The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-15 00:00:00

The COURT were of opinion that the direction of the
was in accurdatiet• jib tht I.lw a,ti
tom ut iterchant,.—Applieutton rt,

[lu our report ot nase •• Tnwsite. v. Nash," we
iui.ted t t state that tt• e ,:et,ndttit proved a !etr, r tram
the tif4inuff, writiew lil th • outset 401.115, that h,
would defend him " 4gain.t Wateli4m's
acvons; thkt th- ch-f-nd,int li,sh did all the work fur
ttio,e def Ates; that the notes were (ts stated in his
affid4vil) given only as representing and ascertaining
tale annaint to be paid to plaintiff out of the funds re-
ceived from tho railway companies, and to be divid d
amongst certain claimants it the funds were raised from
the company, end tn,t wherwise t 1 be paid. That no
application was made 1.,r payment ot the notes for two
p-ars, and that detend4nt had frequently during that
time lent plaintiff (.'h.,,,sites) severni sums of money,
some of which he nad r.-pyid him ]

SECOND A HIS D A V.)
(Before. Mr. Secondary PoTTER )
BRENNAN V. SILK
The plaintiff in mils aett,,n is an insurance agent, an,
di-feiidant is a khipowner. Vlie ue-ton was brought to
recover the sutra of 4/. on a charter wetly t, rau form.
ranee on a vessel to,tneti the Viiliter. There was no de.
fence, and a verdict v s elve,, for the amount.

RLB Ito -sT itEET.—(f HIS DAY.)
A DRUNKEN GENT.— Wm. Butt, dee-embed on the
charge sheet as a gentleman reslding at No. 1, North-
wood-•errace, John's-wood, was charged before Mr.
Hardwick with being drunk and resisting the constable
in the execution of his duty.
Police-constable 162 C stated that about eight o'el,ck
(oi the previous evening he was on duty in North Aud-
ley-strett, wh, n he s.iw the thfendaht, who was very
drunk, surrounded by a mob of at least fitty
persons, who were hooting and hallooing, and
otherwise causing such a disturbance that
he (wi.ness) was obliged to take the defendant into cu,-
tody before the mob di,persed. The defendant resisted
arid refused to go to the station-house. Witness then
called a cab, and having lilted the defendant therein
drove him to the police•station. The constable added
that defendant bad 27/. in gold and silver upon him at
the time.

The defendant, who hung down his bead, apparently
ashamed at his possition, WAA fined the usual drunkard's
fine of 55., and discharged.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
WARWICK HANDICAP.
7 to 2 agst Doubt
10 to 1 agst Chief Justice—taken
10 to 1 agst Cockertnouth
12 to 1 agst The Castle
15 to 1 agst Clothwotker—taken
No.hiug in favour but Doubt.
CHESTER CUP.
I,COO to 25 laid agst Cossack, and 1,000 to 15 each
agst Russborough, Woolwich, Rhesus, Brother tolbough,
Windischgratz, Damask, and Clarissa, and 1,000 to 10
agst Wiadhound.

DERBY.
The only bet laid was 2,000 to 50 agst Lightfoot.
A small attendance, and little or nothing doing.
CREWE STEEPLECRASES—THURSDAY.
The Tradesmen's Plate was won by "The standard
beating two others, who tell at the second fence.

The Farmers' Piete was won by The Standard beat-
ing Yorkshiremau and another.
The hack Stakes were won by Elezina beating four
others, after a fine race.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

