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en the south side, and for several years the favoured abode of
WM. KNIGHT DEHANY, ESQ., DECEASED.
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THE BASEMENT IS QUITE PERFECT,
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There are
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the nations of the east, or sail forth with Columbus to
discover new worlds in the west. They may pee
into all the unlocked treasures of universal anti
quity, or they may. with all the zeal and enthusiasm
of patriots, trace the history of their own country,
from the time when the Roman Caesar landed upon
her shores, until, passed through the fiery trials
which she had to endure from Pict and Scot, Saxon,
Dane, and Norman, the conquerors and the con-
quered, all became fused into one mighty mass, and
the fierce struggle began which has gradually changed
and developed the constitution from the aspect which
it wore in feudal times, into that form of rational
liberty which it now bears—(Hear, hear, and
applause)—and which, much as we may cavil at and
criticise it in the excitement of political warfare,
makes our country the dear, delightful Old England,
which we still rejoice to call her in our lighter moods
and hours of relaxation—(Cheers)—or Young Eng-
land, if you would better like to have it so, aye, as
young in energy, as young in strength, as young in
capability, vitality, and prowess, as when her Ed-
wards and her Henrys led forth her chivalry to con-
quest, or when Elizabeth grasped her sceptre in her
hand, the type of our own Victoria, as well in the
truly English complexion of her character as in the
hold which she possessed over the hearts and affec-
tions of her people.—(Loud cheers.) And it is ac-
cording to the fitness of things, according to the
precedent of times gone by, that literature and the
arts and the sciences, and institutes for their protec-
tion and encouragement, should flourish in this great
seat of commerce. There has ever been a close al-
liance between the fine arts and the merchant princes
of the world.—(Cheers.) We read in that book
which is the highest of all authorities, that Solomon,
when building his splendid and glorious temple, sent
for the most skilful and cunning of his workmen from
Tyre, the queen of waters.—(Cheers.) At a
later period, it is to the commercial cities of
Greece that we turn to witness the arts in
their glory, and to behold the most refined and po-
lished people of their day. As we come down the
stream of time, and reach the middle ages, we find
the great protectors of literature, and the most de-
voted champions of intellectual improvement among
the leading men of the flourishing mercantile com-
munities of Italy. And as it was then, so it is now
in our own country, and from what I have seen of
the inhabitants of Hull, their literary tastes, their
colleges, their institutions for encouraging the arts
and developing the mind, quite certain am I that
commerce still preserves its charter, and is as much
the guardian of science, the patron of mental cultiva-
tion, and the advocate of refinement and education in
the nineteenth century, as at any former period in the
history of the world.—(Loud cheers.) And now,
before I sit down, I must say a word or two to those
who are enjoying the intellectual advantages which
this Institution, so happily for them, places within
their reach. Next to religion, and subject to religion,
mental cultivation is the best gift which man can
possess. But to make it so, we must appreciate all
its value. You come here to be educated and to edu-
cate yourselves. But what is education? It is not
merely to hear so many lectures and to read so many
books, and then to go away and forget all that you
have been listening to and reading. This is tempo-
rary excitement, and not education.—(Hear, hear.)
Education is to be judged of as it makes you wiser or
better and more useful men in your age and gene-
ration—(Hear, hear)—and to produce this end, lec-
tures and books are means, but, remember, only
means. There is a wide difference between means and
ends. The guide-post by the wayside is a means.
It points to the road you are to take, but you are
to perform the Journey. A ship is a means of trans-
port; the end to be accomplished, a successful
voyage to whatever region of the earth your business
may call you. But if, when you are embarked,
you never weigh the anchor, never set sail, but still
abide at your original moorings, what signifies it that
the breeze is fair and the weather favourable; you are
on ship-board to be sure, but still, although you should
remain there to all eternity, you will be no nearer
