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TUE SUN,

admirable conduct since his accession to his paternal
inheritance argues quite the other way, and gives us
strong hopes that the question of tenant right will
have no more honest or zealous advocate in the House
of Commons.

Mr. GOOLD had hereditary and family claims of no
ordinary kind upon the constituency of Limerick. In
the days of Ireland's evil destiny, as well as at that epoch
to which Irishmen look back with pride, amid the
bright galaxy of her genius there was none more
able, more eloquent, or more patriotic than the late
Master GOOLD, the father of the present Member for
the county of Limerick. He is connected with Lord
DUNRAVEN, an excellent resident landlord, as well as
with Mr. MOeSELL, now his colleague, one of the
most active, useful, and intelligent Members sent to
the British Parliament by the people of Ireland.
But beyond all these Mr. GOOLD, though young,
has strong personal claims to the support and respect
of the men of Limerick. There could not be found
a more generous or kind-hearted landlord, or
one more anxious for the improvement of
his tenantry. In private life be is much
respected, and during his novitiate at the
bar, and particularly on his own immediate
circuit, he won the golden opinions of his brother
barristers—no insignificant test of his worth, com-
prised as that circuit is of gentlemen of the very
highest honour and intellect. For ourselves, we con-
gratulate the people of Limerick on their choice; and
we feel a strong confidence neither they nor we shall
be disappointed in the high hopes we entertain of Mr,
GooLD's Parliamentary career, which we trust will
be alike honourable to himself and serviceable to his
country.

It was most imprudent and injudicious in the Tenant
League to make their first essay against a candidate
possessing such claims as these. It was not only
imprudent, but we would be disposed to say improper,
under the circumstances, as their unwise contest
nearly threw the representation of the county into
the hands of the enemies of human progress and
human liberty ; and we trust that upon future occa-
sions they will exercise a sounder discretion, and will
pursue a course less calculated to endanger the public
peace or their own good cause.
It is refreshing to reflect on the issue of this elec-
tion—it conveys to our mind the agreeable notion
that the social elements are not unhealthy, and that
even in the county of the violated treaty the ties be-
tween landlords and tenants are still respected. This
is as it should be—the interests of both are
identical. We hope to see these feelings grow and
strengthen, until every landlord in Ireland shall un-
derstand that the best and truest security for his per-
son and property is in the improvement and pros-
perity of his tenantry. The cultivation of the
kindly relations and friendly feelings which should
subsist betwee❑ the owners and cultivators of the
soil will tend more to the regeneration of Ireland
than can possibly be achieved by any Act of the
Legislature. The social system must remain inse-
cure, permanent tranquillity can never be established
till the legitimate rights of the tenant be fully recog-
nizA, and the landlords of Ireland become ac-
quainted,' with their duties, and have the honesty,
!ike Mr. GOOLD, to perform them.

