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      do well to note . In returning thanks to the electors at Newark , on Monday , Mr . Barrow said he had no ill will to the landlords , but he believed that , " to relieve the distress of the farmer , there must not only be a readjustment of rent but of taxation . " The nomination of candidates for the vacancy in Bedfordshire took place on Monday . Colonel Gilpin , the Protectionist candidate , in his speech from the hustings , said they must have a revision of taxation . The malt tax bore very hard upon farmers , but he would not promise to vote for its abolition . The income tax was a legalized robbery as regarded the farmer , and how any Minister with a surplus revenue could ask for a renewal of it , he was at a loss to imagine . He was favourable to a well-digested scheme for extending the franchise , but would oppose any measure which contemplated the swamping county constituencies by means of the boroughs . As regarded religious matters , he was favourable to a system of education based on the Scriptures , and opposed to Papal aggression . Mr . Lattimore , the well-known free-trade farmer , proposed Mr . Houghton , a well-known agriculturist , as a free-trade candidate . Mr . Houghton advocates retrenchment of expenditure , a repeal of the malt tax , and a modification of the income tax as far as it affects tenant farmers . He is also for simplifying and cheapening the transfer of real property , lor reforming the Court of Chancery , for securing to tenants compensation for unexhausted improvements , and , above all , for securing to them a proper independent representation of their interests in Parliament by men selected from their own body , and not chosen by their proprietors and thrust upon them for election . In his speech to the electors , he told them that he had come forward to try and do his best for a great and suffering class : —

      " He was a brother , and one of themselves . ( Cheers , and indignant ' Nos' from the opposition ) . The reason why he left the ship which contained so many of them together was this—that he felt so strongly that it was ¦ bamboozling the tenant farmer to keep alive in him the belief that a tax would ever again be imposed on the bread of the people . ( Cheers . ) If they now thought that they would ever get it back he would tell them how to go to work . Let them open a shop in Manchester and call it the Bread Tax Committee ; let them hold large meetings , get the Free Trade-hall well filled with people , and get petitions signed by 50 , 000 names . Let them repeat the same thing at Leeds , Sheffield , Liverpool ,

      the West Riding ; and as the present members would not present such petitions , letjthem find others who would , and then perhaps they might get the tax again . But what good could they do with a small room in Bond-street , hole and corner meetings , and petitions that were put under the table of the House as soon as they were presented ? ( Laughter and cheers . ) As far as his interest and property were concerned he did not wish for the repeal of the corn laws ; but he looked at the masBes of the people . The landlords knew as well as he did the impossibility of ever reimposing the tax ; and when they saw things so dead against them , as men and Englishmen , he said , let them turn their attention to something else , and see if they could not get other measures of practical relief from the House of Commons .

      If they were to have cheap corn they must have cheap taxation ; they must have the laws affecting the landed interest altered . These were practical questions that must be brought forward and receive a practical and constitutional solution . He upbraided the farmers with their supineness in allowing the present surplus in the Chancellor of the Exchequer ' s hands to slip away and be expended for sanitary purposes . He coincided with Colonel Gilpin in the unjust operation of the income tax . He contended for the expediency of reducing the present qualification for a vote in an occupying tenant , as in the case of Ireland . He explained his views upon church rates and a variety of other subjects , and concluded a ¦ very lengthened address by expressing a hope that the verdict of the constituency would be given in his favour . "

      The show of hands was barely in Colonel Gilpin s favour . Mr . Houghton expressed his intention to withdraw from the content , but , at the entreaty of his friends , who promised to take the whole expense of the contest upon themselves , ho consented to go to the poll , which waa fixed for Thursday . The following was the state of the poll ut the close of the first duy : — Colonel Gilpin 1017 Mr . Houghton ; foO This docs not include the later returns from Luton and Leighton .

