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efore them a good example, he stated
• meetings, a gentleman offered to
hich would cost

x schools at his own einem'

£l,BOO altogether. There were, no doubt, many mer-
chants who could do likewise; the only question was,
-uld they ? (Applause.) The rev. gentleman then con-
by moving the resolution.
The Rev. FREDERICK HART, the successor of the
.ev. W. Barker, at St. Mary's, Edge-hill, seconded the
2esointion in a few appropriate words. The resolution
was then put and carried unanimously.
The CH.lium.s.x then called upon

eluded

The Rev. HOBART SErmoui, author of " Mornings
with the Jesuits," who was received with vehement demon-
strations of applause. They had all heard, he said, of the
" Aby Sir Robert Peel, that Ireland was the great
1. As this was the experience of that
ery modern statesman, so it was the

statesn

:ish states:

a who had gone before

IllYilloll of ITCI2,IIU, ana since rope Urban issued
rated bull, conveying the liberty of Rome—she
tys very liberal with that which was not he

—in ceding the liberty of the kingdom of Ireland to King
Henry the Second of England. In that remarkable Papal
bull Ireland and the Irish were3described by the Pontiff
as being in a state of barbarism and incivility, both as to

als and religion, and tt

chroniclers of

cted by internal feuds, so stained by the blood of her
n children, murdering and massacreing each other—
,t they were unable to organise any adequate resistance
hat she fell. That which characterised
true of her still. Whether

tagenets, whether under the

the Tud

5, whether under t

he reig

out any of their

, uncle

ects, (applause,)—under what-
atever church domination, under
nment, Ireland then, and still
(Hear, hear.) It

of England

5 argued that all this had 'arisen from the
immitted by England, inasmuch as Ireland,

Roman Cal

tholic principles, and ivitha Roman
1 of our Protestant principles, and
now, he would ant

to those
believed

rsons of good sense and good feeling—for-1
ey possessed both—and would remind them that Enz.

Led Ireland for I
nws -

600 years, that
before the Pro-

Christian d

300 since the Reforma

torraer period—for 300 years—lreland was
dc England—was governed
Ainciples, with a Roman Catholic
was governed in the approval of
gates, and Cardinals ; yet during. that

tomob
most dete

use born

great difficulty of England." (Hear, hear,
He would remind such persons that
tor three hundred years there was no Protestant Church

cheers.)

time es

stant pars,

Ireland; there was ut;

child in Ireland ; there was -no Protestant
Ireland; there was no Protestant landlord in
there was no Protestant policeman in Ireland;
Ls no Protestant Bible in Ireland. Yet through-
that 300 years Ireland was more than now "the

Ireland

treat difficnil•
his cc

of Engla:

(Cheers.)

He expressed

that if -Ireland had become Protestant at
formation, she would not now be the difficulty of
—and further, that this lawlessness

England

characterised Jrc

Ind in years gone by arose fror
te priesthood of the Church of Rome
ghty engine was a powerful

;trumen-

which the people of Ireland were prevented from
our Protestant Christianity. (Applause.) The

pLuceeded to give his own personal experience
ireland for the past quarter of a century—showing
Jere Roman Catholics evinced symptoms of abandoning
Le mass-house they were threatened with secret destruc-
.on, that every kind of abuse was practised upon their
amilies, and every outrage, even to violence and murder,
I themselves ; and that, in many districts, the unfor-
tunate people who had been led from darkness to light,
were obliged to emigrate in the hope of finding in the
free air, free soil, and free constitution of the United States

V. speak

that immunity from persecution which they could not en-
joy in their native land. He had been requested, he said in
continuation, to move a resolution, which was to this effect :
—" That universal as experience has proved the Romish
system to be hostile to men's temporal and spiritual welfare,
the only hope of Ireland's national regeneration lay in her
deliverance from the baneful influence by which she has
been so long blighted." (Cheers.) In carrying out the
object of the resolution, he would commence by stating,
that some time since at the British Museum he was look-

ing over the records of that house of which their chair-
man (Mr. Horsfail) was so worthy a member—(vehement
cheering), and among the records laid upon the
table of the House of Commons, by order of
Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, he found
certain documents relating to the state of crime in Eng-
land, and the state of crime in Ireland. That which
related to England gave a return of every case of a crimi-
nal committed in England and Wales, and under the
charge of murder the total number of persons accused,
during a period of ten years, was 718, of whom 179 were
convicted, which would give 72 committals for murder

