be true, and declared I would maintain; he does not dare to say a word about the bulls which he himself has circulated and propagated throughout the whole realm.-(Cheers.) He says,

"With the cant of sanctity on their lips, but oh! where was that charity, which, if I have not,' says the apostle, I am nothing,' (1 Cor. xiii. 2;) they ran about from place to place, coupled together like Sampson's foxes with a firebrand between them, endeavouring to spread through the land the flame of discord wherever they could find materials to enkindle it. But they have fallen-in a cause less glorious than that of Hophni and Phinehas-they have fallen. May the hateful spirit of bigotry and rancour which they have been labouring to propagate fall along with them."

Look at the presumption of a charge like this. He sits down with his partners in their secret conclaves; they revise and set up the canons of persecution of the darkest ages of their iniquitous superstition; they hand these round to all their confederates, as the secret standard of their faith, and the principles on which they are to act, when opportunity presents-spreading their plans of death and desolation through the land; and then when we stand forth to read their own documents, which they are unable to disprove, we are kindling the flames of discord through the country.--(Cheers.) But we did not come forward fairly; we have not attacked them openly. What charges could be more explicit? What attack could be more fair and open? Yet he does not venture to utter a single syllable in direct refutation of one of them.

Now let us read his oath, the confederated oath of himself and his brother bishops, to see how he was bound to meet these charges. He swears "that he detests as unchristian and impious the belief that it is lawful to murder or destroy any person or persons whatsoever, for or under the pretence of their being heretics." He swears he detests "the principle that no faith is to be kept with heretics." He swears that "the Catholics of Ireland, far from claiming any right or title to forfeited lands resulting from any right, title, or interest which their ancestors may have had therein, declare upon oath that they will defend to the utmost of their power the settlement and arrangement of property in this country, as established by the laws now in being." He swears "he disclaims, disavows, and solemnly abjures, any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment for the purpose of substituting a Catholic establishment in its stead;" and he swears he "will not exercise any privilege to which he may be entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion and Protestant government in Ireland." These are the voluntary obligations of himself and his brethren. That is his oath signed by all the bishops. He is here this day charged with enacting his secret laws, and reviving his most detestable bulls, to violate all treaties, to confiscate all the property, to overturn the religion, to subvert the liberties, and attack the lives of the Protestants of

Ireland, and he does not dare, and will not dare, to come forward and answer a single point. (Hear, hear.) He says,

"Fear not,' said the prophet, by the command of God, on another occasion, 'fear not, and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of the smoking firebrands.' (Isaiah, vii. 4.) In allusion to those emphatic expressions, I may, perhaps, be allowed to say, blessed be God, I have no reason to fear them."

Ay, but you have reason to fear them to the very core, for you have been detected, and they will propagate and proclaim the tremendous falsehoods by which you attempt to overwhelm the Protestants, and to impose upon and destroy the poor Roman Catholics of Ireland. (Loud cheers.) Dr. Murray says,

"The furious brand has almost spent its force; its power of doing mischief is nearly extinguished, and now little more remains than the smoking tail trodden down and expiring in the dust, and emitting only those mephitic effusions which are offensive to all who have the slightest perception of decency, of honour, and the inestimable value of truth."

Extinguished! did he say? Nay, he shall find, in the strength of God, that these firebrands, as he calls them, are not extinguished, and shall not be till they kindle the torch of truth, that shall fling its glare into the dark dungeons of his inquisition, and lead out its victims, the Roman Catholics of Ireland, into the light and life of the liberty of the Gospel. (Loud cheers.) He proceeds:

"Our adversaries have been made, by Divine Providence, the instruments of their own defeat. They have with their own hands laid bare the dishonesty of their project. This had been throughout sufficiently apparent to every unprejudiced observer; but the late exhibition at Exeter Hall lifted up the mask, and must have made manifest to even the most confiding Protestants the fraudulent arts which were practised to delude them into undeserved hostility against their Catholic fellow-subjects. May that momentary feeling of unkindness towards us, which calumnious statements, too hastily credited, may have awakened, be succeeded by those better sentiments of Christian charity which religion teaches, and without which religion is but a name."

