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      • House Of Lords, Mosbat, June 2. ' Th E...

      • HOUSE OF LORDS , _Mosbat , June 2 . ' Th e _^ _txfSba & esbary sat as Speaker ata quarter _sefdre five o ' _clock-, in the absence of tbe lord Chancellor , _rWtooi "to seat on the woolsack soon after five . _ffou the presentation cf an immense _nomber of _petitionf , _fiorn aU parts _ofjOie country , against fhe Maynooth _EnJo-mnentBiH Ihe _toBT Chakcellok said , lie wished to call their lordsbftps' attention for a few moments to the case of Mr . CDriscoll . In consequence of what passed in that and the . other house of Parliament relative to the conduct

      of Mr . _OTlriscoll , a communication was made to the lord Chancellor of "Ireland , who did what it was his duty to do , by directing an inquiry to be instituted . Before that inquiry was brought to a termination , however , Mr . ( _-f-0 risconmisconducted _^ junself in such a manner with reference to proceedings in the Boll ' s Court in Ireland , as , iu the opinion ofthe Lord Chancellor of Ireland , _rendered it necessary to dismiss him from the magistracy , and he bad accordingly been superseded . ( Hear , hear . ) On the motion of Lord "Brougham the Debtors and Creditors Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed to Tuesday .

      THE X 4 V . S 0 OTH BILL . The Duke of Wellington , on moving the order of tbe day for the second reading of the Maynooth College ( Ireland ) BUl , said—My lords , I think it my duty to -request your lordships' attention whilst I state to your lordships the prindples of this measure , and the nature of the _p-npostion which has been submitted to your lordships in this _TnD _, in order to carry into execution its objectnamely , the maintenance of this institution . My lords , tbis institution was founded fifty years ago by the Irish Parliament , and this bill contains a recital of the _pro--risions of tbe acts try which itwas originally founded , and by which itwas regulated ; first , in the year 1800 , and subsequently in the year 1608 . My lords , it cannot be denied , and I will not stand here to be tiie person to

      deny , that those acts are inconsistent with the enactment of the codes of law by which the Befonnatien was established in this country and in Ireland ; but , my lords , although those acts are inconsistent with tbe enactment ef those codes of law , I deny that there is—and I think I can show to your lordships that there is not—anything inconastentin those laws-with the religious principles of the country , and that it was never so considered either 30 years ago or subsequently in 1800 , or in 1808 , and that it cannot be so considered at the present moment . My lords , in order clearly to -understand tbe principles on which those laws were founded , it is necessary that I should call the attention of your lordships to the state of affairs at the period when they were first enacted . The necessity for this institution was occasioned by the failure of the laws enacted to establish the Reformation in

      Ireland . My lords , those laws , and the enactment of those laws , had been resisted in Ireland from the period at which tbey had become the laws of tiie land ; plot succeeded plot , rebellion succeeded rebellion , forfeiture of property succeeded forfeiture of properly , and at length the country had become the seat of tiie operations ofa foreign and civil war in a contest for the possession of the throne . The Duke of Newcastle . —My lords , I rise to order . I beg to apologise to the noble duke and to the house for attempting to interrupt him , but preliminary to this discussion I would put this question to the noble dukewhether lie has the Queen ' s permission to make this proposition to the bouse ? ( Cries of " Order , order .- ' ) LordBaoUGHAH . —TMs is not speaking to order . ( Hear , hear . ) This is the most disorderly thing I ever witnessed in -my experience of Parliament The noble duke has not been speaking' to order . This ought to have been af ter the speech of the noble duke ( Wellington } . ( Hear , hear . )

      The Duke of Newcastle again rose , amidst loud eries of "Order , " and said—I wish to put the question , as it affects the Act of Succession , as it affects individuals , and as it affects the nation . { " Order , order . " ) Lord Beocghah . —I never will sit here and allow any mas to say that we hare not a right to enter on , to continue , and to close any discussion without the leave of the Crown . The leave of the crown is required only in one ccse , but it may he given at any period of the discussion ofthe measure , and that is when such measure affects tiie revenues or the patrimonial interests of the Crown . The Bake of Newcastle again attempted to address

      thehouse , amidst loud cries of "Order , " and . eventually -the Duke of _W-eixisGies was called onto proceed . The noble duke then referred to the history of the establishment ofthe college during the lord-lieutenancy ofthe late Marquis Camden . The necessity for educating the Boman Catholbs at home arose from the state ofthe continent at _fha time , over wliich the triumphant armies of the French republic were then marching ; and now that a different aspect of affairs had happily arisen , the Government _consideredit wise and properto continue a system of domestic education to fhe Boman Catholic priests who were to administer to the great majority ofthe Irish people the rites of the Roman Catholic Church . He admitted that the

      expectations _indulged in on tue first establishment Of tne institution had not been realised , but this he attributed to the scanty means placed at its disposal . The bill before * _3 ie house increased those means , and he hoped in future to see an improvement in the education , manners , and habits of the students . They had supported this institution for half 2 century ; during twenty years of that time the country had been engaged in war . "Whatever -might be the opinion as to the legal effect of the decision of their lordships on the "Writ of Error in September last , he believed there-was no man in his senses who now doubted

      tbat ii was absolutely hopeless andimpossible to carry any _measure by -violence or tumult in Ireland against the wishes of the Government and Parliament of this country . Standing thus intrenched , and without any danger whatever pressing on _ftinn _^ inowing as they did that the great body of persons engaged in tumultuous proceedings two years ago were Roman Catholics , it would look somewhat like persecution if , having supported this institution so long , they now _^ withdrew from it the patronage of the State .. He trusted they _irould gwe their unanimous consent to the "Mil .

      The Duke of Cambridge looked upon this as apolitical , not a religions question ; and as such , he contended it was in every sense one of the most conciliatory and wise measures that had been proposed for many years in Parliament The Government deserved tbe gratitude of the country for baring brought it forward ; and he hoped it would be eminently successful in that country for the advantage of which it was specially designed . Lord Bodes then rose to move the amendment of which he had given notice , for a select committee to inquire into ihe character of the education given at Maynooth , with the avowed object of getting rid of the bill . If , as he thought , the annual grant had been inconsistent with -the duty of a Protestant Government , much ' more was he opposed to this _measore , which permanently endowed an institution over which tiie State could not

      exercise the requisite control . He drew a broad distinction between toleration and endowment . The first ground laid for tins measure was , that it would tend to _concUiaietheRoman Catholics . _No one was more anxious than he was to conciliate his Boman Catholic fellow-subjects , but he could not consent to "do evil that good might come . " Instead , however , of being received as a boon , it had been hailed in Irdand as a measure extorted "by fear ; and he quoted the letter of Br . ffiggins to show that no conciliatory effects could result from the measure . "Sordid he think it would do anything to improve the sort of education given at Maynooth . It would merely afford faculties for recruiting the priesthood from the lower classes of the people . By a reference to the textbooks and many details in the history and conduct of the institu tion , the noble -Earl maintained that the system of instruction given there bad anti-social and disloyal tendencies .

