The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

(From the krorling Post.)

The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle of
giving these "reflections" to the public at a very moderate
cost, compared to the ordinary price of miniatures, trusting
for his return to a general desire to possess them, which he
anticipates must be felt by all persons who would cherish the
best memento of a dear friend or relative.
(Prom the Courier.)

" Every line, every touch in the pictrue produced is from
the pencil of nature, without flattery or fallacy."

(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We took an opportunity
on Monday cf again visiting the Polytechnic Institution, to
witness the astonishing manner in which portraits are taken
by the photographic process. The room was crowded with
nobility and gentry, among whom we noticed Lord Aber-
deen, and several other persons of rank, each of whom, in
the warmest terms, expressed their delight and astonishment
at the rapidity with which the portraits of different gentle-
men were taken, and the extreme fidelity in the execution.
It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be any thing
short of a complete copy of nature.
(From the Observer."
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—The appearance of the
miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving,
the likeness being no question of opinion, but a plain matter
of fact, for nature in this, as in other similar operations,
makes "no mistake." There is such subtilty of touch and
tone in the likeness as might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence
at once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a most
wonderful and extraordinary exhibition. Those who in por-
traiture are fond of being " flattered," will certainly not
patronise the photographic method of taking likenesses ; but,
on the other hand, they who want the real thing, and we
presume them to be the majority, will unquestionably spend
a guinea with great willingness in the production of a minia-
ture portrait which their fathers and mothers, wives, sisters,
and brothers may " swear to." Separate rooms
are also
appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, and a female attendant
waits upon the former to assist in arranging the dress so as
to produce the most desirable pictorial effect.
(From the Naval and Military Gazette.)
• PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—For some time it was
doubted whether Photography could ever be brought to
operate satisfactorily on the human face and form, so as to
enable the artist to take an unerring and effective likeness,
the slightest motion inevitably destroying the picture in its
progrees. Ingenuity. perseverance, and repeated experiments,
have at length completely triumphed over the difficulty ; and
miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken, from a
sittting of from
,five to twenty seconds ; the time varying
according to the intensity of light.

(From Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES.—It is
bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is
as much so, as he sees himself in the most accurate looking
glass, but with this difference, that the Photographic likeness
is the image as if it were removed from the surface of the
mirror, and rendered perpetual. It is an everlasting memo-
rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and therefore the•
most precious gift that can be given to those who love him.
while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It is,
a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tedium
of being fixed in the same position for many an hour for his.
likeness, (for this is accomplished in the sixth part of a mi-
nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest *aide
for copying other likenesses, whether in Inkniattlre, or in oits
paintings as large as life.

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ORNITHOLOGY.
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2. HUMMING BIRDS, Vol. 11., Thirty-two Coloured
Plates; with Portrait and Memoir of PENNANT.
3. PEACOCKS, PHEASANTS, TURKEYS, &c., Thirty
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. Plates ; with Portrait and Memoir of Sir T. STAMFORD
RAFFLES.
.5. PIGEONS, Thirty-two Coloured Plates ; with Portrait
and Memoir of PLINY.
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and Memoir of BEWICK.
7. BIRDS OF WESTERN AFRICA, Vol. 1., Thirty-four
Coloured Plates ' • with Portrait and Memoir of BRUCE.
S. BIRDS OF WESTERN AFRICA, Vol. 11., Thirty-
four Coloured Plates ; with Portrait and Memoir of
LII VAILL ANT.
9. BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,
Part. 1., Thirty-six Coloured Plates ; with Portrait and
Memoir of SIBBALD.
10. FLYCATCHERS ; their Natural Arrangement and
Relations, Thirty-three Coloured Plates ; with Portrait
and Memoir of Baron HALLER.
11. BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,
Part 11., Thirty-two Coloured Plates; with Portrait
and Memoir of WILLIAM SMELLIE.
MAMMALIA.
1. MONKEYS, Thirty-two Coloured Plates ; with Por-
trait and Memoir of BUFFON.
2. LIONS, TIGERS, &c., Thirty-eight Coloured Plates ;
with Portrait and Memoir of CUVIER.
3: RUMINATING ANIMALS ; containing DEER, ANTE-
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with Portrait and Memoir of CAMPER.
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Thirty-three Coloured Plates ; with Portrait and Me-
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TAPIRS, &c. &c., Thirty-one Coloured Plates ; with
Portrait and Memoir of Sir HANS SLOANE.
6. WHALES, Thirty-two Coloured Plates; with Portrait
and Memoir of LACEPEDC.
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Plates ; with Portrait and Memoir of ULYSSES AL-