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      PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY . The agitation in Ireland uguinst Lord John ltusscll ' ti bill has fairly begun . . The Kormm Catholic journalrt denounce it in the most unmeasured terms , and cull upon the people to come forward and Hay whether they will mibmit to bo tyrannical u measure . Parisli mectingt * to protest against tho bill are to take p lace in Dublin and tho provinces . Tho Tablet , oi luHt Saturday , openly couhhoIh resistance to the bill in the event of its becoming law . Lord John will leurn what kind of » pirit he has evoked when he reads the following passage fiMiu ihe 1 ' ablet : - " Obey the law ? Whut fchoul . l \ u- gain liy obwdii'iir * - f Exemptions from futurw uoinecutum ? . Not no . Our WWAruice , if wo ar « « ju < Ri cowards , would whnply put

      weapons into the hands of our persecutors ; would encourage them to make fresh assaults upon us ; would give them a vantage ground for new aggressions ; would stimulate their insolence and rapine ; and , most deservedly , as far as we are concerned , would lay us divided and prostrate at their feet , to undergo , without resistance , whatever their malice might hereafter devise agaiust us , whenever at their convenience they chose to resume their unholy crusade . Obey the law ? What has the Archbishop of Dublin—we mean not the sophist who usurps the title , but the Archbishop by the grace of God—what has this venerable ecclesiastic gained by his obedience to the law?—by the suppression in all his public acts of the name of his diocese ?—by cultivating Whig friendship ? —bv renosinc on Whig honour ?—by relying on Whig

      consistency and the principles of Whiggish toleration t What have the ' minority of 13 ' gained by their complaisance and—if we may say so without offence or disrespect—their credulity in the impossible honesty oi a Whig Minister ? The fruits of their amity with these treacherous politicians have been , to be spurned as you would spurn a dog—to be ousted from their sees—to be set up as a mark for persecution—and to be threatened with further outrage and ignominy if they will not cooperate with the deadliest enemies of religion in their unhallowed warfare against the Vicar of the Redeemer . What , repeat , should we gain by obeying the law ? Security ?—peace ?—freedom from further attacks ?—anything that can be called a settlement of our affairs , and Dermission to dwell in safety ? Nothing of all tins ;

      for happily we have read Lord John Russell 3 speech , and we know what he meditates and plots against us . We know that whether we obey or disobey he will be satisfied with nothing but the absolute surrender of our independence . We know the words he has spoken and the thoughts that are in his heart , and after the deceit he has practised we all know that he can give no security for the future . If he promises , he will break his word . If he swears , he will be perjured . If he makes compacts , he will violate them . If we trust him he will will thrust his sword into

      betray us , and kissing us , our entrails . Obey ! The malediction of God—but no , we need not curse him who would yield himself up a bond-slave to Whig tyranny and deceit ; for the man who would be so false to every precept of religion , and who would shrink from disobedience to such a law , at whatever personal danger to himself whenever this danger tends to serve the cause which Lord John Russell designs to persecute , has already the curse of God within his soul , making rotten the very marrow of his bones . "

      The Daily Express , a new Dublin paper , gives the following communication from a " Roman Catholic correspondent , " who " professes to be informed of the deliberations of the hierarchy and priesthood of the Romish Church in England and Ireland " : — ' Although it would appear that the Roman Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of this and the sister country are mere silent passive spectators of the excitement created in Protestant England by the late appointments of the Court of Rome , the contrary is the fact . They have had their meetings , their consultations , and their discussions upon the all absorbing question in this country and in Ireland , and the resolutions adopted at those meetings have resulted in one common resolveto stand or fall by the late Papal appointments , despite the threats and terrors of penal acts . Hence , although we may not behold the Roman Catholic bishops going to the Tower , we assuredly shall see them conducted to

      Newgate , should the Government pass a measure rendering their bearing titles a punishable offence . With that resolve is connected the visit at this moment to London of Archbishop M'Hale . They have a great reliance upon the interference of foreign Roman Catholic powers , who have already expressed the deepest sympathy for them ; and they are equally confident of the support of a large number of Liberal Protestants throughout Europe . They are , therefore , no way daunted threatened

      by the hostile proceedings with which they are , feeling a strong conviction that no penal enactment can stand long against them . I can further state , on the very best authority , that the Roman Catholic prelates and priesthood have unanimously resolved that their resistance shall be purely passive , and that they will oppose with all their influence any attempt at a physical demonstration or a popular ebullition in their favour . I am also enabled to add that their proposed course of action has received the approval of the Court of Rome . "

