The Tablet of Saturday has the following. We cannot vouch for the truth of the statements, and would hope they are altogether a fabrication.

But that anything of the kind should be done, attempted, really thought of, with the intention of carrying the same into effect, ought at once to arouse the dormant energies of the Protestants of

this country :

"TO THE EDITOR OF THE TABLET. "Sir,-The leading public journals in this country are engaged in strongly advocating the re-opening of diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome. The very serious inclination of the Government in that direction does not appear to be generally known; but the following fact may serve to illus

trate it.

"A short time since, I was conversing on this very subject with the British Consul at Rome. He put a paper into my hands, and bade me read it. On opening it I found it to be a despatch from the Foreign Office, desiring the Consul at Rome to obtain an audience of his Holiness as soon as possible, and to congratulate his Holiness in the name of the British Government on the reforms he had already introduced; and to assure him that in every reform and progressive movement which he should commence, he had with him the warm sympathy of Her Majesty's Government. "Such is the fact. I leave it without comment; but to say the least of it, it is very significant. "S. A."

THE POOR ROMAN CATHOLIC AND THE

POOR PROTESTANT. WHICH HAS THE

ADVANTAGE?

It has been asked, which has the advantage, the poor Protestant, or the poor Roman Catholic? We have no hesitation in pronouncing in favour of the poor Protestant.

We speak not of the frequency with which the unavailing religious rites and ceremonies of the Church of Rome may be accessible to Roman Catholics, or the ministration of the Gospel of peace may be brought home to the Protestant. This may vary from time to time; and according to difference of locality may be more or less frequent. We refer to the nature and practice of the two religious systems. The practical working of Popery is injurious to all, but most to the well-being of the poor man. It is a religion of error. Tyranny and slavery are the fruits which it produces with a moral and mental degradation-the very reverse of the fruits of Protestantism.

Popery, regarding it theologically, is not the poor man's religion.

The people do not love Popery,-Popery does not love the people. It is often called the GENTLEMAN'S RELIGION.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1847.

Well it may be; for it allows sin to those who can pay for it, and gets people out of purgatory in proportion to their wealth. No pay no paternoster, is too true and trite a maxim. Thus giving the rich, in her theory, an advantage over the

poor.

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solation," we should say, "Blessed are ye rich, for you enjoy riches now, and shall hereafter reap more abundantly the blessings of them."

Let none of our readers think this an exaggerated or distorted view of Popery. We would that they gave attention to watch its practical workings, and Her doctrines as to purgatory, penances, and to observe how, no less in practice than in theory, indulgences, have only to be investigated to estab-it abnegates some of the leading doctrines of lish this, that Popery is the religion of the rich Christianity-alike dishonouring the God of truth, man, not the religion of the poor man. and misleading and destroying the souls of men.

But the peculiar characteristic mark of the Gospel of Christ Jesus was, that to the poor the Gospel was preached.

Popery would give the rich man an advantage over the poor man, and extend the benefit of mammon to the other world.

In those moments of anguish, of which each one must have been more or less partakers, when some dear relative or friend has been prostrated by sickness and taken away by death, when perhaps the child of our heart-the wife of our bosom-or the tender husband and father of a family has been removed: When penance is imposed here by the priest or in those moments of gloom and death, when sufferconfessor for any sin, the poor man must performing in some degree the fruit of our first parent's that penance, the rich man may, by his gold, buy transgressions and off the guilt or punishment of his transgression; may gratify the sordid avarice of the priest by a sum of money: may purchase an indulgence, and so be free from performance of the penance.

But this unequal position is made to extend to the future world. The Roman Catholics believe in purgatory.

The article in the creed of Pope Pius is,

"I constantly hold that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the

suffrages of the faithful."

The

False doctrine leads to 'false practice. Church of Rome, trading in the souls of men, has invented what has no existence, and then turned her ideal purgatory into a marketable commodity, setting a price upon crime,-indulgences, and masses, and giving to the mammon of unrighteousness to accomplish that which nothing but the blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the

world can do.

our own, it is the province of true religion to lead the soul to God, to make his rough but faithful messengers heralds of mercy, admonishing us of our own departure, assuring us of the perfect happiness of those who sleep in Jesus, and leading us by faith to anticipate the reality of a glorious resurrection

even when those from whom for awhile we are separated, shall be again united to us, never more to see corruption, never more to taste of sorrow, but heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, to share the blessings of his eternal and glorious kingdom.

