The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER

CITINA.—We have dates from Shanghai to the 29th,
and Woosung to the 30th ult. No reliable information,
it appears, had been received from the north of the pro-
gress of the insurgents. It was said they were locating
themselves in the provinces of Shansi and Shensi and pro-
ceeding cautiously, while we have reports from Canton that
detachments of the rebels were at Panting and also at
Hokien, about 110 miles from Pekin, and that Tien-tsin,
which is only 90 miles from Pekin, was in their posses-
sion. It is generally believed the Emperor has left Pekin,
and is some distance from it, ready to make his escape.
Reinforcements have been sent from -Nankin to the
Kwangsi province to collect provisions, anil to oppose any
assistance to the Imperial force from the south. Canton
remains quiet, owing to the most stringent measures taken
by the government in 'the city and suburbs, no persons
being allowed to congregate or to move about ate at night.
Much caution is observed, and a revolt may be expected
on hearing of the fall of Pekin. From Amoy our advices
are to the Ist instant. There had been-severe fighting on
the 28th and 29th ult. a short distance outside. The Im-
perialists having encamped in great force about four miles
from the city encountered the insurgents, who were de-
feated with great slaughter, and fled in confusion into the
city; but the Imperialists did not take advantage of their
success, but fell back on the villages for the sake of plun-
der, committinr, a horrible massacre of the inhabitants
and great devastation. Four villages were burnt to the
ground. Some idea may be formed of this horrible state
of warfare from the following account. by an observer :
" The atrocities committed by both parties are horrible.
I took a ride out last evening for a few miles through vil-
lages that last week were teeming with a happy popula-
tion ; now scarcely a soul was to be seen. Cattle, poultry,
all gone; and nothing but the smoking rafters and a few
women, weeping over the bodies of their husbands and
children, could I see. The head-money is a great evil, and
many innocent people have been killed for the sake of the
$2 given for their heads. In one day's fight the Impe-
rialists were so encumbered with -heads that the general
issued an order that ears would be sufficient to gain the
reward. Since then many poor villagers, women included,
have been seen wandering about without ears. Altogether
it is a horrible warfare, and both sides are equally to
blame."

