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false; but that is Mr. Shafto's affair, not ours.
Whether Mr. Shafto originated the fabrication) or
whether he were only the copying machine em-
ployed by some person of More fertile imagination
than ltirrise)f, is a questich that we do not feel called
Upon at this moureht to discuss.
In the tweantime we shall content ourselves with
public;hing two letters—the first from our own re-
porter at Penrith, whose expression, that " com-
mon fame has proved itself a common liar," will
have been explained by our previous observations.
With the second letter we have been favoured by
Lord Methuen ; it has reference to the communi-
cation that appeared in our yesterday's publication
from Comte d'Orsay
PENRITH, Tuesday Evening.
" On my arrival this evening at Brougham Hall
(which is about a mile from this town) I found that
common fame in this, as in many other instances,
has proved a common liar; and your readers will,
I am sure, be as delighted as I was to learn that
Lord Brougham has escaped without any injury,
and that Mr. Leader, M.P. for Westminster, and
Mr. and Mrs. Shafto and Mr. Edwards, who ac-
companied him in the carriage, were equally fortunate.
The driver of the carriage which was hired from the
George Hotel, Penrith, has received several severe
contusions, having been kicked by the horses in a
most severe manner, and his life was for sane time
considered in danger. Mr. Shafto's servant, who
accompanied him on the box, was also much
wounded. It appears that Lord Brougham, with
his party, had set out to view a property of his at a
a few miles distance, on the way to an expedition
to the Lakes, and for that purpose engaged the lan-
dau ; but they had scarcely proceeded seven or
eight miles when, by the accident of a bolt slipping,
the springs gave way, the driver and servants were
thrown forward on the horses, the horses reared,
kicked, plunged, and finally overturned the carriage,
though fortunately with no more serious results than
I have mentioned. Lord Brougham and Mr. Leader
walked back to Brougham Hall, and sent on a car-
riage to their friends, and the whole party set out
on the following day for the Lakes, whence they
are expected to return to-night or to morrow. The
driver is recovering, and Mr. Shafto's servant was
well enough to accompany his master on Sunday.
" I have hastily penned the above in order to
give you the earliest opportunity of contradicting
the Unfortunate rumours which this accident has
given rise to."

lin this way at has been the case in England. Surely
the Dutch are not so wanting in intelligence, but
that we might, however lite in the day, profit by
their example. With a debt so immense, pressing
upon the energies of the people, measures ought to
have been taken to prevent the ruinous sapping of
our resources being carried to anything like the
extent it has for the aggrandisement of nations
which may by and bye become our enemies. The
great cities and defences of all kinds of the United
States, for instance, may be said to have been almost
wholly produced by British treasure, the folly of part-
ing with which is but too apparent when we come to
reflect for an instant on the circumstance that while the
debt of the borrowing country is entirely paid off, that
of the other, enormous as it is, has undergone no sensible
diminution.
The Dutch are a provident people. No nation can
be more scrupulous in the performance of their en-
gagements, both public and private ; and if we do not
profit by the useful lessons they set us in economy it
is our own fault.
We understand that gold coin is now flowing into
the market pretty freely. The principal arrivals are
from Paris. An early improvement may, therefore, be
reasonably looked for in the exchanges.

CATHOLIC DINNER AT CORK.

A grand dinner was given to the Roman Catholic
Archbishop and Bishops, and Mr. O'Connell, at Cork on
Monday.
This dinner took place in the great room of the
Chamber of Commerce, which was tastefully decorated
with evergreens and devices. Above the Chair was a
transparency, and above it a bust of O'Connell.
Shortly before dinner a congratulatory address was
presented by a deputation of the citizens of Cork to the
Most Rev. Dr. Crolly, and the other Bishops present.
It is unnecessary to give the address, as the following
reply of Dr. Crolly fully states the sentiments which it
contains :
"Gentlemen—We beg leave most sincerely to assure
you that the expression of your respect and veneration
for the ministers of our holy religion, conveyed in your
address, affords us the highest gratification.
" Your kind attention to us on the present occasion is
in perfect. accordance with that dirveted attachment to
the ancient faith by which the Catholics of Cork have
been at all times so eminently distinguished.
" We give thanks to Almighty God that you recog-
nise in our conduct that increasing zeal for the spiritual
welfare of our faithful flocks, which has been at every
period the characteristic virtue of the Irish clergy.
