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London, England, 1840-05-01 00:00:00

ETItOPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE

111. SOCIETY.
Notice is hereby given that the ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING of the Members of this Society will be held at
this House, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th of May next, at Two
o'Clock precisely.
RICHARD HEATIIFIELD, Superintendent.
No. 3, Princes-street, Bank, April '2.2, 1840.

,VATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AS-
SURANCE AND DEFERRED ANNUITY SO-
CIETY, 26, GORNHILL, LONDON.
EASTERN BRANCH.-5, Castle-street, St. Mary Axe.
Capital, 500,000 i.
Empowered by Aet of Parliament.
TIP.ECTORS.
T. LAMIE 'MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
Col. Sir Burger Camae, K. C. S. I Robert Holland. Esq., M.P.
John Elliotson, M.D., F.R. S. George Lungley, Esq.
FL Gordon, Esq. I John Rawson, Esq.
Joseph Thompson, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Dr. Olinthus Gregory, F. R. A. S.
Professor Wheatstone, F.R. S.

ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woolhoese, Esq., P.R. A.S.
By the new principles of Life Assurance and Deferred An.
unities, founded by this Society, the moral obligation of all
classes of making a provision for a family or for old age is
largely enhanced, by the immediate adyantagiscured to the
Assured themselves.
The detailsof the principles if the Society, its improvement
in the system of Assurance, its economical arraogements in
favour of the Assured, its extensive Tables, Sec., wdl he found
in its Prospectus, which may be obtained at the 0 of the
Society, 26, Cornhill, London, •r at any of its inches
ihreughout the Country.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Seere ry.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE AND
LOAN COMPANY.
No. 18, King William-street, City.
Sir JAMES DUKE. M.P., Chair-map.
BENJAMIN HA.WES, Esq.. Deputy Chairman.
William Allen, Esq. John Killll,Th.
Benjamin Barnard, Esq. Benjamin Lancaster, Esq.
Charles Baldwin, Esq. '1 homas Nesbitt, Esq.
James Cockburn, Esq. Major-General Robertson
Bryan Donkin, Esq. Daniel Suttoni jun., Egg,
Aaron Goldsmid, Esq ()'Bryan Bellingham Vs oolsey,
James Law Jones, Esq. Esq•
SOLICITORS.— Messrs, Lake and Curtis, Basinghall-s:reet.
As Low Rates of Premium as are consistent with security,
which may be paid annually, half yearly, or quarterly.
The whole of the Profits equally divided between the Assured
slid the Shareholders.
Claims payable in two months after death.
Loans may be effected by parties Assured with this Company.
WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary.

BENEVOLENT FIRE and LIFE IN-
SURANCE, and NATIONAL BENEFIT SO-
CIETY, 351, Strand.
Capital, 250,0001.
Under the Management of a Board of Directors.
This Society, in addition to the general business of Insur-
ance Companies, has been formed for the purpose of enabling
persons of very moderate means to attain those objects hitherto
confined to the more wealthy, viz.:-
Ist. Insurihg their lives in sums from Si. and upwards, se-
curing Deferred Annuities as a provision for Old Age; Weekly
Allowances during Sickness ; and Endowments for Children,
the Premiums being divided into Monthly Instalments for the
convenience of the Insnred. Also for the protection of such
as possess only a small personal property, Insurances are effected
against loss by Fire, in sums from 10/. to 100/., by Quarterly
Payments ; thus Household Goods, Wearing Apparel, Stock
in Trade, Workmen's Tools, &c., to the value of 201. can be
Insured, on payment of Sixpence every Three Months, duty
included.
The attention of the Public is particularly directed to this
dory novel feature, for the man to whom this fact is known, will
heneei-orth deserve little sympathy should he become the victim
of a calamity, against the evils of which ho could so readily
have guarded.
Piespectuses, detailing at length the various modes and rates
of Insurance, can be obtained on application at the offico, 351,
Strand, or to any of the Society's Agents.
HENRY WILSON, Actuary and Secretary.