your destination than you were at first—an anchored
vessel makes no way.—(Cheers.) Recollect, also, in the
pursuit and acquisition of knowledge, to classify and
arrange the various branches of information which you
accumulate, so as, if I may borrow a somewhat trite
and worn-out phrase, to have each and every
one ticketed and ready for use at a moment's notice,
whenever you may want it. A chaos of learning is
much more wonderful than it is advantageous to its
possessor. The man with every sense, but common
sense, is as helpless as a child when exposed to the rub
and bustle of the world. It is the philosopher over again,
who, when the vessel in which he was embarked was
about to founder, having read much in books
of anchors of hope and anchors of safety, but knowing
nothing practically of their use, lashed himself to the
best bower, and then smiled in lofty pity at the igno-
rance of the poor creatures who were going to trust
themselves to rafts and planks.—(Laughter and
cheers.) Bear in mind, too, that the human
intellect, like the whole body, is all the better
for healthy exercise. It is not like the miser's
treasure which perishes in the using. It is not even
like the fabled tree of heathen mythology, from
which, when its once golden bough was plucked,
another ever shot forth to supply its place. It
is a treasure which increases, and only can
be increased, by constant use.—(Applause.) In this
point of view the intellect of man is a complete para-
dox. It is disuse which wastes, consumes, and im-
pairs it, while use adds to it, enlarges, and to all its
original capital brings interest and compound interest,
at a rate of per centage which no usury ever dreamed
of in the world.—(Cheers.) One other hint, and I
have done. " Drink deep or taste not" at the
intellectual fountain. You can never be too
wise or too good. It was, as you have
been told once before this evening, a saying of the
great Sir Isaac Newton, " that he appeared to him-
self only as a child picking up pebbles from the shore,
while the great ocean of truth lay unexplored before
him." The most aspiring genius can hardly hope to
be a Newton in the lofty flight of his exalted mind
and surpassing talents, but his humility is within the
reach of all, and a more becoming mantle cannot rest
upon the shoulders of the most gifted scholar.—
(Cheers.) And you, the friends and patrons, and advo-
cates of this Institution, cease not from the support
which you have hitherto given to it, but rather
increase your fostering care in its behalf. It is a fit-
ting ordinance of Providence that the interests of all
classes of the community are closely bound up to-
gether.—(Hear.) No one member of the body po-
litic can suffer long without all the other members
suffering with it.—(Hear.) No pestilence, whether
plague or ignorance, no disease, moral or physical, can
for any length of time afflict those who dwell around the
base of the social pillar without eventually infecting
the atmosphere breathed by those who occupy its
pinnacle. But this is only appealing to your
selfishness, while it is rather the spirit of philanthropy
which we wish to see invoked and stirred within you.
Calculate, then, the immensity of good which this
institution may be the means of working for mankind.
—(Applause.) But you cannot calculate it. We
live in an age when the circulation of the human
species, if I may so phrase it, through annihilated
time and space, is almost miraculously accelerated,
so that it is impossible even to guess how far and
fast mind may act upon mind, or how soon u,
the intellectual leaven which you cast into the great n
human mass at this point of the empire to-day, may
be working and fermenting at its very opposite ex-
tremity. May the march of improvement go on and
prosper under your auspices ! I want to see Eng-
land as celebrated for the intellect and civilisation of
her people, as she is famous for the loom, the shuttle,
the plough, and the ship.--(Cheers.) I want to see
her as mentally refined as she is mechanically
strong.—(Loud cheers.) I want, in short, to see her
made more and more a country, at the very thought
and recollection of which the Esto perpetua, the " Be
thou eternal" of the Italian, may spring to the lips of
all her sons—a country to which, in whatever region
of the world their lot may place them, their pride and
affections may still cling with undying tenacity,
while their feelings find themselves a voice in the lan-
guage of the poet—
" Where'er I roam, whatever climes I see,
My heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee."
—(Loud and long continued cheering, amid which
the reverend and eloquent gentleman resumed his
seal

