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    October 2, 1852.] THE LEADER. 939

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    MOVEMENT AGAINST THE IRISH CHURCH. A " p...

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    News From America. Thk Liohos Islands. M...

    «¦ i <>« vessel within three miles of the colonial shores . 1 * Z to say , the despatches of Mr . Abbott Lawrence A ? Lord " Malmesbury are quite discrepant . There is « ome misunders tanding and some bungling somewhere . tut Tawrence seems to think there is no trouble a-head . t W 3 Malmesbury is not of that opinion . The Colonial r rrvcrnments-will not allow the Imperial Government to Sc with their rights or their interests . " The writer states that our Government is disposed , enforce the strict letter of the treaty , unless certain

    equivalents are given to the colonists . " The British Government , conforming to the views o f the colonists , have not the least idea of allowing- us to fish between the headlands of their bays , nor within three jjjjles of their coasts or shores , without receiving a full ivalent . rp equivalent required , it is said , is reciprocal free trade between all the colonies and the United States in all the productions of agriculture , the forest , and the sea of each ; and a full and equal participation in all the coast fisheries of the United States , including the nrivilege of wrecking , fishing , and catching turtle in the friilf and Straits of Florida , and other southern coasts . "

    Negotiations are announced as about to be opened at Marshfield , between Mr . Webster and Mr . Crampton . Mr . Perley , of New Brunswick , had been at Washington , imparting that information to the British Minister which he is known to possess , respecting the colonies . But the most important extract we have to present , is from the St . John ' s New BrunswicTcer . The reader will see what great expectations Lave been formed of ihe Derby Cabinet by Sir , John Pakington ' s despatch of May last .

    " In our last we published a paragraph , among the items of English news received by telegraph , which stated that the Imperial . Government had agreed to settle the fishery question by allowing the Americans to fish anywhere in British waters three miles from land , which would give them the privilege of entering most of our small bays and recesses of the ocean . We expressed our disbelief in this statement , as we thought the present Ministry would never consent to terms so manifestly unjust . We have now much satisfaction in informing the public that the reported settlement of this question is incorrect , no such terms having been agreed to by the Imperial Government ; and We . are also enabled to state , on the highest authority , that in the

    settlement of so important a matter , no rights which the colonists now claim or enjoy will be given up to foreign fishermen . We make this statement with the greatest confidence and satisfaction , and congratulate our fellow colonists on the disposition manifested by the Home Government to guard and preserve every right which fairly and honestly belongs to them . We can also assure our readers that the Government of this province is fully alive to the importance of the subject , and has taken the proper steps to impress upon the Imperial authorities the true state oi the case , ami the necessity of rofcaining all our rights unimpaired . The British Minister at Washington has also been made to understand the great importance of the

    fisheries to our own people , and we may safely calculate that whatever is done by him will be done with a view to subserve the interests of British North America . We have no desire to prevent our American neighbours from participating , to a certain extent , in the benefits to be derived from our fisheries , provided they grant us an equivalent ; but we will never consent to give up our fishing-grounds indiscriminately to the Americans for all time to come . The people of these colonies aro perfectly willing to treat with them in a fair and manly spirit , but they may rest assured ( hat all their energies will bo exerted to preserve their valuable fishing grounds from open spoliation , no matter by what nation it may bo attempted . "

    THE MEMOBY OV LOPEZ . ' At New Orleans obsequies were performed in houour of Lopez , on the 1 st of September . The- proceedings iire described in the JHcayune of the 2 nd . " Tho torchlight procession which was got up last night to commemorate tho anniversary of the ( Tenth of General Lopez , must have exceeded in magnitude the most sanguine ''xpedatioiiH of tho warmest friends of the movement . About , H o ' clock the procession commenced moving down Itoyul-Htrcet , from Canal , whero an immense crowd assembled to neo it form . First went , tho different companies <>• IIki Washington Regiment , under tho command of * ' <_> loiiel Wood , who was surrounded by a numerous stuff with brilliant uniforms . Next came tho returned Cuban 111

    I . ' '"" ' ' "; with a largo illuminated lantern , bearing on ono * < ' an inscription designating them , and on the other , ' . ¦ "eaten , but not conquered . " A hearse , with all tho in-1 'K "a ol mourning , and hearing on its sides the names of " pez , Crittondcn , Kcrr , and others , was tho next and >» oh | , striking feature of the procession . Threo pull-bearers walked at each Hide . Them cumo a largo body of Cubans *'"' j nre exi | ,., l in this city ; and then followed a multitudo ¦ iromoii and citizens , whoso unbroken line , as they "iuvIkxI past whom we stood , seemed interminable . A ^ ' ¦ tf <> number of the members of tho Society of tho Lone 1 unu a ( aermun association , organized for the purpose . " practising irVinilllNf . H-M , ¦ ,, 11 ,., ! Mm " Tiirnm-M " iiInm i «> m < .. l