" We are not surprised that the calumnies which
have been uttered against our religion have excited your
indignation ; but we beg you to recollect that the true
Church has been at all times attacked in the same man-
ner. Her divine Founder was persecuted even to death,
and he distinctly warned his followers that men would
revile and speak every evil of them, even as they had
spoken of himself. The only return a Christian can
make in such circumstances, is to pray for those who
revile and persecute him.' The only means of defence
recommended in the Sacred Scripture is, to let our
light shine before men ;' that, beholding our patience
and forbearance under grievous calumnies, they may
learn from our example that spirit of charity which is
the best proof of the truth of our religion.
" Again, Gentlemen, be pleased to accept the
strongest assurance of our high esteem and very sincere
regard, and be convinced that the splendid monuments
of zeal, piety, and truly Christian charity, which we
have beheld since our arrival, will not be easily effaced
from our mornory."
The Chair was taken by Mr. O'Connell shortly after
seven o'clock, at which time the room was thronged to
inconvenience.
On the right and left of the Chairman, we observed
Dr. Crolly, the. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh,
and nine other Bishops; Mr. Roche, M.P. for Cork;
Mr. Barry, M.P., Mr. Lyons, Mr. W. Fagan, Mr. J.
S. Murphy, and a number of the leading commercial
men of Cork. A large number of the inferior clergy
was also present.
After the cloth was withdrawn,
Mr. O'CONNELL rose and said, that it had been his
fortune upon many occasions, since the happy accession
of the present Sovereign to the throne, to call for a full
bumper to pledge her health and happiness ; but on no
occasion upon which he had that high honour had he
felt himself disposed to say that the occasion was suit-
able to the dignity of the toast.—(Hear, hear.) The
present, however, differed from all others to which he
had referred, and it struck his judgment that the Sove-
reign herself might condescend to receive something of
pleasure from a toast thus offered in the sincerity of
their hearts by such a company as that by which he
was surrounded.—(Loud cheers.) He stood then
amongst the dignitaries of that Church, whose vo-
taries were more numerous than any other religious
persuasion in her dominions.—(Hear, hear) The Ca-
tholics outnumbered any other religious persuasion that
existed in the British isles.—( Hear, hear.) They
had got the majority—he did not reflect upon any
other creeds by saying this—he merely used that lan-
guage to give expression to a fact, and i❑ vindication of
his assertion that the Sovereign might feel proud of the
expression of the loyalty and affection of a meeting like
the present.—(Hear, hear.) The dignitaries of the
Catholic Church had no interested motives for their
loyalty. Their respect and affection towards their So-
vereign arose from the highest and the purest motives,
and they not only respected " the powers that be," but
thought loyalty and obedience to others—(Cheers)—
even in these awful times of persecution, when the head
of a wolf and the bead of a priest were estimated at the
same value in the eve. of the law—even at that
dismal period of Ireland's history, the same spirit of
loyalty was preached from her thousand altars by the
predecessors of the prelates by whom he was surrounded.
—(Loud cheers.) Yes, he would say to the Archbishop
of Armagh, and to his brethren, theirs was the genuine
loyalty of principle, and gloriously did contrast itself
with the interested clang of the factious tongues of
those who were loyal when they had power ; or, in
other words, the liberty to oppress, but whose serpent
tongues were only employed to malign and to traduce
the Sovereign, when ranged, as our glorious Sovereign
had ranged herself; on behalf of her people and against
that faction.—(Cheers.) They must all remember " The
King, God bless him !" which used to issue as the
watch-word of that faction, and for any one who dared
to speak a word against him the black-hoh was too
good, and the lash and the torture merely a fit requital.
But where had the loyalty of those men gone to now ?
