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BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.

In pursuance of a requisition, signed by fifty ratepayers of the parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn above the Bars, and St. George the Martyr, a public Meeting of the rate-payers of these parishes took place on Wednesday evening in the hall of the workhouse, Gray's-inn-lane, for the special purpose of determining whether the Act to encourage the establishment of baths and wash-houses, 9th and 10th Victoria, and an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to amend the Act for the Establishment of Public Baths and Washhouses," shall be adopted for these parishes.

Mr. George Taylor was called to the chair. He said that the question they had met to consider was of a very important nature, and it was necessary that justice and impartiality should be shown to every one who wished to address the Meeting; at the same time none but rate-payers had a right to take part in the proceedings. For his own part, having been placed in that position, he would endeavour to act with impartiality, because he cime there with a mind perfectly free from conviction, not having made up his opinion upon that important question. He hoped nothing would occur to impugn the honour of the Meeting when its deci

sion was called for.

After some disputation, Mr. Boydell, at the solicitation of Mr. Wynch, read the Act of Parliament. The room being crammed almost to suffocation at one end, there were loud cries to adjourn into the court-yard, which was done, after considerable altercation and confusion.

Mr. Daniel, in a speech of some length, amid much noise and disturbance, moved a Resolution to the effect that a committee should be appointed for

the purpose of collecting information with reference to the application of the Act of Parliament in these parishes, and that they should report thereon to the rate-payers at a future Meeting. This proposition, however, was not listened to.

Mr. Parris then came forward, and met with a still more boisterous reception. His remarks were frequently interrupted by the uproar, but he at length succeeded in proposing a Resolution approving of the adoption of the Act to encourage the establishment of baths and washhouses in these parishes.

This Motion was put amidst loud expressions of disapprobation, and great confusion, which increased when

Mr. J. R. Taylor came forward to second the proposition. The worthy gentleman's observations were completely drowned by the clamour that was raised, and he in vain attempted to convince the rate payers of the necessity and advantage of the establishment of baths and wash-houses in their parishes.

Mr. Cramp moved an adjournment to Monday next, in order that a Committee might have time to inquire into the merits of the case, for after all (he said) it might turn out that though there would be a fourpenny rate it would eventually be for the benefit of the parishes.

But Mr. Cramp's hopes, arguments, and suggestions were disregarded, and he gave place to another rate-payer, who seemed to regard the whole movement as nothing but mere jobbery on the part of some interested persons. Even if such were not the case, he objected to the application of the Act of Parliament until they had seen that it operated beneficially in other parishes. He seconded the Motion for the adjournment, but met with no support from the Meeting.

Mr. Wynch next addressed the assembly, and by the time he had finished his speech it was almost dark.

The Chairman at length put the Resolution, approving of the application of the Act of Parliament for the establishment of baths and washhouses in these parishes.

A show of hands was taken, and the Resolution was negatived, upon which a poll was demanded, but there seemed to be great uncertainty and indecision as to the legality of such a step, and there was much altercation and disturbance as to who should pay the expenses.

THE HON. AND REV. J. SPENCER.-A paragraph which we copied from a morning paper announcing the death of this gentleman, proves to be incorrect. He has been in danger, but is now convalescent.

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How wholly different from the brawling harangues which Ireland has so long witnessed! How superior in every sense to the crude principles, the rude clamour, and mischievous malignity of the

Radical orators!

We see the Rev. T. D. Gregg sustaining Protestant principles with his habitual activity and effect, never sparing himself, or shrinking from his cause. The speech of Dr. O'Sullivan was capital; and the whole election was an admirable evidence that the faculties of the national mind have retained all the vigour which once made the name of Ireland famous throughout the world.

Yet why are not the men who are capable of those efforts placed in positions where their zeal would not only do honour to their country, but be the most effective pledges for its safety? We speak here chiefly of the clergy. The barristers fortunately belong to a profession in which merit cannot be put under mediocrity, nor the manliest zeal and the highest intelligence be insolently frowned down or basely neglected. How can we wonder at the constant triumphs of Popish intrigue in Ireland when the most faithful champions of Protestantism are so singularly disregarded? Not one of those men who, during the last twenty years, have fought publicly, fearlessly, and faithfully, the battle of the Christian religion in Ireland has received the slightest advance in rank, in income, or the general favour of "the powers that be."

But, if there ever was a time when this deep injustice might be done with impunity, that time exists no longer. The fruits of that system are now ripening, and they are poison. A party is now rising in the Legislature which is resolved not merely to search the weaknesses of the Irish Church, but to trample it into the grave. That party has as sumed a strength, by the result of the elections, which menaces more than the Irish Church, but which, in its way to power, will take that Church as an "instalment," and leave it nothing but ruin and bitter regrets for the men by whom alone it could be saved.-Britannia.

POETRY.

When Ireland breaks the yoke of Rome,
And takes her faith from God,
Her land shall be as bless'd a home,
As mortal feet have trod.

While at man's word she bows her knee,
And lays her bosom bare;

Ill fated land! her name shall be,
The curse of God is there.

