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ALISON'S HISTORY of EUROPE.
I.
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had gone since she left England, 42,200 miles. Her
Commander, Aldam, has been twenty-seven years in the
service (twenty-five years of it afloat on foreign sta-
tions), nearly seven years a commander, six of which
serving afloat, and is now commanding one of the
smallest brigs in the service.
Al 0 CITALIT Y ON BOA RD THE DE FATIG ABLE.—The
following is an extract from a letter, from the Inde-
fatigable, 50, Captain Smart, K.H., dated Port Royal,
Jamaica, Oct. 14th:— _ _

sessed of equal civil rights with the rest of her Ma-
-1 jesty's Subjects, we are not to concede to them, but
acquiesce in their seizing, the further right .of deve-
loping to their natural and inevitable results the con-
stitutional tendencies of their Church, and, if so, at
what particular point of the development we are to
say, "You shall go no further ?" If the erecting of
a new episcopal hierarchy and the assigning to them,
to use the words of Dr. Wiseman, " a territorial
ecclesiastical jurisdiction without personal limitations"
—that is, without designating the persons over whom
such jurisdiction is to be exercised, ought net to ex-
cite any feeling in England, because it is only a
matter of the internal government of the Catholic
Church, where is this development to stop ? We
know from history that the infallible Roman Catholic
Church developed her internal government after this
fashion, till the world was astounded by the spectacle
of three Popes at the same time reciprocally excom-
municating each other; but the practical English
mind, which, being unversed in these holy mys-
teries, has never yet seen two persons claiming rival
episcopal jurisdiction over the same spot of English
land, is still disposed to ask, " If this be de-
velopment to your Church, is it not aggression on
mine ?"
HERALD.—The main drift and tenour of Dr.
Wiseriaan's "Appeal," is, of course, like Mr. Bow-
per's, to soothe and moderate the irritation naturally
felt by the people of England at the late Papal ag-
gression. And we readily admit, that all that adroit
and able men could he expected to do in such a case
they have done. Their misfortune, however, is, that
their whole case rests upon a fallacy —the fallacy of
which we spoke a few days since. "You have
tolerated our religion," says Mr. Bowyer, " ergo,
everything that we can show to be a necessary and
settled feature in our religion, you must tolerate alio."
"To say. that the Roman Catholic Church is not
illegal in her Majesty's dominions, and yet that a fun-
damental necessary doctrine of that Church is illegal,
would,be a gross and monstrous contradiction. If we
are ❑oy allowed by law to hold a doctrine, without
which we should cease to be Roman Catholics, it
obviously and necessarily follows that the law
does not permit us to be Roman Catholics at all."
Now see to what results this principle would lead
114. We tolerate, in one part of our dominions,
Ilindoos, and the Hindoo religion. Well, it is a part
of their religion to burn poor widows on the ashen of
their husbands. How, then, ou Mr. Bowyer's prin-
ciple, can we refuse to allow the smoking pile and the
human victim, wherever the priesthood may choose
to call for them ? Or, to come nearer home, im-
prisonment within convent- walls,—sometimes im-
prisonment in silent cells and dungeons, is a well-
known part of the Romish system. How, then, are
we to refuse to yield the poor fugitive to the power of
the Churcb, should one of these victims escape from
her confinement, and appeal to the law ? The truth
is, that Romanism is unfit for British soil, or for
liberty in any shape ; and it can only dwell among
freemen by greatly disguising itself. And therefore
the naked plea, " It is a part of our religion," will not
suffice. As we heard a sound and good lawyer ex-
claim, in answer to this plea,—" Well, if it is a part of
your religion to do that, it is a part of my religion to
hinder you." Nor, indeed, is this antagonism peculiar
to England. In many Romanist states the claims
of the Church are perpetually contested or denied
Hence the prohibitory statues in Austria and in
France. Hence the continual recourse to the ex-
pedient of a Concordat to adjust the jarring preten-
sions of the Church on the one side, and the State on
he other. So much for the main reliance of Dr.

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We have just returned from a cruise to Greytown,
or Juan de Nicaragua, and I am sorry to say that a
dreadful fever bas broken out on board. On the voyage
up we lost a man every day for six consecutive days, and
yesterday we sent 100 men aad four officers to the hos-
pital, which is now quite full with our men and those of
the Bermuda schooner, Captain Jolly.
