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TIIE BISHOP OF DERRY.

ADDRESS FROM THE CITIZENS OF DERRY, TO
THE HON. AND RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP
OF THE DIOCESE.
The calumnious and unmerited attack which
was made in the Dublin Evening Post, upon our exemplary
and venerable Diocesan, whose exercise of the virtues which
become his office, has stamped his worth indelibly upon every
heart, excited a burst of indignation in this city, so strong and
general, that any thing like it is not in our recollection. The
Citizens knowing the foul injustice of the accusation, resolved
to stamp with their reprobation the wanton malignity of the
libeller, in assailing a character which the breath of calumny
had never before presumed to sully, and to rally round his Lord-
ship to protect him from the poisoned shafts aimed at him—
and, in his person, at the religion of which he is a distinguish-
ed ornament. As the most effectual way of doing this, an Ad-
dress, expressive of the abhorrence of the atrocity was drawn
up ; and on Saturday last a number of Gentlemen by whom it
.had been signed, assembled in the Record Office, when the
Worshipful John Rea, Esq., the Mayor, having been called to
the Chair, it was moved by Alderman Scott, and seconded by
John A. Smyth, Esq., that the Very Rey. Dean Gough, the
Right Rev. Dri. M'laoughlin, Roman Catholic Bishop, and
the Rev. Geo. Hay Presbyterian Clergyman of Derry, accom-
panied by the rest of the Gentlemen present, should proceed
to the Palace'' and that the ltev. George Hay should read and
present the Address to his Lordship, ()tithe part of the Gentle-
men who bad•subscribed to it, which was accordingly clone.
The following is a copy of it :-
111 it LORD—When the characters of men of integrity and
honour are falsely and clandestinely assailed, it becomes the
bounded duty of every honourable man to detect the falsehood,
and rebut the slander.
Purity cannot shield a character from calumny—even your
Lordship has not escaped defamation. The malevolence of an
article inn public print has lately depicted you* as you are not
—we owe it to your Lordship to depict you as you are.
When you became our diocesan, you found a cathedral, with-
in Whose walls Divine Service had not for a long time been
performed. On your arrival a tower was building for the re-
erection of a spire, and you aided the object by the liberal
contribution of nearly one thousand pounds.
At a later period it has been determined to complete the
improvement then contemplated, and your Lordship has floc
ther undertaken to erect a spire at your own expence, which
will cost you nearly an additional thousand pounds.
In the departments of your episcopal duty which relate to
your superintendence of your Clergy, and the disposal of your
patronage, whatever the tongue of calumny may insinuate,
you stand invulnerable. The Clergy of your diocese feel con-
fidence under your protection. Scarcely a year has elapsed
without finding a Curate, through your means, raised to com-
fort and independence, and the authentic records of your
Church designate Ten, who, by your fostering patronage, have
been promoted to parishes within the last five years, not one
of whom was in the most distant degree connected with your
Lordship.
Our numberless public institutions—our daily craving cha-
rities, bear amble testimony that the funds with which Pro-'
vidence has intrusted you, are neither withheld not mis-
applied.
You founded our Charitable Loan by your energies. By a
powerful appeal from the pulpit you explained its object, con-
vinced us of its utility, and obtained for it the means that gave
it formation and impulse.
You formed also the present Free-school. With indefati-
gable anxiety for the education of our youth, you solicited and
obtained grants for its support. You bestowed upon it of your
own means one thousand pounds, and you further endowed it
with one hundred a year.
When you came amongst us, there was no public institution
for the education of the poor. You have since caused one to be
erected on the foundation of Erasmus Smyth. At its forma-
tion you bestowed upon it four hundred pounds, anti you fur-
ther endowed it with twenty guineas a year.
Under the direction of the females of your family, another
school has been established, in which, at their exclusive ex-
pence,. twenty unprotected girls receive food, clothing, and
education.
We have enumerated only some of our public charities which
feel your humane and liberal interference. In fact, there is
not one established amongst us, that has not excited your inte-
rest, and received your support.
Nor do the public charities of our society limit your libe-
rality. You have been placed at the head of that valuable as-
sociation lately formedin the North West of Ireland, whose ef-
fects are extending rapidly and powerfully in improving the in-
dustry, the arts, the manufactures, and the morality of the
place
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your " own works to praise you ;" but when !an individual
actually distinguished for qualities that are amiable, is assail-
ed—one placed, too, upon an eminence which makes him an
easy mark for malice to wound, we deem it an indispensable
duty to feel the assault as made upon ourselves—to collect our-
selves around him, protect him from his assailants, and repel
their attempts.
These are the reasons, my Lord, which have induced us to
intrude upon you with this Address. It is one signed, support-
ed, and sanctioned by men of all religious persuasions amongst
us ; for the effects of your beneficence have flowed over all the
religious denominations of our country, in undistinguishing
streams.
We, who best ksow you, '
can best appreciate the vileness
'of that article, which anxiously, but impotently, attempts
to wound your reputation, and disturb your peace. With-
in the very walls of that building, for the neglect of which
slander has exhibited, you as the object of censure and re-
proach, your character has been unanimously and triumphant-
ly justified
The enclosed Resolution, passed without dissent, conveys to
your Lordship a vote of thanks, at the same time tells the wri-
ter of the paragraph which called forth this Address, that the
assembled parish in which YOU RESIDE, has, with ONE VOICE,
pronounced lihn a Libeller, false, scandalous, and malicious.
Feeling, as we do, the beneficial influence of your preserice
in our society, and knowing your character from daily ob-

