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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

SEVENTH ADDRESS TO THE PROTESTANTS
OF THE EMPIRE.
.BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CLUB.

But, some say, though you repudiate Romish priests,
you admit, nay you invite the co-operation of your own
clergy. Where is the difference ? Why not get rid of
the priestcraft altogether ?
Our answer is-1 he English Church is an enemy to
priestcraft, by her principles, by her laws, by her history,
by the temper of her people,sby the spirit of her clergy.
And if you wish to know the difference between an Eng-
lish clergyman and a Romish priest, here it is :
The English clergyman is a counsellor of peace, hold-
ing forth God's truth ; the Romish priest is an instigator
of strife, hawking about the lies of Popery.
The English clergyman comes to you with the Bible in
his hand. and appeals to your judgment and your consci-
ence ; the Romish priest would rob you of your Bible,
and tells you to submit blindfold to the decrees of his
church.

The Enersh Clergyman teaches men to worsl•ip God
and to honour the King, to do their duty to their fellow-
men with the hope of heaven before their eyes; the Ro-
mish priest teaches men to worship the Virgin and to ho-
nour the Pope, and, with the fear of purgatory before
their eves, to pay their "duty" to the priest.
The English clergyman teaches men how, with "a con-
science void of offence towards God and man," they should
" hold fast the liberty wherewith Christ has made them
free ;" the Romish priest, prying into men's consciences,
and the consciences of their wives and children, rivets
their sins together in a chain, wherewith he holds them
fast in the bond of iniquity.
This is the difference between the English clergyman
and the Romish priest ; and, therefore, the Romish priest
is a fit tool for fastening the yoke of error and supersti-
tion upon the neck of a nation of slaves subject to the
tyranny of the Pope, while the English clergyman is a fit
minister for diffusing the blessings of Christ's grace and
truth among a nation of freedom subject to the lawful so-
vereign in the fear of God.

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But, say others, granting that there is this difference
between the English clergyman and the Romish priest,
that the church of England is a blessing to this nation,
and the Church of Rome a curse to any people—still, why
call the English clergyman into your counsels, why make
him a party to the political action of the National Club,
and of the associations which rally around it ?

We answer,—That from the remotest period of our his-
tory, in British, in Saxon, and in Norman times, accord-
ing to the terms of the Magna Charta, according to the
principles of the Reformation, according to the settlement
of the Protestant Constitution by the Bill of Rights, the
clergy have always been one of the estates of the realm,
and as such have had their share assigned them in the ad-
ministration of public affairs; but that for more than a
century past they have been excluded from that influence
which the Constitution originally assigned to them.
That if the influence of the clergy had been allowed to
continue, our church herself would have been maintained
in a state of greater efficiency, and safe from the lament-
able confusion and divisions with which she is reproached ;
the State would have been preserved from the course of
godless legislation in which it is engaged, and this Chris-
tian land would have been spared the curse and the dis-
grace of seeing a large portion of its population grow up
in a state of spiritual destitution and of practical infidelity.
That in a land where God's truth is recognised, and the
instruction of the people in that truth provided for by the
State, the business of legislation and public administra-
tion ought not to turn, and cannot turn exclusively upon
the affairs of this world. _ _ _

That even in regard to the affairs of this world, the
principles of religion ought not to be set aside by a people
profe,sing allegiance to God's truth ; that more especially
all the institutions and all the laws which affect the intel-
ligence and the morals of the people must bear the stamp
of those principles, if they are to harmonise with the
nation's faith.

That the ministers of religion are, by their very calling,
which is truly not of this world, responsible for the reli-
gious conduct of the nation not only in private but in pub-
lic life; and that they ought, therefore, to have a voice—
and that an influential voice—in the discussion of public
questions.
Let but the clergy and the laity of our church go hand
in hand—let them but make an united effort to recal the
nation to its ancient principles, its hereditary faith ; and,
evil as the times are, we have no cause to despair. The
truth is mighty, it will prevail !
RICHAKD NUGENT, lion. Secretary.
3, Cockspur-street, Nov. 20.

THE SHORT TIME EXPERIMENT IN

LANCASHIRE

The Lancashire manufacturers are determined to prove
the absurdity of the idea of realising short hours by mu-
tual agreement. Their wiser workmen (being taught true
wisdom in the Ten Hour Bill school) have begged them
to curtail the production ; and have offered to take their
share of the loss. And after a while, when they had their
own interests in their eyes, most of the masters were un-
derstood to have consented to a general working of short
time. But we, says the Halifax Guardian, knew
them better than to believe that this would last long, or
go far. And now in these short weeks how do matters
stand ?

The Manchester Guardian and Manchester Courier of
Wednesday both tell the same tale. The markets are
dull, and prices falling. And yet, though the interest of
the masters is thus directly involved in short time, the
Guardian says,—" We do not hear of any further exten-
sion of short time this week," for that " the attempts to
produce a general agreement for that purpose at Ashton,
Stalyhridge, and,qyde have failed for the present." And
the Courier curia out this evidence of folly by declaring,
" We hear of several concerns that had gone on to short
time, having commenced full time again."
We therefore repeat our problem of the 24th ult., and
call upon the opponents of factory legislation to answer
(if they can) this simple rule of three qatstion—" If a
rising cotton market, and a depressed demand for yarns
and cloth, cannot bring about a general agreement for a
reduction of the hours of labour, for the master's own
benefit, what extreme algebraic sign for an unknown
quantity shall represent the chance of such an agreement,
with none of these inducements, and for the sole benefit
of the workmen ?"

" A NUT TO CRACK TOUCHING THE TREATY

OF UTRECHT."

