Its origin I ascribe to Popery; and by the Pope, as head, I believe that it is kept up, through the bishops, priests, and monks-friars and nuns, white, black, and grey,&c., &c.-through all the multifarious grades of that scourge of the human race, which form the body politic of Rome.

Mark the contrast between the Protestant provinces of Ireland and those immediately adjoining, where the Popish religion prevails. Look on that picture, and on this." In the one, we perceive harmony, industry, wealth, contentedness, and good order; in the other, assassination, idleness, squalor, and famine, with its attendant train of disease. Here is a remarkable fact, which may well rivet attention. Parts of the Continent proclaim the

IRELAND AND ITS MISERIES, TOGETHER | question, How is the plague to be stayed? how is WITH THE ORIGIN AND CAUSE OF AS- this most disgraceful and treacherous state of society SASSINATION IN THAT COUNTRY. to be purified and reformed? It may be difficult to eradicate by any measures, crime thus, as it were, The history of Ireland presents the sad retrospect naturalized nearly from time immemorial in the of scenes of rapine, murder, and other enormities, country; but I think such heavy blows and great unequalled in any country in the world professing discouragement might be dealt against the perto be civilized, and to hold the benevolent doctrines petrators as, in progress of time, to produce the of Christianity. Of this terrific state of the com- desired effect. And, first, I would propose munity, it is certainly of the highest importance to that an Act of Parliament be passed making investigate, and, if possible, to trace the cause. If it an offence for any priest or others, under any the deep-seated and festering sores can be probed to pretence, to conceal the knowledge, in any, of the the bottom, some bold, humane, and skilful hand intention to commit crime, on account of which the may be found able to apply a remedy. law awards a capital punishment against the offender. In the sight of God murder is alike heinous on whomsoever committed. Is it not well knwn that a Papist in Ireland will not commit murder unless he is assured of having the priest's sanction, or at least absolution after the offence. This Mr. Ryder has undeniably made manifest, and indeed it was notorious before. Third, After the culprit has proclaimed his innocence on the scaffold, let there be no retiring with the priest for the purpose of being absolved from his last lie. Fourth, In the event of murder following a denunciation from the altar, let the priest who had denounced his fellow mortal, be on conviction transported for life. In suggesting these, the only remedial measures which offer at present, I do so in the confidence, that good would result, and that if some such laws be not now enacted, others much more stringent will ere long be demanded in the progress of eventsunless, indeed, the Romanists succeed in getting their iron heels on the necks of Protestants, which may God in his infinite mercy forbid! I have no more doubt that a struggle for our lives and liberties is at hand, than I have of its having already taken place in Spain, in France, in Belgium, in Germany, in Poland, in Austria, in the Tyrol, in Italy, in Ire. land, and in other countries out of Europe with what success let the page of history and the present state of these countries declare. If we in this favoured land, with all these examples before us, are still blind to the plots of Papists, and the continual undermining by them of our Protestant faith, the time must arrive, when the increasing numbers of our deadly foes will induce them to take up the knife.* Then, indeed, but late, it will be manifest, that as a nation we have been deceived, and fallen under a judicial blindness. But let the traitors, and guilty compromisers with traitors, tremble.

same.

Again, it is notorious that the poor stultified peasantry-ay, and not they alone-attach the very last importance to the confessional, and to the absolution of their priests; being taught to believe that there is no entrance into heaven without their aid, and that with it, any crime may be committed with impunity, and that they, as culprits, may deny upon oath, in the most solemn manner, the most heinous acts, even murder itself, provided they can obtain for their crimes the absolution of the priest before the last award of the law is put in force. This appears to be the case beyond contradiction by the confession, and exposé of the Rev. Mr. Ryder, a converted priest. In proof of this, and in corroboration of Mr. Ryder and others, it is highly deserving of remark, that notwithstanding the many thousand acts of assassination, and black crimes in addition, perpetrated by the ignorant and revengeful multitude, of which the priests must have been cognizant, not one of these reverend, or right reverend gentlemen, have ever come forward, to stay this torrent of bloodshed by turning Queen's evidence. Here, then, is an explanation of the difference in the condition of Protestant and Popish provinces, and an additional proof that the Pope, the bishops, and the priests are the origin, and upholders, and exciting cause of all the evils which

desolate Ireland.

But it is asserted that the confession of crimes by individuals to the priest is a sacred trust, not to be challenged on any consideration. If such be the case, if there be any warrant of Scripture for behieving this to be the case, let the passage be cited. But Scripture is not inconsistent with itself, and we read in Scripture that the Almighty denounces his severest displeasure, not only against the dishonest man, and the thief, but also against that man who consents by his silence to the crime of the thief. How much more, then, against the perpetrator and abettor of murder! But we have had numerous instances in Ireland, of the priests' denouncing men from the altar, for reasons best known to themselves, and have seen that murder has quickly followed such denunciation. It cannot, it is true, be said of the priest's own foot, that it is swift to shed blood; no, they take good care to keep their own necks out of the noose; but do they not increase their crime tenfold by setting their poor dupes on, to gratify their long cherished and deep revenge against their Protestant brethren? "Shall I not be avenged on such a nation as this, saith the Lord?"