DROVANDI.
AMPHIBIOUS CARN 'VERA ; including the WALRUS
and SEALS, and the HERBIVOROUS CETACEA, MER-
MAIDS, &c. ; Thirty-three Coloured Plates ; with Por-
trait and Memoir of FRANCOIS PERON.
DOGS, Vol. 1., Thirty-three Coloured Plates ; with
Portrait and Memoir of PALLAS.
DOGS, Vol. 11., Thirty-two Coloured Plates ; with
Portrait and Memoir of DoN FELIX D'AZARA.
MARSUPI ALIA, or Pouched Animals, Thirty-six
Coloured Plates ; with Portrait and Memoir of Dr.

BARCLAY.
HORSES, (Equithe,) Vol. 11., containing ASSES, ZE-
Baas, &c. ; Thirty-five Coloured Plates ; with Portrait
and Memoir of GESNER.
ICTHYOLOGY.
FISHES OF THE PERCH GENUS, &c., Thirty-two
Coloured Plates ; with Portrait and Memoir of Sir
JOSEPII BANKS.
FISHES, particularly their Structure and Economical
Uses, &c., Thirty-three Coloured Plates; with Portrait
and Memoir of SALVIANI.
ENTOMOLOGY.
INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY. Thirty-
eight Coloured Plates ; with Memoirs of SWAMMER-
DAM and DE GEER, and Portrait of the latter.
BEETLES, (Coleopterous I nseets,) Thirty-two Coloured
Plates ; with Portrait and Memoir of RAY.
BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, Thirty-sia.Coloured Plates;
with Portrait and Memoir of WERNER.
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Coloured Plates ; with Portraitaod Memoir of MADAME

MERIAN.
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Plates; with Portrait and Memoir of LAMA.RCK.
6. HONEY BEFt, Thirty-two Coloured Plates ; with Por-
trait and Memoir of HUBER.

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34. EXOTIC MOTHS, with a copious Disiertation on the
Silk Moths, by DUNCAN ; with Portrait and Memoir of
LATREILLE.
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36. INTRODUCTION TO THE MAMMALIA, by Colo-
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Memoir of HUMBOLDT.
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PITHY AND PLEASANT.—A recent writer, giving an ac-
count of British dependencies, thus speaks of Bonaparte's
" frightful rock," as he was wont to call it :—" St. Helena.
on its first discovery, contained sea-fowls and some seals and
turtles, with a forest of trees and shrubs, all peculiar spe-
cies, with one or two exceptions. It is now a mere rock,
devoured by rats !"
WHAT'S IN A NAME ?—The real name of the Emperor
of China is seldom or ever known. Upon ascending the
throne he assumes a name by which, when spoken of, he
must be called ; for, to pronounce or write his proper one,
by accident or intention, is death to the divulger of the secret,
to his family, and, if a rich man, the confiscation of his pro-
perty ensues. A literary man, having accidentally used the
word " Ming" (which happened to be the reigning monarch's
name) in his work, suffered, with his sons, the extreme
penalty of the law ; his wife and daughters, with other mem-
bers of his family, were banished, and his estates confiscated.
So much for the mild, inoffensive Chinese, and the humane