HULL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
(Abridged from the Hull Advertiser.)
A grand literary soiree took place at the Hull
Mechanics' Institute on Wednesday evening week, and
was by far the finest meeting—unconnected with
politics--which has taken place in this town for
many years.
The arrangements made for the reception of the
vast concourse of visitors, by the Committee of the
Mechanics Institute, were judicious and complete.
A few minutes before seven o'clock the platform was
filled, with the exception of the seats reserved for
the speakers, who shortly afterwards entered the Hall.
Dr. Alderson, the President of the Institution, took
the chair, and was supported on his right by Joseph
Jones, Esq., the Mayor of Hull • M. T. Baines, Esq.,
the Recorder of Hull ; the Rev. james Aspinall, M.A.,
Rector of Althorpe, Lincolnshire ; Sir William Low-
throp, James Henwood, Esq., and Thomas Thomp-
son, Esq. ; on the left of the Chairman were Sir John
Hamner, Bart., M.P., Sir Walter Charles James,
Bart., M.P., R. F. Horner, Esq., M.D., President of
the ull Literary and Philosophical Society, and
Major M`Cleverty, of the 48th Regiment.
The CualemAx, on rising, was received with loud
applause. After some preliminary observations, and
reading letters apologising for their absence from
Professor Phillips, the Right Hon. Tennyson D'Eyn-
court, and other gentlemen, he concluded by calling
upon Sir John Hanmer to ac.,',,Tress the meeting.
Sir JOHN Hamase, M.P., then came forward, and
was received with loud cheers. He congratulated
them on the progress which the Institution had made
since its foundation in 182 G, and spoke in glowing
terms of the advantages which had been conferred
upon the working men of England by this and other
similar Institutions.
The Hon. Baronet was followed by Sir W. James,
M. T. Baines, Esq., the Recorder of Hull, and Dr.
Horner, the President of the Hull Literary and Phi-
losophical Society, who addressed the meeting in elo-
quent speeches, for which we have not room.
The CHAIRMAN then said the company would now
be favoured with an address from the Rev. James
Aspinall.—(Loud and reiterated cheering.)
The Rev. JAMES ASPINALL, Rector of Althorpe,
Lincolnshire, on rising, was greeted with repeated
bursts of applause. He spoke as follows :—Ladies
and Gentletnen,—Next to the pleasure of having de-
livered the addresses to which we have listened this
evening, I rank the privilege of having been allowed
to hear them. I labour, however, under one dis-
advantage from it, namely, that the very field upon
which I have to enter has been so thoroughly cleared,
even to its gleanings, by the harvesters who have pre-
ceded me, that I can only hope to press the same
topics upon you, and to array in a new garb of words
the same ideas which have already been set before you
so eloquently and so well.—(Hear.) It would be
more than Utopian to anticipate that we are approach-
ing a period when human nature shall be altogether
purged of its more bitter feelings and evil passions;
but I do think that we are entering upon the dawn of
a new and better era in the world's history, and that
more humanising impulses and influences of Chris-
tianity are beginning to tell upon the hearts of men
with unusual strength, softening, if not removing, the
bigotry of selfishness, throwing down the exclusive-
ness of caste, and thawing the long frozen up charities
of our nature into a wide deep stream of philanthropy
and kindness.—(Applause.) We cannot take up any
of the journals of the day without reading that the
high and influential, the great and the rich, of the
land, feeling that they have duties as well as rights,
are holding meetings in all directions to devise schemes
and plans for the welfare and happiness of their less
elevated fellow-subjects, some studying how to pro-
mote their intellectual cultivation, others anxious to
provide for their bodily comforts and cleanliness, to
improve their habitations, and to obtain from them
public walks and parks for healthful exercise and
joyous recreation and amusement. We see a further
symptom of this amended spirit of the age in the fact,
the great, and I would call it the extraordinary fact,
the almost phenomenon, which we have lately wit-
nessed in many of our chief marts of commerce,
where those honours, and rewards, and congratu-
lations,'which heretofore have been reserved for heroes
and conquerors, have in his triumphant progress from
place to place, been showered by acclamation upon
the great Wellington of peace, who, with his Chinese
treaty, for his Waterloo, in his hand, has been enthu-
siastically welcomed by a grateful country, and pro-
nounced worthy of all the laurels of victory without
any of its blood.—(Loud cheers.) We have, too, I
think, another proof of the same improved temper of
the times in this very meeting, at which we see men
