Corn Exchange, Dublin. The receipts of the New Rent for the week amounted to 2701. Those of the week before were 3721. 17s. 6d. Of this latter sum 301. was subscribed by George B. Kelly, Esq. of Acton, which he transmitted to Mr. O'Connell with the following patriotic letter. Acton-House, Middlesex, September 6, 1826. › MY DEAR SIR,—I trust you will excuse the liberty I take in transmitting the enclosed order for 30l. to your care, which do me the favour to pay into the treasury of the New Catholic Association, as the subscription of my sons and self to the New Rent, for all purposes not prohibited by law. I avait myself of, this occasion to express my admiration of the patriotic conduct of the virtuous, forty-shilling freeholders, who have at the late elections so honestly and consti-, tutionally exercised their legitimate right. In my humble opinion, it is the duty of every friend to the pure principles of the British Constitution, to support and protect them in their arduous struggle from “the persecution for conscience sake," now raging against them, for no other cause than their having done their duty, and, by so doing, proved themselves worthy of possessing and exercising the rights invested in them by the Constitution. It should also be kept in view, that the exertions of the forty-shilling freeholders may, and most likely will, be required at future elections. Ought not this consideration serve as an additional stimulus to create a protecting fund for them now? And will not the support it affords be most effectually remembered by them then? I am, with esteem and respect, yours very truly, my dear Sir, GEORGE B. KELLY. The returns of the population from several parishes were next laid upon the table by the Secretary. That of the parish of Drum, in the county of Roscommon, was as follows:: Included in the number of Protestants there are eight Police-men. In pointing the attention of the Association to the small number of Protestants, the Rev. Martin O'Reilly stated, that he wished to advert to a late occurrence, which excited pain and indignation in the parish. There is no Protestant Church in the parish of Drum-that parish being annexed as a union to the neighbouring parish of Moore. In the course of the last year, a superb and expensive edifice was erected for the accommodation of the Police and two or three families. The Catholic inhabitants of Drum beheld the progress of this splendid building with no other feeling than that of regret, that for their worship no such edifice could be erected. But they were soon obliged to take a new view of the matter. They were thunderstruck when they were told in a very peremptory tone, that they should contribute to the expense of ornamenting the new church. For this purpose, a church-cess, unexampled in its nature and amount, was demanded of them. The people resisted the demand as'uu just and odious; they formed a fund, to which each inhabitant of the parish contributed his mite, and they appealed to the quarter sessions. It was declared before the Assistant Barrister, that the cess was unprecedented; that the decorations were quite unnecessary; that the people were so poor that they could scarcely keep in decent repair their own house of worship, and that it was an act of the most cruel oppression to compel them to pay for the costly decorations of a Protestant Church. But the Assistant Barrister decided against them. This circumstance has caused great and general discontent in the parish. Parishes of Ogula, Shilcooly, and Kilcullen, same county. Catholics, males . . . . . 2977-females.... 5957-total... Protestants, do. 21 8934 do. .... 33- do. .... 44 Majority of Catholics..... 8890 The amount of the tithes is about 500l. per annum. The inhabitants of Ogula are compelled to pay four-pence per acre for the repairs of the Church of Elphin, which is five miles distant. There is one Protestant Rector in those parishes. One of the Rectors, the Rev. Oliver Carey, lives twelve miles distant, who receives the tithes of six or seven other parishes besides. There is no Protestant Church in those parishes. The Bishop's land in these parishes amounts to 447 acres, which is let from 11. 10s. to 21. per acre. The inhabitants complain loudly of the charges made for tithes by the tithe proctor, who frequently summonses hundreds of them to distant Courts, four, five, and even ten miles from their homes. Parishes of Keelegarrylander and Shillallagh, County of Kerry. 2330-females.... 2230-total....4568 Catholics, males.... At School.-Caths. males.. 291-females.... 105—total..... $96 Prots. do. .. 6 do. .... 4- do. ..... Parish of Kilrush, County of Clare. Catholics, males Majority at School...... 386 ....... . 5121-total... 10,536 324- do.... 666 Majority of Catholics.... 