The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
BISHOPS.

DUBLIN, Nov. 16.—The following announcement ap-
pears in the Dublin Evening Post of this afternoon:—
" The Prelates this day concluded their deliberations
on the Charitable Bequests Act. We understand that
a resolution to the following effect was adopted, on the
motion of the Primate, the Most Rev. Dr. Crolly, se-
conded by the Right Rev. Dr. Egan, Bishop of Kerry :
—' The Prelates assembled, after mature consideration
of the enactments of the new Charitable Bequests Act,
having taken different views of its operation, it was de-
termined that each Prelate should be left to the gui-
dance of his own conscience on this measure.' As Dr.
Egan, the seconder of this resolution, had signed the
protest against the Act, we may infer that the Prelates
were nearly unanimous on the occasion. As we have
already stated, the Prelates were unanimous in consi-
dering that modifications were required in certain
clauses of the Act affecting discipline, as regards the au-
thority of each Bishop in his own diocese. It is under-
stood that the Government have expressed their readi-
ness to amend the Act in such manner as to avoid any
interference with the discipline of the Catholic Church;
and it is their imperative duty to do so at the earliest
possible moment. There can, we think, be little doubt
that such alterations as are required will be made."
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE—DEPUTATION TO THE
LORD-LIEUTENANT.

The Evening Post also contains the following:—" This
dap a deputation, consisting of the four Archbishops, with
some lay members of the Maynooth Board, waited upon
his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, by appointment, at
the Viceregal-lodge, Phoenix-park, with an application
for an increase of the Parliamentary grant to that esta-
blishment, on the present terms. The total insufficiency
of the present miserable grant has long been admitted,
and the time has arrived for an augmentation to an
extent commensurate with the claims of the Catholics of
Ireland for a grant from the State towards the education
of their clergy. His Excellency received the deputation
most courteously, and appeared to coincide with their
views, promised to forward their memorial without delay,
but gave no pledge of any sort on his own part, or on
the part of the Government. Lord Eliot was present at
the interview."
THE STATE PROSECUTION—REVERSAL OF
THE JUDGMENT.

In the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, in the case
of the Queen v. O'Connell and others, Sir Colman
O'Loghlen moved, on the part of defendants, that the
judgment of reversal had in this case should be entered
upon the record, and that the recognizances of tho de-
fendants-be handed over to be cancelled.
Mr. Justice CuadurroN—Of course this application
will be granted. It is regular, I believe.
The Clerk of the Crown made an intimation to the
effect that he never knew of a similar application being
made.

Sir COLMAN O'LoGHLEN—The affidavit on which the
application is founded states that there is no judgment
now pending against Mr. O'Connell
Judge CRAMPTON—You need not trouble yourself by
reading any affidavit. The application is granted.
The Clerk of the Crown made an observation to his
Lordship.
Judge CRAMPTON—The officer says that the formal
documents have not yet been laid before him.
Sir COLMAN OTOGHLEN—We understand that the
judgment of reversal was entered upon the transcript,
and the transcript returned to the office.
The Clerk of the Crown observed that the neccssary
documents were not yet returned.
Sir COLMAN O'LoGRLEN—I don't exactly know, my
Lord, what the practice is, whether a discharge should
be entered thereon, or the recognizances be vacated.
Judge CRAMPTON—I believe a vacate is the usual
course. But your application will be complied with as
soon as the proper document is laid before the officer.
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY—THE MINISTRY.
The Warder, an Orange organ, has a very fiery com-
mentary upon the recent meeting in Cork, to establish a
provincial college. That journal says—" The sword is
drawn. and the scabbard thrown away, between Sir
Robert Peel and the Irish Protestant Church, and the
Protestant people of Ireland. One or other must be put
down." The Warder adds—" The divinity students of
Trinity College intend to meet publicly next week, in
the Rotunda, to protest against any interference of Sir
Robert Peel with the University, and the Ven. R. J.
M‘Ghee will be requested to take the chair. A pamphlet
on the crisis of the Church of Ireland, from the pen of
the Rev. Dr. Millar, of Armagh, was published yester-
day, making a powerful appeal on behalf of the Church
against the traitor Premier."
IRISH RAILWAYS.

