The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-23 00:00:00

ART-UNION OF LONDON.

(Continued from our Afternoon E lition of yesterday.)
The principal prizes drawn were as follows :
Mr. W. Christall 7

Mr. W. Durrant, Norfolk

Mr. T. Longman, Paternoster•row
Mr. A. G. Frazier, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Mr. F. Cooper, Worcester
Mr. Butler Williams, Waterloo place
Mr. G. Twiss, Cambridge
Mrs. Puget, Finchley-road
Mr. C. Clayton, Cambridge
Rev. A. R. Lloyd, Whittington
Mr. W. Macdonald, Glasgow

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. 200
. 100

Mr. E. Shepherd, Coventry
Mr. John Jarman, Half Moon-street
Mr. S. E. Doyd
Sir E. Perry, Bombay
Mr. W. F. Moore, Isle of Man 4O
Mr. George Stone, Spital•square a bronze
Miss Dawson, Dublin a bronze
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Mr. John Simpson, Kennington
Mr. G. Phillips, Liverpool
Miss Calhoun

Mr. E. Ballard, Islington
Mr. J. Stewart, Bank of England 5O
Mr. W. Davidson. Glasgow

Mr. Rearey, Stoke-upon-Trent
Mrs. Beale, Barnstaple 5O
Mr. Halsted, Chippendale 5O
Mr. James Watt, Wych-street 4O
Mr. Edward Westall, Croydon
Mr. T. Dakin, King William-street
Mr. James, Mayor, Astley-crescent
Mr. J. G. Playner, Helston
Mr. John Burton, Princes street

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Mr. George Harcourt, Chertsey
Mr. H. S. Bedley, Berks
Sir Martin A. Shee
Mr. T. M. Gresham, Dublin 4O
Mr. A. G. Neiler, Regent-street
Mr. C. Rickards, Piccadilly
Miss Armstrong, Stafford 4O
Lady Briscoe, Buckingham
Mr. Archibald M'Leod, Nova Scotia
Mr. N. B. Macfarlan, Cheapside
Mr. John Cobbold, Ipswich
Mr. W. F. Watson, Chelsea
Mr. Henry Renshaw, Strand
Mr. Charles Dolman, Birmingham 7O
Mr. Edward Dickenson, Jerusalem Coffee-house
Mrs. Staple, Pimlico
Lord Frederick Beauclerk 3OO
Mr. Henry Simeon, Suffolk
When the drawing had concluded thanks were voted
to the Secretaries, to the Ladies who had assisted at the
wheel, and to the Chairman, after which the meeting se-
parated.
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THE MAYNOOTH BILL.
ADJOURNED AGGREGATE PROTESTANT MEETING
Last night a meeting was held in the large room of Exeter-
hall, being an adjournment of the one lately held in Covent-
garden Theatre. The principal object of the meeting was to
decide upon what steps it was necessary to take in con-
sequence of the second reading of the Maynooth Bill being
carried in the House of Commons.
On the motion of Mr. LORD, secretary to the Anti-May-
nooth Committee, the Most Noble the Marquis of Breadalbane
was called to the chair.
The meeting was opened by the Rev. Dr. HOLLOWAY
offering up a prayer ; after which the Rev. Mr. MELVILLE
read the 2d Psalm.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE, who was received with
loud cheers, said—Ladies and gentlemen, it is with very
great diffidence I have undertaken the duties of the chair.
I have had very little time to consider the important ques-
tion upon which you are assembled to deliver your opinions.
I was anxious rather to follow than to lead on this question,
and to have confined my exertions more especially to that
place in which I hold a seat. I thought perhaps in doing so
I might be serving the Protestant cause in a more efficient
manner—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—but as I was requested
most earnestly on this occasion to take the chair, I resisted
my own scruples, and gave way to those who are so anxious
that I should attend here.—(Cheers.) Having said thus
much, I shall address to you very few words upon the im-
portant subject on which we are assembled. We are called
here to deliver our opinions in a firm, but, I trust, a tempe-
rate manner—(Cheers)—upon a great principle, affecting the
best interests of our country, and especially the interests of
our Protestant religion.—(Loud cheers.) A measure has
lately been introduced by her Majesty's Government to give an
additional grant to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth,
to perpetuate that grant by law, and to take the money from
the public funds of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Thus the
members of the Protestant Church of this country, and
those Protestant Christians who dissent:from that Establish
ment ; the Presbyterians of Scotland, and those who secede
from the Presbyterian Establishment, will be called upon
to contribute to that which is contrary to their scruples, and
contrary to the spirit of Protestantism.—(Loud cheers.)
They will be called upon by law to contribute to this Catho-
lic endowed college—a college of priests to sow the seeds of
Catholicism—to instruct the people of Ireland in the Roman
Catholic religion—a measure which appears to and much more
objectionable in its principles than even if we were called
upon to endow the whole Roman Catholic priesthood of Ire-
land. But the measure now introduced is based on such
arguments and principles, that its supporters even confess
that the endowment of a Roman Catholic establishment must
be the necessary consequence. It appears to me that
this measure—although emanating from a man who isces, at the
head of her Majesty's Government, and for whoTasltan have
very great respect—(Cheers)—a man who in many
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the great Protestant feeling which exists in this realm—has
not been introduced into Parliament with that deference to
who, I must say, in this case has not sufficient considered
the Protestant faith which ought ever to actuate the Go-
vernment of this great empire.—(Cheers.) I regret that in
the difficulty in which that Right Hon. Baronet was placed,
in relation to the circumstances by which the Government of
Ireland was surrounded, that in an hour of indiscretion—an
hour when wisdom certainly did not guide him—when that
Protestant spirit which should ever guide the Government of
this country, especially in all matters concerning religious
endowments—that in an hour of difficulty with regard to Ire-
land, the Government should have proposed a measure which
appears to me fraught with danger.—(Cheers.) It is for
us to raise our voices in a temperate, a firm, and a
constitutional manner against it.—(Cheers.) We are
assembled to resist this measure, and to make known our
opinions to her Majesty's Government and to the Legislature,
that we consider what they have done is inconsistent with
our Protestant principles and with the best interests of the
country. The question is an extensive one; and there are
many topics which might be dilated upon, but having
opened the proceedings, having stated the great object for
which we are assembled, and having stated to you that I
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The Rev. J. T. ROBINSON, Rector of St. Andrew's, Hol-
born, moved the first resolution. Hitherto he had stood
aloof from public meetings, but now, when danger was
threatening the cause of which he was a minister, he had, as
the pastor of a large and populous district, been induced
to come forward in vindication of the Protestant principles
in which he had been educated.—(Hear, and loud cheers.)
If there was one truth more firmly rooted in his mind than