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of Archbishop Caruana requiring him to retire, at least virtually, from affairs. It is not supposed that the local government will interfere with this appointment. The court of Rome must have previously applied to the Colonial-office. The intention appears to be that this English bishop shall ultimately succeed the present Maltese bishop. We believe it to be unconstitutional, and contrary to law, for the government of this country to hold any intercourse with the see of Rome.

REPEAL OR BLOOD.-The Rev. Robert Traill has addressed the following letter to the Cork Constitution:-" You will, perhaps, have the kindness to insert a copy of the enclosed letter in your next publication. It shows with sufficient distinctness, the animus of the repeal agitation.—I am, Sir, &c., "R. TRAILL. 666 REPEAL OR BLOOD!!!

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Repeal or blood!!!

Repeal or blood!!!

You bloody Orangeman, bad luck to you."

[The above was addressed, “Rev. Robert Traill, Skull, Skibbereen.”]

THE REPEAL MOVEMENT.-REPEAL DENUNCIATIONS.- A friend writes to us to say, that he has been held up to the hatred and odium of his neighbours by the priest of his parish, because he turned off a boy, whom he supported through charity, for disobeying his orders in attending the rebellious meeting at Cashel. The priest denounced him in the most violent language from the altar, and cautioned all the boys and girls against entering his service.-Tipperary Constitution. Nothing can exceed the threats and menaces resorted to in the neighbourhood of Craig for the collection of the repeal rent; even the very beggars are stopped in the street and compelled to give their penuy !—Kilkenny Moderator. Every priest in the diocese of Waterford and Lismore is a repealer.

PARLIAMENTARY OPINIONS.-Mr. SHAW said, as to repeal of the Union, talked of as a practical measure, it was a mere delusion. In Ireland no one was duped by it, except the unfortunate ignorant beings who were collected by masses in its name. He (Mr. Shaw) was astonished when in the first instance the declarations of her Majesty's ministers were directed against that, as if it were the real danger. Organization was the real danger; the real object was to array the people and the priesthood against the property of the country; repeal was but the pretext adopted to mislead the Government.

Lord BROUGHAM, after alluding, in eulogistic terms, to the course adopted by his noble friend who had just addressed the house when he presided over the Irish Government, went on to say, that the public had an undoubted right to assemble for the purpose of hearing arguments in favour of public measures, but then there must be some colour for holding such meetings. He had never entertained any fear of the assembling of meetings to discuss public grievances; but then the meetings must be bona fide meetings-they must have bona fide rights to discuss. To talk of 200,000 or 300,000 persons assembling to discuss, to deliberate, to argue, to reason, was preposterous, and tended to make that ludicrous which was in itself serious. (Hear, hear.)

A peer here said, even 500,000 persons had been stated to have assembled on

one occasion.

Lord BROUGHAM would take the number even lower than what he had himself stated, and state the number of persons assembling together to be 150,000, and he had had sufficient experience of public meetings to know that it was absolutely impossible that so large a body could assemble and hear arguments or reason urged-for no human voice, no human lungs, nor human ears, could be so exercised that so vast a body could hear what was addressed to them. He took the liberty of lifting up his voice in favour of the people's right to meet and discuss

their grievances: he had always been an advocate of that right; he had invariably urged the exercise of such a right on behalf of the people; but he implored them not to be led away by their demagogues, by the vague imagination that anything but one thing could be possible in such vast assemblages-for there could be no discussion, no reasoning, no deliberation—and that was a demonstration of power (hear, hear) --an exhibition of physical force (hear, hear), calculated to intimidate the peaceable and well-disposed, and to make it appear that there was no voice in all Ireland raised against the dismemberment of the empire. (Hear, hear.)