(From the London Guardian.)
The Ulysses of modern Europe will not deserve credit
for the astuteness which distinguished his great prototype,
if he suffers his vaulting ambition to carry him over the
barriers of Utrelht, for no one knows better than he does
the value of that treaty to the House of Orleans ; and
although he may desire to repudiate some distasteful
clauses, which are now invoked against him, we suspect
that he will be reluctant to invalidate others to which he
may hereafter appeal.
That the aforesaid treaty was framed with one grand
object—an object which the mutual renunciations were
intended to subserve, and by the light of which they
ought to be read ; that these renunciations, read them
how you will, do not bar rights acquired, through colla-
terals—these are the positions on which Louis Philippe
founds his case. Grant them true—which we are well
disposed to do ; but let us follow them out to their legi-
timate consequences ; Ilas the King no other cause de-
pending in which these pleas may be used as admissions
against himself? Has he no favourite hobby, to which
they may oppose an awkward impediment ?
His great object since 1830 has been to legitamise him-
self upon the throne. He would rather be King of
France and Navarre, by the grace of God, and by virtue
of hereditary succession, than King of the French by the
will of the sovereign people. He holds himself forth as
the veritable successor of Henri Quatre and Louis Quar-
torze. He rebuilds the chateau of Pau—he restores the
salons of Versailles ; Le Bon Roi reappears in Bearn,
and Le Grand Monarque in Paric, both identified with
him, " pia nepotis Augusti munificentia redivivi." He
would fain be the head of the Bourbon family ; hence he
asserts an interest in the marriage of Queen Isabella, and
forbids the banns with any but a prince of that ancient
stock. He sends to London, to be placed in the Royal
Exchange. the white shield, blazoned with the golden
lilies, although they are proscribed in his capital. He
cultivates the friendship of the Autocrat abroad, and of
the legitimists at home, describing the Duke of Bordeaux
as impossible, and having thus set him aside, he claims
to be the genuine representative of the ancient kings.
But even upon this view a link yet remains to complete
the chain of succession to Louis XIV., and that link is
supplied by the Treaty of Utrecht. The Dauphin, son of
Louis XIV., had three sons. The Duke of Bordeaux is
the sole male representative of the Duke of Burgundy,
'the eldest son. But there are not wanting descendants
of the Duke of Anjou, the second son, and the head of
that branch is Don Carlos, while Louis Philippe has to
trace his line back to the second son of Louis XIII.
How, then, are the claims of Don Carlos, as next heir to
Louis X.IV., in dcf...olt of ioauc of Lilo Diali.c uf Dui dcitun,
—....

excluded ? By the renunciations of his ancestor, Philip
of Anjou, when established as King of Spain, to all claims
on the throne of France. But if the renunciations of the
Duke of Orleans to the Spanish crown are not binding on
his descendants, how can those of the Duke of Anjou to
the inheritance of his French ancestors be more obli-
gatory ? If Louis Philippe, who wants a throne for his
son, may repudiate one clause of the treaty, why may not
Don Carlos, who wants a throne for himself, dispense
with another clause ? If there are "no more Pyrenees"
visible from Paris, how can they be viewed from the side
of Madrid?

Twenty-six Irish barristers died last year, and 83 were
called within the same period to the bar.
The Small Debts Act will come into operation the first
week in January.
It has been arranged that Mr. Ferrand shall show cause
to-day (Tuesday) against the rule obtained by Mr. Lewis,
the poor law commissioner, for libel.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, the sth
instant, Lord Denman stated that a user of twenty years
did not give an absolute right of road, though un-
doubtedly it furnished strong evidence of the existence of
such right : the right itself could not be created but by
deed.
COURT ETIQUETTE.—Mr. Samuel Peet, a member of
the Society of Friends, who was called to the Irish bar
this term, in moving for a wire facias addressed his lord-
ship thus :—" May it please the Court, I am directed by
my client to ask," &c., instead of conforming to the usual
form of opening a motion—" May it please your lordships"
The distinction did not appear to be observed by the
Court, but it was at once recognised by the members of
the bar, amongst whom it created some merriment.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Lady B-, the wife of a dis-
tinguished Lord, was a few weeks since so alarmingly ill,
occasioned by a disorder in the Liver and Stomach, as to
induce the phvsicians to disclose to the Hon. Mr. D-,
her Ladyship's son•in-law, that they entertained but little
hopes of her recovery. In that state, and unbeknown to
her medical attendant, she was strongly advised to try
Holloway's celebrated Pills, which she took for only three
weeks, when she found herself as well as ever she was in
her life. The accuracy of this extraordinary statement
can be proved beyond all doubt.

We know of one mode alone in which this problem can
be solved. It is worthy of the genius of Talleyrand, but
it savours at the same time of the spirit of the Old Bailey.
Cole mentions that the renunciation of Philip V. was
confirmed by a solemn oath, but that it was a remarkable
fact, that, either from negligence or connivance, the
Dukes of Orleans and Berri gave only a mere declara-
tion. This circumstance of the insertion of the words
" Nous jurons solemnellement sur les evangiles," &c., in
the acts, and the omission of the solemnity of the oath,
was commented on by Bolingbroke at the time, as " car-
rying, something along with them which neither the
queen nor he liked ;" but the renunciation was a fait
accompli, and the transaction too far advanced to be
overhauled"—so it passed.
Are we now to learn the force and meaning of this
' omission? Are we to be told that the descendants of
Philip of Anjo'a are bound by his oath, that those of
Philip of Orleans are unsworn ? We will not think so iii
either of the honesty or the sagacity of the King of the
French, as to believe that he wilt be willing to avail him-
self of this plea, or so audacious as to put it forward.
At,d if not, the arch-intriguer is caught on the horns of a
dilemma. if the treaty be binding, Lord Palmerston re-
lies on it for his protest against the offspring of the Duke
and Duchess of Montpensier. If it be of no effect, Louis
Philippe must descend from his lofty pedestal—he can-
not be head of the Bourbon family, but must be content
to reign a citizen .Icix§, with a patent bearing date from

