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No. 17,266.] LON

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F.L Z A BETH DAVIDSON, Spinster, deceased.
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This :ady had the follewing letter inserted In the "Tines" news-
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QTANZAS for the SERPENTINE.
1.7 When Winter comes chilling th. air,
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What thousands are seen to prepare
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When the river a twelvemonth ago
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ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA' A-
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IRELAND.

REPLY OF DR. 1+1:11A-1:1:: -TO THE EARL

OF SHREWSBURY.
This epistle is of such tremendous length, that we
can merely give its tenor.
The Prelate begins by asking the Noble Lord in
what Ministerial office he has taken out his commis-
sion to manage the concerns of the Catholic Church
of Ireland. A late order for fast and thanksgiving
was sent by the Viceroy to Catholic as well u Pro:
testant churches. This is of a piece with the letter
of Lord Shrewsbury, who is accused as one of those
"discreet Catholics" that Ministers love to employ.
Dr. M‘Hale says that Lord Arundel's letter did not
breathe that "slavish and unchristian insolence" which
marks the communication of other English Catholic
Peers, who are mere suitors for Ministerial favours.
After a lively description of the miseries of the Irish
population, the writer .pleads in his own behalf the
absence of crime in his peculiar diocese. Untortu-
nate!y the good Prelate never alludes to Major
Mahon's murder, which took place in his vicinity, and
led to the letters of the Catholic Peers. This is a
very singular omission.
The Prelate then denounces the system of chari-
table societies in Ireland, who, under English influ-
ence, undertake to feed and preserve children from
perishing of famine, by receiving them into schools.
Dr. M‘Hale calls this an abominable scheme of
proselytism.
To another charge of Lord Shrewsbury the answer
is as follows :

"As one proof of its spiritual destitution, the re-
peal rent' is paid throughout the diocese to forward
the measure of the repeal of the legislative union !
Yes ; and your Lordship's surprise, but echoing the
affected surprise of our enemies, will only strengthen
our determination. Poor as we are now, as your
Lordship supposes, in respect to schools and chapels,
we were far poorer and more destitute when we sup-
ported, by similar pecuniary sacrifice, the Catholic
Association. Did your Lordship or your fellow-
Peers, now so much scandalised at the right of
citizens claimed by the priests of Ireland, after the
example of St. Paul, then launch any indignant
philippics against their so. called political inter-
ference ? Oh, no! as long as the Catholic
Peers of England—dead to society—from the
lowest offices of which they were excluded—
slept, like the enchanted knights of old, in the keeps
of their baronial castles, bristling with the penal
terrors which kept aloof the approach, nay, the very
hope of liberty—a slumber in which they would have
still lain, without much loss to society, had it not
been for O'Connell and the Catholic priests and people
of Ireland—we do not find that there was uttered
any complaint from any quarter against that sacred
influence that marshalled the men in this peaceful and
moral warfare, until the mighty chief routed the
dragons of grim enactments, that were keeping ward
around their mansions, and the clangour of emanci-
pation awakened them once more to freedom and to
life. lVho could have imagined that it would have
been since the chief labour of some of those Lords to
propitiate the inveterate bigots, whose joy at their
bondage could only be equalled by their rage at their
liberation, and not only to forget the former sharers
in their sufferings, but, worse than the companions
of Joseph, who only forgot his captivity to labour to
forge new and more galling fetters for those who had
mainly contributed in shaking off their own. But
Peers have certain privileges, among which, no
doubt, ingratitude is to be numbered. In this
very ingratitude, by which they are treated
by those from whom they had a right to
expect aid, the Catholic clergy find fresh evidence
to justify them in the course they have adopted. The
people and the priests contribute their mite to the
association out of their ' poverty, I will admit, and
not out of their abundance.% This very sacrifice
proves their abhorrence of that mendicancy with
which they are reproached by their oppressors as a
national vice, and their unconquerable determination,
whilst they are as loyal as any portion of her Ma-
jesty's subjects, to be equally free. Like the hus-
bandman who sows in spring to reap in harvest, they
give their little offering now to obtain that sound
legislation which will secure the fruits of industry,
and avert the recurrence of those famines that deso-
late the land, which, no scarcity alone but bad laws
have brought on, and which those cruel and unequal
laws are terribly aggravating. As the destitution,
the disorders, and the crimes that afflict the country
spring from those bad laws, as a troubled stream from
a bad fountain, what raore laudable in the pastors of
the people than to labour peaceably for having sub-
stituted in their place, a system of wise and benevolent
legislation ? As another source of " spiritual destitu-
tion " is the want of national school 3, perhaps your
Lordship might inform the public whether, from any
recent alliance with the National Board, your sym-
pathies have any kindred leaning to that body. If
so, will your Lordship report likewise of the Protestant
catechism, that is surreptitiously tau4ht to Catholic
children, in some of those few national schools that
are forced on the ordinary of the diocese, even by
Catholic Commissioners, in defiance of the rights of
episcopal authority--nay, of the supreme authority
of the Pope ? Is your Lordship aware that it was the
instruction of his Holiness that the property of the
national schools resorted to chiefly by Catholics should
be vested in the Catholic pastors, and that in opposi-
tion to that admonition every art has been employed
to induce the present patrons to resign their leases and
vest the property of the schools exclusively in this
dictatorial body, under the pretence of keeping them
in repair, as if they could not be kept in repair under
their present trustees and patrons ?"
Dr. M'llale continues to plead, that if he does not
patronise schools, he fosters and founds monasteries,
which are much better.

