The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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A TITHE VICTIM !—The Dublin Evening Post has re-
ceived the following horrifying communication from the
Rev. Gerald Doyle, the respected Parish Priest of Naas.
Is it by such a system as is here described that the Gospel
of the Redeemer is to be propagated by the Reformed

Church in Ireland ?
" Sir,—l beg the liberty of enclosing to you the follow-
ing facts connected with the blood-stained impost; and I
hope you will not consider them unworthy of being inserted
in your highly interesting Paper.
" On Wednesday, the 27th instant, Mr. d. Lennon,
Rathmore, near Naas, county Kildare, was seized by Writs
of Rebellion Ruffians,' was taken off his sick bed, thrown
into a cart, and lodged in Naas gaol.
" Lennon is more than eighty years old, has been out of
his mind for some time, and did not know his own child
who went to visit him in his dungeon.
" Heartless as Writs of Rebellion Ruffians' generally
are, the constables in the present instance had some feelings
of humanity. On seeing the debilitated and emaciated
Lennon, thy retired, and returned to describe the state in
which they found him—but they were ordered to do their
duty, and to secure their victim.—They did so, and there
he lies in a dungeon, incapable of knowing what he says,
where he is, or what he does.
" I have been to see him within the last hour ; his legs
and arms are like walking sticks—his words are scarcely
intelligible, and he is continually tearing off the bed-clothes.
" Yesterday he moped about his cell—came in contact
with a turf, and commenced immediately to eat it.
" I could state another fact relative to this poor victim ;
but, though it would create pity, it would also excite dis-
gust, and I, therefore, forbear to mention it.
" 'Tis reported that a petition is to be immediately trans-
mitted to his Excellency Earl Mulgrave, praying his Excel-
lency to restore to liberty this scarcely remnant of a human
being, that he may drag out his few remaining days, at
'east, on his own sick be, and at his own home.
" I make no comment.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your very humble servant;
" GERALD DOYLE.

" Naas, July 29, 1836."

DUBLIN, JULY 30TH.—Mr. LITTLE.--It turns out on
inquiry into the character of this gentleman, whose recent
appointment to the stipendiary magistracy of Down was
condemned by the Chronicle, that that paper was in error.
Mr. Little is not an Orangeman, and his previous conduct
as a Magistrate is described as being fair and impartial.
THE TODD FORGERY.—Mr. Todd now knows that his
audacious forgery is actually published. But does he know
that it is this moment exposed for sale in the shops of the
spiritual booksellers of Dublin, doubtless for the purpose of
disseminating, according. to M'Ghee, "the important truths
therein contained ?" The copyright of the infamous libel
is the property of the libeller ; and here we find it exposed
for sale. We call on Messrs. Todd, M‘Ghee, O'Sullivan,
or any other of the malignants, to deny, if they can, that
the money made by the sale of this book is literally " the
wages of prostitution."—Freeman's Journal.
THE TIPPERARY SOCIETY.—This Society, established
for aiding the authorities in tranquillising the county of Tip-
perary, held a meeting last week, J. Scully, Esq., J.P., in
the Chair. We are extremely gratified to learn, that the
efforts of the Society have already been attended with signal
success.

