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THE NEWSPAPER. 



ri^44. 



IRELAND. 



Dublin.— T\\t Charitable 13eques!i Act is likely to 

 cause ccwiideni a embarrassment to Government. 

 Mr. O'Connell has spoken at great length against it at 

 several n tings which bate been h ia Dublin, and 

 Archbishop M'Hal* has issued a lengthy address to his 

 clergy denouncing it in the most unqualified terms. ^ In 

 consequence of this opposition, it ii sa ; d that Dr. Ken- 

 nedy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kilh.loe, has resigned 

 the office of commissioner under the Act, and it is said 

 that the other Catholic bishops will follow his exaar pie. 

 Government have appointed Dr. Henry, of Armagh, 

 the Presbyterian comral oner.— Mr. Grev Porter has 

 published hii lcn^-promised pamphlet on Federalism, in 

 which he advocates many of Mr. O'Counell's favourite 

 schemes, proposes the formation of a national militia, 

 and sug ,ts that all measures relating to Ireland should 

 be submitted to the Irish members b re they be brought 

 into the Imperial Parliament,— The weekly meeting of 

 the Repeal Association took place on Monday. Mr. 

 Grattan, M.l u in the chair, and addressed the 

 meeting for arly an hour, on a variety of topics, begi;.- 

 ningwith I it of the State Ttiais and their consequences : 



He made particular reference to an 8 - which he si 



lad been ned by l.< V >'S, and pre 'd to IK 



XRJi'bty, praying for inquiry on the subject. To f !»at adrir 

 no ' urubu- antwes had been returned— an i >nce i eh 

 thehon. Kentleman commented on in very Btrong 1 

 ami in a v, rv vehement manner. The En h, he said, must 

 tlirn , . , , r bt com t to Jose Ireland: fur, in tue 



lr. Hurke, they had violated the law and i aimed 

 anarchy. Yes; thirteen of the I c judg< nd, an 



three o. the I v. lore" , had declared that they had violated the 

 law bv the state pi editions j and yet ap starred • Prime 



ai or in his p] In the n rase ol Come s and 

 ann d that he was ready to vindicate bis atrocitj 



He Mr. (..rattan) came forward, therefore, to join In del nd. 

 tag Inquiry into tbe late state i cutions against O* Com 

 ami his lellow-i . i» order to prevent that anarcliy which 



v ,. of, win intry subject to ich aets of gross 



in entTi i linfoterm eta tiug< 



As anothe that Ireland *as threatened with i 



lion, gen an alluded to the CharitabU s Act, 



) ie , )lu ad rt pan to separate the Catho clergy 



from t olic laity of the country, similar to that a 



!» Mr. l d felt it nee iry to guard the people in 



j; in ti i urch to which be belong s ali 



a .„. it w fd into Wesleyans, and 1 , and Ii 



.an itanans, and Tract 



aiKl p, lie appreJ I that the Protestant Churc 



would be ait' r put down in these count i, , d he then 



fore warned tie pe< le of Ireland a Bancti ngan; 



cure or any proceeding which would lave the . ct of intn 

 ducing a hc'iii- to their ill- trea L and much-abmed C ch. 

 Her Majesty's mini rs.notsal fled with the political chief 

 which they were doing In Ireland, now sought to embroil the 

 country in religious d anion ami strife ; but he hoped the 

 people would disappoint them. 



