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prehended and prosecuted to conviction. But this
offer of a reward may be considered as inPre words.
—lt is, we believe, as Nvell known as need be,
that no Jury in that part of Ireland will find
a verdict against an Orangeman, for such a venial
matter, in the eye of faction, as murdering a Ca-
tholic; and the people, who might otherwise be
tempted by the money, know that a conviction can-
not be obtained. If, after the finding of a Coroner's
Jury, there is not one Magistrate to be found who
will see that the law will be put in force against the
murderer, who walks about without apprehension,
what hope is there that a Petty Jury, packed as all
the Juries in the North are, will find a verdict of
guilty ? It is no doubt true that Government have
no means of obtaining justice for a Catholic in the
North, fur the Government may offer rewards for
apprehension, but all the machinery for putting the
law in force is Protestant. There is one law for the
Protestant and another for the Catholic; or rather
there is a law which, in the hands of the Protest-
ants, is an instrument to enable them to oppress
the Catholics, but affording to the Catholics no re-
dress against Protestants. Among the letters read
at the Catholic Association, there is one from a
Patrick Tierney, an old soldier, who expresses an
opinion, which is probably shared by many poor
Catholics of the North of Ireland—" I have tra-
velled," he says, " through same parts of this Pro-
vince, and it is my firm belief, from what I have
seen and heard, that it. is the intention of the
Orangemen to murder the Catholics as soon as they
possibly can." Patrick Tierney has, perhaps, a too
lively imagination ; but as this is riot uncommon
with his poor countrymen, we can well believe that
the Catholics of the North live at present in great
trepidation. Miserable policy ! But we are a great
nation, and have a wise Government.

(PROM TILE MORNING POST.)

The intended meeting of the freeholders of the
county of Kent has thrown all the enemies of the
Church and Constitution of England into a state of
utter dismay, which they strive in vain to conceal
by furious railings against the authors of this most
loyal, constitutional, and necessary proceeding.
That the freeholders of this and every other county
in England have a right to entertain and to express
an opinion upon the state of public affairs, and to
recommend by respectful petition to the Legisla-
ture and the Throne, such measures as they think
conducive to the public welfare and security, is a
proposition which the apostles of faction have not
the hardihood to deny. They do not venture in-
deed to dispute the existence of this right, but, in
pursuance of a system of tactics peculiarly their own,
they strive to prevent its exercise by pouring forth
an incessant torrent of coarse, intemperate, and un-
meaning abuse, upon every distinguished individual
who unites with or attempts to stimulate and
guide his more humble countrymen in the eminentiv
proper, and legal, and constitutional course which
the freeholders of Kent are about to - pursue.
Happily the King's Government has now pro-
claimed, by measures which faction can no longer
affect to misconceive, and which render further de-
lusion upon the subject impossible, the entire sym-
pathy and unanimity which we have always believed
and asserted to exist between its feelings and opi-
nions and those which actuate the British people,
and which constitute the most effectual guarantee,
and the ultimate and impregnable defence, if every
other defence should fail, of the National Church
and Constitution. The acts of Government in Ire-
land—the wise and salutary acts—the Lord
Lieutenant's Proclamation—the arrest of the '
seditious Lawless—the terror with which all
the other traitors, his colleagues and confede-
rates in treason, are at this moment struck,
prove to the satisfaction of all men that the Con-
stitution of England is not yet driven to its last de-
fence—that the duty to which the people of Etek
land are now called is merely that of resisting and
overwhelming a cabal of desperate and wicked in-
cendiaries, and net the more painful and arduous
:ask of counteracting and defeating and destroying a
treacherous Administration. The slanderous impu-
tation that an Administration with the Duke of
Wellington at its head meditated treachery to the
Constitution, is nobly repelled. And a deeper
humiliation, a more severe chastisement, awaits the
incendiaries who sought to fix it, than they would
have deserved for 1,11 the other crimes, numerous and
atrocious as they are. Let not the friends of
the Constitution, however, suppose that the friends of
Popery and the emissaries of faction, foiled
and humbled as they are, will yet be inac-
tive. An attempt , will we apprehend be
made to interrupt and disturb the freeholders
of the county of Kent, in the exercise of one of
their most important rights, and the discharge of
one of their highest duties. The leaders of the re-
volutionary and republican faction in England, be-
tween whom and the chief agitators in the cause of
Popery and despotism an unnatural and wicked al-
liance has long subsisted, will unquestionably be
in the field. Already have they taken measures to
draw around them upon that occasion a rabble
route, to impede the progress of proceedings from
which they foresee consequences the most fatal
to their cause. The friends of Despard and
O'connor are united with the associates of Thistle-
wood and lags. These, with certain orators and
writers, and fortified by the scum of the metro-
polis, will attempt, we have reason to believe,
to create ennfusion, and to disturb and discredit
the proceedings of the Freeholders of one of our
most wealthy, populous, and enlightened counties.
IVe trust the High Sheriff and the Magistracy of
Kent will be prepared for them. If any man not
known to be a Freeholder should attempt to put down
by clamour the expression of Protestant and Constit u-
tiono feeling, for which the Meeting is culled toge-
ther, it will quite safe to take him immediately into
custody, and to lodge him forthwith in the county '
gaol. The chances will be thousand to one that he
is not a Freeholder, and had therefore no business to
be at the Meeting. The presence lof an adequate .
body of constables, properly instructed, will be suf-
ficient to overawe and corarol the rabble followers
of the disaffected.

TIIE 3tORNING JUVENAL alias NEW TIMES.)
It is hardly necessary to repeat to our readers the
news that last reached us from the theatre of
war. The Russians were described as in full re-
treat from Shumla; the road strewed with their
dead and dying; they were beaten at Silistria, and
had been compelled to fall back in disorder on Hir.
sous ; before Varna they lay with the smallest
prospect of success. The accounts from Wittgen-
stein's corps d'arntee came down to the 19th wit., at
which date they were said to be at Jenibazsr, whi-
ther they had retreated from Shumla. This intelli-
gence came via Bucharest, the capital of Wallachia,
a city in the possession of the Russians. The ac-
counts from Silistria, which were of the 21st Au-
gust, were received through the same channel
those from Varna, of the 21st ult., came through
Odessa from Lord Heytesbury. Up to last night
every notice, direct or indirect, from every quarter,
Was more or less confirmatory of these accounts.
It was not, therefore, without very 'considerable
lAtrprise, that we read in the German. papers that
then reached us (extracts from which we give in
another column) an account so very different from
that which we have been publishing and con,.
meriting on for the last eight days. The latter carne
be us through the same paper from which we have;
on various other Occasions, received information of
the Russian victories in Bulgaria. The Berlin
Stales Gazelle is, of course, no greater authority
than was the Moniteur under Napoleon; still even
the Atunitcur, among all its exaggerations of victory
and palliations of defeat, seldompublished narratives
that were not bottomed on facts, however, to suit
the interest of its master, .these facts might be dis-
torted. But we have hardly any resource left us,
iii the present case, except a total disbelief not only
of the accidents but of the essence of the reports that
the Berlin Gazette contains. In the first place it is
implied, if not directly asserted, that, so far from

Wittgenstein being ct Jenibazar, with the loss of
his cannon and all the materiel of his army, he has
never moved from Shumla. "From the Ifiltfi to