The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-16 00:00:00

THE KIRK OF SCOTLAND.

The Commission of the Assegibly met last week and
adopted a resolution which muTt inevitably lead to a
schism in the Church. We cannot better describe the
actual state of matters, or give expression to our opinion,
than by the following extract from the Edinburgh Ob-
server of Friday :
" The Assembly deposed the Strathbogie ministers, as
all the world knows, for having carried into effect the
statutory appointments with regard to the settlement of
ministers ; and against that deposition a minority—large
and influential—protested, and declared that they con-
sidered it null and void—illegal even on ecclesiastical
geoundi—and that they would not cease to regard their
deposed brethren as still ministers of the Church. In
addition to this, it was unequiveally declared by many
members of Assembly, and by several hundred ministers
and elders, that they would hold communion with them
as lawful and undeposed ministers ; and following out
this protestation and resolution, many ministers and
elders have done so in the fullest manner—the flocks of
those gentlemen still adhering steadfastly to their
pastors. And, over and above all this, the Supreme Civil
Court has, by solemn decrees, declared that the sentence
of deposition is utterly illegal, and interdicted any effect
whatever being given to it. _ _

In this state—dmatters, the minority, commonly called
the rump of the Presbytery of Strathbogie, made a re-
port that Mr. Grant, of Leith, Mr. Robertson, of Ellon,
and several other highly respectable clergymen, have
not only preached in the pulpits of the nominally-deposed
gentlemen, but have interchanged the sacred symbols of
our faith at the cotnmuniOn table—and for this ima-
ginary, sin, desecration, and so forth, have ordered their
several Presbyteries to proceed against them with the
discipline of the Church ; in other words, this Commis-
sion of the General Assembly—a thing utterly unknown
in law as a Court of the Etablished Church—has direct-
ed proceedings tending to deposition or excommunica-
tion, against their brethren, because they have disre-
garded an illegal sentence, and have conducted them-
selves as office-bearers in the Church, just as if no such
illegal sentence had ever been heard of. Thus circum-
stanced, the majority have, by their rash and reckless
proceedings, forced on, and created a schism in the
Church ; and the minority declare, that this being so
precipitated and perpetrated, a necessity has arisen for
an appeal to that power, by which the Church is esta-
blished as one of the institutions of the land—namely, the
supreme executive and legislative authorities of the em-
pire. This is the present position of the Church.
It were an easy matter to enlarge on the principles of
high import involved in this new phasic of the contro-
versy—but we forbear. But of one thing we are quite
confident, that neither the Government nor the people of
this country will longer tolerate or endure the open and
undisguised spiritual tyranny which these hot-brained
fanatics aspire to fasten upon the necks of the pastors
and the people of the Church of Scotland ; and we are
greatly deceived if, in a very short space of time, these
arrogant priests and pettifoggers be not most effectually
put down, and sent back to their native obscurity, and
deprived of all power to do mischief in the capacity of
ministers in our Established Church. They must ere
long be left to the full enjoyment of their 'vaunted inde-
pendence beyond its pale, or brought to submit them-
selves quietly, like other folks, to the supremacy of the
law, by which that Church alone has its existence as an
Establishment.
We learn that, in the course of Thursday, a requisi-
tion, signed by thirty or forty of the party who are at
present in seeming ascendancy, has been got up for call-
ing another and extraordinary
.meeting of the Commis-
sion, in order further to take into consideration, and to
decide on the course to be pursued in consequence of the
schism which has now openly, and on all sides, been
proclaimed tO have taken place in the Courts and Coun-
cils of our National Establishment.: The proposed meet-
ing is sought for the 25th of the present month of Au-
gust—and we presume public notification of it will appear
within a day or two hence.