IMPORTANT AVOWAL BY THE REPEAL AGITATORS.-A document was read by Mr. O'Connell, at the conclusion of his speech at the Repeal Meeting in Dublin, on Tuesday last, recommending repeal by various arguments, and called "An Address to the People from the Repeal Association." The following is one of the most important paragraphs :-" We are thoroughly convinced that there is not the smallest possible danger of any Catholic ascendancy; not the least. But before we submit the reasons that ought to convince every intelligent Protestant of the total absence of any danger of a new ascendancy, we desire to be fully and distinctly understood upon one point; it is this:

"There exists in the hands of the Church of the minority of the Irish people the possession of the entire ecclesiastical State revenues of the entire Irish nation. We candidly and explicitly avow that this state of things could not continue to exist after the repeal of the Union. Nay, we go further, and declare it to be our decided and long-formed opinion, that one of the great advantages to be derived from the repeal of the Union would be, the severance from the State of every church in Ireland-Catholic, Episcopal, Protestant, and Presbyterian.

"We are openly of opinion, and it is an opinion from which we cannot depart, that there must be a new appropriation of the ecclesiastical State revenues; that such appropriation should consist in having entire respect for every vested interest; so that no person now in possession of any ecclesiastical benefice should be affected in his emoluments by the intended new appropriation. In other words, all vested interests should be fully respected. But, as each benefice fell in, the ecclesiastical State revenues should gradually, and at length entirely, be appropriated to purposes of public charity and general education, but should not be appropriated in whole or in the smallest part, to any other Church whatsoever."

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.-A Return of the number of students in the Romancatholic College at Maynooth, during the years 1840, 1841, and 1842; also the number of professors at present employed therein, with their respective salaries and emoluments:

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No master in the College has any emoluments but his salary, board, and apartments. The professors have only the same emoluments with the other masters-salaries, board, and apartments.

6th May, 1843.

MICHAEL MONTAGUE, President.

GREAT ANTI-REPEAL MEETING IN DUBLIN.-The following important resolution was passed at this meeting, held in the Rotunda on Wednesday the 14th of June.

"That the peaceable and loyal subjects of the Queen await with anxious anticipation some energetic and effectual interposition on the part of the government, for the suppression of the intimidating, seditious, and illegal assemblies, by which the repeal agitation is sustained. That, should resistance to the authority of the sovereign be apprehended, or any danger to the public safety arise from the movements of the disaffected, we are prepared, in common with the loyal Protestants of the country, to respond to the confidence of a firm, a wise, and a Protestant government, by cheerfully and promptly offering our personal services, if necessary, in aid of the powers of the executive."

VALUE OF CONCESSION TO ROMANISTS, FROM A SPEECH BY SIR JAMES GRAHAM.- "It had formerly been promised, that if Catholic emancipation were once carried, the priests neither would nor could further exercise a political influence over the people. Emancipation was granted, and so was reform, and both of them within three years; but so little did all this conciliation succeed, that immediately afterwards the ministry, a Whig ministry, found it necessary to bring in the Coercion Bill, moved by Earl Grey in the other House, and by Lord Althorp in this. Earl Grey being succeeded by Lord Althorp, conciliation took a fresh start, the Church Temporalities Act, another great concession, having first been passed. Then followed the Irish Municipal Act; and this series of concessions, large beyond example, brought him to 1838; in which year, notwithstanding so many conciliatory measures, Lord Morpeth found it necessary to bring in that Arms Bill which was the basis of the present. Individuals, too, had been soothed. Mr. Sheil was made Vice-President of the Board of Trade, the Chief Barony of the Irish Exchequer was offered to Mr. O'Connell; and yet, after all this, the Arms Bill of 1838 had been held indispensable. Then came Lord Normanby's government -that perfect sample of conciliation-and yet Lord Fortescue, when he succeeded Lord Normanby, found the cry of Repeal so rife throughout Ireland, that he was obliged to announce that no part of the Ministerial patronage would be extended to any one who should join in it.'