The Dublin Gazette, published last night, is the
largest published since the Anti-Tithe agitation, when
the peasantry, in thousands, were sued by the Crown
for tithe arrears, many of them for two or three
pence. Last night's Gazette consists of fourteen
sheet., containing notices of various kinds, emanating
from railway and other public companies, corporations,
and Government boards. Altogether there -are forty-
seven notices. The railway notices amount to no lees
than twenty-two, and are as follow :—Extension of the
' Ulster Railway to Armagh ; Wexford, Carlow, and
Dublin; Dublin to Mullingar and Athlone (two separate
notices); Londonderry and Coleraine; Londonderry and
Enniskillen ; Kilkenny Junction ; Newry and Ennis-
killen; Dundalk and Enniskillen; Branch from Dublin
and Drogheda to Howth; Waterford and Limerick;
Waterford and Kilkenny; Extension from Athlone to
Galway; Kingstown and Waterford; Dublin and Cavan;
Limerick and Ennis; Cork and Limerick; Coleraine and
Enniskillen ; Cork and Bandon ; Dublin and Belfast
Junction; Irish Great Western from Dublin to Galway;
North and North-Western from Dublin to Armagh and
Enniskillen.
LORD LONDONDERRY ON FREE TRADE.
The Marquis of Londonderry, on Monday last, enter-
tained at dinner, in the Assembly-rooms, Newtownards
a the clergy and gentlemen resident upon his estates,
and the tenantry most distinguished by their efforts in
agricultural improvement and for generally exemplary
conduct." The Noble Marquis I'resided.
After the customary toasts,
The Noble PRESIDENT said it gave him great satisfac-
tion to meet them on that occasion, at a dinner which he
was anxious to give them, as his tenantry, in order to
celebrate the return among them of a man who was
fondly and devotedly attached to them, Lord Castlereagh.
He congratulated them on the flourishing state of the
country, which, he said, was mainly owing to the ad-
ministration of Sir R. Peel. Sir Robert, when he ac-
cepted of the Premiership, had laid the axe to the root
of the evils under which the country laboured. He set
his mind to the consideration of the finances, as the
first step in the legislative policy which he intended to
carry out ; and he had, in consequence, instituted a
property-tax, which, he ventured to declare, not-
withstanding all that had been said against it, was
one of the most just taxes that ever was laid on the coun-
try; for it placed the burden upon the rich, and relieved
those who were not in circumstances so fortunate.—
(Hear, hear.) Other questions of moment had occupied
the attention of the Government during that time, such
as the poor-law, the Irish Registration Bill, and various
other difficult questions ; but there was one matter above
all, which had occupied their attention, and that was the
great question which had taken up so much of the time
of the law courts in Dublin. Those Isere difficult ques-
tions for a Ministry to manage, but he believed they had
brought all to a favourable issue, and that he (the Noble
President) and.they might congratulate each other on a
better state of affairs than when they last met. There
nes one question which had agitated the country a great
deal since the period to which he had alluded, and to
which he felt it necessary to allude—he meant the eorn-
Ism question.—(Hear, hear.) And he did solemnly
adjure them not to depart from those means to improve
their agricultural position which science bad opened up
to them, lest the question which he had alluded to should
be carried. He did not understand how any Minister
who thought right to introduce into his policy free-trade
at all—he did not know how that Minister could make
corn an exception.—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
He implored them to consider that that might
be the case ; and, in order to prepare for such a
change, he implored them to go on cultivating the soil
on which their existence depended.—(Hear, hear.) They
had seen daring the last twenty years many changes—
they had seen the Minister, by the force of circumstances,
by the pressure from without, obliged to follow out a
course of policy which was contrary to his mind to pursue;
and having seen that, he could not sit down, without im-
pressing them with the fact, that similar things might
take place with regard to the corn-laws.--(Hear, hear.)
He wished them to bear in mind that when everything else
was free, they could not expect that corn alone would
be an exception. The Noble Marquis then lauded the
foreign policy of the Government, and referred to the
visits to England of the King of the French, the Emperor
of Russia, and the King of Prussia, and continued:—But,
passing by these events—the having of those potentates
among them—they had had the satisfaction of seeing
• their own good and gracious Queen braving the
breeze—braving the difficulties and inconveniences of a
sea voyage—visiting France and Belgium, and going
twice to Scotland. Would to God she would come to
Ireland.—(Cheers.) He would say, though it was alto-
gether
unnecessary, that between Mr. O'Connell and him-
self there was no sympaty of feeling—that they did not
entertain the same political views ; but be would do Mr.
O'Connell the justice to say that he believed that, had
her Majesty come to Ireland, the breath of repeal would
not have been heard from the heights of Ennishowen to
the Lakes of Killarney—no, not a word of repeal would
have been heard during her Majesty's stay in her own
little island.—(Hear, hear, and loud applause.) It, she
had come there, to see her
" First flower of the earth,
First gem of the sea,"
not one breath o&repeal would have been heard.—(Loud
cheers.) Mr. O'Connell had long been engaged in the
agitation of the question of repeal, but he had told them
on a late occasion that he preferred federalism. Now,
what was his object in stating so? Why, he was simply
holding out a feeler to the Protestants, to see whether
they would join him or not. The Protestants and Pres-
byterians of Ulster knew him too well; they were aware
what his objects were, and their answer to him would be,
" Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes."
—(Tremendous cheers.) He did not believe that the in-
telligent, influential, and commercial people of Ireland
would ever join Mr. O'Connell in so balderdash an ex-
RenrPent--(Cheers, and cries of " Never.") Lord Lon- '
noa (terry then congratulated his tenantry cn the im-
pthroeivrecomemnrtuarwtahbileehahad taken place in their farms and on
vgielarance, praised the Poor-law Act,
and proceeded—
respectuir. to the commission that
had been i.sued to in
the relations between
landlord and tenant, inquire into
rist,.uhatever ne-
cessity there might have been fs:rateldan inquiry in the
south of Ireland, such a necess'it3s-u
estates.—(:,ear, hear.) With respect noblemanl::ttleti" on
who was at the head of that commission,
he hsas
ceeded to a property in this country, but he knew
nothing of Ireland. The commission, as he had observed,
could be of no use in this part of the country, and he