CAPE or GOOD FlorE.—By the steam-ship Calcutta we
have advices to the 23d of September. The Commercial
Advertiser, in its monthly summary, says:—" Since the
sailing of the last monthly steamer the aspect of affairs
beyond the colonial border has been gradually becoming
more clouded and satisfactory.. The orders understood to
have been issued for the withdrawal from the colony of
four whole regiments, the 74th, the 12th, the 43d, and the
12th Lancers, have re-awakened feelings of insecurity
among the inhabitants of the eastern districts, while in
the northern the arrival of Sir George Clerk, with instruc-
tions to prepare for the entire withdrawal of British autho-
rity from the Orange River Sovereignty, has excited
general dissatisfaction and alarm. The tribes recently
subdued have not, indeed, manifested any directly hostile
spirit, but it is known that the chiefs are discontented.
About three weeks since, at a meeting which his Excel-
lency held with them, Macomo, on behalf of the other
chiefs, deelared that the land given them was too small.
' It was all stones ; they could not till it, and there was
no bush for firewood. They wanted the Amatolas.' This
General Cathcart decidedly refused, giving them to under-
stand that their possession of that locality would certainly
involve another war, and the Kaffirs, it is stated, left the
meeting not at all satisfied with the result.' These Amatolas,
the Gibraltar of Kaffirland, are at present held in military
occupation by a portion of the troops about to be removed.
A public work of great importance to the western districts
of the colony has just been completed. Between Cape
Town and the rich corn-growing regions of Worcester
there interposes, at a distance of about 40 miles, a vast
range of mountains stretching across the country, and
nearly cutting off the capital from all communication with
the interior in that direction. These mountains are only
passable at a few points, where it was formerly necessary
to unload a waggon at one side, carry over the packages
by hand or on the backs of horses, and reload them into
another at the other side ; in short, they form as complete
a barrier to intercourse by wheeled carriages as the Isthmus
of Darien to ships. At the expense of £50,000, with the
labour of our colonial convicts, this barrier has been cut
through from one side to the other, upwards of 18 miles,
and a magnificent road constructed, by which the untold
wealth of the interior may pour down unobstructed to the
shores of Table Bay. This road was opened for public use
last week amid great rejoicings. The registration of elec-
tors for the new legislature has been nearly completed
throughout the colony ; and it is expected that the writs
will shortly be issued for the return of members to the
upper house. Notice of the opening of the communication
between the Great Lake and Walwich Bay was received at
the Cape just previously to the departure of the Calcutta.
AUSTRALIA.—By the' General Screw Shipping Com-
pany's steam-ship Argo, which reached Southampton on
Friday, we have intelligence from Sydney to the 11th, and
Port Phillip to the 24th of August. " Symptoms," says
one of the latest newspapers, " of a marked improvement
in the yield of our gold-fields have again begun to make
their appearance. Fresh spots have been discovered,
which give indications of extraordinary productiveness,
and even the old ground has been so much more prolific
as to yield for the last week, as well as the one preceding,
more than has hitherto made its appearance for any one
week of the last six months." During the six, months
ending August 20, no less than 968 vessels, representing
265,000 tons, were entered inwards, and 830 vessels, re-
presenting 254,000 tons and upwards, were cleared through
the Melbourne Custom-house outwards. The social con-
dition of Victoria was improving, though occasional out-
breaks of crime occurred, which were attributed by the
Melbourne papers to the leaven of transportation still
existing in the colony.
The Rydlnev Norwld rev. . A moo.* arter-lee.ele io an.
prosperity of the colony is the dreadful state of the roads.
At present a ton of flour can be purchased in Sydney for
£25. It cannot be conveyed from Sydney to the Turon
(160 miles) for less than £3O; thus adding more than 100
per cent. to its cost. We are glad, therefore, to be able to
state, that before the end of the next year the first section
of the Sydney Railway (15 miles) to Parramatta will be
opened. Considerable progress has been made in the
work : a number of experienced ' navvies' are expected
about the end of the month, and money for the pur-
chase of rails, engines, &c., was sent home some months
since. A second railway company is in course of forma-
tion for the purpose of making a railway from Newcastle
to the Upper Hunter, The bill for granting the necessary
powers will be laid before the legislature immediately."
Notwithstanding the continued stream of immigration,
the rates of labour are increasing, more especially those
connected with house building. Stonemasons obtain from
13s. to 14s. a day ; carpenters, 12s. to 13s. a day ; and other
trades vary from lls, to 13s. a day. Building materials
are enormously high. Prior to the gold discovery sawed
timber was from 7s. to 10s. per 100 feet, the average was
about Bs. ; it is now upwards of 50s. Bricks were about
£2 a thousand, none can now be got under £B. Stone
has increased in the same or even greater proportion. The
price of stone for ordinary building purposes at the quar-
ries was formerly 41d. to sd. per foot ; it is now ls. 6d. to
25., according to size and quality. We believe £1 a day is
a very moderate amount at which to estimate the earnings
of sawyers and quarrymen. Rents are gradually increas-
ing, and for ordinary dwellings have risen about three
times, and for good business premises about five times,
what they were two years since. Small three-room cot-
tages, in the outskirts of the town, let for 30s. a week ;
five-room cottages, fit for families, are from £2 10s. to £4
a week. In the city a good family house is worth £3OO a
year. Good business premises in first-rate situations are
very difficult to obtain. £7OO or £BOO a year is asked,
and for some very large promises £l,OOO has been given.
One of the recently arrived banks
*gave £ll,OOO for the
premises which were three years ago occupied by the Bank
of Australia, and then gave £3,000 to the tenant, who had
a five years' lease, to give up possession, An hotel, recently
erected, has been let for £l,OOO a year."
The following are extracts from the Commercial Report
from Sydney :—" The difficulty of getting. conveyance to
the interior has had a material effect upon our business
transactions this month. Large parcels of goods (we think
injudiciously) have been forced into the market by public
competition; and thus we have to note a decline in value
of most descriptions. The months of June and July are
usually dull, on account of the impracticability of the
roads. Generally speaking, at present there is little in-
clination to lay in stock, impression being that prices will
recede. We, however, look for a very brisk trade with
the spring, and feel no apprehension as to the demand for
goods suited to our wants. Staple articles—such as sugar,
coffee, flour, lumber, building materials, beer, tobacco
and cigars, &c.—may occasionally feel a temporary de-
pression ; but for these the demand is regular, there is no
change of fashion, nor do they materially injure by keep-
ing with but moderate care. With the exception of to-
bacco, cigars, and beer, stocks of all are moderate—
certainly out of proportion to our increasing wants. Our
flour market has undergone great and important changes
since the issue of our last. The 90,000 barrels—importa-
tions of June, from the States, have nearly all been
cleared, and a scarcity of really good is again complained
of. •During the month we have had great enquiry for
coasting vessels. of light draught, say from 6 to 9 feet
loaded, and many have changed hands at from £l2OO to
£2200 for vessels from 60 to 180 tons register, and added
to our numerous fleet."

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.

By the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-
ship Arabia, Commodore Judkins, we have intelligence
from New York to the 19th ultimo. _ _

The Arabia sailed from New York, at 011, p.m., on the
19th ult., and at 1 23, p.m., passed the Royal Mail Steam-
ship Asia, hence, bound in. She passed Holyhead at 9,
a.m., on Saturday ; at 0 55, p.m., passed the steamer Ame-
rica, hence for Boston, and at 2 20, p.m., the Bar, having
made the run in 9 days, 21 hours, and 10 minutes.
The United States Mail Steam-ship Atlantic, Captain
West, hence, arrived at New York at 0 15, p.m., on the
16th ultimo.

A vessel, arrived at Boston, had reported the boarding
of the ship Sagadohoc, bound from Gottenburg to Boston,
which had lost fifty-eight passengers from cholera. The
Hamburg barque George Nicholas had been picked up at
sea, and taken to New Orleans. The mate was the only
survivor of the crew.