What a change is produced, if, instead of such a comforter you have the minister of Antichrist, sent in the garb of a Romish priest, to buffet you-urged on by the principles of a false religion and a corrupt avarice, to buoy you up with false hopes, and to tell you that the dying struggles of the departed were slight compared with the torments of purgatory in which it is now tossed, and then to demand money Mammon is exalted, the Saviour dishonoured. as the price for saying masses to get those souls out Thus, instead of the exhortation,"Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; More apt to slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise," we should say, 66 Money-money, by all means get money,-honestly if you can; but anyhow, get money." So you may purchase indulgences and masses, and the more readily get out of purgatory.

of purgatory.

Why should we foster and promote a system such as this? Why seek to ally our country with the head of a system that has so departed from the truth? How can we without increased guilt continue to support or educate the priesthood of the Church of Rome?

Locomotives are gradually destroying ex clusivism. After the royal installation at Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, the musician Jullien, a subaltern's the same carriage on the Eastern Counties Railway. lady, and a newspaper reporter were jammed in

Instead of our Saviour's benediction,-" Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,"we should say, "Cursed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of purgatory." Instead of, "Woe to you who are rich, for you have received your con--Carmarthen Journal.

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THE TRIAL OF ANTICHRIST.

(Continued from No. XXX.) Bishop Latimer sworn,

Q. Was Nicholas Ridley, the bishop, chained to the same stake with you?

Q. Did you write an account of the rebellion in Ireland in 1641?

A. I did. It was printed in Dublin; and I may be permitted to say, without being charged with vanity, that it is a work highly prized, and frequently referred to, as giving correct information on the affairs of Ireland.

livered in like manner.

Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, sworn. Q. Did not the prisoner treat you with great cruelty, and condemn you to death?

A. He did; and I suffered for a long time in confinement before he attempted to execute the sentence. I was so weak, that I was one day persuaded to sign a recantation of my religious opinions, though not the one published by Bonner. This, however, availed me nothing, for "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." I was required to ratify my recantation publicly, and then to die for heresy. Being called upon to address the people in St. Mary's Church, Oxford, my enemies were thunderstruck at hearing me express sorrow for my apostasy and weakness, and declare the Pope to be Antichrist, and that my unworthy right hand, that signed the recantation, should be the first member of my body to suffer in the flames.

Immediately a violent clamour ensued, and I was hurried to the place of execution. A fire being kindled around me, I held my right hand in the flames until it was burnt, repeating, "This unworthy hand, this unworthy hand!" and calling upon my Redeemer in the words of the first martyr, Stephen, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" when I was rescued out of their hands. This tragical event took place at Oxford on the 14th day of February, 1556. (a)

Mr. Historical Truth, again examined. Q. Do you recollect how many persons were burnt, at the instigation of the prisoner, during the reign of Queen Mary?

A. I do; for I have it recorded in my note book. She burnt one archbishop, four bishops, twenty-one ministers, eight gentlemen, eighty-four artificers, 100 husbandmen, servants, and labourers, twentysix wives, twenty widows, nine unmarried women, two boys, and two infants. Several died in prison, and several were otherwise cruelly treated.

Q. Were all these burnt by the prisoner's orders? A. Yes. I have no doubt on the subject. He not only presumes to put to death those who worship God after the way which he calls heresy; but all his bishops take an oath that heretics, schismatics, and rebels to the holy Father (the prisoner) they will resist and persecute.

One of his annotations on the New Testament says: "Protestants foolishly expound it (i. e. Babylon, noticed in the Rev. xvii. 6;) of Rome, for that there they put heretics to death, and allow of their punishment in other countries. But their blood is not called the blood of the saints, no more than the blood of thieves, mankillers, and other malefactors, for the shedding of which, by order of justice, no commenwealth shall answer." (b)

