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ROYAL POLYITCHNIC INSTITUTION.
A New Subject in CHEMISTRY of univermti IntereAt
PHILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR; ilitistfAted by
Dr. Ryan in his daily Lectbret, the EVenit4tt
MONDAY, 'WEDNESDAY, and 1.1? (DAY. Professor Bach-
Irtiner exhibits A coinPatisiM beiWecn the Two most powerful
ELECTRICAL MACHINES. KITC'S PATENT SMOKE-CURING
and VENTILATING ROOF, coins, &c., and TAYLOR'S im-
proved domestic FIRE ESCAPE, are Interesting' Novelties described
with the Models. The Picture on the SHRINE of the NATIVITY is
just added to the NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS. ciirLres CHItC•
MATROPE. THE PROTEOSCOPs. The PIIVP.IOSTOPE. EX-
PERIMENTS by means of the DIVEN-ii DELL and DIVER.

ties of the subject: We do not watt for the detailed ex,
planation of the seheme; tel eYcprees bur conViction that tt
pt'oject for founding new Universities, unaccompanied
by provisions for admitting Roman Catholics to the
offices and emoluments of the existing University of Dub-
lin, must, in the present state of feeling and opinion in
Ireland, be a complete and signal failure. The eepe-
rienee of the Charitable Bequests Act ought surely to
show Sir Robert Peel what a deep-rooted distrust of
his intentions exists among the Irish Catholics, and
especially with how fierce a jealousy they regard his
interference in matters appertaining to their religion.
Ile ought to know enough of the temper of that people
to be aware that the agitation against the Bequests Act
is a summer calm, compared with the tempest of political
and religious passion which will break out, from all
points of the compass, if the idea once gets abroad that
he is going to tamper fur his own purposes with Roman
Catholic education, Ercn for the wisest-and most honest
measure he has some reason to apprehend a bad recep-
tion, from the strong prejudices existing against his Go-
vernment; but a measure neither wise nor just can only
exasperate and envenom those feelings of estrangement
which already make the government of Ireland suffi-
ciently difficult. It will not be a wise or just measure,
as it seems to us, to attempt a provision for the higher
education of Roman Catholics in Ireland, without open-
ing to them all the advantages of the existing Univer-
sity. Whether we look at it as a matter of justice
or as a matter of policy, the admission of Roman
Catholics to fellowships, scholarships, and pro-
fessorships in the Dublin University, is the first step to
academical reform. That University not only is at
present, but will long continue, frost its antiquity, the
chief educational institution in Ireliftil. No legislative
fostering eta make a new University etmal to an old one.
The reputation which attracts nambe,..e and the social
influences which stimulate their energies when brought
together, are the pro luct, not of years, but of centuries.
It would be as easy to make a British Constitution off
hand, as to make an Oxford or a Cambridge ; and
although the Irish University is of comparatively
modern date, it is old enough to have secured to itself',
by a thousand ties of habit and association, the educa-
tion of the Irish gentry, and of the higher portion of
the Irish middle classes. Whatever be the peculiar ad-
vantages of this national institution, Roman Catholics
have as good a right to share them as Protestants.
This cannot be denied upon any principle which does
not justify the No-Popery laws and the Protestant
ascendancy of the eighteenth century. Protestant
ascendancy in the University was formerly in har-
mony with the whole system of government. Now it
survives--an unsightly and monstrous fragment of an
edifice which the legislation of the last fifty years has
nearly demolished. If the policy of the No-Popery laws
was wrong, it is the duty of the English Government to
make all the compensation that is possible for the mis-
chief which those laws inflicted. Full compensation is
impossible. Generations will pass before the wounds
left by that cruel policy can be completely healed over.
But to cure what can be cured is a matter of obligation.
The :penal laws put down Roman Catholic education.
They pursued with the most savage punishments those
who dared to teach according to the faith of the people.
The growth of a Roman Catholic university, which might
have acquired from time a preatige like that enjoyed by
Trinity College, was thus rendered wholly impossible.
How can atonement be made for the wrong of the
past, or what compensation is practicable for the depri-
vation thus wilfully inflicted, except by permitting
the injured majority to share in the advantages
which the support and countenance of the State has
hitherto enabled a minority to enjoy. By adopting
the course we recommend, the Government would be
only following out the example set by the University
itself, when so early as 1793 it threw open its gates
to Roman Catholic students. It will be said that Trinity
College is a Protestant foundation. If this mean that it
