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whose hatred and fear of the spread of its baneful
doctrines, and the strengthening of both its spiritual
and temporal arms. are deeply seated, and founded
upon conviction, the result of earnest inquiry and
watchfulness. These masses, Lord John Russell,
and those temporisers who hope that in a few weeks
this storm will blow over, will find they are not pre-
pared to rest satisfied with mere protests against
Papal aggression,—mere paper pellets launched
against that wall of brass, with which popery sur-
rounds herself to prevent the entrance of truth into
her fold. From any Government to which they
may be willing to extend their support, they will
require action, not words ; a practical hostility to-
wards every effort of Rome to extend her influence
not only in the British Isles, but in every distant
possession which owes allegiance to the British
Crown.

Our contemporary of the Dublin University re-
marks very justly that Lord John Russell, and the
so-called liberal party would have been quite con-
tent to allow Romanists to labour in their vocation
amongst us, and even to subsidize them in our
colonies and at home, had they been willing to do
so withObt making a parade of it. They might have
gone on with their pernicious teaching unnoticed,
while as we know, and palpably as we are now ex-
periencing to what that teaching inevitably leads,
had they not prematurely exhibited to the world,
in this kingdom, under the very eyes of the Govern-
ment, their ulterior and ambitious designs. The
Protestants of Great Britain, however, we venture
to assert, are no more disposed to foster popery
working and mining in the dark, than popery ramp-
ant in the open day light. We are no longer to be
hood-winked by the assertion that the system of
Rome is changed ; that she is tolerant and harmless,
and seeks only to advance her spiritual influence
over those whom she is proselytizing. We cannot
believe these pretences, with the solemn declaration
made at the recent synod of Thurles before us, that
she holds still firmly and unmitigated in their
atrocity all that has been delivered, defined, and
declared in the sacred canons and general councils,
of which we well remember the use which she made
in the dark ages to enslave her votaries, and to root
out, by the axe and the sword, the word of revealed
truth from amongst mankind.

MEETING OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSO-
PHICAL SOCIETY, LAST NIGHT.

The fourth ordinary meeting of this society for the
session 1850-1 was held last night. After the private
business was got throngh, the first paper for the evening
was read by the Rev. J. Robberds, 8.A., the subject be-
ing the Moral Influence of Socrates. So many were our
avocations last night, and so large the demand upon our
space, that we were quite unable to give anything like a
report, or even an analyeis, of this paper. The name of
its rev. author, however, is quite sntficiently known to
enable our literary and philosophical readers to assure
themselves that it will form an interesting feature in the
society's transactions. The next paper was read by the
secretary, D. P. Thompson, M.D., the subject being the
Pyramids of Egypt considered Astronomically. In this
paper Dr. Thomson gave a condensation of the views of
Mr. Wild, C.E., who regards these structures as having
been erected in part for the purposes of sepulture, heathen
rites, and the perpetuation of certain grand laws in astro-
nomy, which were then known to the priesthood. The
paper was very interesting throughout. J. B. Yates,
Esq., was in the chair.

EXPENSES OF THE PIKE SCHEME,
STEPHENSON'S INQUIRY, &c.

We have before us a list of the items of expense, as far
as at present made up, attending the last bill relating to
the Pike scheme, including the expenses of deputations,
witnesses, &c., in London, for and against the scheme,
and of the inquiry here before the arbitrator, Robert
Stephenson Esq. These, it will be seen, have furnished a
very handsome addition to the cost of a project already
fearful in amount, taking even the estimate as not likely
to be exceeded. The witnesses examined in London, on
the bill in the first stages, appear to have been thirty-two
in number, and to have received, in round numbers, £551.
The committee from the Council who went to London
were five in number ; and the sum total received by them
is £l3l 17s. 6d., of which Mr. W. P. Fretne had
£44 2s. 6d., and Mr. T. L. Hodson £7O. There is
besides, on this head, some railway and other fares paid
by the Town Clerk, of which the account is not yet com-
pletely made up. The counsel employed for the bill were
five in number, and were paid as follows :
T. C. Talbot, Eici.
Sergeant Bellasis ......... 297 2 6
C. Crompton, Esq....
Burke, EF.q...
Paget, Esq. ..
Ditto ....