Letters from an exploring party, which had arrived at
Santa Fe, report that they had found gold at the crossing
of the Colorado and other places, also silver and copper
ore in great abundance. The Indians were numerous and
very hostile, and had fought their party for thirty days,
wounding nearly all of them. The fighting was chiefly
with the " Garotes." They met a tribe of Indians, 200
miles west of Seune, who used gold bullets for their guns !
It is said that on the arrival of the European news by
the last mail, a private meeting of some refugees took
place in New York, and that Major Leonard P. Terzuca-
nowski, formerly aide-de-camp of General Murowslaski,
and afterwards commander-in-chief of the French legion.
in Sicily, was appointed to form a volunteer legion, in-
tended to sail for Constantinople.
Halifax papers state that the steamer Vulcan had ar-
rived there with 350 troops, A part of the troops were
intended for Bermuda, but as the yellow fever raged there
they were taken to Halifax.
Gavazzi was lecturing at Cincinnati.
The yellow fever continued to rage fearfully at various
points on the Mississippi river, and in the interior.
The packet-ship, Western Empire, which left this port
for New York on the 24th of August, with 650 .pa,zsengers,
had put into Boston, short of wnter, AtICI With less .of all
lax' topgallant Loma.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE:
NEW YORK, OCT. 10.
MONEY & STocKs.—The continued stringency in money
matters, and the unfavourable nature of the accounts
from Europe, have had a depressing effect on the stock
market. In those securities which have come upon the
market to any extent the decline has been material.
United States and state loans are, however, firm, the pur-
chases of the government absorbing all of the.former that
appear. The Secretary to the Treasury has issued a notice
increasing the bids for the different loans to $7,000,000, in
addition to the purchases made prior to the Bth instant.
The rate of discount for first-class paper is 12 per cent.
Loans on call on desirable securities can be obtained at
7 per cent. The exports of gold are large, amounting for
the fortnight to $2,322,595. There is less firmness in the
market for foreign exchanges. The demand is not large,
while the supply of bills is rather increasing. Bills on
London are quoted 91 to 10 per cent. prem. ; Faris,
&c., sf. 111 to sf. 12}, sixty days, and sf. 7k to sf. 81
short sight ; Hamburg, 361 to 36i ; Frankfort, 414 to
41-i; and Thalers, 721.—The failure of Messrs. Whiston
and Seaman, jobbers, New York, has been announced,
also that of Messrs. Dimond and Co., sugar refiners, of
Bristol, R.I.
COTTON.— (From the Shipping List of October 19.)—
The market has been unsettled since our last, and sales
have been made to some extent at a decline of three-
fourths of a cent., making a reduction of about one cent.
within a week. Some holders are unwilling to sell at this
concession, yet there is now even more sellers than buyers.
We have restored quotations for a few grades, but are
still unable to complete the list from actual transactions.
The sales for thelast three daysare I,9oobales. We quote :
Atlantic Other Gulf
Ports. Florida. Ports.
Inferior nom. nom. nom.
Low to good ord.
Low to good mid 9* 104 9* 104 0 0
Total import since lit instant 9,448 bales.
Export from lit to 18th Oct., 1853, 13,824; 1852, 9,576.
EXPORT FROM THE UNITED STATES.
Since Ist September, 1853 60,532 bales.
Same time, 1852 70,612 „
RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON.
Exports to Total Exports Stock, and
Receipts. Gt. Britain. to For. ports. on ship b'd
1853 84,656 46,234 60,532 102,734
1852 186,283 57,500 70,612 150,536
Increase —
Decrease
(From W. P. Wright's Circular of Oct. 19).—0n
Monday, after the letters per Atlantic were received, the
desire to sell was more argent than at any time during the
past twelve months, and some low sales were made.
'Yesterday holders manifested a similar feeling, and, as
buyers held aloof, the transactions were small. The de-
cline since 10th instant on the actual sales amount to
lc. per lb. on low to good mid. Uplands and Mobiles. In
Orleans, from their relative scarcity, the decline is not so
great, but the current quotations must be considered as
nominal, as the market is too unsettled to give them with
any degree of accuracy ; low grades of all descriptions are
difficult to move, and it was quite impossible to say at
what price shippers might be induced to touch them, and
these qualities form the bulk of our unsold stock. The
southern markets, during the week, have given way va-
riously ic. to lc. per lb.; the prices, however, with the cur-
rent rates of freight, are still above the parity of Liverpool.
We continue to receive from some sections of the south
complaints of injury to the crop from rain, worms, &c.,
but they are fewer than during the past three or four
weeks. The weather has lately • been more favourable for
maturing and picking, and better progress has been made
in securing the crop.
BREADSTUFFS.—The advices per Canada were received
on Thursday, when holders of flour advanced their rates
to the extent of 12tc. per brl. This advance was, how-
ever, only partially acceded to, and has been subsequently
lost, and present quotations are lower than those of the
11th instant. Choice qualities of wheat advanced 3c. to
4c. per bushel on the receipt of the Canada's advices, but
the market has again receded since the receipt of the ac-
counts per Atlantic. In Indian corn the advance quoted
last week has been lost.
_ _ _

