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TIII LIVERPOOL tirANDARL

COMMITTAL OF MURPHY, SECRETARY TO THE
SARSFIELD CLUB, FOR A TREASONABLE
CONSPIRACY.

Yesterday a young man, named Edward Murphy, who,
it will be seen from a paragraph elsewhere, was remanded
on Friday last upon the above serious charge, was brought
up at the Police-court, before Mr. Rushton and Mr.
Hardman Earle, previous to his final committal for trial
at the assizes. The following is the substance of the evi-
dence, as read over to the prisoner:—
Peter MacNally, policeman, deposed to going with an
inspector and other police-officers to make a search for
arms at the house of the prisoner, Edward Murphy, in
Peover-street. He found, amongst other things, a book
(produced) upon a table under theoil-cloth. The witness
was cross-examined by Mr. Yates for the prisoner, but his
evidence was not shaken.

Stephen Ames, police inspector, went with MacNally
and other policemen to the house, No. 16, Peover-street.
They found a musket in the clock-case and a pike head in
a cupboard. There were also two printed placards on a
chair, which they brought away with them and produced.
Murphy's name was attached to the bottom of each as the
printer. This witness was also cross-examined by Mr.
Yates for the prisoner.

Charles Perkins, policeman, was one of the party who
assisted in the search, and found a letter (produced) call-
ing a meeting. When they first went into the house the
cupboard was locked. He got the key from prisoner's
wife, and found the pike-head on the top shelf. In cross-
examination Mr. Yates endeavoured to draw from the wit-
ness an admission of having heard from Edwards that the
gun was in his hands to be raffled, but it was denied.
John Williams, tailor, 18, Tarlron-street, stated that
prisoner had been two years in his service as book-keeper,
and swore that the letter found by one of the previous wit-
nesses, and some of the entries in the book—a minute
book of the Sarsfield Club, we understood,—were in the
prisoner's handwriting. In reply to a question from Mr.
Yates, the witness said that he had dismissed the prisoner
for embezzlement.

T.ie landlord of the prisoner was the next witness called,
and proved letting him the house in Pewer-street, and his
absenting himself from it when the officers were after him.
Joseph Burrill, inspector, Rose-hill station, deposed to
the prisoner's having called there for his gun and book;
and that when he came he was very communicative. He
said he was secretary to the Sarsfield Club, but was con-
nected with no other, and that he had just been over in
Ireland.

Edward Merrill, bridewell-keeper, also spoke to a long
conversation with Murphy. He said he had been all
through the county of Tipperary, and found the people
there all quiet. It was not so hospitable a part as the
north of Ireland. He remarked that Cuddy had been
very foolish in bringing pikes through the streets, and
that such pikes as they had in Liverpool were not fit for
sending to Ireland, where they had them all polished and
sharpened. Cuddy's were badly finished. In cross-ex-
amination, witness stated that the conversation took place
on the 17th inst., and he committed it to paper on the 19th.
William Davidson, cabinet-maker, lived opposite pri-
soner's house, in Peover-street. His attention was cal-
led by some of his family to prisoner, who was busy ex-
amining a lot of pike-heads on a table before the window.
On another occasion, after he had seen him so occupied,
prisoner left the house with a bundle in his hand, which
he supposed to contain pike-heads ; and he heard pri-
soner's wife caution him as he left the house not to run
any risk.

The whole of the evidence having been gone through,
and the prisoner being cautioned that whatever he might
say would be used against him on his trial, declined, by
the advice of his solicitor, saying anything in defence;
and on his solicitor intimating that, if Mr. Rushton was
about to commit him, he would not address the bench,
Mr. Rushton said that the case was too clear to admit of
a doubt ; and that this was only a link in a chain. The
witnesses were bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner
was committed.

COMMITTAL OF O'BRIEN FOR TREASONABLE

CONSPIRACY.