On Monday last Sir Windham Carmichael An-
struther entertained the numerous tenantry on his exten-
sive estates of Carmichael at dinner, in the
Clydesdale
Arms, Lanark. A similar mark of attention had been
shown by the tenantry to their landlord a short time ago,
and this dinner was given in return fur the compliment
then shown to Sir Windham. Covers were laid for one
hundred, and the Honourable Baronet was favoured with
the company of a number of the neighbouring gentry
and friends from a distance. Amongst the strangers were
Lockhart,Rfrey
Eeslq,..s,litinhre.elvairMac,rtny c,apt Caulfield,bmer.fAor. County,Ntih,Nethe
Rev. Col.
11Shilfarrl..IL'Il laelninrr.bYGthGoedordon Dickson, W.S , Mr. JameilesadSvrenactee,
X 1.5., Mr. Scott, of Douglas, Mr. Walker, Mr.
Richard, Mr. Gray, Mr. Anna,nd,Dr. Gibson, and several
others. The evening was spent *with the utmost har-
mony, evincing the best possible feeling betwixt landlord
and tenant. The Member for the county assured the
meeting that it gave him, an Upper Ward man himself,
the greatest satisfactton to witness the very friendly
terms on which the Representative of the noble house of
Hyndford and the tenantry on the estates of that ancient
family maintained their respective relations. Mr. Dick-
son was happy to acknowledge that the same good feel-
ing prevailed on the estates of Anstruther, in Fife, where
the removal of a tenant for any cause whatever, except
with his own express consent, had never been known.
The meeting was kept up till a late hour ; and all sepa-
rated in the hope of witnessing a similar . happy assem-
blage at no distant day.
THE Anrs.—Sir F. Chantrey, the celebrated
sculptor, is now in this city, directing the fixing in the
Cathedral a splendid moinunent, executed by him, to
the memory of the talented artist Northcote. The spot
aelected is the chapel of St. Gabriel, on the south side
of the " Ladye Chapel, in which stands the
sumptuous monument of Bishop Branscombe ; the
monument of Flaxman to the memory of Lieu-
tenant-General Simcoe ; the mausoleum of Chancellor
Fnrsnian ; and other monuments. Several members of
the Northcote family have been interred there. A
drawing has been made of a most elaborate and splendid
monument to the memory of Bishop Coverdale, who was
promoted to this see by King Edward VI., and assisted
Tyndal in his translation of the Bible into the English
language, which, when executed, will be erected in the
Cathedral, in thiscity.-- Western Exeter Tines.

The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet, the Giraffe, R. Stranack, from Rotterdam, ar-
rived off the Custom-house, yesterday, with the Dutch
mail.

EVENING SUN

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
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the body of Mrs. Sarah Spencer, aged 53, a respectable
widow, nurse in the family of R. Reid, Esq., a gentle-
man connected with the Customs, residing at No. 16,
Portland-place. Thomas Grace, footman in the service
of Mr. Reid, said the last time he saw. the deceased
alive was at about half-past one o'clock; in the afternoon
of Wednesday last, at the dinner table at his master's
house. • He saw her shortly after, with her bonnet on,
go out at the street door, and tnrn in the direction of
Park-crescent. He had not seen her since. She appeared
whilst at dinner in a perfect state of health, and le
saw nothing whatever uliusual in her manner, which
was generally lively. Mrs. Mary Barnes stated, that
she was the female attendant at the Royal York-Baths,
York-terrace, Regent's-park. About three o'clock in
the afternoon of Wednesday last, the deceased came and
said, she required a bath. 'Witness inquired whether
she would like it cold or warm, and she said warm
Witness then asked the deceased if she would sta..;
in the waiting-room until the bath was got ready, or
follow her to the bath-room at once, but she preferred
the latter. Witness then showed deceased the bath,
which is about five feet long anel two feet deep ; when
she inquired if they had not a larger one, to which
witness replied, " No. That was the usual size, tine.
she would find it quite large enough." Witnes
having then arranged the necessary linen for do
ceased's use left the bath-room, and heard he;
lock the door after her. The deceased had bee,
in the bath one hour when witness knocked at 11-.
door, but receiving no answer, knocked again, and th..
result was similar. She ascended to the skylight, aryl
having got it open looked into the room. She then ob-
served the deceased lying in the bath with her head
under water. She could only see the lower part of dc•
ceased's body out of the water. She raised an abler.
and Mr. Surtees, the brother of the late proprietor of tla.,
bath, now lying dead, and the engineer, burst open tl •
door. The deceased was then discovered lying on he:
face at the bottom of the bath, and her legs hanging over
the side of it, having on her chemise, flannel petticoat.
and stockings. She was taken out, and medical aid pre •
cured, and a vein was opened, but life was quite extinct.
The Coroner remarked that there was little doubt but
that the case was one of suicide, but as there was no
distinct evidence, an open verdict would be proper.—The
Jury ultimately returned a verdict " That deceased
found dead in a bath, but whether she destroyed herself
intentionally there was no direct evidence to show."
On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held before
Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the George the Fourth, Hounslow
Heath, on the body of a fine-looking girl named Maria
Payne, only sixteen years of ae•e, who poisoned herself.
It appeared from the evidence that she was the daughter
of Mr. Thomas Pityne, sergeant gate-keeper of the
re -
view ground at Hounslow Heath, under the Quarter.
Master-General, and lived at the lodge on the centre of
the heath. During the last three weeks the de-
ceased had appeared remarkably dull and strange
in her manner, And neglectful of the duties ' she
had to perform. On the morning of Tuesday last
Mr. Payne, on coming home about a quarter past seven
o'clock, heard the deceased in the garden retching and
saying "Oh dear ?" On going to her he asked her if
she had taken anything that disagreed with her, but she
refused to say, on which he fetched in a female neigh-
bour, when she was placed on a sofa and a surgeon sent
for. Just previous to her 'death, which took place the
same night, her father asked her what she had swallowd,
where she had taken Wand who had given it to her ;
upon which she replied, "I got oxalic acid at Mr. Ward's
myself and took it," and then added, " Father, kiss me,
you have been a good father to me--7-you gave me good
advice, and I am very sorry I did Clot take it—forgive
me," and she soon after expired. She was generally of
a very violent spirit. Verdict—" The deceased died
from swallowing oxalic acid, being at the time in a state
of insanity."