PROVISIONS.—The demand for Western pork has been
somewhat restricted by the tightness in the money mar-
ket, and the transactions have been moderate at a slight
decline. The market closed steadily, but prices show a
decline of 9,1 c. to 122 c. Prime mess is inactive, and no-
minal at $l5, and clear at $l9. Beef continues firm, and
in good demand. Lard continues firm. Butter is in good
demand. Cheese continues active for export.
FREIGHTS, &c.—To Great Britain and France freights
were favourably affected by a decline in flour and grain,
and the engagements were large at improving prices. The
current rates are—To Liverpool ; for cotton, 7-32 d. to
5-16 d per lb. ' • flour, 35. 6d. to 4s. per barrel ; grain, in
bulk, 14d. to 144-d per bushel. To London : flour, 4s. 6d.
to 6s. per barrel ; grain, in bulk, 15d. to 16d. per bushel.
To Havre : flour, 80c. per barrel; grain, in bags, 23 to 24
cents per bushel.—The supply of seamen continues very
limited, and of those offering many are inefficient hands,
which our ships, however, are compelled to take or stay in
port. We quote :—To Liverpool, $lB to $20,. with $3O
advance; London, $l6 to $lB, with $2O to $25 advance;
East Indies, $l2 to $l4, with $24 to $3O advance.
IRON.—Scotch pig is inactive, and the sales unimpor-
tant. 150 tons English common bars sold on private
terms.

NEW OnLEA.Ns.—Receipts for the week ending October
7th, 12,787 bales. Exports : To Liverpool, 4,580 bales ;
Havre, 1,945 ; Venice, 718 ; Genoa, 475. On Saturday
the Washington's news tended still further to depress our
market, the sales being confined to some 500 bales at irre-
gular and lower rates. On Monday and Tuesday the sales
were but 1,550 bales, and the market still lower, in conse-
quence of the America's and Baltic's accounts. On Wed-
nesday, sellers submitting to a further reduction, brought
buyers out, and the purchases made were upwards of 3,600
Daiwa. VII 1 Dales. Vn r rmay, tue Arabia's
advices were to hand, the tenor of which limited sales to
1,000 bales, making a total for the week of 10,400 bales,
taken for England, France, &c. In prices there is a de-
cline from last week's quotations of fully ie. to ie. Freight
to Liverpool, id. The receipts of new cotton thus far are
34,902 bales against 126,662 to same date last year. Octo-
ber 15. Sales for the week, 7,000 bales, closing at a decline
of ic. to ic.; middling, 9ic.; stock on hand, 48,000 bales;
freight to Liverpool, id. per lb. October 17.—Cotton
heavy, with only few sales.

LECTURE AT BIRKENHEAD.

DR. CAHILL AND PROTESTANT CONVERSIONS
IN IRELAND.

ON Friday evening, Mr. Chas. P. McCarthy, special
missionary in connection with the Protestant Reformation
Society, delivered a lecture in the Market-street School-
rooms, Birkenhead, in reply to Dr. Cahill's recent lec-
ture, entitled " Protestant Conversions, or the late attempt
at Reformation in Ireland." The chair having been taken
by the Special Missionary for Birmingham,
Mr. M`CA.RTny, who was received with hearty cheer-
ing,!' said :—My Christian friends, in appearing before
you to-night, for the purpose of defending the principles
of the glorious Reformation, and for the purpose of expos-
ing the calumnies and the falsehoods that have been
circulated, and expressed, by an individual calling himself
a man of God, calling himself a minister of Christ,—in
coming before you, after between two and three months'
labour now in Birkenhead, I desire to express my gratitude
to God, and my thankfulness to him, for the support
which I have received from the Protestants, and also for
the inquiry that, by the grace of God, has been planted
amongst our Roman Catholic brethren. This inquiry
has been one of no common nature. When I deli-
vered lectures here at first, the Roman Catholics would
not come forward ; but they found, after a few weeks,
that it was absolutely necessary that they should present
themselves to defend their church, and one by one they
came upon the platform, and as fast as they came went
away. Mr. M`Ewen and Mr. 31`Donald were brought over
from Liverpool, and they, too, have got the right about.
Then comes Dr. Cahill amongst us. Well, what does he
do ? He publishes on a placard that a number of lectures
are to be delivered in the Romish chapel, and he declares
that one of his subjects shall be "Protestant Conversions ;
or the late attempt at Reformation in Ireland." The late
attempt at reformation in Ireland ! Now, the Protestant
clergy of this town, when they saw those placards, at once
wrote to Dr. Cahill, in a spirit of mildness 'and Christian
love, asking him to come forward and, before an enlightened
audience, give such proofs as would enable him to sub-
stantiate the charge contained in the subject of his lec-
ture. It is clear, and I will show to-night, that there has
not only been an attempt at reform in Ireland, but that a
reformation has been successfully going on there which
can even be said to equal the glorious reformation of the
sixteenth century. (Applause.) It is a second reforma-
tion ; and I trust, before I leave this platform to-night, to
prove that to you. I published in a small placard this
week the following letter to my Roman Catholic brethren.
I did it in a spirit of Christian love and kindness, and I
am glad to say, and I care not who hears it, that they are
now beginning to have a different impression of me from
what they had at first. Calumny, as well as every other
possible instrument that could be used, was adopted,
either to deface my character or to place me before them
as black, aye, as the very devil himself. (Laughter.) But
they have found that, at all events, I am sincere ; that I
love them, and many of them have told me so. A few are
inquiring, and one has been brought out of the Church
of Rome, and is now ready to come forward before the
whole of Birkenhead, and declare that the Church of
Rome is the apostacy, and that that apostacy he is ready to
give up (loud cheers). Yet, in the face of all this, we see
placards about the walls, headed, the " Soupers Routed ;"
and just the sort of routing, I believe, in a measure, that
they have a right to, if it be the Roman Catholic Soupers
that are meant. The lecturer then read the following
letter, which prefaced a published correspondence between -
himself and Mr. Al`Donald :
"MY DEAR ROMAN CATHOLIC BRETHREN Ina spirit of
Christian love and kindness, I call your attention to the fol-
lowing correspondence, and I ask you as fellow-sinners, TVhat
is the reason that your priests, or the intelligent of your laity,
will not defend your Church ? Is it that they fear the conse-
quences of free and fair discussion? Are they afraid to allow
the novelties they palm upon you as God's truth to be exposed,
and their hideous deformities laid bare to the intellectual gaze
of thinking people? If this be not the case, call upon the
champion of your cause, Dr. Cahill, e.n masse, and persuade
him, if you can, to defend your religion. The ministers of
the Church of England are ever ready "earnestly to contend
for the faith once delivered to the saints ;" and those who
have not that faith to contend for will always fear to teat their
doctrines by the written Word of God. This, my dear friends,
stands to reason. Dr. Cahill has been treating you, for the
past week, to a course of lectures, containing one undiluted
stream of misrepresentation and unqualified assertion, which,
bad lie truth on his side, he would be too grad to step forward
and prove; but I trust you will act upon that principle,
which comes from St. Paul as a command, " Prove all things."
—1 Them v. 21.—1 remain your obedient servant for Christ's
sake, " CI-KARLES P. WCARTUY."