it had completely vanished, and they eagerly en-
tered into e very plot and every chambermaid conspiracy :
and even when the purity of the Royal mind was such
as to lead her to shudder at the appearance of vice, and
because she was too good to tolerate even its appear-
ance about her, that miserable malignant faction still
clung to their calumny ; nay, they would, as he had
said before, deprive their Sovereign of her life
if they possessed the power.—(Hear, hear.) The
present Sovereigu was the first of the line of
Brunswick who had ruled this empire with an impar-
tial sway over all classes of her subjects. The House
of Brunswick had seemed to have come to the throne
for the purpose of excluding one portion of its subjects
in these realms, and as the partisans of the other.—
(Hear.) If that had been their design, it had been
thoroughly worked out by one King after another of
that line ; but they had now at length arrived at that
period of the dynasty when that system of rule had
happily ceased, in the contemplation of the glorious po-
sition taken by the Sovereign, under whose maternal
authority they were placed.—(Hear.) He trusted she
would ere long, in another sense, be a mother. This
was no vain aspiration of his, for it was said that a
young Prince, one of a family remarkable for its good
sense and good feeling—it was said that he was about
to share her Throne. If this contributed to bless her
with those domestic ties without which authority was
a mere dream, an empty bubble, he hoped it might
be so; and if so, they would still show that theirs
was no transitory or conditional loyalty, but that
they would re?ttain as true to the Throne as
was the dial to the sun, and leave to ethers to talk
of that loyalty which depended on their possession
of the power to oppress. He would conclude by pro-
posing " The Queen, and may her counsels produce the
prosperity and contentment of her people."—(Cheers.)
The toast having been drank with all the honours,
Mr. O'CONNELL said, the next toast he had to
propose was, " The people, the true source of all
political power."—(Cheers.) This was a toast which
giving it in the place he did, required from him rather
an apology than a preface. As regarded himself he
was the advocate of popular rights all over the world.
He was the decided friend of human liberty in all coun-
tries, in every class, of every creed and colour.—(Loud
cheers.) He had, however, still to apologise for in-
troducing in an assembly so composed as the present,
such a sentiment as " The people—the true source
of all political power." They had not met that day for
any political purpose. They had assembled to pay the
tribute of the respect of the Irish Catholics to the Ca-
tholic hierarchy of Ireland, in the presence of the Arch-
bishop of Armagh, and his right reverend brethren.
They had met to show the respect in which the people
held their unendowed pastors—that was their present
purpose ; and he would say that the people of Ireland
as well deserved the affections of their pastors as their
pastors deserved the regard and the veneration of the
people. They had at all times been faithful, true, and
sincere.—(Loud cheers.) In all the other countries of
Europe, when their Governments were deluded to stray
from the Catholic doctrines by force or fraud, or by a
comtination of both, they took the people with them
but when the Government forsook the Catholic Church
in Ireland the people adhered to it—(Loud cheers)—_
and it was singular that this Government—all powerful
as it was for mischief and wrong and impiety—never-
theless failed as the wave that passed harmless at the
foot of a rock in inducing the Irish people to apostacy.
Semper fidelcz had been their motto during 300 years of
persecution. Yes, and after that period of persecution
had any of them become apostates or deserters ?
( Hear, hear.) No, they had come out of it as lively
and as faithful as before.—(Loud cheers.) But it
was not thus alone that the people of Ireland had af-

forded an example to other nations, but another great
moral miracle had been worked amongst them under
the irfluenc.e of Father Matthew. Here Mr. O'Con-
nell referred to the spread of temperance societies in
Ireland, and enlarged upon the growing benefit de-
rived from their establishment in Ireland, as tending to
eradicate that vice from which the greatest crimes had
resulted, and pledged himself that the Irish would be
as faithful to this moral creed as they had been to their
religious faith, and in the moral as in the religious
struggle.—(Loud cheers.)
Tne toast was drunk with loud applause. The eext
toast was, " The health of the Duke of Sussex, and the
rest of the Royal Family resident in England."
Mr. O'CONNELL said the next toast savoured some-
what of politics, but with those present it was with no
angry political feeling they suggested it. The toast
was, " The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland." The pledge
of that Nobleman to follow in the footsteps of Lord
Normanby was an ample guarantee that his administra-
tion would tend to the amelioration of Ireland.—
(Cheers.) He was glad that those who had framed
the toast had made it personally complimentary to Lord
Ebrington, before they referred to the pledge to which
lie had alluded, for no one deserved a compliment, for
the sincerity and manly determination of conduct which
he had evinced, more than that Nobleman.—(Hear,
hear.) He was not disposed to exaggerate the difficul-
ties by which he was surrounded in the administration of
his (7)fice ; yet they were many, and there was none
greater than the fawning hypocrisy with which the
Tory faction treated him, so long as they could se-
parate him from the course of policy pursued by his
illustrious predecessor.---( Hear, hear.) But now
when they saw that he identified himself with the
course of administration pursued by Lord Normanby,
their disappointment was only equalled by their malig-
nity, and Heaven knew that it was difficult to calculate
a greater quantity than the abundance they possessed
of the latter.—(Loud cheers.) Lord Normanby had
been the first Viceroy who had proclaimed equal justice
in Ireland. For six hundred years they had read not
the history of Ireland, but that of her oppressors—
( Hear, hear)--and he would ask if they could point
out any of them (if he excepted Lord Fitzwilliam) who
lied, however, been but the Lord-Lieutenant of a day—
who had intended honestly, and acted fairly towards
this country, except Lord Normanby—(Hear, hear)—
and with what cordial hatred had he been persecuted,
because of his honesty, by the enemies of Ireland.—
(Hear, hear.) In that capacity the man of the first
genius and talent in the country had ranged himself
against Lord Normanby.—(Hear, hear.) Why, then,
should they not toast with alacrity and sincerity the
Lord-Lieutenant who had displayed such manliness in
the cause of Ireland, and with ten times more of gra-
titude, because he had identified his administration with
that of Lord Normanby?—(Loud cheers.)