How does Dr. Murray betray himself in this. The documents brought forward in Exeter Hall were all before him. He had not the tact to profit by O'Connell's fate, but he comes forward here to attack the fictitious bulls, which created really no ill will against him, while the real documents on which the weighty charge is laid, he dare not make the least attempt to meet, or even to notice. He proceeds:

"But is it not true that I approved of the persecuting notes attached to the edition of the Bible published in Cork by M.Namara? No, I never approved of those notes, nor had I any thing whatever to do with that publication. The publisher it is true, thought proper to introduce my humble name into his subscription list, but he did so without my authority and without my knowledge, and I never saw a copy of his book, nor became aware of the liberty he had taken with my name, until my attention was drawn to the circumstance a few months ago, in consequence of a fanatic meeting which was held in Scotland. I immediately contradicted, in a published letter, the statement that I had sanctioned this edition of M.Namara, and yet the calumny is still circulated with as much audacity as if it were (not) known to be destitute of any foundation in fact."

It is not possible here, at this time, to go through all the proofs of the case of this Bible; it is enough to say, that Dr. Murray has been challenged to refute one point of it, which to this day he has never attempted to do. I shall just afford this meeting ocular demonstration of a few facts. Here is the book itself; here are the names of the subscribers, among whom are the Roman Catholic primates of the day, Dr. Troy and Dr. Murray, with nine other bishops. Here are the names of bishops and priests at the head of the lists of subscribers in all the towns where there were such subscribers in Ireland. Here is a cover of one of the copies of the Bible produced at Exeter Hall, on which, as you see, is the list of the bishops who patronised the work in which Dr. Murray's name stands in its place among the rest. Here are their names, (Mr. M'Ghee here read the list of names on the cover,) and on this cover it is stated that these notes are the interpretation of the Church, which is, they say, our true and infallible guide in leading us to salvation. These are some of the facts before your own eyes, while Dr. Murray never heard of the book, and never saw a copy. (Hear, hear.)

But I have here another document, which, as it has not yet been brought before the public, will be considered interesting, and it throws. some light upon the facts and on Dr. Murray's veracity. Here is a book called The Catholic Penny Magazine; it is stereotyped and sold in the shop which is under the patronage of all the Romish bishops in Ireland. And here is a document dated in September, 1834, before any notice had been taken of M'Namara's Bible, to which I beg to direct your particular attention. It is as follows:

"A religious fanatic in Wicklow, (meaning me,) who challenges all the popish bishops and priests to meet him in controversy, although he could not meet a simple Catholic layman, who demanded proof of his ordinary or extraordinary commission from Christ or his apostles to preach his Gospel, commences by showing his utter incapability to tell the plainest truth, in asserting that the popish priests lock up the Scriptures, whilst he knows, or ought to have known, that those very priests, for the last forty years, notwithstanding all the privations of that period, have published about thirty editions of the Scriptures, by Reilly, Cross, Wogan, Haydock, M NAMARA, (Hear, hear,) Pickering, Christie, Coyne, Nuttle, Fisher, Keating, Booker, Smith," &c. &c.

Now, let me request you to observe, that this very Bible is actually as you see boasted of among those circulated by the Romish hierarchy; boasted of in Dr. Murray's own diocese, his own city; the very shop, and in the very publication, under the express and open patronage of himself and his brother bishops, and yet he never saw or heard of the book, till it was mentioned this year at a fanatic meeting in Scotland. (Loud cheers.) He then enters upon the subject of Dens's Theology thus:

"But did I not, at least, direct the publication of the Theology of Dens? No; the assertion is, in like manner, at variance with the fact. I never even suggested the publication of that work, nor did I use any kind of influence with the publisher to induce him to embark his property in that undertaking. That respectable and enterprising individual called on me to express a wish to reprint that work entirely at his own risk. Had I opposed his project, he would, I am convinced, have abandoned it; but as the work contains much useful matter, treated concisely and perspicuously; as it is accurate, as far as regards matters of faith; and as the individual opinions of the author, resting as they do entirely on the arguments which he adduces to support them, are, as I conceive, wholly free, at the present day, from danger to educated men, for whom only the publication was intended, I could see no reason why I should interfere with the publisher's fair prospect of gain, and I therefore at once assented. In the progress of the work he called on me a second time to say that there was an appendix to another highly useful work, and that if this appendix were added, in the shape of an eighth volume, to his publication, it would in his opinion, much increace its value. This second work being in much repute, I again assented to his proposal. I beg now to state that, had I directed the publication of Dens, (which, however, I have not,) I know of no valid reason why I should be ashamed to avow it. I consider it, as a whole, to be a very useful production; and as to the persecuting opinions which the author advocates-opinions now exploded almost every where by Catholics-they could not possibly be entertained by you, for you have solemnly disavowed them upon oath. Although, therefore, I did not cause the publication of that work, I have now no hesitation in recommending it as a useful summary to your attentive perusal, convinced that, trained as you have been to theological discussions, you are well qualified to appreciate the value of the arguments which the author adduces in support of his opinions, and, bound as you are by the sacred obligation of an oath, that you do, as you have solemnly sworn, reject and abhor the opinion that it is lawful to injure any individual whomsoever, on account of his religious belief."