_ _.
per annum ; and, comparing this with the population_ of
England and Wales, according to the last census, they
conclusively arrived at the result that in each million
of the population of England and Wales there were four

persona charged with murder. In other words, the pro-
portion of accusations for murder was as four to a million.
He entreated the meeting to retain that item steadily in
their mind, as being the standard by which all he had stated
that evening should be judged. Among the other docu-
ments laid on the table of the House, he found a return of
the number of cases of murder in Ireland reported to the
police for a period of nearly three years, the total number
being 644, or exactly 33 in a million. (Sensation.) But
it was fair to say this was some years ago—from 1836 to
1839—and that since then there had been a great change,
a change riskg contemporaneously with that described by

his friend Mi. Ellis as taking- place in Connemaiiii,
Dublin, and other parts of Ireland. (Cheers.) The

same report contained a report for seven years—the
seven best years ever known in the history of Ireland.
In those seven years the number of reported murders
was 914, which gave an average of 130 per annum, and, when
compared with the population, it showed that there were
19 murders to each million of the population. Here, then,
they arrived at the facts which enabled them to draw a
comparison between the two countries of England and
Ireland. Governed by the same laws, living under the

same constitution, having the same civil and religious
liberties, ruled by the same magistracy, and reigned
over by the same sovereign ;—(hear, hear)—yet in Eng-
land and Wales there were only four murders to a million
inhabitants; while in Ireland, for the past seven years, the
murders were, on the average, nineteen to the million.
Whence arose the difference ? On looking through the
papers he found two other documents which would enable
them to form a judgment as to the relative proportion of
'Time in different parts of Ireland itself: in the north
,f Ireland, w, 're P ltestants el' " and

.ue _rot -.aiefly prevaiiec in the
south-west, where Romanism principally obtained.—
The return for the year 1839. showed clearly that sin a
mixed population, where there was a large body of Pro.
testants, the number of persons charged with murder was
16 to the million ; while in the strictly Roman Catholic
district the number was 80 to a million. (Sensation.)
Wherefore was this difference ? To what cause must
they attribute it ? In another return for 1813, he found
that the number of persons charged with murder in the
Protestant district was 7 to one million, while in the
Roman Catholic district the number charged amounted
to 50 to the million ! (Great sensation.) Again
he asked—why should there be this difference—not
merely between England and Ireland, but between two
parts of the same realm of Ireland ? How else could they
account for it but by the fact that Ulster was mainly
Protestant, while the rest of Ireland was mainly Roman
Catholic ? (Cheers.) But able statesmen in the house

were accustomed say-that Ireland was an anomaly.
Why, this was the greatest mistake they coulb make.
Ireland was not an anomaly for he was prepared to show
that this state of crime was the normal condition of every
Roman Catholic country in Europe. This was a strong
statement, but he could prove it by the most irrefragable
evidence. (Hear, hear.) During his travels in years
past, on the continent of Europe, he had care-
fully made it his business to collect, at every court,
the retuns made by the respective sovereigns as
to the state of crime in their dominions. Mr. Seymour
then entered into a lengthy analysis of these official docn-
•

provife iwerage
.numbpr of
oitanardtsers,
winereeacash cofounllot;?rs,
:—Belgium,
, nlaB million of ipha-
in a
million of the population ; France, . murdersA
Bavaria, 68; 20; the. two Lombardy, 45
Tus-
cany, 84; Romagna, including the provinces of MaCerat
and Ferrari, the murders were 133 in each million of
the population (great sensation); in Sicily, 90 to the
million ; and Naples, 174 to the million. (Sensation.)
So in Italy, instead of witnessing the salutary influence
of religion in purifying the minds, and soothing the pas,