The harmony which subsists in nations on the Continent of Europe between the Protestant and Romanist portions of the community, as in Prussia and in Austria, suggests to some the idea that the same harmony should be found in Ireland; and they, therefore, hope that by sacrificing all to Popery, there must result peace and harmony. But the ample page of history proves such ideas to be but vain imaginations. We need only take into account the great elementary difference which exists between the despotic power, exercised in these nations, and the freedom conferred by equal laws in Great Britain. Well does the Popish priest know, that if in those countries he endeavours to incite the subject to rebellion against the monarch, or to stimulate the ignorant to plot against the State, or against an individual, he would instently, and even on mere suspicion, find himself in limbo, at the dictum of a Metternich or Hardenberg, in one of the dungeons of Olmutz or Spielberg, where he would have abun. dance of time allowed him, to repent of his pranks. Well do these Right Reverends, Reverends, and the laity, their abettors, with the Pope at their head, know, when, and where, and to what extent, they may go, in plotting and in undermining the laws, and safety of any realm, which stands in their way in the acquirement of universal domination over the bodies and souls of men. At present they find they cannot do better than share power and pelf with the despot, and so they play In short, were it not for the confessional (of which his game, which is their own in part. Let me conit has been justly said, that it is too exquisite a piece clude by entreating the attention of statesmen to the of wickedness for the Devil not to have been the serious consideration of this momentous subject, and author of it) the shocking crimes which disgrace that in all its bearings; assuming it as a first prinIreland (over a great part of which nominally Chris-ciple that success is dependent on the blessing of tian land are found deeds, which leave the acts God, and that that blessing can be expected upon of the savages of the Polynesian Isles in the dis- such measures only, as are undertaken in conformity tance), we may confidently say, a happy change with his will; and also remembering, that the supwould speedily take place; for, I verily believe that porting and countenancing of any system of idolatry the natives, just as they are taught, are susceptible of good or ill, and are withal a generous race. But now comes the momentous and most difficult

* In Italy eighty Protestants were, one by one, taken out of a house, laid down and had their throats cut, just like so many sheep.-See M'Crie's History.

must necessarily be a high provocation in his sight. As to the great body of this nation-at present the first of nations under heaven (but deserving that name only from having been the Defender of the true Faith)-I still feel assured that they love the religion for which their ancestors fought and bled, and are still ready to follow their example in the defence of civil and religious liberty.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JUNE.-The wea

ther, during the greater portion of the past month, though extremely vegetative, has not proved sufficiently warm for the growing crops of wheat and spring corn; nevertheless, although it is generally admitted that harvest work will not be commenced very early this year, the accounts which have reached us from the whole of our agricultural districts speak in the highest terms of the prospects now presented in the fields. That the late rains have been productive of benefit to the crops, not a doubt can be entertained; and it is very gratifying for us to be enabled to state that very few failures are apparent in any part of the United Kingdom. It would, of course, be impossible at this moment to give any positive opinion as to the produce of the harvest; but we may state that present appearances induce us to hope that a most abundant crop of each kind of grain will be secured this season. But all now depends upon the weather; and should that prove fine during the next four weeks, we should not be surprised to see samples of new wheat in Mark-lane in the early part of August. The frequent showers of rain have considerably impeded the operation of the haymakers. The crop of grass is undoubtedly a heavy one, and, with the aid of warm weather, a very large quantity of hay will be secured this season. It is, therefore, very probable that the value of hay will rule very low for some months hence. The show for fruit in Herefordshire and elsewhere, is good if we except that of apples; and the various markets have been exceedingly well supplied for the time of year, at moderate prices. The potato crop is now commanding the most serious attention of all classes. The potatoes which have hitherto appeared on sale have been wholly free from disease, and we sincerely trust that the general crop will be equal to our wants. From Ireland and Scotland our advices are to the effect that very large arrivals of foreign corn and flour have taken place, and which have had the effect of reducing the value of those articles.

EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH.-On Wednesday some very interesting experiments were made by Mr. John Bennet, in Her Majesty's dockyard at Woolwich, in the presence of Captain Sir John Ross, Commander Ryder, of the Vixen, Colonel Cator, and several officers connected with the dockyard. The chief object of these experiments was to show the value of the "Nautilus" in the preservation of human life at sea, or when exposed to danger by accidentally falling into the water. Three men were sustained by one belt with perfect ease. The boat of the Vixen steam sloop was rigged as a life-boat in a few minutes, and filled with water, in which state she supported six men. Upon the valves being opened she rose from the water, leaving about six inches in her bottom. Three tubes were lashed together, thus forming a raft for the purpose of conveying troops over rivers, in absence of bridges and boats. These life preservers appeared to be exceedingly light and portable, and were applied to the various purposes in a few seconds. The experiments called forth the warmest commendation of all those who witnessed them.