clothiers' tenter hooks, in the county of Tyrone. At Sligo, the Protestants being all taken to gaol, were stript naked at midnight, and two butchers were hired to kill them. The White Friars, who employed the butchers, rafterwards pretended to purify with holy water the river from the stains of the blood of heretics! In most counties nearly all the English that could be taken were murdered. The Clerk of the Crown read also some extracts from an official report, made in Ireland, and lodged in the Record Office, by which it appeared, that indulgences had been sold, and the proceeds thereof applied in aid of rebellion against the lawful sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland. From the evidence of the Rev. John Hennesy, a Romish priest, and taken before a Committee of the Irish Parliament, it also appeared that the prisoner, by the name of Pope Benedict XIII., in compliance with the request of the Romish Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland (who had conspired, with others of the Romish communion, to exterminate King George II. and the Royal family, and to place the Pretender on the throne), issued his Bull to facili tate their treasonable intentions, and sent them an indulgence for ten years, in order to raise a sum of money, to be speedily applied to restore James III. to the throne. This Bull further enjoined, "that every communicant, confessing and receiving upon the patron days of every respective parish, and any Sunday from the 1st of May to September, having repeated the Lord's prayer five times, and once the Apostles' Creed, upon paying two pence each time, was to have a plenary indulgence for all his sins." Under this Bull, it appears that the sum of 1,500 was ready to be remitted to the Pretender's agent in Flanders, at the time the conspiracy was detected by the vigilance of the Irish Government. (g)

dulgence and remission of all their sins. I can repeat, from memory, a part of the Bull in his own words; they are as follows:-"Urbanus Octavus, &c. Having taken into our serious consideration the great zeal of the Irish towards the propagation of the Catholic faith, and having got certain notice, how, in imitation of their godly and worthy ancestors, they endeavour, by force of arms, to deliver their thralled nation from the oppression of the heretics; and gallantly do in them that lieth to extirpate and totally cast out those workers of iniquity, who in the kingdom of Ireland had infested the mass of Catholic purity with the pestiferous leaven of their heretical contagion. (d) We, therefore, being willing, with the gifts of those spiritual graces, whereof we are ordained the only disposers on earth, and by virtue of that power of binding and loosing of souls, which God was pleased to confer upon us, to all and every one of the faithful Christians in the aforesaid kingdom of Ireland, now, and for the time militating against heretics, do grant a full and plenary indulgence, and absolute remission of all their sins; desiring heartily all the faith-ciation have published a handbill, containing extracts from the ful in Christ, now in arms, to be partakers of this notes here referred to. most precious treasure.

"Dated at Rome, in the Vatican of St. Peter's palace, May 25, 1643, in the 20th year of our Pontificate. "A. M. MARALDUS."(e)

He also wrote to the rebel O'Neal, October 18, 1642, and to the Popish clergy and nobles of Ireland, to the same effect.

Q. Were many persons murdered in the year 1641?

the memory of Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer; on which

(a) A noble monument has been lately erected in Oxford, to their names are written, bearing testimony to their constancy and unshaken faith in the hour of trial for the sake of the Gospel: From torturing pains to endless joys On fiery wheels they rode,

And strangely washed their raiment white
In Jesus' dying blood.

(b) Rhemish translation, Revel. xvii. 6. The Protestant Asso

(c) When the Rev. Dr. M. Montague, President of Maynooth College, was examined before the Parliamentary Commissioners, he swore that Menochius' Commentary on the Scriptures is a book to have, when he comes to the College. In this work, thus autho that every student in the Romish College of Maynooth is obliged

rized and obliged to be in the possession of every candidate for the priesthood, who receives his education at Maynooth, we have the following commentary on Matthew xiii. 29:

"Lest while ye gather the tares."-"Lest ye injure the good while ye endeavour to take away the bad. Add that those who are tares and bad, sometimes become good, Christ does not forbid heretics to be taken away and put to death, on which point Maldo natus on this place is to be consulted." Dub. 1814, Tom. iii., p. 28. In the list of books returned by Dr. Montague, the commentary of Maldonatus is mentioned as one of the standards of the College. His comment on Mat. xiii. 29, is even more exceptionable. many-Lugden, 1607, p. 296. It might almost be said, Ex uno disce

A. Yes; many thousands, and in a most cruel

manner.

David Hume, the Historian, sworn. Q. Can you inform the court and jury how persons are supposed to have been murdered in the Irish massacre, in 1641 ?