of all parties and opinions assembled, as within the
temple of Janus, with its gates closed, and the olive
branch of peace uniting us together, as with one
heart, bent upon one object.—(Applause.) The
prince of antiquity sighed for a new luxury, and we
have it here in the shape of the lull, the calm, the
respite which we are enjoying between the past and
the coming gusts of party warfare.—(Cheers.) But
now to come to the more immediate object for which
this institution was founded, and to promote which we
are all here. It is no selfish, no paltry cause which
has brought us' together.—(Hear.) It is to help the
development of the human mind, and to satisfy the
yearnings of' the people after instruction and im-
provement. It is to give somewhat of the poetry of
life to those who are compelled to endure so much of
the prose.—(Cheers.) There was indeed a time when
it was stoutly urged " that the ignorance of the
masses was the safeguard of the nation." No worse
delusion ever found advocates to defend it.—(Hear.
hear.) Ido not think that the popular mind of this
great kingdom can be too enlightened.—(Applause.) A
little knowledge may, I grant, be a dangerous thing ;
but, as it has been well observed, it is dangerous in
exact proportion to its littleness.—(Hear.) The
remedy is easy, and at hand. Enlarge it, and you
not only end the peril, but neutralise the maxim. In
society a reasoning man is always more reasonable
than an ignorant one. And it is the same with men
in the aggregate as it is with man the individual.
Ignorance in the people is ever the parent of blind
discontent, making them the dupes of every impostor,
and the victims of every exaggerated false and idle
rumour.—(Cheers.) But we are battling with a
shadow when we enter this arena of discussion.
While the advocates pro and con were busily
employed in arguing the question—education
or no education? —it was suddenly taken
out of their hands, and settled at once for
them. The . clock had struck, and its finger
pointed to the last hour of the intellectual night.—
(Applause.) While they were debating, the school-
master was already abroad, and his work was begun.
(Hear.) All antiquated prejudices on the subject
were peremptorily put down with 'the old coaches and
stago-waggons—(Laughter)—and it was seen that a
railroad of intellect was established as well as a rail-
road for travelling.—(Cheers and laughter.) The
spirit of man had broken loose after the thraldom of
ages, and who could again drag it back to captivity ?
—(Hear.) The human mind walked forth, free and
erect, from the dungeon of ignorance and darkness,
and it was found to be a Gulliver that no Lilliputian
host could pin or fetter to the earth. The intellectual
Nile was full to overflowing, and ready to burst its
banks. Was it to be flood or fertility ? Was it to
be a wide wasting deluge, sweeping all before it to
destruction, or was it to be controlled, directed, led to
fatten and enrich the soil, and repay with a bounteous
harvest those who had undertaken its cultivation ?
This new question was not long left unanswered.
England is pre-eminently a practical country, and
thousands of schools started, as if by magic, from the
ground, for the education of the, younger portion
of the population, while mechanics institutes sprung
up in all directions for those who were a little
more advanced in years, and who required a higher
degree of training and mental cultivation.—(Cheers.)
In one of these monuments to the spirit of the age
are we now assembled; in one of these—to use the
happy phrase of one of your local journals—" the
Oxford and Cambridge of the industrious artisan, the
studious clerk, and the diligent, sober shopman," who,
when the hours of toil ate over, feel within them
more ennobling aspirations than to fritter away their
leisure time in idle or evil company ; but prefer rather
to cultivate the intellect which God has given them,
and to prove themselves worthy of the lofty endow-
ment, by using it profitably and becomingly. And
here, by the lectures which are delivered to them, and.
by the stores of learning which are unfolded and
placed within their reach, are their minds expanded
and their tastes elevated and improved.—(Much
applause.) Here are they not only stimulated and
encouraged to intellectual activity, but the proper
path in which to direct it is set before them.—(Hear,
hear.) Here, in the study of the page of history,
men of the present are brought in contact, as it were,
with men of the past, and the mighty dead seem to
come forth from their tombs to improve and instruct
the living. Here, according to their several tastes
and tempers, they may hold converse with the philo-
sophers of Greece or the heroes of Rome. They may
watch the progress of civilisation, the spread of
science, or the advancement of literature.—(Ap-
plause.) They may march with Alexander to subdue

