The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-23 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The letter signed Minimus shall, if possible, appear in our next.
Some of the lines in the verses of Omega are imperfect, and,
therefore, we think it better not to publish them.
The newspaper and its Avail-puffs. which a Passenger alludes to,
arc ❑nworthy of his trouble and our notice.
We shall endeavour to find room for the very long letter signed
C; hut he must be hard pushed fur paper when he writes so
closely, and on both sides too. It is strange that gentlemen
will not consider the unnecessary labour they impose upon
printers by this miserly contrivance.

the Eiberpool ,Stanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1835•

We have received Barbados papers to the middle of
September. The island had been in the beginning. of
that month visited by a severe hurricane, some particu-
lars of which will be found under the proper head.

We also present our readers with the speech delivered
by the King of the Netherlands at the opening of the
states general on Monday last. It does not contain any
important matter. His Majesty alludes but briefly to the
affairs of Belgium, and states that the difficulties in the
relations of the two countries still remained unadjusted.
His Majesty speaks in giatifying terms of the agricul-
tural and commercial prosperity of Holland.

In another place will be found an interesting article,
from the pen of Sir WILLIAM HMLARY, relative to the
port of Douglas, in the Isle of Man, and we insert it to
show that however harshly we may have occasion to

speak of the laws of that island, we have the best inte

rests of its inhabitants at heart.

The introduction of steam-vessels and the immense
mechanical power brought to bear against adverse tides
and the storms of winter have virtually narrowed the se-

paration which formerly existed between the Isle of Man
and Liverpool, and a regular and daily communication,
in a passage not exceeding eight hours, might now, and,
in all probability, will be soon, maintained between the
two places throughout the year. The town of Douglas,
by means of this steam communication, may therefore be
considered less distant from any part of the shores of
Lancaster than Preston is from Liverpool, and not much

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more- distant than the Isle of Wight is from Hampshire.

For these reasons we see no reason why the Isle of Man

should not derive corresponding advantages from its new
location by being united to the County Palatine of Lan-
caster. That it would gain by the union we have no
doubt whatever. For too long a period the Isle of Man
has been considered as nothing more than a refuge for
the outcasts of English society—a sort of channel prison

for unfortunate persons called debtors, " or something
more"—an asylum for men of small means and indifferent

lonesty, who have a fancy for cheap brandy and are fas-
idious in their fondness for foreign wines. It is true

lat in the Isle of Man there is a native population,

whose moral and intellectual qualities will bear compa-
rison with those of any portion of the King's subjects,
and there are also many families of great affluence, of
superior'manners, of exemplary usefulness, and of un-
tarnished reputation. All this we willingly concede in
justice to these persons, and we have sincere pleasure in
doing so ; but it is not of them we speak, but of the visit-
ors of the island, the temporary settlers and the refugees,
who, we contend, have brought a taint upon the Isle of
Man, as the English have done upon Calais and Bou-
logne, which nothing but a complete change in its legis-
lative, administrative, and judicial economy can effectu-
ally remove.
But look at the matter in another light. The inhabi-
tants of the Isle of Man profess to bi unable to raie a
sufficiency of corn for their own consumption ; and they
are consequently allowed to import foreign corn duty
free ! They, by this sort of crooked and dishonest po-
licy, consume foreign corn, and export a large portion
of that of their own growth (and perhaps a little of
the other by mistake) to England, to the manifest injury
of the British farmer. Perhaps we shall be told, that the

island is poor and small, and that all the produce it can
export, and all the corn it can smuggle, cannot possibly
affect such a country as England. This is very true—we
admit it to be a poor and small island—but fraud is fraud,
whether committed on a small or large scale, and where
such nand is committed, and such tricks tolerated, it is
the duty of the government to suppress and prevent them
on the ground of public morals. What regard can that
man have for the rights of property, or the feelings of
humanity, or the principles of justice, who, leading a life
of idleness during the greater portion of his existence,
maintains himself by wrecking and smuggling ?
We do not say that the inhabitants of the island ge-
nerally are engaged in such demoralizing pursuits; far
from it, for we know the contrary ; but we also know,
and public documents prove it, that more corn has been
exported to England from the Isle of Man than ever
should have been permitted to leave it ; and more foreign
corn,- duty free, has been imported into Douglas than
ever should have been suffered. We know besides that
Douglas affords facilities for ship-building which Liver-
pool does not possess, and although few honourable men
who would desire to pass as English merchants, who are
princes, would avail themselves of such questionable fa-
cilities, still there are speculators who do—who build
ships with untaxed timber, and who bring them, fresh
from the stocks, with free trade colours flying at the mast
head, into the waters of the Mersey. Is this fair ? Is
this just in dealing with our own carpenters? Is it good
policy to offer a bounty to shipbuilders in the Isle of
Man ? _ _