On Saturday, Wm. O'Brien, at whose house, in Hurst-
street, it will be remembered a variety of pikes, bayonets,
and other weapons were found, was again placed in the
dock at the Police-court, the charge against him having
now assumed the definite shape of " treasonable con-
spiracy." A man named Bond was called to prove that
the prisoner was in the habit of attending a Confederate
clubroom, at 52, Hurst-street, and of addressing speeches
to the audiences assembled there. On one occasion, when
Bond was present, he told them they should organize to
liberate Mitchel. and produced a pike-head, saying the
possession of these instruments was the way to achieve it.
O'Brien denied that he had ever made a speech in his life,
and said he could produce two or three witnesses to prove
it. The case was accordingly remanded to yesterday,
when lie was brought up at the Police.court to receive
the benefit of the evidence of his witnesses. The first of
these examined was a boy named Henry M'Divett, an
apprentice to Campbell, the tenant of the reading or club-
room in Hurst-street, the other witnesses being sent out
of court during his examination. M'Divett's evidence
went only to prove that he had never heard the prisoner
make any speeches in the room, or seen him do anything
beyond reading newspapers or books.
Several other persons were then called who deposed that
the prisoner was a quiet man, that they had never heard
him use any exciting language, and that he had not at-
tended the news-room until after Mitchel's trial. The
papers taken at the room were the Irish Felon, the Nation,
the Freeman, and the Liverpool Mercury.
Mr. Davenport, who defended the prisoner, then said
that though he had many other witnesses, he did not
think it necessary to call them, as they would only prove
the same facts.

Mr. Rushton then said he could not get over the evi-
dence which had been brought forward against the pri-
soner. They had before them conclusive evidence of this
man having been found fastened up in a room with gun-
powder, pikes, and other implepients of war around him ;
and, in addition to that, a letter of a suspicious nature had
also been found upon his person. He could not get over
such evidence as that; and the prisoner as well as other
persons who placed themselves in such a situation would
find that the law must be vindicated. The prisoner had
been found in that room, and fully sworn to and he (Mr.
R.) must, therefore, commit him for trial. It was a very
serious responsibility which working men incurred, when
they engaged themselves in such schemes as the case dis-
closed—schemes from the success of which they must
always be the first to suffer, by being themselves thrown
out of work. Such disturbances could not in England be
tolerated ; and, in justice to society, all concerned in them
must be brought to trial.
The prisoner was then removed from the dock, shouting
out as he left, " I am very much obligde to those witnes-
ses who have spoken for me."

LATEST FOREIGN AND..COLONIAL.

LATEST FROM PARIS.

Paris was perfectly tranquil at the departure of the
express on Sunday forenoon.

Our Turin letters of the 16th state that the conference
for the settlement of the Lombardo-Venetian question
would be held either at Piacenza or in Switzerland.

GERMANY AND DENMARK.

PF OM THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Accounts from Hamburgh of the 18th instant, state
that the Prussian Finance Minister had given official
notice that the Bank was not in a condition to pay its
liabilities of five millions, without being authorised to
suspend its payments.
The Danes attempted a secret landing on the 15th,
between Apenrade and Haderaleben, but were repulsed
by the Prussian general.

more anxiously looked for, as likely to develops the pro-
bable events in Europe.
"A successful rencontre ha§ taken place between Her
Majesty's ship Scout and a most audacious set of pirates
near Amoy; Commander Johnston was slightly wounded
The coast is, in fact swarming with pirates; yet our
Government appears officially to discourage merchant ves-
sels acting as convoys to native craft. We observe an in-
crease of foreign vessels carrying up native produce to the
north, particularly sugar from this port to Shanghae.
Owing to the late equalization of duties in India on foreign
and British bottoms, the American flag is already in
active and successful competition with the country
shipping, which must suffer severely."

DEATH OF BERZELIUS.—A letter from Stockholm
announces the death, on the 7th instant, of the illustrious
chemist Berzelius, aged 69 years.
THE FEAST OF ST. IGNATlUS.—Notwithstanding the
dispersion of the Jesuit Order, the feast of St. Ignatius
was celebrated with great pomp at Rome on the 31st of
July last. Several Cardinals, Generals of Orders, and
other dignitaries, took part in the solemnity.
ROMISH SENSITIVENESS.—One of the speakers in the
National Assembly at Paris having made use of the term
jesuitical, the Bishop of Quimper interrupted the debate
for the purpose of protesting against an expression in-
jurious to a body of men whose eulogy the Bishop was
about to pronounce, when he was put down by cries of
" question." The Univers is very indignant on the sub-
ject, and maintains that the word jesuitical ought to be
banished from parliamentary language.
THE RIVER PLATE.—The following remarks on the
state of affairs in the River Plate are extracted from the
Jornal di Comercio of the 24th of June :--•' The French
steamer Magellan arrived yesterday from Montevideo,
having on board Boron Gros. As we have already in-
formed our readers, the negociations for peace entered
into have been interrupted in consequence of General
Grike having withdrawn the propositions which he had
presented through the medium of the intervening negoti-
ators ; a withdrawal which had been imposed upon him by
General Rosas. Baron Gros, upon retiring, had resolved,
in accordance with Admiral le Predour, to suspend until
further decision the blockade of the port and coast of
Buenos Ayres, and to make effective the blockade of all
the points of the Oriental coast occupied by forces under
General Oribe. Besides this measure, the French Mi-
nister had decided upon allowing the government of
Monte Video a monthly subsidy. The Oriental govern-
ment had revoked the decree of the 20th of May, which
established an impost upon all articles of consumption,
substituting in its place another, by which all mercantile
houses had to pay monthly a quarter part of the annual
impost appertaining to each. In Monte Video, some in-
dividuals recently arrived from the besieging camp, and
suspected of being accessory to the murder of Dr. Varella,
had been arrested. Mr. Gore, the colleague of M. Gros
in his recent mission, remained at Monte Video in the
character of Charge d'Affaires of her Britannic Majesty.
From Buenos Ayres nothing important."