We are at length in possession of a legal opinion
as to the recent Papal aggression in these realms,
an opinion formed after much careful considera-
tion by perhaps the most accomplished lawyer
of his day, who has ever since 1829
had his attention almost unremittingly di-
rected to the state of the law as affecting
Roman Catholics, who was the legal adviser of the
late Sir ROBERT PEEL, both in power and out of
power, and who, more especially during the whole of
Sir ROBERT PEEL'slastMinistry, aided and advised, as
Chancellor of Ireland, in all the alterations which were
made from 1842 to 1846 in the laws relating to the Ro-
man Cathelies,--we are in possession of the deliberately
formed, andas deliberately pronounced, opinion of Sir
EDWARD SUGDEN, that Cardinal WISEMAN and his
companions in usurpation have violated the law, that
they have been guilty of a misdemeanour, for which
they may be indicted, and if convicted punished.
This opinion was distinctly enunciated by Sir ED•
WARD SUODEN at the Surrey County Meeting, held
at Epsom on Tuesday last, and the matter is one of
such vast and paramount importance that we feel it is
our duty to give the opinion of Sir EDWARD SUGDEN
in his own words. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN thus ex-
plains the present state of the law on this subject:—
" The first Parliament of Elizabeth passed a law to
declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or
potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction,
power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesi-
astical or spiritual, within this realm. That was the
law then, and that is the law now. But the other
day, in the 9th and 10th of our present Queen—not
following the example of the Relief Act—an Act
of Parliament was passed which repealed certain pro-
visions of this statute. By one part of the
Act of Elizabeth it was provided that whoever
affirmed or acted upon the notion that any foreign
prince, prelate, or potentate had any power, ecclesi-
astical or spiritual, within the realm, was subject to the
most heavy punishments. The third of these was ec-
tually high treason, with the penalty of death and the
loss and forfeiture cf lands and goods. Now, no man
could wish that to remain; it was a punishment that no
man would inflict at this time of day, and it was there-
fere repealed by the 9th and 10th of Victoria; but the
Act which repealed this declares that, though the pe-
nalties
and punishments are repealed, it shall still not
be lawful for any person to affirm or maintain that any
foreign person, prince, prelate, or potentate bath, or
ought to have, jurisdiction, spiritual or ecclesiastical,
within the realm. Then, I assert here, and I am pre-
pared to do so everywhere that by the law as it stands,
the Bishop of Rome and his Archbishops and Cardinals
have no right to assert tor maintain that they have any
opiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this realm.—
(Cheers ) There was another Act passed in the 13th
yeer of Elizabeth to prevent bulls, letters, or instru-
ments to be received froth Rome for any cause whatever;
110 man was to put in use any bull, letters, or instrument
from the Bishop of Rome in any case whatever—
(Hear, hear)—and if he did, not only he, but
those who abetted him, were to he held guilty
of high treason and suffer death. Now every-
bedy knows that such a punishment could not be inflicted
in these days, arid therefore the penalty was swept
away, but the Act that svtcpt away the penalty declared,
that the repeal should not go ly,yend the penalties and
puniehments, and that it was still unlawful for any man
in this land to put in use any bull, writing, or inatru-
ment of the Bishop of Reme.—(Rear, hear.) lam
aware a quibble might bo raised on the construction
of these Acts, as to whether such persons could be pu-
mbhtd or not; but Ido not care much about that. The
law is clear that no one is permitted to do such things.
It is equally clear that, by the repeal of the Act so far,
it was intended to enable the Roman Catholic to put him •
self in communication, :as he was already: in communion
with the see of Rome, for it was said there was no use in
,granting to the Roman Catholics the free exercise of their
religion if they could not communicate with the head
of their church. Nothing could be more reasonable,
and, therefore, nothing that was necessary to enable
them to communicate will the head of their religion
could be objected to; that being the object of the repeal.
But that repeal does at the same time enact that nothing
in in the Act shall authorize any one to introduce or pub-
lish any instrument from the Bishop of Rome. That,
therefore, is the law now.—(Cheers.) Now I say that
law has been infringed; and though those pains and
these punishments aro no longer operative that were in-
flicted by the statutes of Elizabeth, yet there are punish-
ments that the law will inflict on those who disregard the'
injunctions cf the Legislature.—(Cheers.)"
Such is the opinion of confessedly the most accom-
plished lawyer of the day ; so that here is an end of
Cardinal WISEMAN'S boast, that be has done nothing
contrary to law. Indeed it would appear as if the
Cardinal and his advisers had of late themselves sus-
pected that they had been carrying matters rather
too far, for we have had recently put forth by the great
Catholic bookseller, DOLMAN, divers pamphlets, some
argumentative, some vituperative, some mere appeals
ad niisericordiam, but all founded upon what M.
EEOPOLD DURAS has so justly denominated the
Catholic sophism. " 'This sophism," says M. DURAs,
in the Paris National of Tuesday, " consists
essentially in demanding for Catholics, in the name of
equality, the liberty of preventing everybody else
from being free. This is monstrous ; but it is not the
filet absurdity that has made the glory of a man or
the fortune of a party." This is precisely the sophism
that runs through the arguments alike of the mani-
festo of Cardinal WISLMAN and of the speeches and
writings of his supporters. Having given us tolera-
tion,these
you are bound, say
gentlemen, not to pre-
vent our doing anything and everything that may tend
to the complete development of our religion, on pain
of infringing on the principles of religious liberty.
Not 60; the Stare is bound to secure to every religious
body perfect fiesdom of action, to far as that
frCedoin of action does not infringe upon the freedom
of action of any other person or body ; if it does so

infringe, then the State in defence of Equal religious

,
liberty is bound to interfere to prevent such develop-
ment. To take an example.] It,will be admitted that to
study Roman Catholicism in
_it3 utmost development

