NOTES OF THE MONTH. 835 



will not submit to the clerical shears, they must undergo the process 

 from cutlasses and bayonets. This might do very well during the 

 ages of barbarism or in the Tory times, when might was right ; but 

 times are rapidly changing, and people begin to think of jus' ice. 

 Talk of the right of the Irish clergy ! they have no right ; they are, 

 then, on sufferance, and might be ejected at a moment's warning. 

 The two churches of England and Ireland hold no parallel ; the one 

 has been chosen and established with the consent of an entire nation, 

 and sorry should we be to see harm happen to it : but the other is an 

 imposition by a stronger upon a weaker people. If the government 

 of this country really intended to establish protestantism in Ireland, 

 they would adopt any other method than through the pockets of their 

 intended converts ; but the Church of Ireland was never intended in 

 any other sense than as a provision for hungry dependants : and these 

 have now looked upon it so long as their own, that they consider an 

 order to refund, a robbery. There never was so execrable a spirit of 

 religious intolerance displayed by either Catholics or Protestants 

 round the blazing fires of Smithfield, as that boldly avowed by the 

 highest and noblest of the Orange party at the late Dublin meeting. 

 The language there used was a foul disgrace to any Christian com- 

 munity ; the bitterness of rancour filled their cup to an overflow for 

 little short of the blind madness of an infuriated zealot could possess 

 a Christian divine, when he loudly and vehemently called upon the 

 assembly to exterminate the bloody popish rebels ! one among the 

 crowd called out " There is the true blood of a Beresford." This was 

 a bitter sarcasm the Beresford has been indeed a name of gall to 

 Ireland. 



STRAYED LAMBS. In a northern paper we find the following ad- 

 vertisement: 



LAMBS LOST. 



HTWO HALF-BRED LAMBS, marked on tfie far side with the 



letter H, were lost in returning from Melrose Fair ; whoever may 



have found the same is requested to give notice at the Kelso Mail 



Office, and any one found hereafter detaining them will be prosecuted. 



August 25, 1834. 



The owners will have a long journey to come ere they recover 

 their lost sheep ; for one, by a most extraordinary circumstance, has 

 found his way into Downing- street, and is now actually at the head 

 of his majesty's government ; of the other we cannot give such dis- 

 tinct information, but if the owner will look into the place-list, it will 

 afford him all the intelligence he requires. 