" We left the Persian, 12, Commander Bullman, nt
Greytown, with 57 on her sick list, and three deaths.
She is to be relieved on Thursday by the Inflexible, 6,
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Gorgon, 6, Commander Paynter, is to leave the Pacific
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PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.-Sir Godfrey" Webster,
Bart.,.who recently paid off her Majesty's Steamer Tar-
tarus, after commanding her three years in the Medi-
terranean, is appointed by her Majesty's Government to
attend upon the officers of the Turkish ships now in this.
port, whO, under Sir Godfrey's escort, are about to visit
the chief national exhibitions in this country.
It is not true that Mr. W. F. Lew, Second Master of
her Majesty's ship 'D rrible, has been discharged the ser.
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to which they belonged.
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return to Devouport, and will call at Portsmouth on her

way round.
The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Frederick
Warden, left Portsmouth yesterday morning with the
intention of trying her speed after the recent alterations
made on board, and the addition of six guns to her ar-
mament, but a strong head wind prevailing et the time,
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station. When passing the measured mile she made the

distance, under the adverse circumstances, at the rate of
upwards of 8 knots per hour, and her average speed is
considered equal to 10,2- knots per hour. Her engines, of
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the greatest . satisfaction, making 20 revolutions per
minute, instead of 15, the number attained before the
recent changes in packing them and aff,xding full power
to their capabilities, and the additional weight being put
on board, which has added greatly to the efficiency and
better trim of a fine frigate originally constructed for
engines of 800-horse power. With 30 tons of powder on
hoard, and her ballast consisting of upwards of 2,000
shot and shells, the Retribution will bo welcome in the
Mediterranean.

Wiseman and Mr..Bowyer. As for their wretched
attempts to draw a parallel between the appointment
of a single Protestant Bishop for the Mediterranean,
or a Missionary Bishop for Jerusalem, and the inva-
sion of Protestant England by a Cardinal end twelve
Roman Bishops—the feeling of contempt for those
who can employ such arguments, renders it difficult
gravely to reply. England has a multitude of Pro-
testant subjects in Gibraltar, Malta, and other parts
of the Mediterranean. Of courseith. Wiseman and
his friends would prefer that England should leave
them to the mercy of the Romish priests of those
countries. But she does not choose wholly to do
so. She has various Protestant chaplains, and she
has at last sent a Protestant bishop. Who can say
that she has in the slightest degree overstepped her
plain duty, or at all interfered with the prero-
gative of any existing Government in that part
of the world ? As for Jerusalem, it belonged to no
' Christian state. It was wholly missionary ground,
and as such it had t wo or three bishops of various
churches. One for the Protestants was needed, and
one was sent. Who has any right to complain.?
As for the Government of the country, its consent
was first asked and obtained. What similarity is there
in these cases to that of England ? Romish bishops
we bad already,
,and no one molested them. Need
for alteration there was none. As to the plea of a
vast increase of Romanists, and consequent need of
more bishops, it is pure fiction. They chronicle their
converts, and they already reckon sixty-nine of our
clergy, and thirty students of our Universities.
Among our laity, especially of the middle classes, the
perverts may be reckoned by scores, not by hundreds.
But even if we were to allow them a gain of many
hundreds—nay, of two or three thousand—a most
excessive concession—within the last ten years,—what
is there in that gain to call for a new hierarchy, of an
archbishop and twelve bishops ? The simple truth is,
that the whole movement is aggressive. It is not set
on foot because England has become Popish, but in
order to make it so. Dr. Wiseman says that it is
strictly within the law. This we utterly deny. But
were it so, the same may be said of many crimes.
New offences against morals and religion are invented
In these days of movement; and we are obliged to
meet them by new provisos. In the present case,
however, we do not believe that any such new provisos
will be found necessary; many sound lawyers
having already declared, that the existing statutes are
NEWS.—It has now become incumbent
sufficient, if the Government will only put them in
force.