•
government of the Celestial Empire.
MORTMAIN.—This is where the lands are given to some
spiritual person or corporation and to their successors ; and
because the lands were never to revert to the donor or his
heirs, and by that•means the services and other profits due
for the same were extinct, therefore it was called a gift
mortud manu.—Dr. Hook's Church Dictionary.
TALENTS IN A NAPKIN.—A gentleman once introduced
his son to the late Rev. Rowland H ill, by letter, as a youth
of great promise, and as likely to do honour to the univer-
sity of which he was a member. " But he is shy," added
the father, " and idle, and I fear buries his talents in a nap-
kin." A short time afterwards the parent, anxious for the
reverend gentleman's opinion, inquired what was thought of
his son ? " I have shaken the napkin," said Rowland Hill,
" at all corners, and tkere is nothing in it."

ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S YOUTH.
—During the government of Ireland by Lord Westmorland,
from 1790 to 1795, when the Hon. Arthur Wellesley was
attached to the Vice-Regal Court, then superintended by the
Hon. Mrs. Stratford, now the Dowager Countess of Aid-
_ _

borough, Mrs. Woodcock, confessedly the most beautiful
woman in Ireland, after spending a festive evening at the
Castle, found it impossible to obtain the usual conveyance of
a handchair to take her home, in consequence of an over-
whelming fall of snow, which compelled the desertion of
every stand. Her disappointment was visible, but was
promptly relieved by the Hon. Mr. Wellesley and the Hon.
Mr. Pery, the present Earl of Limerick, who gallantly volun-
teered their services ; and seizing a chair that always awaited
in the hall, carried their fair charge, amid a storm of drifted
and assailing snow, to her rather distant residence.
THE BRUNSWICKERS.—About this period we had a regi-
ment of Brunswickers sent to join our division, and one of
our least amusing duties soon consisted in watching them, to
prevent their deserting to the enemy. It was the prevalence
of this honourable propensity among them, I believe, that
induced Lord Wellington to distribute their force among the
different divisions of the army. These " death and glory
men," as we used to term them, from their badge of the skull
and crossbones, which were worn on their shakos and accou-
trements, were dressed in dark green, which but too fre-
quently enabled them to steal past our guards and join the
French, with whom many of their connexions were. Among
other attributes, with which these allies were gifted, was a
canine appetite, that induced them to kill and eat all the dogs
they could privately lay hold of. By this means the different
dogs of the division disappeared before the Germans with a
celerity truly astonishing, and we were in ignorance of their
fate until the fact became openly proclaimed and acknow-
ledged.—Costello's Adventures of a Soldier.
PREEIRASONRY.—It is proved unto us by the existence of
many monuments whose ages are well known, that our bro-
therhood had its origin in those times when a few of the
initiated, filled with desire of true knowledge and a correct
interpretation of the mysteries of christianity, separated
themselves from the various sects who professed the christian
religion ; for in those times, a few wise and enlightened men
who could not agree to the heathenish customs and ceremo-
nies introduced into christianity, and perceiving that by this
unhallowed service neither peace, nor love, nor unanimity
could ensue, but that cruel wars must arise, united themselves
with an holy oath to preserve and maintain in its original
purity the hallowed origin of the christian religion, with its
benign influence on the hearts and consciences of mankind,
to bring the true light more and more out of darkness, and
to labour together in combating ignorance, intolerance, and
superstition, and to establish peace and happiness among
mankind by teaching and enforcing every human virtue.—
Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
PRACTICAL WISDOM.—Bacon says—" In this theatre of
man's life, God and angels only should be lookers-on; that
contemplation and action ought ever to be united, a conjunc-
tion like that of the two highest planets—Saturn, the planet
of rest, and Jupiter, the planet of action." It is in this
conjunction, which seems to Bacon so desirable, that practi-
cal wisdom delights ; and on that account it is supposed by
some men to have a tinge of baseness in it. They do not
know that practical wisdom is as far from what they term
expediency as it is from impracticability itself. They see
how much of compromise there is in all human affairs. At
the same time they do not perceive that this compromise,
which should be the nice limit between wilfulness and a de-
sertion of the light that is in us, is the thing of all others
which requires the diligent exercise of that uprightness
which they fear to put in peril, and which, they persuade
themselves, will be strengthened by inactivity. They fancy,
too, that high moral resolves and great principles are not for
daily use, and that there is no room for them in the affairs
of this life. This is an extreme delusion ; for how is the
world ever made better? Not by mean, little schemes,
which sonic men fondly call practical ; not by setting one
evil thing to counteract another ; but by the introduction of
those principles of action which are at first looked upon as
theories, but which are at last acknowledged and acted upon
as common truths. _ . .