On Saturday an inquest was held at the Duke of Wel-
lington, Hackney, on the body of James Stubbings, u
respectable master builder, aged 61, who committed
suicide by cutting his throat, and otherwise dreadfully
mutilating himself. Joseph Hall, of Providence-place
~
Hackney, said that for the last four months the ged
lad been in a very low and desponding sta
.-His
demeanour was at intervals very remarkable, and ore
last few days his gentral habits were so eccentric that
his frien4.s thought that his mind was affected, but did
not consider it necessary to place him under restraint, and
he was closely watched by his family and a young man
who slept with him. On Sunday morning, about 6 o'clock, a
messenger from deceased's son called upon witness, and
requested him to follow immediately to his residence.
lie did so ; and upon entering the deceased's room he
saw him bleeding from a large wound in the throat, and
suffering from other injuries he had inflicted on his per-
son. Witness bound his throat with a handkerchief to
stop the flow of blood, and sent for a surgeon. Mr. Cro-
combe, a surgeon of Homerton, quickly attended, but
from the dreadful nature of the injuries his survival could
not be expected, and he died the following clay. Wit-
ness had no doubt that the deceased had committed thi,
rash deed whilst labouring under one of those paroxysms
of pain which arose from disease of the kidneys.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Tempo-
rary Insanity."

STATE OF THE 'WEATHER AND
CROPS.

The weather in this neighbourhood Continues unfa-
vourable and unpromising in the higher i tiepin. Tues-
day night and Wednesday were excessively wet and bois-
terous ; and, though there was some improvement on
Thursday, we had yesterday as 'unfavourable weather for
ripening or securing the crop's as could well be conceived;
a drizzling rain falling nearly the whole day, whilst the
gradual sinking of the barometer seems to indicate a con-
tinuance of wet. From the notices which appear in the
different provincial newspapers, the rain of Tuesday
night and Wednesday appears to have been general
throughqut the island ; but we infer, from the report of
the Wakefield market yesterday, that the weather there
was more favourable than in this town.--Manchestti
Guardian.
We have had very unsettled weather during the past
week. The showers of rain have been very heavy and
accompanied by high winds. We have not heard
that any of the wheat in the immediate neighbourhood
of the city has been damaged, but if the weather con-
tinues to be inclement it must suffer materially.—Exeter
Western Times.

Despite the unfavourable weather much corn has been
cut in this neighbourhood (Aylesbury) ; the ear is full
and large, but without a little sun the ►rain will not
harden. We have had a day or two of fine weather this
week, but it is far from being settled ; indeed, there is
every prospect of more rain, which will injure that
already cut, and retard the ripening of what is back-
ward, owing to its having been so much beaten down.—
Bucks Gazette.