      To ascertain that fact he proposed a committee of inquiry , and the people of England , who had petitioned so largely against tbis bin , would not be satisfied if investigation were refused . Sir B . Peel himself had , in 1810 , declared that he should vote for the grant -with much more satisfaction if there was an inquiry , which the principals ofthe college should be the first to promote , " when so strong an impression prevailed that their system of education stood in need of improvement . " If inquiry were thought necessary when the grant was annual , how much more now , when the endowment was to be permanent i This hxB was considered by the Protestants of Ireland as a heavy blow to their interests . Ihey felt that they had been betrayed by those whom they were taught to consider their friends , and tbey might well "be disgusted with the tine of policy that was pursued when they found that they were tobe sacrificed to the howl of a priesthood whichnad always been the enemy of British connexion .

      Tbe Bishop of Lokdoh thought the noble Earl had made ont a case for inquiry with , reference to the bill itself . After tbe most careful ana anxious consideration , he found himself tinder the painful necessity of refusing Ms assent to it , as involving a violation of one of tlic most fundamental principles of tbe constitution , while it held out ho prospect of such advantage as might be -thought to justify it on the grounds of expediency . The principles taught at Maynooth were calculated to make the priests democrats in politics , and in the church intolerant bigots . They were at once inconsistent with the faithful discharge of duty to the State , and utterly incompatible with the maintenance of peace in a commonwealth composed of persons baring different opinions . Could they be justified , then , in endowing a college to carry out such a system without at least exacting from those tobe intrusted with the working of it some distinct and definite pledge that tiie system itself should be improved , and its worst features removed ! This was tbe first link that had been forged to tie together the State and fhe Boman Catholic Church . He could not consent

      to any measure which would make the College of Maysooth an integral part of the constitution . He gave credit to the pure and charitable motives of fhe Government in bringing forward this measure . He could well -anderstand _th- _^ . embarrassment when they turned their eye to .-the map of Ireland ; but the right principle on which , in bis opinion , " that country should be governed was tbis—never for any ' consideration to do " what was clearly wrong iaprinciple ; to do ' their , best to discover what was right -. to follow it but honestly and fearlessly , trusting fin-the _^ Ksueto _' the Supreme " "Disposer of events , who , in accOTdance with His -written word , ' would deal fev' _-rarably with that nation which upheld His own truth , _w at least did nothing to impede its progress . " - " *

      TbeEaricf St . _Gehhahs vindicated . the provisions of the "tan , and insisted that the new system of bona fide and ¦ _" _^ ual visitation widen , ft c _^ tavned _wc-ald c £ _itse-tf do * n *« . to . improve the system of education pursued at _May--awt-fa . _< _Hxtiwrtetir « grMthad been wholly inadequate ; _wa-oieinEsarai y treatment the priests received at that

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      seminary rankled in their -annus long after they left it . By making the endowment in some degree commensurate with its important objects . Parliament would do much to insure their gratitude and conciliate their support . He recommended tbe measure as one of justice to the great * majority of the Irish people . The Duke of Maschebtes . opposed the bill , and read several extracts from evidence' given before various committees to show the injurious influence of tiie Boman Catholic priesthood on the minds of the people in Ire . land .

      Lord _Beavjxo-st , onthe partof "his _co-teugiotusts , emphatically denied many of the statements wluch had been made by the opponents of the bill . If they really believed the doctrines of the Boman Catholic Church to be as they described , the toleration would be a crime . He altogether repudiated the ultramontane doctrine of allegiance ; and it was not fair to quote books of no authority to prove that such doctrines wereinculcated at Maynooth . He did not regard this as an isolated measure ; if it were , it would not purchase the allegiance of the priesthood if it were alienated . Their charity must be extended to the working clergy . They must also do something for the laity , and already he was happy to tbink thata measure had been introduced elsewhere , which , faithfully followed up , would not only be a great benefit to the laity , but also to the higher classes of the clergy , by improving the sjstcm of academical education in Ireland .

      The Bishop of Cash-si , urged fhe necessity of inquiry . His own mind was indeed made up on the question , but inquiry would be useful to those who had not so strong opinions as he entertained , both with reference to the injurious system of separate education for ecclesiastics and tbe intrusion of Jesuits into the College of Maynooth . The main ground , however , on which he objected to this bill was , thathe could not be a party to teach what he conscientiously believed to be erroneous . It was not Christian charity or morality that he should teach to others what was antagonist to his belief as a Protestant by conviction ; and before the State could honestly and consistently endow a Bomau Catholic college she must _unprotestantize herself . He wonld infinitely prefer ihe voluntary system to the endowment of two antagonist Churches .

      After a few words from Lord Clifford in favour of the bill , the debate was , on the motion ofthe Earl of Hardwicke , adjourned till Tuesday .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS , _Mosdat , Juhb 2 . In reply to a question from Mr . Boss , SirT . FBEMAHTLE said , thatthe Lord Chancellor of Ireland liad felt it to be his duty to issue a supersedeas for removing Mr . O'Driscoll from the bench of magistrates for the county of Cork . The adjourned debate on the Colleges ( Ireland ) Bill was resumed by Mr . M . Milnes , who declared his intention to support tbis measure . Those who opposed it ontheground that it did not give religious education , were , in his opinion , guilty of a sophism in the sense which they gave to the word " religion , " They _saidthat . we ought to establish colleges for Roman Catholics on Protestant principles , or that they would not consent to the establishment of tliem at all . Such , language he considered to be equivalent to

      an absolute negation of all education to the uomau Catholics of Ireland . He saw no reason why such theological lectures as had been given formerly by Schleiermacher and Neander , and were now given by Neander in the ¦ University of Berlin , should not be given to the students of every religion in the new colleges of Ireland . He considered thatthe line of conduct pursued by the Boman Catholics of that country on this subject was not either wise or useful for themselves . Their education should be founded on the large _comprehensive continental basis , -rather than on the system of any religious hierarchy , The indirect influence which tile Roman Catholic hierarchy would exercise over students of their faith wonld be more useful to them thau any direct influence which we could place in their hands . Though he admitted that this bill made no pretensions to perfection , still he considered it to be deserving of his support . . .

      Lord John Rcssell agreed that this measure had no pretension to perfection , bat considered that to be rather one of its demerits than its merits . He eould have wished that the bill had been prepared witli greater care , ' and had not contained within itself so much crude legislation . It wonld require much alteration and much improvement to fit it for tbe object for wliich it was intended . . If the -dew of Ireland which Sir K . Peel hud propounded on a former night were correct , Government ought on such a question as that of education to have tried to knit together the affections of all the different classes of people iu Ireland , and to have made use of any instrument by which that great good could be promoted . He looked upon tbe Roman Catholic clergy as the instrument by which the affections of the people of Ireland could be best knit together , and by which their attachment to and respect for

      the law could be best produced . The co-operation , therefore , of the Boman Catholic hierarchy of Ireland might have been fairly , not humbly , solicited by tbe Government ; and tliat great element , by wliich success most be obtained er defeated , _onglit not to have been omitted in the COnCOCtion Of this plan . He found that the Roman Catholic bishops in their memorial implied a distrust that the faith and morals of the students iu these new institutions would be endangered by the measure which the Government proposed . Unless the Government could allay such apprehensions , the very best which it could hope for its measure was that it would be null , " whilst tbe fear was that it would be noxious . The Boman Catholic bishops would not derive any alienation of that distrust from the declaration which had been made in that house that we did not wish to promote Boman Catholic