FRENCH BEGOARS.—The beggars by profession begin, as
soon as you are in sight, with a monotonous drawl of set
words, all pronounced on one key, and precisely the same to
every passer-by. Perhaps it is well for their own interest
that they generally ask you to give for the merit of the gift,
or the prayers they promise to breathe for you, for certainly
there is nothing in themselves to prompt it. How different
have I often thought it was from the genuine eloquence of
Irish beggary, which makes the heart ache so bitterly that it
would almost be a relief to give one's last sixpence ! The
begging in France is simply asking for money, while the
beggar often looks all the time as comfortable and well fed as
yourself. It is true they only ask for one sous ; but in the
valley of Campon, when you have given them that, they
make no scruple to ask you for another. Nor is this only on
the public roads. There is scarcely any place so retired but
you bear the pattering of little bare feet behind you, then
loud breathing which diffuses around you the perfume of
garlic ; and, as soon as you look around, the demand is
made and persisted in for a length of time proportioned to
the ability of the supplicant to keep pace with you.

NUMBER OF DRESS-MAKERS' ASSISTANTS IN LONDON.
—The number of young girls employed in dress-making and
millinery in London is much greater than the public have
auy idea of. It is impossible to ascertain the number with the
exactitude which could be required; but I have certain data
in my possession, by means of which we make a pretty close
approximation to it. The number of females whose names
are on their doors as the mistresses of dress-making and
millinery establishments, is nearly 1,000. It is no exaggera-
tion to assume that the number of persons who live by these
branches of business without having their names on the
doors, is 500.
This would make in round figures, the entire
number of " mistress" dress-makers and milliners, 1,500.
The question that occurs—What may be the average number
of young girls a mistress employs as assistants ? hi a few of
the larger establishments, the number so employed is from
thirty to forty ;in a very few it is less than six. In order
that we may err on the safe side, if we err at all, we shall
suppose the average number to be ten. Ten, then, multi-
plied by 1,500 will make the entire number of young creatures
so occupied 15,000,--Lights and Shadows of London Life.

SOCI

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The attention of the public is now duet'
and special manner to the proceedings_of the Prote
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stitutions now assailed by our radical contemporaries, to
whose attacks they have been always subject, but they have
also to contend against the tierce opposition of a small por-
tion of the conservative press, which has recently manifested
a_ great leaning towards the views of that party which has

snown an equal inclination to roman,. Elie utginas of popery
and the interests of papists in preference to the cause of
sound Scriptural protestantism, and of which the Rev.
W. Sibthorp was, until his very recent admission into thi
C' devoted - 'her_ ""

