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act, it is to be apprehended, would be altered by an apostate

Parliament ; and this must be preventec
terference of the faithful Protestant electors

by a time

We have been already grievously deceived by pretended
friends to the constitution ; let us fairly and impartially
view the facts which should warn every true Protestant
and friend of his country—that country, whose constitu-
tion (until corruption crept in by Jesuitical stealth) was
the pride of human wisdom.

The facts which should be revealed are of such a nature
as would leave no excuse for a true Briton to endanger
his glorious constitution, already too much shaken by
treacherous statesmen.

Attend to the series of links in that chain which the
Church of Rome has forged to bind all mankind to her
Pontifical Chair. By the 23rd Article of the Creed of
Pope Pius IV., she claims supremacy as " The Mother
and Mistress of all Churches " ; and " her votaries "
swear " true obedience to the Bishop of Rome." And
again, by the 24th Article of the same Creed, every mem-
ber of the Romish Church is made " to condemn, reject,
and anathematise all heretics whatsoever, that are con-
demned, rejected, and anathematised by the church."
And lest there should be any mistake or forgetfulness

doctrines of Rome, there is the Bull In Ccena Domini to
remind and enforce her excommunications and persecu-
tions ; and this Bull is ordered and commanded to be
punctually and frequently proclaimed, " to excommuni-

care ann anathematise all Wicklittites, Hussites, Luther-
ans, Calvinists Huguenots, Anabaptists, and all other
heretics of whatsoever sect they be.' And again, by the
fifteenth canon of the Corpus Jiuris Canonici, the mem-
bers of the Church of Rome are prohibited from keeping
faith with persons excommunicated—that is, " all here-
tics of whatsoever sect they be"—all Protestants—and
this canon is not obsolete, but was recognized in a publi-
cation by permission of Dr. Trgy, late Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin.
By all this regular and compact concatenation, we see

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how the power of Rome is brought into the focus; and

every noman uatnolic is bound to excommunicate and
anathematise, as accursed, whomsoever his Church com-
mands him—for that Church can declare anything to be
heresy, and all to be heretics who differ from her either
in doctrine or political N iews. This is indisputable, for
the Creed of Pius IV. is still the accepted Creed of the
Popish Church ; and that this doctrine is still called into
use and practice appears from frequent occurrences—for
instance, in elections in Ireland, the priests frequently,
indeed, we might say, most generally, compel freeholders
and voters of the Romish religion, under the terrors of
curses and excommunications, to yield to their dictation
and vote accordingly—leaving no liberty where there is
priestly power. These facts are sufficient to warn us how
unsound and dangerous, both in discipline and doctrine,
is the Church of Rome.

If the Jesuits, who are now so powerful in England,
shall prevail at the next general election, no doubt, THEIR
REPRESENTATIVES, AN APOSTATE PARLIAMENT, will at-
tempt (and perhaps succeed) an alteration of the Act of
Settlement ; and he must be an ignorant statesman who
does not know that equality will not satisfy the ambition of
this most dangerous fraternity. Neither will it satisfy the
immediate subjects of the Roman power : they would as-
pire to the Throne itself. Neither would the mere con-
cession that a Roman Catholic might sit upon the throne
amoufit to their notion of right; because, in their esti-
mation, and of all consistent Roman Catholics, much in-
justice is done to that Prince who is the direct, lineal
descendant of our ancient monarchs ; and the occupation
of the House of Brunswick is, in their eyes, so great an
injustice, and so offensive and degrading to their religion,
that they would remedy the grievance, as they call it,
whenever time and opportunity would permit. Here then
is an issue to be tried whenever Jesuit treachery and,
foolish, timid expediency statesmen—yield the power.
There has been already too much conceded for the
safety of the constitution, and we are thereby involved in
a most inextricable dilemma. Are we prepared to submit
at once to a Romish government, or to restore the con-
stitution of 1688 ; are we resolved to stand, or frightened
to fall ? This dilemma is the offspring of unprincipled ex-
pediency. How, then, can England be said to be secure

of her Protestant constitution, as long as her Commons
and her Lords doubt and hesitate ? Can it be endured
that an anomaly the most irrational; the most confound-
ing, should be let in upon the constitution ? Could a
Roman Catholic Sovereign fitly or faithfully govern a
Protestant State ? The absurdity of delegating such a
trust to such a Prince is too glaring to need comment.
Is the tyranny of James the Second only a romance ?
Did he not, in the most solemn manner, pledge himself
to• uphold and maintain the Protestantism of the British
constitution ? How faithlessly he adhered to this solemn
promise,
we all know ! And the Protestants of Ireland,
especially, have reason to remember the atrocities of his
deeds, and the baseness of his perjuries.

PRO ARIS ET FOCIS

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Mr. Bowes, the retiring M.P. for the southern division
of this county, is applying under the drainage act for a
loan of £5OOO to improve his lands at Romald kirk and
Gainford ; and a second f... 5000 for the same object, to be
expended on his lands in the parish of Staindrop and
Winston, all in this county.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT RUNCORN.—On Wednesday,.aa
William Clark, who was employed by John Tomkinson,
in the stone quarries, was in the act of crossing a stay
from one of the cranes, his foot accidentally caught a
clenched nail in the timber, and caused him to be preci-
pitated to the bottom, a depth of twenty-one feet. The
unfortunate man only survived for a few hours.
SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—An inquest was held at
Chester, on Thursday, on the body of Mrs. Eliza Bradley,
the wife of Mr. Bradley, flour dealer, Great Boughton.
Deceased threw herself out of. an upper window on the
preceding day ; she had suffered from a miscarriage a short
time previous, since which, she had been in a state of
mental hallucination.

