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OCTOBER 13, 1435.
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leis worthy father, had lie been alive, would haveknouted hHaovue,,g,
(imontord are
m- likely to give, no small trouble to the
and the people.
him in such an earnest manner that he would not have " But never let the people forget that they themselves have all
histt 'llssw
forgotten it during all the short years of his life. When Is otole s terfute-a.r. HID tevs, dsitAant tli.: all its ea 'osriis'onr'drns al;'esc(oarlynred, -'„t
strongly imbued with tory principles ? Why, unquestionably
Mr. WILLIAM EIVART has declared against the peers they
well may tremble! But there remains this consolation—
mowaizarilrlten tolarun;lo')
rt,;eipslesqf the notion. The:French revolution
except a minority so small ax scarcely to
1 venture to liA up its head either in parliament or out. At that
now that Mr. Essssnr is found in the ranks of HUME
AVAKewy, and O'CONNELL time it
.was that Mr. PITT, who was kept in power by the corn-
, lee_and all the Esvaars may
loons ancl.the people as much as by the/King, aud the lords, in-
With great safety consider themselves booked and shelved troduced so many tories into the upper house. When intro-
for' the next generation. We venture to predict that it duced-they held the same opinions as the great majority of the
people, high and low:, This was also the case with Mr. Peres
Will be so. successors till som years after the peace, when the people came
But leaving such small deer, let us return to the whig
to their senses, a found out the foolish and costly game they
.:.
had been play in It was therefore the existence of a tory go-
4ristoeracy. Seeing what turn things have taken—see- sentiment for forty.years—to say nothing of the earlier part of
NORTH'SNORTH'S—that
Ang that they are assailed where their honour and pride
gave Mr. It'orrsyaspsrinaedi;liensistthaelrionreasenndt o Le
. ascendancyfrd in the House
are concerned—seeing that it is necessary to stand upon of Peers. But the peculiar obstinacy manifested by the
the defensive as regards the MELBOURNE administration, p
during the last session is to be ascribed direceY to the conduct
of the people at the elections of .lanuary last. If constitnen-
and on the offensive as concerns O'CONNELL, they have cies had not sent so many tories to the House of Commons, the
toriesin the House of Lords would have been far less valiant and
publiihed a manifesto which is addressed to both.— stubborn. Now it would be no great proof of wisdom to doom
Where ? Not ire a London paper ; for there the aristo- the lords to destruction for having acted in the same way as a
cratic whigs have now no organ: The Morning Chronicle, lame
and influential class of the commons of Englandcia class may be very wrong—we think they are so - but sti That
ll they
once the very lackey of the whig nobility, is now under are a class of the people, a large and influential Class; and even
twhoeurdsucsotorsoirolaor assembly that could be formed in England
the influence of wild radicalism, and is in the hands of
small number of individuals having the same
JoiatosPAßEas and a coterie of low socinians and con- opinions and feelings as the lords. we doubt if the toryism of
tem ptible stock-jobbers. The Globe is a dissentingjour-
of
ttitiviouofseLords is a whit stronger than that of a large majority
of Commons.
:nal, whose leading characteristic is meanness and lying. .1- * * * * * - *
The Courier is conducted by a :disappointed whig, of " But what would. be the result of the system Mr. O'Connell
proposes to substitute for the present ? We suspect he would
whom Mr. HUSKISSON, if he were alive, could give some find, when it was established,, that he had jumped out of the
tsotittoheenficrye.
formedH etalbk talks Odf.vVtg.inft
op
ttlrye
ni houseinto
account, and who hates his party in the ratio of his disap- frying
-pan
the
weconi
erel-ctoral districts of -2.00,030 persons}. ' eacnb
poiretment. He therefore cannot be trusted. There is,
- consequently, no London journal in which the aristocra- constituencies were to resemble the present county constituen-
cies, we ask what would be the politics of the members elected?
tic whigs Can repose any confidence. They have there- We are firmly convinced that a majority of them would be tories ;
fore, under these circumstances, selected the Leeds Mer- because among the landed proprietors, especially the upper
classes of them, tory principles prevail more than whig pi-mer-
cury. In that paper of Saturday last our honourable pies ; and the influence of those proprietors (though it might,
Oontemporary, one of the members for Leeds, has been perhaps, be somewhat lessened), cannot be destroyed without