FEVER AND DISTRESS.—WC learn with regret that
cases of fever are numerous in the town and neighbour-
hood of Enniskillen among the poorer classes, and that the
utmost destitution and distress are the lamentable conse-
quence. Some entire families are lying in miserable cabins
in the back streets, with scarce a wisp of straw between
them and the damp earth, and wanting even the requisite
nourishment. There are instances of children and others
almost perishing from want, and of persons not quite con-
valescent tottering on their limbs to the doors of the bene-
volent inhabitants, in quest of means to provide some sort
of food for themselves and wretched families, and thus un-
avoidably spreading the contagion. It is to be lamented
that there are no available funds to meet such instances of
distress ; and unless some exertion be made to afford relief
to the sufferers, it is not easy to estimate the extent to
which the desolating influence of the disease may reach,
particularly at this season, when the food of the poor is
scarce and unwholesome, and perhaps rendered more so by
the prevailing wet weather.
The Assize Intelligence presents no feature of peculiar
interest, excepting perhaps that at Armagh Assizes four
men were found guilty of unlawful assembly at Tynan, on
the 18th of May, playing " Croppies lie down," Holy Wa-
ter," &c. A witness swore that a place where a brother
of his had been murdered some time previously, the pri-
soners stopped and played a double portion of music. It
is important to mention that in this case the jury was com-
posed exclusively of Protestants, eight of them being
Orangemen. The case was by no means an api°ravesed one,
and the conviction took place on the ground that such pro-
ceedings tended to excite animosity. The parties were
recommended to mercy, and the Chief Justice sen-
tenced them to a fortnight's imprisonment, finding bail to
keep the peace for seven years.
EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION.—On Friday, an in-
vestigation was entered into by Sir William AV. Lynar, and,
Mr. B. Molloy (Magistrates of the Blackrock petty ses-
sions), at the residence of the former, in Kingstown, re-
lative to the alleged misconduct of Mr. Richard Dunne, a
barrister, residing at No. 1, Clare-street. The Right
Hon. Lord Downes preferred a charge against Mr. Dunne,
for annoying himself and family, and particularly the Hon.
Miss Burgh, daughter of Lord Downes. His Lordship,
finding the conduct of Mr. Dunne becoming so insupport-
able and frequent, considered it advisable and necessary to
apply 'to Sir W. Lynar to restrain his conduct—for it
would even be too long a period to wait till the petty ses-
sions arrived. The investigation was accordingly held yes-
terday—Mr. Dunne having been served with the usual
summons to attend. Miss Helen Lowe (Governess
to the family of Lord Downes) was examined. She
stated that upon the 18th of the present month,
as herself and the Honourable Miss Burgh were walk-
ing in Kingstown (where Lord Downes resides, in the
Royal Hotel), they were accosted by Mr. Dunne, who said
something to Miss Burgh, which she (Miss Lowe) did not
understand, but which, she presumed, was impertinent and
offensive, as Miss Burgh appeared alarmed and indignant.
Miss Lowe further stated that upon the 20th instant, she
was addressed while walking in Kingstown, by Mr. Dunne,
who asked her " How was her pretty young friend to-day,"
and she was obliged to retreat into the Royal Hotel, being
apprehensive of personal insult and danger. Lord Dowries
was then examined. His Lordship stated that he, being
aware of the annoying and insulting conduct of Mr. Dunne,
left directions at the Hotel to intercept any letters from
Mr. Dunne to Miss Burgh, and in pursuance of those orders,
epistles of an amatory nature, bouquets of flowers, and news-
papers,n
Mwishsicßh
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teorfeelpotveed v,b•eyre wtheritsteernv,andtsi-.
lady. Upon the 24d instant, his Lordship met Mr. Dunne
rMecrt.eDd utnoi n e had even gone so far as to propose for the young
in town, and threatened to bring him to the police-office,
but on receiving the promise of Mr. Dunne to conduct
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felt himself
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obi;;ed to resort to the protection of the magistrates, as he
feared that Mr. Dunne would provoke a breach of the
race
his part or his servants. Miss Burgh expressed
!atlier, that she not only discouraged the ad-
dresses
but felt as if relieved from the vic-
nee of a mad dog "'hen proceedings were taken to stop
his career.
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The cenducu of Mr. Dunne, while before the
magistrates, was of a disresi.'ectful nature, and so far did
this extend, that informations %`re actually being prepared
against him by Mr. Molloy (one of the magistrates), whom
he had
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himself in 2.001, and find two sureties each in 100/.
Mr. Dunne ;awed to do ; he derided the au-
thority of the magistrates. Their Worships felt it neces-
sary to commit him to Kilmainham, in default of bail
and he was conveyed to the town by a party of the consta-
bulary police. He,
however, solicited the sergeant of the
police to permit hint to see the magistrates of the. Ilea(1
Police-office, and the sergeant complied with his request.
He then offered to tender bail, but Mr. Hamilton
(at the
instance of Sir W. Lynar, who refused to sanction a pro-
ceeding which interfered with his jurisdiction and com-
mittal),:declined receiving it till Mr. Dunne had been con-
veyed to Kilmainham, in pursuance of the order of the
petty sessions magistrates. Two carriages were procured,
in which Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Dunne, and his bail (Messrs.
Hodges and M'lstally), were conveyed to Kilmainham
where, pro forma, the recognizances were effected.
ABSENT MAGISTBATES.—If the following statement be
correct, the " Great Unpaid" in the vicinity of the Athlone
appear to obtain the commission of the peace for the honour
of the thing, rather than for the accommodation of the pub-
lic, or for the promotion of justice. " ATHLONE PETTY
SESSIONS.—In consequence of the attendance of magi*.
trates, nearly two months have elapsed since Petty Sessions
were last held in the Courthouse of Athlone. On Satur-
day there was not less than eighty-seven postponed cases for
trial, and although there were five Magistrates in town who
were in the habit of occasionally presiding at these Sessions,
even one could not be got to assist Mr. Burne on the last
o,a r eligiblea to
cto o
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occasion ; and as one Magistrate is not, under the present
he
styosatedmj
single case. There were between' three and four hundred
persons assembled in the Sessions-house on Saturday; many
of them had travelled some miles for the purpose of getting
a hearing' and several had feed professional
• 211///core Independent. This matter requires looking after.
Five Magistrates in the town, and not one of them would