Here, again, Dr. Murray brings before us this respectable and enterprising individual, Richard Coyne, the bookseller. The Doctor informs us, "that he did not use any kind of influence with him to induce him to embark his property in that undertaking." Nevertheless, I believe we shall all agree that Coyne, like O'Connell on another occasion, had good reasons for pronouncing the matter to be "a safe speculation." (Laughter.) And he tells us honestly himself the reason of the undertaking was, that the book had been selected by all the bishops as the best guide for their priests, and that Dr. Murray and his provincial bishops had adopted it as the conference-book for the province of Leinster. Dr. Murray says, that he called on him to express a desire to reprint it at his own risk, and adds that had he opposed the project, Coyne would have immediately abandoned it; therefore, he admits it was published with his approbation. (Cheers.) But I have a document on Dens's Theology, that has fallen into my hands since the last meeting at Exeter Hall, which throws no ordinary light on the subject of that book, and is of vast importance as to the state of Ireland.

A friend asked me some months ago if I had seen an advertisement as to the first edition of Dens, which he told me he understood was appended to a certain book. I procured after some trouble some

copies of that book; but if the advertisement had ever been in it, it was not so when I got it. However, in a book which was purchased at the auction of that very priest whom Dr. Troy appointed to revise the notes of the Rhemish Testament, Mr. Walsh, I found the identical advertisement in question; it is a copy of Coyne's catalogue for 1814, and these are the words:

"A Catalogue for 1814, of Catholic Books, published by R. Coyne, 16, Parliamentstreet, (near Essex-bridge.)

"Dens's Complete Body of Theology, in seven vols., 12mo., price 31. This comprehensive work is now read in the colleges of Carlow, Waterford, Limerick, Cork, and Cove. It has been adopted by the Catholic bishops, as the safest and best work extant, and from which the respective conference of each diocese is taken."

Here it appears that this work has been read in every popish college in Ireland as a class-book, except Maynooth; and though we know it was read there, it was not openly adopted, because Maynooth is open. to the visitation and inspection of Protestants, and supported by the British government, and therefore Mr. Woods might be perfectly correct in stating that it was rejected there as an avowed class-book ; but while we could not authoritatively prove its adoption in the college, and while, as one excuse for its iniquity, they pretended it was only read by priests, we now can demonstrate, on the best authorityeven that of the man who supplied the book—that it was read through all the colleges in the south of Ireland; and while we have been talking of it as a conference-book for the province of Leinster, it now appears that it has been a conference-book for all the priests through the length and breadth of Ireland. (Loud and continued cheers.)

But what was the gravamen of the charge that has been lately made, and far the heaviest of all that have been advanced against Dr. Murray? It is this-that he has embodied the principles, which he stated to Lord Melbourne as the private opinions of Dens, into canon law; that he has introduced not only the principles of Dens's Theology, but far worse principles, into a new book-an additional volume never before published-a volume containing principles, which, on his own oath, appear to be binding on all the Roman Catholics of Ireland.

And now while every charge was distinctly and specifically made, what is the notice that Dr. Murray takes of this book in his letter to his clergy? He says:

"In the progress of the work he called on me a second time to say that there was an appendix to another highly useful work, and that if this appendix were added, in the shape of an eighth volume, to his publication, it would much increase its value. This second work, being in much repute, I again assented to his proposal."

Now I entreat you to hear his own story of this volume-a volume of the infallible canon law of his infallible church, collected from