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blished it ? No. Instead of doing so, they have
courteously and civilly wasted the intermediate pe-
riod in fruitless efforts to persuade the Porte to re-
cognise the right. The question at issue was neither
complicated nor obscure; and the only answer de-
manded from the Sultan should have been a catego-
rical Yes—or—No. If the former were obtained,
diplomacy might have gone to work at once,
and settled the basis of the arrangement; if the
latter, the cannon, the musquet, and the sword,
would have been the best negociators. They would
have spoken in language which could be neither
evaded nor misunderstood. And what has been
gained by delay ? Simply this—that while the
Allied Powers are certainly in no better condition
to strike the blow, which seems, after all, to be
inevitable, the Moslem is in much better condition to
%yard it off.—Ncw Times.

There is not one of the artifices by which the
Popish Faction in Ireland constantly endeavours to
delude the British Nation, that has been more suc-
cessful upon the whole, than their false representa-
tions of the
,numbers, and wealth, and importance of
the Popish as compared with the Protestant inha-
bitants of that country. We hear no speech, we
read no article proceeding from the leaders or the
emissaries of this faction, which does not assert or
imply that they and their blinded and bigotted fol-
lowers constitute in effect. the Irish Nation. The
falsehood to be sure is monstrous and revolting;
yet it has been repeated with so much pertinacity
and boldness, and supported by so unbroken a sue.
cession of plausible but fraudulent details, that it
has to a certain degree imposed upon the cre-
dulity of many well-meaning persons in England.
It is a falsehood indeed which in our view of the
subject does not tend to promote the objects which
the papists have in view, for the same circumstances
which would encrease the danger and difficulty of re-
sisting their encroachments upon the Constitution,
would also, but in a much greater degree, encrease
the necessity and ennoble the duty of that resistance.
Admitting their own audacious exaggerations, as to
their relative importanuin Ireland, they still would
form only a small part of the British Empire—of an
Empire the great majority of whose subjects are
capable of yielding every thing to the suggestions of
reason or of justice—of yielding much, as they have
already shewn in the case of these Irish Papists, to
the impulses of generosity, but incapable of yield-
ing any thing under the influence of fear. But
it is useful, nevertheless, to expose the false-
hoods of a faction, at once so despicable and so
dangerous as this, even when they militate against
its own objects. It is useful to undeceive the well
meaning though timid men, upon whose minds
those falsehoods may have made an undue impres-
sion. And accordingly we have to express our
gratitude to the Guild of Merchants of the .sity of
Dublin, whe have appointed a Committee of their
body; and to that Committee, which has most ably
discharged the duty entrusted to it, to collect and
promulgate facts calculated to throw light upon the
actual position, conduct, and object of the two
great divisions of the Irish people. The report of
this Committee, published in Dublin, relating in
many of its details to circumstances of which every
Citizen of Dublin either has or may easily ac-
quire a perfect knowledge, and thus challenging
contradiction, where contradiction must be the most
easy, states facts i3c) utterly irreconcilable with the
repeated, the incessant allegations of the Popish
Leaders—that the, latter must either disprove these
facts, or hide their heads for ever in shame arid con-
fusion. Unless they mean, indeed, to exhibit to
the world a new 'miracle, transcending any in the
legends of Popery, of men clearly convicted of syste-
matic mendacity, still claiming and obtaining the con-
fidence of their fellow men. 'We will repeat in a
condensed form four of the statements of this Com-
mittee, of the Dublin Guild of Merchants, any one
of which, if true (and if untrue, let them be dis-
proved), would be sufficient to convict every one
of the Popish Leaders in Ireland of wilful menda-
city—of systematic, reckless, audacious falsehood,
in respect to the importance of their party, as a
distinct division of the Irish nation. Ist, This Com-
mittee informs us, that in the
.principal squares of
the city of Dublin, in which the Irish nobility and
gentry who inhabit that city usually reside, there
arc four hundred and sixteen houses, of which twenty-
two only are the houses of Roman Catholics, being
little more than one-twentieth of the whole.-
2dly. It states that in the greatest trading streets of
that metropolis, where the shops are richest- and
most magnificent, the total number of houses is '4ll,
of which only ninety-two, or much less than one
fourth of the whole, are occupied by Roman Catho-
lics. 3dly. It asserts that the Lying-in Hospital of
Dublin, during the three quarters of a century that
it has existed, in which period • 17,000 Catholic
mothers have shared its benefits, has, although it de-
pends chiefly upon voluntary contributions, been
aided by Catholic contributions, amounting in the
aggregate to no more than the insignificant sam of
157/. lOs. It will be discreet on the part of the
Popish Leaders, after the promulgation of this very
important and extraordinary fact, to abstain from those
boasts in which they have recently so much delighted
to indulge, of the wealth and social importance of their
party. The 4th fact, to which we solicit the atten-
tion
of the Public, resting as it does upon the high
authority of the Committee, is one which proves
incontestibly either that • all the property or all the
loyalty of Ireland is Protestant. It was determined,
as our readers know, to commemorate the visit of,
George the Fourth to Ireland, by a monument to
be erected by voluntary contributions. The sum
actually subscribed is 13,0001., the amount of Ca-
tholic
subscriptions being no more than 800/., or
less than one-sixteenth of the whole. It will be re-
collected that this subseription was set on foot at a
moment when the loyal attachment of the Catholics
of Ireland to his Majesty appeared to be the most
enthusiastic. Were the Catholics of Ireland' in
general hypocrites upon this interesting occasion ?
We do not believe it. Yet we must believe this,
or disbelieve the demagogues of the Association.and
ether demagogues in various parts of Ireland, when
they assert, as they have often done, that a large
proportion of the wealth of Ireland is in Catholic
hands. We prefer the latter alternative. The
amount of Catholic Rent, as it is called, may per-
haps be objected to our view of this subject. But
the distinction between the two cases is palpable
enough. The monument of loyalty was to be
erected by the spontaneous oblations of the affluent—
the Rent is plunder extorted from penury and igno-
rance, by a callous Priesthood, wielding the terrors
of superstition.—Morning Post.

STOMACH OF THE HORSE.—It is popularly
known that a horse cannot be made to vomit. This is
owing to one half of the stomach being covered by an insen-
sible cuticle ; and when an emetic substance is exhibited,
the food is thrown upon this part of the stomach,' and re-
mains there. The attempt, however, was once successful ;
but it cost the animal its life—the stomach being burst by
the violence of its efforts.—London Maly Review.
WORDSWORTH, AND SIR WALTER SCOTT'S
Roe ROY.—When " ROB Roy " first appeared, a party was
made at Mr. Joi; WILSON'S house at Elleray, to read it.
Mr. WORDSW ORTH was invited, among others, to the
party ; and, as a special inducement to go, he was in-
formed that the illustrious author had chosen the motto for
his novel from his name-sake poem, " Roe ROY." The
verbose and venerable Laker accordingly went; and when
the volumes were laid on the table, he eagerly turned to
the title-page, when he read—
" For why ? because the good old rule '"i7:44,1*
Sufficeth them—the simple plan A- ''
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can."
" Ladies and gentlemen," ,Broth the Author of the "Ex-
cursion " and other universally'-read Poems, " you see this
motto : it is from a poem of nune,—the volume contain-
ing which I have brought in my pocket; and lest you
should not understand the novel for want of knowing
thoroughly my poem, I mean to read my verses to you."
He accordingly began—
" A famous man was Robin Hood," &c.
and went on to the conclusion, not even omitting a comma,
and then putting the vivacious tome into his pocket again,
he said, " Ladies and gentlemen, I leave you to your
novel," and walked home !--London Weekly Review.