.confiscating their estates. Indeedit is evident that the lords
authorised to speak the sentiments of the whig aristo- are not the only obstacle to reform. Nearly as great an ob-
tracy. We are not of those who would depreciate the stacle exists in the opinions of a large ?ortion of the lauded
.tiseenptroyretttlhone
74birrroets therefore lies much
talents of Mr. BAINES. We acknowledge him to be a O'Connellbaronets, &c.
and for that evil
Person of considerable experience, "of rare- success as a the only remedy would be.es Zemfiseetion of property, a general,
tradesman, of remarkable
• bouleversement of society—a remedy ten thousand times worse .
industry, of accessible princi-
than the. disease ! But, supposing this radical cure not to be
pies, of. convenient politics, who studies the upper and attempted, we say that an elective 'upper house would, in all
.rotroase f_;
biolitylo,ble_sqeite as much indisposed to reform as the present
lOwer currents of popularity, and who, like the Cheap-
d , and far more unmanageable; because, feeling
side artist, always walks for an appetite in the morning that it rested on a broader basis, it would act with more
in the direction that the wind blows. He will, however,
energy and determination. Unless, therefore, these views are.
quite tenacious, which we believe it is impossible to prove, the
on this occasion, perhaps, pardon us if we ascribe a con- very forms of a republic would not answer Mr. O'Connell's
oaslel:
boThbereslititetdofintthoettgobvvertnhuoient and legislature must,
alterable portion of the very able article which appears
,p,
fut rep,.
people; and among the
in the Leeds Merin i•Y to some other pen than his own. people themselves there is, anti has been for centuries, that
Of Mercury* generallyyand whig Mercurys particularly,
Forrevat division of opinion indicated. by the parties of whig and
we entertain but a very low opinion. Perhaps this arises oWe will bring this matter home to the people of the West
from seeing one weekly in our vicinity, which, making
ward
ding of Yorkshire. Suppose candidates to be brought for-
at our next election on the principle of advocating a re-
allowance for dotage and a long confirmed love of modelling of the House of Lords, they would be opposed by all
the noble whi families b the baronets robabl b the whole
small quackery, stale trumpery, and ridiculous inanities
of the landedggentry, alidyby nearly all 'op't the olycleeyt and most
influential reform leaders in the towns.
mo
leans tsaes
—written only for a liberal circle of nursery maids 'What sort of a figure
wouldo
i thecn t
influential? Most
and journeymen tailorsstitches of borrowed words
passing for ideasand the hundredth-time-repeated slang be A
thrown ? Into arli)naililaanneewnwarth the tories. Of course the
of thirty years ago passing for modern wit, just as a phi- reformone party would be broken to shivers. A liberal member
of the southern counties said to us the other day, " We
losophic washerwoman throwing up a soap bubble calls
now return fourteen liberal members for our county . if the
it a new world—such a Mercury is ours ; and while it question of depriving the lords of their independent character
should be urged on we shall return only four.' Would it not
brings the schoolmaster into contempt, reflects immea- then be infatuation in the liberals to urge on this question ?
-surable . discredit upon the intellect and taste of so large *,, • , * * ' * * *
We scarcely need point out to any man of reflection that
a community as that of Liverpool. • the proposed abolition of the House of 'seers could not be carried
without a resolution. The peers would to a man resist it • and
. But we.beg Mr. BAINES'S pardon for naming him on
the constitution affords. no means of overcoming that resistance.i
the same day •with..a .contemporary who, as. a professed If overcome at all, therefore, it must be, as in the days of Caoni-
reformer, renders hy contrast such vast superiority to Issiti.lin., by the. arbitrary assumption of the House of Corninons.
can imagine that such an act of revolutionary violence
Leeds. We have said that the article in the Leeds Mer- could be effected without a civil war. And. in such is civil war,.
industrious.i.7vha t
stretch people o
fi) etsl3, is ably written. We go further, and say that taking
(7thlatle wouldt ,berthe grievanceostr imaee and support the demo-
eac h lar
it with all its faults and its necessary leanings to party,willre
prerogative
t cutiv e
others 3 throats
a great
t)r nothing. '
which by the •way are a blind, it is argumentative, has been committed ? What patriot has been brought to the