apologies made by those who were indifferent to Protests
autism on behalf of Rome. He had always found this to'
be the practical experience of almost every Christian,
that all forms and modes of error would close, conspire,
and co-operate when Bible evangelical truth was to be
put down or overturned. He had met with a remarkable
exemplification of this conviction during the last summer,
when visiting the west of England. He referred to meet-
ings he had held on behalf of the British Reformation
Society at Bridgewater, Taunton, and Torquay, at which
places the Roman Catholic priests and the Socinian.
Two lectures on Popery were delivered on the evenings preachers combined to put him down. Their efforts were
of Tuesday and Friday last, in the Concert-hall. Lord not successful, and he entered into statements showing
Nelson-street, by the Rev. Dr. Cumming of London, an that, by what they had heard at those meetings, many
eminent minister of the Established Church of Scotland, Roman Catholics had been converted to Potestantism,
whose able advocacy of the truths of Protestantism are and many wavering Protestants confirmed and renewed
well known in the metropolis and elsewhere. The Rev. in their faith. The reverend lecturer added interesting
Hugh M`Neile presided on both occasions; and the plat- accounts of his discussions with popish priests at Wool-
form was filled by a most respectable assemblage of cletgy, wich, Chelsea, and Bermondsey, in the history of which
Merchants, and others. he introduced his answers given on those occasions to the
In his first lecture, Dr. CUMMING introduced a short doctrines of popery, and by this indirect route, he sug-
review of the conduct of the Roman Catholic Bishop, gested to his audience a vast variety of reasons for the
Wareing, whose explanations in the Morris perversion have faith that was in them. The principal, however, of these
been the theme for strong animadversion by the indepen- practical conflicts and controversies was at Hammersmith,
dent press. Dr. Wareing, he observed, bad acted a most where he engaged with Mr. French, a Roman Catholic
consistent part. If he had acted otherwise. he would not barrister, in which the whole of the popish theology
have been doing his duty to his church. The principles seemed to have been sifted with a vigilance worthy of
of his church and the practice of the Bishop were, in this Luther himself ; but as that discussion has been printed,.
matter, in happy harmony; for Rome held that when her we need say little more than that it was upon the most
people were asked concerning their faith, they might either vital points of Romanism. In the course of narrating'
conceal or confess it—that it was lawful to conceal their the arguments on the Invocation of Saints, several atro-
faith, if a greater good could be accomplished thereby, cious corruptions in the Psalter of St. Benevento were
than by acknowledging it. And, therefore, if Dr. Ware- pointed out by the reverend gentleman. In the Te pewee
ing had given Young Morris a dispensation to conceal his wherever the name of God and of the Lord occurred, they
faith from his parents, he acted only upon the precedents had been expunged, and the name of the Virgin Mary
set by St. Siguori, who laid it down that it was lawful to substituted. The 95th psalm in our prayer-book com-
use equivocation when equivocation was necessary for the menced with, "0 come, let us sing unto the Lord : let us.
interests of the church. Approaching the more immedi- heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation :" in this
ate subject of the lecture, Dr. Cumming remarked that Psalter it stood, "0, come, let us sing unto our Lady
he neither desired nor designed to cast any new light Mary, let us heartily rejoice before the Virgin who brings
upon it. Popery seemed to him a grand perversion of all us salvation." Other psalms were named with which a
the distinguishing truths of the gospel ; and here was Similar liberty had been taken. There was also the Atha-
" the mystery of iniquity." Infidelity was Satan acting nasian Creed. He had none of the dislike to this creed
at least a honest part : Popery was Satan acting the part which many persons felt : but he did not like it one whit
of an angel of light. One system denied all truth ; the the better for its popish "improvements," for it said,
other admitted all truth, but only to crucify, to vitiate, " Whosover wisheth to be saved it is essential that he
and annihilate. The one, therefore, was properly called hold a firm faith concerning Mary," and "unless he keep
the " mystery of iniquity", for it made God's truth the this faith he shall perish." Then as to the Te Deum and
caterer of men's lies, God's word the pioneer to man's our noble Liturgy. The former was the nearest approach
superstitions ; .it embraced the truth, not for the sake of to the sublimity of inspiration that could be conceived ;
truth, but for the sake of establishing under its guise and nothing would more rejoice him than to hear sang in
those deadly superstitions which ruined souls and dis- all the parochial churches of Scotland, "Thou art the
honoured God. He asked the audience to refer to any king of glory. 0 Christ," or to hear prayed that most
one doctrine in the word of God, and then observe how beautiful petition, "In all time of our tribulation ' • in all
popery perverted and caricatured it. Take the Bible; it time of our wealth ;in the hour of death and in the day
claimed the exclusive monopoly of the circulation of that of judgment, good Lord deliver us." (Applause.) He
blessed book. It made baptism a mysterious exorcism ; I recollected when he first entered an English parish church
the Lord's Supper, not the impressive and beautiful so_ ' after coming from Scotland hearing a clergyman who
lemnity of Sion, but an idol before which the people Prayed that prayer : he was not satisfied with reading, he
moot prostrate themselves and give worship ; it made prayed H. (Hear.) ge ( Dr. Cummings) shut his eyes
prayer—the privilege of Protestants—a penance to Roman and enjoyed it as thoroughly as though the supplication
Catholics ; it made the minister of God, not the preacher had been extemporaneous ; and he should never forget
of " Glad tidings," but a sacrificing priest; it denuded those words. The Te Deum was meet praise for saints to
God of his robes of beauty and of glory as a reconciled offer—meet praise for God to hear. But could the
Father in Christ, and arrayed him with the robes of meeting conceive how horrified he was when he read it,
vengeance, telling the poor sinner, though he suffered, 1
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dure after Christ had suffered that a guilty world might be ther of God : all the earth doth worship thee, spouse of
finally redeemed ; it regarded our blessed Lord as an im-
perfect mediator, requiring the intercession of the virgin art thou, 0 Mary, mother of God : heaven and earth are
and saints to eke out his mediation ; it regarded the Holy
Spirit as inadequate to sanctify and make us fit for 1
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heaven, and told us of a purgatory where souls are purified
which the spirit of God could not purify on earth. In
short, Popery, pretending to be exclusively apostolical,
NI the hour of death, in the day of judgment, and
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make progress. It was fitted for fallen humanity. It in-
perversions
sisted upon absolute, unquestioning outward obedience, scarce, he replied That the Church was infallible; that if
whilst it allowed bounds that covered the most congenial this doctrine were blasphemy in the thirteenth century, it
internal licence ; it enacted a ceremonial most stringent could not but be blasphemy now ; that the Church must
to give an appearance of gieat unity ; it made the lace- be consistent. But he was not left to prove these corrup-
ration
of the outward man to take the i lace of the mor. tions from any old books, for they were regularly pub-
tification of the lusts of the soul and the evil affections lished in the Catholic salter by Marini, the Pope's
of fallen nature. It was so constructed too as to meet bookseller at Rome, one of which he held in his hand.
every man's idiosyncracy. If you were metaphysical, it The Doctor, having concluded his narration of his contest
had subtle and skilful disputes left unsolved, upon which with the Catholic barrister, proceeded to say that in his
you could exercise your acumen ;if you had practical do_ various engagements he had been met with strong objec-
ties to be performed, such as pilgimages and penances, if tions to the course that was being pursued. It had been
you were a man of taste, it had paintings to gratify the alleged by some eminent persons, distinguished members
eye, poetry to charm the imagination, music the most of the Protestant Church, that such a course was evil and
captivating to rivet the ear—and a great philosopher had mischievous; and he had himself heard Roman Catholic
said, "if you make captive man's five senses, in trine priests say that nothing delighted them so much as meet-
cases out of ten you may calculate upon making captive ings like the present, for the result was an accession to their
all the rest of the man ?" if you were rich, your wealth numbers. That statement had invariably been made by the
was made to help you on the way to Heaven; if you were priests of the Church of Rome. If the priests found that
poor, she would meet your taste in poverty ;if you would these meetings were converting their people, was it likely
whip yourself to heaven, she would make the whip, co,- they would say so ? We old they not conceal the fact ?'
secrete it, put it into your hands, and teach you to use it The very circumstance of their boasting demonstrated to
well. Popery was admirably adapted to human nature ; him, that these meetings, instead of making converts to
in short, no evidence was needed beyond the religion of Rome, were converting Roman Catholics to Protestan-
Rome to show the false spirit of man's adversary. Satan tistn. (Hear.) He had heard it said that Roman Catho-
found that the persecutions of the first three centuries lies were most conscientious in their creed ; and that,
were a mistake, a gross blunder; and when he found that therefore, we had no right to pronounce it to be wrong.
" the blood of the saints" became the " seed of the He believed the Roman Catholic laity were most consci-
church," that the death of the martyrs was only the sig- , etrnuttiohuso:f they had
reehaodpd. erilleßdetthtehirisevdeid notrlasti ptngaelvleutphoant
the
nal for thousands of Christians to spring up, he laid aside I
the attitude of an open foe and assumed the position of a creed itself was right. A man might be conscientiously
concealed enemy—undermining Christianity under pro- wrong as well as conscientiously right. When we wished
fessions of friendly attachment. And if you looked at to know what was truth and what error, we did not apply
Popery in the social aspect, the same awful talent was to man's conscience, but "to the law and to the testi-
displayed. It was most versatile ; a perfect Proteus. If mony" ; and if one text in the Bible pronounced it wrong,
republicanism was in the ascendant, it was, first and fore- that text would be true, and all men's consciences wrong.
most, in preaching democracy; if despotism was the order It had been urged that there were many good men in the
of the day, it would cast its instruments before the despot's Church of Rome. He believed there were—many good
throne, and put a scourge into the tyrant's hand with men. The Bible led him to believe it to be so, for it