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THE DUBLIN ELECTION.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1847.

the city; he would have been successful in the UniMr. Gregory has been defeated in Dublin. The versity had some of Mr. Shaw's voters known earlier of his (Mr. Napier's) coming forward."

cause appears to have been a want of confidence on the part of a large portion of the Protestant electors of that city in Mr. Gregory. That Mr. Reynolds, who is now one of their representatives, is better qualified for the duties of a Protestant senator, is not contended. Many are perplexed as to the light in which the proceedings are to be viewed. They contrast the re-election of Mr. Shaw for the university with the rejection of Mr. Gregory by the City, and were not prepared for the defeat of Mr. Gregory, or the triumph of Mr. Reynolds.

A Correspondent from Dublin, an active member of the Dublin Protestant Association, writes to us as follows, upon the subject:

"I do not know what view you are disposed to take of the return for Dublin in the great metropolis, but we here regard it as an immense triumph. The return of Reynolds is not owing to any deficiency of Protestant strength, but to the resolve and determination inspired by Protestant indignation. By having placed Grogan at the head of the poll, all the world may see that we could have returned both Members. By withholding all support from Mr. Gregory, we turned him out, even though we knew that by so doing Reynolds would walk in, thus showing that we esteem an avowed and decided opponent preferable to a slippery, compromising, and unprincipled Protestant. Henceforward the gentry will not presume to thrust such persons as Mr. Gregory forward. Honesty of purpose and firmness of principle will be the qualities necessary for victory at the hustings; in fact, we shall have none claiming our suffrages but the champions of Protestant ascendancy. . . In fine, the issue of the Dublin election is, that from henceforth we may regard the return as determinable according to the principles and consent (not to say on the nomination) of our Association."

LORD MORPETH AND THE WEST
RIDING ELECTION.

The conduct of public men has greatly shaken whom reliance had been placed, have gone in a the confidence reposed in them. Politicians, upon directly opposite course to what many of their followers had expected, and their own principles required.

We have looked up to leaders, and have been disappointed. We have reposed too great confidence in man. We have regarded the dead letter of statutes as of greater efficacy than living principles. Those bulwarks are now removed, and multitudes of our population are unprepared to resist the wiles and encroachments of Popery. Safe as we appeared in a position once strong, it seems to have been forgotten there was any need to keep up the strength of that position. We have thrown down the fortifications because they had been successful in protecting us.

Yet all this may be well, if it does but tend to make us look more to the great First Cause, and individually to do our duty more with reference to Him, than to man.

His Church is still his Church. The world still subject to his sway; and each one of his attributes, in unimpaired integrity,-still demands the homage and allegiance of men and nations.

Lamenting the delinquencies of trading politicians, who make expediency their divinity, and sacrifice at its altar the holiness of their faith, and the real interests of their country,-we still look for consistency in Christian men. If the whole of their life does not harmonize with the precepts of Christianity, still we do not expect them to attack or betray the religion they profess, and to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of professors, and lead them to imagine, either that truth cannot be found, The following letter appears in yesterday's Times that it is impossible to discriminate between truth upon the subject:and error, or that they are alike trivial and important.

Yet such is, unhappily, the conclusion to which Lord Morpeth would seem to lead in one of his recent speeches.

"Allow me to correct a misstatement which has
appeared twice in your paper-namely, that the
Protestants plumped for Reynolds, the Repealer.'
The very reverse was the case; for they all plumped
for Grogan, and thus the Repealer quietly crept in.
They were led on to this step by their leader, the Great was our surprise, grief, and disappointment
Rev. Tresham Gregg, who was dissatisfied, in on perusing the speech referred to, addressed by
common with Lord Roden, the Bishop of Cashel,
and others, about a plan Mr. Gregory supported for Lord Morpeth to the electors of the West Riding of
the emigration of many Roman Catholics and the Yorkshire. The Noble Lord is reported to have
payment of the priests who accompanied them.
Mr. Gregory's free trade views were not altogether
approved of. Mr. Reynolds' election will probably "I do not quarrel with persons who say, 'We
be proved void, in which case Mr. Napier may try will not endow. I think that persons and denomi-

said:

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nations not endowed themselves have a positive right to object to any enlargement of the endowment we already have (cheers), though I may not think that Churchmen can insist upon the principle of absolute resistance to all further endowments with a very good grace. However, I believe endowment is not now in even the remote contemplation of any person, or of any party."

On this portion we will briefly observe with reference to the attempt made to lead the public mind to believe there is no intention, even remote, in the contemplation of any person, further to endow Popery. The declarations of Lord Grey in the House of Peers, and of Lord John Russell in the House of Commons, together with the one adopted by the Roman Catholic organs and sympathizers, strongly favour an assertion, directly the reverse of this.

It may be the State provision intended would not But that some State provision is likely to be technically come under the name of endowment. prepared for the priesthood, and that they will gladly receive it if unconditionally given, we have, we think, made clear in preceding articles.