    lui ( "'" ]»;<>< : ession . Last , of ull followed a number of wellul ( " " ' ''' IZ 0 UH <) " horseback and in carriages . As all moved in ' " lT' ' tf'wning torches , tho glancing bayonets of tho U , ' j . Hr - y > l ' K » y uniforms ol tho olliecr * , tho shining eups of tli !! , « " i " "''''"' ' Ull ( l n 'K ° ln <> breasts of many of Ih'Ti '" " "P cd the purely civic part of the procession , vario K Y ''" - Ul " " ' ' SI | 1 <«' " -i " <' , and banners of 'I'h > ' - " " ' ' g'iv « the pageant a truly imposing aspect , bau'i" 7 " ° " v <> ni 1 bands of music . Mo ' ssmor's celebrated JiinV ( V U VOIy ''"<» l >'" ce whieli bad been composed by Uveir | . ' ! ' niHi < m > '"¦»• iHcalled "Tho Lopez Dead March ?' " wiar i ! J !( ' nr < ) ugh which the ]) rocession passed , during c ol noarly two houru , waa crowded by poruonu of

    both sexes and all ages and conditions . The balconies and windows in the line of march were filled with ladies . Tho principal streets appeared as if the population of the city had turned out en masse . When the procession filed into Lafayette-square , Colonel Scott Haynes ascended a stand , and introduced W . J . A . Roberts as the orator of the occasion . That gentleman delivered a very spirited address , which was received with repeated applause . All passed off in the most harmonious manner , and we did not hear of an accident or a breach of the peace during the pjogress of the procession through the city , or at the meeting that followed . At the close of the procession religious services were held in the Cathedral , when speeches were delivered by Lieutenant Haynes and others . Interesting ceremonies were also held on board the steamer Fampero . Cuba continues in agitation , and the severity of the governor is not relaxed .

    October 2, 1852.] The Leader. 939

    October 2 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 939

    Movement Against The Irish Church. A " P...

    MOVEMENT AGAINST THE IRISH CHURCH . A " private and confidential" circular , issued by the Preparatory Committee of the Friends of Religious Equality , in reference to the Conference to be held in Dublin on the 28 th of October , came into the hands of the editor of the Dublin Evening Mail , who at once published it , the mark " private" notwithstanding . It is dated September 15 th , and subscribed by Mr . G . H . Moore . After an introductory paragraph , it continues : — " It has been deemed advisable that , at the present important crisis of public affairs , the whole scope and operation of the religious laws which separate the people of this empire into hostile castes , and which tend to degrade large classes of British subjects beneath the level of their fellows , should be submitted to the consideration of the legislature . Although some of these laws may be found more mischievously operative than others , it appears to be a general opinion that , as they are all parts of the same system , and have an equal tendency to reproduce themselves , and reappear at intervals in more dangerous forrfs of organization , it is indispensable , for a right conception of their fgreat capabilities of evil , that they should be brought under review at the same time , and with a regard to their mutual relations to each other .

    " These laws , or operations of laws , may be classed under four heads : — " 1 . The appropriation of the ecclesiastical revenues of the country—originally set aside for the religious instruction and consolation of the people—to purposes quite foreign to the spirit of that sacred trust . " 2 . The penalties or prohibitions which still attach to the performance of certain spiritual functions , or the exercise of certain ecclesiastical rights of order or jurisdiction .

    " 3 . The laws which still disqualify certain classes of her Majesty ' s subjects , on account of their religion , from holding various honourable and important offices in the state " 4 . Those more hidden operations of Government which , by a certain connivance between the legislative and the executive , between the wording and the working of the law , pervert the best and most benevolent institutions into instruments of persecution ; drain the bitter cup of poverty of its ono blessed drop of comfort ; and cheat even the gallant men who live and die in the service of their country of all that elevates life and consoles death . " The first in this list is styled tho " largest of these elements of persecution ; " and the circular says further :

    " The iniquitous anomaly of the Church establishment of Ireland may be truly said to be tho cause of every ovil , and to stand in the way of every good , in that country ; and it would bo superfluous to argue tho condemnation of a system which has been already denounced by tho voice of the whole civilized world . " On this subject , however , there are the widest differences of opinion ; nevertheless the time lias come , we are told , when this great question must be looked fairly in tho face , and come before the Legislature : —

    " Our complaint is , that large revenues , designed for tho religious uses of the great bulk of the people , have been diverted from the original purposes of their trust , and applied to a purpose which is not , on tho whole , ono of general benefit to the community . It may bo a question , therefore , whether , before we can hope- to obtain the consent of the legislature to another appropriation of those revenues , we must not bo prepared to point out to what extent we think that appropriation should be carried out , and in what way those revenues may bo most beneficially applied . " What the differences of opinion are , the circular

    proceeds carefully to enumerate :- — " Somo gentlemen aro for the withdrawal of all public funds from nil religious bodies ; for the appropriation of the revenue * of tho Kstublished Church ; for the repeal ol the Req lum Donum and the Muynooth grant ; and for tho complete establishment of religious equality , by the complelo removal of religious endowment . This arrangement , although it would find favour among a lurge section of the friends of religious equality , while it is liable to tho charge of being almost as complete an alienation of tho Church revenues from the original purposes of their trust as tho mode in which they are now applied , leaves still open the whole question of f . Kio application of tho funds proposed to be appropriated .