But there is another anomaly on a small scale, for '
which we are indebted to whig legislation, which is wor-
thy of notice. For instance, a newspaper in the Isle of
Man is allowed to be printed, unsubjected to any stamp
duty, and the said newspaper is carried by the Postoffice
free of postage, over the whole of England, Scotland,
and Ireland. True, little harm has arisen as yet from
this privilege, for luckily the journali.of the island do not
posses, any talent to -take advantage of it. • News they
have little or none to give us. The papers, we confess,
are respectably enough conducted—quiet and unostenta-
tious in their performances—immensely redolent of ab-
surd and petty disputes—but they have no attractions.
This is, as far as we on this side the water are concerned,
exceedingly fortunate. We thank them for that which they
do not possess—an odd compliment, we admit—but still it
has its meaning; but what is to prevent Mr. JONATHAN
ROEBUCK, or any other political quack, from establish-
ing a printing press in Douglas, and inundating with im-
punity England with his penny papers and his revolu-
tionary rubbish ? Old COBBETT, had he lived a few
years longer, and fixed himself, as the Americans say, in
Douglas or Ramsay, might have sent his Register, at
the low price of threepence or fourpence, into every
quarter of the three kingdoms, duty and postage free,
and might have, by such means, realized a considerable
fortune. This is an anomaly that must be repealed, not
only as regards the Isle of Man, but in a comparative de-
gree' as regards Ireland, or the whole of the stamp duty
must be given up.
But apart from these matters, what we think of much
higher importance is the state of the laws with regard
to debts, claims, charges, and disputes, trespass and re-
sponsibility in the. Isle of Man. These are an abomi-
nable nuisance. They are utterly irreconcileable with
every doctrine of security and good government. In
most of our West Endia islands there are severe restric-
tions imposed upon all persons leaving a colony, and
they are justifiable, inasmuch as they are necessary for
the protection of slave-owners and the community of
slaves. But the worst part of the slave code, and the
slave-owner's protection, appertains to the Isle of Man
without any reason or necessity for it. We do not wish
to offend delicate ears, but there is one point which can-

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OCTOBER 23, 1535.

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not be allowed to pass. Suppose the most worthies
woman in the Isle of Man chooses to levy a contribution

upon the strangers who visit it, she has only to swear
paternity to such a person. She does not confine herself

to one father. Her liberality may embrace ten or

twent3. She has only to make affidavit as to the ;magi'

nary facts, which is too often done, and none of the
persons, no matter how numerous they mat, be, thus
suspected of paternity, are suffered to leave the island

unless good- bail is given, or what a Manx attorney

would delight to call, a solatinni of a deposit, is tendered•

Such a case—one of frequent occurrence—would be nuts
and ale, brandy and winter provender for a Manx attor-

ney. These attorneys call themselves advocates. What-,

ever may be their offences or demerits, they are at least
guiltless of all knowledge of law. Their justice is g
very delicate currency, entirely of paper, which circu-
lates rather freely amongst the working classes. 10
short the Isle of Man is blessed with a redundancy of

Lord I3uouottAm's cheap law. It is brought home,
practically, to evvry poor man's door. There is an ad-

vocate, alias an attorney, in every street and lane—'

almost in every garret, and an advocate's purveyor in

every farmhouse and homestead. These learned, per-
sonages must live. They cannot, as SANCHO POz*
wisely observes, fill the skin with wine without paying