serziaticns, as IN TRUTH IT TB, We have sought for this wa-
gou likewise to pronounce that article pregnant with malignity
and falsehood.
May your Lordship live long amongst us, and enjoy every
blessing which we who know your worth feel you deserve.
We are, my Lord, with great respect,
Your Lordship's faithful Friends,
George Hay, Presbyterian Mi- Adam Schoales
nister of Londonderry Thomas Harvey •
P. M'Laughlin, R. C. Bishop Robert Corscaden
of Derry Heape Crompton
Wm. Scott, M.D. Alderman I James Knox
John A. Smyth, J. P. John Hill
John Rea, Mayor of Derry - I R. W. Boyd
Thomas B. Gough,• Dean of Edward Joyce
Derry John Kelso
Hugh Lyle, Oak Lodge, J. P. Joseph Kelso
James Acheson, Oaks, R. M4lntire; Butcher-street
Thomas Scott, Willbro', J.P. William Gallagher
William Kerr Neal 11‘Clean
William Moore David Porter
John Thompson James Preston
W. L. Smyth Robert Harold
Thomas Ramsay P. O'Laughlin, R.C. Curate,
P. Gilmour Derry
Ross B. Smyth James Conahan
Charles !Rea, J., P. Timothy Foy
W. K. M'Clintock ' Hugh Foy
`C. Galway, Curate of the Ca- William Steen
! thedral Edward Dogherty, R. C. Cu-
William
Macky rate, Derry
William Marshall John O'Brien
M. S. Hill, Alderman ! Samuel Alexander
Win. Boyd, Alderman
.. Patrick Haliday
Archibald Boyd, Burgess John M'Cormick
Joshua Gillespie, one of the Samuel Dysart
High Sheriffs, J. P. -David Allen
' John Dysart, Mayor of the William Graham
Staple of Londonderry Daniel O'Doherty
Roger Murray, Alderman I Moses Steen •
Marcus M'Causland, Fruit ! William Huffington
Hill, J. P. . •, John Huffington
R. A. Ferguson, The Farm, William Huffington, jun.
J. P. Matthew Shaw
,
Andrew Ferguson, J. P. John Bond
Harvey Ferguson, Burgess Joseph Alexander
Conolly Skipton, Beech Hill, John 111‘Clure
Alderman Cornelius Kelly
James Gregg, Chamberlain John Monteith
John Curry, Alderman Ezekiel Graham
Thomas Woore, J.. P. John Graham
Andrew A. Watt - William F. IWlntire
Adam Crompton H. Y. Davenport
Andrew Moore Ezekiel Caldwell
William Dysart John Graham
Francis Gouldsbury, Clerk, William Hunter
and J.• P. John Brigham
Hugh Lyle, Ashbrook, J. P. William Cooke
Irwin Dawson, Capt. J. P. John Allen
Harvey Nicholson, Burgess William Waugh
J. T. Macky Henry Walkner
James Thompson Simnel L. Montgomery
William Davenport William Haslett
Richard Harvey, Burgess Samuel Major
Samuel M'Clintock Thomas Major
William Leathem R. A. Stewart
Robert Forster John Stewart
John Murry, Burgess James Stewart
Frederick Hamilton James Hood .
Dominick Knox William Moore
Archibald Boyd, jun. James Fisher
Richard Young, Alderman William O'Doherty
John Maginniss, Alderman I CharlesjO'Doherty

