all destroyed._
Young Lady Audrey had ear-ings in her ears—black
enamelled serpents. The perfume of the herbs and
gums used in embalming them was so sickening that
we were all ill after inhaling it, and most of the men
dbill
le, tfs oro o.m My
disco-
ver who the beheaded man is.
Duchess of Buccleuch,
possessions in Warwick-
The chapel is on the
ewnchtooofiffis 'hinnzi.shfs werepoistsi
grandfather with
daughter of the Duke Montagu, into whose family
employedNunehamtp)ba jt ee e
paternal
siln sendinggiraaendg Regis
smg
grandmother,
thisntrihgd e ruoa:t chcttehohruee
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the daughter of Lord Dunsmure, Earl of Chichester.
—Notes and Queries.
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the
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aSrcroiattg,

TIIIC FREE TRADE AND REIM= BANQUET.—The
sale of tickets for the great Free-trade and Reform
Banquet about to be holden in Manchester, commenced
on Friday morning, and has gone on with unprecedented
rapidity. It is calculated that in the Free-trade Ball
2,800 persons may bo seated in the body of the hall, and
accommodated
that many persons who
the galleries, and on the platform; and the number of
tickets sold up to noon yesterday was 2 500. This num
her includes almost all that will be issued for the body
of the hall and
Ete.,gamll.epri.e,sA,
to act in that capacity.
and the
ifurtherSwift, sale
E socif ,
tickets has been restriceed in order to secure room for
guests and friends. A large number of gentlemen have
oudilteedt
the
es
numberstewards,
tagn
eta.
expressedlti:memiteanti
.os
sn,h ahot
therefore,
rihhseahfalodi tr oetbeeb
nehaoeal
There is, ~
application
for tickets will be d'
have delayed their
pointed in obtaining them. Amongst the gentlemen who
have accepted invitations to be present at the banquet
MY., county of Sligo; Thomas Bellew, Esq., Ina.
of Galway; and Torrens WCulls h . - "
county g i Esq., late
M.P. for Dundalk.
AN ARISTOCRATIC Ificuwiionts.N. A most alarming
case of highway robbery took place near Penrith, in the
county of Cumberland, on the afternoon
are W. li, oght
The facts are briefly as follows :—Mrs. of the 23d inst.
wife of the Rev. Mr. Williams, of D Williams, the
returning from Penrith in a gi, acre Vicarage, was
where she had been on a visit to
thewith a female servant,
when she was overtaken by a th Countess Cassinski,
peatance, mounted on a valuableyou of gentlemanly ap-
pony. Be rode past
her vehicle, and kept in front till he got to a lonely part
of the road, shaded b
Deere, lie then turnedyrtrees, between Daleman and
met Mrs. Williams, and
presented a pistol, at theotin sad,
money. Mrs. _ me time demanding her
Williams at first refused to give it to him,
when her assailant said he would count three, and if she
did not deliver her money before he had finished, he
would shoot her. Terrified by his threats, she surren-
dered her purse, which contained a considerable sum in
gold and silver. Having made an ineffectual attempt to
obtain money from the servant, he asked Mrs. Williams
her name and residence, and the lady having told him,
" Well," said the highwayman, " I'll see if you are Mrs.
Williams. I'll follow you ; and mind, if you have told
me a lie, I'll shoot you from behind, both you and your
servant; and if you speak to anyone on the way as to
what hes happened, I'll shoot you."
, Mrs.Williama then
drove on, the highwayman riding behind as footman.
She met several persons, but did not speak to them, be-
ing afraid that her unwelcome attendant would make
1 good his threat. After following
andhispony rode rapidly away.
TESTS.—The inhablints of Edinburgh intend
to pe-
tition Parliament '' against the attempts that are now
made to revive the use of the tests in the of I case ajp
chairs of the University, as well as generally for the
purpose of procuring the removal of professorial testa. a
applicable to the lay chairs of all Scottish univeraiti es,"
The Lord Advocate stated to a deputation, which V d sited
upon him on this subject the other day, that it ',,,as en-
gaging the attention of her Majesty's Goverup
.eat.