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for it or stealing it. They must the►efore either do
business or starve. It is better to foment a dispute be-
tween two farmers about the alleged trespass of a sheep

or goat, than to leap from Douglas Head into the deep
blue of the sea below. The consequence is, that a vast
proportion of the middle and humble classes of the
Isle of Man are eternally at law—disputing about no'
thing—drinking down fancy grievances under the kind

direction of a tiplingand more than half inebriated jury--
giving to the cat, which plays advocate, the whole

cheese, oge thousandth part of which some sacrilegious
mouse had been accused of having stolen.
Such is the Isle of Man ; but to make the reader better
acquainted with the system which prevails, and under

which the poor inhabitants, honest and industrious men
in other respects, suffer so severely, we borrow from

Manx paper of Saturday last the following portion of 1,

letter :

"My purpose, sir, in now addressing you, is to point anti°
his excellency, (the governor,) through the only medium by
which he can be informed—an untrammelled press—some of
the grosser plague.spots in the laws, and practice of the laws of
this island; and to propose plain and obvious remedies, deduced

from the simplest rules of common sense and equitable juris-
prudence. I shall commence with the monstrous hardships ic-
dieted by Deemsters' Jury Warrants,—and state a case of evert
day occurrence in illustration of their effects. The process

precisely as follows, and the authority an omnium gatherur3
act of 1753. A., a vindictive and litigious man, discovers dist

a sheep belonging to his neighbour A. has indulged his raE.
bling propensities in a moonlight scamperacross A.'s field. A.,
on receipt of the alarming intelligence, immediately flies to
advocate, who, eager to grasp the golden opportunity, as spoi-
dily proceeds to the Deemster, and without an affidavit et'
other preliminary process, instantly procures a warrant, gen"

