The Sun. — 1844-11-05 (London, England)

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1844.  We had hoped that the McGimes and the O'SuLLIVANS, and the other rampant Protestant bigots who about five or six years since rendered themselves so notorious by their virulent philippics against Catholicism, were nearly if not quite extinct; but, unfortunately, we find that this is not the case; the breed still flourishes, as indeed might have been expected, for what is so tenacious of life as fanaticism ? You imagine it defunct, when, 10, at the very moment you are hugging yourself in the pleasing conviction that it has received the coup de grace, you discover to your confusion that the "snake is scotched not killed," and that it is ready to start up again as brisk and mis • chievous as ever ! These reflections occurred to us as we glanced over a report of the " Great Protestant Meeting"—as one of our morning Contemporaries calls it—which took place yesterday at Exeter Hall. At this meeting two parsons, rejoicing in the names of TIIELWALL and STOWELL, vied with each other in the fierce intolerance of their declarations against Catholicism, and all who did not hold that creed in the most unmitigated abhorrence. Parson THELWALL, who commenced the proceedings, talked the customary amount of nonsense about the Gunpowder Plot, which, he said, proved that " the principles of Popery involved disloyalty, rebellion, and treason against a Protestant Sovereign and Government," and added, in aspirit of the most rancorous bigotry, that " whatever professions Romanists ini.4ht make of love and friendship, the unchanged and unchangeable principles of the Church of Rome bound them to persecute and murder Protestants, whenever they had the opportunity." How dare the man talk in this way of our Catholic fellow. countrymen ! How dare he charge them with being bound by the articles of their faith to become wholesale persecutors and murderers ! Never was there a more audacious • calumny yet uttered in a public assembly ! Parson STOWELL, resolved not to be behind his brother parson in point of uncharitableness, inveighed in terms of indignant contempt against "the crosses, banners, and similar mummery," which he had recently beheld in a Roman Catholic procession at Manchester, and deepening in his tone as be proceeded, went on to observe that " there were at this very time combinations of Irishmen in London ready to come forward, whenever occasion should serve, against the constitution and liberties of England." The speech of this remarkable parson was in every respect an extraordinary one. The first half of it was in flat contradiction to the other half. The one neutralised the effect of the other. It began with a Lamentation—it concluded with a Jubilate. At its commencement the speaker was inexpressibly afflicted at the idea of the and impediments to which the Protestant Association was subjected. Everything went wrong with g this amiable fraternity. It had lost many of its ea friends—it was discouraged by the Legislature--regarded garded with apathy by " runny of the clergy ":and had the mortification of hearing that the grant to Maynooth was to be doubled next session. But this was not the worst. Rome was beginning to bestir herself, and had recently caused to be erected, GOD