was happy that that was the case ; for, in his opinion,
it was neither more nor less than throwing out an invi-
tation to any discontent and disaffection that might
arise between landlord and tenant, which was the last
thing in the world that should be encouraged. After
some remarks on leases, and the treatment of his
tenants, the Noble Marquis gave, " The Tenantry of the
Newtownards Estate—prosperity to them, and may God
bless them."—(Loud cheers.) -
Lord CASTLEREAGH, on responding to his health being
drank, said—He had a great deal to thank them for, and
a great deal to be proud of,—(Hear, hear.) The mise-
rable-looking mud cabin was now disappearing, and the
neat and more stately-looking slated house took its stead.
The proudest feather in Lord Londonderry's 'cap was
not the laurels he had won in the field, but the tenantry
over whom he presided.—(Applause.)
Some other toasts were proposed and responded to,
after which the company separated.—Abridged from the
Northern Whig.

THE SEIZURE of MESSRS. SMITH'S
DISTILLERY.

The seizure, by direction of her Majesty's Commis-
sioners of Excise, of the extensive distillery and rectify-
ing-house, outbuildings, plant, &c., of Messrs. Smith, of
Whitechapel, has been carried into effect by four chief
examiners of Excise, aided by several inferior officers.
This further step has not only created a great sensation
amongst the numerous tavern keepers and proprietors
of spirit establishments in the metropolis and suburbs,
but has also given rise to much conversation in the com-
mercial and monetary circles. From the best informa-
tion that can be obtained upon the subject, it appears,
that in consequence of the EiCise Commissioners having
for some time past suspected—upon what grounds have
not transpired beyond the firm retailing spirits at a
superior strength and lower price than other distillers—
that Messrs. Smith have not been in the habit of ac-
counting for the full amount of duty payable upon their
stock, the Board of Excise ordered that a most
vigilant watch should be kept upon their establish-
ments. For some time past an Excise officer had been
appointed to be constantly upon the premises, and the
workmen of Messrs. Smith were forbidden to hold
any communication with him on pain of dismissal.
The first step adopted against the firm was about three
months since, when the Excise seized 20 puncheons of
gin, and conveyed them to the Government stores in
Broad-street ; but upon the subsequent representations
of Messrs. Smith, the Commissioners ordered fifteen of
the number, with their contents, to be returned. The
remaining five were retained for the purposes of ulterior
proceedings. In the meantime reports were from time
to time made to the Commissioners of the operations
carried forward at the distillery and rectifying-house,
and consultations were held by the legal advisers of the
Board with the Solicitor-General and other eminent
members of the bar, which led to the determination on
the part of the Commissioners having recourse to ener-
getic and decisive measures. The details of the legal
conferences have not been buffered to transpire, and in
all probability will not reach the public eye untill the
whole matter comes on for public hearing before the
Barons of the Court of Exchequer. The object, how-
ever, which the Commissioners had in view may be
gathered from the fact that officers and others have
been employed to dig up the paving-stones around
Messrs. Smith's extensive premises, and pipes have been
discovered concealed about three feet from the surface
of the earth, connecting the distillery with the recti-
fying-house, which is contrary to the provisions of the
various Acts of Parliament regulating such matters.
The Commissioners having ordered a complete stoppage
of the works, the distillery now presents a gloomy and
wretched contrast to the active bustling scene which it
presented when in full working order, and, the deep
trenches dug out in front and around it, exposing the ob-
jectionable pipes to view, are objects daily of increased
public attraction. The loss to the firm by the stoppage
of the works must be a severe one, and Messrs. Smith
have been in the habit of paying to Government for
duty alone between 300,0001, and 400,000 L per annum.
Every portion of the monster establishment has had the
broad arrow affixed to it, and not a cask, waggon, or
utensil has escaped the same mark of condemnation at
the Exciseman's hands. Above 60 workmen, it was
stated, were discharged on Saturday night last, making
the number, including those dismissed on the previous
week, above 120 now out of employment. Messrs.
Smith having memorialised the Lords of the Treasury on
the subject, their Lordship? reply is looked for with
great interest. The buildings alone are estimated to be
of the value of 160,000 L, and should the Board of Ex
cise succeed in the Court of Exchequer in recovering
the enormous penalties for which the firm are being pro-
secuted, the whole of this valuable property will fall into
the hands of the Crown, and a rich harvest will be
reaped by the officers who have assisted in promoting the
proceedings. In any event Messsrs. Smith will -be
put to very heavy expenses in resisting the Crown pro -
secutions.

A NEW KIND OF CANNON.—A letter from Sweden
states that Baroa Wahrendoriff has just invented a new
kind of cannon for fortresses; The carriage and the gun
form only one piece. The space occupied is but small, and
as it is not necessary to have the openings at the case-
ments of any great extent, the gunners are better shel-
tered from the enemy's balls.
ONE TURNIP FOR Two LEGS OF MUTTON.—MT.
Kendal, of Sellet Hall, Stainton, lately pulled a turnip,
the circumference of which measured two feet five inches,
and the weight of which was twenty-six lbs. eight
ounces. The outside of this bulb would have held suffi-
cient water to boil two legs of mutton, and the inside
furnished enough vegetables to serve with the meat.—
Lancaster Guardian.

FATHER MATHEW.—On Sunday a large meet-
ing of teetotallers and others took place at the Temper-
ance-hall, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, for the
purpose of adopting measures to relieve Father
Mathew from his embarrassment. The chair was taken
by the Rev. John A. Hearn, who, as well as the movers
of the resolutions, strongly urged the meeting to exert
itself for the benefit of the " Apostle of Temperance."
It was said that nearly 2,0001. had already been publicly
subscribed, in addition to large sums privately forwarded
to Ireland ; but the amount collected was as yet far
from adequate to relieve Father Mathew's necessities.
The public, said one of the speakers, ought to consider
itself bound to liquidate his debts, for on its behalf were
they contracted ; and not alone teetotallers, but all per-
sons feeling any interest in the domestic comfort of the
working classes, should contribute their share of relief.
Resolutions for raising funds were carried unanimously.
It was resolved to collect subscriptions, of one penny and
upwards, from the members of every Temperance So-
ciety in the country, and whoever else might feel in-
clined to subscribe. After the passing of resolutions,
thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting
separaf

,ted.