rally signed in blank, authorising the coroner of the 'headier.
or the lockinan of the parish, to convene a jury of enquiry O.
discover the owner of the alleged offender. This warrant the
advocate fills up with a rigmarole of unimaginable lies, chat'('
ing roundly the wilful and malicious trespass on the lands it
question of divers men, horses, cattle, sheep, and God knout
what beside. He then places the veracious document in try
hands of the coroner or Lockman, with a list of victims annexei,
and orders the officer to summon each unfortunate wretch for.;
given day. When that day arrives, a brace of advocates at the
least, jurors, parties and witnesses, all muster in force; tat
lockman, (a proverbially thick-sculled generation,) in the case
supposed, presiding as judge, and four thoroughly ignorant•
thirsty countrymen, constituting the jury. The whole squad
now adjourn to view the alleged damage, (which form, by the
bye, is unnecessary, and only gone through for the edification
of the more conscientious,) but no damage is risible—there aP"
pears not the vestige of a ground for complaint againitatnyoe
—the most prying eye discovers not an imprint of the.
of man or beast. Well—this first act of the fareegone throug6t
the jury, with their learned assistant the lockman, Glimmer°
adjourn to the adjoining hedge-ale-house u here they had osi•
ginally congregated, to think [query, DRINK ?] over the matter',
commit the evidence, such as it is, to writing, and decide 0'
their verdict. Now commences the tug of war,—lung and-lood
is the war of werds, and clatter of pint-pots--rogue, liar, elttl
vagabond, arc pet phrases freely interchanged between the par-
ties and witnesses;—all manlier of intolcaable abuse is, i 11'w.
sorty to say, lavishly fulminated, by each learned gentleman,
at his opponent's head—and all manner of trash and nonsense
instilled into the addle-headed jurors, under the imposing nave!'
of law. The legal lore of this learned pundit who presides,
being never called into action, he seldom of course inter-
feres, invariably consoling himself with a "drop of owe'
thing comfortable" until the scene draws to a close, well knob'
ing, from "sage experience," how all such matters terminate.
The jurors having at length sufficiently scratched their
discover that some hard-swearing clodpole saw oNE sheep, the
property of 8., in the act of concluding his peregrination through
A.'s field, as before stated, forthwith unanimously agree to
verdict of wilful and malicious trespass, with constructive rifr
triages, videlicit, ONE FARTHING—and then, as in many if net
most other cases, get an allowance of ale or grog.
" Now, sir, all this is sufficiently farcical, yet by no meant
highly coloured; it is so plain a description of an often-occur'
ing circumstance, that the very lockmen andjurora on perusing
it will grin and chuckle over their ale at the reminiscences it
must call up. But lee victis I—it is co joke to poor 8., the de-
fendant, as shall presently be manifested. The jurors are
forthwith summoned to appear at the next deemster's court,
and deliver in their verdict; and a second exhibition of this
legal pantomime there takes place, in which the deemster heave
a part. He, with all becoming gravity, reads aloud from the
ore retundo, his original warrant, By virtue of the powers sett
authority in me vested, &c.,' I order you to summon a jury of
four men to discover,' &c., &c., all the head-roll of iniquiti
about men, horses, cattle, and sheep. The deemster, in tell'
elusion, skipping the evidence on which the jurors acted, pro"
ceeds, with equal gravity, to read aloud the verdict, 'that °!'s
sheep did,' &c., &c., and finishes—' we, the aforesaid jurors, te"
timate the damage at one farthing, four fold with test shilliegg
EXTRAORDINARY DAMAGES!' You will remark hers, that thal
jurors return a nominal verdict of only one farthing; yet, by
what I contend is a v icious construction of a faulty statute, these
damages are always to be quadrupled, and ten shillings extlat""
(Unary invariably added (twenty in particular instances) obi
out the slightest reference to the actual merits of the respective
cases. This alone is a most serious evil when large damages,
are given, as the quadrupling estimate obtains in all cases el
trespass. You would naturally imagine; sir, that here the cafe
would end, and that the unfoitunate defendant 8., had beets
sufficiently mulcted for this untbreseen escapade of a flirting ems
or amorous top; but no such thing—he is subpcened to the
deeinster's coutt for the amount of the verdict—judgment follQ°l'
and the costs of the jury warrant altogether amount to not less
than four pounds, and very frequently more. All this, ttah
levied out of the goods and effects of 8., totally independent °I
his own personal costs of suit—nearly as much more. It 110 t
this, sir, a most monstrous oppression under colour of law?'
one, too, of weekly, nay, daily occurrence. Is it not a horrible_
engine in the hands of a vindictive man, or a griping, graspittl
attorney ? Every candid advocate must confess that no butna.,
toresigtit can prUteff the tirelifrtirrinrotti Ma aborninati,
practice, or law, if law it be; and he must also confess that!
jury warrants, with the least possible trouble, pay the larget
possible sums to the legal practitioner.
`i I blame not the deemsters; this practice is no innovation_
of theirs; it was fostered and protected by their predecessetef
and was in vogue when they themselves were at the bar; We.
would beg to suggest, with all due deference to the bench, tb
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propriety of insisting on a preliminary affidavit from the ?tit
lainne in all cases of trespass. (which, in fact, was the WO"
Paw,) prior prior to issuing a warrant. Secondly, I would sugg4
that the warrants be issued invariably by the deemster hiniaeA
and filled up by his own hand, or under his direct and nesat'l(in
superintendence. If delivered to a clerk, they will assure 4,
be re-issued iu blank, or filled up by, and at the pleasure of Lei
advocate who applies for them. Thirdly, I would reetwateets.
the comparing the verdict with the evidence in all can;
whether the verdict be opposed or not. Injustice ought net ~,
take place, because a defendant may beignorant of his ieterera
or careless in fulfilling his duties; and lastly, though ne%5,,
least importance, I think the deemsters, in'their respective " 5,
tricts, would act in perfect conformity to the spirit of the,trieby
pass laws, and in no possible way infringe on the rights et _opt
people, rather indeed protect them, were they occasionally _
thabench to propound rules for the government of corny
ally
lockmen, and petty juries of this description—and especint'l
were they to lay down, broadly and cleurly„to all trespass
that they are not necessarily bound either by laws or their oa
to find any damages, even one farthing, but often the revet.,
where the plaintiff fails in proving and in exhibiting befoo7
their eyes any specific or bona fide injury—these regulau
would sadly curtail lawyers' fees, but I am fully persuaded Olga
would prove a real blessing to the island in a very short space.he
time. I throw out these suggestions for their guidance with !...c
best feelings towards the inhabitants of this little commitelt
believing, as I do, most sincerely, that trespass juries, a°
present constituted, are one of its greatest curses."