The toast was drunk with enthusiasm.
Mr. O'CONNELL then rose and said that be had
come to the toast of the night, and without any un-
worthy affectation of inferiority such as their kindness
would at once contradict, lie must declare his utter
incapability to do justice to it. A thousand recollec-
tions crowded upon him—in ages of ancient glory, of
more modern utility, and of future prosperity, rushed
to his mind. He thought of Ireland, and of her fate—
d the unbroken success which now placed amongst them
the successors of St. Patrick and the other saints who
had spread the light of Christian truth amidst the dark-
ness of pagan superstition in which their ancestors had
been plunged. He thought of the long and severe
struggles this country had gone through, and of the
beautiful image which the Church afforded of a hier-
archy unbroken as the dignity of that Church had
been constantly preserved. He thought of the an-
cient Palmyra with its majestic pillars standing
perfect in solemn grandeur where all else was a
desert. There was the perfection of the edifice ex-
hibited on every side, and thus stood the edifice of the
Catholic Church amidst the desert of evils that sur-
rounded it, exhibiting still its unbroken columns and the
undiminished strengt of its arches. There it stood,
perfect as when first its altars were gilded, and all the
majesty of its architecture complete.—(Loud cheers.)
With regard to the Rev. Prelates who had that day
honoured them with their company, they greeted them
with the honour and respect due to them as represen-
tatives of that hierarchy who had ever been the faithful
guardians of their religion, and whose piety thoughout
ages of persecution had ever been preserved unaltered.
They were entitled to their deepest gratitude.—(Hear.)
Should he be silent, or might he expatiate upon the
words of the toast, which he could not possibly strengthen?
He could not deny to himself the pleasure of saying a few
words more upon that topic. He had before spoken
of the fidelity of the people ; but could the people have
remained faithful unless their clergy deserved their vene-
ration, and had been faithful guardians of the fold ?
( Hear.) Would it have been possible for the flock to
continue in the right path if the shepherd had deserted
and gone over to the enemy ?—(Hear.) No, it would
have been impossible, and in this England and Ireland
presented a powerful contrast. When the most
vicious of the human race had made what they
called a Reformation in England, they took with them
all the hierarchy there except two—(Hear, hear)—
whereas, when in Ireland the same power was exerted,
amongst all the Irish Bishops only two were found un-
faithtul, and one of those was an intruded Englishman
—Dr. Browne.—( Loud cheers.) There was a contrast !
—( Hear, hear.) Yes, in Ireland the shepherds were
true, and their flocks knew and adhered to them.
and the predecessor of the present Bishop of
Ferns in the day of persecution left his
princely establishment behind, and carried his
conscience to a land where he endeavoured to earn a
subsistence by teaching little children to spell and read.
He was faithful,
as all present would be under similar
circumstances—as faithful to the peOple as the people
had been to them.—(Loud cheers.) The scaffolds
reeked with their blood, but they were still unshaken,
and it was with pride he could say, that one of his
(Mr. O'Connell's) own family, a bishop, had sealed
with his blood the sincerity of his faith.—( Hear, hear.)
