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manufacture a case against Lord NORMANBY,
The managers of the Committee appointed to
would fain have brought in the Noble Marquis
guilty of cherishing the Ribbon Societies, if their
" circling wiles" had not been frustrated by Mr.
DRUMMOND. They had got their inestimable
witness, Major ROWAN, to state, that lie never
knew the Government to have taken any steps for
the suppression of illegal societies before the date
of the appointment of the Committee ; and he had
thrown out, most reluctantly, to be sure, sundry
hints as to " what the Government ought to de—
what they can do—and what they ought not to do,"
togther with certain darkling allusions to private
official correspondence which he must not on any
account reveal. All this--and particularly his shy-
ness to plump out the whole of what he seemed to
be fraught with—being calculated to produce an
impression most unfavourable to the Government.
There is much, as Hamlet implies, in the
" Pronouncing of a doubtful phrase,"
and Mrs. Candour herself could not have managed
those soft parts of rhetoric more adroitly than
Major RowAN did for awakening suspicions of
misconduct which neither he nor his prompters
durst openly impute.
But the Under Secretary broke through this
subtle tissue in an instant, having brought with
him, as Lord HATHERTON states, six or seven
boxes of papers into the Committee Room, and
with an earnestness which only belongs to those
who are " in conscious virtue bold," challenged
and demanded a most searching inquiry into every
case of real or supposed Ribbonism, that had ever
been brought within the cognizance of Lord Non.-
mANßy's Government. This manly and honest
defiance dissipated the factitious mist in which it
would have better answered the purposes of calumny
, to have kept the subject involved ; and the pullers of
Me wires were obliged to change their tactics, and
to assure Mr. DRUMMOND, that Lord NOR- j
MANBY stood wholly absolved from that charge.
Any thing for them rather than a bona fide exa-
mination and elicitation of the whole truth.
All this, however, could not prevent several of
the Noble Committee-Judges from endeavouring
to instil the same prejudices into the public mind,"
in the course of the debate of Thursday se'nnight.
and charges which, in common decency, they have
themselves been compelled to abstain from making,
are reiterated with the most shameless pertinacity,
by those literary organs which are at their com-
mand, and act by their inspiration.
Not daring to assert, after the verdict which Mr.
DRUMMOND extorted from the Committee, that
the Government has directly afforded encourage-
ment to those who are said to be leagued together
for the overthrow of the Constitution, and the
separation of the two countries, the Tory leaders
have drilled their ready instruments to accuse the
Roman Catholic Clergy of being secret fomenters of
the plot, and to charge the Government as accessa- 1
ries in the next degree, by means of the protection
and impunity which they are said to afford to all
offences committed by persons of that order.
Now both those allegations are totally false. It
is distinctly proved even in the evidence taken be-
fore the Committee, that the priests are opposed to
all illegal and secret confederacies, and have ren -
dered most valuable aid to the legal authorities, in
repressing and in bringing offences emanating from
them to justice; and it has also been proved before
the same tribunal, that in every instance where a
priest has been charged with an indictable offence,
the Government, far from throwing the shield of its
protection around him, has proceeded against him
with the utmost strictness, not to say the utmost
rigour, and severity of the law. This has been
clearly demonstrated by witnesses in behalf of
the Government ; nor have its enemies brought
forward a single case, from which even a prejudiced
tribunal might have inferred, or pretended to infer,
a disposition to screen such offenders, or wink at
their transgressions.
With regard to the hostility of the Roman
Catholic Clergy, to the existence and the proceed-
ings of the Ribbon Confederacy, we think it should
be proof enough, even to satisfy those who be-
lieve in its great numbers and perfect organisation,
that there is so little union of design or action
ill'"agi amongst the various clubs or societies. It is also
acknowledged on all hands, that not any of those
classes of persons with whom the Roman Catholic
Clergy associate on terms of friendship and social
We learn from the Carlisle Journal that all is
intercourse, and over whom they possess an almost
quiet in that town, and that the three days have
passed over there without an unbounded influence, are in the most remotey riot or disturbance.
A degree connected with such combinations. On
n attempt v,as made to get up a meeting, but it
the contrary, it is well-known that they repel
failed. T}Tie Manchester Guardian also tells us
from their confidence, with public marks of scorn
that all was quiet at Bolton on Friday. Stockport, and reprobation, most grating to the pride of an
) whiels was excited, it states, has continued perfectly Irish heart, every p
individual who is susected of
quiet during the whole week. At Rochdale the
being thus implicated. They drive them from their
i 'active Magistrates, assisted by two companies of denounce them from the steps of the
Foot, have captured a Chartist banner and dis- chapels,altar, and deny them a participation of those rights,
, armed a Chartist of a stick. At Middleton " a from the administering of which a large portion of
meeting," it says, " should have taken place, but
only three young fellows, apparently weavers, their own income is derived, and without the due
were on the ground." It tells u s also that on Wednes- reception of which it is the belief both of Priests
(
1 day there was agitation in Wigan, and during the anti people that no spiritual advantage can be
, day CIIISENFIA LE CIIIsENIIALE, Esq., one Of
derived.
All these facts are admitted, and still it is in-
: the county Magistrates, accompanied by Mr. GA s-
sinuated that the Clergy are insincere in their op.
KELL and the military, went over to Hindley, for
the purpose of dispersing the mob ; but the rioters their
donenunciations of it to the Ribbon system, and superficial in
i
!
had flail. The Wigan troop of yeomanry cavalry
have been ordered out for duty. Now when We have it, moreover, in evidence, and every
our very much alarmed Contemporary cannot day brings forth fresh instances to corroborate this
Proof muster any worse stories than these of the Chartistsroof of their zeal in support of the laws, that the
in its neighbourhood, we must come to the conclu-
have
sion that the mill-owners in general are much more
Roman Catholic Clergy in all parts of Ireland
uniformly assisted the civil power in oprosing the
il
Progress of sedition, and bringing public criminals
frightened than hurt. Whether their terror proceed
to justice. Even Captain VIGNOLES adds his tes-
from the overt acts of the Chartists or their
,ownthem to timony to that of the other Tory witnesses, and
consciences, is a question we must leave tn
settle ; hut w acknowledges that he has received very great as-
Zee have not forgotten, and we believe •
sist
Mr. DRUMMOND states two very remarkable in-
a. .
Paring prosecutions. p
re-
nee from the Roman Catholic Priests in
1 the public never will forget, the scenes which the
pari
1 inquiries of certain Factory Committees and Hand-
-1 loom Committees brought to light not many years
sago. The Man. cheste; Guardian is one of their
stances of assistance derived from the same source :
organs, and its endeavours to generate alarm, and
In the year 1836, an illegal association called
" The Shamrock Society,' was discovered, and
fists and their leaders, have been conspicuous
excite animosity and hatred towards the Char-
several of the members arrested in the town of
Sligo. It was the first occasion on which any
i from the first beginning of their career. We
beg leave to say that while the trials of some discovery likely to prove available in a court of
of the Chartists are yet pending, it would be
justice had been made ; and by whose instrumenta-
as proper to say nothing, though it might not serve lity was it brought to light ? By a Priest !
the ends cf the Guardian, as the practice of
snak-
Yes, b one of those men who are said to be secretly
ing as much as possible of a meeting that should
engaged in promoting the plots and objects of the
conspirators :—" I ought to mention,' says Mr.
have been held, and of the great deed of two tom
panics of Foot having captured a Chartist banner. DRUMMOND, " that this Society was discovered
We 'allude to this subject with no feelings butie by the Roman Catholic Dean of Sligo. It was he
pain, because we are convinced that tn
those ofwho disclosed it. He found that those persons were
assembled together, and he went and detained them
attempts to excite alarm, animosity, and hatred
will be mutually and reciprocally successful. The in the house until the Provost, whom he sent for, and had them arrested upon the spot." Mr.
mill-owners are obviously brimful of terror and CaineTRACY adds, " The conduct of the Rey. 'JAMES
hatred. By the people, it is equally obvious, that
DUNLEAItY, P.P., has been so praiseworthy in
the affair of Petcrloo is neither forgotten nor
forgiven, and, in like manner, the affair at
this transaction, and he has shown so anxious a Birmingham, on the 4th of July, and the i
oesire to preserve the peace of the country that it has subsequent proceedings, will sink deep and endangered his popularity with the lower orders ;but
remain permanently engraved in their memory, it must have earned for him the good opinion of
the respectable portion of society, and will, doubt-
-1 ill
less, receive the high reward of his Excellency's
Biraiingham, whatever doctrines might have been approbation.`
trught, the people I lused
iat no violence. To that'"
Had the loyalty of this ecclesiastic
beenmerely " superficial," he had but to " pass
irritating attack all the subsequent riots are to be by the other side," as other Priests have done in
. on
traced, and the Bir •
rotngham Maarstrates, as the
the olden time, and probably neither Mr. FA USSET,
causes of the sat Bolton, are every bit as much •
the Tory Provost, nor Mr. TRACY, the active Police
to blame as riot. BRoNTERRE O'BRIEN or Mr. lnspector,with all their scouts and informers, would
FEA RGUS O'CONNOR. Prior to the 4 hof July
t
the Chartists had begun to quarrel
was '''-
he objects for which it as
selves, the Convention was disoroanai:stoingst them-f been held, or of t
the members had resigned, and
wale al
o sembled.
there
mentioned by Mr. DRUMMOND,
probability of the ferment subsidies,
Cas every The other case,
e•Compelled n Catholic Priest who gave
' was that of a Roma gave
as the working classes are, to labour from 12 t 0... 16
information to Mr. WARBURTON, a sti
hours every day for their living, they have such
onl
that he was enabled to make
little time to spare for political agitation. So yfaar pendiary Magistrate,
as they are concerned, agitation cannot long be a seizure of 40 stand of unregistered arms, and
the first attempt
kept up, and the quarrels amongst the Conven- thereby, as the latter alleges, defeat
tionists,
• the money that had been spent to no good made to introduce the Ribbon
i System into a large,
with the call for more, had heeun to dis- wild, and populous county.
purpose, . to the 4th of July. The Now, did the manner of the prosecution before
gust the Chartists prior
that day the Lords' Committeeg produce among his wit-
conduct of the Magistrates, on only .
nesses either Dean of Sligo,
• •
served to irritate them, and provoke outrage,
both of this honest Priest, or the ,
Courts and Juries whom were evidently masters of sound and
while the conduct of
tangible information served
justiceto convince . them • . upon the subject of Secret So-
since, has only
c!eties. They could have told him more than the vi-
reason from juries, as ,
So-
that they can as little expect
siunary Mr Ito
lawyers. Some I . • WAN, or the oracular Major I'V
j .. A St-
reason and common sense from
BIRToN ;but they were not brought forward. Nay
foolish persons,showever, are boasting that then gourf :
more—when Mr. FAUSsET, the Provost, was
of the Birmingham Magistrates, the willingness o required to state what he knew about Ribbon men
the Government to prosecute, and the readiness of : Sligo, :
in 4...g0, it was not suffered to go to the public that
juries to convict, are opening tile eyes of the 1 he had derived every particle of his information
Chartists to their danger, and restoring the land to .
1 through the help of a Priest ; but he received it
tranquiirty. What a sad mistake, tending to sane- i• from Blank !
lion Outrage, ar.d encouraee injustice. Before the l' ~ How came you to be,aquainted with the existence of
Government had arrested' a sine', person,in- 1 Ribbon Societies in 1336 . or
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LONDON :
MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1839.