By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman-

street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. /cc,
CONTENTS Or TIM WORK,

his right of protesting against the confirmation of the
Bishop of Hereford, resting his claims, simple man as
he was, on the letter of the law, but who was over-
ruled by the more orthodox interpretation and sterner
authority of the commissioners. Are these the
great destinies which the Irish Church is to achieve
when freed from dependence on their flecks, and
from popular subserviency ?' If so, it is, I trust, a
disastrous destiny which the Catholics of Ireland shall
never contemplate. This would he a fate which
reminds me of the words of St. Hilary, the Bishop of
Poictiers, to Constantius You hate the preachers
of Jesus Christ—you build the walls of our churches,
in order to defile their worship—you ask the benedic-
tion of bishops, in order to trample on their faith,
and you invite those bishops to your feasts, in order
that rising from the table they may go like Judas
to betray their Divine Master.' Is this the glorious
vision which presents itself to your prophetic view
—the coils of Ministerial patronage gently and
successively drawn around the Church until she should
perish in the deadly embrace? Why not, then, at
once avow this project, and reveal to the world the
deep schemes of diplomacy now at work at home and
abroad to enslave her ? Has there been any recent
attempt to extort from Rome, ever watchful against
fraud, as she is firm against persecution, the delega-
tion of a portion of her authority to any lay envoy
of your Lordship's acquaintance, in order that the
discipline and next the doctrine of the Catholic
Church, as well as the reputation of the Irish hie-
rarchy, should be played at hazard in some of your
London saloons, and, like the balls of a billiard table,
be flung to and fro amidst an unprincipled circle of
political gamblers ? Some of the parishes in Ireland
have the spiritual aid of perhaps only one young
priest, just turned out of college I In what political
training school does your Lordship mean that those
young priests ' just turned out of college,' should be
formed for the mission ? Msynooth ! Ah, May-
nooth I I perceive is still felt to be a failure. Not-
withstanding the hopes entertained from its recent
endowment—out of English money to be sure—and
that annual labour of the Duke of Leinster and there-
formed visitors to exalt,expaud, refine the notions of the
students by an insight into the mysteries of mangel
wurtzel and bullock feeding, as well as the fusion of
various metals into one, to signify how the distinction
of creeds may be confounded by similar amalgama-
tions—Maynooth is still, and will continue, like an
old monastery, where the students are peculiarly ad-
dicted to the study of logic and theology, and where
the love of country cannot be trodden out. Why
not at once reform these abuses, and trace to old
Dens, as their genuine source, all the iniquities of
the confessional and all the denunciations of the
altar ? You must look to the rising generation of
ecclesiastics. Let the old priests, like the old people
through the country, die away, or live as well as they
can, but you must take special care of the young
ones. As they have proved ungrateful for recent
kindness, draft away at once those young incorrigible
Celts to Saxon land, imperialise the priestheod and
consolidate our colleges like the excise or the custom-
house, place them at once in London, under a board
of commissioners and teachers of every colour and
form of faith from Beaumont to Brougham, so recently
immortalised in the epigrammatic delineations of the
eloquent apostolical administrator of Derry; who, with-
out any compromise of their own opinions, for pro-
bably they do not know them, will give the Irish
pupils the benefit of them all ; let them ascend the
gradual scale of every heresy, the vital air of faith
becomes more attenuated as they rise, until they
reach the utter void of absolute unbelief; let the
fashionable levity of their carriage correspond with
the graceful evolutions of their creed; and let their
language—a perfect type of their mongrel faith and
their mongrel morals—be a mixture of Irish brogue
and English cockneyism, nay, bringing on them the
ridicule of the one country they are taught to admire,
as well as the scorn of the other which they are
trains I to disown • and when they shall have thus
become accomplished gentlemen by taking from
them all heart, all soul, and all affection for their
country and their creed—send them hack again a
pensioned, conceited, and an unfeeling priesthood, to
wear at every levee the livery of their servitude and
their hire, and to rival the idols of the Establishment
in casting salt on the sores of a suffering people, and
pouring oil on the heads of their oppressors ; and
then, indeed, may you hail the advent of Ireland's re-
ligious and political regeneration ! !"
One more extract, and a concluding one :
" What a melo-drama—what a ludicrous and tragic
mixture, this entire affair of Roman embassies and
Irish clerical denunciations Is your Lordship aware
that whilst one nobleman preaches and practises coer-
cion at home, his noble relative is said to be a most
enthusiastic worshipper of the wildest forms of liberty
abroad ? Nay, he is represented as the bosom friend
of the youthful Ciceroacchio, who, it is said, aspires
to be another Rienzi, and to restore the reign of the
ancient Tribunes on the ruins of the Empire of the
successors of St. Peter. It is even said that Lord
Minto, too, aspires to the fame and honours of Pe-
trarch, becoming a musical sonneteer in favour of the
coming political millennium, and lie may he prolong-
ing his stay in Rome until, like the admirer of liberty
and Laura, he shares the triumphs of the young
Rienzi, by receiving the crown of poetry on the
Capitol. It is the representations of such an am-
bassador, said to be so hostile to the Holy
Father, you have been strengthening by your ca-
lumnies on the Irish hierarchy. And for this public
scandal I now demand adequate reparation. Your
Lordship, at least, will not controvert the position,
that evangelical discipline requires that for public
sins there should be a public penance.' You are
perfectly right, my Lord; David was not a more cor-
rect casuist when, unconscious of the tendency of his
reply, he answered to the apologue of Nathan ; and
for your public denunciatious of the entire Catholic
Church in Ireland, and some of its dignitaries in par-
ticular, we require your public atonement. You owe
it principally to the Bishop of Elphin and the Arch-
' bishop of Cashel, the successor of St. Cormac, who,
though adorned with the crown and mitre, bequeathed
to posterity the richer legacy of his sanctity and Irish
literature. It seemed to have been the object of a
rancorous faction to make the Irish bishops pio-
neers of the Attorney-General ; to smooth his
approaches by breaking down the fences of the
sanctuary, and to hand over their innocent clergymen,
(stripped of the reverence of the people and the
panopoly of their sacred character, to become the
victims of some persecuting bigots, in order that the
flock might be easily dispersed, after striking down
the pastor. Go, then, my Lord of Shrewsbury, and
for this grievous scandal against the Church do
penance, and weep between the porch and the
altar.' The pear end of the staff to which you have
directed attention is emblematical of the correction to
be administered to penitents. This penance is to be
tempered with mercy, and even towards Peers, who
have generally more of proud flesh than other peni-
tents, we should forbear any unnecessary rigour, but
should rather stretch out the crook to reclaim their
wandering, and the staff to sustain their faltering steps,
as they approach the tribunal of mercy; thus realis-
ing the mystical signification of the pastoral crozier—
Pungit rebelles, sustinet infirmos, reducit errantes.' "
I have the honour to be your Lordship's
very obedient servant,
JOHN, Archbishop of Tuam.

IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION.

LIMBRICK, J. 22..—This morning► James Qtraine,
a heavy, loutish fellow, about forty years of age, was
placed in the dock, charged, first, with the wilful
murder of Mr. Ralph Hill in November last, and,
secondly, with aiding and abetting in its perpe-
tration.

The particulars of this outrageous murder were
detailed by us in our report of the trial of James
Skeehan, who was on the 20th instant found guilty
of being a party to it, and the case presented to the
Court to-day was but a repetition of that which was
investigated on the occasion of Skeehan's trial ; the
only additional particle of evidence being the fact
that the prisoner had borrowed on the night before
the murder a single barrelled gun from a person
named APNamara, and that on the day after the
murder was committed he told him that unfortu-
nately Mr. Hill was shot—that what was done could
not be undone—and that he had concealed the gun
in a pigstye near the haggard, whence the shots were
fired. It was also proved that the gun was found by
the police in the very spot where the prisoner said he
had concealed it.
The jury, without retiring, found the prisoner
Guilty.
The wretched man, who had betrayed throughout
his trial symptoms of the greatest fear, and had been
most restlessly attentive to the whole of the proceed-
ings, was then remanded to the gaol for the purpose
of being brought up again after a short interval to
have sentence passed upon him. The trial was not
over until five o'clock.

The two men, John and Thomas Frewin, who
yesterday pleaded " guilty " to the charge of har-
bouring, with their brother William Frewin, the
notorious Ryan (Puck), were then placed in the dock.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had read the
affidavits made by the prisoners in extenuation of their
guilt, in which they stated they were ignorant of the
law relating to the crime of which they had been
convicted. The Lord-Lieutenant had done all in his
power to make known the law upon the subject, but
under the circumstances to which he had referred on
the preceding evening, he would ask their Lordships
to inflict such a measure of punishment, short of
transportation, as their Lordships should think fit.
The LORD CIIIEY JUSTICE then sentenced Thomas
Frewin to imprisonment for six months from the date
of his committal ; .John to imprisonment for twelve
months ; the former being a shorter period from the
circumstance of his returning home only a few hours
before Ryan was captured in the house.
James Skeehan, James Quaine, and Michael Howard,
were then placed in the dock, and the Learned Judges
having put on their black caps,
"'The LORD CHIEF BARON then proceeded to pass
upon them the last sentence of the law, and fixed the
22d of February for their execution.
We understand that it is the intention of the
Attorney- General to apply to their Lordships for an
adjournment of the Commission for this county until
Thursday, the 10th of February next; but it is not
anticipated that it will be found necessary to resume
the proceedings, as the assizes will be held within a
few weeks from the present time.
On Monday morning their Lordships will proceed
to Clonmel, and will open the Commission for the
South Riding of Tipperary soon after their arrival.

JEWISH DISABILITIES.