A. By some computations, those who perished by those cruelties are made to amount to 150 or 200,000; by the most moderate, and perhaps the most probable accounts, they must have been near 40,000.(ƒ)

The Clerk of the Crown then read extracts from several sworn examinations, taken by virtue of commissions under the great seal of Ireland, recorded in the archives of Dublin, and in possession of the Clerk of the Council.

Dr. Maxwell, the deponent, said, that the rebels confessed to him that they killed one morning, in the county of Antrim, 954 persons, and 1,100 or 1,200 more in the said county. Owen Frankland and others said, that about 1,000 were drowned in one river, in the county of Armagh. Many others were murdered,-fifty at Blackwater Church. William Blundell was drawn by the neck up and down Blackwater, and three weeks after he with his wife and seven children were drowned. A wife was compelled to hang her husband; twenty-two Protestants were put into a thatched house at Kilmore, and burnt: 1,500 were murdered in three parishes; 300 were stript naked and put into the church at Loughgall, and above 100 were murdered. John Gregg was quartered alive, and his limbs were thrown in the face of his father, who was afterwards quartered in the presence of his wife. 500 were murdered at Armagh, besides forty-eight families near it. Eighteen Scotch infants were hanged on

omnes.

(d) What can those thoughtless Protestants, who have imbibed the notion that the spirit of Popery in the present age is liberal and enlightened, think of the following extract of a letter, written by a Pope to his Cardinals, when the policy of the French Government deemed religious toleration necessary?

"February 5, 1908.

"It is proposed that all religious persons should be free, and their worship publicly exercised; but we have rejected this article, as contrary to the canons, to the councils, to the Catholic religion, and to the tranquillity of human life. Out of the Catholic Church there is no salvation. The French system of indifference or equality, with regard to all religions, is utterly opposite to the Catholic faith, which being the only one of divine institution, cannot form any alliance with any other, any more than Christ can and established the independence of the Church of France, or league with Belial. It is false, that the Concordat has recognized that it has given a sanction to the toleration of other modes of worship."-Sergrove's Lectures on Popery, p. 18. (e) Trial of Lord M'Guire for high treason. (J) Hume's History of England, vol. vi. (g) See the extract from the Report of the Irish House of Commons in the Letters by Sidney, pp. 93, 94. Cork and London, 1823, 8vo.

It is said that Ministers contemplate removing the stamp duty now paid by newspapers, and the duty on advertisements. As a set-off, it is anticipated that instead of a duty of three-halfpence a-mile now paid by each omnibus, a duty of fourpence a-mile will be levied. It would be well even previous to the abolition of the newspaper and advertisement duties, if the oppressive impost of three-halfpence per pound on paper were removed. Nor can we admire the continuance of the duty on fire and life insurance-these are taxes on prudence.

THE LATE ELECTION AT LIVERPOOL.

MESSRS. HULL AND M‘NEILE,

The Liverpool Times publishes the following letter from the Rev. Edward Hull, of the Blind Åsylum Church, to the Rev. Dr. M'Neile :

"TO THE REV. DR. M'NEILE. "Dear Sir,-The political contest which recently agitated the community in which we live is at an end; and the excitement which such contests usually create in the bosoms of all who take a lively interest in the policy and welfare of the nation has, I presume, by this time subsided. I trust, there fore, that you will now permit me to put to you a simple question.

"On the 9th instant you addressed a letter to the editor of the Liverpool Standard-the language which you have made use of in that letter is perhaps capable of bearing, and may have been intended to bear, a different construction from that which has generally been put upon it. The general impression is, that you intended to represent all persons who voted in favour of those candidates who defend the grant to the College of Maynooth, and the grant which is contemplated to aid the Roman Catholics in the education of the children of their poor, without calling upon them to forego, in their schools, the use of their own version of the Scriptures, as persons who *repudiate religion," and act in opposition to those great principles of revealed truth on which every duty ought to be performed;' as, therefore, I not only voted for such candidates at the late election, but have published two pamphlets (copies of which I take the liberty of sending you, and request you to do me the favour of perusing), setting forth the sound policy and the true wisdom of such grants, you will, I am sure, admit not only that I have a right, but that I am imperatively called upon to ask you whether the construction which the public has put upon your letter is correct or not?