"But, then, I think it necessary, for my own consistency," proceeds the Noble Lord, "to make some reservation when I hear it said that the State shall not educate-when I hear it said, 'We will not be privy to promote or disseminate error-we will sanction nothing but the teaching of truth.' Why, gentlemen, 'truth' and 'error'-what words, what all like us! Truth and error, which, perhaps, may mockeries, are these in the lips of such as us and of escape the accurate discernment of even angelic

natures

"Of the rapt seraph that adores and burns!"" How could Voltaire, Gibbon, Bolingbroke, or Hume, have made a more dangerous and insidious attack upon Christianity! The open profanity of Voltaire ;-the known scepticism of Gibbon ;-the virulent licentiousness of Lord Bolingbroke ;-and the infidelity of Hume, might serve to prevent their principles being at once received without suspicion ;as the word poison labelled on a packet would engender caution on the part of those receiving it. But when sentiments, subversive of revealed religion, are put forward by one professing Christianity, no suspicion is at first awakened, and the evil presents itself recommended by one who is ostensibly a friend to our religion. It is therefore the more dangerous.

Lord Morpeth thus proceeds:

"I doubt whether, even if we could summon sphere, he might not be the foremost to tell us before us some bright inhabitant of the upper that the Almighty has made all his creatures love him, and none to comprehend him This may be perfectly true. B difference between the finite, comprehending the infinite; and the finite submitting to the infinite,

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receiving his revelation as a gracious boon-rejecting what he has denounced as error; and embracing what he has vouchsafed as truth, which is able to make wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

A LIST

THE NAMES OF THE POPES SO EXCOMUNICATING

OR DEPOSING.

It is precisely because we know that legislative sanction of error cannot transform it into truth, OF PRINCES DEPOSED OR EXCOMMUNICATED, WITH and that the policy of nations,—and the doctrine of Churches, and the conduct of individuals,―should be consonant to truth,-that we here enter our The first were presumption: the latter is in-protest against the dangerous sentiments uttered by fidelity.

The Noble Lord proceeds

"At all events, man has been distinctly told that the sum of his religion consists in two points-unfeigned piety to his Maker and unbounded love to his fellow-man."

But what is unfeigned piety to his Maker? What is unbounded love to his fellow man? Do not these questions involve points of vital truth and

error.

Is idolatry no crime? Is not Popery idolatry? And does not assistance to the criminal involve participation in the crime? But this raises the question of truth and error, which Lord Morpeth would bury for ever in the shades of oblivion ;-preferring to take refuge under that voluntary humility, which would incapacitate human nature for the performance of a duty he is unwilling to undertake. For what were the Jews expatriated from their native land, but idolatry? For what has the heavy wrath of Divine vengeance visited nations and Churches?

Shall we assume that Lord Morpeth would never have had the darkness of heathenism dissipated by the teaching of the apostles? that he would never have had them sent upon their mission to evangelize the world that even now he would prefer that the delusions of Popery should prevail, to seeing the ambassadors of Christ delivering faithfully their Master's message, and bearing testimony against the great apostasy?

Lord Morpeth would seem to drive us to this. For if there be no truth-no error,-then may we regard Christianity as a fable,—and light and darkness as terms expressing the same idea.

And then, with all the self-complacency of vain confidence in error, as though it were truth, graceful in action, mien, and utterance as Belial, and with power to make the worse appear the better reason, thus does the Noble Lord continue :

"And then, with respect to such a question as endowment, for instance, though I am not prepared to consent to any endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy-though I believe that no person or party is prepared to bring forward such a proposal-yet I must frankly say, that bringing forward such a proposal would, in my humble judgment, be a folly-be an insanity, but it would not be a crime; and, while no one is more ready than myself to object to such a proposal being made at the present time, or at any time which I conceive likely to occur, yet my objection does not rest, like that of many well-meaning and excellent people, upon religious grounds."

Thus, having decided, or rather assumed the impossibility of deciding between truth and error, it seems to follow that there can be no crime in endowing the one, more than the other.

He thus proceeds :

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Lord Morpeth.

However, by some it may be considered piety to doubt,-and sanctity to disbelieve, the bulk of Protestant Christians in this country are not yet prepared to proclaim an adieu to revealed religion, at the instigation of those-who, adopting a timid and wavering policy, would wish the attributes of Deity to be confounded-forgotten-or destroyed.

POPES.

Gregory II.
Gregory III.
Pascal I.
John VIII.

Gregory V.
Adrian II.
Gregory VII.
Urban II.

Pascal II.

PRINCES.
Leo III.

Leo III.
Leo V.

Emperors.

Lewis, King of Germany.
Robert, King of France.
Lothario

Henry IV. Emperors.
Boleslaus, King of Poland.
Henry IV. Emperor.
Philip I. King of France.

Henry IV.

Henry V.

Calixtus II.

Emperors.

Gelasius II.

Adrian IV.