The Irish mendicant had what is classically called $
blow out with some two hundred kindred beggar 6 to
Limerick, on Monday last. The speech-he delivered °ll
the occasion is not characterised by any novelty, but is re 7
markable for being much less offensive towards the Hobe
of Lords. The rabble of listeners, as their steam rose cota
the whisky they wallowed, tried hard to rouse the denlgi
gogue to his usually vulgar attacks upon that body, bdi,
it would not do ; he was tame and chopiallen, and alloa,
ed to Mr. BAtsEs of Leeds in a tone of regret and mot'

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tcation. The probability is, we shall hear no more on
that subject for some-time to come. There is a mystery
in his silence, but it will be explained hereafter.
• But the way in which DANIEL drags the name of the
Lord-Lieutenant into his harangue is curious and
'orthy of notice. He says :
" YOill•have all heard of Robert Deane of Cork, and the
corporation, of Cork is as close and rotten as ever that of
Asitrielick was. The nominee of the corporation was rejected
because he was a party man—an orangetrian ; and, after reject-
ing Robert Deane; do you think will Mulgrace, in future, sanc-
tion the appointment of orange sheriff;, who will have the power
bf nominating and packing orange juries? Must assuredly not.
(Loud cheers.)"
MULGRAVE! Friend iviULGRAVE! The fellow MUL-
GRAVE that I condescended to dine with at the Castle on
Monday last, he sanction the appointment of orange
sheriffs—most assuredly not! The • «assuredly not"
means that he,
.DANIEL O'CONNELL, having negatived
the appointment of ROBERT DEANE to the mayoralty of
Cork, will take care to forbid and prevent Mulgrave
from making any such appointments in future!
Such is the insulting insolence of the beggar on horse-
' back ! This comes of dining at the Castle with Mulgrave !
'The man seems to take pleasure in degrading every per-
son with whom be comes in contact ; and the more he is''
flattered the more daring, arrogant, and domineering he
becomes. In short, he has ruined the poor Lord-Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, and brought ministers and the RUSSELL
faction into irredeemable disgrace, and he knows it. His
viCtirns will feel it by and by.
But we turn to a more agreeable subject connected
with Irish affairs, which' we take as the clearest proof
:that the wholesome work of reformation from popery has
,begun in good earnest in that -country. We called at-
tention a few weeks ago to a—letter addressed to Dr.
MURRAY. by Mr. MICHAEL CROTTY, the Roman Catholic
'.priest of Birr. Thatlekter, which exposed the abornina-.
turns of the popish systetii; naturally 'enougVarew upon
its author all the mileVolent `slanders and coarse invec-
tives of the worst class of-priests—the scum of Maynooth.
Mr. WILLIAM C7oTTY, the cousin of MICHAEL, has ac-
cordingly entered the lists in defence of his kinsman, and
be uses the clayniore in a style that might almost extort
a cheer from the ashes of JOHN KNOX. He addresses
himself to the Freeman's Journal, a popish journal, as
follows :
Now, sir, as to the rev. gentleman'S denial of the power of
tiny priest, pope, or bishop to forgive sins, it is in perfect
harmony with the gospel, and in perfect accordance with the re-
ligion of pure and unadulterated Christianity. I defy Doctor
Murray, with an entire conference of the worthy disciples of
Peter Dens, to establish the contrary position. Yes—l defy his
lordship, with all his tortuous causistry neat jesuitical dexterity,
to prove that the apostles themselves had ever such a power ;
sand I assert that the commission they received from their ,
Divine Master was that of preaching the gospel, and declaring
sins forgiven, upon the sole condition- of faith and repentance on
the part of the sinner. I would even go faither, sir, and I would
say, wish Mr. Crotty, that God himself cannot alter the consti-
tution of things which he has establiihed in his everlasting
word ; and that his divine Son Jesus (blessed for ever be that
adorable name !) could notforgive sinners, unless on the gospel
onditions'of faith and repentance. He-could not, for instance,