My dear friends (Mr. McCarthy continued), Dr.Cahill
commenced his lecture on this night week, by setting
before his audience the different countries that received
Christianity, and the dates thereof : Ireland, through
the instrumentality of St. Patrick, in 432. The whole
of his discourse attempted to show that the Christianity
which St. Patrick brought to my native land was
that which be (Dr. Cahill) represents now to be the
religion of the Church of Rome. Here I join issue at
once with Dr. Cahill, and I tell him that St. Patrick
knew nothing about Popery; that St. Patrick- was as
staunch a Protestant as I am ; and that if St. Patrick had
the same things said to him, and heard the same doctrines
promulgated, he would as boldly and as honestly protest
against them as do the Protestants of the present day. And
why ? Because they are not only anti-scriptural, but
they are diabolical in their nature. They are demoralising
and soul-destroying, and that is the reason that Pro-
testants protest against doctrines that are leading
souls to hell: and, through the love that they bear
for their fellow-creatures, they come forward and
proclaim the truth, so that they may be able to
count themselves before God as doing their duty, and
to their fellow men, as telling- them the awful state of de-
proofs as to St. Patrick being no Roman Catholic F—they
are as follows :—St. Malachy was the first Irish saint
who ever won the honours of canonisation from that
church, and not St. Patrick. lam now going to quote
from " St. Patrick's Confession," a little work written by
him before his dissolution. He commences by telling
them who he was, his parentage, and where he was born,
and he says in this little work—(which is genuine, and
there is in existence at this present day a MS a thousand
years old, and Dr. Lanigan quotes from it constantly in
writing the ecclesiastical history of Ireland,)—he says,
first : " I, Patrick, a sinner, had for my father Calpurnius,
a deacon, and for my grandfather Politus, a priest."—Now,
we know very well he was no Papist, for his father was a
deacon and his grandfather a priest. That is not the case
in the Church of Rome : they don't allow their priests to
have children ; at least, they don't allow them to marry.
All their children, to use a vulgar expression, must be
bastards ; and I have no doubt there must be a great
many of that sort. (Laughter and cheers.) Well, then,
this is one proof, I say, that St. Patrick was not a priest
of the Church of Rome; and the second I give is the
lying tales that are placed before the public in the works
written by Probus, in the 10th century ; by Jocelin, a
priest, in the 12th century ; and O'Sullivan, last of all, in
the 17th century. I will give you a specimen of some of
these. This is from Jocelin :
" When his mother Conchessa was pregnant of him, poison
was administered to her; but it was found, at his birth, con-
verted into a stone, which he was holding between his fin-
gers. The stone, also, upon which he was laid when born,
partaking of his sanctity, possessed many wonder-working
powers, especially that of detecting perjury."
Another is as follows :
" A man called Gormas, blind from his mother's womb,
took, in consequence of a divine command in his sleep, the
infant saint's hand, immediately after his baptism, and made
the sign of the cross with it upon the ground; when instantly
a fountain of water sprang up in the place touched, which,
like another Siloam, not only gave the blind man the power
of vision, but also enabled him to read and understand the
Scriptures 1"
" As the saint was setting sail for Ireland, from a British
port, a poor leper on the shore besought a passage from the
mariners; but in -Jain. Patrick, however, pitying his case,
and having no other way to relieve him, flung into the sea a
stone altar, which had been consecrated and given him by the
Pope; and he commanded the leper to sit thereon :—when,
lo! to the great amazement of all the beholders, the stone
began to float, kept pace with the ship, and arrived with full
sail in the Irish harbour at the same moment with it."
Now let me read you one more:— ,
- - - -

" When the crue(Lord of Dunbarton confined his aunt,
and employed her to cleanse the stalls and statles of his
castle, the child (Patrick) performed the task for her miracu-
lously. And ever since, says Joceline, the dung continues to
be cleared away, invisibly; insomuch, that if all the cattle of
the country were driven into the stables, no dirt could be
found after them."