_
LONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAIL-
WAY.—NOTICE.
The Tinied of DEPARTURE of the DOWN DAY MAIL
TRAIN `Pill, by order of her Majesty's Postmaster-General,
be as follows, on and after the sth May next:—
'From h. In.
Euston Station, London at 945 a.m.
Tring
Wolverton
Weedon
Rugby
en Coventry
1 45 p.m.
Arriving at Birmingham, as heretofore, at 2h. 30m. p.m,
And, pursuant to the foregoing arrangement, the times of
departure of the 8; a.m. Down Train, will be,
From h. m.
Euston Station
Tring
Wolverton
Blisworth — 11 45 a.m.
Weedon
Rugby
Coventry ... ... 1 7 p.m.
Hampton — 1 30 p.m.
Arriving at Birmingham at 2h. 15m. p.m.
t. By Order, • -..-0-,,,,--
R. CREED, Secretary.' .•

rICHE LONDON FLOATING BATHS
COMPANY,
tapifal 29,000 t., in Shares of 10/. each,
Formed fin the Establishment of convenient fiat:U.46 the
River ThameS, ft* the use of the inhabitants Landon ge--;
nerally, Nit more particularly the Workirg Gasses.
Although the want of such places is universally admitted,
and has for a long time been a subject of complaint, yet
hitherto comparatively nothing has been undertaken to remedy
the evil, while the great increase of buildings has entirely de-
prived the people of their ancient bathing places, which is the
reason why so few persons, brought up in the neighbourhood of
the metropolis, oan swim, and consequently the primary cause
of the fatal accidents which are so frequently occurring on the
river.
The benefits to be derived from bathing, as regards the pre-
servation of health, and the prevention of numerous diseases so
prevalent in crowded cities, cannot be questioned; and it is
equally evident, that if it be more necessary to one class of
society than another, it must be to the working classes, many
of whom have to earn their daily bread by noisome and un-
healthy occupations; yet at present there are no places within
a reasonable distance of London where they can bathe,—the
prices of admission at the tepid baths lately established, and of
the others at present in existence, placing them beyond their
means.
The above evil this Society proposes to remedy by the estab-
lishment of large and convenient floating baths, to be moored
in eligible situations on the Thames, to be under the superin-
tendence of proper persons, competent to give instructions in
the art of swimming, preference being given to members of the
Waterman's Company.
Separate Baths from those to be used by adults, will be pro-
vided for boys.
In order that every man and boy in London may adopt this
healthy habit, the charges for Bathing will be as moderate as
possible, namely, from one penny to three-pence each person,
and no extra charge will be made for going on board and re-
turning.
The calculations that have been made show most satisfac-
torily that these moderate prices will afford an ample remune-
ration to the Members of this Society for the capital em-
ployed; indeed, they lead to the opinion, that a larger dividend
may be anticipated than that which any other Company has
hitherto paid.
Prospectus and further, particulars tnay be obtained, on per-
sonal appliceion between the hours of ten and four, or by letter
prepaid, at the Company's Offices, No. 15, New Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, where applications for Shares also may be made.
March, 1840. A. NORT HEN, jun., Secretary.

IMPORTANT SALE OF WINES and
SPIRITS, being the entire DUTY PAID STOCK of
a Wine Merchant, relinquishing the Bottling Trade.
FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION,

At the London Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on
TuEsoAy and WEDNESDAY, the sth and 6th of May, 1840,

at Twelve o'clock precisely each Day,
The fol'owing WINES and SPIRITS, being the entire Duty
Paid Stock of a Wine Merchant relinquishing the Bottling
Trade :

