THE TRIAL OF ANTICHRIST. (Continued from our last.) Father Paul, sworn. Q. As you wrote the History of the Council of Trent, will you relate to the court what you know of the prisoner; and some of the proceedings of that rebellious assembly? without any conditions whatever. I was never who suffered by fire during the reign of Queen William Tindal, sworn. This witness swore that he was born in Wales; that he wished to translate the Bible into the English tongue, but was prevented in England; that he went over to Germany, and there translated first the New, and afterwards the Old Testament, which, being sent over to England, produced much A. The Council of Trent was first summoned by good; that, in consequence of his publishing the the prisoner under the name of Paul III. It first word of God, the prisoner and his hireling bishops met on the 13th of December 1545, and continued thirsted for his blood; that, during the reign of about eighteen years. Previous to the opening of Henry VIII., one Henry Philips was sent to seize it, the prisoner proclaimed a jubilee at Rome, pro-him at Antwerp; that he was imprisoned, tried, mising pardon of all sins to those who prayed for and condemned; and that in the year 1536, he the council, confessed their sins, went in procession, was chained to a stake at Filford, and burnt to and fasted three days. Previous to the meeting death. of this council, the prisoner, by his base conduct, had caused many in Germany and other parts of Europe to reject his authority. By the name of Urban II. about the year 1100, he first set up the money-making trade of vending indulgences ;-and by the name of Leo X. in 1517, he obtained immense sums of money from different parts of Europe. The pardon-mongers collected immense sums from every nation to which they were sent, as appears by one Friar Sampson, who collected 120,000 crowns among the Swiss only. The prisoner created his illegitimate son, Peter Aloisius, Duke of Parma and Placentia, and a son of his a Cardinal at the age of fourteen. A son of his illegitimate daughter, Constanza, was also made a Cardinal; and so base was his conduct, that he was detested by every conscientious and honest man. His illegitimate son, Peter, was assassinated in his own palace two years afterwards. In the year 1549, he sent Cardinal Pole as his Legate, into England, in order to restore Great Britain to his authority, bloody Queen Many having now ascended the throne. She was a great favourite with the prisoner, and gratified his appetite for blood, by burning, within one year, 176 persons of quality, and many others of inferior rank, who would not bow the knee to this Papal Baal. To please him she also dug up bodies out of their graves after being buried four years. He told the people of England, "that they could not hope that St. Peter would open heaven unto them so long as they usurped his goods upon earth;" and thus duped them out of a great deal of money. He also created a number of Cardinals, contrary to his most solemn oath; and when reminded of it in the conclave, he declared it to be heresy to suppose that the Pope could be bound or bind himself. Notwithstanding the infamous conduct of the Fathers, who composed the Council of Trent,(a) and his own participation in their immorality, he presumed to declare that the council was guided by the Holy Ghost, so that a blasphemous proverb was generally used, "that the Council of Trent was guided by the Holy Ghost, sent hither from time to time in a cloak-bag from Rome." He decreed that he himself was the Vicar of Christ-that his church was the only true church-and pronounced authoritatively in favour of the doctrine of transubstantiation -merit of good works-purgatory-invocation of saints-veneration of images-seven sacraments; and established his power to grant indulgences, to anathematize heretics, and to lay a prohibition on the use of the Scriptures. And it was also decided that every thing decreed and declared by the Council of Trent should be believed. He also prohibited, by the name of Pope Pius IV., the annotations on the New Testament, written by Erasmus, and which he had sanctioned by the name of Leo X. His inquisitors also made out a list of books, to be condemned, with their authors; and even prohibited all books, whether good or bad, printed by sixtytwo authors, from being read. (b) The prisoner was known by five different appellations during the time the Council sat. Q. Do you know how many Protestants the prisoner put to death in the Netherlands? A. Yes; in a very short time he hanged, burned, buried alive, and beheaded 50,000. Cross-examined by Mr. Equivocator. Q. Are you not a priest? A. I am; but it was well known that I was never fully reconciled to his authority. Q. On your oath, were you promised pardon on consideration of giving evidence against the prisoner at the bar? A. I have given my testimony voluntarily, and Thomas Benett, schoolmaster of Exeter, sworn. Q. Did not the prisoner attempt to kill you in the reign of Henry VIII. ? A. He did. I wrote some papers, which I placed on the doors of the cathedral and other churches, which stated that "the Pope is Antichrist, and we ought to worship God only, and no saint." This gave great offence to the priests under the prisoner's government; and they, by his authority, proceeded to