Alexande; Majo, Burgess
James Major Burgess
Alexander Skipton,
George Franks
Alexander Hasson
John Chambers
Francis Rogan, M.D.
William Ball

John Gage Ball
Tristrim Kennedy
William Miller

H. Corbett

Anthony G. Cary
William Pitt Kennedy
Alexander Lecky, Burgess
William C. Lecky
Henry Scott, Curate of Inch
James M'Crea
Moss. Hempton
'William G. Marshall

J. Fenton, Bellevue, J. P.
Charles Morton, Surgeon
H. Babington
William 1114Corkell -
George M'Connell
James Preston
William Wallen

Benjamin Damns
John AI. Dysart
Joseph Young
William Campbell
George Foster
David Brown
JameaConyagham

David Gilmour
James Park
Denis Doherty
Thomas Collins
Thomas White
David Baird
George Lyon
Robert Young

Robert M'lntire, jun.
Thomas Davenport
Joseph Black

Thanes Beattie

William Ewing, Clerk
William F. Roe, Curate of the
Chapel of Ease
Mathew Philsen
Robert Ferguson
John Bond
Andrew Bond
J. L. M'Crea

John Smyth
James Christie, Curate of
Faughanvale
J. E. Miller, M.D.
W. D. Smyth
Acheson Lyle
Thomas Shepherd

R. Wm. Bolid, Bond's-hill
James Ferguson
James Pigott
John Boyle
James Murray
John Alexander, Caw
John Nicholson.

His LordshiP received his fellow-citizens with that unaffected
kindness which has ever marked his intercourse with them, and
was pleased to return the following reply :
GENI;LEmEN—I know not to what terms to resort; for I
feel that no language can convey the emotions inspired by this
affectionate and too indulgent address. I had perused the
publication to which you refer with the anxious sorrow,at-
tendant on a wounded reputation, and the still more dispiriting
apprehension, that the establishment which I am boand to up-
hold, might be shaken by the bolt hurled at one of its professed
defenders. _

But, Gentlemen, these anxieties have not sunk so deeply,
that your consolations are insufficient to efface them ; nor
need the assault be dreaded, which you unanimously assemble
to repel.
You have been pleased to particularise several of the mani-
fold relations by which we are connected—to bestow upon the
discharge of them the honour of your valued praise ; but, Gen
t/emen, 1 cannot accept of such a flattering eulogy ; conscience
admonishes me how ill I have deserved it—yet, let me assure
you, that highest among the earthly rewards to which I aspire,
ranks the approval of those who, like you, possess the capacity
and opportunity to decide upon my professional career.
With some of you I am united in the spiritual bonds of re-
ligious communion ; with all, by the ties of social intercouse
and Christian fellowship—all will receive my most unfeigned
thanks, and credit the declaration, that as long as Divine Pro-
vidence shall vouchsafe to me the enjoyment of mental facul-
ties, so long shall the memory of this day be cherished amidst
the dearest recollections of my life.

THE DUBLIN ROMAN CATHOLIC MEETING.

(ilbstraeted.f!-om the Dublin Freeman's Journal.)

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ihioenA'Assembly. He commenced by condemning the ' anarchi-
cal infatuation" which, he declared, incited the Catholic pea-
santry to violence and bloodshed, by proclaiming the Protestant
Clergy and Gentry as the implacable enemies of Ireland, and
thus proceeded :—But I will ask, who is really the enemy of
Ireland and her peasantry ? Is it not that man, who with wily,
treacherous, facinating, and impassioned eloquence, harangues
a credulous, warm-hearted, and generous peasantry, arguing
them into the belief, that the Catholics are a persecuted race,
whose blood is wantonly and frequently shed with impunity—
whose property, privileges, and lives, have not the support and
protection and advantage of the laws, and that they are aliens
to the Constitution P I will tell the Catholics that they nourish
in their own bosoms their most formidable, because their most
insidious enemy, a man who wishes for any thing rather than
Catholic emancipation, as it is called, and whose projects and
designs are calculated and intended to retard that measure.—
This is not rhapsody, but the candid sentiments of an honest
heart—and would that those who now hear me, that the man
whose dangerous eloquence—
Mr. LONERGAN—Mr. Chairman, this is more than ludi-
crous, and the gentleman has now arrived at such a stage, as
obliges me to call him to order.
Mr. O'Goßmax (the Secretary)—Allow me to inquire, Sir,
if you are a Member ?
Young Gentleman—No, Sir.
Mr. O'CONNELL—Is the Gentleman a Catholic ?