Total counsel fees.. £1.701 3 6
Hotel bills were at Morley's and Fendall's £453 Ils. Ild.
We have a further account of witnesses, deputations, and
disbursements of various kinds, of £1,780. The total cost
of the amended bill, so far as at present ascertained, ap-
pears to be, in round numbers, about £4,200.
The cost of Mr. Stephenson's inquiry, as charged to
the Corporation, amounts to £4,735. Of this sum
£541 193. Ild. appears to have been paid to the parochial
water committee: no names, however, appear as to who
were the reripients. Mr. Greame is credited for £lOO 16s

Thomas Spencer £lOB 3s:, and Mr. Rowlandson
£66 155., and Mr. Simpson £lO2 4s. 9d. Gurney's
shorthand writers received £227 6s. 2d. for reporting,
and another £5O was paid to Mr. Pollard for reporting.
The charge of Mr. Stephenson for his report was £525,
and his disbursements were £2,430 193. 7d. The total
cost, therefore, has been nearly £9,000, paid_ by the
Council, in addition to what has been furnished out of the
voluntary rate.

Mr. Robert Batty, of this town, was, on Friday, ad-
mitted a member of the royal college of surgeons._ _

LIVERPOOL GOVERNESSES' INSTITUTION.—The Rev.
H. H. Higgins will commence a course of lectures on
Egypt and the Desert, this evening, in the Lecture-room
of the above institution; to be illustrated by a beautiful
series of dissolving views.

Sir James Graham, Bart., M.P., and Lady and Miss
Graham, have returned to Netherby Park, from visiting
the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry at Wyn-
yard Park, near Stockton-on-Tees.

On Friday night a fishmonger from Shrewsbury was

Dr 'mat ion

was immediately given to the police, and two women (on
one of whom the whole of the money was found) have

THE CANON LAW OF THE CHURCH OF ROME.—We
perceive that the lecture by the Rev. Dr. I.ll`Neile on this
subject will be delivered on Tuesday next. The para-
mount importance of the arguments which will be brought
forward by the reverend doctor, will no doubt secure a
very large attendance. Adam Hodgson, •Esq., will be

in the chair.

Yesterday morning H. Littledale, Esq., introduced Sir
'. W. Wynne, Bart., and Mr. Cotton, secretary to Sir

s visit to our police-court was to inform the ma-

gistrate that a bracelet, supposed to have been stolen at
Wynnstay by a groom, now in custody, was not the pro-
perty of any ladies in the habit of visiting his mansion.
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S CHURCH MISSIONARY
BRANCH.—Last evening the Rev. H. H. Higgins, the
much respected minister, in accordance with his annual

tion with a very interesting and pleasing account of the
working of the society in different parts of the world,
giving a statistical account of its clerical and lay labourers ;
the meeting was likewise addressed by the Rev. G. W.
Warre, the estimable incumbent of St. Saviour's.
INFANTS OVERLAIN.—Cases of infants dying from
being overlain are of marvellous frequency in this town.
than two inquests of this character were held by

One was the illegit

offsprin

the mother found her infant dead early on Tuesday
sit lay in her arms. The other was the child of
a woman named Murphy, who, with her husband, a block
maker, lives in Jordan-street. On Saturday morning she
round her child was a corpse under circumstances similar

morning

FATAL ACCIDENTS ON BOARD SHlPS.—During the
violent storm last Monday week, as the ship Jason was

being brought into the King's Dock, she ran against the
pier, by which her boom was smashed ; the fragments
struck two of the seamen, one of whom, Petros Stomaros,