DAILY
y
and by his opinion aid in determining, upon what
terms we are to live politically with our Romap Ca-
tholic fellow-countrymen. For the last half century
and more, liberal men amongst us have entertained
but the one idea upon the subject, and directed their
efforts to the one aim, that of removing from the
Roman Catholics all those marks of inequality or
subjugation which were unfortunately, but inevitably,
imposed upon them, as the consequence of that great
struggle, in which Protestants made the principles of
constitutional and religious freedom triumphant over
absolutism of government and of creed. During the
half century's effort of the liberals of this country
completely to emancipate the Catholics, their prelates
and leaders, both here and at Rome, preserved, with
some Irish exceptions, a policy and demeanour cal-
culated to aid and strengthen that effort. Had that
policy and that demeanour been continued, English
and Irish liberals would have advanced to the com-
pletion of the great work by some equitable settlement
of the Church question in Ireland. Cardinal Wise-
man, however, and the present advisers of the Pope,
came to the opinion that the long, and brotherly, and
fruitful alliance, so long subsisting between Ca-
tholics and liberal Protestants, had endured long
enough. They do not want Protestant aid. They
mock at fraternity ; they fling alliance or conciliation
to the winds. A Papal bull, insulting to the nation,
to its history, its noble struggles, and its as noble
tolerance, is flung in the country's face. The most
lofty of dignities is created, and its titles assumed, in
the rudest possible defiance and discourtesy of a Queen
whose every act has been marked by liberality, kind-
ness, and conciliation towards the Roman Catholics,
their prelates, and their claims. And when this pro-
duces a national natural outburst, and a degree of in-
temperate indignation, unavoidable libeler such a
provocation, Cardinal Wiseman, who came in his own
wolf's clothing to provoke, puts on the lamb's for a
moment to expostulate, and inquire what is the matter?
In truth, we almost prefer the open insolence of the
Bull to the plausible and feline humility of certain por-
tions of the Appeal. The question, unfortunately, that
Protestants are now obliged to put to Catholics is, if we
struggle and succeed in placing you on an equality with
us, will you, in turn, consider us on an equality with
you? We believe that there is a large body of Roman
Catholics who would say, yes: and, as Protestants,
rebels,
no longer
we would desire but that one small and simple
affirmation.
We would sink every grudge, and
smooth away every difference. But the ultra-Mon-
tane Catholics, the Cullers and the Wisemans, do not
want any such fraternity, and will not tolerate any
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yesf
thew
themselves eßeformation
areheretics :
against
suchgreat equality.hn
errors,
w
hold, is looked upon by them as a crime ; and the
great struggle fur civil liberty bound up with that
religious protest, which has made this nation great
and free as it is, that is another heinous sin. The
aiehd n
Romanebl noble
t protest their
Catholics
object therefore of these political Romanists is to
undo all that we have been doing for the last two
centuries ; and as long as we aid them to equality,
they accept, that aid, but merely as a step towards
re-establishing their old superiority and ascendancy.
With English Catholics we might have equality and
ce But Dr. Wiseman tells us that, in his Ca-
pea •
tholicism there can be no " national church." The Gal-
ilean church of Louis XIV. and KV. in France ; the
Prussian Catholic Church, where education is secular

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—We have now before us, in the appeal
of Dr. Wiseman, which appeared in our columns yes
terday, and in the pamphlet of Mr. Bowyer, so fre-
quently referred to in the appeal, all that can be said,
or at least all that it is deemed prudent to say, in de-
fence, or rather in palliation, of the recent attack
upon the Established Church of England and the feel
ings and principles of her people. The question thus
raised is well worthy of our moat attentive considera-
tion. If we have pronounced an opinion against the
Pope and the Cardinal unheard, it has not been from
any wish to deny them fair play, but because they did
not condescend to give us any more tangible explana-
tion of their acts than was to be gathered from empty
gasconades and pompous manifestoes, the very sweep-
ings of a literary wardrobe now nearly worn out, and
never very tastefully selected. We congratulate Dr.
