The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-26 00:00:00

THE MAYNOOTH. BILL.

The Committee of the Anti-Maynooth Dissenters'
Conference have requested us to publish the follow-
ing address to the Catholics of Ireland. We pub-
lish many things of course of which we do not
approve, and this is one, but we give it as a document
issuing from a body of religionists, possibly with the
hope of making an impression on others of a different
persuasion. What chance is there, however, that it
will make the slightest impression ? The Catholics
are naturally highly indignant at the hostility dis-
played against their religion by the English Dis-
senters, and will look upon this admonition as only
adding mockery to insult. They have approved of
the Maynooth Bill to a man, they regard it as a proof
that a Tory Government means to consult Irish in-
terest*. The only real opposition made to it is by men
who denounce their religion as damnable and idol-
atrous, and though the party that recognises John
Burnet as a leader may disclaim such vile accusations,
they are too much mixed up with the enemies of Ire-
land to be regarded as impartial monitors :

ADDRESS TO THE ROMAN CATHOLICS
OF IRELAND,

FROM THE CONFERENCE OF PROTESTANT DISSENTERS
HELD IN CROSBY-HALL, LONDON, ON MAY THE 20TH
AND 21ST, 1845.

Fellow Subjects,—There are crises which occasionally
occur in national history so momentous as to warrant a
departure from all the ordinary methods of political
intercourse, and to justify an appeal, not to individuals,
however distinguished, nor to any isolated bodies of men,
brit to a nation at large; such a crisis, in our deliberate
judgment, has now arrived, and we therefore feel that in
embracing it no further apology is necessary.
You are placed by circumstances, the origin and
growth of which it is unnecessary to trace, in a position
so conspicuous and so critical as to attract towards you
the anxious attention of all patriotic men in these realms,
and of the liberal and thoughtful throughout the civilised
world. On your conduct at the present juncture, the
mightiest and most sacred interests are suspended, and
with you, under divine Providence, rest those issues
which are destined to give a completion, for an indefinite
period, to the history of this empire. Your fidelity to
the great principles of justice must inevitably promote
its peace, prosperity, and freedom ; your betrayal of
them will necessarily be the omen, at least, of their tem-
porary disaster and defeat.
You will not suppose that, professing as we do the
principles of civil and religious freedom, we are instiga-
ted in our present appeal by a desire to cajole you into
any intermission of your efforts in the great cause of
justice to Ireland. We highly appreciate her resources ;
we deeply sympathise with her wrongs. We have ever
advocated her claims, and we have long admired the pa-
triotic zeal of her people to achieve, by peaceful means,
the restoration of her unquestionable rights. You need
not to be reminded that the Dissenters of England
were among the warmest supporters of the Catholic
Relief Bill ; that they heartily advocated the equal ex-
tension of political privileges to the Irish as to the Eng-
lish people ; that they supported the claims of your
country to an equal share in the benefits of Municipal
Reform; that they rejoiced in the abolition of your
Vestry Cess ; and that they viewed with strong indig-
nation the recent attempts of your Government to strain
the powers of the law in the tyrannical suppression of
public opinion. They have ever fought side by side with
you in all your conflicts for social and political equality,
nor will any misconstruction which may have been put
OR their conduct prevail to diminish the earnestness of
their efforts in your defence. Still you cannot expect
them to surrender, on this very account, the principles
Which, even on the occasions referred to, have regulated
their public conduct.
We have ever held that, of all the grievances under
which your country has laboured, the establishment of
the Anglican church in Ireland is the most unjustifiable
and oppressive, and we pledge ourselves never to remit
our efforts to remove from you this intolerable
burden. We deem it a fundamental maxim, even of the
commonest political justice—and in this opinion we are
fortified by that of some of the most eminent members
of the Roman Catholic church—that no compulsory
payments can be rightfully demanded for the support of
any religious system whatever. In this simple but
vital principle lies involved the whole philosophy of
Nonconformity. The slightest deviation from this
ground would virtually amount to a surrender of our
consistency, and would obviously expose us to the
merited derision of all discerning men.