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POPISH EXERTIONS AND SCHOOLS-(To the Editor of the "Record.")— Sir,-Having read in your paper last week an account of the efforts that are about to be made at Manchester, through the medium of a bazaar, which is to be patronised by the leading Roman-catholic families of the kingdom, and the proceeds of which are to be applied to the building of a handsome chapel, to be attached to the new monastery lately erected in Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire, it has occurred to me, as the resident clergyman of Whitwick (the parish in which the new monastery is situated), that some of your readers who are zealous for the cause of truth, and anxious to check the spread of Popery, might wish to aid an object which, if it can be accomplished, would, under the blessing of God, do much to counteract the efforts which are now making to spread Romanism in that parish. In one of the townships of the parish, a handsome Roman-catholic school-house has been erected, and has been lately opened with all that show and ceremony which the Roman Catholics know so well how to display; and it is painful to add, that in consequence of the children who attend this school receiving a gratuitous education, and also presents of clothes, &c., a large number of children, belonging to nominally Christian parents, are now in the school, and are also present on the Sunday at the service in the chapel. In order to counteract this, as well as to supply a place for religious worship on other occasions, the friends of the church are anxious to build in the township alluded to, which is some distance from the parish church, a school-house, where week-day and Sunday instruction would be given to the children of the poor, and where, also, a week-day lecture, and, perhaps, at some future time, a Sunday service would be held. The extreme poverty of the parish renders it impracticable to raise the required funds from the inhabitants; but I am induced to believe, that as funds

are now raising in various parts of the country to spread Romanism in the parish of Whitwick, that parish has consequently a strong claim for support from the friends of Protestant truth at a distance. I have therefore only to add, that if any person who reads this statement feels inclined to aid the important object we have in view, I will thankfully acknowledge any sum that may be contributed, addressed to me, Whitwick Vicarage, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch.'

"April 26, 1843.

"I remain, Sir,

"Your very faithful servant,

"T. H. BUNBURY." [The above object, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, seems well deserving of support.-Editor.]

MEETING OF THE CATHOLIC INSTITUTE.-The annual meeting of this body took place on Monday, June 12th, at the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Hall was completely filled, as well as the gallery; and there was a large number of well-dressed females present. The following noblemen and gentlemen were on the platform: the Right Hon. Lord_Camoys, the Right Hon. Lord Lovat, the Hon. Edward Petre, the Hon. C. Langdale, the Hon. Sir Edward Vavasour, M.P., Mr. P. H. Howard, M. P., the Hon. C. Clifford, Professor Frere, Mr. C. Townley, Mr. C. Addis, the Rev. Messrs: O'Dwyer, Scully, and Lyon, Mr. Rosson, the anti-corn-law lecturer of Liverpool, Mr. Langdale, jun., &c. The chair was taken by the Right Hon. Lord Camoys, who "congratulated" the meeting "upon the large number of Catholics in attendance, notwithstanding the absence of that distinguished individual (loud cheers, bravos, and cries of O'Connell !) who had fostered from its commencement, and had frequently in that room eloquently advocated the Catholic Institute, and who was absent on this occasion, only in order to bring, he (the chairman) hoped to some successful conclusion, the unhappy distresses of his misguided country." The report stated, that 116,000 Romanist tracts had been printed, and 104,923 circulated, almost the whole of which had been given away gratuitously. The Branch societies amount to one hundred and twenty-four. The receipts of the previous year were 12497. 6s. 11d., while those of the present were only 11117. 18s. 9d. The chief feature of the speeches was a condemnation of the Factories' Education Bill.

DISRUPTION OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.-The long threatened disruption of the Church of Scotland took place on the 18th of May: 169 returned members, including quoad sacra ministers and elders, have retired from the General Assembly, and constituted themselves the Assembly of the Free Presbyterian Church, in Canon Mill's Hall. About 300 ministers, not members, who had signed the protest, joined them in the hall.

