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always so ready to make the distinction; but it was 
his solemn duty to point it out to them, to make them 
‘understand it. It was his duty to diminish as much as 
possible the tendency of the speech to create an unplea- 
sant feeling towards the Sovereign—a result which would 
be as wrong, constitutionally, as it would be melancholy 
in point of fact. The Queen was beloved in Ireland. 
There, indeed, the Queen’s name was a tower of strength. 
Until her accession to the throne, Ireland had received 
nothing but insult and injustice from sovereignsof the 
House of Hanover. After the Arms Bill, Ministers had 
but one arrow left in their quiver, but one stone unflung, 
one trick untried, and out they brought the Queen. All 
Europe was to be astonished by her speech against 
Treland. Oh, what atrick! It was even worse than a 
scolding match between two fish-wives in Billingsgate + 
they were obliged to hear one another in reply; but here 
the scolding match was all on one side. It was an unfaif 
advantage that Judy took of them. When Ministers 
talked of beating them, they were ready with their 
shillelaghs, and if they would give them fair play at 
scolding, there he was ready for them. Who was afraid 
of the Queen’s speech ? No one; but they had cause to 
rejoice in it, Ministers would not have used so rotten a 
weapon as that ifthey had any better. If anything could 
resist a repeal of the union, it would not be putting a few 
paltry words into a respectable lady’s mouth. Peel 
Supposed that the Itish were a changeable nation, and 
that they would soon get tired of the repeal agitation ; 
but he was grossly mistaken. So far from shrinking from 
danger, did not hundreds call out to him, ‘Sir, when 
will you let us at them?’’ These mighty meetings were 
the safety-valve through which the boiling courage of the 
people evaporated, After some further observations he 
announced that he would hold meetings at Connemara on 
Tuesday; at Lismore on Sunday next; at Mullagah on 
the Ist October; and Clontarf on the 8ih. In this course 
they would proceed ; but their measures were not limited 
to the mere enumeration of the national will in Ireland. 
He was making averagements, to have his parliamentary 
Scale complete and ready against accidents ; for who could 
calculate how soon they might have their Parliament ? 
Let England be involved in any awkward dilemma with 
one of the states of Europe—let any other country on 
the face of the earth attack her, and in 24 hours they 
would have their own parliament. Ireland had his plan 
before it, and he was going on with it. He hoped that 
every town mentioned in his scheme wonld furnish two 
persons to act as repeal wardens for the purpose of 
enumerating voters. When that was done he would call 
his protective society of three hundred Irish gentlemen 
about him. More than one member of Parliament had 
offered himself asa member of this society already, He 
would proceed cautiously and deliberately, with an eye to 
the breakers ahead, and with a full knowledge of the 
shoal-water, steering the bark of Irish liberty through 
every danger, till it should reach in safety the port of 
repeal, He called on the people to rejoice. The day of 
deliverance was not distant—the day when the country 
should be a nation again was not distant.’ 
Cavan.—A meeting of the Protestants of Killyshandra, 
iin this county, in favour of the Legislative Union, was 
held on Saturday week. This is the first out-of-door 
meeting against Repeal which has been held; and it. is 
mentioned as remarkable, that no party emblem or banner 
was seen among the thousands assembled on the occasion. 
The resolutions agreed to bore reference chiefly to details 
.of organisation. Those of most general interest were the 
following :—‘‘ That the Committee be requested to confer 
with the noblemen, gentlemen, magistrates, and clergy- 
men connected with the district, and in whom they place 
“confidence, in order to appoint from amongst them pre- 
sidents, vice-presidents, &c. That in compliance with 
the view taken of her Majesty’s speech by the noblemen 
and gentlemen who signed the requisition for the meet- 
ing in Belfast on the 7th September, there shall not be a 
general meeting of the Killyshandra District Association 
at present, But that in case the agitation of Repeal con- 
tinues to be carried on in defiance of the wishes and 
determination of her Majesty, it shall be left to the Com- 
mittee to call such meetings as they may think necessary. 