NEWQUAY.—The harvest has partially commenced in
the parishes of Lower St. Columb and Crantock. Several
fields of wheat, barley, and oats are in progress of cutting,
but from the showery state of the weather and the want
of sun, the harvest is more backward than usual at this
season of the year. The crops in the neighbourhood are
promising a fair yield.—Cornwall Advertiser.
CORNWALL AGRICUTURAL REPORT FOR THE PAST
MONTH.—The last month has proved unusually wet and
cold, the average temperature being only 57.97 degrees,
and the quantity of rain fallen has been 4.12 inches.
The quantity of watery vapour in the air was
3.73 grains per cubic foot of air. The crops
of corn that were so promising in the begin-
ning of the summer have progressed slowly towards
maturity, in consequence of the cold weather, and wheat
that promised to he'above an average crop has in many
places been laid down with wind and ram ; so that if
the present unfavourable weather should continue a short
time longer, dreadful will be the consequence. If; hair-
ever, the weather should now improve, and we should
have some bright days, we do not think' the damage yet
done will be very serious. Barley is everywhere an ex-
cellentsort crop, and less injured by the late cold weather
than the wheat. Oats also look well in most places, but
eofftwbe
weather we in
greatest
possible not only to
the farmer, but to the millions comprising our whole po-
pulawte haveion. 'turnipsseen h but not so forward
as
from growing rapidly. ayliavei(rinuiri,nrgtanthee; next month
The weather throughout the past month has been un-
favourable to vegetation and the maturation of the crops.
The wheat fields in every direction exhibit a considerable
quantity and let the remainder of the season
the sample will be inferior. Oats are
especially the late sown, which stand thin
upon the ground, and in high districts the year will be
turn
indifferent, ou t a o
sf t
far advanced before they come to the sickle. The potato
crop will also be deficient ; failures are more extensive
than we believed them to be when we last wrote, and the
high winds have produced much injury to those which
are advanced, and in exposed situations. Turnips look
tolerably well ; flax so-so. In the present month the
different operations of pulling, rippling, and watering,
&c., will be going forward with the bulk of the flax-crop.
.Northern Whig.

The corn, which had been greatly prostrated about a
fortnight ago by heavy rain, had generally recovered
erect position, but has again been humbled by the heavy
rains which took place since Tuesday. 'Winter oats are
giving way to the sickle. In different parts of th©
country the crop is represented as being very gait
Should the present wet weather continue, it will not only
retard the harvest, but do serious injury to the crops.—
Drogheda Argus.
The weather bas undergone a most favourable change
the bleak and stormy showers of the previous ten or
twelve days having been succeeded since Sunday by a
mild and genial atmosphere. There is no doubt that the►
corn crops.have suffered more or less, particularly in the
low grounds ; but we trust that, should the present
warmth continue, the► harvest will be somewhat of an
average crop.—Ballyshannon Herald.

On Saturday night, a soldier in the uniform of
the 15th regiment was observed standing some time
near the shop of Mr. Larom, a clothes salesman in
Goswell-street. At last he went in and bargained for
the purchase of a blue pilot coat, which he put on over
his uniform ; and also a pair of trousers and a hat, and
having taken possession of them and agreed upon the
price, he pretended that the trousers be had on were so
tight that he could not get the money out of his fob. At
his request Mr. Lamm proceeded to assist him, and
while so occupied the villain suddenly stabbed him in the
throat with a knife, and then made off with the clothes.
Mr. Lamm was stunned with the blow, and before he
recovered the assassin had escaped. Luckily the knife
struck against the collar bone, but the wound inflicted
bled copiously. He described the soldiere'as a young
man, above five feet seven inches high, who had a " stye"
on the right eye, which was very red. The dress was a
red jacket and white trousers, a belt and cap with brass
plate, with the number of his regiment " XV."

EVENING SVN.