"I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, "August 28, 1847." "EDW. HULL. The Liverpool Times publishes the reply of the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, which commences thus :"Sir,-Yesterday I received a copy of your paper and two pamphlets, in a blank envelope. It was by the merest accident that my attention was called to them, printed papers being sent to me in an abundance which renders the perusal of even a moiety of them absolutely impracticable.

"As, however, I did attend to these, and as your paper contains a letter, addressed to me, and signed by a clergyman of the town (the Rev. Edward Hull), I will not run the risk of being guilty, by neglect, of any retaliation of discourtesy; and therefore I request, under the circumstances of the case, you will do me the favour to admit this letter into your columns.

"Mr. Hull says to me :-(Here follows a quotation of Mr. Hull's letter).

"I answer, first, by transcribing the part of my letter here referred to:-(And here a long extract from the brochure alluded to).

My letter contained no reference either to the College of Maynooth, or to the education question, except as they are involved in those general principles, which seem to me to be inseparable from a real reception of Holy Scripture as a Divine revelation; but, as Mr. Hull wishes to know my sentiments on these subjects, I have no objection frankly to inform him.

"I think the endowment of the College of Maynooth sinful, because it is aiding and abetting other men in sin-in what we know, and believe, and have sworn to be sin. Concerning a large and influential portion of the things taught at Maynooth, I believe, with the Church of England, that they are blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.' I believe, with the Church of England, that the adoration of the sacramental bread is 'idolatry, to be adhorred of all faithful Christians." I believe, with the Church of England, that it is lawful, because scriptural, for bishops, priests, and deacons, to marry; and that it is unlawful, unscriptural, and in the highest degree tyrannical and injurious, for any human authority to impose celibacy as a condition of the Christian ministry. I might prolong the list, but enough is said to illustrate my meaning.

"At Maynooth, doctrines are taught which we of the Church of England have solemnly pronounced to be blasphemous; and practices are enforced which we, with like solemnity, have pronounced to be unlawful '-of course I mean those among us

who use the English language in its honest simplicity, without any attempt to serve a purpose by pleading a non-natural sense. When members of the Church of England endow, or advocate the endowment of the College of Maynooth, although they cannot, in fairness, be accused of personally embracing the blasphemous doctrines taught, or of personally engaging in the unlawful practices enforced therein, they may, I think, be most justly accused of teaching others to do so. They are, in my opinion, partakers of other men's sins,' and this, on the authority of St. Paul, I deem to be sinful.

"I am aware it is often said, and I observe it repeated in your paper of yesterday, as a saying of Lord Nugent, that We have established the Roman Catholic religion as the State religion of Canadaas the State religion of Malta-we have established the Greek religion in the Ionian Islands, and recognised the Mahometan religion in India, and even rank idolatry, and, therefore, it is mere trash and vapouring to talk of the endowment of Popery in Ireland as a crime.'

Strathallan Leven & Melville Saltoun Selkirk

Gray
Sinclair
Colville of Culross
Reay, and
Polwarth.

Of these Lord Tweeddale and Viscount Arbuth nott will probably not again come forward, and Lord Reay is dead. But as yet it has not trans pired who are likely to offer themselves for vacancies, with the exception of the Earl of Dundonald, who has notified his wish to be returned.

The Irish roll contained 154 peers-viz., 10 dukes, 3 marquises, 73 earls, 17 viscounts, and 49 lords; and to these were added at the Union 7 others-viz, duke, 2 marquises, and 4 lords; in all, 161.

At present the Scottish Peerage consists of only 82 members-viz., 8 dukes, 4 marquises, 42 earls, 6 viscounts, and 22 lords; of whom 40 are also peers of the United Kingdom.

As the forty Peers of the United Kingdom sit in the House of Lords personally, they have of course no right to sit also by representation, and conse, quently have no voice or vote in the election of representative Peers.

"If the British Legislature possessed a well-1 authenticated commission from the great Author of truth, to repeal the laws which he gave by Moses, and explained by Christ and his apostles, and to supersede the Bible by its own statute-book, there would be force in this; it would, indeed, be conclusive. But if it be true that the law of God, as revealed in holy Scripture, endureth for ever,-that not a jot or tittle of it can finally fail,-that though heaven and earth pass away, not one word of that sacred code shall pass away; if this be true (and I believe this to be indeed the truth), then it may possibly turn out to have been little better than trash and vapouring to say, that because we have recognised and we have established idolatry, therefore it has ceased to be criminal.