      ascendancy . They would not look for comfort on the precedents which were to be found in the University of Bologna or in the universities of Germany , but would rather fly them as dangerous warnings . The Government ought , therefore , to consider " whether there was not some means by which it could make its scheme more palateable to the religious feelings of the Boman Catholic clergy of Ireland . He was not of opinion that secular instruction without religious education was an evil ; on the contrary , he tiiought that it was a good . He thought , however , that the two ought to be combined together if possible . In England religion had " always been taught as a part of education : but the system propounded in this bill would make these new institutions differ from the only university now existing in Ireland , and from the two universities iuEugland , and would not be agreeable to the feelings of the Irish people . Already had Mr . Roche , who , he believed , was a member of the Repeal Association , objected on behalf of his countrymen to leave the

      appointment ofthe professors in these new colleges in the bands of the Crown . He thought that the house might have adopted such a course , had the people of Ireland been willing to submit to it ; but they were not willing to do any sneh thing , because they were afraid of the use which might be made of the power lodged in tbe Crown . They had a distrust of the use which would be made of it in case Mr . Plumptre should come into office , and would have had a still greater distrust of it had Sir R . Peel still continued to hold the same principles wliich he held fire years ago . He , therefore , recommended the house to give secular instruction without regular education in these newiustitions , if it were necessary ; but , if it could give both together , not to omit from tbis bill regulations to accomplish that object . Sir J . Graham had expressed his willingness to attachhalls to each of these new collegesfoi * religious education . That might mean much , or itmight mean little ; and therefore , to ascertain what it meant , he would ask Sir James Graham whether he would permit the deans of those halls to exercise within them over the

      students any authority on such points as their attendance st the places of their reUgious worship on Sundays , and their attendance at the ordinary theological lectures , and to inflict punishment , even to expulsion , on such students as might be notorious defaulters in either of those respects ? If the Government were prepared to give such authority , he thought tbat it would get over many of tbe objections urged against their scheme by the Boman Catholic clergy . There was also another feature in the scheme of Government which made him consider that it had no pretensions to perfection . There was no machinery by which these colleges could give degrees . He thought that the Governmint ought to institute an university of Ireland , whieh should be empowered to grant

      degrees to the students which camefrom them . Without some such institution these colleges would be branded with a mark of inferiority . On points like these Government ought to consult with such men as Br . Murray , on whose character for learning , meekness , piety , andloyalty he passed a high eulogium . If the Government would enter into such consultation with the Roman Catholic hierarchy before this bill was sent into committee , he thought that their measure ought to be allowed to proceed farther , and that the country might look forward to its ultimate _success . He could not agree with Lord John Manners in Opposing the second reading of this bill ; for , being of opinion that it was , in principle , a good measure , and tliat it might in its details be amended in committee , be should give it his support

      Lord M & HQK observed that lie should support tbe second reading of the bill , iu the hope of amending it in committee . If those amendments which he considered the bill to require were not made in committee , it wonld be his unwelcome duty to give the measure on its third reading the most decided opposition . The great defect of this bill was its want of security for religious instruction . To the principle of giving secular knowledge in combination with religious education he was determined to adhere . Mr . B . Hope said , that the question involved in this measure was , whether religion , discipline , or self-government should be maintained or discarded in these institutions . The measure , in his opinion , was so unsound , that he conceived it better to reject all palliatives of it , and to compel the Government to reconstruct it . He gave his strenuous support to tbe amendment of Lord John Manners .

      Mr . V . Stoaet returned his thanks to the Government for initiating a measure which must be eminently beneficial to the people of Ireland . , Mr . Hamilton considered no system to deserve the name of education which was not based upon religion . He , therefore , could not give his full and cordial support to any measure which neglected that important point On the other hand , he felt that there was a great want of secular instruction among the middling classes of Ireland ; and on that account he did not feel himself justified in withholding his assent from the second reading of this

      measure . - ... _* _-. Mr . Osboese could not support the amendment of Lord 3 . " Manners . Onthe contrary , he should vote for the second reading of the bill , baring a horrorof separate , and . a strong , predilection for mixed education . He viewed , however , several of the clauses with great disap-

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      probation . If its 10 th and llth clauses were not greatly modified in tbe committee he should be obliged to oppose this measure on its third reading . Those clauses appeared to him- to have originated in the Horse Guards rather than in the Home-office . Mr . W ; _Gladstone agreed with Lord John Russell that the present was _atr imperfect measure ; but insisted that its imperfection was owing to the very anomalous and distracted condition of Ireland . The question was not whether this was a perfect measure , but whether it was the best measure which could be devised to _rc-jet the present state of Ireland aud Us exigencies . He concurred with Lord John Bussell in thinking that it would be a very great hardship to force a measure of this kind on thepeople of Ireland . Lord John Russell also thought it advisable that the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland , and more especially Br . Murray , should be consulted on

      this subject . He had not yet heard that no communication had taken place between the Government and the Boman Catholic bishops on this scheme of education ; but he fully agreed with Lord John Bussell in asserting that considerable weight ought to be attached to tho judgment of the Roman Ca tholic bishops onthe adjustment of the principles and details of this measure . He then adverted at some length tothe necessity and expediency , not only of communicating with the Boman Catholic bishops on such points , but also of renewing a direct diplomatic correspondence with the Court of Borne , which this Government earned on indirectly even at present . After defending the system of religious education now enforced at Oxford from thc attacks and sneers which had been made upon it , he proceeded to contend tbat the system of mixed education adopted in University College , London , was much fitter for Ireland than it was for England ; for the dangers of it were most likely to be experienced in England , where religious _discipline _was

      lax , than in Ireland , where , from the influence oftho Boman Catholic religion , fhe religions discipline exercised over each individual of tliat persuasion was personally strict . He then justified the principles and details ofthe measure ; and , in so doing , entered his emphatic protest against Sir B . Ingh ' s _' s declaration , that it wa " a g igantic scheme of Godless education . " The bill contained a provision for religious education , as far as it was safe to do so ; for it provided rooms _breach of these colleges for theological lectures , which was an explicit admission of the efficacy of religions education . Nay , more , it provided facilities for the voluntary payment of professors to deliver such lectures . After , stating his approval of the amendments proposed by Sir J . Graham since the original introduction of the bill , he showed that the mode of filling up the professorial chairs was a question involved in much difficulty . He did not , however , think , that the difficulty would be insuperable if both parties would lo ' y aside their prejudices , and would give to the subject a careful , and he would even add , a tender consideration .

      Mr . T . Wtsb had on a former occasion declared this measure to be a great boon to the country , and though he had since heard much discussion upon it , and many objections urged against it , he had not seen any reason for changing his opinion _^ or for concluding that great national advantages would not accrue from thc establishment of a mixed system of education in Ireland . He denied that it was a system of Godless education , and observed that , if it were so , nothing could induce Mm to give it his support . ne then pointed out in detail various improvements which he conceived might be made in the bill , and declared liis intention of bringing them forward as distinct subjects for discussion whenever it got into committee . He objected to those clauses in the bill which gave to the Crown the power of appointing and removing the professors of those colleges , and contended that the State should provide in each of them for the endowment of a professor of theology , uot of divinity .

