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London, England, 1857-11-07 00:00:00

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. every Protestant who is of age can and wilt
. willingly subscribe to it. From this announct-
ment one might naturally infer that the idea
of fulminating an address to the Orangemen had
been abandoned by the magnates of the Grand
Lodge ; and if so, it must be admitted that the
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ctilegeu grievances by an appeal to the Legislature
would be a vast improvement upon the original in-
tention. No such notion, however, bas entered tliel
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the reorganisation of the institution) to record the un-
abated and decided attachment of the members cf the
Grand Lodge to the Orange institution.
" They believe that at no former period of its history
was it so clearly their duty to uphold its principles to
defend its rights and to employ it for the legitimate,
loyal, and benevolent purposes of its organiation.
" And they desire to glorify God for many marked
tokens of His divine favour in the great increase of mem-
bers, in the judgment pronounced upon recent proceed-
ings by a disreruing public, and in the evident influence
exercised by the institution in every part of the British.
empire,
" Passed unanimously.
" H. A. COLE, M.P., Grand Secretary."
THE PRESSURE ON THE HUSH BANKS.
The ordinary commercial letter, dated Belfast,
Wednesday evening, and published in the Derry
Standard, supplies the annexed information :
" The disposition to exaggerate danger, real or
imaginary, has been at work, and iri our neighbour-.
hood sar-nueskter- stts tinalsr4seople who fiads aesposits is
one- of 'the '',oval banis ' hastened to draw out 'their
money. The folly of this ill-judged proceeding
has at length been seen and alt is now quiet
here. No large amount, however, was called for ; the
total paid to depositors did not exceed a few thousands.
It should be a source of satisfaction to every Irishman
that, amid all the disasters and difficulties of other coun-
tries, our banks have maintained the highest character,
and that very few failures have taken place. 'With two
exceptions the trading world of Belfast has escaped the
contagion, and it may further be stated that the business
of the town and that of the surrounding c )untry has
seldom been so sound or so healthy as during the present
year. Trade is dull in most of its branches, and small
transactions rule commerce. At the Corn-exchange few
merchants and still fewer millers can be found to pur-
chase beyond mere retail quantities of bread-stuffs.
Wheat pelts at 10a. to lls. fur red, and lls. to 12s. for
white ; Indian corn, 101. 15e, per ton for prime white.
Had Cobbett I,ved to see the daywhen the once-despised
product of the western prairies would sell in this country
at the price of wheat, he would have been exulting over
the fulfilment of lea early predictions. So fond are the
people of the north of Ireland of this class of grain food
that at present retail dealers sell three tons of Indian
for one of oatmeal. The linen trade has not improved
for the past ton days."
Later accounts, contained in the Belfast Mercury
of yesterday, thus refer to the effects of the mone-
tary pressure in the North :
"As far as Belfast is concerned our merchants and
manufacturers appear up to the present to have been
only slightly involved in the effects of the crisis, which
is producing such widespread dismay in other localities.
Yesterday was settling-day, and we have full assurance
for the statement that for the past six mouths there has
not been a ' 4th' which passed off more satisfactorily,
The 'run' on the banks has ceased in Belfast, and con-
fidence appears to have been completely restored, even
among the the farming classes, who were the principal
parties to entertain apprehension. We regret to say, how-
ever, that a County Down firm connected with our staple
trade is announced to have suspended payment. The lia-
bilities are to the amount of 22,0001., and the assets are
said to be likely to turn out amply sufficient, if they
could be obtained, for their re ilisation. A small
house in Belfast is also reported as having succumbed to
the pressure, but it is so trifling, only to the amount of
1,3001,, that it has received very little attention."
THE BROADSTONE MURDER.
Bernard Gunning, storekeeper at the Midland
Great Western Railway, and against whom the most
unfounded suspicions were long entertained as being
implicated in the hideous tragedy, has had his un-
merited sufferings compensated by a donation of
100/. from the company. In addition he has been
leased at a nominal rent the hotel at the Athenry
station. Gunning, his wife, and their servant, the
notorious Catherine Campbell, resided, it will be
recollected, in the under portion of the building
where the cashier's office is situated, and where
poor Mr. Little was murdered on the 13th Nov.
last.

I Pia Oil 4D. STAMP2D 5D.]

to all its details we have no hesitation in de3lating
that in bo!dnes, completeness, and practical wis-
dom, it immeasurably surpasses every other which
has yet been laid before the country.

NATAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Yesterday morning the
...on of the
Royal Fusileers, numbering nearly 150 men of all
ranks, left Chatham for Preston under the command
of Capt. G. W. Wallace Carpenter, Ist battalion.
The whole of the volunteers from the Royal Ma-
rine Light Infantry companies to the Royal Marine
Artillery will leave head-quarters, Chatham, this
morning for Portsmouth, together with the volun-
teers from the Woolwich division.