has been endowed by private munificence, the statement
is not true. The fact is, that it is a public foundation,
its endowments having been bestowed by English Sove-
reigns out of public revenues. It is absurd to say that
with such endowments Parliament may not freely deal,
having due regard to existing interests. The power
which remodelled the Irish Church, and wiped away at
a stroke all the ancient privileges of Irish corporations,
may sorely reform the Irish University. Or, if it be
desirable that royalty should correct what is evil in a
scheme which royalty originated, the charter of the great
Protestant Queen max be adapted to the wants of the
time, by a Sovereign who does not yield to Elizabeth in
concern for the welfare of her people. The legal sup-
pression of Roman Catholic education gives Roman Ca-
tholics a moral claim to a share of the literary advan-
tages of Trinity College ; but if they had no such
claim, prudence would suggest the concession. How
can it be expected that the most intelligent and ener-
getic portion of the Roman Catholic body will be
content, while in the matter of education their po-
sition is one of galling inferiority ? The existence of a
separate university would not materially change this,
for it could not, for the reasons we have mentioned, take
rank with the present college. It is obvious that it
could not do so, even under the most favourable circum-
stances, until it attracted a large number of students.
Supposing numbers collected, they would be all, or nearly
all, Roman Catholics. Is it wise to separate the edu-
cated youth of Ireland thus into two hostile camps ? Is
it safe to give so powerful a stimulus to the bigotry of
each party, as would infallibly be given by the establish-
ment of rival universities ? it has been said that Ro-
man Catholics have no reason to complain, because they
may and do receive education, and take degrees in Tri-
nity College. This is surely a narrow view of the ques
tion. Professorships and fellowships are natural objects
of ambition to students of ability. If literary or scien-
tific talent be deprived of its natural reward, by closing
up the avenues through which it might develops itself, it
is a hardship quite as grievous and as unjustifiable as was
formerly the denial of promotion to Catholic barristers or
Catholic officers. The legal and military disabilities of
Roman Catholics have been removed ; but in litera
ture and science they are still unemancipated. Now, if
there be any one object which a wise statesman would
desire to promote in Ireland, it is the rise of a class of
learned and scientific Roman Catholics, whose main pur-
suits, by bringing them into sympathy with men of dif-
ferent political and religious principles, would create
new links of friendly union between the opposing masses
into which the Irish people are divided. It would be no
small object gained to direct some portion of the energy
and ambition which are now wasted in political struggles,
into pursuits more peaceful and more producttve of last-
ing good. Every motive that can be presented to the
cultivation of literature, science, or art, amongst the
Irish Catholics, will do something to soften the fierce-
ness of political agitation, and to withdraw the na-
tional mind from its exclusive influence. For this
purpose nothing effectual can be done, except by a
reform of Trinity College ; and there would be no
practical difficulty in combining such reform with an
ample provision for the education of the clergy of the
Established Church. There is one strong reason why, as a
matter of prudence, Sir Robert Peel's first step in Irish
academical reform should be to throw open Trinity
College. Such a measure will not raise the embarrass-
ing question of religious instruction, as the proposal of
a new university would. At the first mention of the
latter scheme all the elements of religious discord will
be aroused. A distinct provision for religious instruc-
tion in the tenets of Roman Catholics will provoke op-
position from very various quarters on both sides of the
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the other hand, the proposal of a new college without
religious instruction, will infallibly be regarded by the
Roman Catholic clergy as a subtle contrivance for weak-
ening the faith of their flocks, and promoting infidelity.
We f'ear that Dr. M'llale spoke the sense of most of his
clerical brethren, when upon this ground, a few weeks
back, he denounced Mr. Wyse's scheme of provincial
colleges. But in Trinity College, the Irish public is
familiar with the ftwt of Roman Catholics receiving a
university education without religious instruction. To
remove the disqualifications
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labour could give n
con-
trary, would tend to disarm suspicion, and would be re-
ceived, we believe, as a proof of real anxiety to conci-
liate. After such a commencement, there would be found
far less difficulty in the establishment of a new college in
one of the prov.incial towns, or in any further proceed-
ings which might be deemed necessary.