Lord BROUGHAM brings under the notice of the
House of Lords to-day the proceedings of the Ge-
neral Assembly, and more especially the resolutions
of the Commission adopted at Edinburgh on
Wednesday last, relative to disputed Church patron.
age in Scotland. At present the spiritual and
temporal powers in that country are at utter
variance. The Supreme Court of Scotland, backed
by the House of Lords, has decided that the As-
sembly had assumed a right incompatible with the
law of the land, and enjoined all the Church Courts
to proceed with the settlement of presentees, as be-
fore the Act of Assembly of 1835, which was thereby
declared null and void. The Assembly assert their
authority, and prohibit Presbyterians from obeying
the injunction of the Supreme Courts. The House
of Lords, and particularly the Bishops, will find
this rather a knotty point. Dr. PHILPOTTS, who is
so fond of exalting the ecclesiastical power over the
civil power, cannot fail to side with the Kirk, and
pour out his wrath on a lay Peer, for presuming to
meddle with things Divine. It is certainly a re-
markable sign of the times, that in Prussia the
Archbishop of COLOGNE, in Ireland Dr. 11141 A LE,
in England, Dr. PHILPOTTS, and in Scotland Dr.
CHALMERS, should simultaneously be attempting
to set up a spiritual, and therefore undefined and
undefinable power, in opposition to the temporal
authority of the State.