DAILY NEWS.—Cardina• Wism4n and his soi
disant suffragans have incurred the penal its of prce
munire. The phrase is in everybody's mourn : what
preci-ely does it mean ? The origin and growth of
that partion of our statute law which previous to the
Reformation constituted the main defence of king acrd
people against the encroachments of the Papacy, is
not very difficult to trace. Rome during the reigns
of the Plantagenets was at the zenith of its p rlitical
power. Nearly the whole of western Christendom
owned its spiritual suzerainty. Emperors and kings,
free cities end fierce barons, held in turn the stirrup
of its ambition. The network of its subtle polity was
spread over all lands ; and feudalism itself bent be.•
neath the weight of its authority. As feota were held
of the crown, so kingdoms were disposed of by the
arrogant successors of St. Peter. Henry 11. did not
disdain to accept the lordship of Ireland as a grit
from Adrian, and his son was not ashamed to execute
a formal surrender of the crowo to I.nocent and
ro n-ceive it again at the rent of 1,000 marks a year 1
Ecclesiastical courts asserted an absolute indepnn.lence
of civil control, and claimed tor all persons ii holy order a
exemption from all responsibility save to their pecu-
liar jurisdiction. Vast wealth became accumulated in
the hands of the regular and secular clergy. Landed
property was every year to a greater extent enclesed
wiihin the impenetrable fence of mortmain. Finally
the benefices and bishoprics of the national church
were grasped et by the insatiable cupidity of Rime.
The spirit of the nation, which had complacently en-
dured every other species of indignity and encroach-
ment, revolted against this new usurpation. IR the
thirty-fifth year of the reign of Edward 1., a statute
was passed which Coke declares to be the foundation
of that edifice of ecclesiastical liberty eventually per-
fected by such gradual care and raised to such a noble
and consOicuous elevation. The provisions of this
early Act, however, proved ineffectual for their pur-
pose ; and one of the weighty charges against the ill-
fated Edward 11. was his allowing of bulls from Rome
to be brought into the kingdom for the unlawful dis-
posal of church preferments, and the like. His sue-

cessor strove at the beginning of his reign to induce
the Papal Court to come to some reasonable wider-

standing. But his expostulations seemed only to pro-
voke fresh ebullitions of insolence ; and in reply
to his remonstrances he was reminded that France
had recently humbled herself before the Uni-
versal Lord of nations, and that the Emperor
of Germany was equally submissive. Edward lIL
replied a 4 became him, that though every prince and
state should league together to maintain this scheme
of usurpation, he and his people were res ,lved to vin-
dicate the ancient freedom of the realm. Nor was
this an idle boast. Several Acts were passed declar-
ing all presentments made by Rome to livings or
bi.hoprics, and all pretended acts collating persons to
other benefices, void, and rendering those who should

procure or accept any such appointments liable to fine
and imprisonment. In the following reign the law
was rendered still more stringent.; special provisions

THE POPISH AGGRESSION.

.
were introduced against the holding of any ecclesias-
tical preferment by aliens, or persons born out of the
legianee of the King ; and all liege men of the Crown
accepting benefices by "foreign provision" were put
out of the protection of the law. These enactments
were denounced at Rome as impious and schismatical,
and threats of excommunication were hurled against
those who should presume to execute or obey them.
But the Parliaments of those days were of one mind on
the subject ; and by the 16 h Richard 11., ch 5, they not
only re-affirmed the most important principles em-
bodied in former statutes, but further enacted that
whoever "should procure at Rome any bulls, pro-
cesses, excommunications, instruments, or other
things, which touch the King, against his crown and
realm, and all pers,ins aiding and assisting therein,
should be put out of the King's protection, their lands
and goods forfeited, and that they should be attached
by their bodies to the King and his council, or pro-
cess of prarniunire facial should be made out against
them." This last recited Act is generally called
" Tne Statute of Prwmunire," from the title of the
writ binder which proceedings were taken against its
violators ; fr on the resolute unanimity with which its
pr licy was sustained by the nation, no efforts on the
part of the Italian priesthood were able to defeat it.
In vain B.pe. Eugenius assumed the right to appoint
a bishop to fill the see of Ely ; the Archbishop of
Canterbury refused to consecrate him, and another
was duly enthroned, whom the chapter had chosen and
the King approved. In vain Martin V. commanded the
archbishop to endeavour to obtain the repeal of the
16th Richard ll.,—illud execrabile statutum, as
he called it; and upon the refusal of the
primate, affected to suspend him from his functions,
The University of Oxford, both Houses of Parlia-
ment, and the Sovereign each sent embassies to de-
precate the Pontiff's wrath ; and the struggle was
allowed to die away. In Tudor times many strin-
gent laws were passed, securing the royal supremacy.
The most important, perhaps, was the sth Elizabeth,
chap. 1, by which to maintain the spiritual jurisdic-
.