He had spoken of the fidelity of the people, and why
should he not also glory in the unbroken solicitude of
the pastors ?—(Hear, hear.) The people had their
merits, but these were concentrated by the care of their
pastors. Three times had these pastors, since the Re-
formation, been elevated again to political power. Three
times since then had Catholicism been restored. They
had been perSecuted, • but did they retaliate when
they obtained the power of doing so ? No, even Pro-
testant historians testified that the only Church that
had ever been restored, and which did not return
persecution for persecution, liad been the Catholics of '
Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) Those were glorious in-
stances. The first of them occurred in the time of
Mary ; the second during the Parliament of Kilkenny
and the reign of James 11., and instead of persecuting
they gave refuge to the fugitive Protestants who, in
the reign of Mary, took refuge with the Corporation of
Dublin.—(Hear, hear.) These facts should go forth
trumpet-tongued.—( Hear, hear.) For if the case of
retaliation could be used against the Catholics, how
would it be exulted over.—(Hear, hear.) No, the
breach of treaties and of solemn compacts was on the
other side ; and what was the cause of this ? Was it
for any purposes of human utility, for the, purposes of
education and the spread of knowledge? No, but for the
anti-Christian purposes of persecution and of rendering
ignorance perpetual by Act of Parliament. —(lea
had: t:,
bear.) If Mortimer O'Sullivan or Mageo ed: been
able to make out such a case against tie,Rosetan Ca-'
tholics would they ever have heard the,end,44 it ?1--
(Hear, hear.) Let them cast their eyes 411;trojtd,' how-
ever, and ask themselves in what country aette.tPistes.:
tantism persecuted by the Catholics ?—(lleasaf! hear.)
He would challenge O'Sullivan and Magee' to point
them out. In Spain and Portugal Protestants held
high offices in the army and navy ; and„in.fact, there
was no country in which Protestantism was,persecuied
by Catholics. The only religion persecuted was the
Catholic.—( Hear, hear, hear.) The abominable inon_•
stet. who ruled Russia w..s not satisfied with perse-•
cuting Catholicism in Poland, but endeavoured by per-
secution to compel two millions of his subjects in
another district to adopt a persuasion which they
could neither believe nor respect. The honourable
and Learned Gentleman referred to the persecutions
recently practised against the Catholics in Prussia, and
placed in contra-position the conduct of the Catholics
throughout Europe, where they possessed power in re-
ference to Protestantism. And why, he would ask, did
not bigotry do its work in Ireland? Because the Irish
Catholics numbered seven millions, and every man
amongst them had two hands.—(Hear and loud cheers.)
After some further remarks on the conduct of the Cler-
gy, he concluded by saying their Bishops had existed
since the days of St. Peter, and their successors would
endure till the second coining of their Divine Masten—
(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with loud and continued cheers.
Dr. CEOLLY (the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh)
then rose amidst loud applause, and returned grateful
thanks in the name of his brethren for the kindness ex-
hibited to them on this occasion. The present, he
said, was the first time he had ever the honour of
visiting that great commercial city, and he must say
that the monuments of charity which there abounded had
afforded to him the greatest delight.—(Hear, hear.)
Yesterday they had assembled to consecrate one of thb
most splendid edifices in Ireland, in honour of the living
God, and it must be most delightful to every sincere
Christian to find that this splendid church had been
erected by contributions from Christians of every reli-
gious persuasion and denomination.—(Loud cheers.)
He bad travelled fiom one extremity of the kingdom co
the other, and monuments of a similar nature bad pre-
sented themselves to him on all sides. In Carlow, Kil-
kenny, Waterford, Dungarvon, and Cork—in all of
these places he bad seen ample proofs of increasing in-
dustry, and all that he had seen led him to hope for the
approach of prosperity to their native land.—(Loud
cheers.) For these great blessings they were deeply
indebted to their most gracious Sovereign, whose bene-
volence was the brightest ornament of her throne, whilst
the justice with which she wielded her sceptre was its
most permanent security.—(Cheering,) What could be
in the Royal council
moreupdreilgighhttfmulintod,eetehraynintdoivisdeueal possessing an honest
and

chamber Catholic Councillors joining with Protestants
in the administration of the most important matters
connected with the State, and co-operating with them
for the promotion of the improvement and happiness
of all the British dominions.—( Hear, and loud cheers.)
Let them look to the Home Department, and they
there found the unparalleled Normanby —(Loud
cheers)—they there found that Nobleman who had
been the first to give confidence to the Irish people
in the justice of the administration of affairs in this
country.—(Cheers.) He it was who could not rest
content with the information had at second hand in
the castle of Dublin, but who visited all corners of
the island, and like a pillar of light darkness was
dissipated wherever be came, and the truth was brought
home to his powerful mind with reference to the state
of the country. He had also the spirit to act upon
his conviction, and thus darkness and bigotry dis-
appeared from the face of the land.—(Loud cheers.)