Now it will be plain to you that the proposed mea-
sure for the permanent endowment of the College of
Mayncoth involves the most direct invasion of this prin-
ciple. It places your dissenting fellow-subjects in the
very position from which they are striving to rescue you.
It violates their consciences as offensively as the Pro-
testant establishment, in its tyrannical exactions,
vioL!es yours. It re-enacts the obnoxious principle, it
is an extenjun of the very system, which you, in com-
mon with ourselves, have long been labouring to over-
throw. To tolerate ill's measure, is distinctly to sanction
and assert that principle.
It is impossible, moreover, to mistake the design of
this measure. If it could be regarded as a legitimate,
though scanty instalment of the heavy debt of justice
which England owes to your country, we should be the
first to hail it; but, were there no other consideration,
the quarter from which it comes forbids this supposition.
If, as your justly indignant feelings lead you sometimes
to suppose, you have natural enemies in this country, it
is with them that this measure originates. Defeated in
their attempts to overawe you by the terrors of law and
the array of military force, an oligarchy, notoriously
hostile to popular feeling, addicted by their ordinary
policy to measures of coercion, yet vacillating in all their
courses, and open to the influence of the meanest mo-
tives, now insult your public virtue by the offer of
paltry bribe. We have greatly miscalculated
the tiigh feeling of the Irish people, whose modern
history r:trnishes the most demonstrative vindica-
tion of the nta7 principle—who, oppressed by an
opulent and alien hie:."rchy, drained of their resources
by aristocratic absentees, crippled in their com-
merce by selfish restrictions, ani, with all their un-
equal local capabilities turned to the Condition of a
desert, have borne up the fabric of a religion on the
sinews of poverty, and maintained their worship by the
mites of indigence thrown into the treasury—we have,
we repeat, greatly miscalculated the high feeling of the
Irish people, if they are to be seduced from their lofty
position by such fawning blandishments and transpa-
rent arts as these—if, like the ill-famed heroine of an-
tiquity, they will surrender the citadel they have so
nobly defended, in consideration of the worthless orna-
ments which bedizen the arms of their foes. No !
fellow-countrymen, let it never be said that you, who,
in your majestic course, hare braved the terrors of phy-
sical coercion, and who have risen unharmed from the
fires of legal prosecution, have yielded to the first mere-
tricious smile of those who, from the highest seats of
power, have denounced you " aliens in blood, aliens in
language, aliens in religion."
The boon thus gratuitously offered by the Govern-
ment has no relation whatever to the real grievances
of your country. It is manifestly designed as a diver-
sion, to relax your interest and to withdraw your at-
tention from the substantial evils which oppress you. had
her Majesty's Government been possessed with a sincere
desire to serve you, they might have found innumeeable
opportunities of doing so without violating our conscience
or compromising your independence. They might have
conceded to you a proportionate share in the national
representation ; they might have thrown open to you
the advantages of your metropolitan university ; above
all, they might have relieved you from the incubus of the
Protestant Church. From the attainment of these and
similar essential reforms, which the Government are un-
willing to concede, it is, in our judgment, the purpose of
this insidious measure to beguile you ; and should they
succeed, they will have thrown back indefinitely the
cause of justice to Ireland, and have rendered one of
the most imposing movements for national freedom, the
object of lasting and of justly merited derision. It is
for you, fellow-subjects, whose characteristic sagacity
cannot fail to detect this ill-concealed design, to avert,
by a timely and resolute opposition, so fatal and dis-
graceful a result.