two different and opposite lines of thought and re-
tion ate perceptible even to the eye of a child.
In the New TeStament, and in the Common Prayer.
book, we find a supper—a communion, and, of
course, a table. But in the Romish Church we find a
sacrifice—a sacrifice offered up—a priest, a sacrificing
priest! to offer it—aand a propitiation for the sins of the
living and the dead included in that sacrifice. Now of
these two distinct and opposite lines we must choose one.
If we prefer to abide by the Scriptures and the Church
of England, we have then a supper ; and. of course, we
must have a table. Any one who looks at the Prayer-
book will see that our Herm tners carefully excluded the
word " altar," and used the word " table," in a dozen
places where a itomanist would have taken the exactly
opposite course. And we cannot diverge from this plain
course ; we cannot take back the " altar" without dis-
tinctly implying that we mean to revert to " the sacri-
fice,"
." the priest." and the propitiatory offering" again.
However, thanks to the care and fidelity of Sir Herbert
Jenner Fast, this danger is for the present averted. Let
this judgment be confirmed, as we doubt not it will be,
in the Court above, and thus become the settled law of
the Church, and a barrier will be erected against the
efforts of the Bomanisers, which will foil their most
strenuous exertions.

the house directly after the surgeon had left it, and
made a minute examination of the room in which the
shocking occurrence had taken place, and, on searching
the floor at the foot of the bed, found two razors, both of
them open and covered with blood, one lying close to
the left footpost of the bedstead, and the other between
the opposite valance and the wall adjoining the window.
Beside the spot where the first-mentioned razor was dis-
covered the officers found a chair, on which was placed
an open razor-case, greatly disfigured with the recent
impressions of bloody fingers, and from an examination
of this it was now evident to them that the wretched
man must have opened the ease, and, selecting one of the
razors, cut his wife's throat with it, then flung the razor
away from him, returned to the case for the second
razor, and, getting into bed with it, afterwards commit-
ted suicide by destroying himself in the same manner.
From the unruffled appearance of the bed-clothes, and
the placid expression on the unfortunate woman's coun-
tenance, it was likewise manifest that she had not been
disturbed by her husband's getting into bed, and that he
must have murdered her in her sleep. The inspector
concluded by stating, that a great number of rumours
were in circulation, assigning motives for the man's com-
mitting such a horrible deed, but that the whole of them
were perfectly groundless, as from all the inquiries he
himself and the other officers had made, it appeared that
the murdered woman and her husband lived on the most
cordial, if not affectionate terms, were in very comfort-
able circumstances, and that it was impossible even to
guess any reason for the perpetration of such adreadful act.
The melacholy occurrence has created a most painful
sensation in the neighbourhood, and attracted vast
crowds to the- house during the whole of the day. The
deceased had lived a great many years in the locality,
and, together with their sons, who are in the same line of
business in the house immediately adjoining, had by the
propriety of their conduct acquired the respect and good-
will of all their neighbours. The bodies are now lying
in in the house, under the care of the police, awaiting'the
coroner's inquest.

CAUTION.

The Public are respectfully requested to pay particular attention
to the Numbers and Dates of all 51., 101., 201., 301., 401., 501.,
1001., 200/., 300/., 500/., and 1,000/. Bank of England Notes
that may be offered in payment ; and before changing them to
examine the same, and compare them with the Lists of the Bank
Notes which have been stolen from Messrs. Rogers and Co., and
which have been advertised successively in the Daily and Weekly
Papers.

Payment ofall the stolen notes is stopped ; and it is particularly
requested that those parties who have obtained lists of the stolen
notes will continue to preserve them for reference; and also that
those persons who have not yet had lists will be pleased to send fee
them, by post or otherwise, to any of the Banking houses in Lon.
don; Messrs. Rogers and Co., bankers, Clement.s.lane, Lombard.
street, London ; Mr. Francis Nobler, Solicitor, 26, Bucklers-
bury, Mansion House, London ; John or Daniel Forrester, Man-
sion House, London ; to any of the Station-houses of the City or
Metropolitan Police ; or to Messrs. Blades and East, printers, Ab-
church-lane, London.