which to lash the people. In short, it was a system fitted said, '1 Come out of her, my people, lest ye partake of
for all emergencies ' • adapted to all circumstances ; and the her sins." This text clearly taught him that God
more he thought of what Romanism was, the less was he had a people in that church. But did it prove that
surprised we eo mcneey becoming nomanists. He was, in- church was right ? Quite the reverse. It bad been
deed, most astonished at so few not becoming Romanist,. urged—even in the House of Commons last year—that in
Like the proud vulture that hovered over the field of bat. attacking Romanism we were attacking Christianity it-
tle, Popery preyed upon the " dead ;" it dared n t, and self. This objection proceeded from a total ignorance of
might not, touch "the living." (Cheers.) And from its the distinction between the two. Should we be defacing a
consonancy to human nature Popery was likely to spread beautiful tree by removing the catterpillars that preyed
still more. The eloquent lecturer here quoted some sta- upon its walls ? Should we be destroying the gigantic oala
tistics from the Tablet, a Roman Catholic newspaper, by removing the parasite plant that clung to its trunk and
strewing the increase which is said to be making to the branches? The very reverse. The removal of the plant
numbers professing the Popish faith ; and he also referred that fed upon its juices would strengthen the integrity of
to Dr. Wiseman's account, as given at Nottingham, of the the oak. So it was with Christianity ; remove poPelry
additions making to their chapels and cathedrals. During from it and you removed an incubus that pressed upon and
the last six years many convents and nunneries for sisters encumbered it—you would allow it to expand free and un-
of mercy and sisters of charity had been opened. All shackled in all its beauty and glory, until, by the blessing
these cases of increase he attributed to the modes in which of God, it had accomplished its predicted and destined
Popery operated upon the fallen nature of man. Parting
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results. (Cheers.) Then it had been urged that the
from this topic, the reverend gentleman said he should Roman Catholics were a great majority of the Christian
next endeavour to obviate some of the pretences of
Roman Catholicism, and in the next lecture lie would fill of men upon a little island inifthweemfoiudsntdoofutrhreeolicgeioann
give some account of the practical conflicts and con- nthde
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hold—the Nicene creed for example—and that all the dif- sustained by scripture, that religion was true, though its
ference was that they only held a little more. They held advocates should be confined in dungeons or burned at the
the Nicene creed with the additions of the articles added stake ; and if popery were found to be condemned by the
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answered the several pretences of the Church of Rome It was not the rules of numbers or the doctrines of
founded upon them. Then, continued the lecturer, some proportion that determined what was the truth ; but it
of the Roman Catholics were continually saying, "look was this—" What say the scriptures ?" (He ar, hear.) It
around this great land, and behold its magnificent cathe- had also been alleged by the champions of Romanism that
drals : we, the Roman Catholics, built them, and if we she had produced many distinguished men and illustrious
built them, how can our creed be what you represent it to literati ; and it could not be supposed to be so corrupt a
be?" Perhaps, on examination, it might be found that system, otherwise such accomplished men as the Arch-
some of the magnificent cathedrals in this county had not 1 bishop of Cat/Ml.By would riot have belonged to it. He
been built by Roman Catholics. (Hear.) But suppos• (Dr. Cumming) replied that Greece and Rome, with the
ing Popery had erected them all—and he admired them most wretched theology, had the most accomplished scho-
beyond measure, and to hear the Gospel preached in a lars. Infidelity itself enrolled among its ranks Voltaire,
cathedral was a treat to him he could not find language to Diderot, Gibbon, Hume, and many other men of distin-
describe—did not Herod and the Jews build temples that 1 guished scholarship. This taught us, and a most import-
were the admiration of the world ? It was possible for I ant lesson it was, that knowledge might be, as Bacon Pro-
tbese splendid structures to be mausolea and sepul- claimed it to be—power ; but that sanctified knowledge
chres instead of temples for living saints wherein to wor- alone was peace and holiness and happiness, as well as
ship the living God. But he would refer to instances.
power. (Hear.) It was perfectly possible to obtain great
Canterbury Cathedral was built in 1073, York in 1173, knowledge in science. literature, and art, yet with that
Winchester in 1079, and Lincoln in 1118. In other words, knowledge to have the most unsanctified and unholy
our most beautiful cathedrals, or most of them were heart : it was possible to be the first among all the ency-
raised between the eleventh and the thirteenth cerituries. cloptedeists of the universe, and yet have less knowledge
Let any Roman Catholic history be opened, and it would of God than a Sabbath-school child. (Cheers. Some had
be found that the whole of these cathedrals were raised alleged they did not like controversy, and therefore they
in all their grandeur when Hildebrand was treading on the dis approved of these meetings. If by controversy was
necks of princes, making emperors and kings do penance, understood the calling of hard names, he utterly repudi-
and kindling the fire of war over the length and breadth ated it ; but by controversy he meant contending for the
of Europe. During the periods when those cathedrals truth in opposition to error, not in the spirit of bigotry'
were built there was all the fanaticism of the Crusades ; but in the spirit of love and of sound mind. The real
and the Waldenses were obliged to hide in the caves and question about controversy was—was it scriptural? St.
dark places of the earth. It was possible, therefore, to Paul went into the synagogues and provede out of the
build these splendid churches and yet crucify afresh and scriptures that Jesus was the Christ; St. Ju a told us to
put to open shame Him who was the light and life and contend for "the faith once delivered to the saints.
Lord of the Church. Yet Mr. Pugin, according to his The next question was—was controversy calculated to do
own testimony, was converted by the belief that the good ? His answer was. How were our missions in ever 9
Roman Catholics had built all these beautiful cathedrals. part of the globe carried on at this moment ? By contro-
Catholicism had been grateful to that gentleman. But he versial discussion. All our precious things bad been pa'
could take the meeting to a cathedral more beautiful even chased at this price, and they must be maintained at the
than St. Peter's when filled with all the pomp and splen- same price. The crown of our Queen and our glorious
dour of unrestricted Romanism—even on the day when constitution were sustained only by ceaseless conflict
ee ;se roof floor. 'more lit too thou.ood Icnocspe, ...eking it and tilt, iutrgrity of the scripture, the safety or.Ortlr cosno_
almost like a sun blazing in the midst of the hills. He mullion, access to God's word and the social privilege !
couldn shew
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or St. Peter's. He could take them to the spot near have peace at any sacrifice." Peace cannot be purchased at
which he had spent his earliest years—to the tur;-covered I too high a price. Better truth without peace, than peace
cottage in any parish in Scotland. There he could intro- without truth, (Hear.) Again, he asked what had made
duce them at eventime, and shew them the grey-haired England what she was, and elevated her to her rank
man opening the big Ha' Bible and reverently reading it among the nations? How came it to pass that in Ssvit,
to his family. He loved to listen to the reading of the zerland you could tell that one canton was Roman Ca-
good old man ; and then he would bid them kneel and tholic because the people were dirty and idle, and in no
join in prayers so truly beautiful that even our own mug- sense prosperous; and that another canton was Protes-
nificent liturgy could not approach to them. That turf- tent, because you saw the people industrious, prosperous,
covered cottage was the temple of the living God. (Cheers.) clean, and happy ? Why was it that Scotland presented
The rev. lecturer, in closing this branch of his subject, re- so complete a contrast to Ireland ? How was it that
minded the audience that upon our religion in time rested Scotland, with all her faults, was able, with but a few re-
ourdestiny in eternity. The lecture itself was terminated by giments, and a very few police, to keep order? Because
some general observations of a most striking character upon it was a land of Bibles, of pure and Protestant Christi-
the necessity of sustaining our national protestantism. The snap. How was it that Ireland was in so unhappy t
protestantism of England was England's glory. Whilst state ? He admitted that there might be political and
that lived, she lived ; when that died, she would die. social faults in that country, but its great governing evil.
Without being either a prophet or a prophet's son, he was its prevailing Popery. If it were not so, how was it
ventured to predict that England's greatness and England's that Ulster, which was Protestant, presented so marked a
protestantism must be gathered to a common grave, or be contrast to the other three provinces of Connaught, Mow,
raised to a common throne. What had raised England to ster, and Leinster, which were Catholic. One was per.
what she was—the land of asylums for the poor, of schools fectly quiet and Peaceful,* the others the scene of constant
for the ignorant, of churches for the people? What had emeutes. The one was Protestant, and Popery prevailed
made this a land that a slave did not tread upon its shores in the others. He was indeed persuaded that the secret
but the manacles fell from his hands and the fetters burst spring of all our prosperity as Britons was just our Pro-
from his feet ? What made this a land in which, in many eestant and Bible Christianity. The secret of the stability
parishes, at least, our doors might be almost without of that diadem which girds the Queen of England's brow,
bolts—and the days were not long since they were so ? was the existence of the Protestant Church in the midst
What had made this land a land of liberty and of bibles? of England's government. He
.believed, therefore, that
It was its Protestant Christianity—its scriptural, pure, if that assembly laved their country as patriots, they
and holy religion. (Cheers.) Be therefore called upon would identify themselves with this cause ; and if they
all of every denomination to hold to their ancient pro- desired to glorify God and to win souls to Christ, thet
testantism—to embrace it with ardent sympathy, with would throw all their' energies into this important OP
holy hearts, and with enduring affection. (Cheers.) holy cause. (Loud Cheers.)
THE SECOND LECTURE At the close of each lecture, Dr. Cumming received Old
commenced by a remark that the reverend lecturer scarcely warmest thanks for his eloquent and. truly Christian CS'
knew which set of apologies Was most injurious to the position; and Ole proceedings terminated by , the Chair'
truth--the apologielt made b) Rome__ for, itaelf; or the man pronoanciat a solemn benediction. •
~ ,