2,524 Dozens very superior Old Port.
1,045 Dozens very superior Sherry.
1,332 Dozens of choice Claret, Champagne, Frontignac,
Burgundy, Red and White Hermitage, Roussilon, Sauterne
St. Peray, Barsac, Burgundy, Chablis, East India and direct
Madeira, Falernian, Tokay, Malvasia, Mountain, Malms^y,
Old Boal, Scrcial, Val de Pocnas Tinta Madeira, Bucellas,
'
Calcavellas, Constantia, Tencriffe, Rota Tent, Tavel, Old Co-
lares, Muscatel, Parexette Hock, Mosel], &c. &c. &c.
24 Cases superior Old Port, bottled in Oporto.
18 Cases genuine Claret, Eades Vintage 1825.
11 Cases St. Julien Medoc.
60 Dozens Port, bottled for India.
3 Butts splendid East India Sherry.
2 Pipes splendid East India Bucellas ad Lisbon.
e &e., in Wood,
2 Hhds. 2 Qr. Casks Sherry, Marsala,n Sc
Duty Paid.
y splendid old Brandy and Rum, Schiedam,_ Hollands,
Ver
Whiskey, Martinique Noyeau, Curac)a, Kirschenwasser, East
India Nectar, West India Shrub, Cherry Brandy, Old Cor-
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Particulars and catalogues of SAMUEL LANCASTER,
e.
Wine and Spii=itl3r?l:t:ls2.:..ll2;l'lat

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CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.--The half-yearly ge.
neral meetink of the Governors and subscribers to the Bene-
volent Society of Blues, for the relief of persons educated at
Christ's Hospital, and their widows and orphans, took place on
Wednesday evening at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.
In the absence of the President, Mr. Alderman Thompon,
al. P., Thomas Weston, Esq., was called to the chair. The
report of the Committee was then read, from which it appeared
that the Society was advancing in influence, and that as it was
now properly appreciated by the gentlemen connected with
Christ's Hospital, its means of utility had proportionably in-
creased. The receipts during the last half-year amounted to
4631., while the expenditure was within 117/. of this sum, in-
cluding among other items, 631. in pensions, and 13.5/. in tem-
porary relief. The amount• of stock standing in the names of
the Trustees was 4,700/. Three per Cent. Consols, the interest
on which was appropriated exclusively to the payment of pen-
sions. The Society was likewise in possession of a reversionary
property of 1001., bequeathed to it in 1833. The Report
having been adopted, a variety of resolutions were passed, on
the motions of Mr. Hughes, Mr. Stanton, and Mr. Jesse ; after
which a vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated. .
THE PROVOST.—IS It not extraordinary that
some of the heads of the Church encourage a base and apos-
tate slanderer in its obscene and infamous attacks upon the per-
son of so high a functionary as the Provost of Trinity Col-
lege ? A piece of illiterate garbage has appeared in reference
to Doctor Sadleir in last night's Mail, which we think even
Trash Gregg would read with disgust. The proceedings of the
Aggregate Meeting this day--a report of which we desire to
circulate as speedily as possible—prevent us from offering any
animadversions on the article in question to-day. We hope,
in our next, to do justice to the Provost, and to execute justice
upon Jeremiah.—Dublin -Evening Post.

. LANCASTER PROTESTANT

ASSOCIATION.

(From the Lancaster Guardian.)
On Tuesday evening last the first meeting of this
Association was held in Lancaster, in the Boys' Na-
tional School, Green Area. The principal speakers on
the occasion were the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Man_

chester, and the Rev. Hugh M'Ncile, of Liverpool. So
great was the curiosity to hear those very notorious
Anti-Catholic divines, that the building was nearly
filled. A great number of ladies were present. Tile
Rev. John Manby, Vicar of Lancaster, filled the chair,

and upon the platform were several of the leading mem-
bers of the Heart-of-Oak Club. Several clergymen

of the town and neighbourhood were also on the plat-
form. The interest taken by the meeting i❑ tho pro-

ceedings, may be gathered from the circumstance that,
upon the first resolution being put, not more than a
hundred hands, we are assured, out of seven or eight
hundred, were held up for it.
The first resolution was mored by the Rev. J. N. 0.
Armytage, and seconded by T. J. Knowlys, Eq. It
was as follows :

That the peculiar circumstances of the country
loudly call upon all who value the civil and religious
tiberty secured to Englishmen by their Protestant Con-
stitution, to join in the formation and support of Pro-
testant Associations."