Accounts from Italy show that much agita- Alexander III. {

tion prevails in different quarters. The Austrians
have acted with such violence at Ferrara as to have Celestine III.
the Cardinal Legate.
provoked a serious remonstrance and protest from
Austrian soldiers patrol the

of

Honorius.

streets at night, threatening to fire upon any groups
Civic Guard, should they not at once respond to
persons met with in their way, even on the Innocent III.
their summons. The city is, accordingly, in the
greatest state of excitement, no one stirring out after
Legate not to patrol, lest a collision might take
nightfall. The Civic Guard has been ordered by the
place. Serious disturbances have broken out at
Lucca. The Grand Duke has issued proclamations
directly contrary to those of the liberal Grand Duke
of Tuscany. The Civic Guard is disbanded, and
the people have committed excesses.

strange paragraph is given in the Universal German
Too STRANGE TO BE TRUE. The following
Gazette of the 29th ult., as an extract of a letter
from Warsaw :-"The abdication of a certain illus-
shortly made. This report is said to be connected
trious personage is considered as certain to be
with the financial affair which made so deep a sensa-
tion a few months ago. It is thought this august
Italy. It is not expected that this event will make
personage will pass the remainder of his days in
any change in the law of succession to the throne.
The august personage is unquestionably suffering
greatly." (The paragraph, we have reason to
believe, is intended to refer to the Emperor Nicho-
las.)-Globe.

LIVERPOOL ELECTION.-It will probably astonish
most of our readers to learn that an opinion has
been taken respecting the legality of the election for
stated that the Mayor, the returning officer, on that
Liverpool on Thursday, the 29th ultimo, and it is
occasion, has committed a mistake. The votes were
not taken in the way directed by the statute, the pol-
consequently is null and void.
ling-booths were not properly placed, and the election
A Petition to the
House of Commons, by any two or more burgesses,
will unquestionably upset it, and throw all the
expenses upon the returning officer.-Liverpool Mail.
ELECTION EXPENSES.-It was stated on the hust-

ings at Darlington, on Thursday, that John Bowes,
Esq., the former Member, had spent the large sum
of 30,000l. in two contests for South Durham. New
castle Journal.

various firms whose failures have been reported on
The total amount of the liabilities of the
the Corn Exchange during the present pressure is

now estimated at 1,300,0001.

RUMOURED RETIREMENT OF MR. SMITH O'BRIEN FROM PUBLIC LIFE.-Mr. Smith O'Brien, in a letter dated on Friday week, says: "As soon as the Repeal representatives are prepared, as a body, to follow the example which has been set at Cork, my Until the repudiation of Ministerial connexion and re-appearance in Parliament may be of some use. place-hunting shall become the recognised national policy of Ireland, I shall be both more happy and more useful in labouring as a private individual rather than as a Member of the Legislature in the service of Ireland.

Gregory IX.

Innocent IV.

Urban IV.
Clement IV.
Nicolas III.
Gregory X.

Martin IV.

Honorius IV.

Nicolas IV.

John XXII.
Boniface VIII.
Benedict XII.
Clement VI.

Urban V.

Boniface IX.

Alexander V.
Innocent VII.
Sixtus IV.
Julius II.
Leo X.
Clement VII.
Paul III.
Pius V.

Sixtus V.

Henry V.
Henry V.

William, King of Sicily.
Frederic I. Emperor.
Henry II. King of England.
Henry VI. Emperor.
Alphonso, King of Galicia.
Philip,
Otho,

Emperors.

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Gregory XIV. Henry IV. King of France and
Innocent XI.

S Ambassador of Lewis XIV. King
of France.

The Conservatives of the metropolis, by the unexpected return of Mr. Masterman, gain one Member out of the eighteen sent to Parliament by London and its boroughs. By a mere chance their Protestantism, their political principles, and their wealth find a single representative.

They escape total exclusion by the accident of three votes.

But even that accident is unlikely to occur again. Without the exertion of greater activity than they have lately shown they will be totally disfranchised.

REPORTING BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-The services of the electric telegraph have at length been called into requisition for the purposes of the press. READING OF PRAYERS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The second edition of the Manchester Times of Sa -On one or two occasions of the absence of Mem-turday last contains a report of a public meeting bers of the Right Rev. Bench from the House of supplied by the above means; and this, we are inLords, the duty of reading prayers has devolved on, formed by the proprietors, is the first time that the and been performed by, the Rev. Lord Bayning. electric telegraph has been made available for such

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EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE.

CONCESSIONS TO POPERY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR.

Sir, I observe an extract from a Correspondent in your paper of the 4th inst., referring to Sir James Graham's and Sir Robert Peel's altered sentiments respecting Romanism, and wishing to know from themselves what has occasioned this marvellous change of opinion, although, with regard to these statesmen and their followers, our surprise is somewhat mitigated on reflecting on their other tergiversations on secular matters.

I recollect perfectly well the speech of Sir Robert Peel in Parliament to which your Correspondent alludes, and especially his remark, that by granting to Romanists all they could with any show of justice claim, as subjects owning a divided allegiance, we should, when the struggle came on, thus be found on the vantage ground.

Now, Sir, I perfectly agree in opinion with "Straightforward, and No Jesuit," that it would not only be desirable to be informed how it is, from what new circumstance, or by what process of reasoning, Sir Robert has arrived at the conclusion, that it is right now to concede to Papists privileges which, whilst in office in 1829 he did not think they were entitled to, or that it was not then in accordance with safe policy to grant.