That in compliance with the existing law, no members of 
the Association shall parade together or join in proces- 
sion, wearing, or having amongst them any banner, em- 
blem, flag, or symbol, the display whereof may tend to 
Provoke animosity between her Majesty’s subjects of dif- 
ferent religious yp i or panied with music 
of a like nature or tendency; but that the appropriate 
music. of the Association be ‘ God save the Queen,’ and 
*Rule Britannia,’ and that its proper flag or banner be 
the Union Jack.” 
SCOTLAND. | 
Edinburgh.—The Special Commission of the General 
Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland have issued a 
Minute, signed by Dr. Chalmers and Dr. Gorden, calling 
the attention of landowners in Scotland, and other persons 
of wealth and influence, to various representations that 
ave been made to them from different parts of the coun- 
try. They state that’ they have learned, on undoubted 
ways that pass through it. The Commission do not dis: 
pute the right of the landlords to adopt these measures ; 
but, after recapitulating the grounds of the late secession, 
they state that any attempt to check the growth of reli- 
gious opinions by such means must obviously be unsuc- 
cessful.‘ If,’’ they say, ‘‘ the most unlettered peasant in 
our land is to be reclaimed from what we regard as error, 
it must be by an appeal to his understanding and heart. 
Any other appliances he justly regards as proclaiming the 
weakness of the cause that needs to be supported by 
such instruments; and while he will be alienated in 
affection from any one who can resort to such expe- 
dients, he will-be more rivetted to the doctrine he has 
embraced. The history of Scotland has long ago proved, 
that the mere force of secular power cannot bury 
religion, and that every effort to do so always leads to the 
most fatal results.’? They proceed to show that even an 
indirect attempt on the part of the higher classes to inter- 
fere with the rights of conscience will surely lead toa 
dislocation of the different orders of society ; and they 
conclude as follows :—‘ The inhabitants of Scotland have 
been long distinguished for their sober, orderly character, 
and for their attachment to their religious institutions ; 
and no efforts on our part will be wanting to cherish in 
their hearts feelings of loyalty to their Queen, and due 
respect for those who occupy the higher walks of life ; but 
if their most sacred rights are in any case disregarded and 
trampled on, they cannot possibly entertain any feelings 
of regard to those who do so. It is earnestly hoped that 
a sense of what they owe to God and their fellow-men, 
will keep the industrious classes in this country from any 
of those excesses which have disgraced other parts of the 
kingdom ; but we feel bound to state, that should the 
measures adopted towards them by some of the higher 
orders be persevered in, we fear a deep sense of wrong 
will unavoidably be kindled in their bosoms, and will be 
transmitted from generation to generation. Such a result 
every man will surely deprecate, even should it never lead 
to open outrage, for it will tend to check industry in all 
its branches, to spread wide a cheerless poverty over the 
land, and ultimately it may engender a disregard towards 
all the institutions of religion. We have deemed it our 
duty to bring these things calmly and earnestly under the 
notice of the wealthy and powerful among us, and it is our 
earnest prayer that they may be received in the spirit that 
has dictated them, and that they may lead to such an issue 
as will tend to the growth of true religion throughout the 
land, and to the promotion of that brotherly kindness, 
peace, and good-will among all classes, which are its 
genuine fruits.” 
Glasgow.—We regret to learn that fever has of late 
progressed to a very alarming extent in Gorbals, in comse= 
quence of which a meeting of the magistrates, managers 
of the poor, and other inhabitants, was held on Friday 
last, for the purpose of taking measures to alleviate the 
distress and disease so extensively prevalent. Some 
details of a painful nature were laid before the meeting, 
amidst which one place was instanced, where, on the 
preceding day, no fewer than 71 persons afflicted with 
fever had been visited by the superintendent. When it 
is borne in mind, that the barony embraces a population 
of nearly 60,000, and that fever is not confined to one 
locality, but to a greater or Jess extent prevails over all 
the poorer districts, some idea may be formed of its 
extent. The parties, it is said, are, for the most part, 
in utter wretchedness, and some of them lying on bare 
straw. A committee was appointed by the meeting to 
receive subscriptions for their relief. 
