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London, England, 1850-01-21 00:00:00

gether *Om every part of the country, and " mort-
gagees," " conusees," and the entire race of " ees,"
be terror-stricken at the power of the movement ?
The hint is one that should not be neglected. A
magnificent effect may be produced if the notion be
only properly carried out.
And, after all, there is not so much difference in
point of morality. In the latter case, the weak-
minded lenders would only be mulcted of the sums
they had advanced on the security of the land, a de-
gree of folly for which they justly merit so salutary
a punishment. In the mode so warmly advocated by
the assembled magnates, the entire people should club
theirresources for the same purpose ; the wretched cot-
tier should appease the murmurings of his half-starved
family by assuring them that they are contributing
to the comfort and luxury of the territorial aristo-
cracy ; that the scantiness of their food, the high
price of bread must be endured, in order that the dig-
nity and grandeur of the " peers, baronets, deputy-
lieutenants, magistrates, gentry," &c., may be fully
maintained. We submit, however, that what we have
suggested would be the more summary and efficacious
project, and that it would have this advantage, that
the evil would be got rid of at once and for ever ;
whereas, if protection were re-enacted, the grievance
would be perpetual, and a constant murmuring
would be heard from the oppressed and persecuted
people.

A memorial remarkable for good sense, temperate
language, and loyal sentiments, has been presented to
the Irish Viceroy by the Roman Catholics of Ulster,
in reference to the conduct of certain magistrates of
Castlewellan, who refused to take informations against
come of the parties concerned in the massacre at
Dolly's Brae, on the 12th of July last. The anxiety
evidenced in that document for the.purity of the law
and the due administration of justice is highly credi-
t table to the memorialists. It is gratifying to see so

numerous and respectable a body of her MAJESTY'S
subjects appealing to the laws in such a spirit ofgood
citizenship, and in terms of manly respect, for the re-
dress of wrongs under which they have so long and
so vexatiously suffered. And it gives us much plea-
sure to see the fair, candid, and straightforward spirit
in which their appeal was received and responded to

by the Lord-Lieutenant.
His Excellency's reply will be hailed with gratifi-
cation by every friend of peace and order throughout
the empire, as it gives strong hopes that such measures
will be adopted as will prevent the recurrence of the
revolting scenes of Dolly's Brae. His Excellency

says—
"lt is unnecessary for me to state how deeply
I have deplored the lamentable occurrences cf the
last 12th July, which were attended with such fatal con-
sequences, and I can assure you that her Majesty's Go-
vernment fully recognises the necessity of putting an end to
those rival party displays, which tend t,) keep continually
alive teslings a animosity and ill-will between her
Majesty's subjects of different religious persuasions."
Such sentiments are alike creditable to the
head and heart of his Excellency, and we
have no doubt, from the well known, because
well-tried, firmness of Lord CLARENDON, that these
words of promise will be fully carried out, and that
the North cf Ireland will not be again disgraced by
the murderous scenes of last year.
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The immediate prayer of the memorial was for
the supersession in the commission of the peace of
those magistrates who at petty sessions, held at
Castlewellan on the gth of October last, refused to
take informations against persons proved to have
formed part of an avowedly illegal assembly. His
Excellency, however, did not deem it consistent with
his notions of constitutional liberty to stretch the
Royal prerogative so far as to grant this prayer. And
while we lament that the Bench should be defiled by
men so utterly blinded by political and religious
prejudices as to throw the shield of their privileges
over wrong-doers, we must confess that Lord CLassari-
DON has exercised a wise and judicious discretion
on this occasion, in net attempting to limit that free
exercise of judgment which the law and the Consti-
tution have confided to the magisterial office, and
particularly as those magistrates were not personally
implicated in the transactions which led to the con-
flict at Dolly's Brae.
We trust, however, the day is not distant when we
shall see the justice-seat purified from that class of
men who could sacrifice their high duties to their
passions and prejudices—from men who could so
stultify themselves, and attempt to stultify the public,
as to affect ignorance of the fact that hundreds of
armed ruffians, thirsting for each other's blood, con-
stituted an illegal body according to the common
law of these Islands. Ignorance of the law is
scarcely excusable in those who have to ad-
minister it, but we fear the crime of the
Castlewellan recusants is of a nature less excusable
than ignorance We remember on a former occasion
noticing' the absurd inconsistency of some of those
clerical functionaries who presided at the investiga-
tion at Castlewellan. These gentlemen openly
avowed their ignorance of the law, yet they assumed
the responsibility of deciding a legal question, and
refused to receive the true interpretation of the law
from the most legitimate authority—the law-officers
of the Crown.
Surely men such as these are entirely unfit to
hold the commission of the peace. There can be no
confidence in the laws administered by such men,
and if they cannot be relieved from duties which
they are either unable or unwilling to di:-
charge, some means should be devised at
least to neutralise their mischievous effects on the ad-
ministration of justice. Why not establish through
the country a sufficient number of stipendiary magis-
trates ?—men free from local or party prejudices,
armed with sufficient authority to receive informa-
tions in all criminal matters within their jurisdiction;
men immediately responsible to the Crown, and able
and willing to carry out the laws of the land without
fear, favour, or affection. There could be no diffi-
culty in finding such men; and we trust either this
or some other plan will be adopted, calculated to
create confidence in the laws, by bringing criminals
to justice, and to establish peace and order through-
out the country.
The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews have
devoted a paper each to this subject in
their numbers for the present month The
Edinburgh goes through the whole case most exten-
sively, and with its usual ability. Its facts are simple
and truthful, and its reasoning sound and just. All
the material points have been put forward by us on
former occasions through the columus of this journal;
but should any of our readers be anxious to see the
whole case in extenso at one view, we would strongly
recommend to them a perusal of this very able
article. The Quarterly, one of the still lingering
organs of the effete dogmata of old Toryism, labour's
in its vocation of factious bigotry in attempting to
bolster up the doomed Orange institution, and
fruitlessly endeavours, by shallow artifice, to
sustain the more than thrice-refuted slanders of the
report of the Orange Grand Lodge of Ire-
land. Our space will not at present
permit us to examine its partizan views and hollow
sophisms minutely ; they are useless fur good or ill,
they can neither serve their friends nor hurt their
enemies. The one-sided and bigoted views patent
through this document strips it of all respect; it can
neither injure the reputation of Lord CLARENDON,
nor raise the character of Orangeism.

A meeting is to be held in the City of London on
Friday next in support of the- Exhibition of 1851,
and will, it is understood, be attended by Lord John
Russell and the President and Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, besides many of the most influen-
tial members of the mercantile community. The
scheme is now fairly afloat, and we understand that
an account has been opened at the Bank of England
in the names of Mr. Barclay, Mr. W. Cotton, Sir
J. \V. Lubbock, Mr. Peto, and Baron Rothschild, to
which all contributions may be paid, either directly
or through any of the London backers. The sub-
sciption list has be-en headed with a donation of
LOCO/. from her Majesty, and another of 5001. from
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and several other
large sums have been already added to it. Their
example will no doubt ba liberally followed ; the an-
nouncement of the determination of the contract
with Mevsre. Munday, and the statement of tie
Commissioners that they are invested with unre-
stricted power over the application of the funds,
having been very favourably received in those quar-
ters in which jealousy had been felt of the arrange-
ments as previously subsisting.
INSTALLATION OF THE NEW BISHOP OF NORWICH.
—The ceremony of the enthronisation of the Rev. Dr.
Hind, the newly-appointed Bishop of Norwich, is ap-
pointed to take place on Thursday afternoon, at the Ca-
thedral, Norwich, at which a very large number of the
clergy of th,e diocese is expected to assist.