ASSASSINATION BY A YOUNG FEMALE.—M. Dau-
brie, who keeps the large bookseller's shop in the
Passage Vivienne, last evening perceived a woman stop
at his doorway, and take away a book from amongst
those placed outside for display. He ran out, and
caught her with the stolen article, a penny almanac, in
her possession. He was taking her before the commis-
sary of the district, who lives in the Rue St. Pierre-
Montmartre, when, as they ascended the staircase, the
prisoner drew a poniard-knife,.and plunged it to the haft
in the body of the unfortunate man, who fell dead on
the instant. She then fled, but was apprehended almost
immediately, and taken back before the commissary, who,
after investigating the matter, committed her for trial.
During the whole evening, up to midnight, the Passage
Vivienne and the Rue St. Pierre-Montmartre were filled
with such a crowd of persons, that it was thought advi •
sable to send fur a detachment of soldiers to preserve
order. The body of M. Daubrie was brought home to
his residence about half•past eleven. Nothing can equal
the despair of his family. The woman was young and
well-dressed, and held a young child by the hand.
Another account states that it was in the office of the
Commissary that she gave the fatal blow.—Galiynani, of
Saturday.
MIDDLETON COLLIERY.—On Monday last the
workmen belonging to Middleton Colliery and their
wives, to the number of 520, were entertained at dinner
and tea by Mr. Brandling, the proprietor of those works,
to mark his approbation of their good conduct during a
series of years past, and more particularly of their beha-
viour during the late strike. The speeches which were
on this occasion delivered exhibited a degree of good
feeling highly creditable both to master and men.
We have received an account of the seizure of one
of the largest distilleries in the City by order of the
Commissioners of Excise, but for want of proper authen-
tication, we must defer the. publication till we have an
opportunity of making full inquiry.—Times.
Lis CONVICT ELLEN COOK.— Some circumstances
having come to light, as we understand, respecting the
character of the principal witness against Ellen Cook,
who was transported for 15 years at the late sessions,
means are now taking to endeavour to procure a commu-
tation of her sentence.--Hull Packet.
TOTAL ECLIPSE OP THE MOON.—A total eclipse
of this luminary will take place, on Sunday, the 24th in-
stant, at 42 minutes past 11 o'clock at night.
MISS MARTINEAU.—Mr. William Howitt has pub-
lished a letter corroborative of the statement that Miss
Martineau has been cured, by mesmerism, of a painful
disorder, which was fast sinking her to the grave.
PRACTICAL JONES.—Thereourrier de Loir-et- Cher
of the 10th states that several of the inhabitants of the
commune of Villafranco3ur are at this moment under pro-
secution on a charge of homicide by imprudence. They
had at a public-house, by way of joke, mixed tobacco
with the wine of a man who was present, and forced him
to drink it. The man died twenty-four hours afterwards
of the narcotic effect of the tobacco.

_
Lord Campbell, and Lady Stratheden and family,
returned to Stratheden House on Friday, from a tour on
the Continent.

ROWLAND STEPHENSON.—This notorious personage,

to whomso many persons, a few years back, owed their
entire ruin, is now in Calcutta, carrying on a speculation
in railroads.—Hampshire Advertiser.
Four men have lately been "lynched" in Fannin
county, America, by the most sangninary process. Their
names were Andrew Jones, Harvey White, L. Wray,
and Mitchell, all lately from Missouri, and all notorious
for their rascality before they left. The cause was, for
barbarously murdering and robbing three friendly In-
diana. Upwards of 200 persons attended the trial and
execution. Three others, named Benjamin Jones, Jew-
land, and Harris, were arrested and convicted of theft,
and were made to hang the others, and ordered to leave
the country in ten days.
We understand from undoubted authority, that it
is the intention of the Directors of the Great Western