      Mr . Aclano called attention to the fact that not one of the speakers in behalf of this bill had fiiyen an unqualified support of it , anil contended that not one of them had proved that it would give such education ' as would be useful in any respect to the people of Ireland . It had been brought forward by a Conservative' Government as a measure resting on sound principle ; but it was really _, difficult to ascertain what that sound principle was . : As far as he could make it out , it was a most objectionable principle . His objection to the bill was not that , tbe Government had endeavoured to devise a plan for the education of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland which would be freo from all suspicion on their part , jbut that it had endeavoured to frame ' such a plan without ' any communication with the -Roman Catholic bishops . ' . Its proposal had in consequence been met , " riot with ; the unanimous acclamation , but with tiie unanimous protest _,, of those venerable persons ' " ¦ He then explained some other objections which lie had to the bill in detail , and concluded by declaring his determination to ' give it ; bis most decided opposition . ' . ' . ''

      Mr . B . M . O'FekrAll made several suggestions for the improvement of the bill , to which he trusted that the Government would agree , otherwise he should be under the necessity of opposing tbe second reading of this measure . Sir R . Peel was surprised that a gentleman of Mr . Acland ' s intelligence should have thought it was necessary to prove either that . sound academical institutions were a benefit to a country , or that the academical Institutions proposed in tliis bill would be a benefit to a country in the position of Ireland . He read an extract from a work of Dr . Kane on the geology of Ireland for the purpose of showing ; tliat that able and excellent writer had attributed the poverty of Ireland tothe want of industrial knowledge among its population , which prevented them from applying to the best advantage the resources of their country ; and he showed that Dr . Kane

      followed up that passage by another , in which he stated that no mode of spreading industrial knowledge would be so efficacious as tbat of establishing local colleges in Ireland . He then proceeded to demonstrate two points , first , the policy of establishing academical institutions in Ireland ; and , next , the policy of educating together within thoir walls youths of different religious creeds . . He proposed , on the part of the State , to provide in those institutions means of excellent , education . He also proposed to provide for them professors of distinguished scientific attainments and of high moral character . But did he relegate religious education from tliem ? No such thing . He agreed with Lord J . Bussell that lie might have pure secular instruction witliout any religious instruction rather than no education at all ; but still hc thought that a mixture of secular with religious

      instruction was infinitely superior . But how was that mixture of education to be effected in a country distracted like Ireland by religious differences ? Suppose thathe ( Sir B . Peel ) had proposed to accomplish it , what would have been tbe consequence ? First , let the house contiiar what Sir B . Inglis and his friends would havo said had he proposed to establish a Boman Catholic pr o & ssor of divinity in each of these three new colleges . Would SirB . Inglis , who now objected to his plan lis "a gigantic-scheme of Godless education , " have supported it , when it embraced a proposal for endowing a professor of the church of Borne ? No , he would have said that it was a covert mode of endowing that church in Ireland , and that , as it had not tbe precedent of fifty years to back it , he would give it his most determined opposition . Nay , more , if he

      ( Sir B . Peel ) had proposed to have in each of these collegesprofessors of Protestantand Presbyterian divinity , he believed that SirB . Inglis would have denounced such a proposal also as a manifest proof of utter indifference to aU religion . He would leave the house to conceive Mr , Spooner " * indignation at his foundling a professorship for that " awful delusion" which was called the Boman Catholic religion . On the other hand , he doubted whether such a proposal would be more satisfactory to the Boman Catholics themselves . He suspected that they would say to him— - " We will not , even for the sake of an endowment of professorshi p of onr faith , venture upon a measure , which will enable you to interfere with anything so sacred as our religion . " Such being the case , the Government had determined to invite the parents and friends of the youth to be educated in these new colleges

      to provide religious education for them ; and bethought tbat such education would be provided for them better by their parents and friends than it conld be by Government in tbe present condition of Ireland . He expressed the deep regret and surprise with which he had read that portion of the memorial of the Boman Catholic bishop ' s in which they stated that a Boman Catholic student could not attend lectures on anatomy and geology given by Protestant professors without danger to his morals and liis faith . After commenting for some time on that document , he proceeded to notice the objection which had been urged against this measure , because the professors were to be nominated by the Crown . He believed that such a provision was at the first formation of these colleges absolutely necessary . Both the honour and tbe interest of the Crown were involved in the appointment of the most competent persons to these professorships . It these colleges were to be instituted in Connaught and in Munster , whose friendship would the _Coverameiit have to conciliate 6 ave that of the Boman Catholics ? He thought

      that there should be exhibitions attached to those academical institutions , for the purpose of creating competition . Such exhibitions , in his opinion , tended much to promote soundlearning arid knowledge . It had been complained tbat he bad not made an university in Ireland . Itwas enough , he thought , to form three colleges at first ; bnt he admitted tbat his plan would be incomplete until they were incorporated into one university , if the plan were found to work well , then would be the time for considering whether their incorporation into an university should take place , and what power that university should have , in conferring degrees . The Crown conld give a charter of incorporation without the necessity of the interference of Parliament . These were tb * principles on which the Government had come to the conclusion that it had a better chance of promoting a system of religious education acceptable to those for whose benefit it was intendedby its present measure than it ; . would have by founding separate theological colleges , or by endowing theological professorships in eaeh of . them .

      I Mr . M . J . _O'Cohnem . observed , tbat the amendment of Lord J . Manners raised the question whether they were to have in Ireland : a mixed system * of education or not To that 6 ysteth he had always been attached ; and jas this bill would promote it , he should give his : vote in favour of its second reading . He looked upon the bill as another recognition of the system which hadrevolutionised Ireland in the course of the last fifteen years- — . he-meant tbe diffusion of sound secular and _, religious knowledge , commenced by the national schools , land continued by several provisions of the legislature . '¦¦• - . Mr . Shaw did not entirely . approve . of this measure ; but he had not heard any of the gentlemen who' opposed it propose a bettor substitute ; and therefore „ considering the _df-fficulty of the question , he did not feel himself justified in opposing the second reading . ' :. _- ; . After a few words from Sir T , Blake in . favour of the bill ,

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      . The house . divided , when the numbers were : —For the amendment—Ayes , 46 . Noes , 311 . The amendment was . therefore lost , and the bill read a second time . .. The other orders ofthe day were then disposed of , and the house adjourned , " .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOBTHER . V STAR . Sib , —Seeing the necessity for a little more watchfulness over the public good , iri general affairs , I trust you will pardon my presumption in urging you not to permit tbe Land question , valuable , and essentially necessary as it is , to engross too fully the people ' s attention . If you do you , will incautiously leave an open course to the people ' s most dangerous foes—their sham , mercenary friends . Sir Bobert , Lord John , Sir James , Lord Lincoln , the Repeal Falstafi _" , and other most liberal gentlemen , require your closest observance . The National Education , the Parish Settlement , the General Enclosure , the Foreign Allotment Emigration , and other wily _dcrilums , demand from you the most poignant scrutiny , and from

      the people an aiding anxiety , or we shall be under-nined and overthrown , cast down to a most woeful abasement . Sir , the people ' s indolent neglect in not sufficiently watching their own interest , but trusting too much the management of their affairs to some particular hand or hands , has , in all ages , more or less enslaved them . In Greece , in Borne , in Florence , in the United Provinces , in our own kingdom , and lately , again , in France , this assertion has been truly proved . . Marchamont Neanaro , that admirable political writer , observes justly , that " the people should not only know what freedom is , but should likewise be made acquainted , and thoroughly instructed , in the means and rules of its preservation , so that the adulterous wiles and rapes of projecting sopbisters may meet a timely check . "

      Every inch that has hitherto been passed inour stride for freedom , can only be advantaged and maintained by persevering watchfulness : and this , as much on the part of the people as the people's advisers . ' After these reflections , I trust I may be permitted to observe that from us the proposed "National Education Bill" demands the most active and piercing scrutiny . Jt is of most serioxis importance , and if it be not thoroughly rummaged ere it pass into law , may have seed sown therein that shall produce monsters of such unnatural growth as will beget civil war , in the place of civil society , and galling , abject slavery , in the place of happy , heaven-born freedom . The "Enclosure Bill" seems also a specious affair , and demands the public attention in its discussion . "We must remember thatilS , 000 , 000 of uncultivated acres are at stake : and the people must not be robbed of them without a . _*" struggle . In short , all these projected reforms require tbe closest attention on the part of the people , or lamentation will follow the neglect _.