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE IRISH SOCIETY.

LAST NIGHT.

The Annual Meeting of the above society for educating
the native Irish through the medium of their own lan-
guage, was held yesterday evening in the Lecture-room of
the Collegiate Institution. The Rev. the Chancellor
Raikes was in the chair. The spacious hall was crowded
ly a highly respectable audience, and we noticed upon the
platform the following gentlemen :—The Rev. Chancellor
Raikes, Revs. H. 111`Neile, D.D., W. Carpenter, D.D.,
R. Davies, F. Barker, F. Parry, John Hughes (Aberyst-
with), John Davies, Wm. Hughes, Wm. Falloon, Hugh
Stowell, H. Carpenter, W. Ryan, Govell, D. Foley,
C. J. Hamilton, S. Fenton, W. Green, Woseley, H.
H. Higgins, D. Stewart, and about 20 other clergymen ;
Wm. Jones, Esq., Edwd. Jones, Esq., George Langtry,
Esq., Edwd. Webster, Esq., &c., &e.
The meeting having been opened with prayer,—the
Rev. Chairman briefly adverted to the objects for which
they were assembled together. We were at present, he
said, experiencing a great crisis, both of a political and a
social nature • and there was but one stable object upon
which we could fix our regards. We could only look up-
wards to our great Creator and feel a certain dependence
of security. God seemed at the present time to have a.
controversy with Christians. However we might strive
to evade his power he seemed determined to assert it ;
and to teach us the lesson that a people never can be saved
when the interests of one portion of them are neglected
for those of another. Children, when neglected, become
a trouble to their parents. The domestic relations of a
country can never be neglected without disturbance of
the social system of that country. The population of
Ireland had been flagrantly neglected, although it was not
for them to say by whom. They had not received the
free use of the Word of God • and the consequence was to
be traced in the present perplexed and disturbed state of
the population of Ireland. It would seem that God has
at length allowed to be discovered a mean of remedying
the evils of Ireland, by teaching us the great influence of
the Irish language upon the Irish people. The best in-
strumentality for promoting a Christian and loyal spirit
amongst that people had at length been made plain, and
this society was doing what all the wisdom of politicians
had failed to effect. After a most touching appeal to the
meeting, praying for aid to a society which was doing more
than any other at present before the public to advantage
Ireland, arid expressing his hope that the present oppor-
tunity would not be lost, the Rev. Chancellor introduced
the Rev. Henry Carpenter, who read the report of the
society :
The report stated that at no former period was a greater de
sire manifested in Ireland, on the part of numbers, to be in-
structed in the truths of the gospel. Thus, while multitudes
have been drinking in the principles of treason and rebellion,
thousands in the Church of Rome have been drinking in prin-
ciples from the pure fountain of Divine Truth, which will en-
sure loyalty to our Sovereign respect for British law, and,
above all, obedience to the Saviour. Whatever remedies may
be employed to establish order and promote prosperity in Ire-
land, the root of her disease will be left untouched until scrip-
tural light is poured upon the minds of the people. Other
plans for ameliorating their condition may be beneficial up to
a certain point, but the word of God alone can grapple success-
fully with the master evil of that land. If this remedy were
more extensively applied, the same results which we now be-
hold on a small scale, through the labours of the Irish Society,
would soon be discerned far and wide. On this principle that
society conducts it.; labours. Already it has brought almost
300,000 of the people into contact with the Irish scriptures, and
this year nearly 800 individuals are employed by this society in
instructing the people in their own tongue. The seeds of hea-
venly truth will promote Ireland's real welfare, and establish
British influence on a lasting basis.