The Heron, 12, Commander W. H. Truscott,
fitting at Chatham for the coast of Africa, is still in
the hands of the shipwrights. The following officers
have taken up their commissions :—Lieur. T. P.
Colliegwood ; G. W. Heather, Master ; Charles H.
Carpenter, Mate ; H. Ussher, Acting Assistant-
Surgeon ; and Sir Lambton Loraine, Midshipman.
Xeiterday an order was received at Chatham
garrison from the War-office directing Colonel H.
Jervis, in command of the Ist bat., and Col. R. N.
Phillips, commanding the 2d bat., to hold in readi-
ness the following detachments for India:-23d
Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 20 non-commissioned offi-
c.'rs and men ; 35th Royal Sussex, 18 ; 53d Regt.,
19 men ; 61st, 15 men ; 84th, 12 men ; and 90th
Light Infantry, 25 men of all ranks. The whole of
these reinforcements have been instructed in the use
of the Minie rifle, and will embark at Gravesend on
board the Geo. Marshall, 1,000 tons, for Calcutta.
Recruiting for her Majesty's service and for the
East India Company is going on in the Liverpool
district in the most prosperous manner. Col. Bell
the inspecting field officer, sent to their respective
corps last month 1,550 recruits—all fine young men
fit fur the service—and a like number may be ex-
Noted for-Noiembettr. - Elinnheio:nfyOurt men are
being thrown out of enaployneent, -and they are all
flocking to the standard.
C. O'Brien, private in the 18th Royal Irish Re-
giment, who escaped on Tuesday morning from the
guard-room in Chatham garrison, where he was
confined previous to receiving, 50 lashes for various
acts of theft, was recaptured before he had Wen
many hours at liberty. The sent?nce of the court-
martial was carried out on Thursday, and O'Brien
is now in the hospital, still a prisoner. His escape
will form the subject of a second trial. •
No orders have been received at Chatham for the
removal of the 3d bat., which, in the absence of
Lieut.-Col. Sanders, is commanded by Major
Darroch.

The head-quarters of the Bth (King's Own) Light
Dragoons arrived in Dublin. on Thursday from
Dundalk. Dublin garrison is at present composed
of the Royal Dragoons, the Crop, and the 3d
Light Dragoons ; the 2d bat. of Coldstream Guard,,
the nth, 30th, and 55th Regiments ; the South-
down and City of Dublin Ililitia ; one troop of
horse artillery, and a field battery.

THE PATRIOTIC FUND.

In a letter dated Nor. 2 addressed to a Worces-
tershire newspaper, Sir John Paking-ton vindicates
the administration of the Patriotic fund from the
attacks of Mr. Acton, a Roman Catholic gentleman,
at the recent county meeting. " The acousation
is, that the noblemen and gentlemen whom it pleased
the Queen to associate with the Prince Consort for
the administration of a noble public charity have
abused their trust, violated their duty, and disre-
garded the most obvious dictates of honour ; and that
their motive for so acting has been the hope of con-
verting to Protestantism some few dozen poor Roman
Catholic children of soldiers and sailors, who died
in the service of their country during the late war
with Russia. As this charge has been seriously
made, I suppose I must seriously notice it,
though I confess it seems to be so extravagant
that I find it difficult to treat it with gravity.
But the facts are more important than the imputed
motive. Mr. Acton refers to the commissioners
having paid certain sums to the Wellington Col-
lege School, to the Royal Naval School, and to
several other similar institutions connected with
the army and navy, to enable us to send to them a
given number of orphans ; and he then adds, How
much has been given to any one Catholic institu-
tion l Not one shilling.' The answer is that there
are no Roman Catholic institutions of this descrip-
tion. Mr. Acton complains that ' The Sisters of
Mercy of St. Clare and other religious commuutes
iu Dublin offered their services, at small expense,
for the education of female orphans, and yet their
services were refused.' Their services were not re-
fused ; Mr. Acton has baten altogether misinformed
upon this point. Mr. Acton states that 700 chil-
dren are under instruction, supported by the fund,
and then asks, If those children are Protestants,
where are the Catholics 1' These words suggest an
inference, and are therefore not so easy to deal with
distinctly as specific allegations. I suppose Mr.
Acton to allude to the fact that there aro about 700
children in Protestant asylums, and only 25 Roman
CAtholic asylums. The answer is, that the number
of children in asylums depends very much upon
the mothers, with whom has been left the right to
choose ; indeed, there is no power vested in the
Commissioners to deprive them of that right.
There are few children from Ireland in asylums,
for two reasons ; first, food is cheap, and the
mothers prefer keeping their children at home
and receiving the allowance. This operates equally
in Scotland, where there are only 20 in asylums ;
and we find the same inclination in England when
the mothers have the means of supporting their
children ; second, there are very few children above
the age of seven in Ireland or in Scotland, or in-
deed among the line regiments generally. There
only remains Mr. Acton's complaint that the ad-
mission of three boys to one of the Roman Catholic
establishments was delayed by twelve months' cor-
respondence, and all sorts of frivolous objections.'
The explanation is that we have always thought it
our duty to reserve the right of inspecting schools
to which we send children. This was acceded to by
the principal of that establishment, but he
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l ,wo obtained ane in. Under
agreement to these conditions from_ the. lay brothers
who have since taken charge of the school. It
rests with the mothers to direct what the religious
teaching of their children shall be. I trust I have
said enough to show that the suspicions entertained
by the Roman Catholic body do not rest upon any
reasonable foundation. In dealing with so large
a number of applicants accidental errors may have
occurred ; if so, let them be corrected, but of in-
tentional unfairness there has bean none, and I
übmit that it is now incumbent upon Archbishop
Cullen and others who have brought forward these
opprobrious charges either to substantiate them or
to retract them."

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MESSRS. CLAYTON AND WKEVEBIGAN'S AFFALIRS.
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amount to 21,0001., while the assets somewhat exceed
5,0001. This, however, is exclusive of their premises at
lease
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withwh i chaytthet
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difficulties, The meeting was adjourned
great loss to that place.
to the 16th
:rkenMheeaesdrs,.anCdlatyhteoinr
to make some definite proposition
assistanceelxeatensive shipbuild•
and lagLeverigan conducted
ing and graving operations
total stoppage would be a