Chap. I..—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by Inordinate
indulgence of the Passions, i Ilustrated with Coloured Engravings.
Chap. 2.—Baneful Results if a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body,
ev!dericed ix the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the
Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfnritful
Mitotic Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Tital
Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused byt ho practice
ofself-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrhoea, Ito symptoms, complica-
tions and treatment, Glect, Stricture, and disease •f the Prostate.
Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cues,
and concluding observations, Plates, &c.
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THE LATE FIRE IN THE BUR-
LINGTON ARCADE.
The following is a copy of the official report of the
damage done :
" Jan. 22.—Three quarters past 4 A.m.—Called by
police and strangers .to the fire in Burlington-arcade,
which was subsequently extinguished by firemen and
the engines of the parish, London Brigade, County
and West of England. The cause of fire not known.
Damages :
" Burlington Arcade, N 0.14, Mr. Russell, walking-
stick
maker. The building burned down, and con-
tents destroyed Insurance on stock and furniture
not known.
" Ditto. Nos. 12 and 13, Mr. Perry, hairdresser and
perfumer.—Front of premises severely burned, plate
glass broken, contents damaged by fire.
" Ditto, No. 15 Mr. Jeffs, foreign bookseller.—
i Front of building burned, and stock in trade severely
injured by fire and water.
" Ditto, No. 59, Mr. Beaumont, ladies' shoemaker.
—Shop and contents destroyed ; the first floor burned
out, and roof off. Insured in the Imperial Fire- office.
" Ditto, Nos. 60 and 61, Mr. Morr4l, fancy jewel-
ler and stationer (the Civet Cat).—Front windows
burned, and contents seriously damaged by fire. Con-
tents supposed to be insured in the Sun-office.
"Ditto, Nos. 62 and 63, Samuel Christmas, hatter
and furrier.—Contents damaged by removal and
breakage. Insured in the Globe Fire-office.
" N0..58, Mr. Buhl, bootmaker.—Front burnt, the
plate glass demolished, and contents extensively da-
maged by fire and water.
"Ditto, Nos. ;5G and 57, Mrs. Louisa Asser, milli-
ner and haberdasher.—Front of premises damaged by
fire, and contents by removal and water. Insured in
the Globe.
" Ditto, Nos. 16 and 17, Mr. J. T. Campart, hosier
and glover. Similar damage to building and contents.
Insured in the Atlas-office.
I " The middle of the roof of the arcade burned out.
The principal portion of the houses are the property
of the Hon. C. C. Cavendish, and are insured in the
1 Westminster Fire-office."
The arcade was on Saturday night completely
thronged with people who had been drawn there to
visit the ruins. Owing to the admirable arrange-
ments of the constables, not the slightest confusion
prevailed.

THE 69TH. REGIMENT.—MALTA, JAN. 12.—One
day last week a man of the grenadier company, Ist bat-
talion, 69th Regiment, garrisoned in Malta, and named
M.Carthy, after the lights were put out, was heard by
one of his comrades to be walking about the room, and
the sergeant who slept near heard the sound of a ram-
rod. In the mean time the man M`Carthy was seized
by his comrade, who found his musket in his hand, and
the sergeant rushing in, seiz,d him and placed him in
confinement, when h 0 declared that his gun was loaded 1
for the adjutant, Lieutenant Denis Dann, and that if he
was prevented then from carrying out his pine he would
do so on another occasion. His musket on being sub-
~equently examined was found to be loaded, though the
man had not time to put on the percussion cap. The
only assignable motive for the above act is the fact that
some weeks ago, in consequence of several of the men
having been found drunk, the colonel gave an order that
each should answer to his name at roll call, and on the
first occasion, the adjutant., hearing some murmuring,
turned the men out, and particularly addressing himself
to M'Carthy, desired him to be quiet. A general court-
martial will sit on the 14th instant to try the prisoner
for the above crime.
LEONORA., A Nov Er.. 3 VoLs.— In our notice of
this novel we failed to refer to the very general report,
and, indeed, the direct assertion, that iti i written by
Lady Boothby, better known to all her admirers by tl:e
name ofMrs . Nisbet-, whohas thus proved tilt universality
of her talent in depicting character both as a novelist and
an actress; and also proved that no one can be eminent as
the latter, without possessing a sense of grace and a
poetic spirit, that only requires the literary power to
manifest itself with the pen.—Jerrold's Weekly Paper
[There is no doubt of the truth of the report, that Lady
Boothby is the author of this charming story.]
JEWISH DISABILITIES. The Mayor and Town
Council of Congleton. Worcester, Gateshead, Ports-
mouth, Yarmouth, Beverley, Leicester, Canterbury,
Truro, Redruth, London, Bristol, Hull, Falmouth, Man-
chester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Boston, Dunfermline,
Castle Douglas, Alnwick, and Cambridge, have already
agreed to petition for the removal of Jewish disabilities.
Only one municipal corporation, that of Jcdburgh, has
petitioned against the Bill ; nor has there been a single
public meeting anywhere ventured upon by the oppo-
nents of the measure ; while in the metropolitan
boroughs of Southwark, Greenwich, Lambeth, the
Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, Westminster, Chelsea, and
Brompton, the advocates of the measure, have tested
public opinion, by calling open meetings in its support.
THE LATH MELANCHOLY' ACCIDENT AT THR
EUSTON-SQUARR TERMINUS. —• DEATH Or ANOTHER
SUFFERER.—On Friday evening last, a man named
James Hickey, another of the unfortunate men em-
ployed on the building which fell at the Euston-square
Terminus of the London and North-Western Railway,
died at the University College Hospital, Gower-street,
this making the third sufferer who has died. There
were eleven admitted into the hospital, of whom two now
alone remain, and they are going on favourably.
WESLEYAN MlSSlONS.—Yesterday evening the an-
niversary meeting of the Great Queen-street (Lincoln's
Inn-fields) Branch of the Wesleyan Missionary Society,
was held at the Wesleyan Chapel, Great Queen-street,
to receive the report for the past year. There were pre-
sent the Rev. Dr. Beaumont, nno presided, the Rev. W.
Lomas, the Rev. W. Illingilorth, Mr. T. Smith, a native
of Cape Coast Castle, &c., with a large and highly
respectable number of the supporters of the society.
The Rev. Chairman, in a lengthened address, pointed out
the importance of promoting conversions to Christianity.
The Secretary then read the report, which stated that
" without some special effort, the income of the Society
would this year fall far short of the preceding years"
the consequence of which would be, that they would be
under the necessity of giving up some of their missionary
stations. In Ireland there had been a decrease in the
body of about 600; while in France, Switzerland, and
Gibraltar, they had made no advance, except that at the
last named place there was an increase attending the
schools. In America, Now South Wales, Australia
Felix, Van Diemen's Land, and South and West Africa,
their prospects were flourishing; while it was intended
to have a missionary establishment in China. They had
in various parts of the world 294 missionary stations,
2,597 chapels and places of worship, 417 missionaries
and supernumeraries, 771 interpreters and school
teachers, and 7,674 ditto unpaid, 700,000 scholars, &c.
The
heincome of their Branch Society was 3291. 19s. Bd.,
a decrease, as compared with the previous year, of
641. 12s. The report was received and adopted.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NITUSDALE RAIL-
WAY.—A very shocking accident occurred on the Niths-
dale line of railway, on the afternoon of Monday last, at
the Bankhead cut, a little way above the embankment
which leads through the Holms. A number of men
were engaged in the waggon face, in the act of filling
the waggons, when a great quantity of the earth rushed
down, and buried under it Peter Redmond, a native of
Ireland. Only a small portion of his body was covered,
but his head was disfigured in a dreadful manner. His
death was instantaneous.—Dumfries Standard.
GitEENOCK.—The ship carpenters strike is now at
an end in all the building yards. Yesterday, Messrs.
Simmons and Co.,'s men were taken on, and to-day
Messrs. Steel and Co.'s are at work. The wages are to
be as formerly, 245. a week. We understand, likewise,
that Messrs. Neill, Fleming, and Reid, wool spinners,
who stopped payment about two months ago, have re-
sumed Working, or are about to do 50.