The Rev. D. FOLEY proposed the adoption of the re-
port, and said that the great master evil of Ireland was the
Church of Rome. He felt, as the result of a rational con-
%iction, that Rome was not only the great evil of Ireland,
but the great evil of every country where Romanism pre-
vailed. In the north of Ireland a vigorous spirit of Pro-
testantism prevailed, and crime was almost unknown. In
the south of Ireland crime was encouraged, and all kinds
of evil were encouraged. The pike was the weapon fre-
quently used, and this, and much more than this, was the
vicious teaching of the Church of Rome. Ireland was
not one isolated instance of the villainous system of Po-
pery. Spain afforded a lamentable example of the atroci-
ties of the Roman system. What was the remedy ? He
had no objection to legislative enactments ; but still, un-
less Protestant modes of order were adopted, no good
could be expected. It was a constant cavil that
Protestantism was a total failure in Ireland. He
denied this, and he asserted confidently that if it
were not for Protestantism, trial by jury would be
a farce in Ireland. The Protestants sustained trial by
jury, and were absolutely the only men who sustained the
connexion between England and Ireland. The great fact
must ever be told, and never be forgotten, that the Church
of Rome had never yet circulated the Bible in the Irish
language ; and yet there never was, at any former period
of the Irish history, such an opening for the circulation
of the scriptures as there was at present, even in Tippe-
rary. About six months ago, we had only 25 scripture
schools, but in three months these schools increased to
92. Then persecution commenced; the priests spoke
from the altar against him (Mr. Foley) and other Protes-
tant clergymen ; and great were the efforts which were
required to sustain the position of the Irish Society's
school. But the society was nevertheless sustained ;
and here he was delighted to say that there was not
a single teacher connected with the Irish Society
who was connected with any Ribbon or Rebel Society.
There were now 100 teachers, and 1,850 readers of the
Bible in Tipperary alone ; and, besides these, there were
upwards of 3,000 more who were reading the Bible in
their native tongue, though they were not exactly recog-
nized by the Irish Society. He asserted publicly and
fearlessly, that the priests, one and all, were the teachers
of sedition and rebellion, but he asserted with equal pun-
licity and fearlessness, that the two millions of Protes-
tants in Ireland would drive all the repeal clubs out
, of Ireland. (Loud cheers.) He, moreover, asserted
confidently that the Protestantism of Ireland was the
Protestantism of courage, and intelligence, and deter-
' mination, and that in the midst of obloquy and persecu-
tion, the friends of the truth would steadfastly maintain
the cause of Christ. He was happy to say, also, that
even in Ballingarry, where the late rebellion was rife, the
Scripture readers were exceedingly busy, and that in
another part of the country not far distant from Ballin-
garry there were no fewer than one hundred converts
from Popery. He had himself preached to one hundred
and fifty Roman Catholics in the city of Cork, the other
day, and the work of preaching was going on successfully
in various districts of the county of Cork. He was happy
to say that very many of the Protestant clergymen were
now preaching in the Irish language, and that one of
these clergymen alone had no fewer than six hundred
converts from Popery who were attending the Scriptural
schools. Along the coast of Waterford there was a most
wonderful spread of the reading of the Scriptures; tradi-
tion was being entirely abandoned there; and most im-
portant and interesting were the conversations which
were constantly going on among the peasantry relative to
the Sacred Scriptures. He (Mr. Foley) was in the habit
of addressing thousands of Roman Catholics, at the va-
rious funerals at Clonmel, and he was happy to say that
much good was the result. He concluded with a power-
ful appeal in favour of the society, and urged upon the
meeting valianey to oppose the master evil of the day and
of Ireland—Popery--and strenuously to propagate the
Go spel of Truth in his unhappy land. Mr. Foley con-
cluded amid great applause.
The Rev. HUGH STOWELL rose, amid protracted cheer-
ing, to second the resolution. He said it had often been
his lot to stand before the people of Liverpool in favour of
Ireland ; and though he was no Irishman himself, yet he
was delighted with the Irish friends by whom he was sur-
rounded; and he could not but feel that Ireland would be
great and glorious among the nations were she but freed
from the upas-tree of Popery. Ih d it not been for the
direct and indirect conduct of the government, Popery
would now be as low as the depths of the sea, for she
seemed occasionally to be sinking like a dead body, until
galvanised again by the acts of the government.
Orangeism was the mainstay of Ireland. ( Loud cheers.)

