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er the reverenee and love of that people,
by standing forward boldly to demand, in their name, the

aim of gaining for

ation of this, tyranny which " grinds the faces of the
—but he haslet slip the opportunity. He professes to
ee, indeed, the necessity of abating the tyranny ; but he may
'est assured that no half-way measures—no weapon which
foes not strike at the root of the evil—which does not de-
itroy utterly the centralization principle—can ever effect this
The odious nature of the system cannot be abated.

It must be utterly destroyed.
In the House of Lords on Friday a petition was presented
by the Earl of Aberdeen from certain of the inbabitants of

the colony of Newfoundland, praying that some measure of
protection might be afforded them in the exercise of their

civil rights

It may be interesting to your readers to know

that the constitution which was

in 1832 conceded by the

whig government to the demands of popery in that colony is
almost precisely similar, as regards the franchise, to that
about to be conceded to popery in Ireland ; and that so in-
sufferable are the abuses so attendant upon its working—so
wholly are the people placed under the control of priestly in-
timidation and outrage, when seeking to exercise their privi-
leges of electing members—that the governor-general has
actually found it necessary to refuse the issue of any further
writs, after the expiration of the present session, until some
measure of protection is devised. A pleasant foretaste cer-

tainly of the result of a similar measure nearer home !

TO THE .CONSTITUENCIES OF PROTESTANT
.ENGLAND.-LETTER

FELLOW PROTESTANTS ,—I inquired of you, in my last,
whether- you would endure the perpetuation, by Lord Mor-
grinding tyranny by which your opinions
and feelings are at present outraged ;—whether you are pre-
pared to add to the numerical strength of these Romish mi-
series, whose votes, purchased by the surrender of the prin-
ciples of your Protestant constitution to their insolent de-
mands, enable a profligate faction to trample upon the liber-
ties of the British people. Permit me now briefly to bring
before your notice what must be the immediate effect of the
passing of that measure.

peth's bill, of a

The municipal strength of the Popish body in parliament
at present amounts to upwards of 40 votes, the whole of which
are exercised in servile dependence upon the dictates of the
member for Dublin and the priesthood of Ireland. In this
number it must be borne in mind that I do not include the
whole of the " liberal" members for Irish constituencies, but
merely those who are known to hold their seats subject to
the influence of O'Connell and the priesthood, and whose

votes In the house are embraced in the compact entered into
by Popery with Lord Melbourne's administration. The ope-
ration of Lord Morpeth's bill in lowering the status of the
constituencies, will add at least 30 democratic members to
the RornisU interest; and the member for Dublin will then
be able to wave, in insulting defiance over the deliberations
of the British people, a " tail" comprising 70 and odd joints,
and even more effectually than at present to place in the
hands of the Church of Rome the substantive power of the
government of Great Britain. •

And what, let me ask, would be the first demand which
this ruffian, gorged with the accession of his new strength,
and inflated with the insolence of his coarse and brutal na-
ture, would endeavour to win from the cringing imbeciles
who would thus be placed so completely at his mercy ? Have
not his own lips told you what that demand would be ? Un-
doubtedly they have. You have yielded to him one-fourth
of the tithes of the Irish Church, and he has told you deli-
berately that he " will never be contented until the whole is
yielded up !" The wolf of Rome slept without the thresh-
hold of Protestantism, where the mailed hands of the war-
riors of the reformation had chained him down. You have
waked him from that sleep. You have allowed him to dip
his fang in the body of the Protestant Church of Ireland, and
now he is straining to break from his last fetter, and to quench

his burning thirst in a feast of blood. You have allowed him
to desecrate the portals of the house of Gad, and he demands
now to be permitted to throw down the altar. Yes—the

)testant Church of Ireland must be yielded up. It stinks
in the nostrils of Popery, and must be resigned to her tender
The humble spires which rise amidst the green
hills and vallies of that land of superstition, with their small

congregations of decent and devout worshippers, who bow
the knee to no power save that of the God whom they adore,
are distasteful to the disciples of Maynooth, who joy only to
gaze upon crowds of crawling and abject wretches prostrating
themselves in the degradation of their penances, or rushing
with seared hearts and inflamed passions from the darkness
of the confessional to midnight outrage. Those spires must
no more, on Sabbath morn or eve, send forth upon the air
of heaven " the sound of the church-going belll"—those
humble worshippers must either be coerced to bend the kno
in temples of idolatry, or be driven to seek the bread of li