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"On the subject of the education grant, my opinion is, that the Government scheme, in its present shape, is admirable, and well calculated to advance immensely the intelligence of the rising generation. Should it assume the shape which Mr. Hull appears to anticipate and desire, it would then, I think, in that branch of its operations, be liable to all the objections urged against Maynooth. The question is not, shall the Roman Catholics be called upon to forego, in their schools, the use of their own version of the Scriptures? (as it is softly glozed in Mr. Hull's letter;) but the question is, shall we engage, on a still more tended scale than at present, in aiding, abetting, and perpetuating, by substantial endowments, blasphemous doctrines and unlawful practices-doctrines which we ourselves have called, and continue to call, blasphemous; practices which we have called, and continue to call unlawful? I am as anxious as Mr. Hull, or any other man can be, that the Roman Catholic population should be educated; but I cannot allow that anxiety to make me practically blind to the everlasting distinctions between truth and falsehood. The Rheims and Douay translation of the Scriptures falsifies that little: what is called the Douay version falsifies much. It contains the Church's notes. The Roman Catholics circulate no translation without note or comment.

Subtracting forty from the existing Scottish Peerage, forty-two remain, and subtracting again the sixteen representative Peers, we have only twentysix Peers who are unseated. Query, has the time not come when the whole remnant of Peers of Scotland should be created British Peers, or rather, when a Bill should be passed restoring them to their rights and privileges in the State as hereditary legisla tors?

Of the Peers of Scotland, upwards of twenty are likewise Baronets of Nova Scotia, as are also several English, and four or five Irish Peers. Of this latter body there is also to be a Meeting about the same period as the Peers' election, for the purpose of receiving a Report as to the proceedings now in progress at London for the revival of the rights of such Baronets as had grants of 16,000 acres in Nova Scotia, with their titles, by means of that particular legal process which is called "a petition of right," and also relative to the negoti ation commenced with the Government of New Brunswick, for grants of 16,000 acres, in favour of such Baronets as did not receive the stipulated territorial qualification with their titles, &c.

THE FUTURE SHORT PARLIAMENT.-The total number of all the Liberals, of all classes, in the House will be about 328. The number of Conservatives will be about the same. By Conservatives we mean Protectionists and Peelites. The hope held out, then, in the Ministerial journals of last month, of a clear Government majority of sixty, is utterly frustrated. There is no Government majority "One word more, on an expression in my letter, of sixteen even; no, nor of six. There is simply a which Mr. Hull has wrested from its context, and House equally divided; before which the Minister applied or represented me as applying to particular will have to place his measures, in entire uncertainty as to their reception. Nothing like this has ever What I understand, and what I intended my readers to understand, by an assembly so consti- been seen since the passing of the Reform Bill; tuted as to repudiate religion,' is an assembly con- except, perhaps, the brief experiment of Sir Robert vened on the avowed principle (or, as I think, want Peel, in March, 1835; which experiment, as our of principle), that neither true religion, nor false re-readers will recollect, quickly failed; though Sir ligion, nor no religion; neither Christianity, nor Robert Peel had then what Lord John has now-a anti-Christianity, nor infidelity, shall be any hind- body of three hundred attached and earnest suprance in the way of admission to all the privileges porters, who could be summoned, day by day, to and functions of full membership. Our Parliament each expected division; and who fought, as long as already affords a tolerable specimen. It will be there was a chance left, as if the cause had been nearly completed when Jews are voted eligible. solely their own.-Church Gazette.

voters.

"I have the honour to be, Sir,
"Your obedient servant,

"Aigburth, Sept. 1, 1847.” “HUGH M'NEILE. NAPLES.-Letters from Naples say that Santangelo, Minister of the Interior, has been dismissed, in consequence of Petitions directed against him from Palermo. It is also said, that the judge who condemned to death the brothers Bandeira and their companions has been assassinated. The bands of insurgents which overrun Calabria become every day more numerous and formidable.

In Liverpool, the Stipendary Magistrate, Mr. Rushton, has committed several Irish beggars to jail, they having refused to be sent home to their own parishes.

The Prince de Joinville was at Naples on the 3d inst., and it was remarked that a very active correspondence was carried on between him and Count Rossi, the French Ambassador at Rome.