Let him not be misunderstood about Orangeism. They
were too much in the habit in England of talking of
Orangeism as of something allied to Ribandism, but he be-
lieved the Orangemen of England were bound together by
their love of an open bible and a preached saviour—that
the men who branded them as political incendiaries had
a design in view, wishing to bring them into disrepute,
and to make them noxious in the eyes of the British
public. (Hear, hear.) A lady told him the other day
that she had seen 10,000 Orangemen assembled together
on a spacious plain, with banners inscribed with various
passages from the Word of God,—that she had seen 30
ministers on their platform, by some of whom they were
addressed—that these ministers preached to them
" Christ and Him crucified,"—(hear, hear.)—firmness,
in fortitude, and meekness to their foes ; and that they
then awoke the hills to the echo of their song. It was,
therefore, a lie according to this lady, and he fully be-
lieved her to assert that Orangemen were mere political
incendiaries. He (Mr. Stowell) would give nothing for a
mere political partisan, because politics, when weighed
in the balance. would be found wanting; but the
man who placed his back against the Rock of Ages,
and wielded the sword of the Spirit, would stand firm,
and thousands of the Irish Protestants were buttressed by
that rock, and though they would not drive the poor
Papists into the sea, yet, they would face the burning
fiery furnace, heated like that into which Shadrach,
Meshach, and AbeJnego had entered, before they would
give the slightest sanction to what they conceived to be
idolatry. He was persuaded that our Irish Roman Catholic
brethren wished for nothing more than an opportunity to
burst the rotten bonds by which they were trammelled, and
that, despite all that statesmen could do to foster those
bands around them, it would still be impossible to keep
the Gospel from the mass of the Irish people. That peo-
ple wanted not the Repeal of the Union ; they only
wanted the Union between England and Rome to be se-
vered, and the Gospel to be free. (Cheers.) He would to
God our British statesmen would come to a better mind,
and that, instead of endeavouring to keep Ireland quiet by
means of 70,000 soldiers and police, they would send over
a set of troops in the shape of 5,000 Scripture readers,
officered by such men as Captain Foley and the Bishop of
Cashel—(great cheering)—and other Irish-speaking cler-
gymen, and guard them against altar denunciations, by
bringing every priestly imprecator to justice, if he dared
to mark them out for slaughter. (Hear, hear.) If her
Majesty's government would carry out a plan like this,
they would do more for Ireland than all their regiments
, of soldiery had ever done yet; and after all, if the past
policy were continued to be pursued, would it not be better
to get rid of the country altogether rather than to keep it
as a fortress of the Pope of Rome ! (Hear.) Why adopt
diplomatic relations with Rome now, at the end of the
session, by a sneaking, Jesuitical sort of policy learned
from Rome herself? Why hurry that bill through the
house at a sort of express railway speed, in the face and
against the expressed wishes of the great body of the
people of England ? ( Cheers.) Six thousand people in
Manchester had met in public meeting and opposed
the bill. Where was the Protestant Association of
Liverpool ? (Hear, hear.) Were they letting their asso-
ciation die away in Liverpool ? (Hear, hear.) This was
not the time to let Protestant associations die away.
They might say that their agitation availed nothing. Be
it so. But, at all events, let them fall fighting. and not
falling back. Let them march on still. The Captain of
their Salvation was on their side, and the shield of
omnipotence was around them. The bill had been
brought on in the front of the session, and now it had
been suffered to fall into syncope, when most of the
members of the House were gone to amuse themselves in,
the fields; and now, by a sneaking sort of policy, the Diplo-
ma'icrelations Bill would be carried by fraud, and stealth-
ily, and not before the fair face of the British nation,
This was really too bad, particularly at a time like the
present, when Popery was tottering on its pedestal.
There was no nation under heaven that was now sup-
porting the Jesuits but England and Turkey—the land of
the false prophet and the land of the true. (Hear) Oh 1.•
was it mat vellous, then, that God was threatening our har-
vests—that the cholera, which scourged us so quietly once,
should again be travelling towards us on the wings of the
wind, and that our country should be restless and dis-
quieted ? (Hear.) Bishop Wiseman, at Salford, had lately
been twitting the Church of England with having per-
mitted the growth of Chartism ; and he (Mr. Stowell)
admitted that the Church of England had a great deal of
past and present unfaithfulness to answer for. He ad-
mitted that she still fell very far short of her duty; but
if Wiseman found fault with the artisans of England,
why did he not look at home—why did he not point to
Italy, where there was the most debased, priest-ridden,
and utterly wronged and degraded. population upon the
face of the globe ? (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
The Italians, however, had been unable to bear the yoke
any longer, and they were now crying out, " No priest,
and no Pope !" and, better than all, they were demanding
the bible. So much so, that a name dear to them
all, and not the less dear because their beloved
Bishop of Chester was now the Archbishop of Can-
terbury—the Archbishop had told him last week that an
order had come to London for 10,000 Italian Bibles, for
distribution among the Pope's subjects. (Great Ap-
plause.) The battle, therefore, was the Pope against toe
Bible, and the Bible against the Pope—who feared the
result ? (Cheers.) It was said that there was only one
niche vacant in St. Peter's for one Pope more, and it was
a common impression that that niche was for the present
Pius, after whom there would be no more Popes, no more
priests, no more masquerades,no more masses, and no more