tion of Rome within the realm was made an offence,
punishable as in cases of prmmunire, the first time,
and as in cases of high treason for the second. This
was followed by many others framed in a like spirit
for the enforcement of uniformity in public worship,
&c. And though in our days these enactments have
always been treated as practically obsolete, it was not
without reiterated discussion during three successive
sessions of 1844, 1845, and 1846, that Lord Lynd-
hurst and Sir James Graham were able to prevail on
Parliament to abrogate formally the barbarous pe-
nalties already mentioned. The ancient statutes
themselves were suffered to remain unrepealed
landmarks of the national polity ; and the friends of
toleration were glad to see their excessive and
impracticable severities done away. The Eman•
cipation Act of 1829 in no respect re-
moved or lessened the force of those disqualifying
statutes whereby Roman Catholics are rendered in •
capable of holding preferments in the established
Church either of England, Scotland, or Ireland. 011
the contrary, the 16th section explicitly recognises
and re•enacts, in the most comprehensive terms, the
disabilities in that behalf existing. Nothing that has
since been done by Parliament tends to weaken that
exclu,ion. Episcopal and capitular revenues, tithes
and offerings, fines, dues, and perquisites, to the ut-
termost farthing, remain secure. And the Sovereign
of these realms might still exclaim in the language
of her :emote ancestor, six centuries ago—" No
foreign priest shall tythe or toll in my dominions."
Then as to ecclesiastical titles; the wide distinc-
tion ought to be borne in mind between those which
imply and are plainly intended to assert territo-
rial jurisdiction, and those which are but prefixes
or respect and courtesy to the names of individual,.
Everybody knew, for example, that during the last
seven years Dr. Wiseman was called by his friencis
and adherents " Bishop;'' and nobody cared to
dispute his claim to that appellation. It implied no
usurpation of any other person's office. It gave no
just cause of offence, therefore, to any one Neither
would any sane
,or sober-minded Protestant have
troubled himself to inquire why the Roman Catholic
priesthood, who coesidered Dr. Wiseman as their
spiritual cbi,f, had chosen to give him the novel title
of Archbishop, the 1),130 consenting thereto. Ail
c hese matters were, strictly speak.ng, affairs with
which the nation at large had nothing whatever to
do, and in which, consequently, they were not likely
to have ever dreamt of mtertneddling. But the case
i, wholly different when Pius IX, a foreign Sove-
reign, publicly pretends by his own authority, and of
bis own will, to create a new territorial dignity
within the realm. to append thereto a definite and
specific territorial jurisdiction, and to confer this ter.
ritorial title and territorial jurisdiction. Dr. Wiseman
is not in the position of a Roman priest elected by his
Srerhren to preside over them in Westminster. He
claims to he, by the nomination and appointment of
an Italian Prince, metropolitan Archbishop of Eng-
land. This is the cause of offence, nut the assump-
tion of the clerical style and title of any particular
rank or degree.

BEDFORDSEHRE.

The first county m. e. to protest against the
n•eddling of the Bishop of Rome in the affairs of thin
country was held at Bedford on ‘Vedoesday. It was
convened by Colonel Gilpin, the high sheriff, in ac-
cordance with a requisition signed by upwards of 400
of the most respectable and if.fluential gentlemen in
Bedfordshire, including persons of every political
party and every Protestant denomination. 'The
Town-hall of Bedford, in which the gathering took
place, was so crowded that further ingress was im-
possible. The I.l!gh Sheriff presided in person, and
amongst the gentlemen who thronged the platform
were Lord Charles Russ.-11 (brother of the Prime
Minister), Sir Harry Verney, M.P., Mr. Hastings
Russell, M.P , Colonel Trevor, ALP., Mr. H. Little-
dale, Mr. C. 1,. Higgins, Colonel Higgins, Sir C. G.
Payne, Mr. G. P. Liviu-, Mr. H. &c.
The HIGH SHERIFF read the requishon upon
which he bad convened the meeting, and called upon
Lord Charles Russell to move the first reJolution.

Lord C. RUSSELL, on ri,ing, was received wi, h a
coniinuous burst of cheer•. The Noble Lord said his
motto was, " No fear."—(Cheer-.) Never fur a mo-
ment could he anticipate that any harm would result
from that which he might call almost a contemptible
document.—(Uproarious cheeribg.) Olt all sides
he saw his countrymen rising arid giving expres-
sion to their sound Protestant feelings, and dechiriog
their attachthent to their Protestant institutions
in Church and State.—(Chetrs.) He saw also that
our rulers, both temporal and spiritual, had nobly
spoken out, had faithfully denounced this act of ag-
gression on the part of a foreign enemy, and he hoped
bad with some success shown forth and expressed
their faith in our glorious national institutions.—
(Hear.) On that score, then, he had no fear; and if we
were called upon to enter into the contest between
Protestantism and Popery, and between truth and

