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he would refer to one who was a great maintainer of the
English:Church, Archbishop Laud did not hesitate to
meet them in argument even in the presence of the King,
and-the result of those arguments had come down to us
with as entire a vindication of the English Church as our
English Literature " possessed."

The authority of Archbishop Laud—a Papist all but in
wae—will scarcely weigh with the members of this Pro-

t estant community

But, to return to Lord John's opinions in favour of the
Order oflesuits. We find the following in his speech on
the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, delivered on the 11th of
March, IB46—Hansard, Vol. 84, Page 067:
`.` In reference to what had been stated by the honoUra-
ble member for Rutland, that it would be impossible to
affect the Jesuits, he would go further and say, that he
should rejoice to see the Jesuits and the other religious
orders recognised, placed under the authority of the
crown, and visited by some responsible commission. He
could not sympathise in the fears which had been ex-
pressed respecting the Jesuits and other religious orders.
Hundreds of years ago, the Templars were looked upon
in the same light as the Jesuits were now. There was
no monstrocity too horrible to be attributed to the Jesuits
at the present day. Such feelings had no foundation in
fact. In a journal of great and deserved celebrity, the
Spectator, there appeared not long since the following
remarks :

--rfh—e-re. are two sets of Jesuits, the Jesuits of fact and
the , Jesuits of fiction ; and as there are more readers of
romances than students of history, the latter are more
familiar to the public. The Jesuits of fiction will he ad-
mitted on all hands to be terrible fellows, but their proper
place is in the circulating library, not in polemical and far
less in political discussions. The Jesuits of fact closely
resemble all other respectable Romish clergymen except
in so far as their order has long supplied the most accom-
plished members of that body. In the history of every
branch of science and literature, distinguished Jesuits
are met with ; the practice and theory of education are
deeply indebted to their experiments, an d am ong th e earliest
and most ably-planned missions to the heathens were those
of the Jesuits.'

" It should not be forgotten that

the extension of our commer

measure, attributable to the Jesuits, who were'tl

introduce the christian religion and civilization into China.
What that order had performed for the cause of religion
and humanity ought not to be overlooked. The sort of
alarm attempted to be raised about Jesuits at this time of
day was altogether absurd,—the revival of an old preju-
dice unworthy of the age. With respect to the other re-
ligious orders, could qny body stand up in that house, and,
looking at the state of the manufacturing districts and the
ignorant` demoralizing condition of their inhabitants, say
it was a --

:line to put a stop to the exercise of charitable
duties administered by religious bodies. By a return
made by one of these religious institutions in Leicester-
shire, it appeared that—
`During the year 1845 we have given lodgings to 2,758
poor distressed travellers anti workmen. We have given
portions of food to 18,887 in distress during the same
year.'

" Instead of putting

111b11, 0110ns ot a
similar nature, it would he well to take example and warn-
ing by what they did. Instead of punishing the Christian
Brothers of Birmingham or the Cisternans of Mount
Mellary, it would be well to imitate their example. The
present laws had proved inoperative in practice, and there
was a strong feeling, in which he largely shared, that they
were indefensible in argument. If then they were inoper-
ative in practice, and indefensible in argument, the time
_ _

was come when they should
the English statute book."

cease to sully the dignity of

Let us come now to his o

utic 1.11 ille
Mortmain Act; and we fancy that we shall find in these a
slight drawback against his very decisive expression of
hostility to the endowment of the Irish priesthood by the
State. We quote the fol lowing from his speech in advo-
cacy of the measure in 1843: Ist A ug.

" It would be said that if the mortmain laws were re-
laxed in favour of the Church of England, they must also
be relaxed in favour of the Church of Rome and of Dis-
senters. He at once would frankly avow that he was
prepared to meet that objectionby denying it to be one.
The Roman Catholtes and Dissenters had been placed
upon a footing of political equality, and why not wit}
ferenee to this su

eject ? In this matter he claimed no
special immunity for the Church of England. He was
ed to allow wealthy Roman Catholics to build and
Catholic schools and churches for the Ro-

man Catholic population of the coantry,
`her, and say that among the boons whit
-i•nnt to Ireland, he ranked the-rev
He held this out as an
those who shrunk back from the proposal Of
Roman "- - and he said, if tlr

nd he would go
-
1! parliament
ision of the
alternative to

should
mortis)

laws

th

!tholie priest
shift the L

and also

iyamba t

the car

with the

nim al

)n, Esq., who has
Gardens. It was
of the ship Henry

of the ship I

he ail!
ted by Knit

55, Captain

day, at the

an, named wa!

a piece of Belfast linen, part of
n, lying in the Waterloo Dock.

se placed betwe

ier was detec
,d upon his pi

the ship

was about to proceed to sea with the principal witnesses,
the prisoner was ordered to gaol for three months under
the Dock Act, otherwise he would have been sent for
trial at the present Quarter Sessions.

DEATH AT A STEAM SAW-MILL
quest was held before Mr.

•Yesterday

.can liooerts, aged 35. Deceased wo.ric-Cd-a.i"a''srZ
Nicolls's steam saw-mills, in Grafton-street. On Satur-
day evening, he was lowering some deals down into a saw-
pit in the yard, by means of a winch ; he took hold of the
handle to pull out the pall, so as to enable him to lower
the deals, immediately afterwards the loud and rapid
rattling of the chain was heard, and the deceased was
missed. He was found in ,
the saw-pit, with his head corn-

ariou
50 feet. The handle of the winch must havemeu struck him,t and knocked him down. There were 48 deals to be
lowered at a time, and they might nEnnt ;(t

cauvul, cwt,.
Had the deceased at the time had the break on the winch,
the weight would have gone down gradually, in place of
going down as they did by the run. It appeared also that
the head of the deceased had come in contact with one of
the rails of a railroad at the bottom of the pit. Verdict,
" Accidental death."

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.^OII Saturday last, as Mr
Henry Heatheote Statham partner of the firm of Messrs
f's

V,L1t11,17, kI. Ile iurwer tine coroner
for this borough) was driving along in a gig to Orms-
kirk on buisiness, the horse took fright a short dis-
tance on this side of the toll-bar, before reaching Mag-
hull bridge, on the Leeds and Liverpool canal. The per-
son at, the toll-house, observing that the horse lad -
itr•

nau run
unluckily, toc

of his 1

al disastre4s re

ng whi
.oad, a

irrow high-

ountiiii to

tint one hand on th

head f