If, again, this grant is to be regarded fora moment in '

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the light of restitution, the meanness of the pr„ post"
sufficiently indicates that it is intended merelas preli•
minary. It is too absurd to suppose that the wealtbiest
and most powerful Government in the world, F
ou
look upon the insignificant pittance of about 26,000/.
year, as a compensation for the urgent claims 0f a
Aveat people. But if this measure is preliminary, we
beg you to consider what is that system which it is de-
signed to introduce. The cautious and characteristic
silence of the Government has been generally, and, vie
believe, correctly interpreted, both within and without
the walls of Parliament, as a virtual admission of their
desire eventually to take the whole body of your priest-
hood into the pay of the State. Can it be necessary'
to suggest to you the consequences of such a snbectnehe
It would violate the consciences, riot only
class who already suffer a scarcely tolerable indignitY
on this account, but of the entire Christian connar;
nity in these realms. Dissenters, who already'
under the exactions of one establishment, will rise wituf
a more resolute determination against the endowmet.°
a second. The recognised leaders of the Irish Catholic!
have again and again pronounced decisively egain't
either
an arrangement ; while the Anglican church must
repeal its articles or sacrifice every claim to consistence
and good faith. Religious animosities, proverbially the
most bitter that agitate the breasts of men, w°lllßdtatee
exacerbated to an incalculable degree ; while, asthe
support and State control are invariably correlative, a
most earnest of your religious teachers would be Plac_ele
under a dictation unbearably galling to all save tnes'r
whom it may seduce to the compromise of all that is (le h
to high-minded and conscientious men. In a wordy.stl,ci
jo
a measure would reduce to a mere name all public
tha
and consistency. and stain with ineffable disgrace
sacred cause of Christianity itself. vera'
The opposition of the Dissenting body to the Go
to
ment measure has, by some thoughtless and imPet,lisend
men, been indiscriminately condemned as fanatical
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bigoted. We indignantly repudiate the chargeoer
applied to the great Nonconforming body. Let us °side
hear it repeated. We are ready to contend by gliciAts,
for the attainment of an equal participation of all fic riot
ecclesiastical, political, and social ; but
c,stel
sacrifice our consciences to the success of a ibe to
nor will we patiently submit to be taxed for a br,ere tt
you, which wo would spurn with contempt,
offered to ourselves. for
With all the earnestness, then, which a nonce',, see
the highest interests of our fellow men can coy`
conjure you, by your self-respect as British subject reso'
otl the
teeolroddfeitfnyeanprdyoesrci
defenders
consistency,
position
s3yt,
eoonuucryo c,ncaaustpi
national
liatsifcratehleedaogpn:en_a,
tcsnebt:tiltabbi.
all, by the solemn requirements of religio—
„r fiery st?tal:
reject the unhallowed bribe offered at your back
by secular and hostile hands; and, turning Y°:". w titre"'
the temporary and crafty homage of a fantic,l3c'h the reg.
yourself on the might of those resources, by sch' cation of
gion of Christ survived, at its origin, the Pea vie trust'
a world ; and in the strength of which it is, , of raso•
destined hereafter to bless the universal flunijY
Signed on behalf of the Conference,
Bijßl6l'.

LDOENADL7A,IALB: —
cloudy.• r ;
1"( e
Cape ten V
Malvina, West Coast of Africa.
AL:3O.-2Y4s.i—dp.u,s'vsni
_..,..n. ~
HAnwicir, MAY 29.—Arrd. Providence, LittlebaMiosey
Newcastle, with damage, having been .
in contact, .1"
!dirs.
Bay, last night with the brig May. Ar Sld• iial3e'
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 23.—Wind -.N.N.IY .--- .
michi. Watt'
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 23.—Arrd. Avon steaMer'
incdoSrniii westerly,P i)
West Indies. cej
PooLE, MAY 23.--Std. Lloyd's, Miramichi. ti. Atli(
PLYMOUTH, MAY 23.—Wind variable.-4tll. k for
steamer, Santander. V'
•S",_ elf
OFF DOVER, MAT 20,—Amphion, TraPP, -
Stockholm. 040. , ob
BRISTOL, MAY 23.--Acrd. William Canvnge, - Orie
I e'q
CLYDE, MAY 22.—Arrd. Circassian, Maishal.,
la fresh-Nn a G b
Swanr eez e , and
ebec'
81d. Antigua, Trinidad ; Abercrombie, Quebec. ,Q 0
SUNDERLAND, MAY 22. —Sid. Elizabeth and N".'„, Id!,
WATERFORD, MAY 21.—S1d. Margaret, Quel's. J"
CORK, MAY 21.—S1d. Flora, New York ; Sarah' xrtd.