The late Venerable Chancellor Pott has bequeathed large sums of money in charity. He made his will on the 4th of January last, and concluded it with these impressive words :-"With the deepest sense of gratitude to Almighty God, who hath prolonged my life to this day, and, above all, for the access to the Father through the mediation of Christ and by the Holy Spirit, the sole ground of all my hope for pardon and acceptance at the throne of grace, I sign and seal this my last will and testament." He died at his residence, Woburn-place, on the 17th of February, at the advanced age of eightyeight. It was his own request that his remains should be deposited with his honoured parents, in the church of St. Mary Aldermanbury, Bow-lane; but it was his wish, should he die at or near Exeter, to be buried in the Church of St. Peter's, in the city of Exeter.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE.— -A Meeting was held on Thursday evening at Lawson's Assembly Rooms, when Mr. D. W. Harvey met a numerous body of the electors, to make an exposition of his political sentiments, after which a Resolution was passed, declaring him to be a fit person to represent the borough, and the determination of the Meeting to support him.

SALISBURY.-The Protestant feeling is extending and deepening. The Times cannot check it, nor its ample broadsheet extinguish the rising spirit of Protestantism. Salisbury is but another instance, in addition to those which we have almost daily to record, of the determination of electors to acquit their consciences as responsible men, in the face of their God and their country. Should it ever be otherwise in that city where one of the brightest stars of the Reformed Church, Bishop Jewell, once preached? Dissatisfied with Mr. Wall's pro-Popery policy, the electors of Salisbury have signed the following, and are preparing a requisition, to a gentleman of sound Protestant views to come forward:-"We, the undersigned electors of the borough of New Sarum, alarmed at the countenance lately given in Parliament to the Church of Rome, especially at the endowment with public money of places of education calculated to promote the growth of Popery; and deeply impressed with a sense of the danger to which the Protestant institutions of the United Kingdom are thus exposed, feel compelled to declare, that we can give no support to any candidate at the ensuing election until we shall receive the assurance that he will oppose any attempt to establish or endow the Church of Rome within these realms, or to grant any portion of the public funds to any institution for educational or other purposes unfavourable to the maintenance of the Protestant faith. We therefore beg that you will, at the earliest convenient period, inform us whether you will, at the expected election, give the

assurance to which the above declaration refers."

BEVERLEY.-The resignation of Sir James W. Hogg, Bart, as one of the candidates of this borough, at the ensuing election, is in the hands of his friends, and a Meeting of the Conservative Association has been called to take steps to obtain a candidate to

succeed him.

DOVER.-Sir George Clerk is taking steps for securing his election.

ESSEX (NORTH.)-A fourth candidate is in the field in the person of Mr. Fyske Harrison, of Clopford Hall. He comes forward as a Conservative of moderate views, but appears to have no supporters.

ST. IVES, CORNWALL, JULY 1.-Lord William Powlett has issued an address informing the electors of his intention to wait on them in a few days as a candidate for their representation in the next Parliament. We have no other candidate as yet. LINCOLN.-A very large meeting of the electors took place on Wednesday night, called to afford Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton an opportunity of addressing them. Mr. Williams, solicitor, presided. Sir E. B. Lytton, who had been canvassing on Tuesday and Wednesday, but who had issued no address or declaration of his intention to become a candidate, delivered an address; in the course of which he called upon the electors to consider whether he was worthy to hold the place of their representative in Parliament.

LANCASHIRE (NORTH). A contest for the northern division of this county seems now inevitable. A deputation was on Tuesday sent down to Preston, of which Mr. Geo. Wilson, late Chairman of the League, formed one, for the purpose of concerting measures for securing the return of Mr. N. P. Grenfell, one of the Directors of the Bank of England. This gentleman contested the borough of Wigan in 1841, and run his opponents so close as to be won only by a majority of six.

HALIFAX. There are five candidates in the field for the representation of this borough. The two sitting Members, Sir C. Wood and Mr. Protheroe, offer again; the Anti-state educationists have called forward Mr. E. Miall; and the Radical section of the electors have resolved to support Mr. E. Jones, a barrister. Mr. H. Edwards, a resident in the neighbourhood, possessing considerable local influence, has also offered on the Conservative interest; and it is not improbable that he and the Chancellor of the Exchequer may be returned.

HEREFORD.-Mr. Pulsford retires on the plea of ill health, and Mr. G. Clive, son of the late Mr. E. B. Clive, formerly Member for Hereford, has issued an Address, soliciting the suffrages of the electors, as Mr. Pulsford's successor. He declares himself a supporter of the present Ministry. Movements are taking place with reference to the approaching election. Many are dissatisfied with the votes of the sitting Members on Romish questions. They will not only express dissatisfaction, we trust, but will also take security against future treachery. CAMBRIDGE.-Mr. Adair and Mr. Campbell have coalesced, and their election is to be conducted by joint Committee.

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CARLISLE.-Mr. Dixon, of Knells, a Free-trader, Marshall's secession. is expected to occupy the vacancy created by Mr.

CUMBERLAND EAST.-Mr. Marshall has accepted the requisition to offer himself as a Candidate for East Cumberland, in the room of Mr. James.-Car

KNARESBOROUGH.-The Hon. W. S. Lascelles concluded his personal canvass of the electors here on Saturday last, and has since published an address, in which he states that the result is such as to leave no doubt whatever in his mind that when the eiec-lisle Journal. tion arrives he shall be placed by their suffrages in the position of their representative.

CARLISLE.-Is the cathedral city of Carlisle, the seat of a Protestant Bishop, to be represented again in the House of Commons by a Roman Catholic? CHRISTCHURCH, HANTS.-The electors of this borough are well satisfied with their present Member, Captain Harris, who has always voted on Protestant principles, and is, we hear, sure of being returned by a very large majority.