of the phantasmagoria of the Papacy, of which he was
sorry to say, some so-called Protestant clergymen seemed
mighty fond. Oh ! if the spirits of Peter and Paul
ever came back to earth, how must they have been
horrified at the monstrosities of Romanism, and
how must they have been gratified as they have hovered
around the Church of England, and heard the people
praising God, not in an unknown tongue, but in a lan-
guage simple, and understood of all men ! Why had not
Bishop Wiseman pointed to Ireland ? Why had he not
looked at the picture drawn of that wretched country re-
cently by Lord Shrewsbury ? But what made it,
wretched.? Popery. Look at the north of Ireland. Was
it a scandal to the world ? Nay, verily. Its beauti-
ful fire-sides, its peaceful hills and valleys, its
open-hearted generous yeomanry, and its fine, bold
Orange peasantry, had not a rival in the whole world.
(Great cheering.) Let Bishop Wiseman come nearer
home, and look at England. Why, we should have
had no disturbances in England. if it were not that
we had Irish Papists amongst us. (Hear, hear.)
The criminal returns showed that at least one-third of the
crimes perpetrated in this country were committed by
Irish Papists. (Hear, hear.) The Leeches and others
who had been lately arrested for Chartism were all of
Irish extraction, and the priests of Ireland nurtured
sedition in that country, though now, like the monkey in
the fable, they were putting the cat's paw into the fire
and taking care of their own paw. (Loud laughter and
cheers.) But the sedition in Ireland was the:harbinger of
better times. The people would awake to the treachery of
the priesthood. The people would assert the prerogative of
immortal beings. This was the harvest time of the Irish I
Society if only it bestirred itself. It was a disgrace• to
England to have so long permitted the holding of masque-
rades and dumb•shows in the middle of the noon-day.
Those who practised these masquerades should be made
ashamed of their tom-foolery. (Cheers and laughter.)
Such things might be practised in the twilight of
Spain and Italy, but never could they be carried on
in England, the cradle and birthplace of the Reformation,
the land which had successfully resisted the encroach-
ments of Romanism, and the country that was the very
palladium of Protestantism. (Loud cheers.) Let,
then, the people rise up ! Let every Protestant
try what he could do by the progress of Scriptural
knowledge, and the influence of the truth, to give Romanists
no rest until they changed the red robe to the surplice—
the sacrifice of the mass to the consecrated bread and
wine—angels, and saints, and purgatory and penances,
to Christ Jesus and Him crucified—the basin of
holy water for the Bible—and the service of the masque-
rade for the service in pure English of a known tongue
(Great applause.) When they did this we would be one
with them. All we wanted was, that they should give
up innovations, and adhere to what was primitive—have
no head but Christ, and allow neither Pope nor any one
else to share homage with the Redeemer. Let British
Protestants demand this, and soon would the time
arrive when England and Ireland, and all the ends
of the earth, would have the Prince of Peace reign-
ing over a tranquillised and purified world. The rev.
gentleman resumed his seat amid loud and protracted
bursts of applause.
The Rev. F. BARKER moved the last resolution, and
in doing so expressed his warm approval of the objects of
the society, and commended their exertions. As a pre-
vious speaker had remarked, they would only attain their
object by showing a bold front to the enemy.
The Rev. Dr. M'NEILE seconded the motion in a pow-
erful address. The resolution called attention to the dis-
orders and commotions now prevalent in Ireland, and
which had their origin in Romanism, and could be over-
come finally only by the dissemination of Scriptural
truth. The Government of England had gone so far in
encouraging Romanism that they dare not now look it in
the face. It was thought by Protestants some years back
that there were two ways to put down Popery,—the cir-
culation of the Bible and the co• operation of the British
Government. They (the Protestants) had long warned
the liberal legislators that if they proceeded from con-
cession to 'concession confusion would be the result, and
now actual rebellion was the result. The law-givers
had scorned their warnings, and the consequence now
was, that through divided interests, we had a suspension
of the constitution. The Liberal Government had gone
so far, that it would be difficult now to find a remedy. We
were now aware that no human powers, but God alone
could put down the moral disorders. He alluded to the
period between the reign of William 111 and George 111,
when alone, thorough peace generally prevailed in Ire-
land, from the maintenance of the principles of the
Reformation. He gloried in the measures that had
brought this about ; he had no objection to the
energetic measures of the Orangemen of Ireland, who
had but to show themselves in comparatively small
numbers, in order to disperse and confound their oppo-
nents. From the time that concessions were shown to
the Roman Catholics, rebellion showed its head. The
priests fomented disaffection in Ireland; but the moment
they found the government too strong for them, they
changed their tactics, and preached peace. (Cheers.)
There was not a true-hearted Protestant who had belonged
to the government for some years back. Lord John Rus-
sell had not supported Protestantism ; neither had Sir R.
Peel, who had acted in fact more reprehensibly, for his
promises had been greater. He would always prefer an
open and candid foe, to a pretended friend. He then,
with allusion to the meeting of the night, said that they
had heard some excellent speaking, but that they had yet
some real business to transact, and late as it was he would
allude to it. He was sorry to observe that he saw among
them few or none of their merchant princes to support
their worthy and venerable chairman. (Hear, hear.)
True, the weather was unfavourable, but their respected
president had braved the ran *ad the tempest to be pre.