The minutes of the last proceedings having been read — 

 Mr. ON at*, briefly addrei I the meeting oa the subject 



of ihe registry id the city « : Dublin, congratulating the Re- 

 pealers on ir continued and in* ssing majority < 

 <ons.-T ives. His next topic related to the 

 ^ttxich - n parts of Irei . lie was the dcci 



enemy* »c outrages, and in his op n no pall. i cou 



\tr offered (or them, i is d »ly grieved to state that in t 

 counties of Cavan and trim Whit; disturbances had la 

 taken place to a m tiable extent. It was quite man 



to birn that the in fat ui I wri s concerned ia those out- 

 rages were I on to their ruin by designing knaves, V . he 



had no doubt, were the hitter ene s of Ireland. Nothing 

 but the continuance of such atroc es could t ird Repeal: 

 and their source was the more manliest, as a bettor feeling h 

 lately 1 rung up amongst all cla in the county of Cavan 



than had existed during the last half cei ry. The Catholic 

 clergy and the Repeal Wardens had remonstrated in vain 

 against those proceedings, and tbe Association should therefore 

 take son iecided step. He accordingly moved the suspension 

 of the ending order, for the purpose of proposing t Mr 

 Steele, head pacificator of Ireland, he sent down to C an to 

 me hi* best exertions to put an end to these disturbance*, and, 

 if access; , to bring the offenders to justice. 



The motion having been carried, and some routine 

 business transacted — 



Mr. O'Connell rose to address the meeting, and commenced 

 by offering an excuse for not reporting as he had promised on 

 the 10 propositions relating to the Union, which he had laid 

 before them at the last meeting. His txcuse \ that the* 

 mittee met only in the evening, and he had been too busy every 

 evening to attend. Hep d that he would bring all 



his attention to this subject immediately on his return from 

 TVaterford, and their report would be preceded by a distinct 

 enui ion of the axiom that their struggle was founded ( n 

 mora! means alone— on total absence from tumult, outrage, or 

 the shedd ff of a drop of blood in effecting their object. He 

 had demon rated in the carrying of emancipation at moral 

 force was sufficient ; and much as he valued nati ial i. de- 

 pendent he would abandon his attempt to attain it, s« 

 than con it to sanction a crime. During their struggle for 

 emancipation they encountered obstacles, and of course in 

 their present struggles they had to mc< t obstacles too. T 

 had a large p i the English and tbe Sco'ch, and the Iris 



•osd the Frencl pac i to-them, and abusing and ■ sro- 



presenting himself. The French press had begun the quarr- 

 and he answered by accusing Louis- 1 e of being atyrai 



and u r, not on account of any deficiency in his title to the 



throne, which rested on the will of the people, but because he 

 had violated the conditions annexed to his accesion. He had 

 guaranteed perfect freedom of the press, freedom of trial by 

 jury, and freedom of education j and he had violated all these 

 solemn engagements. The hon. gent, then went to complain 

 of what he termed the fl&isreprest ntation of the English press. 

 The Morning Advertiser accused him of inconsistency, and stat 

 that he had given up Repeal for Federalism ; but he defied any 

 impartial man to read his letter of Oct- r 4, and say he had 

 given up one iota of the Repeal. Dr. Maunsell, in 1 recent 

 pamphlet, admitted that : Toit'S Magazine also admitted it j a: 



one of his bitterest enemies, the £' er, took tbe sam w 



of the express-ions used by him in that letter. The Mornir, 

 Chr< Icle had come upon him with chargesof inconsi.-tenc 

 mixed up with a good deal of cajolery, but he was far too old a 

 bird to be caught with chaff. Once for ail, he declared that he 

 treated these imputations of inconsistency with the utmost 

 contempt. He had been a thousand times a< d of it in his 



struggle for emancipation, whenever he found it necessary 

 alter or modify his plans— in fact, whenever he found it 

 necessary to go round the rock instead of attempting to go 

 through it. He than read an article in the Examiner, accusi; 

 him of being regardless of the truth, and advancing sever 

 proofs in support of tbe accusation; ask ng hinii for instance, 

 whether, when he told the people of Ireland they would have 





character at .oment he was giving it fine first 



, he« ied. When going to pn ked tbe people 



omhse to keep the peace for -ox months. They kept their 

 pi d he would keep his promise that the should get 



the Repeal. The second question he admitted. He had often 

 riven t vo characters of the same man, of Lord Stanley and 

 Lord J. R II, for instance ; but why, or under what circum- 

 ances? I" this way— that when they d'ri good he praised 

 em, and when they attempted to do mischief he had not hesi- 

 tated to denounce their conduct. And yet this was made the 

 ground of an atr c' and insolent calumny against him bv a 

 writer in the Examiner , a miscreant who, while he (Mr. 