Railway to reduce the fares on the whole of the line, in
addition to the advantages afforded by the penny a mile
train for third-elms passengers. It is also in contempla-
tion to run a train for first-Mass carriages only, to per-
form the distance between Exeter and London iII five
hours.—Exeter Gazette.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The Bishop of Exeter's judgment in
the matter of the charges against Mr. Blunt, the
curate of Helston, is a subject of too much conse-
quence, in various points of view, to be disposed of
in a summary manner. The public will learn from
it that a curate is right in refusing to bury with the
Church service persons baptised by Dissenters--in re-
fusing to marry persons unless they can show that
they have been baptised by clergymen of the Church
of England—in refusing to pray—refusing to use the
universal prayer of the Christian, with a pa-
rishioner and a fellow-Churchman, because the poor
man had been baptised by a Romanist priest in Ire-
land ? Not because we cannot be "in communion"
with Rome—not because Rome is a false, or a cor-
rupt, or an anti-Christian Church, as vulgar low
Churchmen hold—but simply because a Romanist in
the United Kingdom is a schismatic, according to the
interpretation which the Rev. Mr. Blunt, in the ex-
ercise of his " private judgment," puts on the legal
effect of certain transactions which occurred three cen-
turies ago ! They will learn, too, that the more in-
tense the feeling of discontent excited in the minds of
some Churchmen who have the misfortune to be under
the care of such fanatics, by these wretched acts of
bigotry—the more utter the disturbance and inter-
ruption of spiritual comfort to others, pious and
humble church-goers, who take no part in the theo-
logical contests of the day, by the endless succession
of unmeaning changes in the ritual, by the monoto-
nous bitterness of weekly denunciations against
schism, by the violence of manner and language, the
brawls, the scandalous indecencies which are certain
to follow the ministrations of such a man—the more
determined countenance and support the clergy-
man is sure to find from his diocesan, if he have the
felicity to be planted within the diocese which en-
joys the superintendence of Bishop Phillpotts.
Our object to-day, however, was to compare what
has passed at Helston with the goings on in another
diocese. The charges against Mr. Blunt, brought by
the churchwardens and a great body of parishioners,
as we have said, were manifold : many wilful changes
in the service, many practices in the peeformance
of clerical duties which the complainants knew to
be utterly unwonted, and believed to be illegal.
They have been severely reprimanded for daring
to make such complaints at all. The excellent
charge of their pro-Tractarian Prelate has been
the subject of the Morning Post's leading articles
of panegyric. Now, in a parish in Berkshire,
the clergyman has thought proper to introduce
one change—to establish the weekly collection
of the offertory. This is conduct of which, for
our own parts, we disapprove, simply because we
believe that for any clergyman, of his own "private
judgment," to introduce innovations from the ordinary
practice, on the pretext of his own interpretation of the
Rubric, is a folly, to call it no worse, which almost
invariably leads to bad consequences ; as hundreds of
instances have verified. Still, of all the crotchets of
Tractarian gentlemen, our readers will probably be of
opinion that this is one of the least ungraceful and the
least offensive to any common feeling or prejudice.
Not so thinks Mr. Walter of Bearwood, whose soul
Mr. Cameron has in charge. As the former gentle-
man has given all the publicity the press can afford
to his controversy with his spiritual instructors and
superintendents, we cannot be trenching improperly
on personal privacy in milting it matter of fair com-
ment ; and we promise, beforehand, to treat him with
much more respect and civility than the leading
correspondents of the Leading Journal treat the
Bishop of London. We are acquainted, then, by
Mr. Walter through the press, with the steps he
thinks it right to take when his spiritual instructor
proposes something he does not approve. We
do not undertake to say he is wrong in his
" private judgment." Far from it; we think that
if individual clergymen may start innovations, indi-
vidual parishioners may resist them ; nor do we admit,
in any case, even the collective right of the clergy to
act as the Church, as if the laity were no component