Wiseman on his recovery of the use of the English
language. If the popular demonstrations with which
the arrival of the new Cardinal, who has come with a
commission from Rome to govern half a dozen of the
dioceses of our Church, and some two of the kingdoms
of the Saxon Heptarchy, have not been all that was
agreeable in other respects, they have, at any rate,
as the Scotch say, brought him to his English.
s
We hear no more in " the Appeal" of the planetary
system either of Cullen or Copernicus ; Sims, planets,
sufferedandnoconfusion.is to
togreat remain
where
she
is
longer
or
discom-
fiture of the Continent, to revolve round the Eternal
City. The golden chain of St. Peter rings
no longer
in our ears, and the adjacent islands to the Doctor's
diocese, Thanet,
Dogs, and all, do
not once appear
above the horizon. Grateful for the relief from the
constant strain on our imaginative
faculties, we can
only express a wish that it were consistent with the
rules of orthodoxy and infallibility
that the Church
of Rome, as she has one Ileacit one faith, one code of
morality, one system of polities,
add to these multifariouswould be pleased to
unities the unity of language,
so that her advocates might be spared the necessity of
writing long arguments to
authorized documents 111, .. 3prove that lier public and
what they say. It' Dr. Wisemanmeant, as he and
Mr. Bewyer say he did, that he
us as a Dissenting minister, the he ad of a merelycame amongst
voluntary asso-
ciation, to manage the spiritual 4
scattered up and down England—if it was never affiirs of the Catholics
in-
tended to assume any rights save those which are
cheerfully conceded to a Wesleyan
in the name of common or a Baptist,why,
so ? And why is it only sense, could
dthe e net
unmistakeablehavesaid
response" of the people of England has shown him that
his inflated pretensions will tend but little to the glo-
rification or advancement of himself and his Church,
does he first inform us that counties do not mean
counties, but the Roman Catholics residing in them
—that England is not restored
-to the Roman Catholic
Church, but that her scanty Romanist population has
received a new form of government? It is because
the Roman Catholic Church
has two languages, an
esoteric and an exoterice—the first couched in the very,
terms of that more than mortal arrogance and inso-
lence in which Hildebrand and Innocent thundered
their decrees against trembling kings and prostrate
emperors, the second artful, humble, and cajoling,
seizing on every popular topic, enlisting in its behalf
every claptrap argument, and systematically employ-
ing reasoning, the validity of which the sophist him-
self would be the last to recognise. But let her speak
what language she will, the spirit of that Church is un-
changed ; pliable and ductile without, she is stern and
unbending within. Within her pale is salvation,without
is heathen darkness. The Greek,who differs from her in
thinking that the procession of the spirit was from
one person of the Trinity instead of two, is, according
to her, as far removed from salvation as the wor-
shipper of Vishnu or Siva. Claiming universal domi-
nion to be established, to the exclusion of all other
forms of faith, is an essential requisite of her ex-
istence. Toleration to others she bas ever regarded
as a crime—toleration to herself, theoretically at least,
as an insult. The commonly recognised distinction
between de facto and dejure is no distinction with her.
In her authorised documents whatever is not within
herself is treated as non-existent ; her language, her
logic, are all founded on this principle. 'Whatever is
not her own she absolutely ignores. The Pope em-
ploys the same style in constituting an Archbishop of
Westminster as in appointing a prelate of some petty
town of Latium. The existence of the Crown, of
the prelates, of the mighty people of England he can-
not acknowledge; all he sees is the land, a few
Roman Catholics scattered up and down it, and those
bishops among whom be divides it ; the rest to him
is nothing. It was much to have tolerated such
a church as this : it was much to have
extended to the Roman Catholics that toleration
which, it was well known, if they were true to their
faith, nothing but their weakness could render mutual.
It was a fiery trial to the spirit of toleration when it
was proposed to be extended to those who greedily
caught at thosb immunities to the principle of which
they are eternally opposed. Happily, and justly, as
we think, the principle of toleration triumphed, and
intolerance itself was tolerated, after the example of
Him who makes his sun to rise and his rain to de-
scend as well on the just as the unjust. But the Ro-
man Catholics are no longer content with toleration.
" True toleration and religious liberty," says Air.
Bowyer, speaking by authority, " consist in more
than the absence of persecution and the possession
of equal civil rights.' That something more the
Roman Catholic clergy do not ask from our gene-
rosity, but seize as their right, and the person
whose fiat clothes them with these rights is a
foreign Prince, having no diplomatic relations with
this country. The momentous question is thus
fairly raised whether, the Roman Catholics being by
their own confession free from persecution, and pos-

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ociety, which has for its
inefary system, has excited
in this district, particularly
grlcutists, who' are now beginning
to perceive that the real cause of their present de-
pressed state is to be attributed more to the currency
than they were aware of previously to the formation
of this society, whose exertions, as will be seen by the
report given below, have tended very much to inform
the agriculturists on the subject. The meeting was
attended by a highly respectable and intelligent class
of gentlemen residing in the town and neighbourhood.
