The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-22 00:00:00

GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING.

On Saturday a meeting was held in the Great Room at
Exeter Hall, for the purpose, as was stated—" To prove to
Protestants of all denominations, by authentic documents, the
real tenets of the Church of Rome, as now held by the Roman
Catholic Bishops and Priests of Ireland."
Lord KEN TON in the Chair.

Long before the hour at which it was announced that tla'
chair would be taken, the large room, which contains 5,000
persons, was filled in every part by one of the most respectable:
audiences that ever met within its walls. On the platform
'7.-e observed Lords Kenyon, Roden, Mandeville, and Bandon,
Mr. Hardy, M. P., Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Mr. Finch, M. P.,
Mr. Calcraft, M. P., Mr. F. Turner, M. P., The Chisholm,
M.P., Mr. Shaw, M.P., Mr. Verner, M. P., Mr. D. Jack-
son, M. P., Mr. Henry Maxwell, M.P., Sir Robert B*teman,
M. P., &c., &c.

The Rev. Dr. Hol,LowA y having opened the meeting with
a prayer,

The Rev. Mr. M'GHEE adverted to the statement which
had been circulated respecting the tenets of the Roman Ca-
iliac religion. As that might be supposed to prejudge the
question, he begged the meeting not to take anything for
granted which might be prejudicial to the Roman Catholics,
nor believe any charge against them which was not clearly,
satisfactorily, and conclusively proved.—( Loud cheers.) The
Rev. Gentleman then referred to " Dens' System of Theo-
logy," the book from which his statement of the tenets of the
Roman Catholic religion would be taken, and which was re-
cognized by the Catholic Bishops as a standard authority.
That book was published in 1808, and was received up to the
present moment, by 'the entire Irish Catholic Bishops and
Priests, as the authoritative standard of their theology. In
order to preclude the possibility of their denying the authority
of this book, he had taken the liberty of writing to Mr.
O'Connell, inviting him to come to that meeting to impugn, if
he could, by his great legal talents, its authenticity.—(Loud
cheers.) The Rev. Gentleman then read a resolution, to the
effect that the meeting considered it had been satisfactorily
proved that the book in question was the received standard of
the Roman Catholics. Before putting the resolution,
The CHAIRMAN said it would be proper to call on Mr.
O'Connell to come forward, and impugn the veracity of the
book, if present. Mr. O'Connell was then called on, but did
not appear.
A GENTLEMAN in the body of the meeting here rose, and
wished to say a few words, but the Chairman would not allow
him ; considerable confusion in consequence took place in the
meeting, and the cry of " Turn him out " having been raised,
the gentleman sat down, complaining of injustice and par-
tiality.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was carried
amidst the loudest acclamations. _ . .

....The Rev. Mr. M'Gnag then said that by the adoption of
that resolution the Meeting had accomplished a most Impor-
tant object on behalf of the Protestant religion. He then ob-
served that the book asserted the most unscriptural and mis-
chievous doctrines. The following are some of the principles
which it affirms : _

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The•PrOtestants are heretics. That by baptism all Protes-
tants come under the dominion of the Church of Rome. That
no toleration is to be granted to Protestants, but that the
rights of their religion ought to be extinguished. That Pro-
testants are to be compelled to return to the Church of Rome
by corporal punishments. That these corporal punishments
are to be—confiscation of property—imprisonment—exile—
and death.—( Loud cheering and expressions of horror.)
Mr. TOTTENHAM then rose, and read a long series of ex-
tracts from the book abovementioned ; after which several
gentlemen rose and endeavoured to address the meeting.
Great uproar and confusion took place, when _ _ _

The key. MoRTIMEK O'SULLIVAN proceeded to address the
meeting in a similar strain, and said that it was the bounden
duty of the people of England to counteract the designs of the
enemies of the Protestant religion in Ireland, and ho was con-
vinced that every one who watched the motions of the Roman
Catholics in that country must at once be satisfied that their
object ivas to subvert the established religion. The Re,.
Gentleman concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that
the tenets of the Church of Rome are no longer a dead letter,
but that their baneful operation in Ireland is visible in the sedi-
tion and disorganisation which prevails in that country.
The resolution was seconded by the Rev. Mr. M‘Ghec, and
carried unanimously.
A vote of thanks was then given to the deputation from Ire-
land, after which the meeting separated.

The Gazette of Friday announces the, retirement
of our representative, Mr. Stanley, from the :Scots Fusileer
Guards, in which regiment he held the post of captain. A
rumour has recently obtained currency in this quarter that the
Hon. Gentleman purposes to retire from the representation of
this borough, but we have been unable to trace it to any
authentic source.—Preston Chronicle.

ONE HUNDRED LIvES LOST.—An awful ca-
lamity occurred last Thursday at Wallsend Colliery, near
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A dreadful explosion took place in
one of Mr. Russell's collerics at Wallsend, by which it is
feared that twenty-five men and seventy-five boys have lost
their lives. The number of workpeople employed in the col-
liery is about 220. The catastrophe was made known by a re-
port like an earthquake, accompanied by a rushing of choke
damp to the mouth of the mine, bringing up with it some of
the pitman's clothes and other light articles. Between ten
and eleven o'clock on Thursday evening the whole of the suf-
ferers remained in the mine, although several ineffectual at-
tempts had been made to reach them. The relatives and
friends of the sufferers are in a dreadful state.—Sunderland
Herald.