Nov. 24, 1846.

July, 1830 ; for even supposing no such restoration to
await young Henry as was achieved by his illustrious
namesake, he must still be prepared to find a new pre-
tender to the throne of Hugh Capet in the Count of
Montero°lin, seeking to avenge, under the character of
Charles XI., the twofold wrongs offered to unf,rtunate
kinsmen—the forced abduction of Charles X. of France,
and the protracted imprisonment of Charles V. of Spain.

BRITISH REFORMATION SOCIETY.

Korai anb Vrobinrial Ram

In a few days the streets of Southport will be lighted
with oil naphtha lamps.
In compliance with a requisition, the Mayor of Man-
chester has convened a town's meeting to consider " the
Oppressive and injurious tendency of the Salt Tax and
Monopoly in India."
Last Monday, Elizabeth Smith, an old woman aged about
77, living in Lionel-street, died in the Northern Hospital.
A few days before, her clothes caught fire accidentally,
and she was severely injured.
At the Manchester Borough Court, on Tuesday last,
several cotton spinners, dyers, &c., were fined 40s. and
Costs for nuisances arising from the unconsumed smoke
from their works.
Four hundred pounds have been subscribed on behalf of
the testimonial to Mr. Trafford, on his retirement from
the chairmanship of the quarter sessions for the county of
Chester.