Young-Gentleman—No; I am a Protestant.
Mr. O'CoNNELL.—Oh ! then, the Gentleman must be
heard. _ _ _

Mr. CONWAY thought it would lead to interminable con-
fusion if every person who chose to come out of the street,
should be permitted to occupy the attention of the meeting, and
create disorder and uproar by idle and intemperate speeches.
31r. JAMES O'CortNELL was for having the Gentleman
heard with patience.
The Young Gentleman resumed—Embolden by your success
in creating distrust in the peasantry, deitroying their confidence
in the magistracy, and establishing a hostility to the Protestant
Clergy and Gentry, you proceed with confidence in your power
of working mischief—but let inc conjure you to beware of your
danger, and to reflect, that although the progress of the laws
may be occasionally slow, yet, when they overtake delinquents,

punishment is certain—and "that, should you continue Your
present wicked course of proceeding, that terrible fate frel
overtake you which has befallen so many of your wretolL
and deluded countrymen, who have been impelled to blood s 7
rapine, and have consequently sacrificed their lives to the °
fended laws.
Mr. CONWAY called to order, and if the gentleman Wl'
not some specific motion to propose, it was unreasonable
him to trespass upon the meeting with such a calumniods
ture, and it would be unwise in the meeting to permit hire to
proceed.
Mr. O'CoNNEL—It is impossible to interrupt the gentians°,
lie professes to be a stranger and a Protestant, and therefore
hear him to the end.
(Here some voices called " Chair," and others " Prooeea
Mr. JAMES O'CowNELL—Gentlemen, I most earnestly ell!
treat of you to hear the young man. We have often had oeesi
sion to complain of being maligned and calumnlatetl behind
our backs, and when we could not defend ourselves f. but here
the foe comes face to face ; here, though we suffer the poison t°
work, we can administer an immediate antidote.
Mr. O'GoRMAN—WiII you favour us with your name,
Young,Gentleman—l shall not state my name.—(A genera
cry of " hear, hear," then followed.)
The CHAIRMAN, addressing the young Gentleman, saki"'
". Sir, you have appealed to the Chair, and as the meeting have
unanimously agreed to hear you out, you are now at liberty r°
proceed."
The Young Gentleman, hesitatingly, replied that he 'wolla
not resume his address.