The Papal Bulls appointing the Rev. Dr. Derry to be Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert, have arrived.

IRELAND.

"6. Repeal of excises, and the diminution of customs to a more equitable standard.

"7. Repeal of Peel's Currency Acts. "8. Independence of every Minister who thinks these things of no value-an independence to be guarded alike against friendship and against interest; and, therefore, an independence only to be preserved by a rigid abstinence from intercourse with unfriendly Ministers as much as possible, and especially from asking favours or accepting such. 9. The avoidance of every subject that can offend or divide Irishmen, more particularly of subjects of difference between Roman Catholics and Protestants; and ample security to the latter for the maintenance of their rights and properties after Repeal shall have been accomplished.

There are other illustrations, but for brevity's sake I omit them: and (as I have asked Mr. John O'Connell) I now ask you, whether you and the Confederation cannot, on the basis of the foregoing propositions, co-operate heartily with so humble an individual as myself?

"As I leave town almost immediately for England, an early answer will much oblige "Yours, very faithfully,

"T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY. "William S. O'Brien, Esq., M.P."

To this the Secretary replies, that Mr. O'Brien had not yet returned to town, but that Mr. Anstey's communication had been made to the Council, who, as individuals, expressed their concurrence (as well as they understood them) in the views submitted in his letter. Whereupon the Hon. Gentleman responds as follows :

"Prince of Wales Hotel, Sackville-street, 24th August, 1847.

"Dear Sir, I am favoured with your reply of this date to my letter of the 21st inst. to Mr. Smith O'Brien, informing me that in consequence of his not having returned to town, you had read that let ter to the Council of the Confederation, who had instructed you to reply.'

"I have now to request your attention to the enclosed note of the 22d inst, which I received late last night from Mr. John O'Connell, in reply to mine of the 21st inst., mentioned in my letter to Mr. Smith O'Brien.

"We, the Repealers, have an immense work opening out before us, and we cannot spare help. When we have gathered all our forces, we are not too many. We must co-operate.

"Shall all co-operate? or shall it be a few ? There cannot be a question that, if attainable, the co-operation of all is first to be aimed at. Now, this is what I propose to you and Mr. J. O'Connell.

"Take the example of Youghal, and apply it to all Ireland. There were divisions in Youghal amongst Repealers; yet all there united to effect my return. How was this? They were agreed to maintain the principles asserted in my printed addresses, and explained daily in my speeches. It is not worth while to make experiment elsewhere of the fitness of the same principles to reconcile and unite Repealers of every grade of opinion?

"They were briefly, and in substance, these:-
"1. Simple and unqualified Repeal.
"2. Tenant right.

"3. Vigilant control over Ministers, and determination to bring guilty Ministers to answer for their crimes against law by the constitutional method of impeachment.

"4. General solicitude for the maintenance and application everywhere (even in cases not immediately affecting Ireland) of the same great truths involved in the assertion and pursuit of Repeal of the same rights and duties there at issue-of the same hatred and resistance to usurpation and wrong, in which alone the agitation of that great measure finds its justification. I need not particularize. International law, internal franchises, colonial charters, &c., all are concerned in this.

5. Direct and local taxation, and the consequent abolition of all Parliamentary taxes, and the withdrawal of the tax gatherer, and the separation of

for my opinions on the general principles as well as the details of politics.

"I am happy to congratugate you on your return, and am very faithfully yours,

tunity now offered me of becoming a member of a body possessing such principles, I may very naturally injure my capacity to serve, and at all events I cannot possibly forward the good work of reconciliation which my constituents so much desire. By joining that body I do not place myself in antagonism to any section of Repealers, but rather in a position to co-operate usefully with all. "I have, therefore, to request the honour of being. admitted into the Confederation as members; and further, of being employed as such in any way which may be thought suitable towards the promotion of its objects.

one of its

"I remain, dear Sir, yours very sincerely, T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY.

"To D'Arcy M'Gee, Esq. "Secretary to the Irish Confederation, &c." Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN addressed the Meeting at great length, and with hearty good will denounced his former confederates and present place-jobbers, the gentlemen of Conciliation-hall, concluding by stating that he believed the question of repeal would force itself upon England in such a way before long, that the only point to be settled would be, whether the act of union be repealed, or whether a separation should take place between the two countries. (Loud cheers.)