Mr. Knowlys expressed his hope that " the rags of
Popery which might yet be remaining in the Church"
would be cast off, an allusion which did not appear to be
very well relished by the meeting.
The Rev. H. STOWELL followed, and addressed the
meeting for two hours on the enormities of the Church

of Rome. We have only room for a passage or two :
" When they saw: c a statesman as Sir Robert
Peel glorying in hi shame, avowing that he re-
garded the share whi took in the repeal of the
Catholic Bill as the most glorious act of his life, though
he passed that Act in the face of his own recorded con-
victions, what could they think ?—(Applause.) Sir
Robert had often before stated that no liberty ought to
be granted to the Catholics, for the stability of the con-
stitution was incompatible with it, and yet in defiance of
that declaration he had bent down at the side of expe-
diency. For himself he (the speaker) would never so
betray his trust.—(Great cheers.) They must trust in
themselves. The Christian public could not again put
the ark of God in the keeping of Sir Robert Peel, and
they must never rest satisfied till they had obtained the
repeal of the Emancipation Act."
After stating that Mr. O'Connell deserved to be
banished from England quite as much as John Frost,
Mr. Stowell said—
" If Sir IL Peel refused to afford the necessary re-
lief, then they must look out jor other leaders, but Pro-

testants they must have.—(Applause.) A mournful
struggle had to be passed through. The Repeal Act
had completely destroyed the Conservatives as a party,
r. d he doubted whether they would ever recover their
influence, until, like the prodigal son, they confessed
their sins against heaven,—(Great cheers.) He was
well aware that all this would be called by some wild-
fire—mere enthusiasm—but he should not be moved by
such reproaching."
A bigoted Catholic was, in his estimation, far better
than an Anti-Catholic latitudinarian.—(The Rev. Gen-
tleman resumed his seat amidst rapturous applause, by
reading the following resolution
" That the peculiar tenets of the Church of Rome,
as defined and settled at the Council of Trent, are,
when tried by the only true standard of Holy Writ,
Anti-Christian, idolatrous, anti-social, and calculated,
we firmly believe, in the event of their prevalence, to
draw down the Divine judgments upon the nation."
E. D. SaLisvurtY, Esq., seconded the motion. Mr.
Stowell and his colleagues had been stigm Aised as fire-
brands, but he regarded them as beacons. The only
hope of dispersing the clouds that obscured the horizon,
was the repeal of the Emancipation Act. Conserva-
tive Associations had done much, but more remained to
be accomplished, which he hoped this Association
would complete.—( Applause.)
The Rev. H. M'NEILE, who seemed to be regarded
peculiarly as the star of the evening, was received with
immense -applause. A very natural doubt seems to
have occurred to the holy man—
" He could fancy there were some who did not agree
with them, who did not participate in the enthusiasm
which had been expressed that evening. He could
easily suppose there were some there present ready to
say, not out loud, but within themselves, this was after
all a very fine speech, but is that the way to do'? Is it
right to abuse Popery in such a fashion? Does not
such language tend to establish Roman Catholics in
their ignorance, to confirm those who think it is the
true faith in their opinions F.!
This very pertinent question the Rev. Gentleman by
no means attempted to answer. We should like to
know whether the so-called Protestant Associations
ever made a single convert from Romanism. The chief
actors at our Exeter-hall exhibitions are men by no
means deficient in powers of assertion ; and we may
take it for granted that if the M'Ghces, the O'Suilivans,
and the M'Neiles had ever, by any chance, succeeded