LON DON,

we must study it at Rome. Now we findthat at Rome
the POPE and the College of Cardinals, of which col-
lege Cardinal WISEMAN is a member, have re-estab-
lished the Inquisition, abolished by the Roman
Republic, and have absolutely prohibited the
celebration of Protestant worship in Rome ;
yet if Cardinal WrsEmax were to attempt
to do these things here, and they are both absolutely,
requisite to the perfect development of Roman Ca-
tholicism, no sane man would venture to contend
that it would be any greater infringement of
the principles of religious liberty to expel him
and his inquisitors from the realm than it is an
infringement of the principles of civil liberty to im-
prison a pickpocket or to transport a burglar. After
this exposure of the " Catholic sophism," and of the
manner in which Cardinal WISEMAN and his
coadjutors manage these matters at Rome, it

is mere blague on the part of the upholders of
Cardinal WISEMAN to talk about the principles of
religious liberty. We should like to hear from this
Prince of the Church an exposition of the principles
of religious liberty, as exemplified in the imprison-
ment of Dr. AcnILLI, and the prohibition of the cele-
bration of Protestant worship in Rome by himself
and his brother Princes of the College of Cardinals.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
NEWGATE AND MEADENNALL.
The general demand ruled ,very inactive at barely
stationary prices. Beef, from 2s Od to 3s 4d; Mutton,
23 4d to 3s 8d; Veal, 28 ad to 35 6d; Pork, 2s 6d to 4s
per 81bs, by the carcase.

MAY MAZZ.ETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 218 s to 31155; Clover,
31 Os to 41 Os ; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 9s per load.
Trade dull, at our quotations.
C ONDEELAND. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 17s ;
Clover, 31 Os to 410 s; and Straw, 11 1$ to 11 9s per load.
A moderate supply, and a steady demand.
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 15s;
Clover, 3/ Os to 4125; and Straw, 11 is to 118 s per load.
Supply good, and trade dull.
MEAT MAREETS.
SOUTHALL, DEC. 18.—Our market
,to-day was well
supplied with each kind of fat stock, in which very little
business was transacted, at barely stationary prices.
Beef from 3s to 4s Od; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 2d; Veal,
3s to 3s 6d; Pork, 3s.to 3s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offals.
ROMFORD, DEC. 18. —We have experienced an unusu-
ally dull trade here this morning on the following
terms:—Beef from 2s 10d to 4s Qd; Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d;
Veal. 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Pork, 2s 10d to 3s 8d per Sibs.
Suckling Calves 18s to 235; and Quarter-old Store Pigs,
16s to 20s each.