After some further speaking,

The Rev. Mr. KENYON, Roman Catholic clergyman of Templederry, county of Tipperary, came forward to address the Meeting, and was received with tremendous shouts of applause. When silence was obtained, he proceeded to read a Resolution to the following effect," That the beneficial effects of the anti-place-hunting policy of the Confederation, were fully proved at the late elections in this country." The Rev. Gentleman said,-When England assumed the trouble of legislating for Ireland, he had a right to say it was not for nothing, and to her interference he attributed their present destitution (hear, hear); and as they did not want to pay her for the trouble she took, they had no objection to legislate for themselves, and they would do so. (Cheers.) What had her interference done for Irishmen? It had starved them, as he would very easily show by putting a very plain case. (Hear, hear.) If a juggler put a loaf of bread under a hat, and after a while lifted the hat and showed that the bread was gone, even although he held his hands behind his back, he (Mr. Kenyon) would not believe that there was not some sleight-of-hand practised, some juggle performed; therefore, when he saw the Irish people starving, he could not but think that it was owing to the sleight-of-hand of the English juggler (cheers), who robbed and plun"J. Anstey, Esq.' "JOHN O'CONNELL. dered them of their domestic Legislature. The "You will perceive that Mr. John O'Connell juggler had deluded them, and placed them under passes without notice every one of my statements, his dominion, and their business was to see how he and every one of my propositions; that he neither was to be shaken off. But how could this be done! contradicts nor admits the first; that he neither Did they think it an easy matter? No such thing. accepts nor declines the latter; and that he altogether He would ask, Was it to be done by a man saying, and peremptorily refuses to entertain any correspond-"I am a Repealer?" (Laughter, and cries of "No, ence with me on the subjects of both. no.") If a man said, "I am a Repealer," and at the same time keeps besieging the door of the Minister, dines with him three times a-week, and continues to beg for a place in the Excise for this person, and in the Customs for that, he (Mr. Kenyon) did not think such a man would repeal the Union. (Loud cheers.) No, he could as soon drag the sun from the heavens. Repeal was to be won by the exertion of moral force properly understood (cheering), by an undying hatred of English dominion, and, in their official capacity, by a hatred as intense of the executors and administrators of that dominion. (Cheers.) If they cherished that holy hatred-if they taught it to their children-if they acted on it-then they might entertain hopes of repealing the union. (Cries of "Hear.") He had penned down a few words in common use amongst those men, and had considered the meanings for merly attached to them with their recognized mean ings at the present. First, there was "Nailing the colours to the mast." In unsophisticated eyes that phrase meant a determination to stand by any cause in which men embarked. (Hear, hear.) Now it meant a half-starved cur with his tail between his legs running away from the light with a mouthful of kitchen stuff. (Loud laughter, and cheers.) Now he would give his definition of "moral force." "Moral force," as at present used and employed by trading patriots, was a figure of speech-a metaphor signifying that a man may have his eye knocked out, his legs cut off, or any other conceivable sur

"On the other hand, the Confederation have not only taken these matters into their consideration, but have signified through you their complete and hearty acceptance of every one of those points, whether of statements or of suggestions, which, in redemption of my promise to the people of Youghal, I had promised to Mr. John O'Connell and to Mr. Smith O'Brien; and I am happy to add, that I have also received from the latter gentleman, since his return to Dublin, the same expression of concurrence. "If the matter rested here I should hold myself bound in duty to my constituents to become a member of the Confederation, so entirely in accord with themselves upon the great and important questions to be debated in this present Parliament. How, then, can I hesitate when I find, that in joining that body far from excluding the chance of usefulness in promoting the union of all Repealers, I further it, and that by joining any other body of Repealers hostile to yours, or (which is the same thing) declining to enter into any negotiation with yours, I do, in fact, exclude it altogether? For whilst the leader of the Repeal Association refuses to entertain my proposals, your Confederation accepts them; and whilst I gather from his silence an unwillingness to co-operate with any but Conciliation-hall Repealers, I am expressly informed by you that, on these principles (viz., those set forth in my letter to Mr. Smith O'Brien) you are prepared to act, and anxious to act with repealers. By neglecting the oppor