block? What popular rights have been outraged ? ' What
strictly logical, and in its whole bearings unanswer- , grievous and insulting tax has been enforced ? Why, there is
stimulusegnat e n ,
of
powerful
ably and convincingly true. It is indeed the very lint r much as a single sticker
indignation,
of fuel wherewith to
resentment,sel f
the
sense popular
tfl lar indignation. -best article on the subject we have yet perused. Hinjury
outra, The
outrage, the
we have-done Mr. BAINES wrong in supposing that lie interest, every motive that fires the soul and braces the nerves
is not the sole author, We shall be most happy to stand would guile qausittoenteheoOthtchle' way. _ And what man that is not as ig-
f people of England can for an instant
corrected.; and if we have. judged him discourteously, imagine that the people would allow (heir ancient peers to be
despoiled, degraded, end made the foot-balls of such men as
from prepossessed opinions, we shall be most ready to O'Connell? Whowho saw the enthusiasm with which the
offer him every apology. Earl Fitzwilliam and Lord Milton were received at the last
West Riding meeting can doubt that if those noble lords were
One thing, however, is clear. The honourable teem- to mount theirlorses and to raise the standard of " KING, PEERS,
bet for Leeds could not have written the article in clues- AND CONSTITUTION," tens of thousands would affectionately
rush t their support—not merely their tenantry, who would
tion without having consulted the leaders of the whig take up arms to a man, but the clothiers .and tradesmen who
aristocracy. It is so direct an attack upon the ministry heve so long, revered and. loved them? It would be the same
with Lord Carelisle and Lord Morpeth. It would be the
hat
1. he would not have done it without their sanction. same with' the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Nor-
It iS in fact a tort' article. ' It cuts away the legs of Lord folk,—aye, and with the tory peers as well as with the whig
peers. Let Alnwick, Clamber, and Burghley, and Hatfield,
MELBOURNE and Lord JOHN RUSSELL at one slash. It and Lowther, as well as Wentworth, and Castle Howard, and
tells the minister in an authoritative tone that he must Chatsworth, and Knowsley, and Eaton, and Dinorben, summon
their vetunanry around their ancient towers, and we should
not expect any further support from the whig nobility— like toknow what kind of force Mr. O'Connell or any of his
that they not only distrust him, but that they hate and coadjutors would bringmustering into the field against the mustering of
the English knights and yeomen?
detest the alliance h " e has formed with the instruments of It pleases this declaimer to speak of the peers as ' odd
Popery, and with one of the most characterless dema- fellows'—' knavish fellows'—as ' hogs'—as a ' swinish mill-
titude'—as ' mad dogs'—as ' imbeciles,' dolts, and creatures
gogues that- ever addressed or insulted the people Of so pitiful that " a kitchen wench with her broom' might put a
England. It tells Lord - MELBOURNE that he must curb dozen of them to flight! !!' We are ashamed to quote insults
so foul; but they have positively issued from the lips of this
and coerce DANIEL forthwith, or they will unite with the modern 'I hersites, before tens of thousauds of the people of
- • .
tories and displace. the present cabinet. In short this Scotland. '
manifesto, we take it soun‘ ds the knell of the MELBOURNE attached
to 6
are
io
n.
slavish admirers of rank and power. We are
, ‘order—the people—the tradesmen of England.
administration. The whigs have 'always been immensely But the records of our memory must be wiped as with a sponge,
and our sense of all that is just, true, and noble must be,quite
jealous of their " order ;" O'CONNELL is the avowed
inverted before we can see this treatment of the British peers
enemy of that " order," and the whig ministry tolerate, age without unutterable scorn and indignation. By the con-
if they do not actually pay and encourage, O'CONNELL. faesbsti:in oort. toriaeen-esl locrisi:,rior everyh
(ination,
educated,is no2.i natl.:lde world
This must not be any longer. This is contrary to all bearing so indicative highly
gpililliantrY,stnio"blness, intelligence-,tannl
the rules and maxims of society—dog does not eat dog— refinement as the peers of England. They must be so. What
achievements are there in our history so chivalrous and splen-
whig must not prey upon whig—their castles and man- did as those performed by our ancient nobility? And have not
sions must not be pulled down, nor their old oaks felled, very many of our recently ennobled peers won their coronets
with their swords? The English peers have adorned every
