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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 185

Mendacity, barefaced, unblushing, unhesitating
mendacity, has in every age and in every clime been
the invariable characteristic of the sacerdotal despot
who claims a right divine of setting truth, in com-
mon with every other moral obligation, at defiance,
but never has that mendacity been so shamelessly dis-
played, as it was by the Roman Catholic bishops and
their satellites, who assembled in Dublin, on Wednesday
last, to form an association, the very title of which is
a falsehood; they call their association a Defence As-
sociation forsooth, it being in reality an association
for offensive and aggressive purposes, acting in co-
operation with, and in obedience to, the orders of a
foreign Power. To particularize every untruth
uttered, or insinuated or inuendoed by these Mitred
agents of foreign tyranny would require more time
and more space than we can devote to the subject; but
there are certain assertions made which are so palpa-
bly untrue that we cannot but draw to them the
attention of all unprejudiced persons. Foremost
among these stands the assertion by the learned and
astronomical Dr. PAUL CULLEN, that the Catholics of
this empire had done nothing to bring about the pre-
sent state of things, but had been forced into the atti-
tude they had assumed, whereas it is manif_st that
had they "done nothing," bad the syst►.em of 1849
been continued in 1850 and 1851, had no rescript
appointing Romish bishops with territorial titles been
issued, no man living would have thought of the
enactment of any measure such as that the adoption
of which has called forth the ire and inspired the elo-
quence of these Right Rev, agitators. Dr. PAUL
CULLEN then makes serious complaints, that th,
sacred mysteries of his religion were caricatured, and
the grossest insults offered to the saints. We readily
admit that it is exceedingly wrong as well as exceed-
ingly ill-bred to car ice' ure and insult the religion of any
man, but this complaint comes with rather a bad grace
from the Archiepiscopal superintendent of those who
boast that they burn the Holy Bible wherever they can
find it. Again he says, " the Catholic Church and all
her true children proclaim that there is but one true
faith ; they reject heresy and error, but at the same
time, in the spirit of our REDEEMER, they pray for
those that are in error, they have compassion on
them, they love them, and all we ask for is a full and
free exercise of our religion." The Thug asks for the
same, yet if he attempts to carry out the full and
free exercise of his religion he is hanged, and de-
servedly so—hanged not as a Thug, but as a mur-
derer. All these, however, are but matters of minor
importance when compared with the assertions of the
same Dr. PAUL CULLEN, in interruption of the
speech of Mr. G. Mooae. We give the passage
in extenso as reprinted in one of the organs of the
parti-pretre:—" The LORD PRIMATE here interrupted
Mr, Moorte, and said that he was wrong if he in-
tended to intimate that the POPE was ever inimical to
civil liberty. Wherever the Catholic Church pre-
vailed there true liberty followed—wherever Catho-
licity has been superseded, there slavery followed.
It was so in every country from the beginning of
Christianity." Great must be the powers of face of
Dr. PAUL CULLEN if he uttered this with a grave
countenance. What then, there is according to the
Cullenean theory true liberty in Austria, where
women are flogged and men are shot, hanged,
or immured for life in loathsome dungeons
because they have been guilty of the .srime
of giving to a starving man a morsel of
bread and a cup of water ; there is true liberty in
Naples, that Naples the horrors of whose prisons, the
atrocities of whose Government, the pandering to
perjury of whose priests has been so graphically and
SO truthfully described by Mr. GLADSTONE; there is
true liberty in Rome, where, within the last two
months, an unfortunate man has been received into
one of the prisons, and there subjected to the most
atrocious cruelty, on the expressed ground that he
had been convicted by tho Holy Inquisition of some
unknown crime, and where there is at this moment
languishing in gaol a man who is practically
condemned to imprisonment for life, inasmuch as im

mecliately on his arrest he was excommunicated;
and since neither officers of justice, nor lawyers, nor
witnesses, can hold communication with him without

being also excommunicated, the unfortunate man cat:
never be brought to trial. Thi4, according to Dr.

PAUL CULLEN, is true liberty, whilst to live
in a country like England or America, where we

hrtv.- the habeas corpus to secure us apiust arbitrary
and causeless imprisonment, and trial by jury, to se-
cure to each man a fair and impartial trial, is, ac-
cording to Dr. PAUL CULLEN, a state of slAyery.

Surely Dr. PAUL CULLEN 11111,C have studied history
and politics in the same school in which he studied
mathematics, and his fame as an astronomer will be

now eclipsed by his notoriety as a political philos;
pher; here we must pause, even the assertion by Dr.
Gimaes that the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption
Act rubs out for ever the privileges of the Act of
1829, while standing by his side wero Mr. Jour,
Mr. W. KEOGH, M.P. ; and Mr.
RE YN OLDS? M.p. ;
G. MooREA.P., neither of whom would have been
M.P. had the assertion of Dr. GILLIES been true,
sinks into insignificance when compared with this
assertion of Dr. PAUL CULLEN, of whom FERDINAND
MENDEZ PINTO was but a type. The men who could
swallow such an assertion as this have credulity
gand can scarcely be considered
in n o
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suhffi fore yanes
tate to be intrusted with the eie
n t anything,i
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ma-
nagement of their own affairs.