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Sent. He considered that no town in the kingdom would
be more benefitted by the improvement of Ireland than
Liverpool, and he proposed, not as an amendment, but a
rider to the resolution, that a special subscription should
be raised in Liverpool for the furtherance of the objects of
the society, in any way, suggested by the committee, in which
itwould be likely to be most effective. The government, if
they showed themselves in earnest in this way, would be
constrained to come forward in the cause of Protestantism
and could no longer sanction Popery. He alluded
to the diplomatic negotiations between this coun-
try and the Pope in Italy, as disgraceful and de-
grading to England. He proposed that they, should
come forward with small subscriptions for Scriptural
teaching in Ireland, The House of Commons would
then no longer taunt them when they petitioned. by say-
ing they talked much but did nothing themselves. no
concluded by moving a rider, to the effect, that a special
fund should be raised in Liverpool, and a sub-committee
be appointed to conduct the correspondence and assist in
forwarding the plan. This was seconded.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN put the motion, remarking that
the rider was an excellent addition to the motion.

The motion, as amended, was unanimously carried.
A vote of thanks, on the motion of the Rev. Mr.
PARRY, was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting
separated. _ .

On Sunday sermons were preached in many of the
churches in town, when liberal collections were made in
aid of the funds of the society.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

MONEY MARKET. YESTERDAY.
The Stock Market is exceedingly quiet to-day, and the quo-
tations are very fairly supported considering the weather.
Consols have been 85 to 86 for present transfer, and 85i to
86k for account. Exchequer Bills of March have been 325. to
3.35. prem., and India Bonds of ..t'lo,lo 225. to 255. premium-
The New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. have brought 86k
and the Three per Cents. 83k to 861

LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
Railway Shares, although not active, are rather better this
morning, especially Midland, since it is found that Mr.. Hud-
son does not retire.