were there no purgatorial societies in Liverpool ? (Cries
of "Yes, yes.") Was not this then a proof of the wide-
spread belief in the money means of extricating souls
from purgatory ? By disseminating t
religion in Ireland, instead of this (
will aid in uniting her to England
feeling. Oh ! that God would hasten the
present royal when Ireland may be united to En,gla

des of true

isive system, you

a love and Chr

Inds of

ness ancl religious pew(
The rev. gentleman resumed his
protracted cheering.
The Rev. J. A. COMMIS seconded the resolution, and
in doing so, entered at great length into a statistical re
view of the state of crime in Ireland at different times
and contrasted them with the present.
The resolution having been put from the chair, was

at amidst load and

BfNEILB

carried unanimo
The Rev. Dr.
loud and vehement chee
lengthened and eloquent
origin and nature of the

speecu
iestly

its varying attribites ands
and contend

.eived wit

spensations

teaching of the BA
elusion of his adch
esolution,

sincere ad

=bent upon e
iciples headily to join m z

es its deep syn
missionary labours and -their eon%
try; while subjected to a lot

administrators of tritish law in that

Joni CAMPBELL, Esq., seconded the
like the others, was carried una
singing the doxolo

the meetin

Jewisli

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SOUTH -LANCASHIRE ASSIZES

CROWN .COURT.—TuEsi

AUGUST 22,

(Before

Mr. Baron P,

CHARGE OP MURDER AGAINST CAPTAIN HORNER.—
The court sat at nine o'clock, and the charges against
Captain Homer were at once proceeded with. .The in-
quiry this morninc, commenced with the circumstances
connected with the death of Emanuel Gonzalez, otherwise
called Valparaiso, another of the Manila seamen, who
died on_ the homeward voyage of the ship Mangerstein.

The evidence was similar to that given at the Poliie-court,
and on the former trial of the prisoner. The deceased, it
appears, was a stout man when he joined the ship, but,
from deficiency of food and ill-treatment, he became much
emaciated. After the examination of the is itnesses pro-
duced on the previous charge, Dr. Cooper, twenty-four
years surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, gave it as his
opinion that the treatment of Valparaiso was exceedingly
likely to cause death ; but, being pressed, he said that the
cause of deceased's death was extremely doubtful. His
LORDSIIIP informed the jury that it was impossible to
find the prisoner guilty upon such evidence. The pri-
soner was therefore acquitted ; and on evidence being
offered in the case of Henry Foster, the prisoner was ac-
quitted on that charge also, and, at his lordship's direc-
tion, was at once liberated from custody.

SHOOTING A SEAMAN IN THE Doc s.—Joseph Breck,
captain of the American ship Harkaway, was indicted for
shooting Lorenzo Corsen, one of his crew, about half-past
ten o'clock on the morning of Monday, the 10th of July.
The Harkaway was hauling from the Canning Dock into
the Canning Basin, when the steward came aboard in a
state of intoxication, and attempted to force his way into
the poop-cabin. He was pushed out twice by the second
mate and the captain. The crew were engaged in heaving
round the capstan, and the second time the steward was
pushed out he fell against the men, and some of them
rolled down with him. The mate came aft with a belay-
ing pin, and struck at the steward, and a man named.
Kelly, who had come on board with him. The crew in-
terfered to prevent this, and a general affray ensued, in
which the mate was knocked down and jumped upon.
During this state of things the captain came out of the
cabin with a revolver, and fired twice in the direction of
the men who were struggling with the mate on the deck.
The prisoner returned to the cabin and procured another
revolver from a passenger. A police-officer on the quay
called out to the prisoner not to fire again, but he did so,
and wounded Lorenzo Corsen on the back of the neck.
Two police-officers went on board, and order was restored.
The second pistol was taken from the captain, and it was
found to be loaded in one chamber with powder and ball.
After the evidence of several witnesses, his LORDSHIP
told the jury that the prisoner was perfectly justified in
acting as he had done, as he was only protecting his mate,
whose life was in danger. The prisoner was accordingly
acquitted, the judge remarking that it was great oppres-
sion to prosecute him at all.