The many monuments of public taste with which
our metropolis abounds have been rendered familiar
since the memorable month of May to many myriads
; of foreign visitors. Yet in the multiplicity of objects
I it is likely that a certain bewilderment is generated
in the brains of many, and it may not be 'nal-is-propos
to make a hasty enumeration, " on hospitable thoughts
intent," f
°- a few of the various objects of attraction to
which: the eye of the stranger should be specially
t: directed in a survey of the marvels of the modern
Bab 1013.4, :Of minor features of beauty or subli-
• -C,aVneed but mention the lordly obelisks
4,lCh sentinel the foot of Ludgate-bill,—the
effigies of CHARLES JAMES Fox, seated on
a stool in Bloomsbury-square—the little black
man, peeping over the railings at the top of
Portland-place—the airy network which gracefully
guards the capitals of the Monument, and of that
western column, from whose summit his Royal
Highness the Duke of YORK, with a spike arising
from the centre of his skull, contemplates in serene
naljesty the gambols of the water-fowl and the
nursery-maids in St. James's Park—and the airy fans
of St. Margaret's, harmonising with the general tone
beauty, ofl Westminster Abbey, yet distancing the Chapel of
the SEVENTH in genuine and acknowledged
pride yirripß,lust us,
Great Wooders of
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It is in no vain- the chief city of the British Empire
spirit of vaunting, or of that
extended sel&stlel:3ricTintaoB
Y called patriotism, but I 1,

with an unyielding confidence, yet in the spirit of
the purest impartiality, that_ we
_advisedly defy any
continental city to produce their equals. Foremost
stands that mighty and symmetrical edifice on
the north side of Trafalgar-square, within
whose gigantic galleries are hung the treasures
of the great masters of the pictorial art,
cleaving the firmament with its series of vast
and wondrous domes ; whilst at its feet two taper
I fountains of elaborately carved porphyry, rising from
pellucid basins, fling, like colossal cataracts of RAN-
Limn, their liquid tributes in a thousand jets
ut diamond spray high into the air. Next, guard
ing the western avenue of London, the eques-
trian statue of Field. Marshal the Duke of
Wzr.Liaerror4 affects the beholder with unutterable
admiration. Despite an ephemeral but factious op-
position, fostered too by some who ought to have
known better, the unyielding taste and energy of
Sir FE EDERICX. TRENCH succeeded in securing for
this matchless production the most appropriate and
commanding site that, by the utmost ingenuity,
could have been selected. The Victor of a Hundred
Fights is thus enabled to behold his own imperishable
image each morning as he arises from his luxurious
couch : fruitur famti sud The spirited position of the
fi-ry-eyed war-horse " smelling the battle from afar,"
the chivalric aspect of the rider—ah ! how tame and
poor the vaunted Ccsua DE LION set up by some foreign
pretender to the glorious art at the western end of the
Paxtonian Palace, in comparison with this colossal
triumph of the subliene and beautiful ! And how
consoling to the feelings of every right-minded Eng-
lishman to gaze at last upon such a stupendous me-
morial of the gory laurels of 'Waterloo, solitary
though it be, seeing that we are overrun throughout
the length and breadth of the land with innumerable
realisations in stone and bronze of the na-
tional gratitude to the Hero of Trafalgar 'and
the Nile ! Thirdly, with excusable exultation
we would point to those royal beasts, the
supporters of the time-honoured arms of England,
reared upon the piers of the entrance gates of Buck-
ingham Palace. He that can gaze unmoved on these
unparalleled specimens of statuary must indeed have

a soul as stony as the blocks from which they have
been fashioned. To ourselves they have ever proved
provocative of high and holy feelings. Intense
energy, palpable in the physiognomies of the haughty
quadrupeds, is even still more powerfully developed
in the strenuous muscularity of their nether parts.
Each guardian of the royal shield seems proudly to
bid defiance to aggression on his regal charge, me-
nacing the insolent invader with a physical reception
of most formidable nature. Eternal honour to the
brain that conceived and the hand that exe-
cuted those glorious personifications of the
might and majesty of England's queenly sway I
As yet, the evil anticipations of those croakers
who prognosticated dire and deplorable results from
the great gathering of nations beneath the Taber-
nacle of PAXTON, have signally failed of accomplish
went. A spirit of harmony and happiness appears to
have pervaded all ranks and classes of the vast mul-
titudes who have flecked iu daily hosts to inspect the
marvellous treasures which the industrial ingenuity
of various climes has piled in rich and dazzling
variety within the crystal confines of the Wotld's
Great Pair. No aci imonious feelings, nu symp',onis
ot discontent have been evinced ; nu singings ot envy,
hatred, malice, or uncharitableness. have been heard.
Yet all those felicitous appearances may
be fallacious. We may be dancing blind-
told on the verge of the precipice. In a
twinkling the gulf may yawn, the mine may
explode, and, realising the apprehensions of a re-
nowned Hibernian senator, " we may awake some
morning and find our throats cut." Tne fashion of the
revolution we cannot possibly predict, nor to whom
the supreme destinies of the regenerated nation may
be committed.
.But should the dreaded day arrive,
may our earnest adjuration not be made in vain.
When the arm of triumphant patriotism is raised to
sweep away the vile monuments of the past, to efface
the recollections of a tyrannic Throne and a ferocious
Peerage, may the chief wielder of the popular power
be, in one respect at least, merciful in his strength.
Whoever thou art, 0 Coming Man ! whether
FERNAND or FEARGUS, REYNOLDS or ROLLIN, SIB.
THORP or SNooßs, remember in the bright hour o
freedom's sunrise, that