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OTAHEITE.-POPERY-PROTESTANTISM.-(To the Editor of the Record.)— FROM THE REV. M. D'AUBIGNE.-Sir, We have just received a visit from the missionary Schaffber, a native of French Switzerland (in the Bernese Jura), and attached to the Episcopal Mission of Tinnevelly, at the extremity of the Peninsula of Hindostan, near to Cape Cormorin. He spoke at several meetings, and one of the facts he quoted appears to me worthy of remark, under the circumstances in which evangelical Christianity in general, and particularly in Otaheite, where Popery intends to reign by force of arms, is placed. During the twelve or fifteen years that the Missions of Tinnevelly have been established, according to our friend's report, 30,000 Hindoos have been converted, or at least drawn off from their idols; of this number one-half have been baptized, and have become true Christians. There exists amongst the inhabitants a great number of Roman Catholics, who were converted to Popery by the ancient Portuguese missionary; but these poor people have but changed one superstition for another. Their priests, in order to retain their flocks, imitate as much as possible Pagan rites. A Pagan festival, very famous in these countries, is celebrated in honour of the marriage of a god with a goddess. The married couple are drawn along in a car in a pompous procession. The Roman Church situated in their vicinity has been

prompt in imitating this rite, by celebrating, at the same epoch, the marriage of Joseph and the Virgin Mary, and in carrying about, with the same ceremonies, the man and woman who represent them. The missionary adds, that of the 30,000 converted by our missions, there are a thousand Roman Catholics, who have been drawn from their errors by the power of the word of God. Therefore, not only idolaters, but also Roman Catholics, are converted by the Protestant missionaries.

What appears now to be the aim of Popery respecting Otaheite? Is it not that the Catholic religion, in addressing itself more plainly to the senses, may obtain the ascendancy over the Evangelical doctrine? and that the time is not far distant when all Polynesia (the fifth part of the world) will be converted from the Protestant to the Catholic religion? At least, such is the idea expressed by one of the most distinguished members of the Chamber of Deputies, Monsieur de Carné. "Never," said he, "can any result be more certain." Nevertheless, in the Indies, where the two forms of worship exist together, all the conversions have been on the side of Protestantism! This fact reminds us of what another of our countrymen said—the missionary La Croix, of Bengal—that he had remarked, that wherever the Bible had previously been circulated, the Roman-catholic missionaries had no power. There exists a virtue in the word of God, which baffles all their efforts and intrigues.

The zeal of Rome is awakened. The grand Society for the Propagation of the Faith, the centre of which is at Lyons, sends everywhere missionaries to convert, not the idolatrous Pagans, but those whom the Gospel has said. Friends of the Gospel, that which has taken place at Tinnevelly teaches us what we have to do. Let us pray daily, and always with increasing fervour, that God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may make perfect, stablish, strengthen, and settle (1 Pet. v. 10) our brethren converted by the Protestant missions, and particularly those of the Archipelago of the Society, praying him to preserve them from the snares, not only of men, but also of their adversary the devil, who walketh about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Pet. v. 8.) All human means must certainly be employed; certainly we must endeavour, were it possible, to give back to this small nation that same independence of which they have been deprived, and to which they have, before God and man, the same right as the English and French have. But the success, on that head, is doubtful; whereas, as long as Christians pray, they may be assured of the victory. The partisan of Rome pretends (Revue des deux Mondes) that the Protestants agree without hesitation, that wherever their missionaries and the Catholic missionaries exist together, the latter invariably gain the ascendancy. Let facts prove the contrary, and contradict such an impertinent assertion! If, notwithstanding the canon, diplomacy, superstitious pomps, and even rum and debauchery, which have followed in its train, the efforts of Rome should ever fail, how will not her triumph then have been converted into a shameful defeat! Never, perhaps, would she have experienced a more striking defeat!

Let us, then, lay hold on the spiritual weapons of prayer, which are powerful, by the virtue of God, to destroy the counsels of men. Luther, at the same time when Popery assailed him, wrote to his friends, "I feel that you pray for me." May our brethren of Australia feel at this hour that we pray for them! Geneva, May 24th.

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