DURHAM.-IS Durham, with its cathedral, and University influence, again to be represented by a Quaker, as that of Carlisle seems likely to be by a Roman Catholic? Let Roman Catholics, while they have seats in Parliament, be returned by Roman Catholic constituencies, and Dissenters by those who hold similar views with them. But are those who talk so much of the power and importance of Church principles so impotent, or so indolent, as to allow those whose views are diametrically opposed to their own to be returned to represent them in Parliament ?

WORCESTERSHIRE, EASTERN DIVISION.-Captain Rushout, whose health we are pleased to hear is in a fair way of being re-established, will not retire, as he had originally contemplated. Mr. J. A. Taylor, the other member for the division, has now publicly expressed his intention to resign his trust at the close of the present Parliament. There is no doubt, therefore, that Mr. J. H. H. Foley and Captain Rushout will walk over the course at the ensuing election.

SALISBURY.-Mr. Chaplin, M.P., has issued his

EAST SURREY.-The Conservative party, disgusted and disheartened by the treachery of Sir R. Peel, have not brought forward any candidate; and it is feared that two Whigs will be allowed to seize the representation.

WHITEHAVEN.-There is very little or no doubt of the final retirement of the present Member, Mr. M. W. Attwood. The ill health of the honourable gentleman, independently of his advanced age, has for some time past. reduced him to a state of Parliamentary incapacity

TOWER HAMLETS. -Sir Wm. Clay has issued an Address to the voters. He says," As soon as the pressure of Parliamentary business will permit, I shall have the pleasure of meeting you in your several localities, to give an account of my stewardship, and to confer with you on the great questions which must hereafter occupy the attention of the Legislature, and which must, I fear, be, in no ordinary degree, difficult and anxious.”

LYME REGIS.-Sir Fitzroy Kelly is a candidate.

MONMOUTHSHIRE.-It is extremely doubtful whether Lord Granville Somerset will hazard a contest for this county, but, should he do so, the friends of Mr. Morgan and Captain Somerset have votes of Lord G. Somerset in support of the Peel not the slightest apprehension as to the result, the measures, and especially in favour of the Maynooth grant, having entirely disgusted his former sup

porters.

MONTGOMERYSHIRE.-It is expected that the present venerable Member, the Right Hon. C.

CARNARVONSHIRE.-The Hon. Col. Pennant is expected to walk over the course.

DENBIGHSHIRE BOROUGHS.-The sitting Member, Mr. T. Mainwaring, retires, and Mr. J. Le Wynne, jun., of Coed Coch, is actively engaged in canvassing the electors on the Conservative interest.

ANGLESEY BOROUGHS.-Lieut.-Colonel Paget, the present Liberal Member, retires. He will, it is expected, be succeeded by Lord George Paget, son of the Marquis of Anglesey.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, EAST.-The Liberals of this division of the county are getting up a requisition to Mr. Edward Holland, of Dumbleton, which was in course of signature at Gloucester on Monday. The present Members-viz., the Marquis of Worcester and Sir William Codrington, will again come forward on the Conservative interest.

HAMPSHIRE, SOUTH.-Lord Palmerston declines acceding to the requisition that has been presented to him, soliciting his Lordship to allow himself to be put in nomination as a candidate for the representation of this division of the county at the ensuing general election.

WYCOMBE.-Mr. Osborne has resigned all claims to the suffrages of the electors. In an address announcing his withdrawal he says:-"The unusual nature of the opposition offered to my re-election, (which, springing from no avowed difference in political sentiments, rests rather on an appeal to private prejudices, than the assertion of public interests) has led me to the conviction that the successful prosecution of a contest would depend more on the solidity of the purse than the purity of the principle; and as I would never seek to be elected on such terms, or unnecessarily expose some of my more humble but conscientious supporters to the temptations of corruption, or the threats of territorial vengeance, I have resolved to retire from a contest where no public principle is at stake, and which, so far from benefiting the Liberal cause, might, by disclosing internal differences, even endanger the existence of the Liberal party in your borough."

HERTFORD.-A Meeting of the Protestant Association and Reformation Society for the county of Hertford, will take place on Thursday, July 15. The Rev. Dr. Cumming, and James Lord, Esq., are expected to attend.

DEVONPORT.-We hear that there is a good opening here for a Protestant candidate.

PLYMOUTH.-The Protestants of this town are becoming more alive to the duty of opposing Popery; and we hope to hear of some good, not only attempted, but accomplished by them, with reference to returning good Protestants to Parliament.

WINCHESTER.-The Protestant Institute is carrying on a good work, and one which, we trust, will tell powerfully when the election takes place.

NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.-At a Public Meeting of the Conservative electors on Wednesday evening, Mr. C. Wykeham Martin announced his intention of retiring, solely on account of the opposition evinced by the anti-Romanist electors. Mr. W. J. Hamilton has, we are informed, been rejected for the same reason. This is as it should be. We hope the Conservative Committee will succeed in obtaining two good Protestant Candidates.