      Corruption draws not its slimy length along with slow encroachment as heretofore ; oh , no ! it is thrust upon us with a railway force and speed that thwarts all preparation and consideration , and triumphs , by astounding our judgment with its unwarrantable and overbearing presumption . For some time past wc have been lulled into callous indifference on a smooth deep sea , where the agitating wave was quite calmed down ; but we must now arouse ourselves , for breakers are ahead , ' and there is a murky gathering of Whiggism in the political horizon that portends approaching ills of various grade . I am , sir , your humble servant , May 28 , 1845 . L . W .

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      LONDON . Address op TnE Metropolitan District Council to the Losno . _v _Ohaetists and the Democrats of the _"D- sited Kisodom gbmbaiay . —Fellow men , — We , the Metropolitan District Council , having for years past occupied a prominent position in the struggle for political and social regeneration , once more venture to endeavour to arouse you to action . A Convention lias just held its sittings , and reduced to a practical shape several important questions , to which we request your serious attention . ' First , —The Land ! the Land ! the Land ! has been long and loudly shouted . Your representatives have given their best attention to the question ; and their labours have resulted in the adoption ofa practical plan , equally accessible to the best paid mechanic or the ill paid labourer . A darling object is thus placed within your reach . Will you embrace the opportunity to possess it ? ••

      Secondly , '—The Convention have recommended the establishment of co-operative stores , that the producer _may have the necessaries of life without paying an exorbitant tax ir i the shape of profit ; and , further , that the profit that may result from this mode of dealing may be made available for allocating the " surplus labourers" on the land . Thivdiy , — . The Convention lias wisely recommended that you support every measure for shortening the hour "" of labour ; and . render all assistance to thc National United Trades , for the protection of industry .

      Fourthly , —They recommend that you cultivate good feeling one with tlio other , and unite as one man . Acknowledge no enemy but the foe before you —the class legislators . Fifthly , —They have adopted forms of petitions for the recall of the exiled patriots—Frost , Williams , Jones , and . Ellis . We unite onr voices with theirs in calling on you to adopt and forward such petitions to the members of the various boroughs and counties in which you may reside . Remember the patriotic Duncombe only lost his last motion on that subject by the casting vote of the Speaker . One more pull , and that " pull altogether , " ' and success must assuredly follow . Sixthly , —They have arranged that your Executive shall issue a national petition , praying the passing of the people ' s Charter into a law ; such petition to be issued , and sheets signed , to be ready for presentation on the first night of the assembling ofthe next Parliament .

      Seventhly , —The Convention call on you to form Registration and Election Committees , local and national . To this subject we invite your particular attention . We have appointed a sub-committee to expressly attend to this subject , who have from time to time put forth , in the columns of the Northern Star , information which has led to the best practical results : as witness , the great increase on thc ratepayers and electoral roll in the boroughs of Lambeth , Southwark , Westminster , Marylebone , Tower Hamlets , Finsbury , Greenwich , and the City of Lon _.

      don . We also point your notice to the great practical results on this subject , at Bradford , Leeds , the Potteries , and at other towns , where they already boast of Chartist overseers , Chartist surveyors , Chartist constables Chartist town councillors , and other officers . Having thus obtained local power , tliey are in advance of other places for national power . Brother Chartists , follow the example ! Metropolitans ' ., it has frequently been your boast that you-were the advanced guard in the movement for liberty . Time was when this was not an empty boast . Rally again ! Remember that-

      —Freedom's battle once begun , Bequeathed from bleeding she to son , Though baffled oft , is ever won ! On behalf of the Metropolitan District Council , JoHK Simpson , Treasurer . Johs Abxott , Secretary , Cm * of London Locamty . —A meeting of the members was held on Sunday evening , to consider the __ propriety of forming a branch of the Land Society ; several shares were disposed of , and arrangements made for the directors of the Land plan to attend on Sunday , June 16 th . The regular monthly money was voted to the Executive , and other business transacted .

      Clock House , Castle-street , Westminster . — Mr . Wheeler lectured here on Sunday evening to a numerous audience upon tho subject of the Land ; a considerable number of shares were disposed of , and a committee , secretary , and treasurer , appointed . Arrangements wcre then completed for removing the locality to the Parthenium Assembly Roems , St . Martin ' s-lane , and a deputation appointed to wait on Mr . O'Connor to open the rooms with a lecture upon the - Land . Considerable other business connected with the locality was transacted . The chair was ably filled by Mr . Ilitchins . Mr . M'GttATlt lectured on Sunday evening atthe Rock Tavern , Lisson-grove , to a crowded audience , and was highly applauded . At the conclusion a

      considerable number of shares in the Land Society were disposed of , and a committee , & c , appointed . South London . —The committee and members that have joined the Land Co-operative Society at the South London Chartist Hall , are particularly requested to attend at the Hall punctually at half-past six o ' clock on Sunday next . Tower Hamlets . —At a meeting held at the Whittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green , on Tuesday evening , June 3 rd , 1845 , to take into consideration the forming a branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , Mr . J . Illmcworth in

      the chair , Mr . M'Grath addressed the meeting , and ably explained the plan as propounded by the late Convention . He then , ih forcible language , depicted the failure of various strikes , showing that Trades ' Unions had failed to remedy the repeated reductions of wages , and thatthe only means " of remedy was to remove tbe surplus labour from : the labour market . An anim » ted _discussioh followed the lecture , after which it was then moved by Mr . ; Drake , and seconded by Mr . ¥ . Lefever ; ' ''That , we proceed to form a Tower HamlOtsbranch > ofthe Ohartist Co-operative Land Society . " Carried . unanimously . Nine persoristheh took out cards and rules , and paid the instalment of their shares .. Mr . J . Illingworth was appointed district treasurer , iand Mr . F . Lefever _difitrict secretary . ¦

      ; Tab _Lasdj ' inn Land !! the Laud !! UThe _Chartists . of - * Somers Town opened their now place of _meeting a | _.-Battle-brid » e , King _' _s-cross , on Tuesday _evening , ' 'June' the ; 3 rd , when Feargus O'Connor ' den _^ lv ' _cro-wded by -aj W _* hly respectable aha ' - 'most _attentive audience . M _^ . Humph ' rB was unanimously called to the chair , and introduced Mr . O'Connor . Mr . O'Connor said the time had at length come