Cirri]) MURDIIR.—Mary Kay, charwoman, was indicted
for the murder of her infant child, at Bury, on Saturday,
the 3rd of June. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
BURGLARY AT MANCHESTER.—Catherine Jones, semp-
stress, was indicted for having, at Manhester, on the
night of the 6th of July last, feloniously broken into the
dwelling-house of James Brown, Ducie-street, Manchester,
and stolen a quantity of wearing apparel. The jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty, and two previous convictions
of the prisoner having been proved, she was sentenced to
18 months' imprisonment with hard labour.
MAICSLA.UGHTER AT SALFORD.—Hugh Monroe, me-
chanic, was indicted for the manslaughter of Mary Adams,
at Salford, on Monday, the sth June last. The deceased
was an inmate of the workhouse, and on the day in ques-
tion she was going along Muslin-street, Salford, when the
prisoner, who was coming in an opposite direction, ran
against her, and knocked her down. He then passed on,
but afterwards returned and kicked her. When examined
by the surgeon of the workhouse the following morning,
it was found that her thigh was fractured, in consequence
of which she died a few days afterwards. His LORDSHIP
instructed the jury there was no evidence of manslaughter
against the prisoner, and he was acquitted.
BURGLARY Al' RIDCLIPPE.—John Bradley, tailor, and
Susan Forrest, charwoman, were indicted for having, at
Radcliffe, on the night of the 21st of July last, burglari-
ously entered the dwelling-house of Richard Taylor,
engineer, and stolen a bag containing flour. The jury
acquitted Bradley, but found a verdict of guilty against
Forrest, and she was sentenced to twelve calendar months'
imprisonment in the house of correction with hard labour.
The court rose at twenty minutes to eight o'clock.

WEDNESDAY.
MURDER OF A CRIPPLE IN MANCHESTER

Michael Cosgrove (76), a labourer, was indicted for the
murder of Eliza Hamilton, an old cripple, 66 years of age,
at Manchester, on Sunday, the 21st of May. The prisoner
and his wife lived with the deceased and other lodgers at
a house in Mount-street, Manchester. Previous to May
he had been in the infirmary for 14 weeks, suffering from
fever and bronchitis. On the morning in question the
prisoner and his wife were quarrelling in their room, and
the woman cried out " Murder." They were separated,
but the old man got possession of a knife and fork, which
were taken from him. He afterwards went into the
room where the deceased slept. At the time she was
sitting on the bed. He accused her of telling his wife
something, and beat her violently on the head with a bed
rail. The noise attracted attention, and the old man
was secured. Eliza Hamilton died soon after in the infir-
mary. Mr. Monk prosecuted; the prisoner was unde-
fended. The old man had a very imbecile and attenuated
appearance, and was so deaf that one of the turnkeys was
desired to explain the evidence, which, however, was both
clear and direct. He then made an incoherent statement
to the jury, from which all that could be gathered was,
that he wax in au uncozascical state of MIMI when ad-

mitted into gaol. The turnkey, however, who had had
*.ge of I] during his incarceration, denied this.
in summing up, his Lordship told the Jury there was
'--"Pst evidence that the prisoner had struck the
and had caused her death ; and

charge of hit

deceased with violence

luestion was whether he was in a sound
state of mind at the time.—The jury at once found the
prisoner guilty of murder ; and his lordship proceeded to
pass sentence of death upon the prisoner, who was re-
moved, apparently unaffected at the fate which had just
been assigned to him.

that the only

MANSLAUGHTER AT KIRBY, BY A. FA.R3IER.—Henry
Mercer (50) was indicted for the murder of Henry Shack-
lady, his brother-in-law, in Kirby, on the afternoon of
Thursday, the 10th inst. The case was one of a very
painful nature, as it had arisen from the intemperate
habits of the deceased. From the evidence, it appeared
that the prisoner had been subjected to a good deal of
irritating conduct on the part of the deceased, with whom
he had had a drunken fight on the preceding Tuesday,
and had been made the butt of some amount of what is
understood to be practical wit. Under the influence of
the excitement so produced, he had struck the deceased on
the head with a pitchfork, with which he had armed him-
self. The severity of the blow caused concussion of the
brain, and ended in the death of Shacklady. —The jury,
under direction of his lordship, found the prisoner guilty
of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned
for six months with hard labour.

