The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-06 00:00:00

THE POPISH AGGRESSION.

MEETING AT FREEMASONS' TAVERN.
A large public meeting of the laity of the Establishep
Church was held 3 esterday afternoon, at the Freemasons
Tevern, for the purpose of addressing her Majesty on
the subject of the recent Popish aggression. The meet-
ing was convened for one o'clock, but long before that
hour the large room of the tavern was densely thronged,
while the galleries were filled with well druesed Ladies.
The chair was taken shortly after ore o'clock, by the
Right Honourable Lord Ashley, M.P. The requisition
and advertisement calling the meeting having been read,
and the Divine blessing invoked upon the proceedings of
the day,
The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting as his Pro-
testant brethren of the Church of England, declaring
that the exigencies of the time rendered it imperatively
necessary that he should use that distinctive epithet
when he was speaking to the lay members of the Es-
tablished Church. The meeting was . convened to de-
nounce the aggressive proceedings of Rome. The laity
was as much a part of the Church as the clergy and
the bishops, and therefore it was their duty, as it was
their priviieee, to protest against this flagrant violation of
her rights and liberties.—(Cheers.) The Bishop of Me-
lipotamus had openly and publicly declared to the world
the opposition raised up against the invasive influence
of the Vatican originated in the interested motives
on the part of the clergy of the Church of
England, and it was for this meeting to
tell him that he was not only mistaken,
but that he had been guilty of an impudent and fla-
grantly untrue assertion.—(Cheers.) He for one was
astounded at the impertinence of the feeble old man who
was recoenized and known as the Pope of Rome. The
coercer of his own miserable people, supported on his
throne by foreign bayonets, and the oppres-
sor of man all over the world, had dared
not only to invade the right of England's So-
vereign, but had gone the length of insulting her people
by attempting t, force an obnoxious hierarchy upon
them.—(Cheers.) This misguided man would find, how-
ever, that the movements of himself and his agents
would be resisted step by step and inch by inch, and
though his bishops and cardinals might be allowed to
remain in the land, they should never be recognis*d.
It was urged against these who took up the defensive
position. that there was nothing to fear in this aggres-
ion. What was there iu a name? it was said—
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
But there was more than a mere hollow-sounding title
involved in this Popish movement. Give the emissaries
cf the Vatican the names, and they would not long be
without the territories and powers of bishop and arch-
bishops; and not even the right of calling themselves
nicknames ought to be conceded to them. Not that he
wished to coerce any body or sect. He wish d not to
return to the days of bills of pains and penalties, or
disabilities acts, but they were now arrayed against a
power which extended toleration to no one. The Church
of Rome was oppressive and intolerant, and it was be-
cause it was so that he was prepared to resist its inroads
upon the civil and religious liberties of
Englishmen. The very principles of the Roniish
Church were incompatable with anything even
approaching civil or religious liberty, and
he therefore hoped the country would not abra,,e one jot
or tittle of all that their forefathers won for them.—
(Cheers.) The Pope held himself responsible to no
earthly power—a doctrine which ought not to be tole-
rated, let alone recognised, in this free and civiliz'd
nation, and the proceedings of his pretended
bishops must be resisted to the lase—(Cheers.) So
much for the external evils that threatened Protes-
tantism from without. Now, let him glance fur a mo-
ment to the dangerous enemies who were concealed
within.—(Cheers.) No one could hold these personages
in more :abhorrence than he did. It was to them that
they were indebted for this aggressive movement
of the Pope; but before the excitement subsided
he hoped they would be driven from the posts they so
unworthily occupi,d in the Established Church.—
(Cheers.) God forbid that the election should ever
become necessary; but, for his part, he should sooner
worship with Lydia on the banks of the river than
pray with a hundred surpliced priests in St.
Barnabas Church.—(Cheers.) To avert such an evil
as that they must petition her Majesty to put the con-
stitutional law of the laud in force to cleanse the Church
f her insidious enemies, and he trusted the meeting
would be unanimous in attaining this end.—(Cheers.)
Captain Sir EDWARD PARRY proposed the first resolu-
tion, and declared his conviction that if Protestantism
had only to contend against Rome in the present struggle
it would have nothing to fear.—(Cheers.) But there
were sinister enemies eating the very bread of our Pro-
testant Church, and using her pulpits for Popish pur-
poses, from whom they had much to fear.—(Cheers.) Po.
pery itself was a phantom, based upon a lie, which was
originally concocted to enslave the minds and endanger
the souls of men, and they need not be alarmed at its
spreading in England if its advancement were left solely
to the influence of Roman Catholic countries. But
there were Tractarians engaged in promoting Popery.
True, they denied the supremacy of the Pope, but like
Archbishop Laud, they wanted to be Popes in their own
dioceses.—(Cheers.) They had, therefore, been called
together to tell the Pope that, whether at St. Peter's or
St. Barnabas, that they would not have Popery in
England, but were determined to rid themselves of the
foul pestilence which the Vatican had impudently
landed upon our shores.—(Cheers.) The Gallant
Captain concluded by moving the following resolution:—
" That this meeting has witnessed, with the deepest
indignation, the recut act of the Bishop of Rome, who,
in defiance of her Majesty's prerogative, has presumed
to parcel out her Majesty's dominions into provinces
;sad dioceses, filling them with his nominees, and invest-
ing the holders thereof with territorial titles, assailing
cons the independence achieved by our forefathers at
the glorious Reformation, and aspiring at the establish-
ment or a power not permitted even in the darkest pc-
rinds of the middle ages."
Mr. O'MALLEY, Q.C., seconded. tho resolution, and
re minded the meeting of the great responsibility which
it had taken upon itself. It would not do to leave that
hall under the impression that all the work had been
done; nor ought they to ti el that they were engaged in
an exciting pary movement, so much as in a step which
should serve to extend the glory of the Deity and
our Ssviour.—(Loud cheering.) He recognised no
fine-drawn distinction between policital and spiritual
supretney. The Queen, since she was the head of the