HASTINGS.-The expectations once held out that Sir Digby Mackworth would come forward for this town, is now no more to be entertained, as the worthy Baronet has complied with a requisition to come forward for Liverpool. We wish the borough of Hastings may succeed in getting as good a Protestant candidate as Sir Digby Mackworth.

DUBLIN.-Colonization for Ireland.-The Dublin

Protestant Electoral Committee are busily engaged, with the view of being able to secure the return of some good Protestant in the place of Mr. Gregory. To aid in this they have published"EXTRACTS FROM THE VIEWS OF W. H. GREGORY, ESQ., M.P., ON ROMANISM IN CONNEXION WITH COLONIZATION, WITH THE OPINIONS OF LORD RODEN AND THE BISHOP OF CASHEL OF THE SAME.

On Mr. Gregory's proposition, embodied in a Memorial to Lord John Russell, to have nearly two millions of the Irish emigrate to Canada, accompanied with Romish priests, &c., they observe :"In sending out colonies of Irishmen to Canada, Mr. Gregory would, 1st, Establish Romanism along

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LORD RODEN'S OPINION OF THE PLAN. One of the panaceas which had been lately put forward was a large system of emigration, from which there was a complete exclusion of the word of God. It was proposed to send two millions of the Roman Catholic population, along with their priests and the other paraphernalia of the Romish system, to Canada. A pamphlet has been written on this subject which had been quoted in Parliament, and a Memorial had been presented to the Government. This was taken up by influential classes, and might be forced the Government. This Memorial was opposed to Protestant principle and scriptural truth. He held that document in his hand, and he was pained to see it signed by men from whom he had expected other things. This document proposed to send a large number of their countrymen to Canada, and to make ample provision for their instruction by their priests in the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. He had received that document along with a pamphlet signed by W. H. Gregory, M.P., M. J. O'Connell, M.P., and J. M. Godley, to which he would give an answer from that chair,that he would be willing to listen to any proposal which would benefit the country, but he would not join in any plan which would deprive the people of the Word of God. His Lordship read extracts from the Memorial, which was signed, amongst others, by the Archbishop of Dublin, the Marquis of Ormond, the Marquis of Ely, Earl of Desart, Earl of Devon, Lord Farnham, Lord Jocelyn, J. H. Hamilton, M.P., R. B. Osborne, M.P., Hon. Spring Rice, &c.. &c., and which proposed that all the expense of this scheme should be paid by an income tax on the people of this country. He was sure the Meeting would feel strongly at the proposal of such a plan, which was concocted as if there was no God above them, no truth to guide them, no experience behind them, and no eternity before them. He could not think the Prime Minister would lend his hand, after the sentiments which were put forward in the prayer which he had sanctioned for the day

of national humiliation, to so unscriptural and un-Pro

testant an act. He felt that he had occupied too much of their time with this topic, but it would strengthen and encourage those who would resist this measure to know that they had been supported in their views by such a band of Christian men as he saw around him.

BISHOP OF CASHEL'S OPINION OF THE PLAN.

He agreed with Lord Roden as to the evils which would arise from the system of emigration which had been lately proposed, for it was nothing less than to send a second Popish Ireland into Canada. He would look upon it as a great evil if two millions of Roman Catholics were sent to that country, with their Priests, Sisters of Charity, and all their paraphernalia, to propagate Romanism. He believed such a plan would be only leaving Popery to increase in this country. No consideration of a mere temporary expediency should, therefore, take the place of right principle. He trusted that the Bible Society would go on and prosper, and that its great principles might be more widely diffused, both at home and abroad.

BOROUGH OF CARLOW.-Major Layard, the present Member, has addressed the electors as a candidate. There is, as yet, no opponent in the field. COUNTY OF CARLOW.-The Carlow Sentinel says:-"Colonel Bruen and his colleague, Captain M'Clintock Bunbury, will be returned without opposition."

CORK.-The election opened on Monday. Mr. Freeman, of Castlecor, proposed Mr. Leader. He denounced the late Government for its abandonment of the landlords; he denounced the present, and promised that Mr. Leader would oppose this Government; he would also oppose Repeal. Mr. Townsend seconded the nomination of Mr. Leader. Mr. Luke J. Thea, J.P., proposed Dr. Power as a Repealer and a supporter of tenant-right. The

Majority for Mr. Power.. -21 BOROUGH OF YOUGHAL.-Mr. Cury, the Duke of Devonshire's agent, has announced that Mr. Ponsonby will be a candidate for Youghal. The Cork Examiner says, "The honest men of the town will convince his Grace that neither a Cavendish, a Howard, nor a Ponsonby shall misrepresent them in the British House of Commons."

CITY OF KILKENNY.-The Repealers of Kilkenny, who form a preponderating majority, are determined to re-elect Mr. John O'Connell, in order, as the Kilkenny Journal says, "That he may sit for this city in case of a defeat to Repeal principles in the metropolis."

DUNGARVAN.-There will be no contest in this borough. The Master of the Mint, according to the Waterford Chronicle, will have a walk over. WATERFORD.-The present Members have addressed the electors.

CITY OF ABERDEEN.-Mr. Bannerman has signified his intention of retiring from Parliament, and Captain Fordyce, R.N., will solicit the suffrages of the electors.