New Biunswick. NT ias•
LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.—Wind E.N.E. to -....15, Orle3d, St,
Universe, Dunn, Ichaboe ; Henrietta glary, bile. SPee
OFF BARDSEY, MAY 22.—Symmetry, 3-lci' tli
~, if I'
John's, New Brunswick. ~,,,„, ~s we!,
LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.—S1d. Governor, SY..---i, Ve'-,r)ti
Wales; Andas, Pernambuco; Rainbow, Triniciser, 1,,:,,0.
Jamaica ; Victoria, Vera Cruz ; Independence, s'osepli.:o.,
Mary Caroline, and Sherbrooke, Quebec. °ff.'„. llarrisea),
ward, Arica; Lady East (supposed), singaporau , far
Valparaiso ; Southerner, New York ; 3lag-ella
Swansea.
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THE PARIS JOUR-Li'-
: p coot IV
A great change is about to take place in thenas,;(l-;:pebat;ol
management of three of these papers, the J°ur rowel, °1 will bg,
Constitutionnet, and the Presse. The Constitu Ii s attend 0011,
instant, announces, that on the Ist of June
_etnry. sad obi
doubled, its columns increased from twelve to ti" . one e, of
as large as a single sheet of the Tinies newspoarpeer_li oportoj
objects in making this change is, to furnishrmey
wieuvigenceros
Parliamentary debates, law proceeding,' liteeree, t t
and trole",,,rlo
simple details respecting agriculture,
cenm:pace for advertigo".oloo
main object, however, is to furnish
sincemete to the
the
ts,
M. Duveyrier proposed some
time
ments, with theifo,ooo'
of these three papers to tarns the advertise
at the rate of 3". 000IJ
increase them indefinitely for fifteen years,
000,000 f ~I("t'e OP
(12,000/. British) per annum each--in all _ slisiir-
This proposition, the articles in the papers above
try
iv
nounce, has been accepted. CoUri 0
r is a it 'eePhe
Enormous as the sure stipulated may aee-a infancy' 1, tO -
which advertising may be said to be only in it" ii,pt D'e,',o li'
to be deemed by the public far below the "51:;I'Anb infc'i.nt•
realised by the speculation. The article in qw6ctedint°,3finti
that M. Duveyrier has converted the property socren"i) divieci-d,eif
stock company with a capital of 2,000 000 f. (80,°°'1,AveNu'' 0
8,000 shares, of 101. each. Of these a'S Mail pOrtiOrt "` riotelle,
way into the inomey.market, "and have already," °,!3AP OrP:so'ci
" reached a premium of 100 f. (41.) each, althoug"._,,roalS' 01
tary article of the treaty with the proprietors of thlsuo'd aeceloor,
stipulates that they shall receive respectively over „ I'liejser ttit
annual sum of 3,000 f. a clear moiety of the Prefit:;day,‘Peoecei*
were brought to market on the Bourse on Thniedo Anty6oolll
authority of a Company called the Societe Genera i then, iv 6_
This company has taken the advertising colurens.bee lit
si., dit!