at noughi, and it was the duty Of the Government to
vindica,e the ore and proVxr the otht.r.—(Cos.)
Mr. Wm. LOCKE s,conded the,, reso)utiop, and Er,iti if
Parliatnpnt did not take up this ciATter vi,:;or4,ll,jy and
send the cardinal and his bishops back to Rowe, it
would he the duty of th(: Qapen to disolve it.

speakers, wait put and carried unanimously.
The resolution havitig
A memorial To the Throf.,e based upon the fireving
teen supuorterl by several
resolutions was sclopiei, and !•tilliks nqvine, b,.,cci voted
to the Noble Ch4irman. the frie•trg hrnke up.

FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1850*

cated beings, which would enabb, thew to distinguish
between an astutely trading religion, and an honestly
philanthropic one ? But this cannot be done in a day,
even if we knew bow to set about it, and until this
has b: en done, Mr. Roebuck must permit us to take

precautions—precautions, not savouring of persecu.
two ; and he must permit us to express fears—sensi•
ble, rational, well grounded fears—of the parti,,'
succPssess of a retrogude religion amongst us, whilst
we contain those most legitimate fears, both with re-

spect to sentiment and to language, within the fairer.
bounds of tolerance.

PROPOSAL to CROSS the ATLANTIC

will' A BALLOON.

Early in the year 1843 Mr. John the American
aeronaut, issued a proclamation announcing his intention
~f crossing the Atlantic Ocean with a balloon, in the
summer of 1844; but as Mr. Wise himself was not pos-
sessed f pecuniary means to attempt the voyage, he
peti'ioned Co, gress for assistance, but which up to the
present time he has not been able to obtain.

Several scientific gentlemen, c,nvinced of the prac-
ticability of the scheme, have lately urgcd Mr. Wise to
renew his petition to Congress for aid in the matter,
which he has determined to do by their aseistauce. If
he is still unsuccessful, Mr. Wise will endeavour to
c..rry it through with his own resources.
From an experience of a number of years in the prac-
tice of aeronautics by Mr. Wise, it has been fully de-
monstrated that 'here exists in the atmosphere a constan%
current of wind, moving from west t east, with a velocity
of from 20 to 60 miles an hour, according to its height
from the earth. From the advantages continually at
hand from the local currents of air, it is quite feasible
(he observes) to travel eastward with a velottity that will
circumnavigate the globe in 30 or 40 days, with an
bility to vary from a straight course 30 or 40 degrees
from the latitude of departure, which would enable us
,o leave dispatches in Europe and China, and return by
way of Oregon territory to Washington city. This has
been demonstra'ed by experiments made by Mr. Wise,
in reaching points 60 and 90 miles distant from the
place of departure, with a precision not surpassed by
ship sailing, aided by the local currents in varying from
the great eastward current. Mr. Wise observe," What
if I do get a le?, degrees north or south of latitude of
departure; it will at least be a beginning which will not
end there."