 O'Connell) had been labouring for his country, was grovelling 

 in a garret. He had brought his country under the notice of 

 the whole civilised world—be had made known her wants, her 

 rs, her fidelity, her religious perseverance, and all those 

 hi | qualii which distinguished her people; and was this 

 the recompense he was to receive from a nameless scoundrel 

 scribblerin London? He had already replied to him in the se- 

 veresr lai g . and what other could he have used towards a 



base calumniator of that kind ? He had called him a mi eant, a 



lami nd afoul liar, lie repeated those epithets, forth. 



were suitable ones, unless, indeed, the 1 mguage could supply 

 him with harsher, in which case he would admit that thoae terms 

 were too mild. Oh, the writer of that article as a base, a 

 brutal, and, pi , i bribed wretch, for assailing him m that 



way. He did not care whether he was bribed or not. If he 

 T . .. nras nothing, lie i nly proved himself the greater 



■undrel. Hepn I every word of his accusa n to be 



talsch I. The next publication whi Mr. O'Connell referred 

 to was the second pamphlet of Mr. Grey Porter, several pas- 

 Of which he read, and moved that they be inserted on the 

 mites aa uotthv of the deepest c< ideration ot all, and i 

 p ular of the Uri b Mini r and the British people, and a 

 tending 1 w that Ireland, Catholic In nd, was too strong 



and too determined to he any longer a pitiful province. He 

 rij I at the pub , :al on of this F t pamphlet, but < 



ed, iii n ference to some passages of rather a physical force 

 character, that the Association would mitigate and modify tie 

 ,vt r-ardour of their Protestant fellow-patnots— such patliol 

 as Mr rter and their worthy chairman, Henry Grattan. 



The plan which Mr. Porter offered, of requiring every Bill 

 br< to the Bj h Parliament for Ireland to be. submitted 



t () the i i n ' bers, was not very practicable, but they owed 

 him t. deepest gratitude for his advice j and would feel' plea- 

 sure In adopting it, so far a insistent with their principles. 



After some routine business, the rent for the week 

 igaj announced to be 333Ai '6s. 3a. 



The Provinces. — The accounts from several of the 

 pro vine < are tilled with lamentable details of the dis- 

 ►rganised state of the country. In King's County 

 last week, two young men, named Shepherd, were mur- 

 dered in a cruel manner by a party of men, who sur- 

 rounded and took them by surprise while working on a 

 farm belonging to the Rev. Ralph Coote.— On Tuesday 

 week, as Mr. Samuel M'Kerin was sitting in his par- 

 lour praying, near the road leading from Branchfield to 

 Siigo, he was shot by some assassin through his window, 

 and so near was tbe murd :rer to his victim, that the shot 

 carried away a portion of his head, and stretched him 

 lifeless on the instant. Mr. M'Kerin was a Protestant, 

 an inoffensive, respectable, industrious farmer ; had not 

 taken land, or in any way disobliged his neighbours. 

 On ths same night an attempt was made to assassinate 

 . Patrick Curren, a substantial farmer, who lives on 

 ie road from Clara to Moate, at a place called Gurteen. 

 The back wall of his house abuts on the edge of the 

 road. Through a small window in this wall a shot was 

 fired by some person standing on the road. . He was 

 rising from a seat before his fire, when one ball passed 

 through his right shoulder, and several slugs wounded 

 him about the arm and breast, but not severely. It is 

 thought he hail been covered, but the act of rising sud- 

 denly saved his life. On the same day, a man named 

 Shea was murdered by his own son, at Kilvemnon, near 

 Callan, who fractured his skull with a stone, and after- 

 wards with a spade, and killed him on the spot. 



proposal appears to be moat lavourauly re ivedi and 

 gives promise of a large and most res; ectable meeting. 