curse the author with bell, book, and candle. The priest, who was to pronounce the curse, being in the pulpit, clothed in white, and the friars and monks standing about him, a cross was held up with candles fixed on it, when he pronounced the following words: "By the authority of God the Father Almighty, and the blessed Virgin Mary, (c) of St. Peter and St. Paul, and of the holy saints, we excommunicate, we utterly curse and bann, commit and deliver to the devil of hell, him or her, whomsoever he or she be, that have in spite of God, and of St. Peter, whose church this is, in spite of all holy saints, and in spite of our most holy father the Pope, God's Vicar here on earth, and in spite of the reverend father in God, John, our diocesan, and the worshipful canons, masters, priests, and clerks, which serve God daily in this cathedral church, fixed up with wax such cursed and heretical bills, full of blasphemy, upon the door of this and other holy churches within this city. "Excommunicate be he, she, or they plenarily, and delivered over to the devil, as perpetual malefactors and schismatics. Accursed they be, and given body and soul to the devil. Cursed be they, he or she, in cities and towns, in fields and ways, in houses and out of houses, and all other places, standing, lying, or rising, walking, running, waking, sleeping, eating, drinking, and whatsoever thing they do besides. "We separate them, him, or her, from the threshold, and from all the good prayers of the church, from the participation of the holy mass, from all sacraments, chapels, and altars, from holy bread and holy water, from all the merits of God's priests and religious men, and from all their cloisters, from all their pardons, privileges, grants, and immunities, which all the holy Fathers, Popes of Rome, have granted to them. And we give them over utterly to the power of the devil, and let us quench their souls, if they be dead, this night, in the pains of hell-fire, as this candle is now quenched and put out." And with that he put out one of the candles. "And let us pray to God, if they be alive, that their eyes may be put out, as this candle-light is." Here he put out another candle. "Let us pray to God and to our Lady, and to St. Peter and St. Paul, and all holy saints, that all the senses of their bodies may fail them, and that they may have no feeling, as now the light of this candle is gone;" putting out the third candle, "except they, he, or she come openly now and confess their blasphemy, and by repentance (as in them shall lie) make sa tisfaction unto God and our Lady, St. Peter, and the worshipful company of the Cathedral Church." A. I was; Queen Mary was employed by the prisoner as his common executioner in England, and she made a greater proficiency in kindling fires, to burn her Protestant subjects, than any other "worker of iniquity" before her time. Q. In what year did she begin to reign? A. In the year 1533; on the death of Edward VI. Lady Jane Grey had been proclaimed, as suc cessor to the crown, agreeable to the request of Edward; but Mary, who by intrigue and flattery first drew the county of Norfolk to support her claim, managed to get possession of the throne. She then cut off the head of Lady Jane and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley. Having established herself on the throne, Cardinal Pole was restored, and introduced to both Houses of Parliament as the Pope's legate, and addressed them upon the occasion. The Parliament soon after drew up a Petition, acknowledging their sorrow for having rejected the prisoner's authority, requesting to be pardoned for their offences, and to be restored into the bosom of the Church of Rome. 66 This petition being delivered to the Cardinal, he gave them absolution in the following words :We, by the apostolic authority given unto us by the most holy Lord, Pope Julius III., Christ's vicegerent on earth, do absolve and deliver you and every of you, with the whole realm and dominions thereof, from all heresy and schism, and from all judgments, censures, and pains, for that curse incurred: and also we do restore you again to the unity of our mother the holy Church." Q. Were you not at one time one of his priests ? A. I was; I was educated at Cambridge, but being chosen chaplain to the factory at Antwerp, I became acquainted with Tindal and Coverdale, who were engaged in translating the Bible. While I was assisting them in this work, I was led, through their instrumentality, to see the vile conduct of the prisoner, and the consequence was that I rejected his authority. After this I married, and travelled into Saxony, and preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ for some years. Upon the accession of King Edward VI. I came over to England, and was appointed a Prebendary of St. Paul's. On the restoration of Popery when Mary came to the throne, a complaint having been made that I preached the doctrines of the Reformation, I was cited before the prisoner's bishops, and condemned as a heretic. During my confinement I drew up an answer to the charges brought against me, and vindicated the doctrines of the atonement and Justification by the imputed righteousness of Christ. After undergoing the ceremony of degradation, I was conducted to the flames in Smithfield. My wife, with her ten children, joined