CHAIRMAN—" Then, Sir, if your object in coming here trae
merely to make a speech, you have now an opportunity of
tifying your ambition, and of having yourself heard • be.
you come.here with the expectation, or in anticipation of ban*
prevented from addressing the Meeting, I am happy you WI
been disappointed. You are now, Sir, given to understanut
that you have the option of proceeding if you please."
The young Gentleman again declined to address the Meeting
any further.
Mr. O'CONNELL rose to reply to him. The following are
extracts from his speech :
" Oh, Heavens ! in what society has this young lad beep
reared, that at his age, and with his education, he should haf,e
acquired opinions and feelings, the mere expression of whir,.
makes humanity shudder ! Amongst what other class of
men than Orangemen could he have imbibed such unchrisi
tian ideas ? They could not have been engendered by' WV
thing spoken in this room. He professes to be a Protestan!l
but did one Christian sentiment drop from his lips during h",
canting harangue ? Is he a Protestant friendly to civil age
religious liberty ? The fanatical animosity with which he
charges atrocities upon Irish Catholics, without stating one
single fact to justify his calumnies, prove that he is not a friend
to toleration, and that his shallow mind, perverted intellect,
and habitual prejudices, have so overwhelmed common sense,
that he has been unable to acquire any -knowledge of passing
events, but from the statements of the Minister, the Orange
Magistrate and his myrmidons; and, from these authentic
sources, the people are to learn, spite of daily and woeful e
perience to the contrary, that forsooth the laws are impartialli
administered—that the peasant has no grievance or oppression',
ecclesiastical, civil, or criminal, to complain of—that the Cath°'
lie gentry enjoy-all the privileges and benefits of the Constitution
"'This young gentleman may be but the tutored agent of some
ploding, hoary miscreant, who, " sick at heart,"in seeing the Ca'
tholic Association rise to importance, spite of calumny and wig'
representation, dreads its determination to make known to the
world the abuses of power, to proclaim the oppression of the
task-masters of Ireland, the intrigues and profligacy of a fae;
tion, obnoxious to all good men—a faction that has grown oiu
and rich in power, by the basest arts and the most corrupt in-
sinuation—a faction which has lorded it over the land without
controul, and spread its roots in the dark, even to the bag',
ment of the British throne.' This may be an expiring effort
tyranny and weakness, or it may be the mere wanton pran'
of privileged insolence in this young exclusionist, anxious for
the exercise of his inherent right to insult an oppressed and de'
graded people—for he may he a bravo hired by the Orange
Club to assail my character and motives ; but, Sir, I have aO
passed that time of life when mere personal ribaldry can mahe
me forgetful of the obedience I owe my Maker, and of
duty to my family, and would to God, Sir, I had ever been
guided by the same feeling. Then let this juvenile Intolerant
report to his employers, that I withstood his impotent rage, tin'
moved by the vile calumnies to which it .gave utterance—that
his slanders were to me but as play-things to a boy, which,
after amusing him, he flings to the wind—that in him were'
cognised an epitome of those odious peculiarities which distin‘
guish the heartless Orangeman, and that his monstrous atla'
city in coming into an assembly of Catholics, whom he charge`.'
with the vilest atrocities, but dared not to support by one proor,
served 'but to excite our quiet contempt, whilst we could nefri
withhold our pity at his early desertion of all those amiable sun
honourable principles and feelings necessary to the profession
of a Christian, and for discharging the duties of a good oitizen;
and
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cheering.)
Mr. KTRWAN followed Mr. O'Connell. In the course "21
his address he observed, that the speech of the young gentle'
man " had been conned over at the family coterie."
Upon which the latter said, " Sir, you are wrong." Here
gbuthsuittsesisn.,s,t_ru(cG teedn'teil
business."—(Genera
there were loud cries of " Order, order," and, " Sir, your
name," when the Gentleman, in a voice loud, but broken With
agitation, declared, " that if he gave his name he would be
murdered in his bed!!!" A thrill of horror pervaded the
meeting for some minutes.

111 r. KIRWAN—Sir, I have heard the declaration of that
most inconsiderate:young man with indignation and disgust,
and if the agitation which has pervaded the breasts of all,
should in some measure affect mine, I trust I shall be par,'
doned all looseness of expression, as well as all overheat
zeal ; but really, Sir, there is a limit (as Burke says) where
forbearance ceases to be a virtue--a man may suffer the indig;
nities which have been offered to himself, but he should tieb,
suffer those which are offered to his country—(Cheers)—atw'
Sir, so long as I have a tongue to give utterance to the feeling'
of my heart, I shall not fail to characterise the conduct of all
man, however young or however old, who dares in my pre'
sence to cast a stain on the character of the whole country
The inconsiderate rashness of youth, or the peevish garrult'
ty of age, shall give him no protection, and unless he shield
himself under an absolute incapacity of judgment, amount'
ing to an impenetrable stupidity, I shall give him no loop'
hole by which to retreat from that animadversion which he 60
justly merits. Sir, I give the person who made the atrocioo
declaration, which you all heard, in the amazement propiw'
tioned to its absolute and utter falsity—his choice of the alter;
natives to which every national calumny must be reduced ; and
I tell him he is either so incomparably ignorant as to the chit'
racter of the Irish peasantry as to be incompetent to•form an
opinion, to have made a charge so egregiously calumnious--;
or he is so transcendantly wicked, knowing that character, ond
being therefore competent to judge, to have framed a vile libel,
and a wicked lie.

After some further observations, Mr. Kirwan sat down, and
the stranger applied for his card, upon which several gentlemen
said Mr. Kirwan should not give his card unless the gentleman,
produced his own, or told his name. The gentleman refused
to give his card or disclose his name, and declared, that if Mr.
Kirwan withheld his card he would brand him.--The gentle.-
man, with his companion, immediately afterwards retired.---
Mr. Kirwan was at the irtant in the act of writing his address,
and when he found the arrangers had left the room, lie followed
them.—We were informed that he was stopped on the passage
by some gentlemen who forcibly detained him for a few mo-
ments; and when, escaping from them, he got down stairs, the
gentleman had departed. -

We are sorry to understand, by letters From
the North, that the differences between the ship-builders of
Sunderland and Shields and their servants, which have now
existed nearly three months, to the great inconvenience of both
parties, still continue.