The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-07-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION.-011 Tuesday evening a great Protestant meeting was held in the Rotiti!do Gardens, Dublin, to commenvrate the Battle of the Boyne. A platform was erected which accommodated a vast num.  ber of persons. There was a very large attendance, and several banners and bulges appropriate to the ocebsion were displayed in the gardens and by the audience. When night approached, the lamps as usual were lighted, and the proceedings were protracted to a late hour. A. band was engaged to render the proceedings more effective, and played several national and Protestant airs during the evening. The meeting was addressed in very spirited speeches by the Chairman, the Rev. R. H. M. Eyre, Mr. Ferrand, Rev. T. D. Gregg, and others. During the progress, aid after they had separated, the persons forming the meeting were hooted by a mostunruly mob outside, who did all in their power to create a breach of the peace, happily, we believe, without effect, the Orangemen having been requested to abstain from collision with any other party. NEW MISSIONARY COLLEGE —At the last meeting of the Church Missionary Society the Rev. Hugh M'Neile suggested the expediency of forming, on a large scale, a college for training young men for missionary service. A movement has been already made with this object in view with the sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who has appo'nted a provisional committee. eonsisring, gst others, of the Bishop of Lichfield, Bishop Cole Dr. Lvall, Dr. Jelf, &c. A  ite in the rnetrovolitical city of Canterbury, (the ruins of the ancient Abbey of St A none. ;..P 1 1. 0 1,...1... r  tim gm in a Jay memner of the Church, been clovotod to this design. And the sums derived from the limited applications of a single individual— independently of the site, and the assurance from its munificent donor of yet further assistance towards, the erection of the buildings, in addition to a large donation to the general fund—alieady amount to £39,003. It is proposed to commence immediately the principal quadrangle of the college, which includes the 'hapel, hall, library, and apartments for fifty students, with the requisite accommodation for the officers and servants of the establishment. The arrangement* • f the building will be so constructed as to admit of quent enlargement.  - WHAT DOES RIBBONISM MEAN?—The truth is at last out. V: know the object, or one of them at least, why the r. otestant gentry of Ireland are one by one slaughtered by the confederacy of ruffians who, on the authority of no less a personage than Father Tom Maguire, have earned for Ireland, instead of her favourite designation of "the Isle of Saints," the more appropriate one of " the Island of A ssassins." A meeting of the nobility, gentry, the clergy of all persuasion., and the yeomanry of the county of Cavan, was held on Wednesday last in the town of Cavan, to consider the awful state of the county, as exemplified in the recent murder of Mr. Geo. G. Bell, and to devise means to put down the infamous system of assassination practised throughout the district by the Ribbon Societies. What was the response of the mass of the meeting to the entreaties with which they were urged to discountenance this system and to arrest its perpetrators whenever they could be met with? What was their recipe for procuring the restoration of peace and tranquility ? " Abatement of rents!" To one speaker the reply was " don't give us resolutions, but allow the rents to be lowered," whilst another speaker more plainly declared, " the rents are too high ; lower them and all will be right 1' Here then is the secret of such murders as those of Lord Norbury, Mr. Bell, and a hundred others. Assassination is to go on ; Ribbonism is to select its victims at its pleasure ; until the Protestant landowners of Ireland consent to have their rent rolls revised and their property virtually rejected, or, more properly, confiscated, by the bloodthirsty gangs who compose its secret tribunals! '• Reduce your rents—resign half your incomes—and then all will be right ;' you may, perhaps, be permitted to walk from church to fair without the risk of a bludgeon or the assassin'. pistol !" A pleasant prospect for the Protestant landowners and yeomanry of Ireland, truly ! rhie is Ribbonietri,