FLINT BOROUGHS.-Sir R. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart., has retired, and Sir J. Hanmer, the present M.P. for Hull, is a Candidate. No opposition is anticipated.

FLINTSHIRE.-The Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn stands on the Liberal interest, the sitting Member, Sir S. R. Glynne, retiring.

DUNDALK.-The Anglo-Celt says, that Mr. R. D. Kane, solicitor to the Dublin and Drogheda and three other Companies, will contest Dundalk with Mr. D. O'Connell. Of course he goes on the "railway interest, which is not quite so strong in Ireland as in England.

THE TRIAL OF ANTICHRIST.

(Continued from our last.)

And in furtherance of your most evil and traitorous designs, you did adhere to and confederate with some of the most notorious and violent enemies of christ, with other false traitors, did, in several counour Sovereign Lord the King. You, the said Antidiabolical courts for the trial and punishment of all tries, erect and establish most awful, dreadful, and those who refused to own your unlawful authority. To these courts or tribunals you gave the name of Holy Office of Inquisitions, where the utmost cruelty was employed by your commission. You also appointed to superintend these works and mansions of darkness such as were zealously attached to your title of Holy Fathers of Inquisition, Holy Inquisitreasonable designs, and did confer on them the

tors, &c.

And you, the said Antichrist, did presume to declare that you had, by Divine right, power to introduce into the highest seat of dignity in heaven, some of the most notorious rebels against our Sovereign Lord the King. You did, therefore (what you call), canonize a considerable number of such false traitors as saints in heaven, both men and women, for the purpose of promoting your awful rebellion, by withdrawing the allegiance and affections of thousands from our lawful Sovereign, by venerating and adoring those creatures of your own forming, and thus promoting rebellion and treason in all the world to the utmost of your power.

And further, you did give encouragement to the most detestable murderers, traitors, and robbers, and appoint several places, called holy places of refuge, where every infamous character lived in safety by your orders, in defiance of every law human and Divine.

And further, you did proclaim the presumed power, to grant to those who were rich enough to purchase them, indulgences, which administered remission of all sins, however enormous in their nature they might be. You did therefore, especially in Germany, in the year of our Lord, 1517 (when you were known by the name of Pope Leo X.), employ several persons connected with you to circulate and sell the said indulgences for money; particularly a Dominican friar, known by the name of John Tetzel, who, in describing the efficacy of these indulgences, said, that "he had saved more souls from hell by these indulgences than St. Peter had converted to Christianity by his preaching."

You likewise commissioned others to plead in the defence of said rebellious acts. And one Cajetan, a rebel in your employment, did declare in support of your usurped power, that "one drop of Christ's blood being sufficient to redeem the whole human race, the remaining quantity that was shed in the garden and upon the cross was left as a legacy to the Church to be a treasure, from whence indulgences were to be drawn and administered by the Roman Pontiff," or you, the said Antichrist. And of these and other awful expressions you were the author when you were called Pope Clement VII.

And you did wickedly, wilfully, murder and cause to be murdered many hundred thousand subjects of our Sovereign Lord the King, who refused to own your assumed supremacy. To enumerate all the said murders would be a task impossible for men, if not for angels, to perform. But you did, by various instruments, put to death upwards of a millior of the people called Waldenses and Albigenses, whom you persecuted with fire and sword for several centuries. And you also burnt very many faithful preachers of the kingdom of our Lord. And you did on the 24th day of August, 1572, and few following days, cause to be murdered at Paris in France, 70,000 persons, who were massacred by one of your agents, called Charles IX., and who in a few years murdered 300,000!!! Within thirty years were killed in France, 29 princes, 148 counts, 234 barons, 147,518 gentlemen, and 760,000 persons of inferior rank in life, but whose blood equally calls for justice.*

And you, the said Antichrist, did in England, during the short reign of the ever-to-be-execrated Queen Mary, burn 1 archbishop, 4 bishops, 21 preachers, 8 gentlemen, 84 artificers, 100 husbandmen and labourers, 26 wives, 20 widows, 9 unmarried women, 2 boys, and 2 infants. And in Ireland also you did in the year 1641, cause to be murdered 40,000 persons. And in Scotland, Holland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, and other countries in Europe, and in South America, innumerable multitudes have been slaughtered by your rebellious arms, for the vile purpose of promoting said insurrections and treasons against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity, and against the form of the statute in that case made and provided. Art thou guilty of that treason whereof thou standest Clerk of the Crown.-How sayest thou, Antichrist? thou hast now been arraigned, or not guilty? indicted, and for which

some

time.) I do not consider myself accountable to any Antichrist.—(After remaining silent for court.

Lord Chief Justice.-Whatever opinion you may

entertain respecting your treasonable authority, it will not be adınitted here. You have heard the inguilty or not guilty. It is the law, and the common dictment read, and the course is, you must plead case of all men in your situation. Are you guilty or not guilty?

Ant-Shall I not be allowed to produce such authority as almost all Christian countries have admitted?

Some of the most eminent Catholic writers have proved my power over all law, andCourt. You must hold, and plead guilty or not guilty.

Ant.-Will you permit me to give my answer in my own words?

Lord Chief Justice.-There is no answer but what the law directs. You shall be heard when you put yourself upon your trial.