with me in requesting that we might be allowed to take leave of each other before I was chained to the stake, but so little of the milk of human kindness did my enemies possess, that our united request was brutally refused. I was chained to the stake, and the flames were kindled around me, which continued to burn till I was delivered out of their sight by my gracious Sovereign :-This took place in the year 1553. Lawrence Saunders, William Pigot, Stephen Knight, Thomas Tompkins, Thomas Hawkes, John Lawrence, and William Hunter, being sworn, said that they were all chained to separate stakes and burnt by order of the prisoner. Robert Farrar, Bishop of St. David's, and Rawlins White, a fisherman, both of Wales, were next examined. They proved that they suffered in like manner, in the year 1555, by the prisoner's orders. con Rowland Tayler, Vicar of Hadleigh, in Suffolk, being examined, affirmed, that he was cited before the Bishop of Winchester, whose name was Stephen Gardiner, and who next to Bonner was one of the prisoner's most active and cruel executioners; that he was sent up to London to the Queen's bench prison, and after repeated examinations, was demned to be burnt as a heretic; that as he entered Hadleigh, the streets were lined with his old parishioners who manifested their sorrow on his account; that at Oldham-common, (d) the place of execution, he addressed the spectators in the following words :-"I have taught you nothing but God's holy word, and am come hither to seal with my blood those doctrinces of the Gospel I have delivered unto you." (a) Trent was the rendezvous for females of the most abandoned character, from every quarter, during the sitting of the Q. Were you not the first person in England council. THROPIST." (b) Vide The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, exhibited | the hope that your kindly feelings will be interested | PROTESTANT STATESMAN, AND CHRISTIAN PHILANin an Account of her Damnatory Catalogues, or Indexes, both Prohibitory and Expurgatory. By the Rev. Joseph Mendham. Second edition, 1832. This is a work of considerable merit, and clearly points out the nature of these two indexes; the one forbidding certain books and authors; the other weeding out, or altering passages or expressions in books, not altogether forbidden. "Their Indices Expurgatorii are very good common-place books and repertories, by the help of which we may presently find what any author (by them censured) has against them. It is but our going to their index, and by it we are directed to the book, chapter, and line, where anything is spoken against any superstition or error of Rome: so that he who has the Indices (unless idle or ignorant) cannot want testimonies against Rome."—Genuine Remains of Bishop Barlow. London, 1693, pp. 70, 71. to promote and preserve a union between us and our much-esteemed minister, which has for so long a period contributed to our best advantage. With all due respect and deference, and with all earnestness, memorialists solicit your Grace's favour. able answer to this their application. And, as in duty bound, will ever pray. The prayer of the memorialists has not been complied with, and Mr. Scott has consequently issued his valedictory address to those amongst whom he had so long laboured. We wish we had room to The Roman Index of so recent a date as 1704 has the following insert it. entry: Libri omnes (not Galileo only) docentes mobilitatem terræ et immobilitatem solis." Such is the declaration put forth early in the eighteenth century by INFALLIBLE AUTHO RITY!!! (c) It is a striking feature in Romanism, that the Virgin Mary takes the lead among "the lords many and gods many,' with which that system abounds. It was so in former days;it is so at the present moment. And travellers on the Continent, where Popery appears in all its purity, and shines with meridian splendour, have observed that Mary is appealed to oftener than the God who created, or the Saviour who redeemed her, and that her patronage is sought as paramount to the protection of Deity itself! The Church of Canterbury, before the dissolution of abbies, had three shrines, the first for the Virgin, the second for Thomas å Becket, the third for Christ!!! TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers are requested to inform the publisher when any irregularity occurs in the transmission of their copies, as arrangements have been made at the office for the prompt and regular delivery of our periodical. Our London subscribers should receive their The following is a list of the yearly offerings to each, taken out copies the day of publication, and our country sub of the old ledger-book: To the Virgin Mary To Thomas à Becket To Christ To the Virgin Mary To Thomas à Becket To Christ .. £. s. d. 63 5 6 832 12 3 32 2 4 18 954 6 3 0 0 0 "At Ariceia, the worship of Diana, once the tutelary goddess of this place, is now superseded by that of the Virgin. Over the door of the church, dedicated to her, is that inscription in Latin, so shocking to the eye of a Protestant-Sacred to Mary, equal to God the Father! This inscription is also seen on one of the churches in the Corso at Rome, and on many others in Italy."