I think, Sir, that very many will join with "Straightforward" in opinion, that the public have a right to demand such an explanation from the late Premier, and that a full development of his sentiments on this vital question is due not less to himself than to the country; and, moreover, I trust that Parliament will not have met a week before some honest Protestant Member will call on Sir Robert to speak out and defend himself, and enlighten

others if he can.

I am, Sir, A LOVER OF CONSISTENCY. August 14, 1847.

SHOULD JEWS LEGISLATE FOR A
CHRISTIAN PEOPLE?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR.

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A LETTER TO CERTAIN ELECTORS OF FOLKSTONE,

ON THEIR LATE CHOICE OF A CANDIDATE.

"Sirs, In a little book that once fell into my hands,
called, The Folkstone Fiery Serpent. I read, if I re-
member rightly, two lines as follow:-

"Said Dover's Mayor, you Folkestone men
Are not deemed over wise."
But though, according to this facetious ballad, super-
fluity of wisdom was not your gift, I had heard that
you had no lack of religion-indeed, that in the
standard of Churchmen you stood generally above
the mark, and were patterns of brotherly love, and
were remarkable for parochial charities, the bequests
of pious townsmen. Judge then my surprise to hear
of your lowering that good opinion which you had
obtained in yourselves and forefathers, and that when
called upon lately to send a representative to Parlia-
ment, and a gentlemen sufficiently blue for the
bluest of the blues (the colour for which you have
been generally supposed to show political preference)
offered himself, you could find no candidate in
opposition worthy of your choice, except an
believer in that holy person after whom you are
called Christians.

un

A little advice, therefore, seems necessary; and I must request your attention, now that the hurry in which you have been may be exchanged for rest, and you probably have leisure and coolness sufficient to hear the truth. Hear, then, that the Scripture, which you profess to believe and receive, represents the Jew, while an unbeliever, as in a state most deplorable. I give the word as those who believe it are bound to receive it, and not as man, in the preSir,-Permit me to suggest, through the medium sumption of supposed charity, would have it to be. of your wide-spreading columns, that a day should "Go ye," said the Saviour, into all the world, and not be lost in crying aloud to every minister of every preach the gospel to every creature: he that beChristian parish in the land to get up a Petition lieveth and is baptized shall be saved." Does the against this new desecration of our common Chris-Jew, as a Jew, believe the Gospel? No; unbelief tianity in the election of one of its most determined is his character. is the Jew, as a Jew, baptized? and undeniable enemies to a seat in our national No; he is "broken off" from the visible body of God's people. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; and he that believeth not shall be damned."

councils.

What stains the whole character of this most obnoxious act with a deeper die is, that it receives the countenance, approbation, and support of the Prime Minister of the land, who hereby would seem to say, "What do I know, or how is it to be supposed that I should know, which is the true worship?" or that he may support a worship which he believes and knows to be untrue. If one Jew is admitted, why not two, nay, why not two hundred? It becomes quite a question of mammon. Let the precedent be once established, we shall next have Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy the Parsee, together with Jumpers, Shakers, Ashantees, Kaffirs, and lastly, Yzeddies, or worshippers of the devil, jumbled altogether on the benches of our new House of Parliament, provided they have the means to bribe.

I contend, that the precedent once established, there is no reasonable obstacle for the hindrance of any persuasion, Christian or no Christian, giving laws to a once Christian people.

Verily, if our bishops and clergy do not resist this new desecration and insult to Christianity, I for one think it better that the Voluntary principle be adopted at once, and all religious persuasions left to find their level as in America. Have not our shepherds, in a great measure, fallen under the accusation which the Jewish instructors of old did, as set forth in Isaiah ivi. 10, 11, 12 ?

If the country is silent, our present rulers will construe it into an assent to this conspiracy against our national faith; and unless God in mercy interposes, we shall away to a place in the scale with those nations who knew not God, and be justly thrown off by him.

Let our clergy remember the denunciation poured out against the Church of Laodicea, and take waining ere it be too late.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

NINEVEH.

These terrible words are not mine; they are the words of Jesus, the faithful and true witness. They are the words of real charity. They are those of a Jew, who, born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the King, did afterwards, by miracles and signs which he performed and showed, and especially by his resurrection from the dead, prove himself to be the desire of all nations, of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write.

Surely then, you cannot be Christians, who would have made an unbeliever your representative. Or, if Christians, such as have much need of teaching. What portion of the New Testament can you have read? Or, have you read it only, but not with the understanding and the heart, that you so little remembered the awful words of the Son of man against his unbelieving brethren?

the members, when you thus aimed a blow at his head?

The choice, which you made, shows that you have none of the spirit of Christ. For his commandment was that Christians should love one another. Whereas you were unequally yoked together with an unbeliever, and railing against your Christian brother. With what contempt must a Jew have looked upon such Christians? How must he have chuckled inwardly at their folly?

You thought, it may be, the Jew was a very moneyed man, and his "unbounded influence" might be of use to your town. But if you had been mindful of whose you are, and of whom you ought to serve, you would have known that you were subjects already of the King of the Jews, and that the unsearchable riches which he has to bestow for the faithful and obedient, were far beyond the perishable gold of all the Rothschilds.