error, how could he foi one moment doubt the issue
of it ? —(Prolonged applause.) Was not the power
which struck down Popery in the fifteenth century
sufficient to keep it down in the nineteenth ?—(treat
cheering.) Did it not, humanly speaking, fall before
the power of the printing-press; and did we not now
live happily in the enjoyment of a free press in this
country ?—(Loud cheers.) Whilst, however, he had
no fear, there were no limits to his amazement at the
audacity that had prompted this act.eL(Vehement
cheering.) How it could have originated ne scarcely
knew. That the Papacy, which but a little time ago
was trembling on its last legs, as it seemed, the Pope
being a refugee from his dominions, and afterwards
restored only by the aid of the bayonets of a foreign
Power—that he should have the audacity to say that
he had all spiritual and temporal supremacy in this
kingdom—this was so mon,trous an assumption, and
such a palpable attempt at innovation on our civil and
political rights, that he (Lord C. Russell) was amazed
at the insolence.—(Cheers.) He could nut account
fur it, and the only way that it, or any other absur-
dities of the kind, could be accounted for, was, 11,
supposed, by alleging the Pope's claim to infallibility.
—(Laughter and derisive cheers.) Let them, then,
berm e proceeding to denounce the effort of the Pope,
see upon what this claim to infallibility rested. First
of all, had his Holiness been really infallible ? He
termed himself the great spiritual head of all Chris.
tendom ; bad he been infallible in the choice and
adoption of his own fai h ? The Bible told us, "By
their fruits ye shall know them;" and what were the
fruits of the religion established by the Saviour upon
the earth? Was it not hymned by angels that it
should be " peace and good will ?"—(Cheers.) Let
the Pope, then, say where he would find those fruits
of the soundness of his religion in his own domi-
nions.—(Cheers.) Had it established peace" even
in Rome itself ? He appealed fur an answer to the
bayonets of the French.—(Vehement cheering) Had
it been instrumental in promoting " good will" in
the Papal dominions ? He thought his Holiness
might have answered'that question himself when he
made his escape from Rome mounted on the box
of a coach, and arrayed in the disguise of a foreign
livery.—(Loud cheers and laughter.). But if the Pope
had shown himself to be fallible in his choice and
adoption of a faith, bad be not been equally fallible
qi his denunciation of another ? He had denounced
us both by word and deed. He had done an act
which he could only de in a nation of infidels. What
fruits of infidelity had England produced during the
last half century ? On the contrary, had she not
given out the fruits of a sound faith ?—(Cheers )
But, whilst the Pops has been deceived in things past,
he was not less deceived in things present. He had
seen an absence of persecution here, and that he as
smiled to be indifference to real truth.—(l-fear, hear.)
He had mistaken the healthy development of Pro-
testant character for the paralysis of infidelity.—
(Cheers.) Again he had mistaken grossly—he had
mistaken the falling off of a few dead leaves as
symptomatic of the decay of the heart of the tree.—
(liear.) He had gloated on the passion for a mere-
tricious ritual displayed by a few, and hoped that it
was tantamount to a total abandonment of gospel
truth.—(Cheers.) He had witnessed with delight a
recent attempt of the Church to establish a spiritual
oligarchy, and, for once, he had come to a sound
conclusion that a spiritual despotism must be
prefrrable to a spiritual oligarchy—(Loud cheer)—
and that the infallibity of one man was more conso-
nant to reason than the infallibility of a dozen.—
(Cheers.) But, again he had committed a gross
Wunder, even in connexion with this subj.-et. He
heard a wish go forth from the cloistered cells of
England, and he mistook for the voice of the people
that which England had since pronounced, and was
now pronouncing, to be a mere aspiration of the
feeble-minded, or of the " non-natural" few.—(Great
cheering) By his letter he branded us as infidels ;
yet almost in the first sentence he resorted to the
mockery, the great inconsietencv, of calling us
a noble," ay, the " noble people of England."—(On,
oh, and laughter.) He treated us as infidels, and
syteyd us
rylemu "
chlnikoeblte and
0,, o he (
wwhat L C
Holluatisessestsl) shul
his ideas of
nobility were. He had no doubt that they differed
very much from those which the English people en•
tertained. It might be noble in his eyes to be apos-
tates and professors of that dissitnulatiOn which, what-
ever favour it might find in the eyes of a Jesuit, was
totally unknown to the nature of Englishmen.—
(Loud cheers.) Well, let the nation arise and tell
the Pope what its estimate of nobility was.—(Cheers )
In the words of a poet—
'Tis only noble to be good;
Pure hearts are mere than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood."
The Noble Lord resumed his seat amidst thunders of
applause, after proposing a resolution deprecating the
Pope's bull.
Mr. H. HILL seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.