- as the Emathian conqueror bid sparo
The house of Pmdarus, wheu temple and tower
Went to the ground,"
the triutnphs of ever-living art should be held as sacred
as the memory► of departed genius. Hurl not the Iron
Duke from his lofty pedestal, and deface not in the
park of St. James's the king of beasts and his mys-
terious comrade. As memorials of British taste they
have commanded a unanimous and world-wide repu-
tation, and should cruel destiny decree their ruin,
the world, alas ! can never hope to " look upon their
like again."

YORK AUGUST MEETING.

(THIS DAY.)

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Ordre declares definitively that the Orlean-
ists have determined to start the Prince DE JOIN..
VILLE as a candidate for,the Presidency of the Re-
public.
The leading Republican members of the Assembly
have subscribed to AIAZZINI'S loan ; among the sub-
scribers is M. VICTOR HUGO.
The Indipendance of Brussels has the following
from its Paris correspondent :—‘• I have just learned
that the candidataship of the Prince DE JoIN vILLE to
represent Paris in the Legislative Assembly, and to
which a part of the Republicans, and, in particular,
the shade Recurt and Barthelemy St. Hi-
laire gave its approval, is formally re-
jected by the Paracz. A letter from England
leaves no doubt on the point. As to the candidate-
ship for the place of President of the Republic, the
Princes refuse to speak on the subject. They keep
what they call a policy of abstention ? But is that
really to abstaiu ? Silence is often significant. It
is evident that it the words attributed to the PRINCE,
that it France appealed to his devotedness, he would
not be wanting, were really uttered, as I have no
doubt they were ; ii that, I sae, is the case, it is evi-
dent that should hie candidateahip appear to have
serious chances of success, it will be accepted. My
impartiality also induces me to relate to you a cir-
cumstance which is connected with the Duke D'Au-
MALE'S stay at Naples, and which shows the Exagge-
ration of the recitals given in the journals of the in-
timacy existing between him and the Duchess of
PARMA, the sister of the Count DE CHAMBORD. The
somewhat eccentric character of the Princess scarcely
admitted of such an intimacy, requiring, as it evi-
dently would, tact and delicacy. The King of
NAPLES was anxious for the reconciliation. The first
interview took place at the palace in the presence of
all the Royal Family. Shortly after his entrance,
the Duke D'AUMALE went up to the Duchess, and
saluted her, pronouncing some appropriate words.
The Duchess did not reply. The King of
NAPLES, who had observed everything, did not con-
ceal from her his discontent. ' What,' said she, he
is my cousin ! I knew nothing about it.' And ap-
proaching the Deice, she excused herself for the
manner in which she had received him. After that,
they became somewhat intimate, and the Duxe was
sometimes seen with the PEINCESS in the KING'S
box at the opera. became the subject of con-
versation; and some days after, whether secret advice
came from Frohsdorff, or some other matters occurred
at the palace which the world is not aware ot; the
DUCHESS having given a little fête, the Duke D'Au-
MALE was not invited. Since then, the interview
between them was polite but cold."
The court-martial at Lyons still continues. There
has as yet been no proof whatever of the existence of
any conspiracy, except indeed of a conspiracy on the
part of the authorities to have a conviction by fair
means or foul. The judges and prosecutors seem to
belong rather to the meridian of Naples than to that
of France.

There was scarccly any business transacted at the
Bourse. The Five per Cents, opened at 95f. 65c., and
clod at 95f. 55e. for the end of the inoth,h; the
Three per Cents. closed at 57f. 35e.; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 880! ; Rouen, 607 f. 50c.; Havre, 2411. 25e.;
Great Northern, 465%; Avignon, 207 f. 50,..; VierV•n,
432 f. 50c.; Basle, 152 f. 50c.; dord,aux, 393 f. 75c.;
1-14! 1. and Strasburg, 36P. 25c,; Tiara ape Nantes,
271 f. 25(!.; Amiens fo Boulogne, 271 f. 25c.
B ;AIN ESS DON IN kOtthltiN .K.A IL YV an AT TB L
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, 101,4—Great Indian Peninsula, 374
—Luxembourg, I!i3 Northern of France, 14th—Paris and
Strasbourg, 11A—Rouen and Havre, 91/2—Sambre and
Meuse, 3;4.