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      when , with advantage to the cause of Ghartism , he could advocate the Land principle . Ten years ago , when they were called Radical Reformers , he then said that he would not give ten straws for the principles now embodied in the people ' s Charter ifthe land was locked up from them ; and he now said he would not give three for them under similar circumstances . ( Hear , hear . ) But fortunately the Land project had now- become a pre-eminently popular theme—( cheers ) . All the opponents to the principles he had yet met , were in such a state of ignorance on the subject , that they did not know whether a potatoe was grown raw , or whether it was gathered ready roasted or boiled . ( Loud laughter . ) In fact , they knew ns little of the land and its capabilities as an Irish nicr knew of eeometrv . . ( Much _lauuhter . l

      The reason that he attacliedso much value to the land was , because hc was a practical farmer and thoroughly understood the subject . ( Loud cheers . ) The first use the land would be to them was to case the labour market of its surplus ; the second was to create a certainty of work lor the people ; and the third was to create a natural rate of wages in the artificial market ; for so long as there was a surplus to fall back on , or a workhouse from whicli to procure labour , so long would work be uncertain and wages low . ( Hear , near . ) The present state of things created unwilling idlers ; and he for one contended that the men who would work and could not obtain it , had as much ri ght to good food , good clothes , and all other necessaries and comforts as the men who

      did work . ( Loud cheers . ) Some had said he wanted to make the people of England all small farmers . He certainly did not wish anything of the kind . He knew some must be engaged in manufactures —( hear , hear ;) but hc certainly did wish to see many more employed in agricultural pursuits than there at present were . ( Cheers . ) It had been asked , why not go to America , Venzeucla , New Zealand , or to Australia ? Why not emigrate ? He abhorred transportation—he would not like to leave his native land at the expense of the Government , much less would he like to transport himself . ( Loud cheers . ) Neither was there any necessity for it , while so much land was to be obtained at home by the combination of the working classes . An auctioneer did not ask , when he put

      up the lot ,- whether the bidders were Chartists . No ; he would sell the estate to the devil provided he made the highest bid . ( Loud laughter . ) If asked what the land had to do with the Charter , he replied , let me have one of these home colonies established , and the colonists eating bacon instead of drinking skilly , then would the people naturally ask is this what you wanted the Charter for ? and the result of such an example would be the enactment of that great measure . ( Loud cheers . ) It took seven years to become a shoemaker ; but any one might learn to stick a- cabbage in seven minutes . ( Hear , hear ;) The land was God ' s inheritance ; he intended that it should be for the benefit of all his creatures , but class laws had deprived them of its blessings . He might

      be asked why buy land when it is the people ' s already ? He " admitted it was theirs by right—bnt were they in possession of it ? ( Hear , hear . ) Was it not more reasonable to expect that 10 , 000 men on the land could raise that question far bettor than 20 , 000 men without a foot of land ? ( Great cheering . ) They had been called disloyal . What had they to be loval for ? But let them have a cottage and some land , and then they would have something to be loyal for , and no people would be more ready to take up their muskets m defence of their country than the men , surrounded by their families , in their cottages , on their own land . ( Loud cheers . ) It , had been asked , why give up the Charter for the land ? To those with whom he had worked the last twelve

      years , and who knew him best , he need not say he had no intention of giving it up . ( Hear , hear . ) He never could bear the loss of thc . affections of . the working classes , which he was sure he should lose were he to give up the . Charter . ( Great cheering _^) He w as not satisfied to talk only ; he was now about to buy £ 2 , 000 worth of land on which to try the first experiment and set an example . ( Loud cheers . ) In conclusion , he trusted they would keep those two great questions on which hc had been lecturing , the Land and the Charter , constantly before them , until their struggle was crowned with success . Mn

      O Connor resumed his seat amid loud and long continued cheering . On the motion of Messrs . Arnott and Laurie a vote of thanks was given to Mr . O'Connor for his services . on that evening in particular , and for his great services' to the working classes in general _^ Mr . O'Connor moved a vote of thanks to the chairman , which was carried by acclamation . A considerable number of shares were taken up , and the meeting quietly dissolved . Metropolitan District Council . —Sunday , Junel . —Mr . Milne was called to the chair . On the motion of Messrs . Simpson and G . Cooper , the balance sheet ofthe late _"• _Sjarsoii'co" was audited and found

      correct . Victim Committee . —The above body met at the Hall , Turnagain-lane , on Sunday afternoon , Jime 1 , Mr . Mills was called to the chair . Mr . F . O'Connor attended , and handed in an account of the monies as received by him , also an account of the monies received by Mr . J . Cleave , as acknowledged in the Northern Star ,. and an account . of the various items paid on account of the Victim Fund by Mr . O'Connor : the account-was received . —Mr . Oufl _' ay then moved , " That Mr . O'Connor be requested to make an immediate application to Mr . J . Cleave fbr an I account of the monies received , and likewise an aeconnt of the monies disbursed by liim on account of the Victim Fund , in order that this Committee may j

      have a correct knowledge ofthe state of their funds . " Mr . O'Connor begged permission to second that resolution , and in so doing would undertake to carry out the principle it contained , and report the result of his mission forthwith . The resolution was carried unanimously . The secretary read a letter from the veteran John Richards . Mr . Stallwood moved — " That thc secretary be instructed to write a peremptory letter to the secretary and sub-treasurer ofthe late Manchester Victim Committee , demanding an immediate settlement of the affairs between the late and present committees . " Seconded by Mr . G . II . Tucker , and earned unanimously . The committee then adjourned until Sunday afternoon next , at live o ' cloek .

      STRATFORD-UPON-AVON . A Public Meeting was held on Monday evening at the Stratford Arms , Henley-street , to form a branch of the Co-operative Land Society . The meeting was well attended , and twenty-two persons E aid instalments on their shares . Messrs . Staunton , ickens , Tompkins , Wootten , and Bissell , were appointed a committee ; Mr , W . Hurdis Harbome was elected president ; Mr . Such , treasurer ; Mr . Paine , secretary ; and Mr . S . Smith , assistant secretary . The committee will meet every Sunday evening , and the public meetings will continue on _Mondayevenings .

      DEWSBURY . A District Meeting was held here on the 1 st inst ., when the Land question was taken up in good earnest . Wm . Hey was called to the chair , and a resolution was unanimously passed for the whole of the district to be formed into one branch ofthe Cooperative Land Society . Mr . F . W . Sucksmith was appointed _secretary pro tan . Twenty-two shares were taken .

      ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE . Dinner to Mr . Wm . Aitken . —On Saturday even _, ing last , May 31 st , a large gathering ofthe Chartists of this neighbourhood was held at the house of Mr . James Ashworth , Hurst Brooks , near Ashton-under-Lyne , to pay a tribute of respect to our townsman , Mr . William Aitkcn . After the dinner , which consisted of every delicacy of the season , Mr . Samuel Hadfield was voted in the chair . The large room was splendidly decorated , and ornamented with portraits of all the public characters connected with the Chartist movement . Those of O'Brien , M'Douall , and Collins , did not appear in their former places , but instead , wero committed to the lumber room . The chairman , in opening the business of the

      evening , made a very animated address , and concluded by proposing , " The people , the only source of all power . " Mr . Richard Thorp responded to the toast in his usual eloquent style . Song , "Ye wealth producers , " by Mr . Edward Hulme . —The chairman next gave , " The health of Mr . W . Aitkcn , our friend and guest : may he live in the hearts of the people , and may his efforts for them be crowned with success . " Ml * . Aitken rose to reply amidst great applause . He entered into a history of the agitation for the Charter from the year 1837 to the present time , in the course of which he well commented on thc treachery of O'Brien and others , and concluded a speech of about three quarters of an hour ' s duration by pledging himself never to relax his exertions for thc success of the democratic cause . Song , "Liberty Tree , " by Mr . Samuel Hadfield . —The chairman next

      gave , " ihe people ' s Charter , and soon may it become the law of the land , " which was drunk with much enthusiasm . Mr . Enoch Hemingway responded to this toast in a very neat speech , in the course of which he urged thc people to support Feargus O Connor until they have accomplished the triumph of liberty . Song , " Exile of Erin , " by Mr . James Ashworth . The healths of " Feargus O'Connor , " " Frost , " and others , and likewise " the memory of the illustrious dead of every nation , " were also drank , and ably responded to by thc company . In the course of the evening the manifesto written b y W . Aitken , when'in prison , was giyen _. The speech of Robert Emmett , and many other appropriate pieces , were recited , and the company separated at a late hour , highly delighted with the evening ' s entertainment .