hor their broad 'lands laid waste, merely to keep Lord walk of literature and science, have subdued , the conquerors of
JOHN RUSSELL and a few needy whigs, and their worth- Europe in the field, have conducted our fleetstriumphant through
the ocean, have stood as true as their own steel the martyrs of
less dependents in office. No. Thee word has been
patriotism. 'l'o pour the filth of the most scurrilous contumely
spoken, and the deed Infest be done. on an order which is emblazoned with the names of Wellinieton,
Nelson, Byron, Brougham, Grey, Anglesea, Holland, King,
But we are trifling with the patience of our readers in Melbourne, Bedford, Wellesley, Hill. Lynedoch, Howe, Hood,
Burlington, Fitzwilliam, Stanhopeatansdowne, Combermere,
Withholding that porticos of the article upon which we Lyndhurst; Denman, Erskine, Exmouth, St. Vincent, Suffield,
have founded these hurried observations. It commences and a host besides, evinces a judgment the most distempered,
with a brief notice of DANIEL'S late hobby—Repeal of the or, a,
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Union—which it contends would have " ruinel even his is, that the substitution of an elective senate for the present
influence if he had not given it up." It then proceeds House. et'. Lords is as undesirable in a constitutional point of
view as it is impossible from the feelings and prejudices of the
as follows: • . nation.
" The subject is one of sogreat importance and so new to the
' 'lt is proposed, then, to ABOLISH THE ,HOUSE OF LORDS,— bl. ind that we h
to take from the peers of England the privileges which their p.O icfni . . t nye t oug t it.right to tis exten
.ed
order has exercised for a thousand years, and to substitute for vlioese o
confidenceitorde;:room ple.ver4 the retormers takewnoer us with
the ancient assembly of the.. barons,' an elective assembly, fallaciousat„edir
reasonings of Mr. Q'Connell and his admirers.
chosen by the that is, another House of Commons. -
"Now, what would this be hut a neeoneic? The English The reader is now able to judge whether the talent
constitution is an admixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and displayed in the above extract is not entitled to 'the
democracy. Of these, the oldest-principles are monarchy and •
aristocracy, and the youngest born as an element of govern- highest commendation. In its reasoning we heartily
merit is the democracy; for the House of Commons was ten- concur. The style is vigorous, the sentiments are sound
turies posterior to, the assembly of barons. We are not saying
what ought to be—we are saying what has been, and what is.
and conservative, and they come seasonably from one
The fact is undoubted, that aristocracy has always been a main whom we had set down as a member of the HUME faction.
element of the British constitution. Ever since the accession
That such sentiments pervade the minds of a vast majority'
of the Stuarts, the democracy has been gaining upon the aris-
tocracy. The House of Commons has been growing more and of the people of England we have not, and never had any
store powerful. The advocates of the reform of the House of
doubt whatever.
T
hat such sentiments are gaining
Commons—among whom we rank a zealous part—thought that .
the aristocracy had too much control over the democracy, by ground daily, even in the manufacturing towns, anti in
Means of their possession of the rotten boroughs; and they con- wens of dissent, utilitarianism, and infidelity, we
eoived that the people had now attained sufficient knowledge theand discretion to be able to choose their own representatives. sincerely believe ; and that such is the case in Leeds,
The reform of the' representation greatly abridged the power of m I) •
Mr. .uAINES, we venture to say, is ready to attest. If by
the aristocracy,. and increased that of the democracy ; rend the '''`
reform of the municipal corporations has tended still further to corning round to them at the eleventh hour, firmly re-
strengthen the latter, and to retrench the influence of the for- solved to adhere to them during the remainder of leis life,
riser.
" But no person until the year 1835 ever proposed to abolish our honourable contemporary should be enabled to secure
the aristocracy—ever thought that object either practicable or i •the
leis return at next election, none will rejoice more
,s desirable. The object has always been to establish a fairer
,fiitlance of the governing power—not to-annihilate one rind make than we. But leaving declared his principles thus openly,
- the other supreme. We wish to be distinctly understood as ex- only
One duty remains—he must nail them to the mast,
pressing no opinion now as to what form of government Is ab-