attend the Sessions! The fact is, that the Petty Sessions
Court of Athlone is a sort of House of Lords on a small
scale. The Lords occasionally attend to deny justice—
the Magistrates effect the same object by staying away,—
Dublin Evening Post.

LITERATURE.

THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN RE VIE W. No. V.

Ridgway.

Conducted on its present plan, and supported by the
mass of information which now enriches its pages,
the " British and Foreign Review," will in the course
of time, become one of the most stirring and powerful
of the existing engines of party. Its every Number
Since its commencement has been an improvement upon
that which preceded it, and the present is an improve-
ment upon the whole. We have already, in a leading
article in The Sun, expressed our admiration of the
Reviewer's opinions on the Irish question ; and, there-
fore, as we are now pressed for space, we must pass it
over without further notice. In the foreign depart-
ment we have an excellent article on the present revo-
lution in Spain ; another on the political, social, and
commercial state of Belgium ; a third, equally interest-
ing, on the state and prospects of parties in France ;
a fourth on the power of Russia ; and most interest-
ing of all, an able sketch of the Polish war of indepen-
dence,
1830-31. From this last article, the subject
of which has lost none of its interest, we made a long
extract which appeared in this Journal of Saturday.
The article on the Spanish Revolution contains an
animated sketch of the Ministers who presided over
the destinies of Spain since 1834—Martinez de la
Rosa, Count Toreno, Mendizabal, and Isturiz. The
first is properly described as a " mere visionary"—a
man whose intellect was apparently weakened by his
long confinement in the dungeons of Melilla. Six
years of close incarceration in the flower of life is
enough to make any man of naturally strong feelings
a misanthrophist or an idiot. The wonder is not that
IVlartinez de la Rosa, on his elevation to the Premier-
ship, did so little, but that lie attempted so much,
and entirely lost his balance. Such men generally
either do not stir at all, or they plunge headlong
down the precipice of revolutionary anarchy. The
best school for a tyrant or a destructive is a dungeon.
Of Martinez de la Rosa's abilities as an orator and a
minister, the Reviewer not less happily than justly ob-
serves Gifted with an expressive physiognomy,
admirably adapted to the play of his eloquence, in
which there is more of harmony than of solidity,
more of the rhetorician than of the Parliamentary
orator, he carries away his hearers without persuading
them ; and although he would remain the master in a
discussion if the Chamber came to a division under
the influence of his oratory, his speeches cannot sus-
tain the collision of a debate, even when opposed by
an orator of inferior talents. Martinez de la Rosa has
none of the requisites for a statesman : exclusive, ob-
stinate, and presumptuous, his own narrow ideas are
to him as incapable of modification as mathematical
demonstration ; his policy was led by a blind infatua-
tion, but his honesty has never been suspected even
by his enemies."