Ant.-I request some time to consider of it, for F have been very unexpectedly called upon.

Court. You must follow the direction of the Court. Guilty or not guilty?

Ant.-Shall I be heard, my Lord?
Court.-Yes, upon your trial. You must keep to

* Jeremy Taylor speaks with exquisite point and good humoured irony of the mode by which the Pope and his emissaries sought to establish his kingdom :-" Because the doctors of the Romish Church met with opponents at all hands, they proceeded against their adversaries; they confuted, at one time, in the town to a more vigorous way of arguing; they armed legions of Beziers, 60,000 persons; and in one battle, disputed so prosperously and acutely, that they killed about 10,000 men that of the works of the Church! were Sacramentaries. And this Bellarmine gives us as an instance This way of arguing was used in

almost all the countries of Christendom, till by crusades, mas

sacres, battles, burnings, and the constant carnificia and butchery of the Inquisition (which is the main prop of the Papacy, and does more than Tu es Petrus) they prevailed far and near, and men durst not oppose the evidence on which they fought."

the course of the law, either guilty or not guilty. There is but one of these pleas to be made. You trouble the Court,

Clerk. How sayest thou, Antichrist? Art thou guilty or not guilty?

Ant. My condition differs from that of others; I am now

Clerk. Are you guilty or not guilty? Ant.-I am speaking. I have known the time when none dare

Court. There are but three things to be considered. Either you must say guilty, which is confession, and then there remains nothing more but judgment; or not guilty, and then you shall be heard; or judgment will pass for your standing mute, which is the same as if you had confessed.

Ant.-Will you refuse to give me any satisfaction? Clerk-Are you guilty or not guilty?

Court. You have long been acquainted with the proceeding of earthly courts. Did you ever allow any prisoner brought before your tribunal the indulgence the Court has now granted you?

Ant. This is a special case.

Court. The law allows no course now but to plead guilty or not guilty.

Ant.-Who could suppose that I should plead guilty?

Clerk-You plead not guilty then. Is this your

plea?

Ant.-I do not acknowledge the indictment to be legal. I never called myself by the name of Antichrist. I am not the person.

Clerk.-You have been long known by that name. Are you guilty or not guilty?

Ant.-I am not Antichrist.

Clerk. Are you guilty or not guilty?
Ant.-I do not plead guilty.

Clerk.-Then you plead not guilty. Is this your

plea?

Ant. Since I must plead according to your rules, I say not guilty.

Clerk. How will you be tried?

Ant. I will be tried by the laws and cardinals of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

Lord Chief Justice.-I must inform you, if you do not put yourself in this case according to law, what you have said amounts to nothing.

Court.-You, the prisoner at the bar; if you will challenge any of the jury, you may when they come to be sworn.

Mr. Timothy Telltruth being called, was desired to look on the prisoner at the bar, and lay his hand upon the book, when the prisoner said, I utterly abhor his name, he is well known to be one of the greatest enemies to my government.

Mr. Jacobus Investigation, Mark Mercy, Gideon Grace, Titus Truth, Francis Faithfulness, Luke Love, Peter Peace, Jonah Joy, Matthew Meekness, Henry Holiness, and Venerable Virtue, being called, were severally excepted against by the prisoner. Court.-Antichrist, you know the law; you must say-I challenge him.

Ant.-I shall, Sir.

Sir Simon Sincerity was next called and challenged. Mr. Christopher Compassion being called, the prisoner said, May ask of what quality he is? Court.-No, Sir; you are to challenge or not challenge him.

Ant. I challenge him. Philip Trinity, Obadiah Obedience, and Grace Goodness being called, were also challenged. (Here the people appeared to smile.)

Ant. My Lord, I must make use of my liberty in this case.

Court. Certainly; we would not have it otherwise.

Reuben Righteousness and Virtuous Vigilance were next called and challenged.

Court.-Antichrist, you know how many to challenge. If you go beyond the number, you know the danger.

Ant.-Will you tell me what it is? I know nothing about trial by jury. All the prisoners that came before me had a very different trial.

Christian Charity was next called, and challenged, but the prisoner said immediately after, Let him be sworn. Court.-No, No.

Ant. I have no objection to his name. be sworn.

He may

Court. When he is challenged, it cannot be recalled.

Senhor Dominic Spain was next called. Ant.-Let him be sworn. He has known me a long time. Sworn.

Hosea Honesty, and Faithful Witness, being called, were both challenged.

Court. You have now challenged thirty.

Ant.-I wish the names to be read to me to see if it be so.

Court. When you come to thirty-five, you shall have the names read.

Vital Godliness and Experimental Religion were next called, and both challenged.

Mons. Most Christian France.-Sworn.
Corvinus Hungary.-Sworn.

Gospel Holiness, Scripture Morality, and Apostolic Testimony being called, were challenged. Court.-Now read the names to him.

(They were read-in all thirty-five.)
Proclamation was then made.

"If any man can inform my Lord the King's Justices, &c., before this inquest be taken, let him come forth and he shall be heard," &c.

(A considerable number of witnesses were then called.)