in abusing a Catholic into Protestantism we should have
heard of it by this time. From all that we have heard
we think that their " ingenious devices," their misrepre-
sentations, and their scurrilous attacks upon the " an-
cient faith," arc much more likely to confirm both Ca-
tholics and Protestants in their respective prejudices.
" He was one of those," Mr. M'Neile said, " who
warred for peace.—(Applause.) lie would proceed
to illustrate what he meant. There was a statement
in the Holy Scriptures contained in a very few words—
' God over all blessed for ever.' Suppose now a Socinian
—he might take liberties in that room, for he knew no•
body, and could not be r.ccused of personality—suppose
now the case of a Socician. He might be told, Do not
offend a brother ; do as you would be done by ; charity,
remember, is one of the principal virtues. Well, he
passed over that part of the Bible. He met with ano-
ther brother the next day ; again the entreaty came to
him to be a man of peace ; charity, he was reminded,
was the golden rule, and it was his duty to say nothing
to wound the feelings of a stranger. He met with
another brother the third day. He passed over whet
;gas calculated to pain him, and sn to avoid giving dis-
turbance to the feelings of any one, he was compelled
at last to leave the Bible at home.—(Great applause.)
What, then, is to be done ? In the sense of the Bible
pure charity is love. But one branch of love is, thou
shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer
sin upon him.' If we see a brother involved in un-
unbelief, drunkenness, or theft, how shall we manifest
our love ? Shall we say nothing to offend him ? How
arc we to prove our love to an offending brother, by
giving no outward sign of our love, or by rebuking him ?"
" He would supply a simple test—Go out into the
street, and you observe a few children at play. One of
them curses and swears horribly. Is he the child of one
of whom you know nothing? Look again. The young
backslider is your own offspring. You love peace, you
love your own child. Do you pass by the offence ? D.)
you leave your own child ? No. And why ? Because he
is your own child, and you do love him. You now sec
the meaning of charity. The miscalled forbearance to-
wards the other was, in plain terms, indifference. They
wanted to treat the Roman catholic, as they treated
their own children.—(Applause.) Their liberal friends,
on the other hand, wanted them to treat them as they
would do the stranger child. It was a favourite saying
with the new fashionable school, who had found out the
way to be exceedingly kind by being exceedingly cour-
teous, How can you presume to say that the Roman Ca-
tholic is wrong, and that you arc undoubtedly in the
right ? He did not presume to say anything of the kind ?
but it was the Bible that said so.—(Applause.) When
God had spoken, what would have been intolerance
without his Word, became infidelity with it.
Another passage :
" He regretted to see the opposition made by the
Dissenters to the attempts to expose and put down
Catholicism. They wtrc preparing the way for their
own destruction. They reminded him of the e-vin who
had mounted into a tree, and perched himself in one of
the branches which he wanted to remove. He set to
with all his might to saw it off, and he discovered, as
it was falling, that he had seated himself on the wrorg
side of the. saw.—(Laughter.)
Do our countrymen wish to sup on new horrors ?
Mr. M'Neile will tell them, then, that the College of
Cardinals are at the bottom of all the Socialism and all
the Chartism in the country ; and that moreover the
holy fathers personally superintended the issue of inde-
cent prints, for the purpose of distracting England
and bringing in Popery. Mr. M'Neile, who attributes
indec !nt prints to Popery, and Mr. Stowell, who attri-
butes to it our late defective harvests, remind us of the
old question—
' " Who makes the price of corn and Luddites rise?
Who fills the butchers' shops with large blue flies?
The answer, of course is, the scarlet lady of Babylon.
" Now that Popery is regaining its ascendancy, in-
decency prevails in this nation. Look at the shop
windows—see the number of petitions with which they
are filled—consider the indecent publications of Social.
ism, with their bold, bare-faced denials of the doctrine
of man's responsibility. It might be said these, things
had nothing to do with Popery, but he contended they
had. To distract England was the great scheme of the
Catholics. The indecency introduced into England
was very distracting. It was so disgusting, that the
ministers of religion could not hold it up to reprbbation
in their public assemblies, and many of their Magistrates
were so, exceedingly liberal, that they would not put it
down. They said, if you attempt to put down
y, you excite sympathy in its favour. Toe
blgjaasgPthstermates would not prosecute, the clergy dare not,
and they were left without resource:'