Zetland.—It is stated in John o’Groat’s Journal that 
another shoal of whales has been captured in Sandwick, 
numbering nearly 450, and producing to the parties 
concerned upwards of 14002. 
Hab. 
Pout n-Houss.— Capt. William Tune, commander 
of the steam-boat City of Boulogne, the property of the New 
cE.—MANsI0 
Commercial C eared to answer the complaint of the 
directors of that company, under circumstances of a very serious 
who had been for several years in their employment, and had 
uniformly conducted himself in the most irreproachable manner, 
The facts of the case, as far as the inquiry had hitherto gone, 
were these :—On the 5th inst. there was delivered to Capt. Tu: 
at Boulogne, six 
according to the rates agreed upon by the company. The Captain 
admitted that i 
the sixth pac! 
previously to the starting of the vessel for England. He further 
stated that, after the vessel had got under weigh, he went down 
into his own cabin, and shut himself in from observation, and 
there he opened the bag and counted out the five parcels, which, 
with the one delivered to him alone, made up the six, and the 
second 
house officers, made an examination of the vessel, but without 
success. A short time afterwards a third officer belonging to the 
Customs commenced a minute search of the fore cabin, and ona 
the timbers, the 
close examinati made, but nothing further was found, ex- 
cept a note addressed to the Captain by the age 
on somé business relating to the vessel. It was 
that the berth just alluded to was not used by an; 
the Captain laid upon the bed in it his blue lights, rockets, and 
compass, ready for use in case ofnecessity. These were the re- 
markable circumstances which he had to detail. Two conjectures 
at present might be formed to solve the apparent mysterious dis- 
appearance of the four missing packages i 
were delivered on board at all they were taken back a: ‘ain, and 
that, consequently, there must have been a conspiracy between 
those who delivered the money, and the party to whom it was 
delivered. The other assumed that the money was on board, but 
through the connivance of some of the crew with other persons, 
erson, and 
in the care of the C 
Captain’s own cabin, and not beforethat examination. He like- 
wise submitted the extreme improbability that any person could 
have entered the cabin without his knowledge while he was rest- 
ing, and abstracted from drawers, which it was difficult to open 
atany time, the property confided to his care. It was needless, 
he said, to state that suspicion pointed very strongly to the Capt., 
who admitted that he received the six packages, that he counted 
them in his cabin, that he deposited them in the drawer, that he 
locked the door of his cabin; that no person, to his knowledge, 
had access to the cabin while he was on deck, for he found it 
locked when he went to bed, and he locked it on leaving his bed, 
after having been called by the mate, and all the circumstancts 
seemed to forbid the supposition that an 
strangers, without exciting the attention of some parties in 
Mr. Wire then requested that Capt. Tune should 
be remanded for a weck, and stated, that the directors being 
anxious that he should receive as much accommodation as might 
be consistent with the respectability of his character, and the 
nature of the difficulty in which he was at pres. ntinvolved, were 
desirous that bail shonid be taken for his appearance on the next 
day of investigation. Alderman Gibbs then required two re- 
spectable securities for 500%. tach, and Capt. Tune to be bound 
himselt in the sum of 10002. The Captain was then remanded for 
aweek. A curious fact came out in the inquiry as to the value 
of each package, They were all, it appeared, entered and paid for 
as containing a sum of money much inferior to what each 
package really contained. ‘The Captain and the whole of the 
crew, including stewards and waiters, have been discharged, and 
replaced by other: 
Queen Sauare:—Alfred Wager, a gardener’s labourer, was 
placed at the bar on Monday, charged with having stolen a num- 
ber of valuable plants from the nursery-grounds of Messrs, Buck, 
Keppell-street, Chelsea, and also with having robbed a poor hard- 
working man of his week's wages. Mr 
object clearly being on these occasions to observe where the most 
valuable collection of flowers was kept, and to become familiar 
with a large dog that was loosed in the grounds at night, From 
time to time pots were missed from the greenhouse, and on 
Friday night last a large number of plauts, which, from their 
particular value, the firm would not have parted with, were 
stolen. On inquiries, it was ascertained that the prisoner had 
been frequently seen at night carrying pots of flowers, and as 
witness had no doubt that the accused was the perpetrator of the 
robberies, he went to his lodgings in Lower Sumners-street, 
Chelsea, where he found a Trevirana coccinea, which had been 
taken from 
on Sunday evening he was apprehended. 
prosecutor if he could swear positively to the plant produced. 