The Archbishop defends his enmity to the tem-
perance movement by affirming that the Irish are
quite as temperate as the English or Scotch, and that
the drunkenness of the Irish is a mere invention of
the Londoners!

lte'lethre:_following is also a good specimen of the

•4 Does your Lordship /neer,
that we should hand
over to the Minister the cont-r-ol and patronage of our
Church ? • As loeg as the Catholic Church in Ireland
state
remains in her presentof undue popular sub-
serviency she cannot fairly and properly work the
accomplishment of her denies.' This sentence will
no doubt afford a clue to
guide
the
reader, as he
wonders at your
invective against the Catholic
hierarchy and your piety for '
our spiritual destitution !
Yet it was in the state ofthis'popular subserviency'
which you affect to deplore, the Irish Church
erected in a brief period the one hundred churches
in this diocese, with our magnificent cathedral at
their head, as well as the numberless numberless churches,
schools, colleges, convents, e
cover the face of Ireland. floes your
that now
like the seducer, to insinuate Lordship come,
that foru a small bribe
from the Treasury to build a few churches that may
be yet wanted, or to put others in repair, we should
surrender our free churches, the
eworks of our own
of h
hands, and the monuments iety, of a noble
people, into the hands of the Commissioners of
Bequests—a measure that has done
much to dry up
our charities—or any other Parliamentary
to , Commis-
sioners, in order to enable them enter into the
labours of others ?' The Commissioners of Education
generally take credit to themselves for all the schools
connected with them, though some haavoedtheeople
erected at their own exclusive expense,
contributed a share; and thus you would
this, churches
sytua
tob all they
pssome
insidious patronage rob the priest and the
Ireland of their control within theirpeoplew well
as the merit of their exertion.
ese,
' would be setting the Irish Ch_uerec,h
persuadeitproperlyvvast hue lrish work
to achieve her high destiny.' Y
hierarchy to resign their churches, as
sought
regarding our colleges, into the hands
Ministerial Commissioners, and then will of
our
Church be in her full career of accomplishing the
high destiny which her enemies are sighing for.
1 Then we should hare such magnificent specimens of
the taste and piety of these Commissioners
a
hare already from the Commissioners of
orhsePoor-laws,kosuwes
in deeming the filthy eating halls of the workhouses
sufficiently becoming the oblation of the auagyustsacri-
fice of the mass. Would it not, you m
Lord, be a great step towards harmony, a add, my most
laudable exercise of economy, and a great relief to the
financial embarrassments Of your favourite Minister,
if such Commissioners insisted on one common church
being erected in a parish for relieving its
physical
and spiritual destitution, where the ministers
of
Luther or Calvin could come after the Catholic priest,
as is some parts of Germany, and where the Catho-
lies,
no doubt, might loiter to hear, by way of variety,
the teaching of the others? But you must be surethat
the Commissioners never forget i.e- place the desk of
the parson over the altar, as is done already in some
of our prisons, in order to inspire the spectator with
a becoming reverence for 'Protestant ascendancy
furndanetyb.el'
To cap the climax of the ' destiny' in store
Irish Church, they must not forget to -point out to
u.
these ministers or servants the course of their
i
structions, from which all polemical allusions must, be
carefully excluded. Selections from the L.ble must
be set before the preachers—the Book of Job for the
poor; and any contumacious preacher that should
quote from Isais or Jeremias, or the other Prophets
any words against wealthy and cruel oppression,
should be treated like the poor good gentleman—l
think We Rev. Air. Adams—who lately ins4ted on

The resolution having been seconded by Mr. Jonr
Ilvyr, and supported by Mr. WEnnEa, was carried
by acclamation.
A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, after
which the meeting separated.