Now, allow me to turn your attention for one moment
to a passage from Patrick's Own confession, which I have
already quoted from, for it gives the lie to these legends.
" When made captive"—for he was made captive twice
in Ireland. Through the agency of God he was pe-
culiarly fitted in early life to be an apostle to the Irish ;
for in God's providence he was so situated as to become
acquainted with the manners, customs, and language of
the Irish, though he was a ScOtchman born. He says in
this confession, after giving his parentage, and where he
was born : " When made captive I was scarcely sixteen
years of age ; but I was ignorant of God, and therefore it
was that I was led captive into Ireland with so many
thousands."
I was ignorant of God, and yet Jocelin says his little
hand performed miracles ; that he went into a nobleman's
stable and cleaned it out miraculously as a child, and that
all the animals in the country could not dirty it after-
wards. (Laughter.) St. Patrick gives the lie to these in-
ventions—inventions of priests for the purpose of estab-
lishing, or endeavouring to establish that he was a Roman
Catholic Saint. Now, then, I will give you one more
proof; and this coming from an undoubted authority on
the part of the Church of Rome, must be- held, at all
events by Roman Catholics, in great regard:—
" But the most wonderful of all—if we except the raising
of many to life who had been long dead—was, that while tra-
versing Ireland, the saint sent packing off to Cruchan-Aichle
(a high conical mountain on the western coast, now called
Croagh-Patrick) all the tribes of serpents, and venomous
creatures of every name and kind, from every part of the
country. there to wait his pleasure. Whither, when he came,
and ascended the mountain, innumerable demons flocked
screaming around him, in the form of unsightly birds : upon
which the saint, in a very great choler, of course, (like Mala-
chy,) drove them—serpents, toads, demons, and all—into the
ocean, at the foot of the mountain. And hence it is, (say
they,) that Ireland has never, from that day to this, been
infested with the presence of any poisonous creatures."

I would add—except the noxious fabricators and foun-
ders of such lying tales. (Cheers.) Now, listen to what
Dr. Lanigan says. Dr. Lanigan apologises for this lying.
He says, (Vol. I, p. 252, of his Ecclesiastical History of
Ireland,)—" Jocelin was the inventor of this story ;' and
the Doctor seems to regret that from Jocelin's book the
story made its way into some breviaries,—into the bre-
viaries that the Roman Catholic priest uses. It is said
again, that St. Patrick was sent to Ireland by the Pope.
I deny this : there is not one single tissue of evidence in
the whole of history to prove it. I will show you what he
says himself upon this subject. Jocelyn tells us, and so
does Probus, very gravely, that he went to Rome a second
time after the conversion of the Irish, laid the results of
his labours at the feet of the Pope, and reverently asked
his Holiness for the confirmation of them. This is what
they declare,—" His Holiness (they add) received him
most graciously; granted him all he wished ; decorated
him with the pallium; and appointed him his legate for
Ireland.”—Now listen to what St. Patrick himself says:—
"Therefore, though I wished much, and most earnestly
desired desired to go to Britain, as if to my country and kindredi
and not only so, but to proceed even as far as Gaul
.7-theLr
knew how much I wished it • yet, bound in the spirit which
declares me guilty if I should do so, I fear lest I should pee
ought of my labour—nay, not mine, but Christ, my. Lord's,
who commanded me to come to his people and be ma them
during the residue of my life."
It was Christ commanded his; and in another place

he tells us how Christ commanded him by a vision in his
sleep at night. Dr. Lanigan apologises again for these
lies creeping into the histories of Jocelin and Probus, for
he says
"This pretended tour to Rome, and the concomitant cir-
cumstances, are set aside by the testimony of St. Patrick him-
self, who gives us most clearly to understand that from the
commencement of his mission he constantly remained in
Ireland."—Eccles. Hist. vol. 1, pp. 181. 319.

This is declared by Dr. Lanigan, the Romish historian :
so much then for St. Patrick being a Roman Catholic.
The next statement made by Dr. Cahill in his lecture is
as follows : that there was peace in Ireland from the sixth
century until 1172, and that she enjoyed the greatest
happiness up to that time. In his lecture on " Ireland and
the Irish," delivered in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-
street, he has the following statements :

"First, therefore, .I begin with the years 1172-7, when
Henry lI conquered Ireland through the dissension and
treachery of our own countrymen ; and from this time down
to 1573, for nearly 400 years, there was continual struggling
between England and Ireland; and during these four hundred
years4lUey were never able to conquer Ireland; never able to
pass inster, so that the three northern counties were never
conquered."

Mark that ; the counties in Ireland now Protestant, never
conquered, said the lecturer. He proceeded :

"And in these times the most barbarous cruelties were
practised on the people. It is scarcely sinful to say that never
was the Protestant cruelty of England surpassed by the
Catholic cruelty of Ireland."