Colonel TaEvoit M.P., moved the second resolu-
tion, expressive of the hope that her Majesty would
command a public benunciation of the bull of the
Popp', and signify her determination to maintain in-
sielate her solemn engagement to her people, and
pledging the meeting to support her to the utmost, in
accordance with their beusei,n duty and sworn alle
giance.—(Loud cheers.) He
(Colonel Trevor)
looked upon the Pope's bull as neither more nor less
than an innovation on the rights of both Sovereign
and people; and he frit sure that Englishmen—tihove
all, English Protestants—would never permit them-
selves to be ridden roughshod over by any potentate,
whether lay or ecclesiastical.—(Cheers.) Lord John
Russell hsd promised them, in his letter, that the
present state of the law should be examined and
considered ; and that was all we could at this
moment require. But he did trust that no time
would be lost in making that examination, that
due notice would be taken of what had transpired
in her Majesty's next speech from the Throne ;
and he ventured to say that, if it should be found
necessary, upon the advice of those who were charged
with the government of the country, to add anything
to the strength of the existing laws,
any such propo-
sal would receive an almost unanimous support, whe-
ther in the House of Lords or the House of Commons.
—(Loud cheers.) They were told that a similar bull
was to be sent to Scotland, and that that country was
also to be parcelled out into Popish dioceses. But,
recollecting the strong feelings of our northern
brethren, he should be much astonished if they did
not give it even a warmer and more enthusiastic re-
sistance than that which England was now offering
to it.—(Loud cheers.) Having more than once so-
journed in the city .ot Rome, be could not help re-
collecting the extraordinary superstition and acts of
idolatry which he himself had publicly witnessed
there. The Bible was a condemned book in Rome ;
and on some occasions it bad been taken out of the
luggage of travellers upon their entering that city.
In various quarters of Rome he had seen and read
public notices that a certain number of !ears of ex-
emption from purgatory would.be accorded to those
persons who kissed certain itnages. In the same man-
ner, by the repetition of a certain number of prayers,
a man might obtain pardon for almost any crime
which he might have committed.—(llear, hear.)
Mr. HOWARD seconded the resolution.
Sir H. VERNEY, M.P., ,upported the resolution.
As one who had ever been in fevour of toleration, he
deemed it especially incumbent upon hitn to come
forward on this occasion and state plainly that tolera-
tion was not indifference--that toleration and
terence were not the same thing.—(Cheers.) There
was nothing in the spirit of toleration which justified
the recent act of the P,ista. 11-re was a cLim to su-
premacy set up by a foreign piece over the suttjects
of her Majesty, mod without her Majesty's authority.
Such an act was not known in any other profession.
It, for instance, an Englishman received the honour
of knighthood at the hands ot a foreign prince, he
never used it in this country, unless with the peimis-
siao of the Queen; for here it was held to be a tun-
dsmental principle that the Queen was the fountain
of honour—(Cheers)—and if any individual, be he
civil or ecologasticall Prel"'""4 t 9 use
a title
conferred

INSTITUTION OF CITIL ENGINEERS.--The institu-
tution held its first meeting on Tuesday evening last, when
the proceedings commenced with the announcement of the
dates of the ordinary meetings of the session; the appoint-
ment of December 17, for the annual general meeting, for
the election of the president, council, and officers; and of
the 27th May, 1851, for the president's conversa:ione. The
paper read was, " A comparative view of the recorded Explo-
sions in Coal Mines," by Mr. William West (of Leeds),
Assoc. Inst. C.E. After which, the meeting was adjourned
to Tuesday next, when the discussion of the above subject
will be renewed, and the following paper be read :—" The
Ventilation of Collieries theoretically and practically con•
sidered," by Mr. W. P. Struve, M. Inst. C.E.
ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
RAlLWAY.—Yesterdav a cattle train, in emerging from the
tunnel in West Princes'-street• gardens, came in contact with
some trucks standing upon the line. The collision was so
great as to smash one of the cattle vans, in consequence of
which three of the animals in it were so much wounded that
it was deemtd expedient immediately to :laughter them.—
Seitsman

BIRMINGHAM.