"'AMMAN, DEc. 18.—Even the primest stock, fit for
Christmas consumption, was very dull, and prices were
unusually low. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s
6d to 4s 4d; Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per 81bs.
ARUNDEL, DEC. 17.—Generally speaking, the trade
ruled heavy, at our quotations. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s;
Mutton, 3s 6d to 43 2d; Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs.
CHICHESTER, DEC. 18.—Our market is heavy, at
drooping prices. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s; Mutton,;33 4d
to 48 2d; Veal, 38 8d to 3s 10d; Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 6d
per 81bs; Quarter. old Sure Pigs, 17s to 20s each.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Wee:: ended Dec. 12, 1850, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in ENgland and Wales:
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. I BARLEY.' OATS. I RTE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
?RICE .. I 39s 9d I 24s 3d I 17s Id I Tos ild 127 s lid 29s 51
II DUT ES ON FOREIGN CORN.
wnEAT. I BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
Is Od Is Cd is Od , Is Od is Od Is Od
QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLI) IN TIIE PAST WEEK.
Wheat, 95,612:; Barley, 101,813 ; Oats, 18,730 ; Rye, 60 ; Beaus,
6,114; Peas, 1,683 quarters.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HOLY-
HEAD AND LIVERPOOL—The Electric Telegraphic Company
are now extending the telegraph from Chester to Holyhead,
and they purpose to make it available for the immediate
transmission of shipping intelligence to Liverpool, by a com-
bined working of the old system of semaphores and the elec-
tric apparatus. The subject has been laid before the Liver-
pool Dock Company, and is under their consideration. The
plan is to render the telegraph available in lieu of part of the
present semaphore communication along the coast, and the
following is the system proposed by Mr. Edwin Clarke, the
eminent engineer:—The present semaphore station at Holy-
head to be connected with the electric telegraph station in
that town, and the present stations at Celli Du and Point
Lynas being retained, but the semaphore at the Puffin
Island to be abolished. By this means signals received at
Point Lynas can be transferred to Holyhead, thence by elec-
tric telegraph to Liverpool. Instantaneous communication
between the two ports will thus be insured, and the delay
consequent on the bad position of the Puffin Island sema-
phore altogether avoided. It is likewise proposed that the
Ormeshead should be connected with the Conway station, to
which it is adjacent; the semaphore stations at Llysfaen
and Prestatyn to be abolished, but the one at Hilbre Island
to be kept in communication with Liverpool, as hitherto.
By this means signals from vessels at sea could be instanta-
neously transmitted to Liverpool from any of these stations.
The wires would have to be carried from the Chester and
Holyhead Railway to the Ormeshead and Holyhead sema-
phore stations.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES AT BERMONDSEY AND PECK-
HAM—Yesterday morning, between five and six o'clock, a
fire broke out in the Rose and Crown Tavern, Salisbury-
lane, Bermondsey-wall, which was attended with a serious
destruction of property. The premises belonged to Mr. Ladd,
a licensed victualler, and owing to the inflammable character
of the stock in trade the names travelled with such rapidity
that the various inmates had the greatest difficulty in effect-
ing a safe retreat. The engines of the parish and London
establishment promptly attended, but the flames by that
period had seised upon every part of the premises. Plenty
o water having been obtained the engines were worked with
full vigour for some hours, when the firemen at length suc-
ceeded in subduing the flames, but not until nearly every-
thing in the premises was destroyed and the building gutted.
Ihe total loss it is believed will exceed 1,0001. Fortunately
the owner was insured in the Monarch Fire-office.—A short
time previous to the above fire taking place another one hap-
pened in the premises of Mr. J. Leaning, fancy bread and
biscuit baker, in High-street, Peckham. The inmates having
been aroused, they succeeded in making a safe retreat from
the burning property. The engines of the pariah, West of
England, and London Brigade quickly attended, and the fire-
men having set to work they got the flames extinguished,
but not until considerable damage was done to the premises
and their contents. The origin of either fire is unknown.
The Court of Queen's Bench did not sit to-day.
TEE WEEKLY CURONICLE.—At Bow-street yes-
terday Mr. H. Doyle and Mr. Dillon were charged by Mr.
R. W. Russell, one of the proprietors of the Weekly Chronicle,
with an assault, arising out of the partnership disputes of
that paper. Mr. Doyle said he hoped the magistrate would
postpone the hearing of the case, as a mutual friend had for
some few days past been endeavouring to settle their dis-
putes in an amicable manner. Mr. Ballantine, with Mr.
Powell, the solicitor, attended on behalf of Mr. Russell, and
said they were quite willing to come to such an arrangement,
but it was understood to be quite independent of this charge.
Mr. Henry suggested the propriety of settling the partner-
ship disputes by arbitration. Mr. Ballantine said it could
not be done. There were matters which he could not state
in court that would prevent such an arrangement. His client
was quite willing that the paper should be sold, and after the
liabilities were settled, to divide the surplus money between
them according to the amount of capital laid out. Mr.
Henry said, if such an arrangement was made, they would
be as far off as ever. The only way to settle all the disputes
would be to obtain a rule of court, binding all the parties to
abide by the award of the arbitrator. If there was a diffi-
culty about the selection of the barrister to be the arbitrator,
he would mention one as a fit and proper person. Mr. Bal-
lantine said the magistrate's suggestion could not be
adopted. It was then decided that the summonses should
be adjourned until Saturday, the 23th inst.