      > DUMFRIES . Mr . _O'Connoii and his Calumniators . — At the ordinary weekly meeting of the Dumfries and Maxwellton Working Men ' s Association , held on the evening of the 2 nd curt ., in their reading-room , the following resolutions were proposed , seconded , and having been discussed seriatim , unanimously adopted * andioTdered to be transmitted to the Northern Star for ' publication : —First— "That this association on reviewing the manner in which Mr . Feargus O'Connor has acted in and throughout the Charter movement , find no reason for the withdrawal of that hearty confidence which they have hitherto reposed

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      inhim . " Second— "Thattheyhi iveoliserved wit ' hn a series of gross attacks upon his political and nriw character , and motives in thc columns of the _$ _»•• Reforxxxer—attacks which , however , even had thp _!^ been so triumphantly repelled , the members of ?•!"* association believe could not have irafn .. ; i . injured Mr . O'Connor ' s usefulness , from the 3 _^ rious character ofhis assailants—the scum and _s _? dalof the Chartist body—who , almost without ' * ception , have been scouted from the ranks , ( _, „ _*•** mon consent , for manifold acts of treason u ru ' sacred cause of liberty . " Third—" That theV ciation regard thc charges of what is termed i ) '

      Tory' policy , advanced by the editor ofthe ZV ., "' as coming with apeeuliariy bad grace from one ' \ vi ! ' if he did not originate , at all events strenuously _<••' ported , in the first Convention , the oppositio n toft Anti-Corn Law League , so successfully carried by tbe working classes ; and here record their _eni _^ and cordial approval of the main features of JL policy , and tlieir conviction that it has beciuttpil ) i with the happiest results , and that it is destined « nf further to advance the interests of the toihW _« _-T lions . " Fourth- " That thc National _Rcfortft hereafter dispensed with in the reading-room _^ f ti 7 association . " lli _*

      Maixoothism in Dumfries . —There is absolute ! nothing in the political way stirring in this loealit We have not had a public meeting since StiggiHo if ' here , now several weeks ago , and for weeks befl that there was as little agitation of any public mw tion . On the occasion to wluch we allude the stu _? ble portion ofthe lieges had about as rich a treat i the ,- / could have _wisliod to set their eyes upon in a anti-Maynooth meeting on the No Popery Enncint The audience chiefly consisted of the most _fanatie !) ofthe Free Church and other sectaries , and on tlw platform were the pink of the non-intrusion and otW dissenting tub-thumpers about the place . _Scaiceh an intellectual phiz was visible , and a great portion were of the softer and more gullible sex . The mo ,, ? ing was opened with " prayer and praise . " _'tC

      prig who vrayed , after threatening her Majesty _wifh the block if she gave hei * assent to the bill to _oppagp wliich thev had met , attributed the success of _omfleets in tue last war , not to the superior skill and valour of British seamen , hut to the _rrotestantism ofthe nation ; and this idea was served up again in the speeches of liim and his colleagues . Nut time the aristocracy go to war , it would not be a bad spec to man a ship or two with black slugs , —thc more hiob Church the better , and try the effect of their _pravetg and Protestant principles on Johnny _Crapacd' or brother Jonathan , as the case may be . The _simti . ment we have noticed has been so repeatedly ex pressed , and with so much confidence , that there eould be no lack of volunteers . Its economy , too

      must recommend it ; and we commend the plan to Mr . Joseph Hume , whose exertions in that line have stamped him as , if not a great politician , at least , one of the sturdiest political economists ofhis day _uni generation . Should thc experiments prove a failure , the country would still be the gainer , and willingly compensate the enemy for the gunpowder expended in its trial . After the first resolution had been proposed , and seconded by a Methodist pareon named Jcwitt ov Jcwcn , ' who in the course of his address among other things horrificd his listeners by the description ofa Roman Catholic procession he had witncssed in Madeira , where he said an old _ciout . wRs paraded on the top of a stick as thc Holy Ghost , Mr . Andrew Wardrop rose to offer an amendment in the

      shape of a voluntary resolution , winch principle hs contended was the only one that the grant to May . nooth ; could be consistently opposed upon . As soon as . Mr . W . was recognised by thc saints , a _tarul yell buret from them , mingled with hisses , shouts , iind catcalls , such as we never heard before , and our er . pcriencc in uproarious meetings is somewhat _extensive . Indeed , could we suppose all the uiibrecflicd devils in Pandemonium uniting in one _hanuoniou-t howl for their porridge of a morning , it would give but a very faint idea of the aspect of the _Camcroni-m chapel at this juncture . An old Free Kirk pauper , in the excess of her indignation , charged upon Mr . W . with her crutch , and he had some little _difficnlry _, from the hampered position in wliich he was placeu ,

      in parr- 'mg her thrusts . Uttle M heraie , who _nune liimself so notorious when Mr . O'Connor was here last , jumping from the platform , however , succeeikil witli sonic difficulty in disarming and pacifying _tliii modern Jenny Gcddes , and in obtaining for } h : Wardrop something like a fair heaving . _M'Kemie then conducted his ally to the platform , betuv _* _crs the railings of whieh she occasionally shook her umbrella , and grinned unutterable things at , _iiviadversary during the remainder of the evening . Not the least amusing feature of the proceedings _weve the occasional racy and characteristic _replies ot ' . w * - _* Irish Catholic portion of the audience tothe Billinfiigate of the Stiggins crew ; and one Milesian , who had been expelled , cot up an opposition meetini « at

      the door , and those constituting it wire tiivoured with tho other side of the question , including tiie wickedness of Martin Luther , and liow the devil carried him off at last , the short , coinings of Hairy the Eighth , the murder of his wives , Sic , Bet off by a brogue of ! the richest , and the native , wit thai distinguishes the Irishman . Mr . ¦ Wardrop' _ty . _-ek _. ohition was lost , of course ; but the stand lie inadea _^ _ains- ; bigotry and intolerance has won hhn golden opinions from every intelligent person in the town , of ' whatever political creed . . Even the fanatics are ashamed of their conduct . Scarcely one of our _*'* niddle-e !; isi politicians were present at themeeting , and . verv few of Mr . Wardrop's Chartist friends thought it worth their while to attend . —Dumfries , June Sr *! . 1845 .