The churchwardens of St. Augustine's Church have
appointed the Rev. J. H. Brown, Vice- Principal of the
Collegiate Institution, to take charge of the public ser-
vices of that church, and to be solely responsible for
them, until a new incumbent be appointed.
On Friday forenoon, a boy, carrying a tin cash-box,
near Liver Chambers, Tithebarn-street, was knocked
down and his box was stolen. Several persons seeing the
assailant running with the box gave chase, and the fellow
threw it down along with a bludgeon which he carried.
He effected his escape.
RAPID STEAMING:'—The steamer Clementina, of whose
trial trip to Dublin we gave an account in our last, steamed
to Folkestone from this port in thirty-five hours, against
a heavy sea and adverse winds—a rate of sailing rarely, if
ever attained, by our best packets. The Princess Cle-
mentina is destined to ply between Folkestone and Bou-
logne, in connection with the railway communication
from London to Paris.
NEW HOLYHEAD PACKETS.—The Admiralty have
contracted for four new steam-packets for the Holyhead
station. One to be built by Messrs. Dirchburn Sr. Mare,
it is understood, on the lines of the Surveyor of the Navy
—engines by Messrs. Seaward and Co. ; one of wood, on
the lines of Mr. 0. W. Lang, with Penn's engine; one,
engines and vessel by Messrs. Miller and Co. ; and one
vessel by J. Laird—the engines by Forester, of Liverpool.
They ate to be called the Caradoc, the Llewellyn, the
Kathleen, and the Banshee.
JuvENir E THIEF.—A lad named James Dodd, who
made his dAut at the Police-court some time ago, was
brought before Mr. Rushton, on Thursday.—Police con-
-stable, 109, stated that he took the boy in Crosshall-
street, about five o'clock on the previous evening. Wit-
ness conceived he was lurking about with a felonious de-
sign ; and when he was apprehended, a large nail, such as
are used by tyros in the profession for removing small
panes of glass from the shop windows, was found on him.
—He was committed to prison for three months.
MANCHESTER PARKS.—The actual amount of pur-
chase money paid for each park, and the probable total
cost for each park, laid out and ready for the public; the
latter in round numbers, are as follows :
Purchase Money. Total Cost.
£7262 8 2.... £ll,OOO
7743 3 8.... 12,000
8169 16 1.... 13,000

FIRE.—On Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, a fire
broke out in the toy-shop of Mr. Ahlborn,,situated at the
corner of Richmond-street and Whitechapel. Messrs.
Dowling, Maxwell, and Hewitt were immediately on the
spot, and the fire burned rapidly for a long time. Four
rooms on the second and third stories, together with all
their contents, consisting of a vast variety of children's
toys and smallwares, were destroyed. The damage is esti-
mated at about £4OO.
THE AURORA. BOREALIS.—The appearance of those
beautiful phenomena, the northern lights, was most bril-
liant and interesting to the spectator, from the Mersey, at
Liverpool, on Tuesday evening. A little before 6 o'clock,
the appearance was that of immense clear rays of a soft
clear light flashing with various degrees of intensity from
the northern portion of the horizon, and losing themselves
high up in the clear-studded sky. In a short time the
rays assumed the shape of an extended arch across the
lower part of the sky; at first the arch was a slight curve,
but afterwards it became more quickly curved. It is said
that the aurora is a sign of fine dry cold weather.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Tuesday night, about half-
past ten, a gentleman was proceeding homeward along the
Old Chester-road. When near the Tranmere Castle
Hotel he perceived two men in company with a female,
and the latter shortly afterwards accosted him, and asked
him to accompany her, to which he replied by ordering
her off. She, however, renewed her solicitations, and
threw her arms round him; at the same time, with the
quickness of a professional adept, she succeeded in ab-
sti acting his purse, containing upwards of £2O, with
which she immediately made off, and joined her male
companions, who had kept at a short distance behind.
The police have obtained a clue which may lead to the
detection of the robbers.
DEATH FROM DROWNING.—An inquest was held be-
fore Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, on Thursday, on
the body of a man, name unknown, which was found in
the Waterloo Dock on the preceding Tuesday. Police-
constable Marrow deposed to bearing a cry of alarm as
he was on duty at the dock, on Monday night; he ran
round to the side whence the scream proceeded, but could
discover nothing to confirm him in the impression that a
person was drowning. In consequence of his information,
however, a boatman, of the name of Stockton, belonging
to the flat Edward, then lying in the Waterloo Dock,
male a search of the dock on the following morning,
which led to the discovery of the body. Deceased was
ed in a barragan suit, and had the appearance of a
Verdict, found drowned.
ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Saturday three
able-bodied fellows, well known to the police, who gave
their names John Williams, Richard Smith, and William
Jones, were brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of
having attempted to rob persons in Vauxhall-road. It
appeared that between the hours of one and two o'clock
in the morning of that day, a man named John Edward
Brown was returning home along Vauxhall-road, when
the prisoners, and two others who had escaped, suddenly
sprang upon him, knocked him down, and turned his
pockets inside out. Fortunately he had no money about
him, or, doubtless, he would have been robbed of every
farthing. He was quite sober at the time, and they were
utter strangers to him. A sailor and his wife attended in
court for the purpose of deposing, that about the same
time, they were attacked by five fellows in Vauxhall-road.
They tore open the woman's cloak, and endeavoured to
rifle the sailor's pockets, They were each committed to
gaol for a period of three months.

Queen's Park
Philip's Park.
Peel Park ...

labourer.