"Some of you may be men supposed to have a claim to knowledge: men of professions: lawyers or doctors, perhaps. For you I know of no excuse. To say that you desired to profit by a contested election, and therefore purposely stirred up strife, I am unwilling to believe, that, as kings of old, when they desired money, are said to have sought a Jew, and drawing his teeth, extracted his gold, so you hit upon the new idea of inviting one to contest against a Christian, that you might bleed his purse, I am the more unwilling. You must find your own excuse, for I can find none for you, unless he that in former time abstracted reason from one who was wilfully rebellious, should also have taken for a time his Holy Spirit from you.

"Some may have fallen into error through ignorance. For them indulgence may be allowed, inasmuch as in them there was no wilful sin, but what they did they did in the simplicity of their minds. He that knoweth the hearts will pardon and accept their repentance, if they confess their error unto him, and in this respect sin no more.

But, men of Folkstone, for the future you have much to do. There is pardon to be asked, conscience to be appeased, excited tempers to cool, ill feelings to abolish. Employed in this work, you may obtain again the favourable notice of that Almighty Being who is more merciful than you have been obedient. Never need you want a Jew to represent you, when you are subjects of the King of the Jews, who can watch always over your interests, and do all things for you, spiritual and bodily, temporal and eternal. But, if you are really pitying of the unbelieving Jews, as I hope sincerely you are, and would do them a kindness, understand, it is not by sending them to Parliament as your representative, which would be an offence to your Redeemer, but by prayer for them constantly, in the words of the Collect for Good Friday, that mercy may be shown them, and ignorance, and hardness of heart, and contempt of the Divine Word be taken from them, and that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites. JUNIUS.

PONTEFRACT BOROUGH ELECTION. We have just heard a report of a Petition against the election return of this borough. We believe it does not emanate from the defeated candidate, but from some of the inhabitants, who are disgusted with the flagrant proceedings of the last election. The cases of bribery were so numerous and so glaring that it is the wish of many of the thinking part of the inhabitants that a hearing should be had before the Legislature. Never was there a greater cause offered than the present affords for an examination into facts which have transpired, and which loudly call for interference of the Legislature. During the election one of the candidates stated that it would be his duty to petition (if not returned), in order to purify the borough. A very costly time-piece, valued at fifty guineas, was presented on Tuesday to Mrs. Preston, at Moreby Hall, near York, by a few of the electors of Pontefract, the warm supporters of Mr. Preston during his severe contest for the elec tion of that borough, as the advocate of Protestant principles.-Doncaster Chronicle.

The state of unbelievers is fixed by St. John, a Jew, in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone." This is a truth which closely demands your attention. For, if the unbelieving are so threatened with puninishment, what shall be the lot of those who side with them, and give them all their votes and interest? Reflect. Again you were called upon to send a proper person to Parliament for "the defence of the Church," amongst other matters. Yet, you would have sent one, as your representative, whose forefathers spat upon and crucified the founder of the Church; one of a class that has a blinded mind and a veil upon the heart, and has not repented of the wickedness its forefathers did, but STATE OF MAYO.-NECESSITY FOR EDUCATION. is yet in its sin. Instead of sending a shield to Judge Ball, in his charge to the Grand Jury of defend, you would have drawn a sword to have Mayo, said "I find not fewer than 137 prisoners smitten the Church. You might as well offer water for trial, for crimes comprising every degree of as a defence of fire, as an unbelieving Jew for a guilt it is the lot of human frailty to be subject to— defender of the Christian Church-one would robbery, burglary, murder, larceny, and a crime novel naturally quench the other. How, then, can you to this country-piracy." Of the 137 mentioned by expect the approbation of Him of whom you are, the Learned Judge, nine only could read and write.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

CLARE COUNTY.-ENNIS, SATURDAY.-The High Sheriff has declared Sir Lucius O'Brien and Major Macnamara duly elected. Mr. Cornelius O'Brien, one of the beaten candidates, says he will petition on the grounds of intimidation and positive expulsion of his voters from the polling places. He has evidence that cart loads of dead cats, rats, and other missiles that wound the feelings and soil the clothes, without serious danger to life or limb, were brought to Ennis for the purpose of being flung at his supporters; and what is stronger again, they were pelted, and with effect. There is no gainsaying the fact that there was dreadful excitement and intimidation if you will, but when was there a Clare election free from these accompaniments? Never within my memory. But on the occasion of Mr. Cornelius O'Brien's victories the Conservatives happened to be the "inimidated" parties, intimidation in those times meaning assault and battery. On the whole, it was a very fair elec

tion for this county.

CORK (COUNTY), SATURDAY.-This day being fixed for the nomination of candidates for the county, the late representatives, Mr. E. Burke Roche and Dr. Power (Repealers), were respectively

proposed and seconded.

E. B. Roche, Esq., was proposed by Daniel Clanchy, Esq., J.P.; seconded by J. E. M'Carthy, Esq., J.P.

Dr. Power was proposed by the Rev. Mr. Doheny; seconded by Varrett Barry, Esq.