— Three Years in Italy, 1828. (d) There is an old stone on Oldham-common, which marks the spot where Tayler suffered, and bears the following inscription:1555, D. Tayler in defending that was good at this plas left his blode." (To be continued.) MEMORIAL TO HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN, FROM THE PROTESTANT PARISHIONERS OF ST. AUDOEN'S, DUBLIN. That your memorialists are aware that the promotion of their late Prebendary of St. Audoen's will create a vacancy in the incumbency of their parish church; and they beg leave most respectfully to solicit at your Grace's hands, that your Grace may be pleased to confer the benefice upon the present highly-respected, laborious, and eminently useful curate of the parish, the Rev. Thomas Scott. That that Rev. Gentleman has now been above thirteen years in the curacy, and nearly fifteen years a licensed curate in the diocese-That upon his coming to the parish with the Rev. Charles Strong, there was but one boys' school; that now there are three additional schools, a girls' school, infants' school, and Sunday-school, all well attended-That there was no evening service at seven o'clock That there is now, and has been for the last thirteen years That there were scarcely any communicants when they came to the parish, and that it is now not uncommon to have between fifty and a hundred; and that on many occasions during that time the church has been filled to overflowing. And that during that whole period his labours have been incessant; that in visiting the people, and seeking to advance their interests, temporal and eternal-that in promoting the education of the children, and in preaching of the Gospel, publicly and from house to house-that, in a word, in furthering, in every way, publicly and privately, the cause of his Master and of the Church, he has not only not spared himself, but has actually spent his strength, and, as we have some reason to think, for the present, much exhausted his constitutional powers-That, while his services to the Church have been eminent, his character as a Christian and a clergyman has not only been above reproach, but in a high degree exemplary and admirable. That, on these premises, we very confidently appeal to your Grace, in favour of our highlyesteemed pastor, conceiving that we thus discharge towards him a duty which gratitude, affection, and respect equally demand of us. 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It will then assume the name of "THE New-street, London, at his Printing-office at the same place, and published by WILLIAM ADOLPHUS MACKNIGHT, of No. 6, Dorisstreet East, Lambeth, Surrey, at THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR Office, No. 3, Shoe-lane, London, where all communications (pre-paid) and advertisements are received.-London, August 9, 1847. No. XX.] "THE CHURCH OF ROME MAY FLOURISH IN THE COUNTRY WHICH IT RUINS." THE UNIVERSITY ELECTIONS. The University elections have terminated. At Oxford Mr. Gladstone has been preferred to Mr. Round; and at Cambridge, Mr. Goulburn to Lord Feilding. When the disparity of the candidates, in point of official position and past services, is considered, we can hardly wonder at this. Had it not been for the Protestant question the Universities might have remained quite satisfied to be represented by men who had attained the distinguished positions held respectively by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Goulburn. The attempt made has failed ;-has failed partially, not altogether. Though neither Mr. Round nor Lord Feilding are returned, yet the strong manifestation of Protestant energy and feeling may have a salutary effect, and induce parties to pause, and instead of making further concessions to Popery, to retrieve the past, and resolve to uphold what yet remains of the Protestant character of the constitution. DECLARATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONTRASTED WITH THAT Published on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1847. carried in the Procession, from off the Altar, and deliver it to the Archbishop, who with the same Archbishops and Bishops as before, going along with him, shall present it to the Queen, first saying these words to her: Our Gracious Queen; we present you with this Book, the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is Wisdom; this is the Royal Law; these are the lively Oracles of God. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this Book; that keep, and do, the things contained in it. For these are the Words of Eternal Life, able to of the holy Fathers, and contrary to the wellknown decree of the Council of Trent, is tending all its strength, and by every means to translate the Bible in the vulgar languages of all nations, or rather to pervert it. Whence it is greatly to be feared lest as in some versions already known, so also in others, by a perverse interpretation, instead of the Gospel of Christ it should become the Gospel of man, or what is worse, the gospel of the Devil. "We, also, venerable brethren, in conformity with our apostolic duty, exhort you to turn away [PRICE 3d. recommends to the observance of the faithful, a rule of the Congregation of the Index, which prohibits the perusal of the sacred Scriptures in the vulgar tongue, without the sanction of the competent authorities. His Holiness wisely remarks, that more evil than good is found to result from the indiscriminate perusal of them, on