Total .... £23,175 711 £36,000 - ATROCIOUS
OUTRAGE AND ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.
EVILS OF IGNORANCE.—On Thursday, two young lads, —A most barefaced and daring attempt at robbery and
named William Bell and Matthew Bell, were brought up I murder took place on Tuesday evening, at Broughton,
on a charge of stealing two pairs of slippers from James I near Preston, at the house of W. Miller, Esq , surveyor.
M'Cann. The principal witnesses were two boys, from lAt about six o'clock on Tuesday evening a knock was
ten to twelve years old, who, on being questioned, said heard at the front door, and immediately, on Miss Miller
they had never been at school, and did not comprehend , opening the door, six armed men with pistols rushed into
the nature of an oath, or the consequences of telling a the house, and, presenting a pistol at Mr. Miller, de-
falsehood. Mr. Rushton said there could be little doubt manded his money. Miss Miller, in terror, was endea-
of the facts of the case, but it was shocking to think that vouring to make her escape, when she was shot at by one
children such as those in the witness-box had never been of the men and wounded, slightly only we are glad to say,
at school, and were prevented from giving evidence in on the head. Mr. Miller told the men he had not got
consequence of their ignorance. He directed the pri- any money, when they replied they knew he had, when he
goners to be discharged. called to his servant, whom the intruders had shut up in
RIVER NIGER.—A paragraph in a London paper, co- an adjoining room, to " ring the bell." It appears that
pied by some' of our contemporaries in Liverpool, repre- I this hell is an alarm bell placed at the house, and that a
sents that the experimental trial from this port by Mr. rope in the room where the servant was placed communi-
Jamieson and others to open commercial intercourse with cates with it. At Mr. Miller's call, the servant rang the
central Africa " has failed a second time." This is not bell, on which the men, after looking at each other with
correct; there has not been a failure. The Ethiope astonishment for a few moments, suddenly decamped,
steamer ascended and traded on the Niger last year as before any of the neighbours arrived. In a few minutes,
high as Rabbah, five hundred miles from the coast, that however, a considerable number of persons, attracted by
being the purpose of her mission to Africa, and she the bell, were on the spot, and an alarm was given to the
would have done the same this year but for her boilers police. Five men were next day taken into custody,
giving way—an accident to which all steamers are liable, charged with being concerned in the outrage • and we un-
and which may, of course, be remedied in England, but derstand that three of them have been identified by Mr.
not in the Bight of Biafra. and Miss Miller. They are remanded for the present.
SMUGGLING.—On Thursday, John Ansley was charged s
2HE LATE Dn. TATTERSHALL.—Dr. Booth's sermon
with having 2671b5. of smuggled tobacco in his possession contains a happy reference to the scientific attainments of
The prisoner engaged a carter, named George Coventry, the venerated deceased. "He was," says the learned
to convey a cask from Clare-court, Croston-street, Tox- preacher, " a man, the bright benevolence of whose cha-
teth-park, to the Manchester carriers, Dale-street. Dur- ratter was only equalled by his learning and his talents,
ing the transit; the cart was stepped by the police, and as were these latter by the Christian graces with which he
the cask was foUnd to contain tobacco, and about Miss. was adorned. To dilate before you, his friends, his con-
more was found concealed on the premises of the pris- gregation, on the kindness of his disposition, his sympa-
oner. He was remanded until Tuesday.—On Friday, thies with the afflicted, his almsgiving to the needy, and
David Coulter, steward of the &rip Sophia, St. John's, his universal charity towards all men, would be in me su-
was charged with having concealed Ms. of cavendish fluous. As a scholar, his learning was accurate and ex-
tobacco, in the pantry of the ship. The prisoner was tensive ; as a mathematician, his attainments were of a
fined £lOO. high order; and as a divine, his knowledge of theology
DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Thursday, an investiga- was profound. He is one more added to the list of illus.
tion took place at the Aigburth Hotel, before John Heyes, trious men who have adorned, by their learning and their
Esq., Coroner, touching the death of Thomas Matthews, lives, that Church of which he was so blight an ornament.
a farm servant, who had hung himself. The deceased had Arid he, too, affords another striking example (were any
been in the employ of Mr. John Worrall, farmer, Aig- such needed) in refutation of a most erroneous opinion—
burth, as carter, but in consequence of his dissipated habits, that the study of the exact sciences, or the pursuit of
he was discharged on Friday week. Since that time. he physical investigation,
tion indisposes the mind to the recep-
had been frequently seen about the house and out houses
of religious truth ; an allegation sometimes advanced
of his late employer, although he had been more than by those who are. often remarkable_. more for their zeal
once forbidden to come near the place. On Sunday morn-
ing week, about church time, when a boy belonging to than their discretion i. and which is not more opposed to
farm went into the hay-loft he found the deceased sound reason than it is to acknowledged facts. It is op-
thehanging. posed to sound reason, because such an assertion involves
the tacit assumption that there may be found some dis-
DARING AND IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Saturday crepancy between the works of God as manifested in the
evening last, about six o'clock, whilst the men in the em- creation, and his will as announced to us in revelation—a
ploy of Messrs. Kennedy and Renner, 15, Goree Piazzas, supposition utterly inadmissible, unless we are prepared
the window of which looks into the Back Goree, were to deny that most indubitable attribute of the Godhead,
being paid their wages, some villain suddenly dashed either His unity, His oneness, His unchanseahleness of purpose.
his hand or an instrument adapted for the purpose (but Such objectors unwittingly betray the very cause which
which, could not, from the rapidity of the act, be discerned), they profess to defend." •
through one of the squares of glass, and snatched away from IRISH PAUPERS—DEATH IN THE BRIDEWELL.—An
the desk placed against the window, a bag, containing about inquest has been held on Friday, before our borough co-
£ls in silver, and although some of the men from the miler, upon the body of an Irish pauper, named Patrick
office immediately ran round to the Back Goree, the fel- M'Coy, aged 50, who, with four children, was taken to
low had decamped with his booty, and we regret to add the main Bridewell, at about five o'clock on Thursday af-
that no traces whatever could, or have, as yet, been found ternoon, for being found begging in the streets. Ile was
of the delinquent. , put into one of the cells, and the children were sent to
WATER FOR MANCHESTER.—There are no fewer tnan lodgings for the night. In the course of the evening, two
four schemes contending for the honour and profit of sup- boys and a drunken man were placed in the cell with
plying the borough of Manchester with an abundant supply M'Coy, the drunken man, in consequence of his violence
of pure and wholesome water. They are the following : being chained to a ring in the wall. The Bridewell turn-
First, The Manchester and Salford Water Works Corn- key entered the cell at various times, and at two o'clock
Pant', who propose to derive the water from Lyme Park on Friday morning, the drunken prisoner, having become
and the neighbourhood. Secondly, The Corporation of quiet and orderly, had the handcuffs removed, and he
,Alanehester, who propose to bring the water from the went and laid himself down on the bench. At three
''therow district. Thirdly, The Manchester, Sheffield, o'clock, an alarm was given by one of the lads, that there
and Lincolnshire Railway Company, who propose to ob- was a dead man lying upon the floor of the cell ; and the
ss'ain the supply chiefly from the Peak Forest and the turnkey, upon entering, found that it was M'Coy, who
Vaeclesfield Canals ; and, fourthly, the Lancashire had either been pushed, or had fallen off the bench upon
Water Works Company, who propose to derive the supply which he had been lying during the early part of the night.