There is an admission'coming from Dr. Cahill
:
"Amongst other instances, he would mention that the
English soldiers were not allowed to deal with us—not to
spread even what civilisation they might boast. Never were
the conquered treated with greater cruelty than from the
reign of Henry 11. to that of Henry VIII. The execution of
Clare we would allude to, when British soldiers outraged the
wives and daughters of the Irish before their face, and shot
them, or tossed them over the rocks, if they complained.
Five hundred lashes was the punishment if a British soldier
married an Irish girl; and, I am happy to say to you, to the
credit of the gallantry and taste of some of those men, the
beauty of the lasses of Limerick tempted many of them, in
spite of the five hundred lashes."

(Laughter.) Now, my dear friends, suppose we admit
that what Dr. Cahill states there is true, England was
then Popish, and acted, as I shall show you, under the
direction and at the discretion of the Pope. (Cheers.)
First, however, is it true that Ireland was in perfect peace
from the sixth century to 1162 ? No; Ireland was not.
Ireland was invaded by the Danes at" the commencement
of the tenth century ; that continued for a century; and
at last, at the battle of Clontarf, they were completely
defeated, only they were allowed to hold possession of
Dublin, Waterford, and 'Limerick. After the Danes hid
been quieted in Ireland, then the Norman conquest suc-
ceeded in England. The Danes and the Normans were a
people of the same race, and the Pope seeing this, at once
took advantage of what would enable him, by intrigue and
cunning, to introduce his religion into Ireland; for up to
that period Ireland had an Apostolic Church planted in
her, and she continued true to that church until Popery
was introduced into that country, by intrigue and cunning;
and when that did not succeed, by the armed missionaries
of Henry 11., bearing the imprimatur of the Pope of
Rome. These are facts Dr. Cahill kept back from his
audience. He dare not bring before them the letter or
bull of Adrian to Henry 11., but I will place it before
you now :

" Adrian, Bishop, servant of the servants of God, to his
dearest son in Christ, the illustrious King of England, sends
greeting and apostolical benediction.
"The desire your magnificence expresses to extend your
glorious name upon earth, and crown yourself with the great
reward of eternal felicity in Heaven, is very laudable, and
abundantly profitable to you; while as a good Catholic Prince,
you purpose to enlarge the bounds of the Church, to declare
the true Christian faith to rude and barbarous tribes, and to
pull up by the roots the nurseries of vice from the field of the
Lord; which to execute the more becomingly, you require
the encouragement and support of the apostolic see. That,
in the accomplishing of this work, you will have a success
proportioned to the depth of counsel and wisdom with which
you proceed, we are fully confident; God performing it for
you ; because, whatever takes its rise from ardour of faith
and love of religion, is always wont to have a good and pros-
perous issue. Of course, that Ireland, and all the islands on
which Christ the Sun of Righteousness hath shone, and
which have received the rudiments of the Christian faith,
belong of right to St. Peter and the most holy Roman Church
(a right which your own nobility acknowledges), there is no
manner of doubt. And hence it is that we so much the more
gladly plant in them the nurseries of faith, and sow that seed
therein which is acceptable to God ; as we foresee it will be
the more strictly required of us in the last judgment.
"Since, then, you have signified to us, most dear son,
that you desire to enter into the island of Ireland, in order to
subdue that people to the obedience of laws, and extirpate
thence the nurseries of trice; and since you are willing also
to pay an annual pension to St. Peter of one penny from every
house therein, and to preserve the rights of the Church in
that land inviolate and entire; therefore we, seconding your
pious and praise-worthy intention with the favour it deserves,
and granting a gracious assent to your petition, are thankful
and are well pleased, that, for the enlargement of the bounds
of the Church, for the restraint of vice, the correction of
evil, and the planting of good manners, and for the advance-
ment of the Christian religion, you do enter into that island.
and execute there whatever may tend to the honour of God
and the health of that land; and that the people of that
country receive you with honour, and reverence you as their
Lord; provided, as I have said, that the ecclesiastical rights
therein remain inviolate and entire, and that to St. Peter and
the most holy Roman Church the annual pension of a dena-
rius from every house be reserved. If, therefore, you will
follow up your design to full completion, let it be your aim to
instruct that nation in good morals, and to do your utmost,
as well personally, as by those whom you know to be fit for
that work, in faith, and word, and life, that the Church may
there be adorned, the Christian religion planted and made to
grow; and that whatsoever appertains to the honour of God
and the salvation of souls be so ordered by you, that it may
entitle yon to an eternal reward from God, and a glorious
name upon earth for ever. Given at Rome, anno 1153."

Here is the diabolical compact that existed between the
Pope of Rome and the Popish King Henry 11. ; for England
Rome' j;;Ci7ti;;;lallentyriCaa"l:6lZ,as"iliecils'
attempt-
ing to sink Ireland, namely, by the introduction of what
is called Christianity—but what ought properly to be
termed Mariolatry. (Cheers.) Well, what does Dr.
Cahill say He says here that Henry 11. conquered
Ireland through the dissension and treachery of the
Irishmen, or his own countrymen ; but he had not the
honesty to come forward and say that the Pope was the
man who made the bargain with Henry 11. Well,
Malachie, the great reformer (so called) of the Irish
Church, what does he say ? a man who was sent amongst
them after being educated in a most peculiar way in order
to fit him for the office of a reformer, or in order to be
fitted by Jesuitry to introduce into Ireland Papal
Christianity—for it was not there at that time. The fol-
lowing passage proves with what determination the
Church of Ireland opposed the innovations of the Papacy.
We take this from St. Bernard's account of the Life of
Malachie

" Then this man of God" [this is when he was appointed
Bishop of Connaw] " felt that he was appointed, not over
men, but over beasts. Never before had he met with men in
such barbarity ; never before had he found men so stubborn
against morals, so deadly to rites, so impious against faith,
so savage to laws, so stiffnecked against discipline."