•
A CANDID APFBAL —A wife, whose husband is
now undergoing a sentence of transportation for a term of
years, in one of the hulks at Woolwich, has sent him the
following consoling lerter :—" Dear husband,—l take this
opportunity ot addressing these few lines to you, hoping to
tied you in good health, as it leaves me at present, thank
God for it. Dear husband, lam going to change my line of
life, and I hope it will be for the better. I must tell you
that I sin going to be married, and hope you will have no
objection, for you know you 11,,ve not behaved to me as a
husband ought to have done; both you and your family
have used Inc very ill, but everybody knows that I never
gave you any reason to ill treat me. I have been to the
overseers to ask their advice, and they told me I had better
get another husband, as I did not expect yeti would ever
come home again. You need not fret about it, nor make
yourself in the least alarmed at what I say, for I can assure
you it is true. The overseers ot the parish are going to give
the man 10/. tolake me out of the parish. I have invited
your brother Robert to the wedding, and I wish you was at
home to mak, one amongst us I shall tell you—the man's
name is William You need not forget me tor all
that; and if you should ever come where I am, I hope you
will call and see me. So I conclude, and still remato your
affectionate wife—CATIIERINE. To William --, Gany-
tatde Hulk, Woolwielt."—Alunehester spectator.
A WELLERIBI4.—"nII losing
pad yea he KW a amea robbieg cam •
fl,811," as the butehta.

THE SUN, LON DON, PRIDA Y EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1850.

upon him by a foreign prince, and to exercise any-
thing like power or authority over her Majesty's
subjects in this kingdom, with him the simple ques-
tion would be, whether that individual ought not to
be taken to the nearest port and sent about his busi-
ness.— (Loud cheers.) He felt assured that the
people of England would assist her Majesty in
taking any step which might appear to be neces-
sary f..r showing that they were firmly determined
to maintain that Protestant faith and those Protes-
tant institutions which now so happily prevailed
amongst them. But he could not conceal from him-
self that Papists abroad had been encouraged in their
attempts to diffuse their doctrines amongst us by the
practices of a certain section of the Church of Eog-
land.—(Hear.) In alluding to this subject he had no
desire to speak in a spirit of bitterness. The laity of
the Church of England had a right to speak out upon
this subject ; and he did not hesitate to avow that
whilst t. him it would be a source of the greatest
happiness it he thought that one of his sons was tit to
rake upon himself the office of a minister of Christ, and
ro inculcate the doctrines of the Church of England,
et rather than see that son a minister of the
Protestant Church, with a Papist's heart, he would
!olio ,v him to the grave.—(Loud and protracted cheer-
ing.) Feeling that strongly, and having the warmest
,t,nnrearne sote
ci pu
,bne
i welfareke the porfestehnet,Cbhluinrckhineheacwofuulldquneost.,
tion,—" Are we to have Popish priests in the bosom
of our English Conrcb ?"—(Hear, hear, and vocife-
rous cries of " No.') Iu his own neighbourhood re-
cently an English clergyman had become a Papist.
He was chaplain to an English bishop, who had given
him his living. Another chaplain to that bishop had
previously been perverted to the Church of Rome,
and he was now going about the country .en-
desvouring to draw the people over from our
Protestant Church to the Church of R3me. Would
they close their eyes to these things ? Would they
attend a public meeting against the aggressions of the
Church of Rome, and close their eyes to practices
which were being carried on in their own Church ?
—(Cheers, and cries of" No.") God forbid. Heart
and hand, therefore, they should unite in their oppo-
sition to Popery, whether in the Church of Rome or
the Church of England. In making these observations
he did not desire to raise the "No Popery " cry.
He hated " cries," because it was now matter of
history that the raising of " cries " had been attended
with unprecedented crimes, and great misery, wretch.
edness, and suffering in the land.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Sir C. PAYNE moved the adoption of an address to
the Queen, founded upon the preceding resolutions,
end that the H,gh Sheriff do present the same to her
Majesty at the first convenient opportunity.
Mr. C. L. HIGGINS seconded the motion.

The resolution was carried unanimously, and,
after a vote of thanks had been passed to the High
Sheriff for presiding, the meeting dispersed.

Meetings have been held during the present week
in the parishes of St. Martin and St. Thomas, and
the churches of St. Philip and St. Mary, at which
memorials to the Queen against the Pope's assump-
tion were unanimously adopted.

THE PREVENTION OF CRIME.

LETTER V.

TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY,

BALLT., M.P.. &c. &c.

Sir,—Tne object of tu.king the colony purely
agricultural so long as convicts were sent, or retained
there as convicts, is to remove from those who are
reformed that temptation to return to their old habits,
which is inevitably offered by a town population, and
therefore greatly lessen, if not effectually prevent, the
risk of such colony becoming a bad foundation for
future communities.
To carry out this plan into practical operation I
would suggest the following mode of proceeding as
being easy of execution, offering to the convicts every
chance of reformation, useful in establishing a
colony, beneficial to the mother-country, and without
the Pernicious effect above adverted to, of placi9g the
labour of the convict in competition kith that of the
honest and industrious.
First. S-nd to the proposed colony a steamer,
' with scientific min, and implements to ex-
plore the coast and the interior, and to fix
on the best place for the future colonies; then
dispatch two or three vessels with the clergymen,
schoolmasters, surgeons, surveyors, artificers in the
principal trades required in an infant colony, and
military; a preference being given to all who were
married, and who should b- entitled, after five years
service, to allotments of land if they desired to settle
—3OO or 400 convicts from the Portland Convict Es-
tahustiment, who being partly reformed would be less
troublesome in starting the infant colony, and would
be tar better for the convicts themselves, than sending
diem, as has been proposed, to existing colonies, where
the temptation to return to their old habits would be '
so much greater.
There is no doubt that such convicts would be most

willingly received at many of the existing colonies,
but to send them there would be merely a 'recurrence
to the very principle which has already produced such
h4tieful effects, viz., making the interest of the set-
tler, and not the reformation of the convict, the first
object. The question should be,—ls it for the ad-
vantage, not of the colonist who requires a labourer,
but of the reformed convict, that he should be sent to
an old colony, or to such a one as I have proposed ?
And I should be quite content that Colonel Jebb,
who made the suggestion in .his „excellent report on
the Portland Convict Establishment, should decide the
question ; for be truthfully remarks in another para-
graph, " There is too wide a distinction between the
full privileges of a ticket of leave and the penal gang
in Norfolk Island." No one who hss studied the
subject can doubt that it is not possible to grant to a
reformed convict a ticket of leave in an old colony
without running the greatest risk of his returning to
his old habits.

Yet anything approaching to the assignment sys-

tem, the only arteiristive yet offered, would assuredly
produce a similar effect in a far greater degree.
Maconochie's " Australians" is clear and decisive on

this point, and proves that is practical working is
precisely what might have been anticipated by every
p raon vcno considered the reformation of the convict,
and not the advantage which the settler would receive,
was the object to be attained.
Secondly. Let the site of the first colony be not less
than a mile from the harbour, which should be im-
proved, a pier built, and an excellent road made to it.
A few of the convicts should be employed in culti-
vating some land under the superintendence of the
agriculturists, but the greater part should be employ ed
in erecting a penitentiary capable of holding 1,000
convicts, with barracks for the military, workshops
for the various artificers, a large Government store or
bazaar, where every article produced by the convicts
should be sold, and everything required by the free
settler, except spirits of every kind, the sale of which,
or even the importation into the colony, should be
prohibited except as an article of medicine.
Everything, whether imported into the colony or
produced by the convicts, should be sold eta profit of

10 per cent., which should be divided into three
parts—one-half retained fur the expenses of the es-
tablishment, a portion the remainder placed to the
credit of each convict who had produced the article,
and the rest set apart to provide a fund wherewith to
assist the most exemplary in,,conduct in settling upon
an allotment of land.

Thirdly. When the buildings were completed the
number of convicts should be increased to 1,000, and
a portion of them should be employed in erecting
another penitentiary, capable of holding another 1,000
convicts, not nearer to the first than ten miles, and
towards the interior ; another portion of the convicts
should be employed in making a good road between
the two colonies, and in dividing the land on either
side into farm•, varying from 50 to 300 acres, making
cross-roads, and cultivating a few acres in each al-
lotment.