The literary amateurs, including Charles Dickens, the
Punch contributors, and others, whose performances have
been §o highly applauded for their intrinsic excellence, as
well as for the charitable motives which suggested them,
are, we are told in the Atheneum, about to give four re-
presentations—two inLondon, one in Manchester, and one
in Liverpool. The proceeds will realise, it is believed, a
sufficient sum, or, at least, the basis of a fund, to purchase
an annuity for the declining years, which are fast running
out, of Mr. Leigh Hunt. •

THE INSANE POOR IN LANCASHIRE.—Mr. Samuel
Gaskell, F.R.C.S., has addressed a letter to the Visiting
Justices of the Lancaster Lunatic Asylum, which, at their
instance, has been printed for distribution. Mr. Gaskell
has ascertained, by careful inquiry, that the number of
insane persons in Lancashire, not in asylums, is 700; of
whom upwards of fire-sevenths have been mentally defi-
cient from birth. lie puts the question, "Is it expedient
and desirable to place in confinement the 503 persons born.
with weak intellect ?" His own opinion is that it is not
desirable to remove them from their homes; and that if
any portion of them should be placed in an asylum, it
should be in asylums differently constituted to those now
in existence.

PUBLIC BATHS REFUSED.—The magnates of the an-
cient city of Chester seem to be a century or two behind
the age, so far as public spirit and a regard to the health
of the inhabitants are concerned. At a meeting of the
Town Council, on Friday last, the committee appointed
to consider an application for two sites of land, for the
purpose of public baths, reported against the application,
but recommended the Council to make an offer of a
piece of waste land on the south of the city walls, near
the Groves, which the committee thought would be suit.
able for the purpose. Against this proposition Mr. Potts
declared his opinion that, " It was perfect nonsense to
have baths at all, as they had done very well without
so far." And Captain French denounced the baths
scheme as " one of the most perfect humbugs that was
ever presented to the Council. When he was a boy it
was his delight to swim across the river." ! ! As the
Council seemed to sympathise with the objections of these
very wise and very liberal gentlemen, the matter was re-
ferred back to the committee.

SENSATION DURING A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— _
Samuel Tomkinson, merchant of this town, who was a
traveller in the train at the time of the late melancholy
railway accident at Chester, thus describes what occurred
at the time :—" I was sitting in the centre compartment
of the first-class carriage next to tb er That car-

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riage was attached to the tender. The train was going
about twenty miles an hour before it came to the bridge.
The rumble of the crossing caused us to cease our conver-
sation, and I was looking down on the Roodee race-course
when, just as we appeared to be over the bridge, I felt as
if the ground was sinking beneath us. Our carriage was
then a little beyond the centre of the last span. We
dropped for a moment ; then we appeared to have been
lifted up, and then we fell down a great steep, the carriage
rolled once or twice upon the bank, and all was dark. I
was once or twice upon my head in the carriage, and the
carriage was crushed by the fall. When the rolling ceased
I found myself upon the cushions quite in a heap. 1
sprang up, found I had no bones broken, and perceived
the wheel of the carriage close by my head. I found Mr.
Grote comparatively uninjured. I saw several of the az-
_ 'gages lying upon the bank, one of them in deep water,
and a woman was struggling in the water. I went into
L. the river and drew her to the side, ar, - her to
sit on the bank, but she refused

seemed confused_
The train was not off the line prior to the accident. Up
to the time of the sinking of the ground there had been
no thumping of the tender as if that had been off the line.
There was no concussion against the abutment prior to

the accident. The radical remedy against similar acci-
dents in future is to make the bridge stronger. It always
appeared to me to be a flimsy structure, and I never
crossed it with )ut apprehension. I always feared it would
give way, and I always looked at the rising and falling of
-the-Dee_to see its depth in case we should tumble in. At
the time it was in course of erfTtiOri. and when the props
were under the bridzf., a superintendent of the line of the
nann, of :outer, told me that it was not doing its cinty—
that it was not settling properly."

FALL OF THE RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE DEE.--.
The coroner's inquest upon this fatal and lamentable ac-
cident was completed on Wednesday last, in the City
COIIII House, at Chester, when the jury at about ten
minutes past six in the evening, returned the following
verdict :—" We find that Geo. Roberts, John Matthews,
and Chas. Nevill were accidentally killed, on the evening
of the 24th of May last, in the parish of St.:Mary's-on-the-
Hill, in the city of Chester, by being precipitated along
with the train of carriages on the bank or bed of the river
Dee, from the breaking of one of the twelve cast-iron
girders constituting the railway bridge over that river.
We find also that Isaac Jones died on the 26th of May
last, from the injuries received at the same time and place,
and from the like cause. And we find that Thomas An-
derson came by his death on the 24th of May last, in the
parish aforesaid, by being accidentally thrown from the
tender on to the rails. We are further unanimously of
opinion that the aforesaid girder did not break from any
lateral blow of the engine, tender, carriage or van, or
a f-- fault or defect in the masonry of the piers or

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