Our Tcry friends, who must have remarked the
cc pious extracts which our Contemporary, the Lancaster
Gazette, is in the habit of giving from the speeches of
Alr. O'Connell, will be rather startled at what follows.
Every one has been accustomed to hear the conductors
of the Liberal press spoken of as emissaries of Romanism ;
but we have Mr. M‘Neile's positive assurance that the
Conseivative press is more Popish than the other.
We wish that our representative, Mr. Marton, could be
induced to move in his place in the House for copies
of the correspondence (if any) carried on between New-
street and the Vatican.

" When Cranmer and Calvin were carrying on a cor-
respondence for uniting the Reformed Churches of
England and Geneva, certain emissaries of Rome passed 4
themselves off as Dissenting ministers, and broke off the
negociations by representing the people of England as
denying infant baptism. They bud their emissaries out
now. Many had got on Conservative papers in the
capacity of editors.—(Cheers.) Compare the Conser-
vative press with the other press, and it would be seen
how they trumpeted O'Connel. All he wanted was
publicity ; he cared not for exposure.—(Applause.)
The Popish press did not publish what was said against
him. No speech from Mr. M‘Ghee, or O'Sullivan,
his friend Mr. Stowell, or their humble servant himself,
ever appeared in their columns.—(Applause.) They
would see them all hanged first.—(Laughter.) And
why were the Conservative editors so soft? The Col-
lege of Cardinals was at the bottom of all."
A man of greater modesty than Mr. M'Neile might
have come to the conclusion, that the rabid effusions of
the " No Popery" agitators were refused a place by the
Conservative editors, because nobody would read them.
Now, Mr. O'Connell's letters, beginning with the often-
used couplet from " Childe Harold," are generally
piquant, racy, and amusing. Our Tory contemporaries
know that the heavy malignity of the Irish brigade
would soon sink their journals " five fathom deep" in
oblivion.
Mr. M‘NEfeE proposed the following resolution
" That, therefore, the support now given by a Pro-
testant Government to Popery, in the Colonies and
elsewhere, but especially to the Popish College of May-
nooth in Ireland, by grants from the public treasury, is
in our judgment, highly offensive to Almighty God, and
eminendy dangerous to the country, and therefore it is
the bounden duty of every Christian Englishman to
petition
,e iet i omn
meeting
theng wasinvited t
o affirm h
discontinuance
at a certain hnc
of conduct condemned in the resolution was offensive to
Almighty God, and dangerous to the institutions of this
country. The conduct referred to, was the grant to
Maynooth College. They were, as Mr. Stowell had
,
said, no party politicians, but tney strongly reprobated
the grant to Maynooth College. That Institution was
founded forty-five years ago by Mr. Pitt, and had been
supported by every succeeding Administration till the
present day. In expressing their disapprobation of the
Institution, they were not expressing an opinion in.