Mr. Buck replied most positively ; with the same certainty as any 
mechanic could to any article he had manufactured. 
declared that he bonght the plant identified by Mr. Buck of some 
man whom he did : 
d never touched the poor man’s money. He was remanded 
until Saturday. 
SPORTING. 
Doncaster RAcES, Monpay.—The racing commenced, rather 
inauspiciously, with a match, in which Blue Bonnet, the winner 
of the St. Leger last year, showed temper before she had run a 
quarter of a mile, and got rid of her jockey ; her opponent Mania 
was thus left to canter over, and will thus appear amongst the 
starters for the St. Leger. The following are the details :— 2 
‘Match, 3001., hf.-ft. St. Leger course. yne’s f. Mania, 
yrs, 
ton’s Sis. to Martingale : Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-Ballagh, and seven 
others who were not placed. 
A Plate of 501. for horses, &c., that never oe Plate or Sweep- 
ve and aged, gst. 
Lord Exeter’s Revocation, 4 ce ee 
and Mr. St. Paul’s 
: + : Cheviot, 3 yrs- 
authori me cases proprietors of land have.| ther represented that on the ship’s arrival at the wharf, and after | Tusspay-—Zwo-year-old Produce Stakes of 100 sovs. each, i 
é eects oe baila Tween of worship for the free | @ Portion of the passengers had landed, he went down with the | h. ft., for colts 8st 71bs; fillies, 8st lbs. (2subs.)Norace. | ‘ 
3 SIUEB 10%) gs PI ad London agent into the cabin to get the packages, but on going to Cleveland. Handicap, of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., but 5 only if { 
a | Church; that in other cases servants and dependents have } the drawer i which he had deposited them, he found only one of | declared, with 60/. added; the second saves his stake, One mile. i 
7 F been dismissed from their situations, and thrown on the | them iy It VEN AG Tg ae say that he gave an im- 85 Secor et Lord Roe ole sKnightot the Whistle, i 
fi 1 hi a. mediate alarm, aused the vessel and the passengers to be | 5 yrs, $8t1 ; glinton’s Blue Bonnet, 4 yrs, 7St 7 lbs; 1 
4a aa i le UE ESL Ege it the | carched, and everything else to be done, which, undef such cir. | Mr. Meiklam’s Philip, 3 yrs, Ost gihe; Mr, skelton's Plimley, 
5 Stablishment ; that the cottagers in some parishes have | cumstances, would suggest itself to a responsible person wholly | yrs, 6st, and Mr. Walker's Ravensworth, 3 yrs, 6st 101bs. 
> een warned, at their peril, not to shelter under their | unconscious of any knowledge of the disappearance of the pro- reat St. Leger Stukes, of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three-year-old 
5 |) “Toofs the ministers who bave left their manses for con- | perty. In vain were the passengers then remaining on deck and | colts, 8st 71bs; fillies, 8st 21bs; the second to receive 200/. outof 
h j Science’ sake; and that in one instance an interdict their luggage searched 3 the other passengers who had proceeded e stake, and the third to save his stake; the winner to pay 30/, 
pi has b - eo fi hi to the Custom-house with their luggage were also subjected to | to the judge. St. Le; Course. (127 s' —Mr. ‘rather’s i 
bo een applied for to prevent a minister from preaching | examination, butno trace of the missing packages could be found. | Nutwith, by Tomboy (J, Marso ), beat Mr. Bowes's Cotherstone, 
On a certain estate, or on the sides of the roads and high-, 
Police-officers were also called in, and they, with the Custom- 