Lord Bernard came forward and announced that the Conservative candidates would not be put in nomination, unforeseen circumstances having prevented them from coming forward:

contest." "Go back," was his reply, "and tell
those who sent you here we despise your money as
much as we do yourself, and I am sure we shall
now triumph." ("Hear, hear," and confusion.)
The Hon. F. Ponsonby.-I beg to ask the Rev.
Gentleman if he insinuates that any such offer as
that to which he alludes came to him with my sanc-
tion? When did it occur? At what election was
the offer made?

The Rev. Mr. Doyle.-I did not insinuate that
you, Sir, had offered the bribe. I know that you are
incapable of such an act. There is not in the world
a man of purer principle than you are. It occurred
at the election when Mr. Ruthven was returned.
We triumphed then because we were united, and
could not be corrupted nor intimidated. (Hear,
hear.) In conclusion, he proposed Mr. John O'Con
nell as a candidate.

within a mile of the town of Naas; and what more did the inhabitants require ?

A Voice.-Yes, but that was for the soldiers. Mr. Bourke.-The ground was given to the inhabitants, and made over to them free and for ever. Did the people of Naas require any other burial ground? The charge made by Mr. Doyle was unfair and unworthy of him. With regard to the second very serious charge against his familynamely, that they had sequestered the public funds, he denied it totally. It never was done -the funds of the corporation were made over to trustees for public and charitable purposes, to rear, nurse, and educate the children belonging to the neighbourhood of Naas. The hopes of success which Mr. Doyle had must be very low indeed when he tried to vilify his character by such weak and wretched arguments as those to which he had resorted. (Hear, hear, and said,-Electors of the county of Kildare, I The Marquis of Kildare then came forward and groans.) He now came to that part of his address which would prove most distasteful to the great maappear before you upon the present occasion to offer myself jority of the electors, when he announced that, having as a candidate, having been waited upon by a large minutely investigated and maturely deliberated upon number of the electors of this county. (Hear, hear, the question for a repeal of the union, and had come and cheers.) I do so uninfluenced by the cousidera- to the conclusion that it would not be beneficial to tion that for several hundred years the interests and the country, he hoped that he would receive a fair feelings of my family have been interwoven and and patient hearing. (Hear, hear.) One of the identified with those of the people of Kildare. reasons assigned for advocating a repeal of the (Cheers.) My principles have always been in union was, that it would restore their gentry and favour of civil and religious liberty. (Cheers.) I increase the mercantile prosperity of the country. brought forward in the last Parliament. approve of the great measure in favour of free trade In his opinion, it would do no such thing. He Had I would prove to them, from undoubted authority, have received my warmest support. (Cheers.) I union and increased after it. ("Hear, hear," and been in Parliament at the time, that measure would that the mercantile and agricultural prosperity of Ireland had decreased for several years before the also approve of doing away with the restrictive navigation laws. 1 shall always give my zealous "Oh, oh.") He would take first that period before support to those measures which are calculated to the union, when the Irish Parliament saw its palmiest country. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Grattan has asked me when they were ornaments to the Senate, and the a question in reference to tenant-right. My opinion greatest men that Ireland had ever produced deis that the course pursued by my father should be voted the whole of their energies to promote the sanctioned by law. He feels that the tenant should prosperity of the country, yet were not able to render have the management of his capital, and that if he her prosperous. From 1790 to 1794, the registered choose to leave the land he shall have compensation 5,249; showing a decrease of 611 ships in ten years. number of Irish ships was 5,850; from '95 to '99, (Cheers.) I have for several years paid unremitting for the permanent improvements he has made. attention to the affairs of the grand jury, and if you elect me I promise to be equally willing to pay the this county, which is so near and dear to my heart, same attention to the general interests not only of but of my country. (Cheers.)

The High Sheriff then asked if any elector had improve the general management of the funds of the days, and its members were adored by the people,another candidate to propose, and no answer having been returned, he declared Messrs. Roche and Power duly elected to serve in Parliament for the

county of Cork.

The Members then severally returned thanks, and the proceedings terminated.

KILDARE.

ATHY, SATURDAY.-The nomination of candidates for the county of Kildare took place in the Court House, at Athy, on Saturday. The Court House was opened at eleven o'clock, and shortly after that the proceedings commenced. A large concourse of persons filled the body of the building, and throughout the day were more than usually noisy, interrupting all the speakers, especially Mr. Bourke, and the supporters of that gentleman, and the Marquis of Kildare. A large number of the gentry of the county were upon the platform. The candidates were, the Marquis of Kildare, Mr. R. S. Bourke, Mr. O'Neill, and Mr. John O'Connell, the two latter as Repealers. Mr. Archbold, the late Member, was in the gallery, but took no part in the proceedings. Mr. O'Connell did not arrive till the proceedings had some time commenced.