Very different from this is the Reviewer's character
of Martinez de la Rosa's colleague and successor in
the Premiership—Don Jose Maria, Count de Toreno.
Though his name has been classed among the princi-
pal sufferers in the list of Spanish patriots exiled by
command of Ferdinand VII., it is very certain that he
was the martyr of the Spanish tyrant's vindictive jea-
lousy, rather than the victim of a persecution levelled
against the champions of revolutionary opinions. To-
reno's sympathies were favourable to liberty, because
he happened to obtain distinction in the ranks of Li-
berals ; but in reality he never had, nor has he now,
any fixed political principles. He was from the first
a mere adventurer ; but as he possessed talents which
enabled him to turn every thing to account, he failed
not to trumpet forth the purity of his principles—his
devotion to the cause of freedom—his incessant la-
bours to redeem his country--and a host of other vir-
tuous and patriotic struggles in which he was perpe-
tually engaged, as the sole cause of his misfortunes.
From the moment lie obtained a seat in the cabinet
his real character could neither be concealed from
friends nor enemies—neither did he seek to conceal it.
He threw off all disguise, and set himself at once to
make a fortune. His success exceeded his most san-
guine expectations. From a pauper he became sud-
denly so rich as to outshine in the splendour of his
equipages the most opulent Nobles in the land. His
profusion did not blind him to the necessity of
providing for the future. As a loan-contractor he
dipped his hand so deep in the public purse, as to
make his removal from office a matter of little conse-
quence to a man who sought power only as the most
convenient mode of amassing wealth. But such con-
duct is so little extraordinary in the conduct of a Spa-
nish Minister, that Toreno's financial appropriations
were regarded by the Cortes as a mere matter of course ;
nor did the vindictiveness of his enemies once dream
of accusing him of such a common-place every-day
failing as simple peculation.
By the same means which the Count de Toreno
contrived to oust Martinez de la Rosa was lie himself
ousted by Don Juan Alvarez Mendizabal—an in-
trigue carried on under the mask of personal and poli-
tical support and affection. The Reviewer is very
severe on Mendizabal, whom he charges with careless-
ness, presumption, extreme instability of character, and
the most inordinate vanity. He describes the Ex-
Minister as a man who is continually troubling his ;
friends for counsel only to neglect it ; and that sue',,
is his fickleness of disposition that he does not
'Know
his own mind for five minutes together. f Isturiz
the Reviewer thinks more highly than of any of his
predecessors. The new Premier 6. 'neither wanting in
principle, firmness, nor honesty His patriotism and
integrity are admitted on all sides ; while the great pe-
cuniary sacrifices whiel,.he is reported to have made
in the cause of precludes the idea that in ac-
accepting the ll'orttfeuile of Chief of the Ceshluet, lie
was actuated 1-,y mercenary motives.
‘, The Present State of Part;:es in France," is a
careful unalysis of the cotn
- .position of the Chamber
of Denuties, the influen .•Le of Ministers, and the popu-
larity of the King. The Reviewer • is, over-sanguine
in his anticipations of Louis Phillippe s
triumph over
the Republicans. Nevertheless the article is a most
interesting one, and is very cleverly written. With the
following e:ttract from it, on the composition of the
Chamber of Deputies, we shall conclude tl •notice this :—
" The Chamber in which the deputies of France hold their
sittings, is a kind of amphitheatre, formed of eight sections of
lacuehes, which radiate from the tribune and the president's
chair: each of these sections represents a different shade
of opil.ion or party. The division which occupies the
geatß on the e%treme left-Of the president, calls itself the Op-
1-11t;itaine, or Radical Opposition, since the laws of
'September have forbidden any one in France to aspire to the
title of a Republican. This 'section consists of about forty
members. The next compartment is filled by the monarchical
it;ille)pos.ition, headed Py M. Barrot, and amounting to sixty
deputies. The itrst section of the centre gauche is formed of
d
forty or flit-
,
members of the old tiers part; one hundred and
fifty der ati,, s
who are chiefly placemen, merchants, or manu-
facturers, compose what is called the centre per, the sacred
Im:ration of the Ministry ; seventy members of the centre
edivit vote with the Doctrinaires: about thirty avowed or secret
legitimists are scattered along the beaches to the right of the
President, and fifty or sixty Deputies, who sit with them,
ieompose the jeune droite, a party which directs its attacks
against the administrative acts of the Government more than
asitinst its general policy; and as it is still unfettered by any
piudges, its prospects are far from discouraging."

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1836.