stractedly the most desirable, We are only pointing out what, and fight under them to the last extremity ; and he must
in point of fact, are the great, the old, the deep, and solid faun- moreover make
war upon all those who dare to assail or
dations on which the structure of the British constitution rests.
And we repeat that aristocracy is an essential principle of that disparage them.
constitution—is one of its grand foundations, stretching so deep But is our honourable contemporary aware of
the
and far that the force wbich excavates that must bring down
the whole edifice in ruins. serious and perhaps painful duties he will, under these
"The monarchical part of the constitution, though still 'a ;
cacumstances, be called upon to perform ? When one of
,
tower of strength,' me look upon as possessing much less power ,
end mach less capability of self-defence than the aristocratical. a cluster of houses is on fire, more than one sometimes
The fate of both, however, is clearly. hound rip together. The have to be destroyed in order to save the rest. The
arguments against hereditary legislation would tell more „ ~ .
party is in this predicament. We do not say that
Strongly still against hereditary monarchy. If they should ever '
lig
triumph so far as to bring about an elective House of Lords, that Lord MELBOURNE is On fire, or that Lord MULGRAVE is
next and immediate step will be an elective king• mad, or that Lord JOHN RUSSELL is silly, or that Lord
"We make these statements to show that the proposition
which Mr. O'CONNELL, is urging on the nation is neither more BROUGHAM is daft ; but what in the name of goodness
not less than this, namely, to make a fundamental change in ,
are we to say for old COKE of Norfolk—the father of the
the form of government—To SUBSITIJTE• A REPUBLIC FOR A
LIMITED MONARCHY. ' present generation of whigs—who calls himself a whig
"Is this what the people of England wish ?Is this an object of the school—and old
who has in his day stuffed more
worthy the pursuit of a prudent man ? Has the British con-
stitution been so ineffectual for the ends of liberty, good govern- whigs and whigglings with fat mutton, French wine, and
'Pent, national power; wealth, security, glory, intelligence, and French principles than any other man alive ? What is
improvements as to make this desirable ? Is it worth while to
uproot from the foundations a structure like which the world to be done with this old whig bird--this Norfolk goose? A t
has never seen, at the period when it is the whole world's adnei- a scans's' isle meeting in Yarmouth the other day, he stated
ration, and when, it has proved a secure shelter, through the
storms and convulsions of centuries, for all that can adorn and that, "for the last sixty or seventy years there has hardly
bless a community ? been an independent man placed in the Horse of Lords."
" What is the practical end to be sought by republicanizing ,
What do the whig nobility say
to this ? Lord GREY
our government? Is it needed for the establishment of civil
liberty?.
That is already perfect. Of religious liberty? Surely made a goodly number of whir, Lords in his day—are
not, when so much has recently been done to remove the re-
of .
strictions on conscience. Is it required to protect the freedom none these independent Y Lord 11 _ROUGIIAM, we knew,
of the press ? to give greater force to law.?. to tender property is not quite so independent as Mr. COKE—Lotd PLUN-
hyne secure, or industry more free, or the habitations of Eng- •
KETT is a poor man—Lord DURILAM is not troubled wills
bitumen more seared? - Is it necessary to enforce economy on
the governincet ? or to ensure a proper control over public excessive Sveaitleslshicl DENMAN is not overstocked with
officers? It is enough barely to mention these important ends
.1.16,5'=1 Lord MULGRAVE •s '
either law or irto , a I. not rich—Lord
of government, to convince every man that our reformed house
of Commons, our free press, and our right of meeting and of GLENELG wouldi tip' dfiluent if diamonds grew on heather,
petition, give abundant security for the attainment of them all: but unforttiri iglY ''l
'1 ey d '
d tl o not—Lord (we forget his title,)
"WE do not deny that the lords have acted a perverse; and " ' .. .
evenaninfalnatect lima—that they have resisted treasures the latd Ifigli ktioidtiiy, LITTLETON; has no money to
which were both good and just in themselves, and urgently spare=iii64B td tild loids of reform; the last coinage
required by ciecuniSta.aces,—that tory principles have a great - ' ', . . •
luitetelairey in that housei— and that on this accetnit the lo'rdS froth OW *hit iiiiitt, otiibt &ff-thtr puree: ivater; but;