account of the rashness of men. In this sentiment of our Head and Chief we fully concur." RESULTS OF ELECTIONS. The results of the general election afford a very wide scope for speculation,-more than usually sc. Candidates have been returned, or rejected, in many localities, quite contrary to the expectation of their friends, their opponents, or themselves. But it is not with reference to individual cases OF THE CHURCH OF ROME, ON THE make you wise and happy your flock, by all means, that we here enter upon the subject. We desire USE OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. There is, perhaps, no instance in which the difference between the Protestant and Romish mode of treating the Scriptures appears more striking than in the following. England, in the solemn act of her Coronation Service, places the written word of truth in the hands of the Sovereign, as containing the principles by which the ruled and the rulers are alike to regulate their conduct. Such is one of the first acts of national recognition of the supremacy of Scripture. The Church and the nation alike offer homage therein to Him, who has vouchsafed that written revelation of his will to man. In the grand State document issued by the Pope on his accession to the Pontificate, the Bible in the vulgar tongue is denounced, and the people exhorted to turn aside from it. From the Coronation Serrice of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. 28th June, 1838. THE FOLLOWING OCCURS ON THE PRESENTING Then shall the Dean of Westminster take the Holy Bible, which was From the Encyclical Let ter of Pope Leo XII., May, 1824. "You are not ignorant, venerable brethren, that a Society, commonly called the Bible Society, is boldlystalking throughout the world, which, contemning the traditions in this world, nay, wise unto salvation, and so happy, for evermore, through faith which is in Christ Jesus; to whom be Glory for ever. Amen. tures." from these poisonous pas The Scriptures translated in the vulgar tongue. "Reprove, beseech, be instant in season and out of season, in all patience and doctrine, that the faithful entrust. ed to you (adhering strictly to the rules of our congregation of the Index), be persuaded that if the sacred Scriptures be everywhere indiscriminately published, more evil than advantage will arise thence, on account of the rashness of men." This Bull of the Pope was published in Ireland, along with Pastoral Instructions from the Irish Roman Catholic bishops. An extract from their Pastoral Instructions is as follows: "Our Holy Father rather to regard it in a general view, and to see what is likely to be the constituency of the House of Commons ;-what the position of its various parties;-what the policy of its leaders, especially as to Protestantism and Popery. The Britannia of Saturday gives the following analysis :— "Up to the time of our going to press intelligence had been received of the return of 458 members to serve in the new Parliament. Of this number 212 were Conservatives, and 246 Liberals. Of the 200 returns yet to come in it may be stated that 120 were in the last Parliament Conservatives, and 80 Liberals. The latter may probably gain ten or fifteen votes. In any case it is certain that parties in the new Parliament will be pretty evenly balanced, supposing that the Peel section should not go over to the Ministerial ranks. The returns received are thus made up : Cities and boroughs of England and Wales :Liberals 199 ensuring perseverance to their hostility, that they Hitherto we find the Liberals have gained Members the alert, that they may at least present, by their in :: 6 34 "In the representation of Scotland and Ireland little change has taken place to affect the strength of parties. When the returns are complete, it is doubtful if the loss or gain on either side will amount to half a dozen. In Ireland the elections turn on Repeal, and in Scotland on the Free Church." We are unable to see the accuracy of this analysis, and the data upon which it proceeds. The triumph of either party may consist with the betrayal of Protestant interests, and we are, therefore, more anxious to see a Protestant party, based upon principle, rising from the fragments which are scattered around us. Another weekly paper (the John Bull) has a three-fold sub-division, but the Protestant party does not form one of them. It observes, united influence, a counterbalance to such con- FUNERAL OF MR. O'CONNELL. DUBLIN, AUG. 5.-To-day the mortal remains of the Great Agitator of Ireland were consigned to the grave, and a vault in the cemetery of Glassnevin now encloses the body of the man whose political career has for so many years excited the attention of all Europe. Perhaps no funeral was ever more numerously attended, in Ireland at least, than that of Mr. O'Connell was to-day, for at the lowest computation not less than 50,000 persons left their homes to follow in the funeral train, besides twice as many more who thronged the windows and roofs of the houses in the route which was pursued by the procession. Some persons, and principally those who differed from the political creed of the deceased, attended from a respect to the memory of a great and illustrious countryman; but amongst those of this class there were but few persons of note or POPERY IN THE ARMY.