Jam MEE, Esq., Retford, was unanimously called
to the chair, and briefly addressed the meeting, and
said it would be unnecessary in him to make any
lengthened remarks, as Mr. Twells, who bad recently
very ably expressed himself on the subject at Derby
and other places, would address them. He might
state that the country in general was very much in-
debted to Mr. Twells for bringing the subject so
prominently before the public, for doing which he
could have no other motive than a disinterested desire
to promote the welfare of the country.—(Hear.)
Mr. WILKINFON, the secretary, read the account of
the receipts and expenditure for the past year, by
which it appeared that a small balance remained in
hand.

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and free, and where no prelate can be chosen by
the chapter unless he be agreeable to the King—Car-
dinal Wiseman 'will have none of this. The new
rule of the Court of Rome is to grasp all it can, im- '
munity even from criminal and political jurisdiction
in Piedmont, and the same, no doubt, here, as soon as
there is power to demand it. Against such a political
sect as this—for ultra-Montane Catholicism is more
a political than a religious sect—it is the duty of the
State of England, even more than of its Church, to
make a stand. It is ordained by statute,
and supported by the law of nations, of
common sense, of national interest and pride,
superior and anterior to any statute, that no roreign
potentate shall have dominion in this country,
either to confer rank and dignity, or authority and
power. If the mortain law can be evaded, the weak-
ness of the death-bed taken advantage of to transfer
the property of landed gentry to an agent of the Pope
of Rome in this country—as we have shown to be
the case—it is for Parliament to look to it. If all
education is to be rendered null, and if colleges voted
by Parliament for the instruction of those who volun-
tarily repair to them, are to be denounced by the au-
thorities appointed in this country by a foreign court,
the same authorities can, in case of a war, take part
with a foreign enemy against us, and dissolve the
people from their allegiance. All these are the attri-
butes and characteristics of a political religion, and
though the State may have nothing to command or
prohibit in the way of dogma, it cannot suffer a poli-
tical imperium iu imperio. According to stone, all
these ditliulties and dangers may be met by :sepa-
rating Church from State, and by rendering the
Government above and indifferent to the dis-
putes and authorities of Churches. That may be
so, if the State retain the power of education, of
regulating the laws of marriage and bequests, of
monastic establishments, and of the temporal autho-
rity of vicars-apostolic. Bat in this case the State,
however separated from the Church, would have to
exercise a stern resistance to the pretensions of a poli-
tical church, as Dr. Wiseman, with one foot on
the Vatican, with French and Austrian influence
dominating there, and with another foot in Westmin-
ster, would exercise. Voluntaryism itself would not
tree the State from the duty of that kind of resistance
which we think imperative. We shall not follow
Cardinal Wiseman into his disavowal of the Queen's
supremacy, or into his pleading that by the establish-
ment of a heirarchy, with himself at its head by
virtue of the Pope's bull only, he has not broken any
statute. This will be for the law authorities to decide.
He asserts that all this Ras done by the deaire and pe-
tition of the Roman Catholic prelates and clergy.
We believe this to be the very reverse of the truth. The
Rcnnan Catholic prelates and clergy in E gland desired
no such thing. They desired local freedom and a na-
tional church, having for its spiritual summit the
authority of the Roman Pontiff, but not subj, cted to
the absolute control of a self-appoieted Roman agent.
The Roman. Catholic clergy in England ere as much
in Cardinal Wiseman's power, as ever Hungary was
in that of Haynau. They of course say noshing.
But the regime that has been established is as galling
to them as insulting to Englishmen. The differences,
however, between Dr. Wiseman and his clergy, Dr.
Wiseman and our law authorities, are not matters for
us to decide. It is for the Attorney-General to give
an opinion as to whether he has committed the breach
of a statute. What we complain of is, that he has
broken that tacit and longesutoistieg pact between
the great Liberal party in England and the Roman
Catholics throughout the empire. We thought
them, and still hope to find them, Englishmen.