favour of Pitt against Fox, Castlereagh against Canning,
Peel against Grey, but they were recording their con. ,
demnation of the encouragement given to infidel_ prin..:
ciples, and appealing against the extravagance of men, as
men, to the immutable truth of God, as God.—( Cheers.)
All Administrations since Pitt had erred in this matter,
all had encouraged that which they had sworn to be
opposite in their judgment to the revealed will of God.
The men who supported this grant had sworn that these
doctrines were damnable idolatry.
The following blinking of the ceremonial-portion of
the •secoud commandment is very dishonest :—" It
was against the word of God to bow down to an
image,—Roman Catholics were wrong. He kneW, it
was said to be a calumny that they bowed down to
images. Now, It was very remarkable that. God said,
• "Thou .shalt not bow down to them or worship theni:-.
(Vehement applause.) He would put it to any of
them before him, whether they did not bow down to
them ? He granted, for argument's sake, they did not
worship them. The heart of man, debased as it was,
could not stoop to adore an image ; but, as if the Su-
preme had anticipated the ingenuity of . the Roman
Catholic priests, it was commanded, Ye shall not
bow: do :n or worship it:—(Very great applause.)
It might be said, Ido not worship it,' bUt I see
your bok bending down, and therefore every Popish
chapel was an abomination to God.(ltrense ap-
plause.) , • . Don't go away,' • said the.,r44er :
I charge you with worship.ginii..it:-T4l t did'
with -.bowing down to it.' &tuns.
away trom. this place, and 30946 priest, Your
reverence; the minister that catite st night said that
the Bihtc tells us not to worship bow down to an
image. How is that consistent with what your reve-
rence teaches us constantly to do ?' The priest would
reply, You fool, the Vulgate says nothing about bow-
ing down, it says adore;—(Cheers,) did they
make the Bible to fit themselves."

Thcmistocles used to say that this little boy ruled

the world, and he was accustomed to prove it in this
way. Athens, he said, ruled the world, he ruled Athens,
his wife ruled him, and the little child ruled her. Here
is a parallel to the saying of Themistocles—
" By the Reform Bill the power is invested in- the
hands of the middling classes, and it is for the English
majority to counterbalance the Irish tail. As it is the
Pope rules England, the Pope is the head of the Ca-
tholics. Ireland is under the dominion of the Priests,

and the Irish Members give a predominance in the
House of Commons, the House of Commons rules the
Ministers, and the Sovereign is bound to their guidance.
He believed before God and his country, that the salva-
tion of the country was in the hands of Protestantism.•—
(The Rev. Orator sat down amid the most rapturous
applause, havin4 spoken above two hours.)"
A petition against the grant to Maynooth was then
agreed to, and the Meeting dissolved, after three times
three cheers, the venerable Vicar, in the warmth of his
enthusiasm, himself giving the signals

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL —Paragon, 6th Jan., lat. 19 N.
long. 86 ; Br% anston, 26th Feb., lat. 29 S. ; Tar, Bth ult.,
lat. 12 S. ; La Rose and Anne, 16th, Ist. 3 N., long.
20 W. ; John Lee, 22d inst., lat. 45, long. 14, by the
London, Shultleworth, arrived off the Wight. John Bell,
Waterford to Quebec, 10th inst., long. 46, lat. 23 ; Br,-
tannia, London to Quebec, same day ; Clarendon, Leith to
Bombay, 223, lat 51, long. 12, by the James, M'Caskie,
arrived in the Clyde. W. S., Hamilton, London to the
Cape of Good Hope and Pulo Penang, 30th Jan., lat. 34
S., long. 4 E. ; Mary, London to New Zealand, 2d Nov.,lat.
25 S., long. 18 W. ; Mary Elizabeth, Liverpool to Canton,
16th Dec., lat. 21 N., long. 22 W., with loss of top-
masts; Ripley, from Calcutta, 27th ult., lat. 6 N., long.
24 W. ; Orynthia, London to Honduras, sth inst., lat. 22,
long. 42, by the Atlas, Piggot, arrived at Plymouth. Ne-
reid, London for the United States, off the Azores ; Inez,
bound West, 28th Feb., lat. 44, long. 30; Alexander Bar-
clay, whaler, Norton, out fifty days, lat. 18 N., long. 29 ;
Hebrew, from Havre to the Gulf, 28th Feb , lat. 46, long.
21 ; Marble, from Liverpool, lat. 40, long. 48.