IRELAND.
LORD VISCOUNT MORPETH—GREAT MEET-
ING AT THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.
DUBLIN, Atm 12.—A crowded and most influential
meeting of the citizens of Dublin was held this day at
the Royal Exchange, "to consider the most suitable
means of testifying the national admiration of the public
character of Lord Viscount Morpeth, and to mark the
gratitude of the Irish people towards his Lordship for
hid long and most useful, labours on behalf of our coun-
try, and his eminent services to the cause of civil and
religious liberty."
At two o'clock the body of this extensive building was
filled in every part, and on the platform were, his Grace
the Duke of Leinster, the Hon. Frederick Ponsonby, Sir
Thomas Esmonde, Bart. ' • Sir Thomas M'Kennv, Bart. ;
Sir J. Kennedy, Bart. ; Sir Arthur Clarke, Sir William
Somerville, Bart., M.P. ; Col. White, M.P. ; Daniel
O'Connell, Esq., M. P. ; James Power, Esq., M. P. ;
Robert Archbold, Esq., M.P. ; John O'Connell, Esq„
M.P. ; Richard Moore, Esq., Solicitor-General; Master
Curry, David Doss, Esq., Rosstrevor ; Very Rev. Doctor
Yore, Leland, Crosthwait, John O'Neill, Christopher
Fitzsimon, Stephen Grehan, George Roe, Cornelius
M‘Longhlin, Thos. Hutton, T. S. Coppinger, Wm. Mur-
phy, Patrick Curtis, William Fletcher, Daniel Mur-
phy, Cork ; P. Vincmt Fitzpatrick, W. S. Hart,
Atkinson, Davis, W. Jagoe, O'Hara, Symes,
Denis Moylan, Thomas Steele, George Evans, Thomas
O'Mara, James Murphy, Charles Murphy, Dillon,
Porter, Seagrave, Elias Corbally, Charles Barn-
well, Christopher Barnwell, Jeremiah Dunne, Barry E.
Lawless, Frederick Daniel, Esqrs. ; Surgeon White, In-
spector-General of Prisons ; the Rev. Mr. O'Connell ;
Robert M'Cleland, Nugent, Terence T. Dolan, John
O'Neill, J. Thunder, Terence O'Reilly, Esqrs, &c.
Sir J. KENNEDY, Bart., moved that his Grace the
Duke of Leinster be called to the chair, and that Messrs.
J. C. O'Dwyer, George Rowe, and W. Harte, Esqrs., be
appointed to act as Secretaries.
The motion was seconded by the Hon. Mr. PoNsoNBY.
The Duke of LEINSTER ascended the table amidst loud
applause, and proceeded briefly to address the meeting.
said—Gentlemen, it gives me the greatest pleasure to
have the honour of taking the chair on the present occa-
sion, for I can assure you that nobody has a greater and
a higher respect and esteem than I entertain for the
Noble Lord whom we are now going to address, as well in
his private as in his public capacity.—(Cheers.) Gentle-
men, I beg that you will give all the movers and second-
ers of the resolutions a patient hearing ; and I also re-
quest that when gentlemen address themselves to the
meeting, they will confine themselves to the object of it,
and not introduce any subject that will in any way create
any ill feeling ; which, I am sure, would be, in particu-
lar, very unpleasant to the Noble Lord whom we are met
to compliment.—{Hear, and cheering.)
Carew O'Dwyer and William Harte, Esqrs.; were then"
requested to act as secretaries to the meeting.
Mr. CAREW O'DWYER then came forward to the front
of the platform, and said that on his own part and that of
his Hon. Friend who had been associated with him in the
gratifying duty of acting as secretaries to the meeting,
he had to express his most extreme gratitude. He would
beg leave to inform his Grace and the meeting that they
had received a very great number of letters from various
parts of the kingdom, all expressing the deepest feeling
in conjunction with that which had called forth that
meeting, and the regret of the writers at not being able
to be present at the proceedings. There was one letter,
which, with the permission of the meeting, he would ex-
cept from the rule which they had made, of not detain-
ing the meeting by going through all the correspond-
ence, and that was a letter which they had received from
his Grace the Most Reverend Doctor Murray :
" Mountjoy-square, Aug. 12, 1841.
" Gentlemen,—l have been just now honoured with
your note of yesterday, requesting my attendance at .a
meeting to be held this day at the Royal Exchange, for
the purpose of agreeing to an addregs to Lord Morpeth.
" Permit me to assure you, that no language could ex-
press too strongly my admiration of the public character
. and private worth of that distinguished Nobleman. It
would therefore give me singular pleasure to be able to
oin in the proposed tribute of respect to his Lordship.
I regret, however, that duties connected with my office
will unavoidably engage me at the hour appointed for the
;fleeting, and will therefore prevent my attendance at it.
" I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen,
_ " Your obedient humble servant,