Adnitriitt, 16. ; Schools, Half-price.
The Music i/ Conducted by T. Wallis, 3lus. Doc. During Lent a
Serie. of Lectures on ASTRONOMY will he delivered.

THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-

SHIP.

This interesting monster, whose reluctance to quit
the dock at Bristol gave rise to so much fun, and at the
same time to so much solid trouble, is at length quietly
moored in the Thames—after her trip from Bristol, re-
corded in our paper a few days back, in which she
silenced, by anticipation, many of those objections to her
sailing and seaworthy qualities which are so ready to
start up in the minds of the nautically-wise, and of that
still larger class—the prophets of evil. .81. e is moored
off Blackwall, close to the terminus of the railway, and
nearly opposite the ship-building yard of Mr. Greene,
where her solid mass of dark bulk—•its gigantic opor-
tions scarcely relieved by the six bare poles that stretch
(with the name of masts) from bows to stern—appears
LA monopolise the Pool. The vessel is evident an ob-
ject of unusual interest. Crowds of persons are to be
seen on the pier, from the steam -boat station up to
Lovegrove's Tavern, staring with all their eyes at the
gloomy-looking leviathan in the distance. Others,
more adventurous, put off in the boats that poke
their prows into each other around the stairs, re-
gularly marshalled, and " taking their turns " of
the passengers, to row visitors round the ship or
put them on board. Hawkers of prints, too, find it
worth their while to parade up and down the pier in
the cold and fog, selling for id. a very fair engraving of
the vessel, with a full, true, and particular account of all
her proportions and wonderful exaggerations. We are
not surprised that the Great Britain should excite this
curiosity, or that such numbers should crowd to see
what so many believe is to be at once the alpha and
omega of monster-ships. The old waterman who took
us on board observed on returning, with a❑ awfully pro-
phetic shake of the head, " Glad you've seed the vvessel,
Sir ; don't think she'll ever be seed or heerd of agin I
Tha sea's trouble enough wi' whales, and don't want to
be bothered wi' no more sich big barges as that !" Now,
a great number of persons go to see the ship with fore-
bodings ♦ery similar to those of the exasperated old tar ;
hut most of them must come away with different im-
pressions. Nautical men of course base their opi-
nions upon certain calculations ; and to them the
breadth of the Great Britain (50 feet 6 inches) appears
too little for her length, which is 322 feet. The unscien-
tific spectator, on approaching her side, is certainly
struck with the remarkable length from stem to stern ;
and, looking at her ander the bows, the breadth does
seem utterly inadequate. But this is a question which
the different schools of shipbuilders will settle, pro or
con., to their own satisfaction beforehand, and which
will be disposed of more, we trust, to the satisfaction of
the public after a few successful voyages across the At-
lantic. Those who may take advantage of the facility of
the railway to take a trip to Blackwell, in the expecta-
tion of finding anything beautiful about the Great Bri-
tain, will be mistaken. If their imaginations have
figured one cluster amidst the forest of masts and spars,
towering high above the rest, its crowded canvas taper-
ing in light and elegant diminution to the topmost spire,
an I swaying the " tall ship gracefully," they will be not
a little disappointed to see only a long, monotonous, dark,
half-painted, dingy, coppery halk, not moulded into
shape like a good sailing boat, and yet without the abrupt
bulge which the paddle-boxes cause in ordinary steam-
boats, and which, if unshapely, at least speak of hard
work. If you look above the hulk fur your beautiful
three masts with the graduated outline of their spars and
rigging, you are not a little annoyed at seeing six naked
poles, running like a row of posts from stem to stern,
sad suggesting, in spite of the vastness of the sur,ace
they cover, the idea of a laundress's yard prepared with
props and lines for hanging out the clothes. When the
ship is under full press of sail, the inelegance is none
the less ; because the masts are not high enough to re-
lieve the heaviness of the long bulky mass that forms
the ship.
But, this first disappointment got over, there is every-
thing to admire in this extraordinary effort of huma❑
determination. The Great Britain has evidently been
built not for ornament, but for use. She might easily
have been made more graceful, and perhaps without any
sacrifice of power or safety. her claim to admiration
consists in her plainness and simplicity, the vastness of
her proportions, the rigid utilitarianism with which not
one inch of space is thrown away. There is an ap-
pearance of iron-bound strength which inspires confi-
dence.