The Bill which, from being a measure of justice and
conciliation to Ireland, the irresponsible assembly
calling itself a Branch of the Legislature, had meta-
morphosed into one of injustice and insult, last night
met with the fate which we anticipated it would from
the Commons of Great Britain. It was rejected with
disdain, and that too by a majority which gives the
lie to the statements which the organs of the Tory fac-
tion have been so industriously circulating of late. In
making these assertions, they knew they were attempt-
ing to deceive ; but they were labouring in their voca-
tion, and that was enough for them. Let them now
digest the majority of thirty, or of twenty-nine, if they
will not allow the vote of Sir C. COCKERELL, who
was accidentally shut out—let them digest this majo-
rity, in a House of less than 500 Members, the
best way they can. Let them misrepresent it as they
may, by inventing snow-storms and other equally pro-
bable reasons, for the absence of those who would
sooner die than surrender their opposition to the ap-
propriation principle—the public will see in the pro-
ceedings of last night that there 4 not only no falling-
off among Liberal Members in their support of that
all-important principle, but that the House of Com-
mons is determined to assert it to the last. So much
for the anticipated triumph of the faction.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL
A RUSSELLLL prefaced his motion for
out a moment's consideration, the
kicking out, wi
transformation so impudently attempted to be palmed
upon the House by the Lords, with an excellent
speech, The Noble Lord, after alluding to the in-
fringement of the privileges of the Commons, which
had been committed by the Lords in some of their
amendments, but of which he declined to avail him-
self as an argument for rejecting the Bill, (how pro-
voking this is to the Tory scribblers who had so often
prophesied the contrary !), proceeded to state the vari-
ous important
points in which the Bill had been al-
tered,and declared his conviction that were the Bill to
pass into a law as it came from the Upper House, in-
Sl',ad of being a blessing, it would be the greatest curse
that could be inflicted on the people of Ireland. "So
' far," said the Noble Lord—and the truth of the senti-
ment was responded to by the House—" so far
from its being a settlement of the question, it
would be the beginning of a fresh contest, the com-
mencement of new agitation.—!Cheers.) Those who
had heretofore opposed the payment of Tithes, would
oppose them still. They would say—and say truly—
that the terms on which they had consented to a set-
tlement had not been listened to, and they would point
out to the people of Ireland the injuries they suffered.
He would put it to the House what would be the con-
pence of such a course of proceeding. He would
beg the House to consider what had been the conse-
quences of the former agitation of a question not more
exciting than the present—a question in which civil
and religious rights were concerned, but still not more
animating, or coming nearer home to the immediate inte-
rests of the peasantry of Ireland."
The other speeches we have not room to notice at
present farther than to say that Sir ROBERT PEEL was
himself—full of artifice and sophistry, and vainly la-
bouring to turn the House aside from the real point at
issue in the debate. Mr. SHEIL was not deserted on
this occasion by the genius which has hitherto inspired
him ; nor was the Noble DILLY DRIVER a whit more
rational, or less spiteful than usual.

We are glad to see that the Scottish Universities
Bill has been postponed until next Session. Some
of the Lords' amendments, particularly that which
gave the clergy a right to nterfere, in certain cases,
in the internal regulation of the Universities, so ma-
terially altered and deteriorated the measure, that it
would have placed these seats of learnina on a much
worse footing than they now are, bad as in some re-
spects that is. We would recommend that if a new
Bill be brought in next year, its object should be
limited strictly to those reforms which absolutely re-
quire the sanction of the Legislature before they can
be carried into effect; and that the abuses and defects

"Mr. Midshipman Easy " is, we perceive, the face-
tious title which Captain Nlarryat has given to his New Novel,
just announced for publication, We hear—for it is a sealed
ook, and, till ready, will remain so—that it is the best thing
the Captain has yet written. The idea is excellent.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1836.

which, it is allowed, impair the efficiency of the insti-
tutions in question should be dealt with in virtue of
the Royal prerogative. There is, we believe, only
one of the requisite changes which may not be
thus accomplished, namely, the suppression of sine-
cure professorships, and the establishment of others in
their stead.