consistently with his own covenant,.have forgiven the impeni-
tent thief, although he died within reach of his blood.; nor
Judas, because Judas died without repentance. Is it not 'de.-
adorable, then, sir, to think that a Romish priest should blas-
phemou4ly arrogate to himself the privilege of doing what even
the blessed Saviour `and his apostles, acting under the gospel
dispensation, were never able to effect? Is it not melancholy
to think that a body of men, professing themselves the ministers
of the gospel of-Christ, should put forward such an infernal and
soul-destroying doctrine as that of attrition • and tell their poor
benighted followers that this attrition, with the priest's absolu-
tion, is sufficient for the remission of their sins? This attrition
is defined imperfect contrition : and here is another proof of the
absurdity of.Roininitini, and of its impiety in encouraging to
sin, and maiming and deforming the gospel of Jesus. No
'wonder, then, sir, when such an abominable doctrine is advanced
from the altar, that the fields of Ireland should he reddened with
'known blood ; no wondso that the Roman caiholics of this country
Jhould become, under the baneful and withering influence of such
an- abominable and anti-Christian system, as ignorant and as fero-
cious as the tigers and hyenas in the wilds of Africa ; no wonder
that we find the great mass of them totally ignorant, and entirety
lh,rejt ofenery idea. Of God's nerd; no wonder that they are be-
conic, under the auspices of such spiritual guides, a putrifying
and a noisome carcassa collection of unregenerate men—the
sloersa every evil work—nienslayers, bloodshedders, houghers
of cattle, drunkards and blasphemers. To say, then, sir, that a
-priest has the power of forgiving any man his sins, is a mon-
strous error, and an impious delusion, generated by the arch-
enemy of mankind, lind fostered and encouraged by the Romish
priestfiool of Ireland, fOr the parinisv of picking the pocicets and
enslaVing the minds' of ignorant and superstitious peasantry. ;
The holy cheat first made its appearance in or about the time
• of Bonitace III.; and from that very period, pure and genuine
.Christianity began to decline; the clergy became tyrants—anti
tt seat of empire and spiritual dominion was established, to rule
'and tyrannize over the church of. God.
You.now find sirdhat vou.and your cause have gained little
!ay _y.our gross atom[ and ramous sweet ijos-atas at
. Crotty. In vain-, sir, haS the hue-and-cry of superstition purs,
suett, fdr the luny, period of ten years, the man whom you have
ice shamefully reviled, -arid' impotently calumniated; in vain
hare the dogs of war, the bloodhounds of the inquisition, been
let loose upon him; -in vain has a heartless mendicant come to
Birr to preach a crusade against him, and endeavour to devote
bins to public execration, .by representing him as an enemy to
the ish of the people, and ,au impious opposer of Mother Church;
in vain have a superstitious priesthood conspired his ruin. and
reddened their altars with the blood of his murdered repsitation;
itisvain have they proclaimed the infernal doctrine of Dens and
liellarmine from the pulpit, and exhausted the thunders of the
V-aticanjor the purpOSe of depriving the rev. gentleman of the
confidence and attachment of a faithful People ; in vain, then,
have all the arts of jugglery and mummery and priestcraft been
' employed, and all the grim and bloody maxims of cruel super-
stitioli been put in requisiton against him. The rev. gentleman
is still in Birr triumphant and• victorious, and enthroned in the
hearts and affections of the great majority of the Roman Ca-
tholic prishioneri, 'after ten years' 'hard fight'against open ene-
rriica the one hand; and many faithless friends on the other;
and this proves that the rev. g,entlernan has little to fear from
the impotent endeavours of such a puny adversary as the Free-
man's Journal, and that it is in vain for man to attempt to de-
stroy what God has deterinined to save.
" Irrita vaniloquae quid cures spicule linguae?
Latrantern curatue alta Diana canem ?"