„tiurch of Rome, a V menu. The indiscreet re-
marks of any fervent admirer of the principles of the refor-
mation ara int,de the ground-work of a series of the most
unjust allegations against the utility and even necessity of
such admirable institutions as the Protestant Association, as
if the society itself could, by any sort of logic, be chargeable
with all that any of the multitude of gentlemen, lay or cleri-
cal, who are called at any time to speak in its behalf, may
choose to advance. Will the London Times, or any of his
compeers, undertake to defend every sentiment or every
speech made use of at every conservative meeting or every
conservative dinner. Are there not gentlemen who some-
times, though we admit but rarely, give utterance on such
occasions to sentiments in the heat of debate or the warmth
of enthusiasm, the propriety of which is often questioned,
but has never yet been attempted, as far as we are aware, to
be justified. We quite agree with an enlightened writer in
the Metropolitan press, that ” if any cause on earth were to
be judged by such a standard it would fall; and, in truth,
few things are inure easy than to get up a plausible and
effective attack when you have the extended line presented
by the long speeches .of a variety of speakers on which to
operate. Mistakes in popular meetings will occasionally be
made, and errors in taste and sound judgment will also be
sometimes manifested; but no one who is not an enemy to
the cause they are intended to support, will argue from these
weaknesses, incidental to all public meetings, against the
principles which the meeting has assembled to vindicate and
extend."

We deprecate as strongly as any man the use of the intem-
perate language which we are free to admit is sometimes in-
dulged in by some few of the speakers, at our protestant
meeting, whose zeal beyond question outruns their discre-
tion; but are we then bound to admit with equal readiness
that the association is therefore chargeable " with making
" many more papists than protestants, and with fanning the
" flame of that truculent politicalpopery which is so grievous
" a curse to Ireland." We apprehend a more inconclusive
argument was never made use of.
But we must put our readers in possession of one or two
very instructive facts on this subject. In the rabid attacks
on the protestant association which have once or twice dis-
graced the columns of the Times, (and which we feel per-
suaded would never have appeared if the master spirit which,

sided over its interests,) the Rev. J. M'Ghee and others are
represented as illustrating the views of the writer. Mr.
M'Ghee is not a man to sit tamely by and hear the cause he
espouses vilified and misrepresented without some stirring
and unanswerable remonstrance. Such a course we find he
has adopted in reply to the editor of the Times, in a letter
dated September 2-Ith, 1841, and which has been refused ad-
mission into that journal. After quoting an extract from
the Times of last August, (which Mr. M`Ghee was unable to
answer earlier, owing to his absbnce on the Continent.) the
Rev. Gentleman says—" I feel that it is of some importance
to the protestants of England to know on what ground you
have so far shifted your policy as to stand forth to attack
men who, if they were even under an error, still honestly en-
deavour to defend the protestant cause ; and why you, who
very lately eulogised their labours and extolled themselves,
consider it now expedient, either yourself, or by authorised
writers in your paper, to turn round on these men as their
assailant, and to appear against them and their cause as the
apologist, if not the defender and patron of Popery ?

• .1
" I can readily prove the fact that you do so, by referring
to your columns in my own case. I have been prevented by
illness this year from attending any meetings of the protest-
ant association. The last meeting but one I attended in
London was one convened at my own particular request, and
that was a meeting of the most grave and learned men whose
presence I could presume to solicit. The meeting consisted
of between three and four hundred individuals. There were
two bishops, many other dignitaries of our church, and doc-
tors, masters, and some graduates of masters' standing, of
the Universities of England and Ireland ; and I trust the
public will consider the importance of the subject as a suffi-
cient apology for the apparent egotism of quoting from the
Times of April 11,18-10, your own account of that meeting :
The rev. gentleman then gives the passage to which he
alludes, the pith of which is given in his subsequent remarks,
and then goes on as follows :
Now, sir, such was the language in which you described
my principles and conduct up to Aprillo, 1840. I have only
to add to this, that the statement laid before that learned as-
sembly was as plain and simple as it was possible for me to
make—that no reflections of mine were obtruded on them,
except such as were barely necessary to explain the nature of
the documents submitted to them, or to connect the extracts
taken from those documents, and I took the liberty of re-
questing that if any document or statement appeared incon-
clusive or defective, that any gentleman present would,
without any scruples or ceremony, interrupt me, and call
for any explanation which he might require to elucidate the
case. That statement its.elf, and all the speeches made by
my friend Dr. O'Sullivan and myself till the close of 1837,
the books that I had published, and the original and authen-
ticated documents of the Papacy to prove them, were lodged
in the Universities, and are there open to the inspection of all
the wise and learned men in the empire.
Whether, sir, I deserve your eulogium of April, 1840,
or your contemptuous reproach of August, 1841, is not the
question here; but the question which the Protestant Asso-
ciations of England and all the Protestant public have a
right to ask is this"-On what principle you ground such a
totally opposite treatment of me, and of the subject at these
two different periods? I know, sir, fully my own insignifi-
cance as well as yon ; but the great cause which I have en-
deavoured, however feebly to advocate, is bound up with the
religion, the constitution, and all the blessings of civil and
religious liberty in this empire ; and this is the point in
question.