But he would make them Romans, or Austrians,
or the intellectual serfs of tiny empire or ambitious
power that may happen to dominate in Central
Italy. It seemed wise and just to our Ministers to
abet and recommend the introduction of constitutional
government into the states of Italy, as the best way
of reconciling the interests of the Sovereign with the
spirit of the people. Not the Pope, indeed, but the
Austrian and Neapolitan cardinals, into whose hands
be has fallen, have thought proper to take umbrage at
our liberal advice. And they have entered in conse-
quence into a system of petty and personal rivalry and
retaliation, as despicable as it is unjust, impolitic, and
illiberal. As this absolutist party in Rome employed
Archbishop Franzoni to disturb Piedmont and create
embarrassment to all liberal Governments, so it has
sent iCardinal Wiseman hither on the same errand.
And we forthwith find him at loggerheads and per-
sonalities with our Ministers, just as Frar.zoni was
with Azeglio. Not all the sophistry of Cardinal
Wiseman can conceal these political moves, which we
shall not cease to resist and expose, far more as
Liberals than as Protestants.

The Rev. Mr. TWELLS stated that the amount al-
ready received for the current year was such as to en-
able the society to carry on its work, and at the same
time he reminded them that if that work were to go
on with energy, greatly increased means must be
placed at their disposal. He then read the following
REPORT.

" On the occasion of presenting their first annual re-
port, the Retford Currency Soeety beg leave very
briefly to review what has been done since the formation
of the society.
" At the time when the society originated with the
object of obtaining a revision of the monetary system,
it was stated that its practical operation would be to
circulate information on the subject of the currency, by
means of cheap publications; to promote lectures on the
currency, and to impress on our representatives in Par-
liament the importance of art alteration in the existing
laws.' In accordance with this declaration, the society
have issued various cheap and plain publications, of
which ablaut 15,000-have been circulated, tad these, rum
the communicetions received from different parts of the
country. have succeeded in awakening much interest on
the subject.
" The society obtained the valuable assistance of Mr.
Duncan, who delivered lectures on the currency at
Newark, Worksop, Lincoln, and Retford. At Lincoln
two very able lectures wore given on the same day to
large and attentive audiences. Public meetings have
since been held at Tuxtord (two), Rettord (two), Work-
sop, °Herten. Carlton in Linderic, Merket-Boewortb,
and Derby, at which addresses, explanatory of the so-
ciety's principles and objects. have been delivered by a
member of soci,ty, Mr Twells. These meetings, of
which reports have awared in various London and pro-
vincial papers, have called forth much attention to the
subject of the currency, and it appears from evidence that
cannot be doubled, that numbers of thinking men in all
part: of the United Kingdom are turning a serious con-
sideration to this important question.
" Tha committee take this opportunity to express
their thanks to the various organs of public intellieeoce,
t:special:y to the London .Sun and the Derbyshire
Courier, for the powerful and efficient assistance which
they have rendered.
Petitions to Parliament were unanimously adopted
at meetincs at Retford, Tuxferd, Worksop. and Oiler-
ton. To these petitions a considerable number of highly
re-pectable signatures were attached, and they were pre-
sented to the House of Commons by Lord Henry 13,11-
tinok and Lord Galway. A similar petition to the
House of Lords was presented by the Earl of Eglinton.
"In concluding this brief report the committee re-
peat the assertion that they have no parry or class in-
terest to serve. Their principles are clear and definite;
viz., gold at its market price, and paper currency ade-
quate in quantity, and safe and secure as to quality.
These principles of currency they advocate as the means
to an end, that end being the greatest possible happiness
of the grentut possible number, with the least
possible injury to the lca,t possible number of tbeir
feline-countrymen."
Mr. E. HoDGKINsox, of Morton Grange, moved,
" that the report be adopted, printed, and circulated,"
which was seconded by Mr. GEORGE JOHNSON, and
carried unanimously."