Aberdeen. — The Harbour Comm ioners having in- 

 vited Mr. Smith, of Deanston, to i t Aberdeen, for the 

 purpose of asking his opinion as to the best mode of ren- 

 dering the sewcage of the city available for the purposes 

 of agriculture, a number of gentlemen in the town and 

 vicinity resolved to embrace the opportunity of testifying 

 their respect for Mr. Smith, and their high estimation of 

 the valuable services he had rendered to the interests of 

 agriculture, by inviting him to a public dinner. The 

 chair was filled by Captain Barclay, of Ury, one of the 



AA* « * js f ■ > 



Lindsay, . Mr. Boswell, of Kingcausie, and Mr. 

 orbes, of Blackford, officiated as croupiers. 



Drury Lane. — Mr. Balfe had his benefit on Satur- 

 day evening, when his new opera," The Daughter of St. 

 Mark/' was followed by the ballet of the " Peri." The 

 house was exc ively crowded, and the dress-boxes were 

 full of company. Mr. Balfe on his appearance in the 

 orchestra, was received with loud applause. The opera 

 was followed by a very pleasing interlude. The curtain 

 rose and Mr. Bunn appeared, leading forward Mr. Balfe. 

 The manager addressed the audience, and alter eulogising 

 Mr. Balfe's character and talents, stated that a public 

 subscription had been entered into for the pur- 

 pose of presenting the composer with a testimonial, that 

 it had been considered that he should receive it in the 

 presence of the publ'c who had bestowed it, aud that 

 he should therefore leave the receiver alone with the 

 givers. On this he retired ; and a scene rising discovered 

 tastefully arranged, a superb tea aud coffee service of 

 silver plate. Mr. Balfe (on whose entrance the whole 

 audience had risen to greet him), then expressed his 

 gratitude to the subscribers, while the house literally 

 rang with acclamations. The list of subscribers to this 

 testimonial comprises the Duke of Devonshire, the Mar- 

 quis of Conyngham, the Earl of Westinor eland , £«TM> 

 Dimsdale, Sir A. Barnard, Sir H. Webb, &©, We may 

 here observe, that so great has been the success of " The 

 Daughter of Sr. Mark," that Mr. Balfe will realise 1000/. 

 by the sale of his copyright. 



Miss Martineau on Mesmerism. — A third letter from 

 Miss Martineau appeared in the Athenaum of Saturday- 

 last. It relates almost exclusively to the account of the 

 young girl, whose extraordinary revelations we noticed 

 last week. During one of her mesmeric sleeps, Miss 

 Martineau says that she hss both written and made 

 sketches. She says—" Though us ly dis-1 ; to try 



to read with the eves shut, &c., she has 1 ce written 

 when desired (complaining, when her eyes were fast shut, 

 and her chair was almost in the dark, that she could not 

 see well, meaning that there was too much 1 jt), and 

 once she drew a church and a ship, about as well as she 

 might have done it with open eyes. She drew the ship 

 in separate parts, saying that she would put them toge- 

 ther afterwards. In this latter cse her eyes "ere^ban- 



SCOTLAND. 



Edinburgh. — We have on former occasions noticed 

 certain disputes in the Scottish Episcopal Church, in 

 which clergymen who have received ordination in Eng- 

 land have gone to Scotland and set the Bishops at 

 defiance on matters of essential discipline, because of 

 their English ordination. Some time ago the Bishop of 

 Aberdeen found it necessary to excommunicate the Rev. 

 Sir W. Dunbar ; and a recent case of schioma ical pro- 

 ceeding at Sr. Jude's, Glasgow, induced the Bishop of 

 that city to address the Bishop of London on the subject. 