The Journal de Stnyrne of the 29th ult. has
the following announcement which confirms the re-
port to the same effect which recently appeared in
the London Journals :
it is certain that the Ambassadors from the Porte to
foreign courts are to be suppressed, and replaced by
Charges d'Affaires. Talat Effendi was to proceed to France
by the next packet. Eyoub Effendi, lately arrived from
London, where he was attached to the Ottoman legation, had set out again for that capital with letters of credence as
Charge d'Affaires. The Sultan has taken into his service
nearly all the officers attached to the person of his father,
and the rest have had liberal pensions allotted to them.
Hassan Pacha, late Governor of Tripoli, has been ap-
pointed Governor of Cyprus, in the room•of. Osman Pacha,
deceased.
The suppression of Turkish Embassies is
said to be dictated by economy. This is very un-
likely. We believe the real cause to be a return to
the ancient constitution of the Moslem Govern-
ment. Every innovotion whether in costume,
habits, or observances, which the Priests disap-
prove of, is in course of abolition throughout the
Empire. Wine is again strictly forbidden, and
the bastinado and the bowstring are coming into
high repute.

We insert in another part of the Paper a letter
on " Abuses in the Excise," which, though of old
date, contains some new information to many of
our readers. That gross neglect, or something worse,
exists in this department, the late frauds practised
in London and Liverpool abundantly prove ; and if
the Lords of the Treasury have not already " looked
fully into these disgraceful proceedings, and probed
them to the bottom," they must come in for their
share of the blame. The occasion affords them a
fit opportunity for inquiring into the management
of these well paid and hitherto almost irresponsible
Commissioners.

The affairs of the East occupy a great portion of the
French Journals received this morning. All that is
important and interesting in the late advices from Con
stantinopie and Alexandria will he found arranged
under the proper head in another part of The Sun.
We direct the attention of our readers to these extracts

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