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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 10, 1.40.

GENERAL DISPENSARY ALDERS-

FINE SPECIMEN OF AN IRISH

GATE-STREET.

PARSON.

The General Quarterly Meeting of the Governors
of this valuable Institution was held yesterday at the
Dispensary, Ahlersgate-street.
Thrower B. Herring, ESQ., Treasurer, in the Chair.
The minutes of the List Meeting having been read,
The CHAIRMAN said that he was happy to inform
the Governors that since their last meeting her Ma-
jesty had been graciously pleased to signify her inten-
tion of becouring Patroness of the Institution, and his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had kindly
consented to act as President at their next anniversary
dinner, which would take place in April next. On
their last anniversary the Lord Mayor had presided,
and he was happy to state that on that occasion they
had got the largest subscription which had ever been
procured ; this large subscription, however, had be-
come absolutely necessary in consequence of the vast
increase which had taken place in the number
of patients, which had increased since 1835, from
three thousand and upwards to more than eight thousand,
annually. This institution was not only the parent of
all similar institutions throughout the country, but it
was also by far the largest, and, he hoped, the Go-
vernors would not relax in their exertions to main-
tain for it its proud pre-eminence. It should be re-
collected that this institution had no private funds of
its own ; it was entirely dependent upon the voluntary
contributions of its well-wishers for its support, and
unless they had a good collection at their anniversary
meeting, they would be obliged to narrow the sphere
of their operations. He congratulated them upon the
present flourishing state of the institution, and urged
them not to relax in their exertions in endeavouring
to obtain for it that support Li which alone it could
stand.

The Newry Examiner contains an account of " a
scene" in which the principal actors were Mr. Yeatcs,
a Parson of the Establishment, and Mr. Johnston, a
Presbyterian Minister, upon occasion of a meeting held
for the purpose of placing a certain school in the North
of Ireland under the National Board of Education.

As the " scene" is too good to be lost, we give the
speeches of the chief "dramatis personce," which hill
wt./
sufficiently explain the story. It ~ . een bow con-
spicuously shone forth the meekneliii charity of the
son of the Church, and what a poo ''-$ re the Presby-
terian parson made beside him.

Parson Yeates loquitur.
" The Rev. Mr. Yeates rose and said—Mr. Chair-
man and gentleman, in rising to address you, I intend
to be as concise and temperate in my remarks as my
Christian charity and my present temper will permit.
In the first place, I hold the doctrines of Popery to be
erroneous, idolatrous, and damnable ; and as this Na-
tional Board—l should rather say un-Christian Board
—is an emanation of Popery, I object to it in lobo ;
and I say to you, fellow-Christians, let us have no
Popery here.—( Loud cries of " No Pope, no Popery.")
In the first place, my dearest brethren, if you allow
yourselves to be put under the yoke of this Papist
Board you will have to give up your Holy Bible, and
they will put into your hands and the hands of your
dear children, the tracts and extracts of this un-
Christian Board ; and I ask you, as Christians, are you
prepared to give up your Bible—(Loud cheering, and
cries of ' The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but
the Bible')—and they will send the priests to visit your
school, and to watch over the education of your
children ; and I ask you arc you prepared to allow your
dear children—your tender offspring—the pledges of
your love—to be contaminated by Popery and
Popish priests ?—(Cries of No priest,' and "ro hell
with the Pope.') And I must inform you that
Doctor Murray, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin,
is at the head of this Board. Well, when vou want
money you must apply to Dr. Blake, who is his cor-
respondent here ; and if Dr. Murray is unwell you must
wait until he gets better, and you will have to apply to
their Arian secretary(Cross), and from Cross to Dr. Mu-
rray, and from Dr. Murray to Dr. Blake, and you will
have to go through all the Blakes of Popery before you
can receive one penny of this Popish money ; and now,
fellow-Christians and Protestants, are you prepared to
submit to all this ? Are you [Here the Rev. Speaker
became so excited as to be unable to proceed for a few
moments, la hen a person in the vicinity of the chair
called out to put a spoon in his month,' which was fol-
lowed by shouts of No Pope,' and ' turn him out, that
fellow, with the spoon !' amid great confusion, and cries
of Chair, chair.' The gallant Chairman having re-
stored order, the Reverend Gentleman proceeded to finish
his very' temperate' address.] I say, fellow Protestants,
are you prepared to sacrifice your children—the dear
pledges of your affection—to the Moloch of Popery
But, above all, are you prepared to sacrifice your
Bible—the boasted charter of Protestantism—and ex-
change it, like Esau, for a mess of pottage, for the tracts
of the Popish Board ? No, my fellow. Protestants, I
will answer for you a thousand times no ! I hope you
you will all join me this evening in crying' no Board—no
priests—no Popery here !' The Rev. Gentleman con-
cluded a lengthened speech, of which this is but a brief
outline, and cries of No Pope—no Popery here.' "
As this speech is as " temperate" as Parson Yeates's
" Christian charity and present temper" would admit,
we have a fair measure of the Reverend Gentleman's
charity and temper, and cannot but congratulate the
Church as by law established upon the possession of a
holy man so replete with heavenly love and the virtue
of equanimity. How horrified he is at the thought of
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being
may congratulate itself that it is not the custom of our
modern apostles to wear swords. We should not like
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to be even Dr. Murray's footman in the path of St.
Yeates.
The part of the audience that raised the angelic
shout of " to hell with the Pope," in echo to the par-
son's brayings, was, no doubt, composed of his parishion-
ers and disciples. Given the shepherd, it is an easy
problem to determine the sheep.