IRELAND.

MR. O'CONNELL'S REPLY TO ARCHBISHOP
CROLLY.

tht,nuN, JAN. 16.—Tbe Dublin Evening Post con-
tains the following letter :
"TO MS GRACE THE MOST REV. DR. CROLLY, LORD
ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH.
" Darrynane Abbey,
Octave of the Epiphany, 1845.
"Revered Lord—Allow me, most respectfully to offer
my humble, but most hearty, thanks to your Grace, for
the very kind and flattering manner in which, after re-
buking the mistake I had fallen into, you have condes-
cended to speak of me in your letter, published in the
Dublin Evening Post of Saturday last.
" I avail myself of the same medium to retract at
at once, and unequivocally, any assertion of mine that
may apply or seem to apply, to the document published
by your Grace, as being uncanonical.
" I freely avow that the document given by your Grace
to the public is perfectly canonical ; and even if my
private opinion had been otherwise,l would at once yield
it to the authority with which that document is now
clothed. I, however, never did intend to express the
idea that such A document as that really in question could
be uncanonical.
" If you permit me to refer to my letter, you will find
that I acted from misinformation ; which made me con-
ceive that the document treated of matters of a tem-
poral nature ; or matters relating to the political rights
and liberties of the Irish people.' Such a document
would plainly be uncanonical, and directly repugnant to
our oaths abjuring all power and authority in the See of
Rome in matters purely temporal.
" Before the appearance of your Grace's letter, there
was, naturally, great excitement in the public mind.
'l' he distinct avowal in the Morning Chronicle that the
Whigs, when in office, had a politico-religious agent in
Rome—the shout of triumph which emanated from the
Tory press, on the completion of the Commission under
the Bequests Act, containing a similar avowal of an
agent from the present Government in Rome—these,
combined with many sinister reports—confirmed, as
they appeared to be, by a letter published in the Globe,
and extracted from that paper in the Evening Post of
Thursday, the 9th of January—filled the public mind
with just alarm. The Globe letter affected to quiet our
fears. It admitted however that a Mr. Aubin resided
at Rome, though according to the Globe letter, he
had nothing to do there. What is sufficiently curious
is, that the Globe proceeds to state that Aubin had been
preceded by Mr. Seymour, the actual ambassador at
Florence. Aubin supplied the place of Seymour, and
the Globe tells us that, on the death of Aubin, Petro was
appointed to the situation. This is called an anoma-
lous position ;' but Petro, besides being in an anomalous
position at Rome, is still attache to the English Ministry
at Florence. It is stated that his salary is very trivial,
not exceeding that of his paid attache. He has, then,
a salary, and is at Rome—doing what ? It is not
said—and it would be laughed at if it were said—that
the affairs of the English Catholics require any such
agency at Rome. It is plain his agency can relate only
to Ireland.
" Now, those, your Grace perceives, are all admissions
of an underhand agency by the Court of England at
Rome.

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1, New Boswell-court, Lincoln's Inn,
Solicitor to the Duke of Normandy.

January 17, 1845.

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" At such a period, and with these facts staring us in
the face, it is natural that much alarm should exist; and
I, with profound deference, and without any species of
flattery, respectfully state that your Grace has shown
great wisdom in producing to the public the actual, and,
as I understand, the only document received from Rome,
and in taking the trouble of repeating the pledge which
the Irish prelacy have given, to use every influence in
their power to prevent any such insidious scheme as the
Concordat, which (I use your Grace's words) would
be destructive of the purity and independence of our
holy religion.
"I have only to add that, of course, I concur, with
true humility and in perfect sincerity, in the wisdom of
the resolution proposed by the Lord Bishop of Elphin,
and seconded by the Lord Bishop of Clogher. Indeed,
it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to procure
me to differ with those more estimable prelates—the first
of them, my beloved friend of many years standing. the
sweet dove of his church ;' the second, esteemed not
only by me, but revered by every one who knows him
for his splendid talents, his profound erudition, and his
ardent attachment to the poor of the Lord. Besides
being most distinguished members of the episcopal order,
they aro both most sincerely devoted Irishmen, full of
zeal for the restoration of that political state of things in
Ireland which would make the confinement of the poor-
houses unnecessary—leave the prison door unclosed and
open—feed the hungry—clothe the naked—and admi-
nister every comfort to those afflicted with destitution or
disease.