instant a retrograde policy became the order of the day
at the Tuilleries, the KING had no just reason to com-
plain if the crowd, true to the impulse which he
had give❑ it, saw only in its former idol the
resuscitator of the object of its aversion. The KING
who refuses to share the merit of his patriotism with
his Cabinet—who ostentatiously claims for himself
the undivided honour of directing aright the affairs of
a great nation—has unquestionably little reason to
complain, if his Ministers be overlooked in seasons of
great political excitement and danger.
Several months before the murderous attempt of
FIESCHI, we, in common with the liberal Press of
England and France, endeavoured to persuade LOUIS
PHILIPPE that his personal safety, as well as the
tranquillity of his kingdom, depended upon the adop-
tion of the most liberal measures. We recommended
a political amnesty, which would include the, whole of
the prisoners of April. We entreated the greatest
forbearance towards the political press of the country
—we implored a forgetfulness of wrongs which could
be traced to the misdirection of a patriotic enthusiasm—
and we called upon the SOVEREIGN to remember that
France had shed too much blood—encountered too
much opposition—and felt too painfully humiliated in
her struggle to free herself from a regal despotism,
ever to submit to it in the person of the son
of PHILIPPE EGALITE. Tile CITIZEN KING
acknowledged the value he set upon our recommen-
dations, intreaties, and warnings, by commanding this
, Journal to be seized at the Post-office, and by sentenc-
ing to incarceration the Paris Journalist who copied
our observations into his columns. When, subse-
quently, the KING was miraculously preserved from the
attack of the incarnate devil FIESCIII, and his ac-
cursed accomplices, we renewed our solicitations to the
KING, beseeching him to deliver himself and his
family from danger, by granting an amnesty to persons
accused of political offences. His Most Christian
MAJESTY, however, thought proper to pursue a line
of conduct the very reverse ; and we have lived to wit-
ness the first-fruits of this system of repressive policy
in the crime of ALIBAUD. But though Providence
has thus miraculously interposed to deliver the
KING from the hands of the wretches who
sought his life, it would be madness to
hope for a continuance of such interposition,
without removing those evils which thousands look
upon as the justification of acts of the greatest vio-
lence. Lows PHILIPPE may, by extraordinary vigi-
lance, the energy of his character, the exertions of his
Ministers, and the fidelity of the troops entrusted with
the care of his person, succeed for a time in baffling
every attempt to assassinate him, as well as in repress-
ing everything like popular tumult, or even expressed
disaffection. Nay more, he may for a time appear to
triumph over all his enemies, and to find in France
the natural soil for the growth of the most arbitrary
principles. But danger will arise when he is least
prepared for it ; and when he imagines all is security,
the voice of millions will proclaim France the heritage
of none but constitutional Sovereigns. As sure as
we now exist will the reigning King of the FRENCH
die by the hand of an assassin, or in exile, if he restore
not to his subjects the Charter of 1830.

The Exeter Hall bigots had a gathering yesterday,
for the purpose, as the Rev. Mr. M`GHEE modestly
insinuated, of " explaining the supposed Papal let-
ler"—in other words, the atrocious forgery which this
truth-worshipping parson read at the last meeting of
the squad, as a genuine production. Alluding to this
forgery—which, we strongly suspect, would never have
been apologized for, had it never been detected and
denounced—the Rev. Gentleman said, " it was the
lot of man to err ; it was the duty of a Christian to
forgive." Good—but how does the parson follow up
this charitable precept ? Does he who confesses to
have erred, extend to others the forgiveness of which
he himself stands so much in need ? Not he. His
whole speech at Exeter Hall yesterday was one long,
envenomed tirade against the Catholics, mixed up with,
in order to save appearances, professions of commise-
ration and brotherly love. After quoting several Papal de-
cretals to show that the torture was allowed to be applied to
to the extraction of evidence of hearsay, and the right of
dragging all heretical criminals before the Holy In-
quisition, the Reverend propagator of, and commen-
tator on, a forged letter, observed " All these atrocious
abominations were again, for the first time, revived in
Ireland in 1832, with the approbation of Dr.
MURRAY !" As if this were not enough, he added,
"such was a specimen of the paternal charity with
which Papal tyranny would supersede the blessings of
English law and liberty, and all the Catholics
wanted, was another opportunity to renew their
former tragedies of blood." We want words
to express our indignation and disgust at senti-
ments like these. Is it a protestant parson who
presumes to talk in this insolent, slanderous manner,
forgetting the fields of Carrickshock and Rathcormac,
died deep in blood by members of his own persuasion ? '
Shame on such language—and double shame on those
who could applaud it ! Not satisfied with calum-
niating the Catholics en masse, this Rev. utterer of
forged letters—this epistolary Dr. DODD—went on to
read a lecture to the Press in these amusing terms :
—" the Press is one of our greatest blessings or our
greatest curses, but that it should speak the truth on
every subject, is of the greatest importance to the
community." A lecture on truth from a promulgator
of falsehood, comes with as marked propriety, as would
a lecture on cleanliness from a chimney-sweep, or on
political inflexibility of purpose from the Bishop of
EXETER, whom Mr. CANN ING—with an irreverend jo-
cularity that makes us shudder—once nick-named
" TOBY PHILLPOTTS I But how does Parson M‘GHEE
follow up this lecture on truth? 'Why, by giving it as his
firm conviction that " the Catholic bishops and priests
were fast preparing to introduce the Inquisition into
Ireland ; to act upon the doctrine of the extermination
of heretics ; and in all cases of the Church property,
to exclude it from the operation of every law, but that
of the Sovereign Pontiff of Rome." This,
we repeat, Parson McGIIEE gives as his
firm belief, but with all that reVerential defe-
rence to which his innate love of truth entitles
him, we beg leave to give it as our opinion that he
believes nothing of the sort. He is far too shrewd—
far too worldly a man to imagine for a single instant,
that the Catholics are attempting to revive the Inquisi-
tion in Ireland, when he knows well that even FERDI-
NAND attempted the same thing without success 'in
Spain. No, no—the Exeter Hall fanatic believes
nothing of the sort, any more than Dr. PHILLPOTTS
believed that it was for the good of the country that he
should give up his fat rectory of Stanhope. From
the beginning to the end the parson's whole speech is
a mere clap-trap, got up for the desperate purpose of
raising a " No Popery" cry.