Perhaps, however, their gracious Queen wanongst all the
men in her empire could not have selected as his sue-
cessor, more worthy of her confidence, a more honest
and impartial governor than Lord Ebrington.—(Hear,
hear, and cheers.) His mind he (Dr. Crolly) himself
knew was sound, his heart was honest, and he had no
doubt he would hold the reins of government so impar-
tially, as shortly to establish his right to the purest af
fections of the Irish heart.—(Cheers.) Formerly the
best portions of the British Constitution had in Ireland
been perverted to the worst purposes of corruption. The
trial by jury had been made a curse instead of a blessing,
but now Catholic judges were upon our benches, and
went hand in hand with Protestants in the due ad-
ministration of the law. They worked together ear-
nestly and zealously to support and promote virtue and
righteousness, and to punish vice and crime.—(Cheers.)
He well remembered the difficulties that Catholic prelates
had to encounter, when the poor Catholics throughout
the country were beset by the snares of proselytism,
when the landlord and his agent, and the wealthy
bigot endeavoured by their bribes, their money, their
promises, and their threats, to bring the children of the
poor to places where their faith would he placed in
danger before their minds were able to defend it.—
(Hear.) Now, however, they enjoyed the blessing of
an impartial board of education—(Hear)—the Ca-
tholic Archbishop taking care that there should be no
encroachment on the one side or the other ; and thus
whilst the schools were spreading over the land, all the
apparatus of a good moral education was afforded, and
the children of the poor could enter them without
any one asking them to alter or abandon the faith in
which they bad been brought up.—(Hear.) These
facts were sources of great satisfaction ; but there was
also another to which he would allude as one calculated
to diffuse virtue and happiness throughout the land.
Every province, every district and county, had now as
guardians of the poor respectable persons of different re-
ligious persuasions—these were generally men of infor-
mation, and although they formerly stood aloof from
each other they were now brought into contact, and
had too much sense to disturb the establishments over
which they presided with nonsensical dissensions. Their
reason would set at work to discover the wants of the
poor man, and by what class paupers were generated.
Thussthe asperities which had existed would be worn
away, and men of different religions would live in
harmony, and speculative opinions would no longer
interrupt the course of Christian charity in the land.
—(Great cheeering.) He felt that there were bright
prospects before them. It was true they had not yet
arrived at that point of justice which alone could
be satisfactory to every rational mind ; but he hoped
soon to see the seeds which had already been sown
ripened to a plenteous harvest of pure equity in all
departments of the Administration.—(Cheers.) For
these purposes, and to achieve these ends, the Clergy
would work with the Laity.—(Loud cheers.) They
could not forget that, not long since, persecution raged
in all its horrors in this country—and that in the days
of trial their flocks had followed them in the darkness
of night to worship their God under the starry canopy
of heaven, in eaves and glens, and hidden places ; and
could it now be supposed that their pastors would apos-
tatise when their people had a right to expect a re-
turn of that affection which they had so warmly
and sincerely evinced ?—(Loud cheers.) No ; the
prelates would work with their flocks for that justice
which was the ground-work of national contentment.—
(Loud cheering.) He now requested them to fill a
Dumper in earnest.—(Hear.) The benefits to which
he had referred had been the fruits of emancipation,
and here (pointing to Mr. O'Connell), they had the
parent of that great and important benefit.—(Loud
cheers.) If they now could stand in the attitude of
freemen—if the yoke of degradation had been cast off
their necks, he had there before him the powerful arm
which had broken the fetters that had enthralled them.—
(Loud cheers.) If Ireland was now tranquil from Cape
Clear to the Giant's Causeway, there was the powerful
tongue which gave to them advice—there was the mind
which had given to them direction.—(Loud cheers.)
The mouth of the parent of the sons of Erin was
opened, and his voice, as the voice of peace, reached
equally the lowest cabin and the most gorgeous mansion.
By his tranquillizing power the sounds of discord had
been lulled, and the land was now a land of peace.
He would challenge all history to find another patriot
who had secured the freedom of a great people without
the shedding of one drop of human blood.—(Great
cheering.) He concluded by proposing •• the health of
their beloved and respected liberator—the pacificator
of his country—Daniel G'Connell."