members of that Church. It is not for the purpose of
censure, but of somewhat piquant contrast (to which
we shall come presently) that we notice the case in
question. Mr. Walter, then, "agitates" among his
fellow-parishioners. He remonstrates with his spiritual
superior about the change be has introduced. Mr.
Cameron persists. Mr. Walter procures a legal opinion
—he consults Dr. Addams as to the validity of the
collection at the offertory from non-communicants. It
will not be forgotten that one of the greatest griev-
ances of the Tractarian party is the presumption of
lawyers in deciding questions of priestly authority;
no matter : Mr. Walter gets his opinion. And it is
an opinion infinitely creditable to the astuteness
of Doctors' Commons, at once saving the adviser's
3redit, and tickling the client, by giving an answer
from which it is impossible to collect anything
?accept that the Learned Doctor has doubts on the
law, but quite agrees with Mr. Walter as to
the bad taste of the thing. Fortified with this
valuable document, Mr. Walter next complains
to the Bishop. The Bishop of Oxford, whose part
in recent controversies all know, and the great ma-
jority of the laity of the English Church deeply
deplore, treats the complaint as was to be expected;
he justifies his Tractarian subordinate, and be-
stows on Mr. Walter a rebuke resembling
that of his brother of Exeter, with this only,
difference, that the Bishop of Oxford, whether he
praises or condemns, always writes like a gentleman.
How does Mr. Walter behave under the rebuke of
his diocesan? Does he thank him for his paternal
chastisement, like an obedient son of the Church ?
He appeals from the Bishop to his fellow-parishioners,
and to the " Times." He undertakes to call a meet-
ing, and get the opinion of a " majority "—a ma-
jority of laymen in a parish to decide on the pro-
priety of a ceremony of the Church ! and, should the
said majority be with him, and Mr. Cameron
persist, he intimates, by a guardedly gene-
ral but pretty intelligible threat, that he and his
friends will act as their " bounden duty " may
require. Now, here is a case ;in which, not, we
believe, the official representatives of a parish, but a
party of parishioners, large of small, with a leading
man at their head, oppose and thwart their clergy-
man, get a legal opinion against him, complain of him
to their Bishop, threaten to call a "meeting" on him,
show him up in the Times—practise, in short, all the
methods of parochial warfare 'short of going to law ;
all for introducing a single change into the
ritual, and that a change recommended by the
Bishop of London. We were anxious, we confess,
to see in what way the Times would deal with
these two cases of Mr. Blunt and Mr. Cameron,
happening, unluckily, to excite public attention just at
the same moment ; in what matter it might be possible
at once to crush the rebellious churchwardens of Hel-
ston, and to support the rebellious parishioners of
Hurst. Nor do we yet see how this feat of dexterity
is to be performed. At present the last part of the
task only has been executed. Mr. Walter is an
ecclesiastical Hampden ; Mr. Cameron an impertinent
meddler—not, indeed, so much for changing the
ritual on his own authority, as for introducing a
little bit of Tractarianism before his audience was
sufficiently " saturated " with " Catholic truth "
to swallow the whole. The surplus bitterness
of the writer is reserved for the Bishop of London.
It is no business of ours to take up the cudgels for
that active prelate; neither is it our pleasure to
narrow a large question to a small newspaper con-
troversy. But the Times carries a weight of metal
to the " working " of any public question, which
renders it fair to point to its columns for the
most signal illustrations of the real temper of
any party it espouses. We have a right to
point to the columns of the Times for proofs the
most pregnant of that pervading inconsistency, which
we have already denounced as characterising the whole
Ultra-Anglican agitation. It is nothing astonishing
that any individual should resist a parochial innovation.
It is nothing astonishing that the Bishop of London's
zeal of half-measures should excite discontent. But
what is astonishing, or rather, what would be asto-
nising if human nature were consistent—is that the
party who contend a l'outrance for the apostolic suc-
cession and sanctity of Episco?acy—are the party
whose organs set any given Bishop at most blunt de-
fiance—the moment his powers—sacred from all pri-
vate judgment—are exercised against theirs.