Mr.TWELLS then said,—Gentlemen, you have heard
the report, and can judge for yourselves whether, con-
sidering the dieneulties under which the advocates of
the currency cause labour, and the small means placed
at our disposal, the society has effected as much as
could reasonably be expected during the short time it
has been in existence. Undoubtedly a considerable
impulse has been given to the question of the currency
by the operations of the society. The report, I be-
lieve, dues not overstate the effect produced. I have
full opportunity of knowing that what has been done
at Retford has caused considerable exertions to be
made by the friends of a revision of the present cur-
rency system in every part of the country. There
is a feeling that the question must come before the
public, that it cannot be kept back ; and it rests, gen-
tlemen, with us to do the best we can, calmly and
deliberately, but energetically and liberally, to help
forward the cause. I have frequently been asked,
" Do you really believe that the farmers under-
stand this intricate and difficult question of
the currency ?" and I have answered —"I
have no doubt of it." I do believe that
many of the farmers really do understand the practical
bearings of the currency on their interests. Some of
the farmers may not have much respect for the
opinion of Adam Smith, but he had a great respect
for them. Speaking of husbandry, which he calls
" the great trade of the country," he says, " after
what are called the fine arts and the liberal profes-
sions, however, perhaps there is no trade which re-
quires so great an amount of knowledge and expe-
rience. The innumerable volumes which have been
written upon it in all our languages may satisfy us
that, amongst the wisest and most learned nations, it
has never been regarded as a matter very easily under-
stood; and from all these volumes we shall in vain
attempt to collect that knowledge of its various and
complicated operations which is commonly possessed
even by the common farmer, how contemptuously
soever the very contemptible authors of some of them
may sometimes affect to speak of him." Such was
Adam Smith's opinion when he wrote, seventy years
ago, and since then the farmers of England have
made a great advance ; they are now, to a great ex-
tent, an educated race of men, and they are becoming
something better than what is commonly understood
by an educated race, they are becoming thinking
men. Circumstances are forcing them to think
for themselves, to examine into the real cause of
their present depressed condition, and to search
out the must efficient remedy. I shall not
enter into the many causes which may be said, and
justly said, to contribute to the present agricultural
depression ; but I do say that the currency is one of
the most important of these causes. I say that tle
experience of the last 30 years has plainly shown that
the violent contractions of the currency have most in-
juriously affected the agricultural interest, and the
tenant-faruiers in particular ; and not only agricul-
ture, but productive industry in general, trade,
commerce, and the manufacturing interest have been
most severely dealt with, and, as a consequence, the
sufferings of the labouring classes have been, at times,
most heartrending and dreadful. I will take one
period, that of 1829 and 1830, because I have here, in
a pamphlet entitled "England in 1830," extracts
from a number of petitions presented to Parliament,
in which the condition of the people is described by
themselves. A gentleman who comments in Bell's
Weekly Messenger on a speech which I recently made
at Market Bosworth, says, " The most extreme agri-
cultural distress of 1829 and 1830 we hear of for the
first time from Mr. Twells." Now, I hold in my
hand extracts from petitions from nearly every county
in England, in which the depressed state of all classes
and interests in the country, and particularly of the
agricultural class, landowners, tenants, and labourers,
is described, and I have no doubt truly described, as
most deplorable. From the county of Suffolk, from
which the writer dates his letter, 16 petitions are
stated to have been presented, in which the
agricultural distress is portrayed in the strongest and
most decided language. In many of these petitions
the contraction of the currency' and the alterations in
the value of the circulating medium are stated as im-
portant causes of the ruinous state of agriculture at
that period. The lapse of time obliterates the re-
membrance of former suffering, and with it the cause
of suffering is forgotten, and its removal ceases to be
an object of national interest. But I trust that this
writer, as he appears to think that some • alteration is
required in the law by which the 'Bank of England
is obliged to buy gold at a fixed price, and to eon-
tract its issues when gold is withdrawn, will give to
the subject of the currency an attentive considera-
tion, as I am persuaded that it will be found that
this question has a most important influence on the
condition of agriculture.:Now, let me trace the effects
of a contraction of the currency on all the industrial
interests of the country. Let us see how it works.