THE ALLEGED MURDER AT
LAMBETH.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Carter, the Coroner for East
Surrey, renewed the inquiry into the death of Diana
liemble, alias Campbell, who it may be remembered was
found dead in the passage of her house in Fore street,
on Sunday morning last, under very suspicious circum-
stances, which induced the police authorities to cause
her son, at present in custody, to be charged with sus-
picion of having ill-used his mother, and thereby caused
her death lay an act of violence. On Saturday night
last, about 11 o'clock, the deceased was observed is a
beastly gate of intoxication in Paradise-street ; after
which her son, the prisoner John Campbell, alias
Kensble, took her to the Ship public-house, and after •
wards carried her into the house where she rented a
room, and left her in the passage at half-past 11 o'clock.
Police-constable Whitcomb stated, that about 3 o'clock
on Sunday morning last he took the son of the deceased
into custody on a charge of attempting to commit
suicide. The prisoner rushed from his custody and
ran towards Lambeth-stairs, with the intention of
throwing himself into the river ; he caught hold of
him, when the prisoner said, " I have been the cause of
my poor old mother's death—l have lost my right hand,
and my best and only friend, and I will now find a place
of rest for myself in the water." The prisoner was then
taken to the station-house.

Policeman 57 L deposed, that on Saturday night
last he saw the deceased in Paradise-street exceed-
ingly drunk, and saw her fall in the street. Her son
(the prisoner) was with her, and the son struck at a man
for offering to render her assistance, but did not see the
son ill-use her.

John Le Groves proved that he assisted the prisoner
home with his mother, and left her in the passage about
half-past eleven on Saturday night, but no ill-usage took
place ; on the contrary, the son behaved with the great
est kindness towards the deceased.

David Hughes—Saw a man, who resembled the pri-
soner, and whom he believes to be the person in custody,
in company with a woman on Saturday night, near the
Feathers, in Lambeth. She was an elderly woman, and
the man put his hand out and struck her. She then fell
down, but the man immediately picked her up, and
placed her against a doorway. After this the man said
ho did not care for any man in Lambeth of his own
weight and size. He did not hear any threatening lan-
guage, but he seemed dreadfully cut of temper. The
man seemed as if he struck the woman purposely. lie
was very much in liquor.
The evidence of Mr. Jeffree, the surgeon, went to
show that the deceased died from the effect of a rupture
of a blood-vessel in the brain, occasioned by a blow or
fall, but he thought the latter was the most probable.
The room was then cleared of strangers, and after half
an-hour's consultation, the jury returned a verdict—
" That the deceased died from the effects of the bursting
of a blood-vessel in the brain, occasioned by a fall while
in a state of intoxication."

The interior is fitted up on the same principle. There
is nothing gay or gaudy ; on the contrary, it there be a
fault in the arrangements, it is perhaps that they are
too plain, hard, and cold (so to speak) for comfort and
ease. For this reason the accommodation for fore-
cabin passengers is nearly as good as that in the
chief cabin. It would have been next to impossible to
render them more plain. On the other hand, though or-
nament has been used perhaps too sparingly, every provi-
sion is made for the full accommodation of the passengers.
The ladies have two sitting rooms, separate from the
main room—a vast saloon, in which 300 persons can
dine. The ladies' berths, too, are so situated as to give
them the utmost light and air. There is a promenade
deck immediately over the dining-room, and sheltered
by the upper deck from the air. In fact, there is all
that can be required by the most fastidious voyager,
except that there is a total absence of that costly and
luxurious ornament to which the public are now accus •
tomed in large steamers.
Visitors to the ship should not omit seeing the engine-
room, containing all of the machinery that is not boxed
in and hidden—the life and moving principle of this
marine giantess. The engine is of stupendous magni-
tude; the great wheel (which works a smaller wheel
that turns the screw) spans nearly the whole breadth of
the vessel ; and there is stowage for 2,000 tons of coal.
Lastly, though not least in importance, people must be
prepared with their 3s. 6d. if they wish to see the inte-
rior of the ship ; but its magnitude may be quite as well
judged of by going round it in a boat.—Times.