Presse, and Constitutionnel for fifteen years front
raL
eichstto 00;
with a view to introduce an advertising sY,teh' a°,l, O.
plan practised in England. The shares of 2.50 E e_,-„, orelii,
prem. in the course of the day, and left off at 19w'
40Phila
.......... ow t the
, 40) . sO, if,
MEMOIRS OF PRINCE CIIARLES OT.• ,-„riee ,01
1:0" 411.51' hf I
called " THE YOUNG PRETENDER," with In ' I rAr''
Rebellion in 1745. By C. L. Klose, Esqcted bi°og.'tb?i,ll
(observes the John BO), " we have a
.(1 endia terjel;
commencing with his birth in 1720, and ellbeep i s
death in 1788, of an individual. whose ,u_, wive ,s fortact
singular adventures, and affecting trials_.., oriouf.so;ll,la
theme of poetry and romance in so 1333...u5i more salted,
that there are few historical personag`us are ~ indee.e
to the public mind. The volumes before,bey 6thsol,
accession to our historical litera,ture• h:l5. bee
en robi ,r,
a chasm, which it is strange to think 10 bi°:, od,•ls.cli
left unfilled. One cause why loci regati'y be fluu for.yn,er,
the Pretender has been lit dertalien,, n'materisboo,,4l.ea
haps, in the fact, that until lately We nntlY' n 1,. a
Rec., , bee, 0
a work were scarcely attainable. ti„n ho. dorrOje4.l
much valuable and authentic inforn33 of this 1:1‘, 00
within the reach of the biographa• . skilllP,f 0
a t•
Mr. Klose has made dilip at use, aut inter.res terOiyol
it into a continuous narrative of grea 5.....- les 2 t, sr' 0,0.
MURDER ON THE HIGH S Captain /3_„4 :ral 11!,e 01
Liverpool vessel, called the Mountaineer, hecrew gaged,ar' ~.1
cof t on ' .
in our river from New Orleans, and ori „cuff, cht 1,11
diately given into the custody of In
the
orty obelosoia,
murder. Michael Moore is the name cif
tunate Warla, b°2"i std
John Campbell was the name of the unforthe
vosel
svo r ! to
life. Campbell sailed from Liverpool in ii, and I'd potOrvice,
but the prisoner was shipped at New °rie„3ndeck, an,ing o'. rof:
the Gulf of Florida, the prisoner came e"
~,as asiii`2o th!,ar.l
arm round the neck of the boatswain, who_ "severely
.s agerood
i
Mr. Barrow stabbed him in the abdotnell ,° few hou_ri.i, as
hetot,
he had in his possession, that he died le ;readful ,C 0 t. 4, 1-0
There was no quarrel at the time, and the u „.5 inolle of o'l ober
v.' tie, i Ili .1,1,
for only on the ground that the prisoner f
_,,erra Aoei ,if 1
4' ill " 01 toll
he having before that evinced synyte--- vented foonosoillesh
~, I
was, of course, instantly secured, and rrft.,.buitt Iri. fr, ~.,(1t
injury. The prisoner is a low-set, and
before, frid.s/triii s.
unpreposessing appearance. He was hro;lg_reory ott fry hiiso, one
yesterday,: and remanded.—Liverpool 11.c,,,a to a:10 dt
,Tot..- tel
Friday he was again examined and corfi.ng WOW „,e'S•
the assizes. He is also accused of havl T ty, can,
~. ST. vocilercoal
of the seamen. .„..i...0.-, s the r tion
ALARMING FIRE IN GOLDEN
o'clock' 3his atte' 0,4
On Friday morning, shortly after four
.e_ Jane,
,be woe ethic
stable on the beat was passing along Geld ['moist ofca`ogrere virdcoh
aroused by the outbreak of a fire front tahed sadd, '
The ar:roent...
In the occupation of Messrs. Cocken
_.dnenianc• hedielorria:
manufacturers, in Hartshorn-court, G'°'
spread te l'oble_d ~ lee r
originated in the drying-room, taPidlY, f inflii'jies 1' be urPe,, 1
where there was a considerable quantßY fo eogr.eme to t
were 0 !
and a stock of upwards of 50,000 boxes short, t'i„sito. the° ~
foco" matches, whence it extended In t 'time the;' vforst'siorrpo'l
doors and splitting-rooms. In a
he°r ort. bo*,',,gefoie c° ontill ‘5,
the spot. It required considerable e
inplishe"'- large 4 Ore ,eit
could be got under, nor was this ac ?.icng 3 , The deel..,.