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saving the mark they (;aa harllythe called /7v/01)cl/dont
accotding to the Norfolk acceptation of that term. But
ANould lie disrobe them :2 • Would Mr. COKE tear the co-
ronet from the head of HENRY Lord BROUGHAM and
VAux, kick it into the kennel, and place in its room the
red cap 4,l4rty ? Let him try.
_ _

. .
On the ‘hole the whigs must silence this silly and in-
temperate old Whig as well as O'CoNNELL, or they will
make but poor work in defence of their " order." .They
must scour the Norfolk kettle as well as the Irish pot.

When penning the remarks which appeared in this
journal cn Tuesday last, we had not expected that we
should so soon have another case of clerical apathy
brouglit under our notice. It is truly painful to see this
desertion of their high trust by those whose especial func-
tion it is to guard the treasure-house of the reformed
faith. We should earlier have betaken ourselves to the
consideration of the letter which has suggested the above
reflection, had not a press of other matter of a similar
nature demanded our attention. Our readers will by
this time be aware that we allude to some correspon-
dence which appears to have passed between the notori-
ous Doctor MURRAY and a gentleman who signs himself
MAURICE JAMES, 8.D., and who dates from Pembridge
Rectory.
_ _

In this correspondence we are given to understand that
Mr. JAMES could not bring himself to think so harshly of
popery in the 19th century as to suppose its hierarchy could
sanction the tenets contained in the theological treatise
of DoMINUS DENS. We, for our own part, had thought
this question had been already settled in such a manner
as to leave no room for doubt in the mind of any right-
thinking man. Nor, indeed, can we bring ourselves to
believe that there can be any candid mind which is not
thoroughly convinced upon this point. Still, as public
journalists, it is our duty•Virriantly to watch the progress.
of opinion on a matter so important as this. It shall,
then, be our aim to show, by an examination of the let-
ters before us, that every attempt on the part of the
Romish priesthood to disavow their connexion with
PETER DENS is eminently unsuccessful.
Before doing this, however, one word on the lukewarm
protestantism of the Rev. MAURICE JAMES. He thus
begins the letter to the Hereford Times which accom-
panies his correspondence with Dr. MURRAY :

