The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

THE LTV "II IL STANDARD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1851.

DISTURBANCES IN DUBLIN.

THE AGGREGATE MEETING OF ROMANISTS.
The great aggregate meeting of the Romanists of Ire-
land took place on Tuesday. At eleven o'clock Lord Paul
Cullen, Lord John Al'Hale, and several other lords of his
Holiness the Pope, entered the meeting, and of course
were loudly cheered.
Lord Gormanstown moved that the Most Rev
len be called to the chair.

Dr. Cul-

Mr. Reynolds. M.P., came forward and exclaimed that
Lord Viscount Gormanstown was after moving that the
chairishould be taken by " The Most Rev. Dr. Paul Cul.
len, Lord Bishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland !"
(Cheers.) Such were the words of Lord Gormanstown,
but as Providence had not blessed his lordship with such
lungs as he had. he deemed it well to repeat the words of
the motion. There were (continued Mr. R.) present
likewise his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Cashel, his
Grace the Lord Archbishop of Tuam (cheers), the Lord
Bishop of Birmingham, the Lord Bishop of Edinburgh,
the Lord Bishop of Elphin, the Lord Bishop of Clogher,
the Lord Bishop of Killaloe, the Lord Bishop of Clonfert,
the Lord Bishop of Savannah, in Georgia (cheers), and
the Lord Bishop of Cloyne. There were many other dig-
nitaries of the Roman Catholic Church, either present or
expected immediately. There were many peers of the
realm present ; and lastly, several members of parliament
—members of the " Irish Brigade." He concluded by
seconding the motion, which passed unanimously.
The Chairman (Dr. Cullen) then read a speech, in
which the causes which led to that meeting were set forth.
This meeting, he maintained, " had the finger of God
upon it." and he doubted not that success would attend
their efforts. One of the great objects of the contemplated
Defence Association was to secure a proper representation
of the Catholic church in parliament ; another was to
employ the influence of the public press in the dissemina-
tion of their principles, and defence of their rights and
liberties. He concluded by imploring a blessing from
" The Queen of Heaven, St. Patrick, St. Michael, and St.
Lawrence, our own Saints," on that meeting. (Cheers.)
Dr. Brown, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin, said the
people were not obliged to obey a law which was unjust
and contrary to all the principles of equity. Such a law
was that recently passed by the legislature. (Great cheers.)
He concluded by moving that Mr. Burke, Mr. Sadlier,
M.P„ Mr. Keogh, M.P., and Mr. Reynolds, M.P.,
should be appointed to act as secretaries.
Mr. Vincent Scully, Q.C., seconded the motion. -

Mr. Sadler then read the 'requisition, also a letter from
Cardinal Wiseman, accounting for his absence from the
meeting, but giving his approbation of the proposed
Roman Catholic Defence Association.

Dr. Slattery, " Bishop of Cashel," proposed a resolu-
tion to the effect—" That we declare an act lately passed
by the Imperial Parliament, commonly called the Ecclesi-
astical Titles Act, to be a violation of the compact ob-
tained in the Catholic relief bill of 1829, and subver3ive of
the great principle of religious liberty as established in
this empire."
This was seconded by Sir Piers Mostyn, who thus ac-
counted for his presence :—I will tell you, gentlemen,
why I have come. I have come in answer to your call—l
have come in answer to the general invitation which you
sent to all Catholics of the United Kingdom—(hear,
hear)—that we should join in one voice in protesting
against a retrograde policy—hear, hear,)—and in protest-
ing above all things against the conduct of a Whig Prime
Minister—(groans)—who, deserting the standard of reli-
gious liberty which he had always previously fought for
to the best of his ability in his political character, has
unfortunately evoked by that too celebrated letter of his a
spirit of fierce intolerance and religious fanaticism which
has spread through the length and breadth of the land,
and which we had hoped had slumbered too long to be,
awoke, but which unfortunately having been once awoke
will not, I fear, be so soon allayed.
The motion was carried.

Dr. M'Hale, " Archbishop of Tuam," read the follow-
ing resolution :—" That we unhesitatingly declare that
the present Ministers have betrayed the cause of civil and
religious freedom, and forf:ited the confidence of the
Catholics of the United Kingdom."
Mr. Keogh, M.P., seconded the resolution.

A clergyman, who was introduced to the meeting as
" The Lord Archbishop of Edinburgh," moved the next
resolution, which was seconded by Mr. Moore, M.P. for
Mayo, and of course passed.
Resolutions having for their object the formation of the
new Romanist Defence Association were subsequently
proposed and adopted. The meeting terminated quietly.
On the outside several disturbances too'c place. The
windows of the house of the Priests' Protection Society
were smashed by the mob, and some other outrages were
reported by the police. The Rev. T. D. Gregg, attended
by some friends, arrived at the Rotundo in a close car-
riage, and demanded admittance, but being refused he and
his friends returned to their carriage, the windows of

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which were instantly shivered, whileL, the coachman was
struck with a stone, which injured him severely in the
jaw. However, the carriage succeeded in driving off amid
a volley of stones, and proceeded up Great Denmark-
street, followed by an immense mob of coal-porters and
ragamuffins to Mountjoy-square West, the house of Mr.
Shea, at which point the enemy was completely distanced.
After a short stay there the rev. gentleman proceeded to
Kingstown. The police arrangements were so totally
ineffective, that, were it not for the speed of the horses,
the inmates of the carriages would, in all probability, have
been murdered, and a bloody fracas might have taken
place between the opposing parties.
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Around the Rotundo the greatest excitement prevailed,
and the collisions between the police and what we may
call the body guards of the meeting—the coal-porters and
dock labourers—were feequent, staves and stones being
freely wed on either side.
A riot that appeared to augur

something <serious took