Mr. WooD, the Secretary, observed, as an increased
incentive to exertion on the part of the friends of the
institution, that while the pati,lts had increased from
3,000 to upwards of 8,000 annually, the funds had not
increased in proportion, and they were at present little
more than they had been in 1832, so that the greatest
exertion had been regnired to keep down the expendi-
ture. They depended upon a good anniversary to prevent
them from getting into debt, and he was happy to say
that 24 or 25 influential gentlemen had consented to
become stewards for their next anniversary dinner, and
he hoped that the number would be considerably in-
creased. They had three physicians and three surgeons,
who not only saw patients at the institution, but at-
tended them at their own houses, and during the last
year the physicians and surgeons had paid upwards of
10,000 visits to poor persons at their own habitations,
and this duty was performed entirely gratuitously, the
only paid medical officer of the establishment being the
apothecary, who was required to devote his whole time
to the duties of his office, for the performance of which
ha was furnished with apartments in the house, was found
in coal and candle, and had a salary of 1201. p:,•r annum.
There was a dispenser with a salary of 301. per annum,
and the collector had a poundage upon the money he
collected, and these were the whole of the expenses of
the officers of the establishment. During the last year
the physicians had received 25,350 visits at the institu-
tion, and the surgeons 10,712 ; and in addition the me-
dical men had paid 10,915 visits to patients at their own
houses, making a total of 46,985 interviews with patients
during the last year.
The following are the comparative annual averages
for the three years ending 1836, and the three years
ending 1839 :

THREE TEARS ENDING 1836.
Income £1,020 16 11
Expenditure 958 7 34
Number of patients 6.309
Nnmbcr of visits
THREE SEARS ENDING 1839
Income £772 13 4
Expenditure 9BB 14 5
Number of patients 7,984
Number of visits
The CHAIRMAN said he hoped that all would exert
,benaselves to the utmost to procure the institution a
good anniversary, as on that they mainly relied.
The meeting then broke up.

We do not quite understand the cry—" Put a spoon
in his mouth." The spoon is seldom out of the mouth of
those ghostly gourmands of whose fraternity Mr. Yeates
is so egregious a member. Their spoons, too, are gene-
rally gold spoons, as the reviled Papists know to their
dear cost. The " Moloch of Popery," quoth Parson
Yeates. Pray is not Moloch as good a god as Mam-
mon ? What does his Reverence mean by sneering at
Moloeh ?

Enter now the Presbyterian minister, Johnston, the
respondent in the case. He hits his antagonist unmer-
cifully, and draws a frightfully vivid picture of the
atrocious system of warfare acted on by the Orange
parsons against the National Board.
" The Rev. Mr. Johnston rose to defend himself from
this temperate attack made upon him and his congrega-
tion, because they wished to put their schools in connec-
tion with the National Board. Mr. Johnston said—Mr.
Chairman, I wish it to be understood that I will not cede
to any man, much less to Yeates, in cordial hatred to
Popery and all her abominations. I consider that the
tenets of Popery are erroneous, and damnable, and
idolatrous. (Cheers, and cries of 'No Pope.') I
preached against purgatory—(Cries of No purgatory'
—and I brought Godkin here, and if the poor, benighted
Papists were not illuminated, it was not my fault,—
(Cries of No, no') What are you doing, then,
Yeates ? But you can get up a faction to disturb
my plans as patron of this school a 'action
that would kill and murder any poor Catholic they
►night meet, when they rush in the state of drunkenness
fr;ni the public•houses kept by sonic of the men whom
you have brought here to-night.—(Loud cries of
4 Drag him down.' Here a rush was made to
put out the lights, whieh was prevented.) I say I
hate Popery, but do not hate Papists. But Yeates
would cram the Bible down their throats, as lie
would put the Thirty-nine Articles down the throats
of Presbyterians.—(Great confusion.) How would
you like to have the Popish missal crammed down your
throat, if you were in unfortunate Spain ? And why
think of cramming down .the Bible into other people's
throats ? [Rev. Mr. Yeates asked what harm could the
Word of God do I say it would choke a man as
well as any other book, if it were crammed down his
throat against his will. Mr. )(cotes appears to be very
sqeamish about the Popish money of a Popish board,
with a Popish Archbishop at its head. I never heard
of hin►, or one of his very orthodox brethren, expressing
their abhorrence of Popish money, when it came in the
way of tithes."

We see by this that rectors can "get up factions,"
when they choose, as well as Rockites ; and how does
Mr. Johnston, who knows them so well, describe the
factions so got up, and in particular that led by Parson
Yeates upon the occasion in question ? " A faction
that would kill and murder any poor Catholic they might
meet, when they rush in a state of drunkenness from the
public-houses kept by some of the men whom you have
brought here to-night."
Compare the worst crimes of Tipperary with the
enormities here stated upon excellent authority, as
having been familiarly practised by clergymen of the
Established Church in Ireland. They hold, however,
that the end sanctifies the means—that is to say, drun-
kenness and homicide are justifiable, when the object
aimed at is to defeat so villainous an enterprise as the
attempt to educate the people.
Several of Mr. Johnston's hits are admirable. He
points out in the happiest manner the use which the
parsons make of their Bibles and Prayer-books, em-
ploying the former to choke the Catholics, and the
latter to choke the Presbyterians. The sarcasm, too,
on the hatred of " Popish money," proclaimed by the
parson, is in the best style of repartee.—Morning
Chronicle.