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
During the lase week, the arrivals of all kinds of grain' of
home produce, including Flour, coastwise and by land-
carriage, were on a very moderate scale. Although the
attendance of buyers was not large, the demand for alI
kinds of Wheat of home produce was steady, arising
from the continuance of very unfavourable weather for
the growing crops, (harvest work in particular,) and the'
spread of the Potato disease, at an advance in the quo-
tations paid on Monday last of from 3s. to 4s. per quarter and
at which nearly the whole of the supply was disposed of. There
was a better inquiry for Foreign Wheat, at a rise in value of
3s. to 4s. per quarter. In bonded Wheats, as well as in floating
cargoes, a good business was done, at 4s. to ss. per quarter
more money : 575. per quarter was paid for bonded Dantztc.
Although the supply of Foreign Barley was good, that article
moved off freely, at an advance of from Is. to 2s. per quarter.
No English samples were on the market. Since SaturdaY
several cargoes of foreign have come in.
The Malt trade was active, and the currencies improved 10.
to 2s. per quarter, botn on the spot and for delivery. The
supply was not equal to the wants of the buyers.
Notwithstanding the immense importation of Oats last week
—nearly 60,000 quarters—the Oat trade was tolerably steady,
and late rates were fairly supported.
Beans were in moderate sutply and fair request, at extensive
rates of currency. White Peas were from 3s. to 48. per quarter
dearer than last week; grey and maple qualities advanced 28.
per cmarter.
_

Indian Corn was is. to 2s. per quarter higher, but thesuppll
was very small. Indian Meal was held at a rise of Is. per bar-
rel.

A good business was done in English Flour at last week's
improvement. American qualities were held for is. per barrel
more money.

BIRKENHEAD.—We understand that the population of
this town has increased 300 within the last fortnight.
There is not a single house to let either in Higher or
Lower Tranmere.

The latest provincial journals received from the south
contain little of interest with respect to the late insurrec-
tion, except the announcement of the death of Mr. James
Stephens, the young man who was. wounded at the battle
of Ballingarrv. and who for some time was mistaken for
Mr- John Dillon.

THE ENGINEMEN ON THE NORTH-WESTERN RAIL"
WAY.—It was hoped that the disputes between these melt
and the company would have been settled on Saturday,
and the company, we believe, had consented to the men
resuming work yesterday, but a meeting of the men took
place on Sunday night, at which it was announced that
the firemen had not received intimation that they might
resume work, and the enginemen, therefore, resolved not
to go to wcrk until the firemen• were allowed t ) do so.
So great was the number of the mirrors, crystals, &co
that were broken by the mob in the Palais Royal during
the revolution in Paris in February last, that the frag-
ments of glass,. which were lately sold' by auction, weighed
no less than 25,000 kilogrammes (25 tons.)
STANDARDS OF REPUTATION.—At the last assizes in
Newcastle, the keeper of a lodging-house, a woman, who
had put some thievish men and women in hed together,
told Mr. Dundas that " she did not think they were bad
characters : she would not have any- bad characters in
her house."' " Bad characters," observed' Judge Erle,
" with such persons as the witness, means people who do
not pay for their lodgings." In another case the landlord
of the Beeswing was asked to define the condition of a
foolish old man, who had been robbed while he was tipsy,
and replied, " He had had drink, but was-qualified to, call
for liquor, AND PAY FOR IT :" which, said Mr. Otter, was
a landlord's criterion of sobriety.
A ROYAL ROMANCE.—The new Administrator of the
German Empire—the Archduke John of Austria—was long
exiled from the Imperial Court on account of his plebeian
marriage. The story is thus told :—Once on a summer's
day, upon, arriving at Aussee, a small town in Styria, the
royal traveller was informed that from some graverrnshp
or other no postilion was at hand. The unfortunate gouty
old postmaster and his wife were in the greatest distress--
the maids were sent out to find a man able to drive the
-Prince's carriage; the groom was bid rather harshly to pot t°
the horses, when the handsome young daughter of the
house quietly approaches her father, and assures him that
she will take the reins, for fear that' on the bad roads some
harm might happen to his Imperial Highness by a more
unpractised driver. A few moments afterwards she
ascends the box, and drives the horses in wrnasterly man-
ner through the narrow and tortuous street of the moun-
tain village. The Pt-ince was surprised, and, when the
road became easier, he accosted her, thanking her for so
great a kindness on her part. To all he said, the answers
were so innocent and so clever, that he ended an hours
conversation by announcing his intention.to marry his fair
driver. The post-master's daughter was frightened and
so was the Emperor Francis when he heard of this
untoward plan. The Imperial permission was refused;
but the Archduke John persisted in his resolution, sou,
the young lady of Aussee went to live with her husband
at his charming country seat at Brandhof, from which she
received her title. The Count of Meran, her son, is
lovely boy, ten years old, and brought up as a regular
Tyrolese.