THE BISHOP or LONDON AND MR. BENNETT.—The
public will be surprised to learn, after the correspondence
which has passed between the Bishop of London and Mr.
Bennett, and the circumstance of the two churches of the
latter having been closed last Sunday, by order of the
Bishop—that the Rev. Gentleman has changed his mind,
and maintains that he has not resigned at all. Within the
last two or three days several memorials from his congrega-
tions have been addressed to the Right Rev. Prelate, en-
treating him to compromise the matter, they assuring him
that Mr. Bennett will abandon whatever ceremonies in the
service of his churches the Bishop may disapprove of. Up
to the latest hour at which intelligence has reached us of the
state of matters, the Right Rev. Prelate is described as
being firm. Though there may be, we understand, a doubt
whether any of Mr. Bennett's letters can be construed into
a legal resignation, yet, we are assured, that the Bishop can
now, after the length to which matters have gone, have no
difficulty in getting summarily and entirely rid of his Ro-
manising " friend." In the present stage of the business,
it appears he cannot appoint any person as successor to Mr.
Bennett in either of his two churches.—Norning Advertiser.
Improbability and impossibility are two frightful
words to weak minds ; but, by diligent and wise men, they
are generally found to be only the excuses of idleness and
ignorance. Eliza Cook's Journal.

THE RECTORSHIP OF GLASGOW USIVERSITT.-
We are happy to be able to announce through the following
letter, received yesterday morning, that Colonel Mure has
resolved to give his casting-vote to Mr. Sheriff Alison, as
Lord Rector of the University. We understand that Princi-
pal Blacfarlan received yesterday a similar official letter,
which, however, cannot be published until it shall have been
laid before the Faculty. We may state, with reference to
one part of Colonel illure's letter, that there is no statute
which determines when the installation must take place. The
following is a copy of the Colonel's letter :
" Pisa, Dec 6, 1850.
"Sir—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 28th November, announcing to me that Mr. Macaulay
had declined availing himself of his privilege of the casting-
vote, on occasion of the equality of Nations in the late elec-
tion of a Lord Rector, and that the exercise of that privilege
devolves, by consequence, on me, as the Lora Rector imme-
diately preceding Mr. Macaulay.
"By the same post I received an official communication, to
the same effect, from Principal Macfarlan.
"In reply to my Very Reverend Friend, I stated that it
was my intention to be in Scotland in the course of the
month of February ; and that unless disqualified, as I was
not led to suppose would be the case, by this unavoidable
delay for the exercise of my ex-Rectoral functions, I should
consider it my duty, at the proper time and place, to confirm
by my decision that of the majority of members of the aca-
demical body in favour of Mr. Alison.
"I have the honour to be your very faithful servant,
" WILLIAM MIME.
"James E. Cumming, Esq., &c., &c., Glasgow College."—
Glasgow Consti:ution7l.

METEOII.—A brilliant meteor was seen from Wa-
terloo-bridge this inorning, about half-past one o'clock, pass-
.pg in a north-easterly direction.

RESIGNATION OF THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
C.II4NAIWONSIIIRE. —The Right Hon. Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby has resigned the Lord-Lieutenancy of the county of
Carnarvon. His Lordship has written a letter, addressed to
the magistrates of that county, stating his reasons for theim-
portant step which he has taken. It appears that ill-health
has prevented his Lordship residing at Uwydir, the family
seat in Carnarvonshire, and that his Lordship has found it
impossible to transact the business in a manner satisfactory
to himself,