MANSLAUGHTER AT WlGAN.—Daniel Brown, engine-
driver, was charged with causing the death of Joseph Bate,
a collier, at Ince, near Wigan, on the 27th July. It was
prisoner's duty to draw up the tubs from the four-feet
pit. About eleven o'clock on the morning in question, the
deceased and others were proposing to ascend from the
bottom of the pit. The prisoner drew up the tub before
the signal was given, which resulted in the death of the
deceased. The printed rules of the pit stipulated that no
human beings should pass up in the buckets between six
o'clock in the morning and twelve at noon. The prisoner
was acquitted. _ _ _

FRAirD BY A GAIIDNER AT RBDDISII.—Richard Faulk-
ner, gardner, was charged with having, at Reddish, on the
28th of July, 1852. uttered a forged document, by which
he fraudulently obtained six shillings and nine pence.
The prisoner was acquitted.
FICHIT IN A COLLIEEY.—Robert Newton, 23, a collier,
was indicted for wounding John Brockston, at the
llralthem-house Colliery, Pemberton. About half-past
four o'clock on the morning of the 29th of July the prose-
cutor, his brother, an uncle, and the prisoner, were quar-
relling in the pit, and (as alleged by the prosecutor) the
prisoner struck the prosecutor with a pick which he had
in his hand, and inflicted a flesh wound in the hip. The
jury acquitted the prisouer. _ _

STEALING A RlNG.—Alice Latham, factory-worker, was
indicted for stealing a diamond ring. On the 28th of
September last, the prisoner went into the shop of Mr.
John Dean, jeweller, Bradshaw-leigh, and looked at some
rings. On the day following, the ring in question was
missed, and it was subsequently found in the possession of
the prisoner. Verdict, guilty
prisonment with hard labour

Sentence, six months' im-

- GAROTTE RODBERT.—Mary Ann M`Donald, factory-
worker, was indicted for a garotte robbery on the person of
Henry Duckworth, an old farmer, of Oswaldwistle, near
Accrington. On the night of the 3rd inst. the prosecutor
was returning from Accrington fair, when a female came
up to him and solicited him to go with her. He refused,
but she still persisted, and while she was soliciting him a
man came up behind, and placed his hand upon prosecu
tor's mouth and threw him down. Another man also as-
sisted, and prosecutor was rendered almost insensible. A
purse, containing six sovereigns, was taken from his waist-
coat pocket, and some silver from his trousers. Verdict,
guilty. Sentenced to fifteen years' transportation.
ADMINISTERING DRUGS.—George C. Tootal, 20, was ac-
quitted on a charge of administering certain drugs to
Sarah Beard. Prisoner and the young female in question
were both in the service of Mr. Hayward, chemist and
druggist, Deansgate, Manchester,.
SENTENCES.—John Delap, guilty of cutting and wound-
ing Ann Barlow, (with whom he had cohabited,) at Liver-
pool, on the 30th of May, to be transported for 15 years.—
Robert Morton, 14, pleaded guilty to burglary at Pilking-
ton. Six months with hard labour.—Joseph Peverelle, for
perjury at Liverpool, to be kept at penal servitude for five
years.—Frank Wilkinson pleaded guilty to perjury at Old-
ham. Six months' imprisonment with hard labour.—At
twenty minutes past eleven the jury returned, and pro-
nounced a verdict of " not guilty" in the case of Tootal.
The prisoner was acquitted. The court then rose.