-The Government has distinction. The remainder, who formed the great accepted the terms of the Roman Catholics. Popish mass of the people-those whose hearts he had priests are in future to be paid to teach our soldiers gained over, and by whose aid he had raised him the next war in Europe would be one of religion.-these, the middle and lower classes of the Irish treason. The French monarch well observed, that self to power-the stepping stones of his greatness We furnish him with the means of making it such, people, attended him to the grave with hearts over. and of enlisting our own soldiers to act against our-flowing, and vieing with each other in a sad species selves. The very men out of whose chapels, when of enthusiasm in paying homage to the memory of they preach in English, officers are frequently their beloved leader. obliged to march their troops, are now to be admitted as paid confessors, directors, and advisers of their consciences. The Church of England enjoys no such privileges. The Established and Free Kirks of Scotland, which have thousands of its "The election returns up to Thursday night, ex- children in our ranks, and the 42d, 72d, 79th, 92d, hibit the following gross results: Liberals. 240 Peelites. Conservatives. "If, therefore, there is to be no 'coalition,' and if the so-called Peelites' are to be regarded as a variety only of the Conservative genus, at present the Government is in a minority of 17; for adding the 'Peelites' to the Conservatives, we have 267 against the 240 Liberals. The total is 507 Members returned, out of 658; and there is not much chance, we think, that the Whigs will obtain from the remaining 151 any very great addition to their present strength. We should not be surprised, indeed, to find such a balance of parties, that Sir Robert Peel, if so inclined, may enact the part which the late Mr. O'Connell did with his 'Irish tail.'" The Roman Catholic weekly organ thus remarks upon the elections up to Saturday last : "The borough elections for Great Britain are now completed, and besides these there are returned to the new Parliament about fifty Members for English or Scotch counties, or for Irish constituencies. We funeral sermon over the remains, at the chapel, On the preceding day Dr. Miley delivered a Marlborough-street, to a crowded audience. The Reverend Gentleman in the course of his sermon down his checks, and his auditors, influenced by his became so intensely affected, that the tears flowed example, participated in his feelings. and 93d, where they chiefly abound, and which cer- "The result, so far, is extremely miscellaneous, and if any definite issue can be predicated from what has yet taken place, it is only a tendency to weaken and dissolve yet further the old party ties. "There is no doubt that the Whigs, by selecting the present year for a dissolution, calculated on a very considerable addition to their Parliamentary strength. There is also no doubt, we think, that the elections must have inflicted on them a very considerable disappointment. In the boroughs of Great Britain, the total Liberal gain, after deducting the losses to the Conservatives, is not rated at more than twenty-eight by the Ministerial journals; and of these twenty-eight which are set down as gains to the Liberal party, how many are losses to the Whigs? In the published lists, the indiscriminating 'L' which marks the supposed Ministerialists, makes no distinction in Nottingham between Sir John Hobhouse and Feargus O'Connor; in Edinburgh, between Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Cowan; in Lambeth, between Mr. Hawes and Mr. Pearson; in the Tower Hamlets, between Colonel Fox and Mr. Thompson. All these gentlemen are Liberals to be sure; but in these four boroughs the Whigs have lost four Members, and have sustained four signal defeats. The whole Liberal strength united will-Protestant prisoners, in cold blood, which took place "Just before the dreadful massacre of the according to the best calculations-barely do more than secure one-half of the House; and of this half, how many disdain to be called by the name of Whig?" on the bridge of Wexford, on the 20th of June, The Tablet then goes on to point out the importance of Roman Catholic Members being united on some intelligible public principle, bellion. | of Lords. The coffin was laid on a large rather plain and open hearse, and which was itself covered with rich Genoa velvet and gilt ornaments. The members of Mr. O'Connell's own family, the Lord Mayor, clergy, magistrates, gentry, and citizens followed. Amongst those who attended were,-the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic Archbishop, and the following Roman Catholic bishops :M'Hale, O'Connor, Cantwell, Whelan, Nicholson, O'Higgins, Magion, M'Nally, and Murphy; the Lord Chancellor, the Right Hon. Judge Perrin, Sir Montague Chapman, the Most Rev. Dr. Polding, Roman Catholic Bishop of Australia, the Rev. Dr. O'Connell, Thomas Steele, &c. After the procession had passed through the appointed route, and arrived at Glassnevin Cemetery, the usual service was read over the coffin, which was then consigned to a magnificent vault especially prepared for its reception, in the very centre and most elevated portion of the burial ground, by the Cemeteries' Committee, who have spared no expense to bestow, both on the ceremonial and on the grave, the most gorgeous appearance which the most liberal expenditure could present. PUBLIC WORSHIP IN EXETER HALL-The large room was occupied for the first time, on Sunday last, for Divine service. The immense hall was crowded in every part. There must have been present at least 3,000 people. The preacher, the Rev. Dr. Cumming, for whose congregation it has been obtained, during the close of the Scotch Church at Covent-garden, preached morning and evening. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Neale (of Reading) rose and inquired whether he should be allowed then to put a few questions. After some discussion and interruption from another gentleman in the gallery, the High Sheriff ruled Mr. Neale should proceed-that gentleman, on being asked if he had a candidate to propose, replying that much would depend on the course of the events of that day and by discussion and persuasion, each had a right to use them. A warm and confused discussion here arose as to the right of persons to be heard in the hall, unless they had candidates to propose. At length it appeared that every one should be permitted who was an elector. as Rev. Mr. Langley, of Wallingford, spoke from the gallery, denouncing Mr. Pusey as one of those the constitution, and as a betrayer of the Protestant who would, by supporting such measures Watson's Bill, remove the ancient landmarks of interest. ARGYLESHIRE. INVERARY.-The election for the county of Argyle took place here on Saturday, when Mr. Duncan M'Neill, the late Lord Advocate of Scotland, was re-elected without opposition. BANFFSHIRE, SATURDAY.-This morning considerable excitement was created in the borough in consequence of a report that Sir Andrew Leith Hay was to be proposed to-day for the representation of the county, in opposition to the late Member, Mr. ingly surprised to find, that in every address they Mr. Neale proceeded to say, that he was exceedJames Duff. Sir Andrew having been defeated in had heard that day, both from proposers and se. the contest for the Elgin Burghs by Mr. George conders, every question but one had been touched Skene Duff, brother to the late Member for Banff-on-that one being what must be most dear to every shire, it was considered exceedingly probable that Protestant. (Great cheering and some hisses.) They he would stand for the county; but circumstances, had heard of agriculture and commerce, and manuwe believe, occurred, which prevented the gallant factures, and he knew not what, but he would sink knight from coming forward, The election was one and all in comparison of a strong Protestant proclaimed at twelve o'clock, in the presence of an feeling, and in favour of any gentleman who would immense concourse of people, the hustings being come forward to represent the strong Protestant brother-in-law, Mr. Ricardo, Member for Stoke- made to Maynooth, nor to the future conduct of the crowded. Mr. Duff was accompanied by his feeling of this county. Not one allusion had been upon-Trent, and numerous other friends. Mr. Duff candidates upon Protestant questions. As regarded did not deem it necessary to go over the grounds of Mr. Palmer, if they searched the county, or the his political connexion with the county, nor would kingdom, they could not find a man better suited, or be do more than simply state that his views on all so competent to represent that great county. For said that he did not wish to subvert the Prohimself, and for those gentlemen with whom he had acted, they were prepared to support that gentle man, both as a steady friend to the agricultural interest, and as having by his past votes given pledges as to his future conduct. He found, on referring to those votes, that upon the Maynooth Bill Mr. Palmer had voted three times against that infamous measure. (Loud cheers, hisses, and interruption.) He could also approve of the vote Mr. Palmer gave upon the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. He then came to Mr. Watson's Bill, and did they know why that Bill had been introduced? It was for encouraging and legalizing the order of Jesuits in England. They had heard nothing of that Bill, but they had heard of Conservatism and Puseyism, and "ism" but Protestantism. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Palmer had voted in 1847 against this Bill, and they would all rally round him, and show him the confidence he deserved. But what could he say to Lord Barrington, who had not followed Palmer but Peel? He had voted for the Maynooth Bill, for the Mr. Suffern subsequently withdrew from the con- Dissenters' Chapels Bill, and upon Mr. Watson's test under protest. the great questions which had been discussed and at the close: Tennent (Whig) BERKSHIRE ELECTION. 