GAS EXPLOSION IN SOllo.—Yesterday afternoon,
between four and five o'clock, a fearful explosion oc-
curred upon the premises helonginc, to Mr. Ellis, cur-
rier and leather dresser, New Compton-street, Soho.
From inquiries made, it appeared that at the time above-
mentioned, Mr. Ellis, on going into the shop for the
purpose of lighting the gas, was suddenly hurled to the
11.)or by the force of an explosion which resembled the
discharge of a piece of ordnance, at the same time tho
partitions of the shop were blown down, and the windows
sent flying across the street. An aged female who was
passing at the time was thrown down with great violence,
but, fortunately, she reacived no personal injury. The
damage is not extensive.
REMOVAL OF THE FEMALE PRISONERS FROM THE
CITY COMPTER TO THE BOROUGH GAOL.—Tho whole
of the female prisoners of the very crowded Giltspur-
street Compter are being removed to the Borough, or
Clink prison in Stoney-lane, Tooley. street. This altera-
tion has been directed by the Court of Aldermen, in con-
sequence of the packed condition of the City Compter,
and the insubordination that prevails amongst the female
and male prisoners. On the latter being removed this
establishment will enable the authorities to carry out the
separate system more effectually with the male priso-
ners. The Borough Compter is capable of containing
160 prisoners. Since the abolition of the police-office at
the Town-ball, presided over by ono of the aldermen, it
has been made use of more as a storehouse than a prison.
It has, however, now undergone a complete alteration,
and being within the jurisdiction of the City authorities,
will afford the necessary accommodation for the increase
of prisoners in the City, until the contemplated new
house of correction at Holloway is completed.
PASSENGERS FROM INDIA.—ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 8.
—The following is a list of the passengers arrived at
Suez on the sth inst., by. the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Bentinck :—From Calcutta—Cap-
tain and Mrs. Blackwood and three children, Colonel
and Mrs. Forbes and two children, Mrs. Greenlaw, Miss
Bowling and two children, Mrs. Gladwin, Colonel Ab-
bott, Mrs. Perreau, Colonel Young, Mrs. Onslow, Mr,
G. Cowan, Colonel Leggett, Mr. Warwick, Captain
Greenlaw, Mr. WKinnon, Mr. l)rabble, Mr. Barnes,
Mr. Anderson, Lieutenant Stullard, Mr. Stessor, Mr. T.
Boyce, Mr. F. S. Grey. From Point de Galle—Mrs.
Norris and two children, Senor B. de la Puente, Captain
Unton, Lieutenant Jackson, Captain Staveley, Antonio
Ximenes, Dr. Young, Mr. W. Galbreath, Mr. J. Wil-
liams, Mr. George Osmann
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Bombay Army.
At the Insolvent Debtors' Court at Maidstone, last
eaDt
gßbo art,yuogfhsoli-
citor.r.
There were only two creditors in the schedule,
one of whom was the Noble Earl, the opposing creditor.
This was a creditor's application under the Act which
empowers a creditor to file a petition where the debtor
refuses. The insolvent had been turned out of a farm
belonging to the Earl of Winchilsea, and a claim for
damages made on him for 196/. 175., which he resisted.
An action was brought against him, which was ref,- rred,
and decided against him with costs. He then possessed
about 1,549/. in money, of which he gave 750/. to his
sister, as all( ged, for money borrowed of her. He hat
also paid a large sum to another sister. The question
in this case was, whether he had really owed his sisters
any money? The insolvent swore that he did. anciw.so
did the siste,:ii, but the Court was so dissatisfied h_
the case, as to bait:nate that at the next Court he would
he remanded for three years, Costs of prosecution
allowed.—Kentish Observer.
AMERICAN VESSEL.
—The American vessel Adrian, Captain Scott, from
Mobilo, arrived at Havre on Friday morning, having on
Tate CREW OF THE CONCORD,
board the crew of the United States vessel the Concord,
of Boston,
December, when nearly exhausted with fatigue, in 28
who were picked up at sea on the 27th of
deg. 20 in. north latitude, 55 deg. 16 m. west longitude,
their ship having sprung a leak and gone down. All on
board had taken to the boat, except ono man, who
perished in the waves.