destruction of property took place, 1' i,hr bell° seceral....e 0,,
lights which had been completed the n :0011 Th t,' wll.;
tended so rapidly that it was with seeee_ saved- „, the „oil* I„,
In stalls adjoining the drying-house s;re::: hi n arae_"o'iad
„.0"'„ .root
posed to have been caused by a cat sc I.l:ier, oie.o,upors :
.000
as the back window was open throng.h.srare ss foio, sna ,t
press. Mr. Braidwood reports of tr,..",. arying'r ..01411
IN itIP
and back workshops burned out, rooi 0,
were r bag of
destroyed." ildfen • y f° urse ,r,
Two ch frids we r i
STREET BEGGARS.--
..4fice oil to r' to
up at the Marlborough-street P.oli
seru_ii, and,.. ,his eel
_e ro 4
They had been sent out by their p 7, rot of
61 hoTei, burn
three hours, had received two shillings
..een Carr:
gieteet' .001 ~ 1
a have u , .ta r'
pastry, and the remainder would
of the he,-'O,O, ths' it (alb'
mother, who, to use the svor
dstunk
of sr • The
wittles, but oftener, if she aint .
workhouse• 0 4 134
sent to tne „ or - fro,'
gin." The children were ten'orders r,
the
cofifess , Ala
a glass-blower. don Li'- fictitiou- le.
The persons charge ofis bY trial hi fel
• fling g° • pd for
named Russell, with obtai
colucaill- r $ ji
Messrs. Leaf and Co., have been 09" Poe 1
settees and the idle '
man Wood. Marseilles f spo tooor c 0,
The Semaphore of
christina 0 v,veil ° the ep 01:1
days ago, a son of Queen Maria
„ars of age, all'atea for _ster
.if,
Rianzares, between me,ad It% Y. 5 to he ejucb rge-Iv%of j
here h" A a • 111 06
and embarked for Rom w --- on a es ,
‘,F., ~ has nti r- en
THE QUEEN OF T"- 1' de
moteoilr3.-' 0 Ole- ref' on
manitY an Oa riry gat
the Seine, who, by his hu
lives of boo 001 D 00
fcrent occasions saved the besides other
_,„,,k to '' ,ave
_s,
and received four medals, s
_ori other b`s;erint, b the
urea
Was induced to sell his bargee, 4 e
• part e• th..ihonottrecie'edes° 04
company, who, for the mai°
time
in v
ier,
These bills .
nd for A to Wh° ii.co'r tO
bills of exchange.
distreseJd, a❑ these MI: •ot
barge-master became n
him from
_ornerarl
surheie otop
to meet the claims up o
ittn . superno than oa 110 `oso
negotiated them, by becoweire
little inc'hildren'. 1 Ile `'hrlti.
His earnings, however,.
an
_, ~,,,o. c d
urvid.
Rut de Clio,
support himself, his wife, u
him, retraine of the ,,tioe", 010
so undeservedly thrownupon
e_ .
..., „w sao her,
woo 4,
rested, and confined in theto dobet°,`,..eren, who,6ated to
~
s'
et,
;,,e c
Or,
His case was made known
eke
leircuSzo,"
stattee____areerated_
ere; fewrt.ire
certaining the truth of all __,,, was le, ,toi, n.
._,,, n .0
nfortunate tee hiosiog ' 'we a'"ried,`),
debts for which the u did the „ale doole diselia ,rit
restored to his family.
for
rund every .:- stiscoc9 (1005 t slid
returning to his home, heand
t.oring h's .
e,
aria or; 00, 0
had been incurred previous d t
but which n, ~.., tiro leadedgut
the last sou, by a secret han ••
hiell had releasedonnoVooo,
justice, believed to be that w
nex.,_...01,
which is known to act with i
o....faria paPcr.
the beat judgment. A