The Plymouth Chronicle says, " Notice has been
given that the Bishop of EXETER has been under the
necessity- of postponing his visitation, being detained
in his place in the House of Lords." This is one
more, added to the thousand and one proofs we have al-
ready had, of the injurious effects produced by Bishops
being allowed to acts legislators in the Upper Cham-
ber. Here we have the religious duties of a whole
diocese postponed, because the diocesan happens to
have his time and attention absorbed by Parliamentary
duties. Querc—Which are the first duties of a
Bishop—his religious or his political ones ? Is the
service of GOD less important in his eyes than the
service of a faction ? It was but the day before yes-
terday that Dr. PIIILLPOTTS was objecting to the
union of the see of Sodor and Man with Carlisle, on
the plea that it would compel the Bishop of the latter
diocese to be an occasional absentee from his flock ;
and now we find the Rev. objector himself an absen-
tee, on a still more objectionable scale.

PARIS, Aucust I.—The Moniteur of this morning contains
nothing important.
The Prince de Joinville set out this morning at eight
o'clock for Toulon. He is going to embark on board the
Iphigenia frigate, commanded by Captain Perceval. The
Iphigenia will join the squadron of Admiral Hugon in the
Levant, and after having visited the Coasts of Caramania and
Syria, will return to Toulon by the middle of November.
The Prince is accompanied to Toulon by his preceptor, M.
Trognon, whose health will not allow him to accompany the
young Prince to sea this time. M. Hernoux will act as aid-
de-camp to the Prince.—Constitutionnel, Aug. 1.
PARIS, JULY 31.—1 t is affirmed that in the last fortnight
above 6,000 passports for foreign countries have been deli-
vered. Such is the happy effect of the excessive precautions
taken by the Police for the safety of the capital.
M. Friycoe, Commissary of Police, accompanied by M.
Voussal, an officer, proceeded to the residence of M. L—,
in the Rue St. Martin, where he seized nearly 800 cartridges.
The trial of the 45 persons implicated in the affair of the
gunpowder, is decidedly fixed for -the 7th August. About
30 of the persons accused are under arrest, the other 15 are
at liberty. The two charges against them are, the manufac-
ture and possession of ammunition, and of illegal association
exceeding the number of 20 persons.
It is believed at Madrid, that the conclusion of a treaty of
commerce, between the Queen's Government and the Cabinet
of London, is certain. The contracting parties, it is affirmed,
are agreed on all the principal points of the negotiation.
Though this news is sent to us by a person who is in general
well informed, we think that it needs confirmation. _ _

We have received no news respecting the elections.—Mes.
sager, Aug. 1.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, AUGUST 1
Five per Cents., 109 f. 108 f. 95c. 90c. 95c.
Four and a Half ner Cents. 105 f. 25c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 85c.
Three per Cents. 80f. Vc. 45c.
Bank Actions, 2,273 f.
Keine de Naples, 100 f. 40e.
Roman Five per Cents., 103.
Spanish Actives, 3514 N.
Spanish Diflhres, 15,,E 13.
Spanish Passives, 11 10• N 11.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 1031. i.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 48 471,1
Haytian Loan, 390 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONFMN.
One month, paper, 23f. 32%c. ; money, 25f. 221,4 c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, —l. —c.
—fours Autlientigue.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Monday have
been received. The discovery of several conspiracies
to assassinate the KING has created the greatest
alarm in the capital. Arrests are continually taking
place. It has been ascertained that ALIBAUD
was not, as he affirmed, without accomplices. On the
contrary, he was the agent of a band of wretches,
leagued together for the express purpose of ridding
France of a SOVEREIGN, whom the populace too
generally regard as the enemy of the Constitution
which he has sworn to maintain.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO ..OUR.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 801. 30e. for this day (settling-day), and 801. 571 c.,
for the end of August, but at the opening of the Parquet they
rallied a little ' • the price is now 80f. 40c. to 43c. in liquida-
tion, and 801. 65c. to 70c. for the end of August. The
Spanish Active Stock has dropped to 36, sellers.
LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 109 f. 95c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 45c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, 124; New Loan, —; Actives, 361; Pas-
sives, 10'1; Ducats, 100 40 ; Romans, —; Pedros, —;
Belgians, —; Dutch, —f. ; Haytians, 390 f. —c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 22:3 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 151; Five per Cent. Perpe
tuolles, —; Royal Loan, —.