    "It is an opinion very frequently advanced , that these revenues should be applied to the relief of tho poor ; and this proposition is supported by the well-known fact , that such application wiis one of the purposes of ( heir original trust . 1 t in objected , on tho other hand , Unit , this allocation would be a virtual transfer of the funds to the owners of property now rated to tho relief of tho poor ; and that , ulthough a part of tho rovonuuo in quoution wua originally

    applied to the relief of the poor , it was a very different mode of relief , and worked by a very different machinery from that of the poor law . " Others have urged their application to the reliet ot county cess and other burthens upon land ; and it has been objected on one side , and denied on the other , that this proposition is liable to the same objection as the laafc . " The education of the people is another purpose which has been very generally advocated as more analogous to the original trust , and not open to the same objections as the foregoing ; but , after the experience , we have had of the purposes to which Government education may be perverted , the disposition of 800 , 000 ? . a-year in the hands of the Government of the day , for general educa 1 ion , might be regarded by many as a more dangerous engine of religious warfare than any the present Church establishment supplies .

    " Another suggestion to be considered is the very obvious alternative of restoring the ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland to the purposes for which they were formerly allotted , the religious instruction and spiritual uses of the whole Irish people . It has been suggested that the whole revenues of the Irish Church Establishment , after havingbeen appropriated and turned to account , should be divided amongst the three great religious denominations into which the Irish people are divided , according to their respective numbers , wants , and circumstances ; and that these sums having been thus allocated , absolutely , irrevocably , and without condition , the state should thenceforth leave each denomination , as far as their further wants are concerned , to the operation of the voluntary principle , and to their

    own internal arrangements . To this proposition , however simple and equitable it may appear , formidable difficulties have been suggested . Even if such a general arrangement were finally assented to , the good faith of the Government in carrying it out might reasonably be questioned . It is not probable that the present establishment , although , stripped of a portion of its trappings , would be allowed to slip altogether out of the harness of the state ; and there may be ground for apprehension that , in endowing other denominations of Christians with a portion of its spoils , an attempt might be made to fasten upon them a part of its subjection . It is clear , at all events , that great caution is necessary in this matter ; and that every step taken should be well and carefully considered .

    " A final suggestion is , that as each benefice or bishopric becomes vacant , the tithe rentcharge , episcopal palace , and revenue be sold , and the proceeds invested in the names of commissioners to be appointed for that purpose ; the fund to be afterwards appropriated as may be agreed upon . It has been argued in support of this proposition , that the appropriation of these revenues could not be hastily decided on ; and that by eliminating from the controversy the chief elements of discord , a greater amount of support would be procured for this first and most important part of the process . On the other hand , ' it has been objected that this proposition is blinking the whole question of the purposes for which this property is held in trust ; that it deprives our case of the greater part of its strength , and leaves it open to the charge , on the part of its opponents , of being a mere naked measure of spoliation for no definite purpose assigned . "

    Passing by the second and third topics with a few remarks , the circular dilates on the fourth : — " AVith regard to the fourth clement of persecution to which we have ventured to call your attention , we conceive it to bo one of the dcopest importance , and one on which statistical information is most required . Secret and widespread in its operation—stealth y and yet daring in its mode of action—at home and in the colonies—in the camp and in the hospital—in the school-house and in the poorhouse—from the orphan pauper to the strong but friendless soldier and sailor ; all are equally subjected to its sinister and subtle influence ; and it is therefore earnestly requested that this committee may be furnished with every information that you possess , tending to throw light upon the operation of this dark and dangerous agent ( if sectarian injustice . "

    The persons to whom the circular is addressed aro informed that , although the above mentioned divisions have been adopted , it is not intended to confine attention to them exclusively . Information upon nil pointo connected with the . subject is asked for , and co-operation earnestly requested .

    New Stkam-L»()Wklt. Australia Is Si L.Md...

    NEW STKAM-l »() WKlt . Australia is si l . md of wonders . When the white man first , landed on its coasts , lie lound that the natives killed their game with a weapon of a totally original construction , culled u " bomerang . " Some years ago we roinembcr hoys in tlieir teens playing with this weapon ; and young England , therefore , is fmniliiir with its Hliapo . Well , what shall we say to the application of this rude instrument of the aborigines of Australia to the steam ships of the western world r

    Yet the lust files of the fydnei / Mornhu ] Herald contain accounts of a now propeller , invented !> . y Sir Thomas Mitchell , the Surveyor-General of New South Wales , a trial of which in a small steamer fit that port , liad just , excited great , interest . It in called the Uomerang propeller , and is constructed on the principle of the weapon of Unit name used by the natives to kill gmne . Although the experiment was only on a sinull and imperfect , wale , a speed of twelve knots an hour ngiiinst , a head-wind is stated to have been obtained . The instrument is described to combine great strength and simplicity , while it bus also the advantage that its motion in the water causes but a comparatively slight agitation , ho Unit it in capable of being adapted to

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 2, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02101852/page/7/