STANDARD.—Some of our Contemporaries
have taken a great deal of useless trouble to account
for Mr. O'Connell's last step, dos-a-dos with the
federalists, sliding back to simple repeal. Nobody,
however, who has even slightly observed the
course of the old Saltinbanco s capers and
curvets can be at a loss for the reason of his last
movement. Yesterday was the day fixed for his
benefit, and as on every former year of the last '2O,
he prepared for it by bringing out something very
highly seasoned. Here is the heading of the '
an-
nouncement :—'‘ The National Collection for the
O'Connell Tribute for the present year 1844, is to be
collected simultaneously on to-morrow (Sunday),
the 17th instant, in all the parishes of Ire-
land." Then follows an appeal to " the raggedhe
man," and to the starving man,_
to t
husbands of the unclad, and to the fathers of the
famishing for their halfpence and their farthin s ;
and, honour to whom honour is due, the vile docu-
ment is signed by Sir John Power, Bart., and
Cornelius APLoghlin, Trustees ; and Vincent
Fitzpatrick, Secretary. Does not this sufficiently
account for the mendicant's abrupt. " right
about face," even had we not the evidence of
twenty years' experience, that his rancour and
violence always swell with the November storms,
at the approach of bad weather and of privation
to the poor and why at this particular
season ? Because, if postponed to a later period, his
unhappy slaves—dupes they ure no longer—would I
have eaten up that which he extorts to feed his own
luxury and avarice. Such public enemies are not
to be reasoned with, they are to he punished ; because,
to reason with them would imply a doubt that they