BELGIAN I; UNDS—Baussms, .JULY 30.
Actual Debt, •21. per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl%
Loan of City, 18.42.4 per Cent lnn
Society of Commerce, 4 V, per Cent 137
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
.--Brussels Papers, July :31.

However strong may be the prejudices which
Englishmen entertain against French notions of loyalty
and morality, we are not aware that there exists an in
dividual on this side the Channel who does not charge
Louis PHILLIPPE and his Ministers with being the
cause of those feelings of popular discontent which
threaten a co-endurance with the regal existence of the
Orleans dynasty. The CITIZEN-KING is now in the
sixty-third year .of his age, and boasts a most intimate
acquaintance with the habits, the feelings, the sym-
pathies, and the wishes of his countrymen. His
Ministers are all men of considerable experience ;
and all of them candidates for literary fame, legal dis-
crimination, and military distinction. Surely among
so many persons, all provided with the amplest facilities
of becoming acquainted with the true state of public
feeling, not only in the capital but,in the several de-
partments of the kingdom, there must be some indivi-
dual neither unacquainted with the extent of the dan-
ger which threatens the KING, nor ignorant of the
only way in which it can be successfully stifled. The
Sovereign of the FnENCH is less liable to deception than
any Monarch in Europe. If he does not possess
the divine attribute of übiquity, he at least contrives
to see and hear as much as any individual in his domi-
nions. He is not without great natural talents ; and
his long residence abroad has served equally to make
him conversant with the customs of other nations, and
acquainted with the dangerous commotions which regal
oppression may at any moment stir up i❑ the bosom of
France. Long after his elevation to the French
throne, Louis PHILIPPE prided himself upon his
business habits, his knowledge of public affairs, and
his determination to leave nothing to the uncontroulled
management of his Cabinet. This served to render
him popular, so long as he sought to persuade the
French nation that he was nothing more than a regal
personification of the Revolution of 1830 ; but the

Letters from Madrid to the 26th ult. have been re-
ceived. On the 23d the greatest alarm prevailed in
the capital, in consequence of a report that the rebels
had arrived at La Granja, and dispersed the little
Court assembled there with the QUEEN. It appears
that on the preceding day some individuals asserted at
Lei Granja that a Carlist band was within two leagues
of the Palace. The Courtiers in attendance on the
QUEEN never thought of investigating this rumour,
but at once took to their heels. Of course all made
for Madrid as a place of safety. In this race even
Dukes were as nimble bf foot as their valets, so that
when IsTuniz reached the Palace at six o'clock the
following morning he found the QUEEN all but de-.
serted, and packing up to follow her attendants. The
Premier instantly set about restoring order, and tran-
quillizing the minds of the people. Her MAJESTY
was prevailed upon to remain where she was ; while
the Civil Governor of Madrid issued an address to
the citizens, assuring them that they were imposed
upon, and that no danger was to be apprehended from
the insurgents. The QUEEN, however, will remove
to Vista-Alegre, a place only removed a few leagues
from Madrid.

Reports were in circulation that the dismissal of
CORDOVA, from the chief command of the army, was
the subject of grave deliberation in the Cabinet. Is-
TURIZ alone is said to be strongly opposed to such a
step. Some outrages have taken place at Seville and
Malaga. The people are greatly opposed to the present
Government, and demand the recal of MENDIZABAL.

AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE.—The Prosperous
condition of the labourer, and the beneficial operation of the
new Poor Law Bill, are the only subjects on which the per..
sons examined by the Committee appear to have agreed.

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Three greyhounds, the property of a person at
Clifton, Beds, pulled down and worried a woman in a most
dreadful manner, tearing the flesh from her arms, and would
no doubt have killed her, had they not been with difficulty
beaten off.—Hertford .Reformer.