The candidates were then proposed and seconded. The Rev. Mr. Doyle, of Naas, then came forward, and proposed Mr. John C'Connell as a candidate. He admitted the benevolence and practical philanthropy of young Mr. Bourke, but he considered him disqualified, from his political principles, to repre. sent Kildare. He was compelled by a sense of truth and justice, to mention a circumstance which disentitled Mr. Bourke to the support of the electors. An application was made to Lord Mayo for land to build a house for a Roman Catholic priest, which was refused, although more rent had been offered for it than a tenant could reasonably be expected to pay. The name of Mr. Bourke, there. fore, related as he was to Lord Mayo, could not be put forward to a liberal constituency as recommendatory of him as a candidate. The Rev. Gentleman then made a second charge, as well as we could understand him, against Mr. Bourke, to the effect that his family had sequestered public funds, and appropriated what was designed for public objects to their own personal purposes. To be sure, Mr. Bourke was not responsible for what his ancestors had done. It was his misfortune that such things had occurred; but his name did not entitle him to support. He then referred to the proceedings at the election, when they had a regular stand-up fight for Repeal, and stated that he had been offered upon that occasion 2001. to put an end to the election. A person came up to him and said, "I know you want a couple of humdred pounds, and I will give it to you if you put an end to the

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Mr. R. S. Bourke then came forward, and said it
stood before them upon that occasion, and stated
was with feelings of the greatest pleasure that he
fairly, fully, and openly the claims which he con-
ceived he had upon the constituency of Kildare. He
was the more emboldened to do so because he had
been for the last five weeks employed in canvassing
individually every elector, and the promises of
support which he had received convinced him that
the wishes and opinions of the electors were with
him. (Cries of "No, no," and "Yes, yes.") They
would, he hoped, allow him to state openly and
fairly the principles which he entertained and pro-
fessed; although they might be opposed to the ideas
of many whom he addressed, that was no reason
why they should not hear him; and bad and weak
indeed was the cause which could not bear any ar-
gument which might be brought forward against it.
(Hear, hear.) The first subject which he would
bring before their notice was a purely personal and
family matter. He would take that opportunity of
answering the allegation of the Rev. Mr. Doyle
against his family by mentioning a few plain facts.
It was a very serious charge,-namely, that his
uncle (the Earl of Mayo) some years ago refused to
give some ground in Naas for a Roman Catholic
Cemetery. Why had he done so? Because upon a
previous occasion he had given sufficient ground to
the Roman Catholics of Naas, and vested it in
trustees to build a chapel and a convent thereon.
Rev. Mr. Doyle.-That is not true.
High Sheriff.-Order, order.

Rev. Mr. Doyle.-I must apologize for the inter-
ruption.

Mr. Bourke proceeded. Was not the site of the chapel his uncle's ground, and was the rent charged for it large or small? Was it not one of the most valuable pieces of ground, and did his uncle receive more than 10s. a year for a piece of ground upon which the chapel was built? The ground demanded for a burial-ground was not required. His grandfather had given three or four acres for the purpose

of the exports of the growth, produce, and manufactures of Ireland, from 1790 to 1794. In those hear.) There was a decrease shown of 1,832,145.; years it amounted to 24,645,783, while from 1795 to 1799, it was only 23,013,6387. (Hear,

He would now show them the total official value

in 1797-8, and 9, the tonnage belonging to the Irish ports was 152,994; in 1824, '25, and 26 (after the union), it was 244,644, showing an increase in the latter years of 91,650 tons. From 1790 to 1801. the value of imports was 49,396,2512; of exports, 51,322.6207. From 1802 to 1813, the imports amounted to 74,511,050.; the exports, 63,483,7187., showing an increase in the latter period of imports, 25,114,8041.; of exports, 12,161,098/. (Hear, hear, and groans.)

Mr. O'Neill then presented himself. He said that he had gone to one of the candidates (Mr. Archbold), and he said to that gentleman that he had canvassed the electors, and had expended money upon his canvass; still, if he declared himself in favour of tenant-right and a repeal of the union, he would

withdraw from the contest, give him every repeal
voter over whom he had any influence-nay, more,
he would act as his agent. (Cheers.) His reply,
to his credit be it spoken, was, that if he took that
step now, it would be ascribed to selfish motives.
He further said he was grateful for the offer, but he
declined it upon principle. (Cheers.) The speaker
then alluded to a placard which he said had ap
peared upon the walls of Athy and Naas, signed by
the Duke of Leinster. It was as follows:-
"Carton, Maynooth.-Sir, I have received your
letter of the
obliged to you for giving an opportunity of con-
1st of August, and am much
tradicting the report that I wish my tenants to
support Mr. O'Neill, for I am decidedly opposed
to his offering himself for this county, and beg at
the same time to state that Mr. Archbold has my
best wishes." Signed, "Leinster;" and addressed
to Robert Hayes, Naas. He (Mr. O'Neill) con-
fessed that he did not think it necessary to ask the
leave of that nobleman to canvass the county, when
he came to represent the people. He was convinced
that his Grace knew as well as he did that an
unconstitutional act had been done in posting such
a placard upon the walls. He acquitted the Duke
of Leinster of the act-he traced it to a different
source-it was posted in Naas by a gentleman with

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