The CLERK OF THE ARRAIGNS then said-Gentlemen of the Jury, be good enough to look at the prisoner at the bar. You are to understand that he stands indicted by the name of Antichrist, &c., late of the City of Rome, in Italy, Clerk; for that he together, &c. (here the indictment was read) upon which indictment he hath pleaded Not Guilty. Now your charge is to inquire whether he be Guilty or Not Guilty.

The Right Hon. Faithful Investigation, his Majesty's Attorney-General, then proceeded to address the jury :-May it please your Lordship, gentlemen of the jury,-In the discharge of my official duty, I have the honour to conduct this most important prosecution. Gentlemen, it is highly important that the supremacy of the law should be preserved inviolate, that the peace of society should be secured, and that where crimes have been committed, the criminals should be brought to punishment. The law has been set at defiance ;-an usurper has dared to take his seat on the King's throne, which he calls St. Peter's chair, to exercise an authority which belongs only to his legitimate Sovereign; blood has, in consequence, been shed, and many lives have been lost. A most important charge is given to you. No man can have higher functions to discharge. In your hands are placed the public safety and the public justice of the country.

Gentlemen, I consider myself highly honoured that I have been selected as an instrument in bringing to trial one who stands charged with having been, for many centuries, the plague and curse of nations. The highest crimes of which a subject can be guilty are charged against the prisoner at the bar, who was the leader and original mover of many insurrections and rebellions, which have deluged the earth with human blood, and brought many, whom he had seduced, to condign punishment, both here and in the eternal world. It will appear in evidence, that the persons who were principally connected with, and who received their authority from the prisoner, were those who were concerned in the rebellions of 606, and of every succeeding century, in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, England, Wales, Scotland, Tend.-Nor I you, Sir; I never lived in your city Ireland, and most of the nations of Europe. or dominions. (To be continued.)

Court. You say very true. You may challenge thirty-five peremptorily, but no more, unless you can show just cause.

Sir William Worthy was next called, and chalenged.

Titus Tenderness, called.
Ant. I do not know him.

POETRY.

THE LILY AND THE LION. The lion is sleeping on England's shore, And the nations hear his voice no more; Beneath the lily's gentle sway

Surely the lion may slumber away.

The lily, the Queen of that garden-land,
Sits on her throne of mild command,
And everything smiling around her doth see
In the shine of her own felicity.

The lion is sleeping on England's shore,
And nations dare what they dared not before;
The lily still smiles in the summer unheeding
That she the might of her guardian is needing,

The lion is sleeping in minster-halls,
'Midst 'scutcheons and banners, and dizened palls;
While aliens the sacred vestments wear,
Who, if Rome reigns not, have no right there.

They have bound his limbs with fetters of flowers,
In whose covert a serpent his forked crest lowers;
Ere his venom shall strike to thy heart and brain,
Lion of England, awake again.

Ere Mary's image usurp the shrine

Ere worshippers kneel to the wafer and wine-
Ere saints, with none but fusting grace,
Peer from the walls with gaunt grimace.

Ere Royal Windsor shall be the home
Of wily legate from haughty Rome,
And our peerless lily, and buds on her stem
Droop on the Papal diadem.

Ere banner and 'scutcheon rent shall lie,
That heralded Brunswick's chivalry;
And deeds that laurelled the sire with fame,
Shall cover the son with deepest shame.

Ere our children die for their father's faith,
(God grant they all be true to the death),
And mother's hearts be pierced and torn
With the deadliest anguish woman hath borne.

Ere exiles we pine on foreign strands,
And strangers lord it o'er British lands;—
Arise, let the nations hear thy roar,
Lion of England, awake once more.

Awake for the altar-awake for the hearth-
Awake for the loveliest monarch on earth;
Awake and triumph o'er land and sea,
For THE LION OF JUDAH goes forth with thee.
EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR. Sir, The design of your excellent publication is so praiseworthy, and promises, if carried out as it has been commenced, to be of such essential advantage to the Protestant cause, that I cannot forbear warmly congratulating you upon the establishment of a periodical which cannot fail to meet with great and deserved success.

I shall, occasionally, feel great pleasure in furnishing you with information connected with the forthcoming elections in this vicinity.*

Our representative, who, as you will have seen by the daily papers, has been compelled to decline again to offer himself for this borough, has met with the reward of his apostasy and abandonment of principle. The honest and intelligent Protestant electors in the town turned their backs upon their betrayer, and left him to the tender mercies of persons who had as much regard for political honesty and fair dealing as himself. Finding himself abandoned by his former staunch and unflinching supporters, and that he could only reckon upon the votes of some fifty or sixty hangers-on, he clearly saw that he had no chance, and therefore ran away from the town. In his retiring address, he very modestly says, he is still ready to come forward in defence of those Conservative principles which first introduced him to our notice, evidently forgetting (or pretending to forget) what those "principles were.

He was not returned to vote for such a measure as the Maynooth College Endowment Bill; nor for the Dissenters' Chapels Bill; nor for Mr. Watson's Roman Catholic Relief Bill brought forward last year. He voted for all three of those Anti-Protestant measures, following in the wake of his leader and patron, and allowing himself to be dragged through the mire at his bidding. And now what is his position? Rejected by every honest right-minded elector in the borough. May every other member who has thus betrayed his trust be thus rewarded! *

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

JUDEX.

*We will thank our subscribers and friends in each locality to do the same.-ED.