" TO TILE 11DITOR.OF THE HEREFORD TIMES.
" Sin,-Lln consequence of what occurred at the late protes-
tant meeting (so called) at Hereford, I wrote to the primate of
the Roman catholic church in Ireland, Dr. Murray, as follows,
viz.:—
" My Lord," &c.

Here we have an individual who has pledged his fealty
to the protestant faith, and has sealed with an oath his
conviction that " the church of Rome hath grievously
erred," hesitating to allow to a meeting convened for the,
express purpose of combating popery the name_ of pro-
testant; but at the same time we find him addressing the
bishop of •an apostate and usurping church with the title
of ".my lord." This is toleration with a vengeance
We say nothing'about the ignorance of the title usurped
by Dr. MURRAY which these few lines betray. The
purport of his letter to the doctor is contained in the
following words :
" Your lordship will greatly oblige me by informing me how
it was that. the authorized republication of Dens in 1&)8, and
again in 1832, took place without the omission or any explana-
tion of the passages objected to, and also what is the nature of.
the conferences which the book is used, and to what use it is
therein applied, 'and especially to what kind of comment or
interpretation the passages in question are then subjected."
Well, there is something gained here at any rate—
the republications of DENS in 1808 and 1832 : were
" authorized." It certainly was very unkind of MAti-
nicr JAMES to set out With calling his correspondent a
! liar. Dr. MURRAY had expressly denied that the repub-
lication of this work was " authorized." Good; but-let
that pass for the .present. Mr. JAMES concludes his let-
ter to the Ilereford Times thus :
" I will only add, that. I am entirely satisfied with the ex-
planation given in the above letter, and in my conscience acquit
the writer individually, and the Roman catholics in general, of
entertaining at this day the persecuting and homicidal doctrines
and dispositions attributed to them, which doctrines (the spirit
of them at least) and dispositions belong. 1 believe, much more
to their accusers, and are really exemplified in their actions.
• " I tim, sir, vour very obedient servant,
4" 141AulticE Jamas.—
_

_ .
Well, Mr. MAURICE JAMES, yGLI are easily satisfied; you
possess a contkience in the dicta of popish priests worthy
your
.illustrious namesake, the son of the great DAN.
Think you, sir, that the reflecting people of England
will value such testimony as yours at a rush ? you do,
you are most assuredly mistaken. What is it which now
distracts Ireland to its very centre—what but the dark
designS of popish fiends? Every day's post brings us
intelligence of the consummation, either by secret con-
spiracy or open violence, of schemes which have their
origin in malice and revenge, hatred and cruelty. What
more common in that unhappy and priest-ridden country
than murders and assassinations; and these; tpo,commit-
ted,,sriA4he persons of the ministers of justice and the
attendants on the sanctuary. And yet a clergyman has
the barefaced impudence to tell us, that " persecuting
and horpicidal.doctrines" do not characterize the papists
of the present day! God forbid that we should charge
such barbarous cruelties and vile conspiracies on all who
live in the communion of that church! It would be,
almost as unfair to do so as if we were to charge all the
clergy of the establishment with being equally as luke-
warm and careless about their high privileges as is this
MAURICE JAMES. No, there are the seduced party, who
are not thought sufficiently base to be intrusted with
these fell schemes, lest their consciences should revolt at
them, and their good nature induce them to disclose the
meditated villanv. But there are also a busy active fac-
tion who are always restless and designing, and act by
such maxims of moralit) as the more honest among the
heathens would have shuddered at. What have this
party been doing for the last two hundred years but con-
spiring, plotting, inflaming the popular mind, and, in
short, undermining the foundations both of our govern-
ment and religion. The Pope and his emissaries will
never rest, but will use every means, lawful and unlaw-
ful, fire and sword, to regain England, once the prime
flower of his triple crown.

Turn we now to the consideration of Dr. MURRAY'S
defence of his own and his brethren's conduct in re Do-
MINUS PETER DENS. Imprimis, Dr. M. tells us that he
was delighted with Mr. JAMES'S "able and truly liberal
paper." Were we anxious for our fair fame we should
say,—

"Non tali auxilio nec ,lefensoribus istis."

Neither do we like the oily-tongued hypocrisy of his ac-
quiescence in the spirit of protestantism.

But to what, does the doctor's defence of the clergy
amount ? The old story about the oath. We have else•
where spoken on the popish doctrine of intention; we
cannot, however, refrain from reprinting the following
extract from a preface to the "Secret Institutions of the
Jesuits."

"The greatest care imaginable must be also taken that these
instructions do not fall into the hands of strangers, for fear out
of envy of our order they should give theta a sinister interpre-
tation. But if this (which God forbid !) should happen, let it
be positively denied that these are the principles of the society,
and such denial be confirmed by those of our members which
we arc sure know nothing of them; by this means, and by con-
fronting them with our public instructions printed or written,
our credibility will be established beyond opposition."
Here we have a proviso for the case of DEN. The
denial has been flatly made, and an appeal to their gene-
ral 'exhortations vauntingly set forth. The trick, how-
ever, will not do. 'Why were instructions given to and
'
obeyed by CLOYN to tear out of every copy in his pos-
session that dedication which had caused the priests to
lie. We were going to write further, but we wilt give
our readers time to digest this petit morceau of evasion.
ge purpose returning to the subject,—in the meanwhile
we subjoin the following from th a Dublin Evening Mail:

"DANIEL MUREAT AND PETER DENS.—This troublesome
question of Dens is forcing itself upon the poor Roman catholic
clergy, sore against their will; and this reluctant forthcoming
into the arena of controversy manifests how deeply the spur
hath touched their blood." It is, in fact, a desperate case.:
But men run to the well will, of cowards, betioine brave and
face the enemy. We have accordingly had letter upon letter
from Murray and WoodS-L.and Woods and Murray; add now
the Rev. Maurice James, of Hereford, comes to the rescue—
and pronounces the parties acquitted. Poor Mr. -James! it is
certainly easy to satisfy a gentleman of his turn of thinking
tind very extensive information—a man who knows so little of
the parties whom he presumes to absolve, that he does not even
know their station; and who,.in the plenitude of his liberality,
and the profundity of his ignorance, addresses Doctor Murr,ay
as the primate of Ireland. To the inquiries of this "learned
Theban" Dr.'Murray—without.undeceiving him as to the sup-
positious title—returns an answer of expnrgation: the substance
of which is, that no use whatsoever was made of Dens as a con-

fereuce book, but in suggesting 'the questions fur decision in-
their mostwrPriovan ORDRa: that is to gay, as first, second,
third, and so forth—in due theologic:tl sequence! and the Rev.-
Maurice is perfectly satisfied with this explanation. Now,
'might it .not occur to Mr. James—as it must to every one else
—that if this had been the Ole use to which Dens was turned--
all the advantage might have,been had, if there bad been but a
single copy of Dens in Ireland; and that one safely locked up
in the bureau of Dr. Murray, or Mr. Woods. But can any
man in his senses believe that, for such a purpose, two large edi-
tions-3010 copies each—should be published—at the cost 61
12,000 guineas—the first ordered by the whole conclave of
Roman catholic bishops—the second demanded in consequence
of the order of the archbishop of the province (and with his
express sanction)—backed by his three provincial suttragans—
that this book should be used as the guide for the ecclesiastical
conferences of the inferior orders of the clergy? If the Rev.
Maurice James believes it, he has a swallow of crodulity capa-
ble of gulping down all popery in one mouthful."

LONDON LATEST NLWVS.

City, Saturday Evening, Hatfipast Seven o'clock.

The commercial letters received from America this day ex-
press great solicitude and apprehension respecting the issue of
the proceedings relative to the slave question. Committees were
forming in the southern states to counteract the efforts of the
emancipators. At some of the meetings to promote the aboli-
tion the speakers have been answered'in the riglar American
fashion of arguing questions of importance. In New Hamp-
shire great excitement has been created in consequence of an
anti-abolition meeting having been held in that place. The
chairman had to fly for his life, and the civil authorities could
only preserve the peace by guaranteeing that no patties should
address the people. Thus it appears, that in " the land of the
froe" a public meeting to discuss the merits of a public question
cannot be held with safety unless the speakers deliver their
speeches in silence. The general impression both here and in
America is, that the dispute can only be settled by a dismem-
berment of the union, or by a civil war. A fine Christmas
prospect this for brother Jonathan.
The Money Market closed this afternoon somewhat more
buoyantly than it had been for several days past. Consols
opened at 901, dropped to 90. but closed at 901 Omnium
closed at 3A premium. Money became more plentiful to-day in
consequence of the dividends becoming payable on Wednesday.
Exchequer Bills and India Bonds are still going down, The
former dropped from 16 to 12, and the latter from'3 to 1 prem.
The rage for gambling in railway shares is rapidly increasing,
although several of them are declining in value.
In the Foreign Market the hopes entertained that Mendiza-
bal will be able to reorganise the financial and political affairs
of Spain produced a rise in the Stock of that country. The old
bondi rose from 421 to 451; the new from 394 to 421. The
closing prices this day were—old 43-44, 411; new 4O 411. A
slight improvement has taken place in the South American re-
publican securities.