Ton or fifteen thousand dollars is the sum required
by Mr. Wise for this experimental outfit, and so confi-
dent is he that the thing will be effected, that he asserts
that it will be done just as certain as steam followed
horse power.

it intolerant? What penalties does it seek to in- 1 TENNANT C. PAL3VER (CLERK).
fiat, what persecution does it demand ? It has 1 In this case Mr. Net,o,.:, Q. 0., a-id Mr. T. Jones a1)-
ff, and t: r. IVilles tor the defend t.
stirred up certainly orators and writers to utter their peered tor the plaintiff,
opinions of the dangers of Roman Catholic progress , 'Nis was art acAort for a breach of contract or indem-
and ascendancy. But who provoked them ? And if
nity, arisin,,. out of the )nll-, wil,g circuan,tanc,s: \less; S.
;
the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church at Rome All"l4n' the pianoforie makers, in 1845 mortgaged some
property in Wardour-strea, Berner,orret,
and in this country have provoked it, what great cult leasehold property
o, and ti:e4rtrotionoitixtures, to the deenchnit, who is a yler-
ro/son have they to complain that Protestants express
rnior"t--,i,,,n :.„;.,
the_e
~raeumrii,the pf2a.iiniff was under-,CTI:.Lt of
their fears, :state their convictions, and frankly kvow eesnt oe .
t.,...tsrsbr,sil. Allison.t_
their aversion to the principles, the forms, and ten- thep di fend asst brought '
dencies of a religion, the most illiberal and intolerant ' Allisou and the plaintiff as 'tenant in p'sts-sicnnor). sirs.
on record. Mr. Roebuck tells us that Protestant arrangement was, however, effected, in pursuance of
fears are groundless, that the Catholic Ppropagandists which the proceedings were stayed, the defendants
who come amongst us use but the weapons of per- agreeing to deliver up possession of the pri-mises in
suasion, and appeal merely to reason. But of what June, 1849, and to pay 501. in discharge of all rent and
costs. The money was paid, but before possession was
value is the reasoning of an uneducated multitude?
Wvered up the superi , a r. ell,e have millions in our very streets of the utterly
de
tr liained for 65/. rent, anor landlord M
d seizA three piano Gosnfortes3, said
ignorant, the hopelessly destitute; we have a popula- to be worth 1501., the property of Mr. 'Pennant, the pre-
tion of children in intellect, just the population that s,2nt plaintiff. On the part of the plaintiff it was con-
would fall down and worship the large hat tynded that a part of the arrangemet,t entered into was
and red stockings and the gilded couch I that the derendant should pay the rent duo to the sti-
of a Cardinal. And we have a half-educated upper perior landlord, wilich the defendant donicd. The at.
class, many of whose members have disinherited rorneys fa. the reweetive parties were called, and gave
their offspring, in order to endow a Church, one ele- their respective accounts of What the arrangement w2.s.
ment of whose greatness is successful mendacity and Ills LORDSHIP loft it to the jury to say what was the
extortion. Mr. Roebuck will say, why not educate? arrarwernent entered into, and if they found for the
Why not, indeed ? Why not raise the Irish helot, plaintiff they must estimate they.alue of the pianofortes.
the hewers of wood, and drawers of water in our great D The jai,. found a verdict for the plaiutit£
metropolis,ama be s, 77/.
to that rank amongst rational and edu-

JONES V. HUTCHINSON.

This was an action upon u conkract to manuraffure a
number of dry gss meters, br:•ught to recover 2771. The
defendant, except as to 141 •L,. 7tid. paid into court,
pleedei that he was not _

Mr. Sergeant Wiikins and Mr. Hawkins appeared for
the pLin'itf, and Mr. Chamb,rs, Q. 0., auu Mr. Maynard
for the defendant.

It appeared that the plaintiff is an engineer and ffa,-
fitter, and had been employed by the def naAnt in 1845,
who is a dirt-ctor of a number of gas companies and act-
ing manager of the London Gas Company, and also the
inventor 01 a dry gas-meter called the aerometer, to ma-
nufacture aer,,meters for him, telling him he could un-
dertake to supidy him with orders to the extent of
3,0001 a year. The plaintiff accordingly commenced
their manufacture, and hr a short time was paid by the
defendant. The defendant, however, told him it must
not be known that he, as tnatisiger and shareholder of the
London Gas Company, was supplying other comp,nies
with aerometers, arid he must cnarge the companies to
whom they were supplied. The plaintiff continued to
manufacture these machines, and procured a large quan-
tity of materials tor the purpose, when the defendant
called and told him that no more were wanted. The
plaint IT then applied for pa) meat of the materials and
wok b,-stowed on those he was manufacturing, but the
defendant refused to pay, and the plaintiff was com-
pelled to commence the pr,:sent action.
. _ _

For th,- def uce it cunt,•nd::d that the defendant
had given the orders to the plaintiff as agent only of the
several.companies of which he was a directir.