In consequence of the withdrawal of specie from its
coffers the Bank resolves to contract its issues, and
ceases to discount bills and make an advance on secu-
rities ; the other banks immediately do the same, and
the supply of the circulating medium is thus dimi-
isbed. Merchants and traders contract their orders
as much as possible, whereby the demand for goods of
every kind from the manufacturer d;delines. Mills
begin to work half time, and are tl,en closed. Fur-
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POST.—The much ;looked-fur manifesto of Car-
dinal Wiseman is now before the world; and it is
from this Englishmen have to learn the best that can
be said in defence of the recent act of the Pope to-
wards this country. The Cardinal must have a bad
opinion of the understanding of our countrymen if he
supposes that he has any chance of deceiving them by
an eloquent statement, which but faintly alludes to
that which lies at the root of the question ; which
simply passes by every legal and political argument
urged by the whole press of England, as "clamour,"
devoid of all reason ; and tells us that we have been
stirred up by our bigoted clergy (who yet have lost
all hold on our respect) to a mere interested outcry
against a harmless and oppressed race, the loyal Ca-
tholics of England and the meek martyrs of Ireland,
who bear it all without as much as a complaining
word ! England will yet tell Cardinal Wiseman
that she knows what she is about, better than he sup-
poses. We have our own way of viewing and stating
this great national question, and we shall not cast it
away for the Cardinal's. We believe that this venture-
some prelate is born to work out the fact that Popery
of the ultrarnontane school is utterly incompatible
with the progress of civilisation in Europe, or the
existence of good civil government anywhere. But
let him state his own case. We pass over, for the
present, the numerous topics demanding exposure—if
he be not hardened against a mere moral infliction of
that kind.—and we put the pith of the matter in his
own few words before our readers, that they may see
the paltry dilemmas in which these cunning ecclesias-
, ties, the Cardinal and his friends, imagine they have
caught this great nation :—" You cannot make a law
(he says) that Catholics shall only be governed by
Vicars-Apostolic, which would be acknowledging
directly the Pope's power in this realm (which the
Protestant bishops under oath cannot do) ; still less
can you proceed to forbidding them to have bishops
of any sort, which would put them back into a worse
position than they were in during the operation of
the penal laws. Any step backward is a trenching
on the complete toleration granted us." So
the conclusion which we are required to de-
duce from this passage is, that we have com-
mitted ourselves, by our foolish generosity, to
anything which may, under the cover of " spiritual "
pretences, be attempted by the priests of Rome !
With unmatched effrontery, we are told that we have
admitted practically the Papal power among us, and
" for better or for worse," we now must needs have it.
Our " liberal" concessions of former years are
calmly quoted as tying us to results which were
deemed impossible at the time, and the suspicion of
which was said to be utterly unworthy. What was
then proffered with English sincerity is to be now
levied and demanded with more than Italian craft.
The Cardinal, in plain words, puts us to this—
" Roman Catholics are now absolute subjects of the
Pope. We give you no option. You shall admit us
RS Ultramontanes, or not at all; persecute us again,
if you dare! but if not, the Pope shall absolutely
govern his dioceses and counties' in England and
Wales, in all spiritual things,' and give no account
of his matters." We put it to the calm judgment of
our readers, that the time is now fully come to try
this question :—Whether such an amount of power as
the Pope arrogates—the Pope of De Maistre, and not
of Bossuet—is compatible with any government on
earth ? We ask whether, if England is not to be as
disorganised and demoralised as all Europe, this " spi-
ritual wickedness in high places" must not be put
under a sterner restraint than statesmen has yet con-
templated? A religion which binds all its subjects
to obedience to one man, and that man a foreign priest
—a religion which holds all its members by secret
and compulsory bonds—a religion which is, in fact, a
most exactly organised social system, a political com-
bination, is something more than a religion, and must
be dealt with as something more. Such is Romanism ;
a most formidable combination in any country, and
the more formidable the more free. Such is Ro-
manism ; and it has pledged its absolute allegiance to
the Pope, who will wield it at his will. The sophis-
tries of this Jesuitical " appeal,"
.by which the laity of
England are to be cajoled at the expense of their
clergy—Anglican laymen, according to Cardinal
Wiseman, being all just, and generous, and manly,
and fair ; and Anglican clergymen all full of avarice,
; uncharitableness, and venom, must be laid hare with
no sparing hand. Oar social system is at stake, as
well as our " Coustitution."

TILE GREAT FIRE IN MARK-LANE.--A large
number of labourers have been employed for several weeks
in extricating from the ruins a vast quantity of goods.
Fifty tons of Russian bristles, about ten tons of horsehair,
half a ton of sugar, eighty, tons of gums, a large quantity of
brass, oils, horn tips, and many tons of iron work, such RS
cranes, chains, scale beams, hydraulic presses, *Tights
army accoutrements, a great number of rifle!,
other implements of warfare; Are aMenr.`
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