THE LATE MURDER and SUICIDE

AT FINSBURY.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

Yesterday morning an official communication was
made to Mr. Bingham, the sitting magistrate, at Worship-
street Police-court, by Inspector Jervis, of a frightful
tragedy which had been enacted in the neighbourh )od
of the court in the course of the preceding night.
The inspector stated, that about ten o'clock that morn-
ing information arrived at the police-station in Feather-
stoae-street, that a man named Joseph Barry, a surgical
instrument maker, residing at No. 4, Luke-street, Fins-
bury, had in the course of the night before murdered his
wife, and afterwards destroyed himself by cutting his
throat with a razor. He (the inspector) immediately
proceeded to the house, and ascertained the following
particulars:—lt appeared that the only parties residing
in the house were the man Barry and his wife (both of
whom were considerably advanced in years), and their
youngest son, a lad about fifteen years of age. The
wretched man had been absent on business the greater
part of the preceding day, and on his return home, about
a quarter past ten o'clock at night, after sitting a short
time in the parlour in company with his wife, with whom
he appeared to be on the best terms, lie desired her to go
up stairs to tied, and told her that he would soon after fol-
low her. The wife did as she was directed, and the hus-
band remained in the room below for a considerable
time, apparently asleep in a chair by the side of the fire;
but on being roused by his son, who urged him to retire
to rest, he started up, with a look of peculiar wi.dness
in his eyes, and, wishing him a hasty good night, went
to his sleeping apartment, which was the front room on
the first floor. The son immediately afterwards also
went to bed in a room on the storey above, and on awak-
ing at nine o'clock on the following morning, and pro
cm ding down stairs, he was surprised to find that neither
of his parents had yet risen, as they were both in the
habit of rising considerably earlier. He went up to their
bedroom door for the purpose of calling them, but, re-
ceiving no answer, and finding that the door was locked
on the inside, which was also an unusual circumstance,
his fears became greatly excited, and on looking through
the keyhole he was horror-struck at discovering that
the upper parts of the sheets and bed, which stood
close agairst the window, were completel,' satu
rated with blood. He instantly hastened in a state of
extreme terror to the next house, which was occu-
pied by his two elder brothers, and on apprising
them of what he had just witnessed, they ran back
with him and burst open the bedroom door, when
they found their parents extended aide b% aide
on the bed, with their throats cut in a horrible.
manner, and both of them apparently lifeless. On their
recovering from the shock produced by such an appal-
ling sight, a messenger was dispatched for Mr. Hall, the
surgeon in Paul-street, who soon after attended, but on
examining the bodies, declared
that his aid was useless,
as both the man and his wife had been dead for several
hours. The inspector added, that he, accompanied by
police-constable Eames, of the G division, had arrived at

HERALD.—" A heavy blow and great discourage-
ment" was yesterday inflicted on the Romanising party,
by the judgment of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, in the
stone-altar and credence table question, raised by the
Cambridge Camden Society. No doubt remains, we be-
lieve, from the known pertinacity of the party, that the
qnestion will be carried to a higher Court, by appeal,
and, in fact, will be fought with a desperation to mark
their sense of its importance. But more than half the
battle is won by this decision. The character of the
Learned Judge—his entire freedom from "low church"
predilections—and the care and attention which ho has
bestowed on the question, render it exceedingly irnpro-
le.ble that his decision will be disturbed by the Court
of Appeal. The Romanisers, however, do unquestion-
ably regard this pwstion as one of the last importance
to their cause. An eminent Tractarian, in a western
county, was conversing, a short time back, with
a neighbouring clergyman, on the dissensions in
the Church ; and be plainly expressed his re-
gret that so much commotion should have been
raised about surplices and offertories, and prayers
for the church militant, and other matters which he had
sense enough to perceive to be in themselves of small
importance. " But," said he, " upon the question of
the altar I would take my stand. That is a point which
we can never concede, for in it is involved a doctrine of
first-rate importance. The momentous character of the
suit in Doctors'-commons it is impossible to over-rate."
And ho was right in this estimate. Any ono who con-
sults Dr. Cardwell's valuable collections, will see the
earnestness with which the Reformers of Edward's and
Elizabeth's days bent their attention to the pulling down
altars, and placing communion-tables in their room. And
the main step to the restoration of the mass—if it be ever
restored must unquestionably be the restoration
of the altar on which it is to be offered tip. Ws.;