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      BANKRUPTS . ( From . Tuesday's Gazelle ,-June 'ird , 1845 . ) John l ' enn Bradly and George James BraiUy , Grua - v .. Helen ' s , City , wine-merchants—William Matthews , _Lis-j _;' _.-grove North , piano-fortcmaker— "William Clarkson , _U- ' _-. _' _- cross-street , boot and shoe manufacturer—Stephen j ' : i _> .-eett _, Chiswcll-street , linendraper—John "Yates , _Guernfey , anil York-road , Lambeth , ship owner—John Mohon rrA Richard Simons , Mincing-lane , wine and spirit inercl :. in : < i —William Astle , "Wolverhampton , Staffordshire , p lumb .-:-—Francis _Ilarrington Church , Southampton , sargeou-Lnzenby Pearson , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , _lcntlicr-ltrahi-John Pitt , Plymouth , grocer—John Church _Deinpsej _* , i " ' " i c _- tol , stationer .

      DECLARATIONS OF _OIVIDEJIDS _. 6 . E . "White , Reading , Berkshire , tailor , first divirt _.-nti of Ss in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Graham , Coleman-stveet , H . and A . "Wood , BasinghalZ . street , _Blac-ttvolMiaH _Actors , third dividend of 4 _Jd in the pound , any _IVedneSda-f , at the office of Mr . -Whitmore , Basinghall-street . J . Johnston , Anston , Yorkshire , miller , first and final dividend of ls 5 d in the pound for those creditors who have not received a former dividend , and a final dividend * of 5 din the pound to those creditors who have received a former dividend , on and after June 4 , at the office of Mr , Young , Leeds . "W . Ilcginbottom , Ashton-under-Lyne , Lancashire , cotton-spinner , final dividend of 2 d in the pound , and a fa's ' - and final dividend of 2 s 8 d in the pound on new proof- ' , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr . Fraser , Manchester .

      nivroENDi , June 21 ) , L . J . Nicolay , Woolwich , draper—June % 3 . Wilson . Jcrmyn-street , St . James ' s , bootmaker—June " ( , S . Hoadley , New Bond-street , coachnwker—June 2 ** , J . Welch , Ring-cross , Holloway , licensed victualler—June ii ; B . Bright , Wigmore-street , Marylebone _. _licensedvictuiillw —June 26 , R . Barham _. Emswortfi , Hampshire , lincndra _**< _* _i-—June 20 , R . Tucker , Dean-street-, Westminster , feiw —June 21 , Vf . H . Williamson , Dowgate-hill , City , tobacconist—June 24 , G . Jackson , Hertford , upholsterer—Jai" 27 , P . Murray , Manchester , travelling draper-June 2 ' . N . "P . Wood ; Manchester , banker—June 27 , N . P . Wood and

      J . J . Holden , Manchester , bankers—June 26 , , CrKRip , Stanway , Gloucestershire , corn-dealer— Jiim- 24 , VF . Ferguson , Liverpool , draper—June 25 , II . _Dircks , _Liverpoel _, millwright—June 27 , G . _Brocklehurst , II . Dircks , anil _•)• B . Nelson , Liverpool , miUwrights—June 25 , A . A . _Pobbf , Liverpool , wine-merchant—June 26 , W . Oliver , Darlington , Durham , printer—June 26 , W . Granger , Kelly-mill , Durham , paper-manufacturer—June 25 , J . Hall , _Walisenii _, Northumberland , cowkeeper—June 26 , R . Currie , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , bookseller—June 24 , C . Muroott , Birmingham , factor—Juno 24 , J . Hayward , Milverton , Warwickshire , miller—June 24 , J . and G , Clarke , _Kopp . _m'j . _i-. er _. street , _carnet-manufacturers .

      Certificates to be granted , unless cause be sliowr . : o the contrary on the day of meeting . June 25 , J . Hyatt , Commercial-road , _l'imlico , victualler —June 25 , T . P . Rees , King Williain-strcct , City , mill * merchant—Juno 25 , C . M . _Ph-th , St . Michaci ' _s-alley , Cornhill , lithographic printer—June 25 , T . Juiiliu , Sunderland , linendraper—June 26 , W . Granger , Relfy-mill , Durham , paper-manufacturer—Jime 24 , T . S . Stuart , jun ,, Liverpool , drysalter—June 26 , J . aud 3 . Nicld , J . _Nietd , jun ., and J . Holt , Charlesworth , Derbyshire , cotton-spinners—June 25 , J . Nicholson , Blackburn , Lancashire , liueudraper —June " 4 , J . S . Itowe , Newcastle-undcv-Lyne , Staffordshire , draper—June 24 , W . Ferguson , Liverpool , draper - June 24 , G . C . Smith , Kensington-park , builder .

      PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . W . Smart and A . Tullett , Old Fish-street , _Poctoivcommons , wholesale stationers—ft . Beaumont nnd F . Kennedy , Leeds , Yorkshire , stockbrokers—T . Wiekhiun and C . Brooks , Trinity Arms-yard , Swan-street , Trim' _0-square , Newington , town carmen—H . Rawson and * _>"• _* ' Field , Leicester , manufacturers—T . Luscombe , W . Bryant . and E . James , Plymouth , _coal-mevehants-B . B . 1 _' ov '" and S . Bvomfield , jun ., Tattenhall , Cheshire , maltsters- H . Beaumont , F . Kennedy , and G . Clark . Bradford , _Yorkshire , stockbrokers—W . Hamer and J . Blvakley , ii '"* ' *' Leaver , Lancashire , cotton-spinners—J . Barrett and J . Myers , Bradford , Yorkshire , painters—J . Hamilton and J . Baines , Liverpool , shipbrokere—W . G . Watson , G . Tyrrell , and II . Cory , Narrow-street , Limehouse , white _leaimanufacturers-P . Webb and J . Irving , Liverpool , _st-in * _- manufacturers—T . Graham and W . Ilaywnrd , Koo « _syard , Queen-street , Mile-end New-town , _chemicsl h o " ' " manufacturers—H . and R . _-p . Glvnn . Liverpool , brokcr ; --

      E . _Tassiker and J . Southworth , Orwell , Lancashire , cow _mmeri- — "R . Askew , T . Barlow , and S . Davenport , " _Manchester , dyers-S . II . Gorringeand L . E . Blane , Manchciter , milliners-E . Fielding and J . Craven , Clioriey _, _Laawshire , cotton-manufacturers-J ., J . L ., awl C . _Carlano , _Leadcnhall-strcct . City , wine-merehants-T . F . Trieta _* ' * andVY . S . Conquest , Old Bvoud-street , City , Russia _Wkers—T . J . and G . Fieldwick , _Pancras-lane , City , boardi » £ house . _keepera-C . _Raisbeck and J . Hutty , _Kingstou-upo" ' Hull , _timber-merchants—J . Thompson andG . Elierkaxm Northwieh , Cheshire , rock saltproprietors-G . Corry an E . Edge , Preston , Lancashire , cotton _cloth-manufactiittf -J . Stephenson , jun ., * and W . Hyde , jun ., Liverpoo' * ™' , ' mongers-C . 3 . Jordan and * W . Dale , - "Water-lane , _P _™*' agents—J . Williamson and P . Harrison , Pendleton , _lvu cashire , dyers-T . Heydon and C . Handler , _Vpiliil attorneys-JS . Patterson , S . Pascal ! , and A . G . \ Church-street , Hackney , haberdashers-J . B . F . _^ •" mann and J . G , W . Kuper , St . George _' s-terrace , W " " well , wko _rope-manniacturcrs .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 7, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07061845/page/6/