"To the Secretaries, &c. &c. • "D. MURRAY."
Sir T. ES3XONDE, Bart., said he had been honoured by
proposing the first resolution, and, in doing so, he should
congratulate himself in having such a duty to perform
on an occasion when the object was to express thankful-
ness towards a Nobleman to whom, as Irishmen, they
owed so much, and who, on leaving this country, took
with him so universal a feeling of regret and esteem
from all classes of the community.—(Loud cheering.)
The resolution which he had to propose was as follows :
—" That the eminent services rendered by Lord Viscount
Alorpeth to the cause of civil and religious liberty, and
bis well known attachment to the people of Ire-
land, entitle his Lordship to the most marked de-
monstratien of national confidence and regard."—
(Cheers.) He had only to add, that the House of Com-
mons had, for the present, lost the benefit of the great
services of Lord Morpeth ; but he might justly observe
on this subject, that fully two-thirds of the constitu-
encies of Ireland would willingly have returned him had.
he consented, and, he might also add, that two-thirds of
the rep.resentatives of Ireland would be willing, and
would have received the full permission of their consti-
tuents, to resign in his favour.—{Hear, hear, and loud
cheers.) In malting these observations, he was sure that
he only spoke the sentiments of that meeting, and of the
vast majority of his eountrymen.—(Cheers.)
1). Ross, of Rosstrevor, Esq., seconded the resolution,
and was received wiih loud cheering. He gave with all
his heart his assent to the resolution which they had just
heard, as it contained an expression of Lord Morpeth's
advocacy of civil and religious liberty, and his well-
!mown attachment to Ireland, as manifested on several
occasions.—(Cheers.) If there was but one act in all
Lord Morpeth's career that could justify them in extend-
ing, the warmest praise towards him, it was what might
be called the final measure which he brought forward in
Parliament.—(Hear.) After referring to Lord Morpeth's
conduct during the last sesrion of Parliament, he conti-
nued to observe, that the Ministry, and not one of its
members more sincerely than Lord Morpeth, were most
anxious to carry out every measure calculated to benefit
the country.
The resolution was passed with acclamation.
The Hon. C. LAWLESS (son of Lord Cloncurry)
briefly proposed the next resolution :—" That we de-
plore the recent event which, has deprived the country
of the services of Lord Morpeth in the House of Com-
mons, as a misfortune of no ordinary kind to the em-
pire at large, but especially to Ireland, whose interest
found in Lord Morpeth a strenuous and constant ad-
vocate."
Mr. ARCHBOLD, M.P. for Kildare, begged to second
the resolution which had been proposed by the Hon.
Mr. Lawless, and to deplore with the meeting those
recent events w hich would deprive them of the services
of Lord Morpeth. He begged to second the resolution,
which was put from the chair and carried unanimously.
Mr. J. POWER, D.L., moved that an Address, founded
on the foregoing resolutions be presented to Lord Mor-
peth, and he trusted that that Address would be signed
by every true friend of the country ;
" My Lord—We, the Reformers of Ireland, convened
by public requisition, for the purpose of considering the
most suitable means of manifesting our high respect for
your political character, and our cordial attachment to-
'wards yourself personally, cannot permit your Lordship
(with our recollection of recent events) to return to your
official duties in England, without tendering to your
Lordship formally the assurance of the profound respect
and affection which we, in common with the Irish nation,
entertain towards your Lordship.
We hold in our grateful remembrance the devoted-
ness with which, in early life, in those dark days of
bondage, when a vast majority of our fellow-countrymen
were oppressed for conscience sake, your Lordship
ranged yourself with the friends of Ireland; and we have
marked the earnestness with w. hich dour.
.Lerdship has
ever since essayed to impart lifF an. spt to the cold
enfranchisement which you
form of civil and relive:its
and others have created.
official career in Ireland, it has been
" " Daring your o- cia those eved measures f
your happy destiny to assist in
policy, wk..)se object has been to raiseb.rlre.laand.tuoie.,iiislt
equality with other portions of the empf_oei,
al connection
tare to predicate that whenever your
with this country .may coat; your mind dweerinveowa
solace in your retirement from this.. 1.1161. which
proclaim, that under the Government of ousl
which you have
been part, the social state of Ireland has continu
improved, and that a more unmixed loyalty and allegi-
ve been
ance to our gracious and beloved Sovereign ha
established, than existed towards a monarch at any
former period in history, since the commencement of
British connection.
" To recapitulate the various acts of public service
which your Lordship has accomplished in Ireland would
far exceed the limits prescribed to an occasion like the
present. To enumerate the beneficent designs in which
your Lordship has been engaged, but which have been
rendered abortive by the hostility of the enemies of Ire-
land, would still more transcend the boundary which we
have defined for our immediate purpose. Let your Lord-
ship be assured that the people of Ireland treasure in
their hearts the recollection of every benefit designed
for the amelioration of their country.
" To such of us as have enjoyed the opportunity of
personal communication with your Lordship, it may
be permitted to express our fond recollection of the
kindliness of disposition, and the frank and courteous
demeanor which adorn your private intercourse. Emi-
nent, indeed. must be those qualifications to which we,
your friends, advert, when their existence in your person
receives, even from your adversaries, a full acknow-
ledgment.
" We cannot retire from your Lordship's presence