ACCIDENT ON TIIE ICE.-011 Saturday a coroner's
inquest was held at the New Miller I)am Inn, near
Bradford, Yorkshire, on the bodies of four youths, who
were drowned on Thursday evening last. It appeared
that on Thursday eight or ten boys were amusing them-
selves by sliding upon the large reservoir connected with
the Old Mill in Brick-lane, Bradford, in the occupation
of Messrs. Ellis and Priestman, corn millers. They
confirmed for some time to follow each other upon the ice
in rapid succession until at length, unfortunately, one of
them fell, and, as an unavoidable consequence, others
fell over him. Owing to the great pressure the ice broke,
when six of them were plunged into the water; two of
them, however, got out in a most unaccountable manner,
but the remaining four were drowned. An alarm was
immediately made, and by means of two planks nailed
together, and the use of two boat-hooks and the well-
creepers, the bodies were got out in the course of two
or three hours. The bodies were removed to the house
of Mr. Thomas Bates, the New Miller Data Inn. The
names of the unfortunate lads are John Townsley, aged
twelve years, son of Francis Townsley, Thornton-street;
John Whalley, aged thirteen years, son of Charles
Whalley, of Chain-street, Silsbridge-lane; Lister Dra-
cup, son of Abraham Dracup, of Silsbridgc lane ; and
William Smith, aged eleven years, son of John Smith,
of Brick-lane. The dam is eight or ten yards deep in
erne places, and the lads went down about eight yards
from the edge. It is somewhat strange that boys are
allowed to slide upon this reservoir, especially as so
many lives have been lost in the same place and under
similar circumstances. The jury returned a verdict of
"Accidental death."
SERIOUS CHARGES AT HARROW.—A man named
Parker, who had resided for some time at Har-
row, and who, it appeared, had secretly deserted the
place in the debt of several of the inhabitants there,
was on Saturday brought before Benjamin Rotch, Esq.,
a county magistrate, on a charge of feloniously stealing
a bay horse, a grey mare, ten pigs, household furniture,
&c., from a Mr. Jones. Much interest was excited, but
it appeared that the charge of felony could not be sus-
tained, Parker being the servant of Jones, and the
magistrate declared that he had done all that a faithful
servant would do. Mr. Parker was therefore dismissed,
and immediately left Harrow for Blackheath, whence he
had been brought in custody.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JAN. 22.—QUEEN'S UOLLFGE.—An elec-
tion of an exhibitioner on the Michel Foundation will
take place on Thursday, the 10th day of February
next. Most of the colleges and halls, including Wad-
ham, meet on the 29th of January ; Ballot and St.
Mary Hall meet on the 28th instant, and Corpus on
the 4th of February ; New College, and Magdalen
College and Hall, meet on the sth of February.
The Rev. R. Michell, 8.D., Lincoln College,
PrEelector of Logic, has been appointed by Dr.
Macbride, the Principal, to be Vice-Principal of
Magdalen Hall. The French and German Lectures
at the Taylor Institution recommence on the 3lst of
January.

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of (he last few days considerahle numbers of the
turn-outs, generally at an early hour in the morning,
have assembled at some of the pits in the vicinity of
Dudley, and by intimidation and violence compelled
the few men who, for the sake of their families, con-
tinued or had resumed their work at the reduced rate
of wages to desist from their employ. The works at
Holly-hall and also those at Woodside, belonging to
Messrs. Cochrane and Geach, were subjected to these
visits, and in one or more instances acts of great per-
sonal violence were committed.
Under these circumstances, and apprehensive of an
increase of such outrages, the magistrates have
promptly issued a notice warning the colliers and others
to refrain from breaches of the peace, and express-
ing a determination on the part of the authorities to
afford every protection to those who are willing to
work, and at the same time to punish severely all
persons who commit any outrage or disturb the peace
of the country. Three persons have already been
apprehended for acts of intimidation and violence, and
their cases duly dealt with by the magistrate.
A detachment of cavalry is stationed at Dudley,
and it is intended immediately to considerably aug-
ment the constabulary force of the district.
It is to be regretted that the discontent of the
workpeople is considerably aggravated by orators de-
legated by the National Association of United Trades,
and that at two meetings, one held near Dudley yes-
terday evening, the colliers on strike resolved unani-
mously to stand out until their demands were conceded
'by the masters. At present there does not appear
the slightest prospect of the iron and coal masters
giving way.
It is said that the miners and ironworkers in the
employment of Lord Ward are to receive notice to-
night of a reduction in their wages similar to that
agreed to by the other iron and coal masters in the
neighbourhood. It is therefore probable that within
a very short time there will not be a single furnace
or pit at work in the whole of the South Staffordshire
district—a fearful prospect.
In the midst, however, of this lamentable statebf
things it may be observed that, with only one or two
exceptions, the various firms of the district, great
and small, maintain theirposition without any-rumours
of a questionable character. Placing the Oak Ferin
Works out of question—for this concern, it appears,
was insolvent before the present commercial crisis
occurred—there has been only one positive and publicly
announced failure in the district, and even in that
case the liabilities of the firm were comparatively light
and unimportant.
At a meeting of the coal trade held at Stourbridge
this week, it was unanimously agreed that a reduction
of is. per ton upon coal, and 6d. upon all slack,
which remains as before, should take place from the
Ist of January, 1848. This looks as if there were
heavy stocks on hand, or that the strike was consi-
dered not likely to be of long continuance.