 His lordship in reply says: — "My opinion as to the 

 obligation which binds an English clergyman, desirous 

 of officiating in Scotland, to seek for authority to do so 

 at the hands of the Bishop within whose diocese he is to 

 officiate, and to pay him canonical obedieuce, has long 

 been made known in that country. I retain my opinion 

 unchanged. As to the jurisdiction which, it appears, 



„ , ding into a province which 



does not belong to me; and any attempt to exercise it 

 would be productive of schism and confusion. If I pos- 

 sessed any authority over Mr. Miles or Sir William 

 Dunbar, I should exert it for the purpose of inducing 

 them to return to the spiritual allegiance which they owe, 

 while in Scotland, to the fathers of the Church in that 

 country. The duty of paying that allegiance I urged 

 very strongly upon Sir W. Dunbar, when he quitted the 

 diocese of London to take charge of a congregation in 

 Aberdeen. The refusal of it must lead to disorder, and 

 to a weakening of the Church, at a time when all her 

 energies are needed to resist the assaults of those who are 

 dually hostile to the Scotch and English branches of 

 Christ's Holy Catholic Church, as possessing the apos- 

 tolical inheritance of episcopacy.'' 



Glasgow. — We understand that the directors of the 

 East India Association of this city have agreed to an 



whether, when lie told me people oi ireianu mey wuuiu nave address to Sir Henry Pottinger, and that two of their 

 Repeal In six months, he believed his own w s? whether number, who are deputed to present the same, are also 

 there was a Liberal ot whom he had not griven two character charged to invite Sir Henry to a public dinner. The- 

 and whether he ever asked himself if there was any truth in 1 ° j r 



daged, as she complained it was so ligUt she could not 

 see ; and then she complained that the pencil gwen her 

 would not mark, and tried to pull out the lead further, 

 not being satisfied till her strokes weredistinct. i^ng, 

 savs Miss Martineau, " is more obscure in oar «P«' ment 

 with J., and. 1 believe, in most mesmer.ee s, than the ex- 

 tent and character of the rapport, on win, K> much ap- 

 pends. Onesingolar evidence of rapport be; J ;f ad °" 

 mesmerist I have witnessed under such une: onable 



circumstances as to be absolutely sure of i . " " e * 

 was dancing, and taking this room lor a om. sne 



took her mesmerist for her partner, allowed 1 trself to 

 be conducted to a seat, &c, assuming a ball-room ^air 

 which was amusing enough in one with her .«!""»"* 

 up, as motionless as if they were never again o open 

 Being offered refreshment, she chose some » ek,n «™£ 

 water^ a glass of which was on the tabL-, prepared for 

 me. It seemed to exhilarate her, »nd she expre sed 

 great relish of the « refreshment." Its ruck ***££ 

 would try, another evening, whether her "£ men8 ^ 

 will could affect her sense of taste. In her absence we 

 agreed that the water should be ail. "'"^^r 



sherry the next night. To make the e iperimen , ta. c*a 

 as possible, the water was first off. red to her, and a Ut M 

 of it drank as water. Then the rest was, w h.le a in 

 her hands, silently willed to be sherry ; she d '»"*"' 

 -half a tumbler full-declared it very g 1 1 but, pr 

 sently, that it made her tipsy. What was i • . w -» 

 white wine.' And she became exce .-^""^St 

 voluble, but refused to rise from her chair "J £ n< ^- 



™»f. « *?*»•" f talrS ', <°L S rl C ^r e, vt frighten 



beer.' 

 time : 



:, but called ber refreshment a na..y - 

 Of late she has ceased to know »»»*«?„! 

 •can't see the clock-face,' as she dec* rt£ 

 The greatest aptitude at present *eems to be for B ,6 

 afiecte g d by metals, and for the ..ngular ~ ar r ,pd J 

 producible in the meamene sleep. When tarar 

 hands are locked in this ngidity, no force i u.ed 

 gentleman who has seen the case ean u V^g^ 

 and in her waking state she has certamly no ! ^ u 

 cular force as could resist what he. been -«^t j 

 used in her sleeping state. The rigid limbs then app 