without adverting 'to the recent event which has re-
moved your Lordship from the House of Commons,
and giving expression to our hope that no tem-
porary impediment may turn your Lordship from
those walks of honour and public utility in which it
has hitherto been your pride to travel. It may be, my
Lord, that in this hope there lurks some element not en-
tirely free from selfishness—these are not times, my
Lord, when Ireland can spare from her friendly ranks a
defender so chivalrous and pure as she has proved your
Lordship in the encounter with her enemies.
" In conclusion, we assure your Lordship that the
warmest good wishes of our country will ever accompany
you in your future progress through life."
Mr. JOHN O'NEILL said he had the honour to second
the resolution. A warm feeling of gratitude existed in
his (Mr. O'Neill's) breast—and such a feeling should
exist in the breast of every true Irishman—in favour of
LordMorPeth.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. (Y..feill) had been
a resident of P" üblin; f
ttr°tiara century, and continued
still to be asuient there ; he lad remarked the conduct
of the differentpersons that acted as Chief Secretaries
dui rig that
. anal none of them had, he would
say, acted so honestly, fitiFly,
as so patriotically, and,
be would add, so states niabhko Lord Morpeth.—

(Loud cheers.) Old as he (Mr. O'Neill) was, he hoped
yet to see him at the head of the State.—(Cheers.)
There was not upon the face of the earth—even in the
most despotic countries—even in Russia or Turkey, a
people so trampled upon as the Irish people.
Mr. O'CONNELL came forward to second the adoption
of the address, and was received with loud and long con-
tinued cheers. He said that he meant to propose that
this address be universally signed, a fact which he felt
satisfied would require but little exertion to bring about.
He had no doubt that such a multitude of signatures
would be speedily obtained as would render this one of
the most complimentary documents that ever emanated
from a grateful people to their ruler and benefactor.—
(Cheers.) For 600 years the people of Ireland had no
other reason to look upon their chief Secretaries than as
their bitter enemies and persecutors, until Lord Morpeth
assumed that situation.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'Connell
proceeded to pass a glowing eulogium on Lord
Morpeth, for his goodness of herrt, his literary
talents, eloquence, patriotic virtue, and his love
of civil and religious liberty in all parts of the
world. With reference to his complaints of Lord Mor-
peth formerly opposing his measure for the equalization
of the franchise between Great Britain and Ireland, he
had subsequent proofs that Lord Morpeth's own opinion
was in favour of the measure, but, being bound up with
a Cabinet which was opposed to it, he was, for the time,
obliged to defer it ; but, in some months afterwards, he
found Lord Morpeth bringing in a most comprehensive
and just measure for the extension of the Irish 'fran-
chise, which was a proof that Lord Morpeth had brought
round the Cabinet to his opinion on the subject of the
necessity of doing justice to Ireland on the subject of
their franchises. After alluding to the foul calumnies
of the English press on the Irish people, .Mr. O'Con-
nell turned round, and asked his Grace whether he had
seen Louis
_Philippe's newspaper, the Journal des De-
bats? That paper showed the joy of England's constant
adversaries ; they hailed the advent of Peel to power as
the best means of weakening the power of Great
Britain, and holding out to them the probability of re-
gaining their lost glory. If he (Mr. O'Connell) were
one of the old Celtic or Saxon race, and wished all kind
of calamity to Great Britain, he could not take better
means to effect his purpose than by bringing in Peel and
the Tories at the present juncture. After a brilliant
speech, which excited the warmest enthusiasm of the
meeting, he concluded by seconding the address, which
was adopted amidst loud acclamation.
The Rev. Dr. YORE proposed that the address be
printed and circulated for signatures,—Adopted.
A resolution was also adopted, inviting Lord Morpeth
to a public dinner.
Sir Thomas Esmonde was the second Chairmai. The
meeting separated at a quarter past four o'clock.

ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE

AT MANCHESTER.

The following letter has been addressed, by the Rev.
Dr. Wardlaw, to the Rev. J. W. Massie, of Manchester:—

Barlanark, August 10,_.1841.

My dear Sir,—l beg pardon of yourself and Commit-
tee, that even a second notice, which ought not to have
been even required, should be still unanswered. The
plain truth is, that I was very reluctant to say no, and
yet I could not, with any certainty, say yes. And now
I am sincerely sorry that the former monosyllable must
be my answer. The answer should have been given in
the end of last week, but that I was then occupied with
the mournfully pleasing duty of preparing the funeral
sermon for the late venerated and lamented Mr. Ewing.
Not only do I feel duties of a public nature pressing upon
me and demanding fulfilment—duties which I only can
do, while there are multitudes to do the other, who may
not happen at the time to be thus bound ; but circum-
stances of a domestic character, which you can partly
guess, rout which I need not now detail, seem to require
my being at home.
I should deeply feel,, however, that great injustice was
done me, were my absence suspected to arise from any
indifference respecting the great object of the proposed
Convention. It is not so. It is far, very far otherwise.
Some of my brethren call it a political question, and
object to a ministerial convention respecting it on this
ground. That should not frighten me. Admitting it to
be a question of political legislation, I cannot on that ac-
count, regard it as the less a question of humanity. Grant-
ing it to be a problem of political economy, I dare not
allow myself to forget, to what a vast extent it is a ques-
tion of domestic economy, most seriously and fearfully
affecting the condition of myriads of families, and the fa-
milies too of those who must ever be the staple of a com-
mercial nation's strength and prosperity. In such a view
of it, it cap never be out of the legitimate sphere of the
servants-of that Saviour who, while the great end of his
mission was " to seek and to save the lost," manifested,
in the fulfilling of that commission, so benevolent a con-
cern for the temporal as well as the spiritual interests of
a sinful and suffering world ; the one in such harmonious
and beautiful keeping with the other. And why should
the political aspect of the question overpower the interest
which, as,ministers of the. Gospel, we ought to feel in it
as a question of humanity ? Politics themselves are a
branch of ethics. Properly viewed, they are the morals
of nations. They affect the character and the well-being
of the world. Indifference to politics, in this view of them,
II indifference to their results—peace or war—plenty or
starvation—virtue or vice—prosperity or declension—
security to person, property, and life, or the jeopardy of
them all. Surely such indifference cannot be a feature
of character which the Bible requires, either in Christian
man or in Christian minister. lam no meddler with
politics. But my simple reason is, that in doing what I
can to diffuse the influence of Bible truth, and co-operat-
ing with fellow-Christians and fellow-ministers in the
endeavour to leaven the community with its influence, I
am doing what I conceive to be my proper part in pro-
moting and ensuring rectitude of principle in the ma-
nagement of public affairs ;—not that I regard the ma-
nagement of public affairs as a matter with which, as a
Minister of the Cross, I have no concern. Although
holding the essential distinction between the kingdom of
Christ and the kingdoms of this world, I yet believe and
am sure, that the spread and prevalence of the principles
of the one are the best security for the application of
right principles in conducting the affairs of the other.
Your avowed object, moreover, is consultation ; the
comparing of both sides,—the hearing of the pros and
con.s. Attendance pledges no one to a side. This is
fair play. Excuse all this probing. lam anxious that
my absence from the Conference may not be misunder-
stood. May a right spirit pervade all your deliberations,
and Divine wisdom and goodness grant a happy result.
With best wishes to your associates, as well as to your-
self, believe me, my clear Sir, your's faithfully,
RALPH WARDLAW.