Fourthly. Then, and not before, free settlers should
he invited to take possession of the lots, upon terms
which I will presently mention, and offering far
greater advantages to the bona fide settler, althcugh
not to the speculator, than any of the New Zealand,
Or.ago, or Canterbury schemes. It is hoped and be-
lieved that at this time many .of the convicts would
be steadily reformed, and desirous of working for the
tree settler at fair wages; and as soon as the greater
part of the lots for five miles between the first and
see..nd colonies had been occupied, the convicts
should be employed in building another penitentiary
on one side of the first colony, but not nearer than ten
miles, and on the land between this penitentiary and
the first similar measures should be pursued as be-
tween the first and the second.
When free settlers arrived in sufficient numbers to
occupy the sites, then another penitentiary should be
built on the other side of the first, but not less than
ten miles from it; and, when required, similar ones on
either side of the second penitentiary, but not nearer
to it than ten miles—the ohji-ct bring, that the greatest
distAnce a convict should have to H elk to his isolk
either on the road or the field should be five miles.

Thus you would have six penitentiaries, each ca-
pable of holding 1,000 convicts, at a distance from
the first colony, or seat of government, of ten miles;
if the plan worked as well asi anticipate, preparations
should be made for abandoning the first penitentiary
as a convict establishment, the building converted
into useful public offices, one of which should be a
dwelling for the labourers, the land between it and
the harbour laid off in streets to serve as the future
town, no land in which should be sold, hut let on
moderate ground rents, the proceeds' of which sticuld
be applied to the future wants of
.the town, so as to
prevent the necessity of taxation.
I will state in my next and concluding lefter the
plan fur colonization which I would propole in oppo-
sition to what is called the Wakefield plan, and
which h&c's out such manifold advantages to the free
settler, that I believe no moral doubt will remain on
the minds of those who have watched the
progress of emigration that the lots would be ra-
pidly occupied.
I tare the honour to remain, Sir, &c.,
RIGBY %YAWN.
C ,rwar, Nov. 4 1850.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF MR. PEN-
NISGTON, LATE OF THE TREASURY.
It is with the deepest regret we have to announce
the melancholy suicide ,of Mr. Pennington, a gentle-
man who for fifteen years past has filled highly im-
portant offices in her Majesty's Treasury, which took
place yesterday afternoon. About half-past four
oo clock, as police constable Henry John, T 223,
came out of Gore-house, Kensington-gore (late the
residence of Lady Blesaington), he heard the report
of firearms discharged in one of the plantations in
Hyde• park, abutting on the Great Western road, al-
most directly opposite Gore-house. He immediately
ran across the road and entered the park at the small
wicket-gate close to the spot, and discovered the un-
fortunate gentleman lying on his back in the planta-
tion, with his arms extended. In his right hand a
double-barrelled pistol was tightly grasped, one of
the barrels of which ,had lust been discharged, and
on the lock of the collier barrel -was a percussion-
cap, and the lock was cocked. The unfortunate
gentleman was then still breathing, a motion of
the lips and mouth being distinctly perceptible
for five or six minutes, after which he appeared to
exvire. In less than ten minutes after the fatal act
had been committed Police-Sergeant Davis, T 20, came
up, and was followed by Mr. Bonney, a surgeon of
litughtsbridge, who, hearing of the occurrence, exa-
mined the body, which was lying at the root 'of a fir-,
tree. He found that the deceased had shot himself
through the right temple, and that the ball had passed
out at the back of the head, where the brains were
exuding. Mr. Bonney pronounced the deceased to be
quite dead. Policeman 209 A, on duty in the park,
then came up, and a stretcher was procured from the
T station-house, Church-court, adjoining Kensington
Church, and the body having been placed on it was'
carefully removed to the residence of Mr. Spreadhrow
the beadle, who immediately had it placed in the dead
house of the parish in:Rom and Crown-yard, adjoining
the house. The clothes of the deceased gentleman wei e
then searched, and in his pockets were found a silver
Geneva watch with a gold guard chain, and a silver
Brainah key attached, a gold toothpick, three cambric
handkerchiefs marked "G. J. P„" a aoveraign
purse, a blue silk pure, and 9=. in silver, and some
other small articles ; also a card-case, in which were
two cards, with the name " Mr. Pennington, No 20,
Cumberland street, Portman-square." Mr. Spread-
brow immediately proceeded to that address, and
inquired if Mr. Pennington was from home, e.:.d was
informed that he was. Ile then showed one of his
cards and the card-cast', which were identified as
having belonged to the deceased. Subsequently the
butler in the family went to- Knightsbridge, and
identified the body as that of his mater. It
appears that Mr. Pennington bed a fit shout three
months since, from the effects of which he had scarcely
recovered, and about a fortnight sines, be had resigned
his situation. He had left his house about half-past
two o'clock in the afternoon, to take a walk with:bis
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