Just exactly as Protestants of the present day are against
the Church of Rome : that is exactly the way they repre-
sent us :

" Christians in name, pagans in reality. Not one could be
found who would pay tithes or first-fruits; make confessions;
ask for penances, or give them; or contract lawful mar-
riages."

They did not believe in them : they were not the doctrines
of the Irish Christian Church. It is true that they would
not make what were called lawful marriages in the Church
of Rome, because you must know the Church of Rome
looks upon every man and woman married without her
pale to be living in sin. Then we pass on from the
statement made by Dr. Cahill upon this subject, to the
time when Pope Adrian died ; for the war had been carried
on by Henry the Second, and the armed missionaries of
the Church of Rome were devastating the land, and Irish-
men were fighting for their country and for the religion
that was planted in their country at a very early age, as
I could show, before St. Patrick. While these Romish
missionaries were carrying on the work of slaughter
amongst them, for it is thus that the Church of Rome
succeeds in her missions—by shedding the blood of inno-
cent men, women, and children, because they object to
have any other laws than their own, either of a
religious character or otherwise, introduced amongst
them. For this purpose Henry 11. attacked the land
under the express sanction of the Pope, and for seventeen
years continued to slaughter the poor Irish. Aye, and
when the Pope died, what do we find ? We find that his
successor, Alexander, established the bull, the horrible
compact that had been previously made between Henry
and Adrian ; and that he introduced exactly the same
bargain—namely; that he would support Henry if the
latter would still continue to pay the one penny for every
house—" Peter's pence." Dr. Cahill did not say anything
about this. No ;it did not suit his purpose. He kept
these historical facts back, and in the dark. He dare not
bring them before his Roman Catholic subjects ; for they
are his subjects to all intents and purposes. (Cheers.)
He then went on to state that Ireland had suffered much
under Catholic rulers, such as King John ; and after he
had spoken of the Irish under Catholic rulers, he then
made a jump to Elizabeth. He says, however, a few
words about Henry VIII. ; but what was Henry VIII. ?
Henry VIII. was a Roman Catholic in everything, the
Pope's supremacy excepted. Let the statute law, that
which was called the "Law of the Six Articles," prove
this. If these laws were broken, death was the conse-
quence.—The lecturer then quoted the articles as follows:-
1 .—To those who should deny transubstantiation.
2.—To those who should maintain the necessity of receiving
the sacrament in both kinds.

3.—To those who should say it was lawful for a priest to
marry.:. . . .

4.—To those who should say that monks or nuns might dis-
pense with their vows.
s.—To those who should say that private masses were of no
avail.

6.—To those who should hold that auricular confession was
not necessary to salvation.

Was Henry the Eighth a Papist or not ? Which was
he, Protestant or Papist, when he punished with the most
horrible and sanguinary death all who broke any one of
these laws, and it was consequently called " the bloody
statute ?" That was in the reign of Henry the Eighth,
after he had thrown off the Pope's supremacy. Then Dr.
Cahill commences to attack the Church of England, and
endeavours to show how that church robbed the monas-
teries, the nunneries, and the convents established through
England, and gave all the money to support their own
luxurious habits. Now, Dr. Cahill, I would ask you, in
what state were the monks and nuns—what sort of cha-
racters were they—at the time of the Reformation ? Let
your own historians declare. I will give a quotation from
St. Bernard, who wrote the life of Makchie, Bishop of Ire-
land. He commences by saying, with respect to monks :

What shall I say.concerning their very dress, in which not
warmth but colour is sought after, and neatness of apparel
rather than virtue is considered? I am ashamed to declare
it, but even women are surpassed in their love of dress, since
richness of apparel, and not what is necessary, is studied by
the monks. Nor is even the form of religion retained, the
soldiers of Christ desired rather to be gaily dressed than to be
armed."

Again, I give you another quotation as to the state of the
priests, monks, and nuns in the year 1391, from the Re-
velations of St. Bridget, a saint in the Church of Rome ;
and these extracts bear the imprimatur of the Councils
of Constance and Basil, as well as of Popes Urban VI,
Martin V, and Paul V ; chap. 43, 4th book :
"Herein has arisen a grievous abuse forasn:udcho as
sesslons of the church are given to !aim w•-°
t marry,
because of the canonical name, but impudently keepbecause
concu-
bines * * saying shamelessly, We may no
nottlie
marrypos
we are canonical men. The priests also, (teams a
Ot-
9dasnubimdepaunrse
formerly very greatly abhorred the infamy ,
life. But now some of them openly rejoice.
Does Dr. Cahill bring forward these truths ? Is he not