The jury fuuud a viadici, tor tha plaintiff—Damages,
1501.

POLICE IN TEL LI GENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. James Freeman, a master milkman and cowkeeper
at Dalsten, was ‘ctierged before Mr. Henernill, at the in-
stance of Mr. Thomas, secretary to the Society fir the
Preventi.ei of Cruelty to Animals, with the following
wanton brutality to a dog, the property of a gentleman
named Avery, residing in Marein-street, Haggerstone.
Mrs. Caroline Avery stated that while crossing the
street opposite ber own house on the morning l.f the
26th tilt. to give her dog, which was a small spaniel, an
airing, the icL findant, who was accompanied by a large
and powerful brown dog, passed her, and while doing so
the spaniel run towards the defendant's dog, apparently
to play with it; the instant it got nigh the defendant, he,
evetnout its doing anything that could cause him offence,
in the most vindictive and spiteful manner, raised his foot,
and dealt it such a violent kick in the side that
its haunches dropped, and it limped away upon three
yelling in extreme agony from the injury it had
sustained. Upon raising the animal in her arms, she
found that the bone of one of its thighs had been
snapped in half, and on her husband coming out and
remonstrating with the defendant upon his wanton
cruelty, he said it served the dog right, as it had flown
at him and torn his trousers ; but this she could
positively swear was a falsehood, as she had been a wit-
ness to the whole occurrence, and even if' a contest had
ensued between the doge it must have been to the disad-
vantage of hers, as the defendant's was much larger and
more powerful.
Mr. Charles Avery corroborated his wife's evidence,
and stated that the spaniel was a remarkably quiet and
playful animal, and was so great a favourite with his
family, from its good temper and inoffensive habits, that
though its real value might not perhaps he more than
about 205., he would not have parted with it for any re-
munera:ion; but it endured such agony from its broken
thigh, which it was impossible to cure, that he was
obliged to have it killed.
Mr. Heritage, who appeared for the defence, ad-
dressed the magistrate on behalf of his client, stating
that the spaniel had flown at and annoyed him, and
that the kick he had consequently dealt it was for his
own protection; and called a man named Smith, ei
woodcutter, at Dalston, to confirm this statement; but
his evidence was of so unsatisfactory a character, that
Mr. Gamine. expressed his total disbelief in it, and
after characterising the defendant's conduct as an in-
stance of barbarous cruelty, which was wholly without
justification, said he did not consider he should be doing
his duty if he did not impose upon him the full penalty
of 40s. for his hrutelity to the dog, t• g• their wish 20,
more, which was sworn to he the value of the hnitud,
or, in default, he must st end committed w the House of
correction for fourteen days.
The defend ant demurred to the decision, but, after
being locked up in the cells, ultimetely paid the 31., awe
was thereupon liberated.
LAMBET.q.
Mrs. Ann Scanlan, alias Taylor, alias Jathon. alias
[card, a middle-tieed woman of reepectable uplearance,
rho d• scribed berseif ken the widow of a gentieman for-
merly well known in the lierary world, was placed et
the folun's bar before Mr. Norton for further examina-
tion on various criaree a of shoplifting, when the court
was crowded with her victims, and pawnbrokers, and
their assistants with the property.
Garford and another constable belonging to the L
division of police, who have the case in hand, informed
the magistrate that since the prisoner's last examination
they hail discovered upwards of seventy black silk necker-
chiefs at different pawnbrokers, where they had been
pledged by the prisoner, but, the private marks having
been removed, the persons from whom they had mien
stolen were unable to identity them. Upwards of twenty
drapers in oifferent parts of tee metropolis identified the
prisoner as having given them a call, and her mode of
proceeding at 4 ash shop was pr cisely the same. She
gave an order for she same description of articles
generally shirts, socks, and ono black silk neck: rchief,
anti in ,•e'ecting the letter article she managed to secrete
the remaining portion of the piece about her person.
Three c!eareaes were select d irom among the number,
and in these the evidence was taken, and the prisoner
was committed fur trial on rash.
A City offic-r deposed ih it he was present at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court 012 the 12th of September last, when
the prisoner was tried and convicted of stealing a book,
" The Church Service," and sentenced to one month's
imprisonment.
It was also stated that the prisoner had been in cus-
tody in the early part of the month of August last, at
Marlborough•street Police-court, on a charge of stealing
five silk handkerchiefs, but though the evidence was
quite conclusive of her guilt, the prosecutor, on account
of her representations as to her former position, &c., de-
clined to press the charge, and she was allowed to go
about her business. Th case, however, is so concla•
sive, that Mr. Norton felt it to be his duty to direst tee
constable to have the prosecutor, Mr. Thomas Bastery,
of 208, Regent-street, to be in attendance at the next
examination, and the prisoner was.again remanded until
Thursday next. Besides this wholesale system of shop-
lifting, the prisoner tried her hand at begging letter-
writing, and among the letters found at her lodgings
were the following:—
" Buckingham Palace, June 2.5, 1847.
" Mr. Anson begs to acknowledge the receipt of Mrs
Scanlan's note, and to acqoaiut her in reply that at Mr
Scanlan's death he sent lot, towards the expense of his
funeral, and regrets he caunot do any more."
" Osborne, July 26, 1850.
" Lieutenant-Coleni 1 Phipps ties received the corn
mends of his Royal Highness Prince Albert to inform
Mrs. Scanlan that the very numerous aoplications fir
pecuniary assistance must prevent compliance with the
request contained in her letter of the 24th inst."
" Marlborough,house, May 12, 1848.
" um c mmandtd to acknowledge the re•
ceipt of your letter eddreeti d tai the Queen D .wager,
stating your ease, arid soliciiing her assistance, and to
convey to yr it the expression of her Majesty's regret at
being preveritel, by the numerous and urgent de r'ant's
daily male upon her bounty, from complying with tie
prayer of your petition.
"1, have the honour to be, Madam,
"Your most obedierit servant.
"R. S. BEDFORD."
Mr. Solomons, who attended on behalf of tine pri-
soner, applied for his client being admitted to bail, on
the ground of ill health, but 7eir. Norton refused the ap-
plication, and said that at least for the present he could
not entertain it.