A very numerous and respectable meeting Was
held last night, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington,
for the purpose of adopting a petition to Parliament
in favour of the removal of the disabilities under
which the Jews now labour. The most perfect
unanimity in support of the measure of Lord John
Russell pervaded the meeting. At seven o'clock Mr.
J. H. Palmer was called to the chair.
The CHAIRMAN directed the attention of the meet-
ing to the importance of the object for which they
had assembled. The Jews were now admitted into
many high ofices, and it was inconsistent to exclude
them from Parliament.— (Hear.)
Mr. TYWAITES proposed the first resolution, which
was " That this meeting is of opinion that it is in
direct opposition to the fundamental principles of
civil and religious liberty that any of her Majesty's
subjects should be deprived of their political rights
by reason of their religious opinions. It was the
duty of the people (said the speaker) to express
their opinions to the Legislature in such a manner
as would show their desire that all classes of British
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movement, and seek for that most desirable improve-
ment, a separation of Church and State.—(Hear.)
Mr. FULLER seconded the resolution, and expressed
his opinion that the Bill of Lord John Russell for the
removal of Jewish disabilities would pass in the House
of Commons, but it was in the House of Lords that
the great and principal opposition was to be expected;
but the Lords ought not to forget, that the will of the
people had always been potent in advocating the
liberty of the subject.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. DIXON moved the second resolution, " That
the meeting observes with satisfaction that a Bill has
been introduced into the House of Commons by Lord
John Russell having for its object the removal of
many of the disabilities now imposed up in the Jews."
The Rev. J. 13onNET seconded the resolution, and
remarked that it was a very N't e lc objection to the
admissioH of men to Parliament to say that they were
Jews. The. Government Cid not of to borrowing
money from the Jews, and it was not said that money
so borrowed should not he applied to all the purposes
of this Christian country. Why then should they be
excluded from Parliament ?—(Hear, hear ) The
Roman Catholics had been admitted, although they
were altogether opposed to the Protestant religion, so
that the principle was admitted as regarding the ad.
mission of the Jews to Parliament. Ile could net see
any reason, either religious or political, for excluding
the Jews from Parliament.

The resolution was agreed to.
Mr. THORNBORROW moved petitions to the Houses
of Lords and Commons in favour of the measure for
the removal of Jewish disabilities.

DEATH FROM SLIPPING ON A PIECE OF OEANGB
PEEL.—An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the Bristol
Infirmary, on the body of Sophia Martin. Margaret
Howard deposed that deceased was an unmarried woman,
36 years of age, a native of Thornbury, and lived by
shoe-binding, and lodged at 6, Gloucester-lane. On the
9th of January she came to my door and showed her
thumb, and said it was broken; that she was at Clifton
and she slipped down by treading on a piece of orange
peel on the pavement, and broke the bone of her thumb;
it was very painful, and the pain increased, and she
went to the infirmary, where it was attended to by the
y
doctors. She was an out-patient, but yesterday she
taken into the house. She objected to go in
tes
before.
She died yesterday H . Mr. ore, house-surgeon to the infirmary, stated deceased had at first a compound dislo-
cation of the thumb; it went on favourably till Satur-
day, when she was advised to come into the house,
which she refused. Yesterday she was brought here
with lock-jaw from the injury, from which there was no
recovering her. Ether was tried without advantage. A
piece of bone was removed from the thumb at an early
period. She described the accident as occasioned by
falling down in the street. Verdict—" Died from dislo-
cated thumb and lock-jaw, from falling on a piece of
orange peel on the pavement. We trust that the ma-
lancholy result in the above case will act as a warning to
those who are in the careless and reprehensible habit of
throwing orange peel and such like things on the pave-
ment.—Gloucester Journal.
UNION BANK OF AUSTRALlA.—Yesterday the half-
yearly meeting of this company was held at the offices,
in Old Broad-street, City; J. J. Cummins, Esq., in the
chair. The report was on the whole satisfactory. It
stated that, although the business of the branches at
Launceston and Hobart Town had considerably dimi-
nished, the improved appearance of trade was such as
would lead to a demand for banking accommodation.. he
directors had the satisfaction to state that no losses had
been sustained by the bank during the recent period of
commercial distress. The bad and doubtful debt account
had been to a small extent reduced. The result of the
operations had enabled the directors to declare a dividend
for the half-year at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.
The liabilities were to the extent of 994,5721. !M. 7d.,
and the assets amounted to a like sum. The undivided
Was 37,6771. 10s. 11d., to which
that of
profit in June, ulanset,
1,8 7
half-year was added (namely, 33,321/.
1.98. 4d., deduCing I.loth for reserve fund, 3,3391.
38, 111), which was 29,989/. 15s. 5d., making 67,667/.
61. 4,1. Deduct, dividend paid at Midsummer, 1847,
24,6001., leaving a balance of undivided profit at this
date Of 43,0671. Gs. 4d. The reserve fund now amounted
to 53,3401. 15s. 41. Me. llitehens ebject.cd to the in-
vestment of large sums in the Government Funds, which
were liable to such great huctuationc. After a short
discussion the report was adopted, and a vote of thanks
was passed to the threctors.
EARTHQUAKE AT MALTA.-011 the afternoon of
the 10th of January, at :four o'clock, a small shock of an
earthquake was felt at Malta; at eleven o'clock the sena°
night, another somewhat stronger; on the llth, one P.M.,
a third, which lasted full a minute, and was very gene-
rally felt, causing some little damage to old tenements,
and twenty minutes after a fourth shock, but which
latter was a very slight one. The weather was calm
at the time, with the wind from the S.E., anti nothing
extraordinary in the atmosphere, if we except that raia
had prevailed more or less for several days previous ,
which is rather unusual.