The toast was received with long-continued cheering.
Mr. O'CONNELL returned thanks in a lengthened
and eloquent speech, for which, from the late hour at
which the report necessarily arrived, we cannot find
space. He urged the people to . renewed energy at
the registries, and declared his assurance that the
clergy would lead them on ; and concluded by
stating that, old as he was, he was prepared for
many future years of struggle. He then proposed old
Ireland as she ought to be, and concluded, as he had
somewhere heard it expressed, " Ireland her own, or
the world in a blaze."—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'CONNELL then declared that he was a Minis-
terialist in the House of Commons, for whatever might
be the sins of the Ministry elsewhere, they were the
friends of Ireland. He therefore proposed " Her Ma,
jesty's Ministers."

The toast was drunk with loud applause.
Mr. WALsti spoke to the toast.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the
Catholic Clergy of the second order.
The Rev. Mr. FOLVEY returned thanks, and declared
that the clergy were ready to lead their flocks to the
registry, and to unite with them in one cause for politi-
cal freedom.

Several other toasts were proposed (the subjects of
which were forwarded in a previous: communication) after
which the company separated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF Tills DAY.
(From the Morning chronicle.)
The Tory journals are still in full cry for their
own fixed principles ; they hunt for them everywhere ;
every point of the compass has been tried, and all to
no purpose ; Protestant ascendancy, scripture educa-
tion, the Dissenters, the Reform Act, and a dozen
other topics have been started ; but with no better re-
sult than to confirm the reproach of the Quarterly
Review that the party has ruined itself by a " fluctuat
ing policy," and the want of " fixed principle." We
hope our Contemporaries will pursue the subject ; for
opposed as we are to whatever can permanently cha-
racterise Toryism, we.yet hold that to be very respect-
able as compared with the
ihypocritical, sophistical,
temporizing, slimy, double-faced policy which has marked
the leadership of Sir Robert Peel. That such an organ
as the Quarterly Review has spoken out against this
mass of varnished rottenness, is a good symptom. It
is good, not merely as indicating a division in the
camp of the common enemy, but as tending to .a more
honest and honourable plan of warfare. Toryism is
essentially an evil ; but the evil must be materially
abated as Tories become honest men, disdaining sub-
terfuge, repudiating trickery, declining to cater for every
vulgar prejudice, base passion, and sinister interest ;
and, in conformity with the suggestions of the Reviewer,
spurning Peel policy for intelligible, though it may be
mistaken, principle. The " fixed principle" of yester-
day—for these Tory principles are like Lord Brougham,
" kicked to death" one day, and re-appearing the next,
only that in him the falsehood was in the death, with
them the falsehood is in the vitality—the fixed prin-
ciple of yesterday is " the safety of the Established
Churches in the United Kingdom, and of the Pro-
testant religion, of which these Churches are the fort-
resses." We have read of a religion which has a firmer
fortress than the temporalities of any Church. But,
waving that point, we ask whether this safety was con-
sulted in the hostility to, or the adoption of, Catholic
Emancipation ? Is this safety consulted by practically
proscribing any class from honourable employment on
account of theological opinions ? Is it consulted by sus-
taining an incessant struggle for an obnoxious rate, of
which the entire amount paid by Dissenters is represented
as an inconsiderable fraction ? Is it consulted by throw-
ing insuperable difficulties in the way of national educa-
tion, or by opposing, on merely financial grounds, an in-
creased facility of communication ? Is it consulted
by making every question a Church question—by
stirring up bigotry and animosity through the land,
and creating a fictitious antagonism between estab-
lished religion and the just claims and interests of
millions? To us the very reverse appears to be the
fact. The greatest danger of Church or religion is
in the party policy of Toryism. In fact, the entire
article on " British Policy" is in form an attack upon
the Melbourne Ministry, but in spirit a complaint of
the Janus tactics of the Peel policy. The censure runs
through the whole argument ; not sparing even Sir
Robert Peel's master, the writer describes how, as he
thinks, the Duke of Wellington became a party to a
" flagrant violation of public pride and public principle"
(p. 471) ; he involves the Opposition, in both Houses,
in the same censure, representing them as " participat-
ing in their own dishonour" (p. 473)- ; he terms their
conduct " mysterious" and "incomprehensible" (P- 481) ;
in them, he says, " the heart of the British oak shows