9872 Parochial meetings are every where assembling in Ireland, to petition early in the session for unqualified emancipation. From the manner, however, in which the very name of Ireland is mentioned in the Collective Wisdom, and her interests are treated, we augur very little from the bustle now going on in that country. If any thing were wanting to confirm us in this opinion, the following statement made by Mr. James Grattan, at an aggregate meeting held in Maryborough, would be sufficient, and we think ought to satisfy even the most sanguine ex-1. pectant, that the cause is hopeless, until the public voice of England is aroused, and more general measures adopted. "I protest to God," said Mr. Grattan, "there is not a question in which Ireland is interested, that would not, în my opinion, be voted away like a Parish Bill, if your friends were not vigilant, in a British Parliament. There, even on a bill to disfranchise 200,000 freeholders, but two short debates occurred, and if I, myself, had not mustered members to make a majority of sixtynine, while there were forty-three on the other, the question brought in by Mr. Littleton on one account, and brought out on another, would have been carried. This I mention to show of how little importance Irish affairs are considered. Talk not to me of infractions of the Constitution-if the people had lost the forty-shilling franchise, their solitary privilege, it matters not how soon you do away with all representation in Parliament. It would be a representation of boroughs, and a military despotism were preferable." The Extraordinary Gazette of the Isthmus, of the 22d of June last, contains an account of the Installation of the Great American Congress, consisting of the four Republics of Colombia, Guatimala, Mexico, and Peru. On this occasion, Don Manuel Lorenzo Vidaurre, President of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Peru, Minister Plenipotentiary from the 1sthmus to the Congress, addressed their Excellencies the MInisters Plenipotentiaries from the other States. In his very able discourse he complimented this country as the cradle of Liberty in these words:" The English, I think, were the first who laboured for the rights of man. Their ancient Charter, extorted from John Lackland, and their progress for many ages, till the time of William III. shew that we must acknowledge them as the discoverers of the grand political system. Let the Anglo-American confess that the lights which he received from his ancestors directed him in his struggle, and conducted him to the port where he reposes under the tree of just and regulated liberty." Speaking of the bases of their union and freedom of conscience, he says, "Few, but solid, are the foundations on which our confederation rests. Peace with the world-respect to the Governments established in European countries, even when they are diametrically opposite to that which has been adopted in America—a free commerce with all vations— and a great diminution of duties in favour of those who have recognized our independence-religious toleration for those who observe rites different from those which we have received for our particular constitutions —such are the bases of our union... Let the foreigner come, and whatever be his worship, he will be received, respected, and protected, if his morality, which is true religion, does not belie that which was taught by our Saviour. Let them be our masters in agriculture, and in the arts →→ let the dismal countenance of the African, oppressed by chains and power, disappear from our fields. Let him see by his side a man of that colour, which is believed a sign of superiority-let him begin to be a rational being, perceiving that in nothing he is distinguished from other. men." What will the Herald and the Bigots say now to the principles of the Catholic Religion? Will they, after this proof of the tolerant spirit of its professors in South America, have the impudence to assert that this Religion is, and always has been, opposed to freedom in every shape? On the 24th of September last, a young English Gentleman and Lady, brother and sister, named Hunter, one aged 20, the other 18, publicly abjured, in the presence of a great number of people, in the Church of Notre Dame at St. Chamont, department of the Loire, the errors of the sect of Anabaptists, in which they had been brought up. They were baptised with all the pomp which is prescribed by the Church for the baptism of Adults; and in a Mass to return thanks, which was celebrated, they communicated with such devotion as to cause even the assistants to shed tears. NEW CATHOLIC Chapel at Ipswich-It is a subject of edification to every sincere lover of God and our holy Religion, to witness in every part of England, the zeal, the disinterestedness, the sacrifice of health and fortune, manifested by many ecclesiastics and other devout individuals in erecting