from the Turton and Entwisle reservoirs, and the neigh- He was quite dead. A surgeon was sent for, who, after
bourhood. the expiration of some time, made a post-mortem exami-
DEATH FROMA NARCOTIC.—On Tuesday, an inquest nation, in consequence of one of the lads having stated that
was held before the borough coroner, on view of the body he saw the drunken man, after he was liberated, knock
of Michael Monaghan, a child nine weeks old, who lived M'Coy off the bench, and kick him in the chest after he
with his parents in Henry Edward-street. It appeared, was down. There appeared to be no truth in this state
that when he was about three weeks old he was seized ment, as there were no external marks of violence what-
wite a fit of screeching, and that his mother got a penny- ever; and the surgeon was of opinion that death was the
Worth of Godfrey's Cordial, and gave him a teaspoonful natural result of pulmonary disease. This poor man, who,
of it. Ever since that time she had been in the habit of with his wife and children, was before Mr. Rushton on
giving him a pennyworth every week, but never gave him Friday week for begging, and was only liberated upon
more than about a teaspoonful at a time. Last week she consenting to be passed back to Dublin (though he said
gave the deceased a teaspoonful, and from that time until he might as well die of starvation here as in Ireland), ap-
five o'clock the next evening the child never awoke out of pears to have contrived to evade the parish authorities un-
sleep, When he did awake at last, he appeared quite til Friday, when he was again apprehended. In all pro-
drowsy, and on Sunday evening. he died. Mr. Patrick bability, his death had been hastened by the privations Ile
e'lzpetY, surgeon, was of. opinion that he died from the has undergone ; but it is clear the poor fellow did not ac-
s,"e ts of some narcotic. A teaspoonful of Godfrey s tually die of starvation, as he had five shillings in his
Cordial would contain a drop and a half of laudanum. pocket, the proceeds of his day's or week's begging. The
Ile considered that a most injudicious quantity to have great and steady influx of Irish paupers from DU-b. lin, is
_been giedley," thus reducing the offence below manslaughter. given. The jury returned a verdict of " Chance- indeed becoming a matter of grave consideration among
medley,"
the authorities here ; as it is utterly impossible for the pa-
DISTURBING A CONCERT.—On Tuesday, Mr. Vin- rish to be burthened with them and it is a serious expense
stsbing, father of the " Infant Sappho," appeared before to have to pass so many families back to Ireland every
Mr. Rushton, to prefer a complaint against Edward Wor- week, which must either be done, or they must be sup-
,„l.all, who was in custody, for creating a disturbance on ported in our borough gaol. They arrive here daily, lite-
Monday evening, behind the scenes of the Liver Thea- rally by fifties and hundreds, clothed in rags, and without
tre. Mr. Vinning stated that, such was the increasing a penny piece in the possession of any one of them. They
Popularity of his daughter, he bad hired the Liver Thea- then pester the parish-office for relief, and finding that of
tre, for a week, at a cost of £2O, and £2 for gas, when. no avail, go about begging, until brought to the police-of-
in conjunction with the Tyler family, a series of concerts fice. An inquiry is, we understand, about to be instituted
were to be given • but on Monday evening, he said, a as to bow so many Irish paupers manage to get their pas-
" conspiracy " had evidently been formed to destroy the sage across the channel, it being shrewdly suspected that
respectability of the entertainment. The prisoner had the parish or some other authorities in Dublin are actually
come, it tsxicated, behind the scenes, having drink with paying their passage money in order to get rid of them,
him, and created great disturbance. Mr. \'inning told utterly careless as to the result.
him if he would apologise and go away he would excuse WRECKED GOODS.—The recent devastations on the
him, but his answer was that he would see him d—d coast have filled many of our drapers' shops with wrecked
first. Five or six gentlemen from the pit leaped on to the Manchester goods. Mr. Briscoe, of Oldhall-street, who
stage, to put an end to the annoyance, and he was given has been an extensive purchaser, is selling them at prices
into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was a almost incredible.
stranger in town, having only arrived the day previous. THE GREATEST LADY. All who have seen Tom
Hotel
was sent from the Theatre Royal to the Brunswick Thumb, (and who has not ?) would do well to proceed to
tlotel for sonic drink, and had quite mistaken the Urea- the Assembly-rooms, Bold-street, and enjoy the force of
tre, Mr. Rushton :—" You will not get out till you find contrast,—for there Mrs. .Armitage, in one sense, the
bail, or be imprisoned for a month." greatest lady that the country can boast, holds a daily
HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—Mr. Duncan re- levee. She is of the extraordinary weight of 32 stone, and
Ported that the tower at the new works in Green-lane is 4 feet 8 inches in height. Her countenance is hand-
rsaa now up to within 23 feet of the entire height; that some and expressive; her feet and hands of the ordinary
the roofin" of the boiler-house was still incomplete, but size, but her obesity extreme. As we heard a wag re-
that it would be out of the hands of the blacksmith in the mark, she needs no " bustle." She is wonderfully viva-
eourse of the week ; that the engine-fitters were engaged cious and communicative ; although her step is far from
In Putting down the pump-work in the well, and that the sylph-like, her bulk considered, she is withal graceful in
steam ill and other pipes connected with the engine and her carriage. The greatest difficulty is felt in travelling•
boiler were nearly all fitted up. Mr. Duncan also re- A camel could as easily go through the eye of a needle, as
Ported that the cooling ponds vv. ere in active progress, Mrs. Armitage enter tbe door of a cab or railway carriage.
les
-enty men being employed upon them, and that he had She is obliged to be content with the accommodation a
arranged with Messrs Jones and Ilousely to perform the horse-box affords. A visit will be found to gratify.
work in four weeks. *With re rd to the pipe laying, it EARLY'S BALTIMORE HAMS—We last week briefly
was reported that the sluicing-cocksa for St. Andrew- noticed the importation of a quantity of Baltimore hams,
ist.reet had been received, and were in the course of being and conceiving them to be, in the present high state of the
s_aid down. The Board complained of the delay in the markets, a boon to the working population, we have
work
8, and the Town-clerk was directed to write to Mr. taken an opportunity of testing them, anon,
we
at once
Johnson to say the Board were dissatisfied with the pronounce them not only equal to, but surpassing in rich-
Progress, and that the Penalty of £5O a-week would be ness, delicacy, and flavour, the finest produce of this or
enforced. Mr. Waltbew said, that as this was the close our Sister Isle ; and we have the authority of a leading
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thetheir official Year, he begged to Propose that a return medical professor to say, that " these hams are quite
ye attendance of the commissioners during the past as nutritious as our own curing, while they are
toiattt, at the weekly sittings of the Board and at_ the Corn-. lighter and more easy of digestion." Unlike previous
1)- .ees, be submitted at the next meeting. The motion importations of preserved provisions, there is in them an
"Mg been lei._seconded, several members expressed them- almost total absence of salt; and though highly dried,
tiel7B as opposed to the issuing of the return, as the. du- when cut, they present that ruddy freshness that invaria-
the superiority of quality. Those who have
t„. out of doors were in very many cases of more trEpor- bly indicates
i,ce than that of attending the weekly meetings; and as not yet tried them, should do so at once, as they will fully
h'e return Would not show what done out of doors, bear out all that can be stdai in their praise.
list o t e
co-ue gentleman to his public duties. No division was leading grocers by whom they are sold ;and', as the price
iv.tl. to on the subject, but it-was understood the return iis extremely low, (about sd. per 1b.,) there_ can be little
"qtd be furnished. doubt that the market will soon be cleared. of them..