858 643 647 (Abridged from the Berkshire Chronicle of Aug. 7.) every Bill he was absent. As to Mr. Pusey, he, as a dividual he had a right as a freeholder to make a few Mr. Job Lousley said that though a humble inremarks on Mr. Eyston's speech. Thanks to the constitution of this country every individual had a right to be heard. There had been some gentlemen gagged, but there was still a body of men upon whom such an attempt would be of no use. Mr. had also pronounced an eulogium on Lord John Eyston had said that Roman Catholic endowment was neither intended nor thought of, and Mr. Sawyer Russell. He would read them two or three extracts from a speech of his Lordship's in 1843, where he Catholic bishops and clergy on a footing of equality, testant Church of Ireland, but to place the Roman and that would be the basis of every plan proposed. Again, in 1845, on the Maynooth question, when he stated that those sound and incontrovertible arguments which had been used to promote the endowment of places of education for the Roman Catholic priesthood, were equally sound in favour of endowing that priesthood. And that he was anxious to see the religious instructors of the great body of the people endowed and maintained by a provision that must mean endowment, and how could Mr. from the state. Surely if language meant anything Sawyer and Mr. Eyston justify such expressions as these of Lord J. Russell, that he looked on the Mayintended to unite in one endearing bond the two nooth grant as not a final one, but as part of a series countries. He had however read enough to show what was intended by this admirable Government of Lord John Russell's. (Cheers and laughter.) He did not wish to say one word disrespectful to Roman Catholics, with many of whom he lived on friendly terms, but it should be recollected that they were enlightenment, to what they were in other countries. very different here, living in a land of Protestant The election of three knights of the shire for this nothing but what was personally respectful to that He should like Mr. Eyston to take a voyage to Ma county took place at Abingdon, according to ancient custom, on Tuesday. Rumours had been current doring the last week that an opposition would be made to the arrangement which had been entered into between the leading gentlemen of the county, that the late Members should be re-elected, and in consequence a number of that class were present, but the great body of electors, not believing the report, or being indifferent to what is but a form in the event of a contest, shewed little interest in the mat. ter. About a dozen freeholders from Reading, a sprinkling from the neighbourhood of Abingdon, and the inhabitants of that borough contributed jointly to fill the hall. At ten o'clock the proceedings commenced. We gentleman, for his private virtues. But he stood deira, and there see how an Englishman was expelled the island for merely expressing Protestant principles. Or he might go to Otaheite (loud laughter) to see what the priests had done there. He bore no ill will to his old friend, but not now his friend Mr. But he could not let private feeling stand in the way Pusey-upon whom he had once placed great reliance, and from whom he had received every civility, of a public duty, and this was one, when they had to Parliament. They ought to choose men in whom confide their liberties and their religion to a new by every wind, not a man who having lost his leader they could confide, not a weathercock, blown about observed on the benches the following gentlemen, accompanying the candidates:-Sir R. G. Throckmorton, Bart., Sir E. Clayton East, Bart., E. M. Atkins, J. Hopkins, B. Wroughton, G. H. Elliott, R. Gibson, C. Eyston, J. B. Barrett, R. Fellowes, fund. He knew no Minister willing to propose, nor ported and enforced, though among the infidels who Esqrs., &c., &c. The High Sheriff having read the writ, and gone through the customary formalities, made a few appropriate remarks, on the importance of the duty they were then assembled to discharge and the necessity of giving to every one a fair and impartial bearing. (Cheers.) Mr. Wroughton rose to nominate Mr. Palmer. (Cheers.) Mr. C. Sawyer had much pleasure-after the lapse of six years in again seconding the nomination of Mr. Palmer. Sir R. Throckmorton proposed Mr. Pusey as a fit and proper person to represent them. Sir East Clayton East seconded the nomination of Mr. Pusey. Mr. Mount proposed Lord Barrington, as one who had served them well for the last ten years. (Loud cheers.) Mr. E. Martin Atkins begged to second the nomination. (Cheers.) Mr. Eyston claimed indulgence while he adverted to the remarks of the previous speaker. He would at once notice the question of the endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood, and state that it would be most unjust to pay them out of the consolidated any Church willing to receive that endowment. He Gentleman's brain. But the condition of the Roman thought such a notion the mere creation of the Hon. Catholic clergy in Ireland was most unsatisfactory, and he should wish something were done to take them out of the region of agitation and to make them an ecclesiastical and not a political body. Mr. Neale, in explanation, begged to respond heartily to the feelings of Mr. Eyston, and to disclaim and repudiate all intolerance and all interference with every man worshipping God according to his conscience. But he regarded the difference between Protestantism and Romanism, as that between light and darkness, truth and error, and he stood up for the Bible alone, as "the religion of Protestants." Sir R. Throckmorton said that Lord Arundel, as a Catholic, had only said that which Mr. Neale did as a Protestant. No doubt they were antagonistic religions-the only question was whether the antagonism was fairly carried out. If by fair means, would cling to another's tail. |