I have the honour toietntilu,..srr, your most obedient and hum-
Lleservont, WILLIAM CIthTTY,
I Birr, October 15th, 1835. Catholic Priest.
Have we said too rashly that the reformation has he-
gutiin Ireland ? Theie are the sentiments of an honest,
intelligent, and conscientious Roman Catholic priest—,
he writes in the spirit of the fathers—he has drank at the
fountain head of christianity—he has gone back to the
apostolic era of the church, and he finds that the myste-
ries of iniquity in the church:of Rome are mere inven-
tions, and cruel frauds • for the spurpose. of robbing the
poor. He has, in fine, searched the truth for himself,
and he discovers that the doctrines, of his church are:
founded in falsehood, that they are superstitions, calcu•
bated to enslave the mind, and that altogether it is a sys-
tem of intolerable and sanguinary despotism. Thanks
to thee, Mr. WILLIAM CROTTY Go on and prosper!

Our readers will perceive with pleasure that it is in-
tended to hold B. meeting, on Thursday next, at the Am-
phitheatre, for the purpose of forming a protestant asso-
tiation, and for hearing the statements of that able and
devoted champion of protestantism, the Rev. ROBERT
APGIIEE.

This i.s just what ought to be done. Popery in Eng-
land and popery in Ireland assume very different appear-
ances, and the time has now arrived when that hideous
Net itpon the fait face of real liberty:---that wolf in sheep's
clothing—must be dragged forth from its den and dis-
played in all its treachery and deformity. Oonvicted, as
it is, of oppression the most grinding, where it possesses
wliticaipoWef; and of duplicity the most treacherous,'
where it has not that power—arbitiary and intuFerarit
assenting-the right. of disposing of body and soul-:-the
sworn foe of intellectual, 'inprovenient where •it reigns
predominant, and the enemy of those scriptures which
will sooner or later scathe it to the windy—it ought to be
opposed by every man who values liberty of conscience—
a hearth uniiivaded by the officers of the holy incitiisition--:-
add a country possessing the liberty of the press and a
spirit of moral and religious education.
The fruits of popery are now beginning to be seen in
England, by the dilemma and miserable shifts of the po-
pish primate, Dr. MURRAY, in his jesuitical letter to the
ptotestants of Great Britain—by the mission of the beg-
garly agitator to decry the House of Peers--7-by the fla-
grant violation of the oaths of the popish members—by
the way in which they dictate to the wretched ministry—
by. the subterfuges and equivocations to which the priests
are put when their text-book is brought to light—a pub-
lication which we pledge ourselves contains more abomi-
nations, more nastiness, and more intolerance, than we
theose to defile our pages with—and if any person dis-
putes this assertion, let him just peruse some of the
pages of
.DENs's Theology, and if he is not convinced,
all argument will be in vain with him.

But this system (for it is the splem we attack) is not
rightly understood by tile protestants of Great Bri-
tain ; nor do we believe that it is understood by numbers
of. respectable Roman Catholics, who are born such, and
live such, in ignorance of the workings and effects of
Popery upon the liberties of mankind. Thanks, however,
to the 4leVoteil cleigy. of Ireland, it will be exposed and
exhibited in its true 'light, and that system I".liieli out-

Warily appear-3 to possess the meeknesict the lathb will
be shOwn to possess the treachery and ferocity of the

Popery and liberty are as irrecancileable as fire and
water. Popery and education cannot exist together;
and ;is it is one of the immutable laws of heaven that
every crime brings its own punishment, so do we see in
the very duplicity of the Irish priesthood, with respect to
the appropriation fund, the germ of future and not distant
retribution. The political dissenters of this land may
join the papists in an outcry against
,the established
church, but they will pause before they consent to alien-
ate her funds to the payment of the priests. That would
be holding out a bonus to false doctrine; and if they join
in demanding that all the funds stolen from the church
shall be applied to the general purposes of education,
and schools are established instead of churches through-
put Irelund, we_ are of opinion that even that education
(and it will be meagre enough if the priests have their
way) will go far to sap the papal power in that land of
darkness and of blood.

Popery cannot be dealt with like any other system : it
can accommodate itself to every circumstance either of
pomp or meanness—can- evade the truth under the sem-
blance of sincerity, and requires to be broken with the
sledge-hammer of truth and exposure wielded with the
energy of a KNOX and a LUTHER. Such energy seems
to be exhibited by the Irish clergy ; and if the English
protestants would only shake off their apathy, and come
to the rescue, this dominant system would hide its head,
and then, but never till then, will there be "peace for
Ireland."

We hope that the meeting in question will be well
attended; and, if the effect produced be equal to that of
the meeting presided over by Lord KENYON last year in
the same place, we augur well for the cause of Ireland's
weal. •

We rejoice at being enabled to state that " The
Tradesmens' Conserva,tive Society," recently formed in
Liverpool, is increasing the number of its members with
a rapidity far beyond the most sanguine anticipations.
The talent already displayed by some 'of its leaders is
beyond all praise, and promises to render many auxiliary
advantages to the cause of.loyalty, order, and our insti-
tutions in church and state. It would be unnecessarily
invidious to particularize names here, but if the gentle-
men who compose the committee of management will be
at the pains to give us timely notice of their meetings,
the fullest attention will be paid to their proceedings.