Such motives as these, worked out in the spirit of
universal charity, and meek and unpretending firmness,
are dear to the Holy See, consolatory to the heart of his
Holiness, and render the Catholic religion, which we
profess, not only illustrious, but perfectly sanctified.
i‘ Again offering my most humble but fervent grati-
tude to your Grace, for your personal kindness to me,
of which I shall ever be proud—also for the dignified
and truly Catholic declaration you have voluntarily made
on.the subject of the Concordat, and for the publication
of the real, and, therefore, truly canonical document
from Rome.'
I have the honour to be, with the most sincere vene-
ration and profound respect, my Lord Archbishop, of
your Grace the most humble, faithful, and devoted ser-
vant, " DANIEL O'CONNELL.
P.S. I think I am bound to inform your Grace, that
if there were a properly chosen judge, a properly se-
lected jury, I much fear, that such is the state of the
laNl, that an indictment would lie against your Grace for
your most useful and most candid publication."
Referring to this letter, the .Erening Post says :
" We publish it with great pleasure, inasmuch as its ten-
deicy is to remove such misunderstanding between par-
tiei so eminent as may have arisen out of recent trans-
actions. On all hands, therefore, the rescript is acknow-
ledged—as we anticipated it would be—as canonical."
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
CRIMINAL INFORMATIONS.—Thomas T. CHAMBER-
LAINE V. TILE PROPRIETORS OF THE "FREEMAN'S JOUR-
NAI..."—Mr. Tomb moved, on behalf of the plaintiff, for a
conditional order for a criminal information against the
prOprietors of the Dublin Weekly Freeman's Journal, for
the publication of a libel in that paper of the 16th No-
vember last. The alleged libel was contained in a letter
of the Rev. N. M'Evoy, P.P. of Kells, and in the edi-
tor's comments thereon ; and also in the editor's com-
ments upon a charge of Mr. Sergeant Howley, the as-
sistant-barrister for the county Tipperary.—The Court
(after some hesitation) granted the conditional order.
SAME U. THE PROPRIETOR OF THE PILOT NEWSPAPER.
—Mr. Tomb moved for and obtained a similar order
against the Pilot newspaper.

TEMPERANCE—CHARGE OF DISLOYALTY.
IP consequence of a statement which appeared in the
Limerick Chronicle, attributing disloyalty to teetotallers,
Father Mathew has addressed a letter to that journal,
dated Cork, Jan. 13. The Rev. Gentleman says :
" The conclusion of the article afflicted me deeply—
tho charge against the Tipperary band, of profaning, by
music, the Lord's day, I can bear with equanimity. I
claim the enjoyment of Gospel liberty. The celebra-
tion of Divine worship was not in any way inter-
rupted, and I do not hold that, in itself, a tune from
a temperance band on that sacred day is sinful. The
fall, of a drunkard, for which these sweet sounds are
substituted, would, on any day, wound the sanctity
of a jealous God. But the charge of having on a
little flag a harp, with crown reversed, and turned
down, I read with horror. It was a cruel charge, and
from the Limerick Chronicle, too, my earliest and
unswerving advocate in the hour of my distress and
humiliation. The little flag borne before the Tipperary
band, did not belong to the Temperance Society of that
'own. It was intended for the band alone, and had on
tin large letters the word Tipperary,' and under it
he symbols of music, poetry, and harmony, instead of
he word band.' In all the music shops these symbols
re attached to the different pieces for sale, and in the
ewspapers they sae generally over what is termed the
Pets Corner.' I inclose one cut this moment out of
provincial journaL There is no portion of our beloved
inien's subjects more attached to the throne and royal
erson, than the teetotallers of Ireland and their presi-
ent. They would shed their heart's blood in defence of
oth. May her rein be long and glorious, and may un-
Hayed domestic felicity bless all her days.—l am, with
igh respect, dear Mr. Editor, yours, most sincerely,
" THEOBALD MATHEW."
THE CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT.
DUNDALK.—A most numerous and respectable meet-
ig of the inhabitants of Dundalk took place in the Old
hapel, on Sunday last. We never witnessed more en-
thusiasm in any popular assemblage. A few minutes
after two o'clock, the Very Rev. Dr. Coyne, accompanied
by his curates, entered the chapel, and was shortly after
followed by a great number of the leading requisitionists.
With scarce an exception, every respectable Roman Ca-
tholic
this
a t inro
atrocious
at his post, to protest against
The chair was taken by the Very Reverend Dr.
Coyrie, V. G., who addressed the meeting at some length.
nwohnaetce,esityw,ilvietxhprtehsast_m(oGstreianpcohreteatngd)o_eua-
I may say it is the bane of Ireland.--(Cheers.) I have
He said—This Act is a most woful measure—
read O'Connell's letter, and I may say fairly that he has
indeed given the Bill the coup de grace.—(Loud cheers.)
measure
universal
as condemnationpernicious
iu ot
its
ment before our minds, to delay the meeting with any
lengthenedtThhe eArbcti
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condemnation
f a
tendsmcy as any that ever afflicted an oppressed country.
—(Prolonged applause).
Several resolutions were passed, amongst which was
the following

The meeting was then addressed by Joseph Jones,
Esq., the Mayor of Hull ; James Henwood, Esq. ;
Sir W. Lowthrop ; Mr. Alderman Thompson, and
other gentlemen. Thanks were voted to the Chair-
man, the Members for the borough, and the Recorder,
and other gentlemen who attended the meeting, and
who severally returned thanks.