RAILWA V SHARE MARKETS
BliNToi,, DEC. 5.
STOCE EXCHANGE. —The market was more active' to-day,
and prices had an upward tendency. The transactions
reported were—Bristol and Exeter, 73114—Great Western,
73%—Midland, 43:Y4—York and North Midland, 23',714.
id vVV L Dao. 5.
tirocir E VCR/OTC/Z.—The share market was steady all day,
and closed firmly. The transactions were as follow :
Birkonhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 1.:19. dis.— Chester
and flo!yhead, Preference, guaranteed 51,2 per cent., 1-0 A
East. Lancashire.l/_llitto, Prt,feraennace,y,Qoudalsrhteirrse,,7•k
—Ditto, eitths, I- p.- Lancashire
Con-
solidated, 5134 —Ditto, Fifths, 7:34 dis.—Ditto, 201.. F
Shares, OA dis.--Ditto, Preference, 6 per cent., 13 —Ditto,
Filt!is (West Riding Union), 644 dis. London and North-
Western. 120 - Ditto, New Quarters, 2 15-16 p. Dire,
Fifths, 3X p.—Macchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 2414
—Ditto, Preference, 944„—Matlock and Midland, :13a dis
Midland, 4.41, —Ditto, Halves, 21 dis —North BritiSh, Pre-
ference. 4 % —North Union, P. and ‘v. (go. 1)... 42
Shrew.shury , and Birmingham, 9/. 12s. 3d. (B), 414—South,
StaffOrdabire, di&—York, Newca.stle, and Berwick
teriaion, SA dis -- York and North Midland, 23%—Newry
aud. i,VaT,,rompoint, 4t/. •
1,91 .n. I).gc
4114
MINNITAM
,:IkiiiTOCLI"EXCIII4III3X. e transmit ions ,io':ifftfiy7wTteere.(lscs!, €Ol7
low :—London and North-Weston:44;Np* Qua•
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6% dis.—Beath ST:a7-
fordshire, 3 dis.

YORK, DEC. 4.
STOCK EXCHANQX.,—The transactions to-day were as