suitable places of divine worship for the destitute Catholics of this country. A casual visitor at Ipswich has been much gratified at finding a commodious Catholic chapel and house for the priest built there, at the sole expense of the Rev. Mr. Simon. It was out of sincere charity to his scattered brethren in the populons and flourishing town of Ipswich and its evirons, 20 miles in nearly every direction, that the Rev. Gentleman was induced, with the approbation of the late venerable Dr. Milner, to fix upon that place for the scene of his labours, and the sacrifice of his little fortune. This he has all expended without being able to complete his pious undertaking, and thus for want of about 100 or 150 pounds, the good of religion is greatly retarded. Last Sunday upwards of 200 persons were present in the shell of the unplastered chapel, without any thing to kneel upon than mortar-boards and dirty shavings, for the benefit of hearing mass, which is celebrated in a small room that opens into the chapel, and of receiving the instructions of their truly apostolic and amiable pastor. Should this fact meet the eye of his friends, or any benevolent individual, it is confidently hoped it will not be without its effect. Contributions placed at Messrs. Wrights the Ban⚫ kers, or with any of the Clergy, will be duly forwarded to the Rev. Mr. Simon, Catholic chapel, Ipswich. It is with feelings of deep indignation and concern we learn that some miscreants have broken open the Catholic Chapels of Black Ladies, Moseley and Banbury, the tabernacles of which have been broken or taken away, and the blessed Sacrement most sacrilegiously and impiously profaned. To prevent a repetition of this unhallowed abuse, we venture to observe, that Catholic Clergymen should not leave the sacred elemente in the chapels during the night, unless they have an iron chest strongly guarded. We cannot help thinking these sacrilegious proceedings are the work of some bigotted incendiaries, as plunder do not seem to have been their object. The Right Rev. Dr. Doyle has been for the last few days in Drogheda, on a visit to the Most Rev. Dr. Curtis, the Catholic Primate. We are happy to learn that measures of reprisals have been taken for the annoyance of the legal persecutors of the forty-shilling freeholders. DIED. On the 19th of Sept. aged 60 years, Mr. Philip Kernon, of Bristol. TO CORRESPONDENTS. VERITAS is informed that anonymous notices of Marriages and Deaths will not be attended to. London Markets. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, Oct. 2, 1826. We had a moderate supply of wheat from Essex and Kent, for this day's market, and it proving mostly ordinary in quality or condition, sales proceeded very slowly; but what few samples appeared fine and dry, were sold at full as high prices. The arrivals of British spring grain of every kind, continue unusually scanty, nor, with the exception of oats, have we received much from the Continent. Fine new barley is much inquired after, and the little brought forward is taken off at an advance of 1s. to 2s. per quarter. For oats we have still a regular, steady demand, and late prices are supported with difficulty.— White peas are dearer 2s. to 3s. per quarter. Although our supplies (6,300 qrs. of Wheas, 2,400 of Barley, 22,500 of Oats and 7,500 sacks of Flout) are very large, still prices keep up tolerably well, fine samples of Wheat fully supporting Monday's prices; but the sales were few in number. Malting Barley sells also at Monday's currency, and Oats, of which article the arrival is immense, sell freely at the prices of last market day. In Beans, Peas, and other articles, there is no alteration. SMITHFIELD, OCTOBER 2. At this day's market, which was on the whole numerously supplied, but short of prime sheep and beaŝts, each kind of meat experienced a very dull sale at nothing beyond Friday's quotations. Coarse and inferior beasts from 2s. 4d. to 2s. 8d.; coarse and inferior sheep 3s. 2d. to 3s. 6d.; second quality beasts 3s. 2d. to 3s. 6d; second quality sheep 3s. 6d. to 3s. 10d.; prime coarse-woolled sheep 4s. to 4s. 2d.; prime large oxen 4s. to 4s. 6d. ; prime Southdowns wethers 4s. 2d. to 4s. 6d. ; prime Scots, &c. 4s. 8d. to 5s.; large lambs 3s. 10d. to 4s. 2d; prime small lambs 4s. 4d. to 4s. 8d.; large coarse calves 4s. to 4s. 4d.; prime small calves 4s. 8d. to 5s.; large hogs 3s. 8d. to 4s.; and neat small porkers 4s. 10d. to 5s. 2d. per stone of 8lbs. to sink the offals. Suckling calves from 12s. to 40s.; and quarter-old store pigs 12s. to 18s, each. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.-(At per stone by the carcase)-Beef from 3s. to 4s. 4d.; mutton from 3s. to 4s. 2d.; lamb 3s. 4d. to 4s, 8d; veal 3s. 6d. to 4s. 8d; and pork 3s. 10d. to 5s. 4d. W. E. Andrews, Printer, 3. Chapterhouse-court, St. Paul's, London. |