HEROIC CONDUCT OF A SAlLOR.—Thursday morn-
ing, as Mr. Braddy, of St. Margaret's Bank, Roches-
ter, was being rowed up the Medway, lie saw 'a boy
fall overboard from a steam-tug,, and having given the
alarm, two sailors from her Majesty's ship Comus put off
in a boat and rowed to the spot. When they got to the
place he had sunk, but ene of them plunged into the
water, dived, and brought up the lad in a state of in-
sensibility ; but he was speedily restored.

" That whilst, as Catholics, we are determined to re-
spect with scrupulous fidelity of submission the legiti-
mate authority of the Holy See in all spiritual matters,
we are equally resolved, as loyal subjects and Irishmen,
to repudiate and resist any and every attempt of the
Pope,:or any foreign potentate whatever, to intermeddle

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KILLEGNY.—A very numerous meeting of thee Ca .
tholic inhabitants of the union of Killegny, county Wex
ford, was held at Poultpeasty, on last Sunday, the I 2t: a
instant, for the purpose of expressing their unqualifie,
disapprobation of the odious Charitable Bequests; Bill
The Rev. Thomas Furlong was unanimously voted tA I
the chair. A petition and resolutions were adopted it
accordance with the object of the meeting.— TY esfon
Independent.
OUTRAGES IN THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK.—A strong:
party of armed men, twelve in number, some with their
faces blackened, visited the house of Patrick Kennedy.
between Camas and Bruff, in broad day, on Monday„
when they inquired of the inmates if there were any.
landlords in that quarter raising the price of land, cattle,%.
or potatoes ? If so, they said, " They were the arbi-
trators, and had come to decide on such matters." Th.v.
rustic commissioners then took leave. A party of five
armed men entered the dwelling of Thomas Duggan,
near Abington, between seven and eight o'clock on 'Mon-
day morning, and forcibly carried away his gun, which
was registered. Soon after as Constable Rowan, of tho-
Capawhite-station, was on his way to this city to attend
Quarter Sessions, he observed five men running through
the fields, and subsequently met Duggan on the road,,
who acquainted him of the outrage. The police con-
stable hurried on to Barrington's-bridge-station, and
having apprised the party of what he had seen, they
went at once in pursuit of the gang, whom they chased
into the mountains of Glenstall, and after a harassing
run, fortunately succeeded in apprehending two of them,
while in the act of crossing a high ditch. —Li merick
Chronicle.

The Duke of Manchester has arrived at his seat ;in the
north of Ireland, from lii►nbolton Castle, Huntingdon-
shire. We learn that favourable accounts have been re-
ceived from Portugal of the Duchess's health.

REDUCTION OF DUTY ON TEA.
On Thursday an influential meeting of merchants, im-
porters, and wholesale dealers in tea, and of persons
connected with the China trade, was held at the Jeru-
salem Coffee-house. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P., in
the chair. Amongst the number present were Mr.
Bates, Mr. Dent, Mr. Twining, Mr. Moffatt, Mr. Greg-
son, Mr. King, Mr. Dallas, Mr. Peek, Mr. Norton, Mr.
Small, Mr. Lewes, and others.
The meeting was well attended, and much valuable
information was communicated relative to the trade
with China. It was unanimously agreed to address the
Government, and bring under its notice the exorbitant
duty now levied on tea, and to express the opinion of the
meeting that such a reduction should be made as would
not only benefit the consumer of tea in this country, bat
also be the means of extending our trade with China.
JOSHUA BATES, Esq., then moved a resolution, ad-
verting to the present exorbitant and injurious duty on
tea, and recommending a considerable reduction therein ;
which was seconded by Titomas DENT, Esq.
Mr. NORTON moved, and Mr. JOSHUA BATES se.
conded, " That the thanks of the meeting be given to
John Abel Smith, Esq., for the courteous and effective
manner in which he has presided over the meeting:"
The resolution was carried with acclamation, and the
meeting adjourned.