My labours up to April, 1810, were " labours in the
cause of Christianity." In 1811, they are calculated "to
produce an unfavourable impression of the ,noral character
of Protestantism I" At that period the public were `• much
indebted to me for my exposure of the blasphemies of Ro-
ma'am." But now, these and similar exertions are " likely
to make many more Papists than .erolestants," anti
"chargeable with fanning the flame of that truculent poli-
tical Popery which is so grievous a curse in Ireland."
I produced on your testimony in 1840 "a vast number of
documents, printed and published by the recognised printer
and publisher of the Popish bishops and priesthood, and
read from them extracts which at once justified the severity
of the castigation I had so frequently and so ably bestowed
upon the enemies and interdictors of the Bible." But now
I am specified as one of those orators whose `• violent fanati-
cism and vituperative fury are in no degree calculated to ad-
vance the objects which they profess to have at heart, and
are altogether deficient in that sober, calm, and reverent
zeal which ought to characterize the advocates of truth."
Up to April, 1840, " All the points to which I referred, I
had already treated with great skill on former occasions."
Now, my manner is so " strikingly contrasted" with that of
Dr. Wiseman, that " the best method" the writer in the
Times can suggest for converting a candid, reverent, reli-
giously and charitably disposed, but not very well-informed
person, to Romanism, would be, to a course of attendance
on meetings conducted by such fellows as Mr. Stowell and
me, and then throw him into the company of the soft-spoken,
subtle-minded, learned, and unpolitical Jesuit, Dr. Wise-
man." Finally, according to the learned writer, Dr. Mur-
ray, in 1840, was styled the "high priest of the modern
Babglonish mythology," and Popery was the worst of all
degrading superstitions." But in 1841, if men dare to en-
large on and detail the very principle which the writer him-
self laid down : if they dare to compare this " worst of all
degrading superstitions" with that of Mahomet, Paganism,
and Juggernaut; if they dare to call this "modern Baby-
lonish mythology" " the religion of the devil ;" then such
words are " foolish, intemperate, and profane ; they excite
nothing but disgust in the minds of practical and moderate
men, and their inevitable effect is to recoil upon those who
use them."

Now, Sir, I do not either quote your panygeric or your
censure as a matter which to me is worthy of a thought ; but
as the British public must feel an interest in the principles
on which a journal so influential as the Times is to be con-
ducted, I think they have a right to demand on what ground
its editor or its accredited contributors can alternately blow
hot or cold on the vital question of the protestant religion.
Facts have not changed since the year 1840 ; I have not
changed my opinions, my conduct, nor even my " manner;"
documents and principles have not changed ; Popery has not
changed ; the Protestant Association has not changed ; truth
and falsehood have not changed ; it is for you, Sir, to inform
the empire what change has come over " the spirit of the
Times."

But, Sir, all this is of little importance. Mr. Stowell's
character or mine, or that of the Protestant Association, or
even the character or consistency of the Times, are all utterly
insignificant compared with the great question which you
have now ventured to bring into discussion. I cannot weary
the public with too long a letter ; but if you are not afraid to
stand on the ground you have ventured to occupy, I shall
try the powers of the editor of the Times, and of his friend
Dr. Wiseman, in one more letter.—Meantime, Sir, I have
the honour to be, your obedient servant,
Dublin, Sept. 24, 1841. R. J. M'GHEE.