      The picturesque village of Wadeswill , on the road from Ware to Cambridge , is well known to most Roman Catholics , and also to many Puseyitcs . In its neighbourhood , on an eminence to the left , stands tho Roman Catholic College of St . Edmund ' s Oldhall , contesting of a lofty building , and a modern Gothic church , by Pugin , which in not yet completed . The present college , near which . Mr . Ward ( formerly of Oxford ) , resides , has been erected rather more than fifty years , but for nearly a century there hns been at Old-hall a seminary for the education of Catholic

      youth . Cardinal Wiseman paid a visit to the seminary last Saturday , and , as his arrival had been anticipated , great preparations weru made for receiving him with every honour . Mr . Ward brought the Cnrdinul in his carriage , from the station at Ware . On entering , Archbishop Wiseman was received with a burst of cheering . All rushed forward to kiss his hand , and then renewed their cheering . An uddrcss from the Htudenta was read by the head divine , after which they all knelt and received his benediction . On Sunday , lie received an address J ' roin ih <; p ; iri » l > of Old-hull ( in .-oii , which wan iv . ul by Mr . Waid . Hi ; replied at considerable length , characterizing the lute movement in England uu a l ' rotcatant

      persecution of the Catholics , arising from alarm at the rapid progress of Kom an Catholicism . By way of reply to the more ardent sp irits who would , like to engage xn an Anti-Protestant agitation , he said : —¦ " It may seem to you who are not accustomed to the wav in which the Catholic Church does her work , that she has not done enough , and might be doing more than she has done to resist our opponents ; but we know so Well that the strength of the Catholic Church is in sufferine with resignation , in enduring all that is inflicted , herand in praying always , praying daily ,

      particuupon , larly for ' those who calumniate her and persecute her . We know that this is the true way to succeed , and , therefore , think you not that it is weakness when we disdain to meet our enemies with counter-meetings , and declarations , and resolutions , and addresses , lhese are not the means which the Church of God employs ; on the-contrary , she rejoices more and more that it has pleased God to give you , so soon after becoming members of His church , the opportunity of really knowing and understanding the spirit of the Church , and of seeing how perfectly she comes up to the standard which , our

      Saviour gave . " In reference to the proposed bill he called upon them all to " Pray to God , with all earnestness , to avert from us and our fellow-countrymen every calamity , and particularly that greatest of dangers , the danger of any act of injustice . For let me observe , that the injustice of many years had been done away ; the country had performed a great and solemn act of justice towards the Catholics , and for many years God has been pleased to bless this country with prosperity . But if the nation goes back , and again commits a great public act of injustice of a contrary character , God alone , who holds the sword of justice , knows to what an extent he will avenge it . Let us pray that God may avert from us every calamity , and especially the calamity of the sin of injustice . "

      An Italian Anti-papal meeting was held in London , on the evening of Wednesday , the 19 th . Professor Aubrey Bezzi , of Queen ' s College , was called to the chair . It was attended by Italians of " all religious creeds and political opinions , " and its object was to give utterance to " the abhorrence of all Italian patriots for the temporal power of the Pope , and their condemnation of any attempt at extension of that power to these islands . " A series of resolutions

      was passed to the effect that "the Papal power always was amongst the most grievous calamities of Italy . That it never was of spontaneous Italian growth , but had always been forced upon that country by overbearing foreign powers , and that their own long experience of its evils fully enabled them to enter into the feelings of indignation evinced by the English people at the bare mention of Papal usurpations ; they trusted , however , that the good sense and firmness of this nation would be able to resist all attempts

      at similar encroachments , without detriment to that holy right of freedom of conscience which constitutes the very palladium of all English liberties . " The meeting was addressed by several members of the Itornan Constituent Assembly , as well as by patriots of the Moderate or Constituent party , and at last by Father Gavazzi , in that peculiar thundering eloquence , that has power to send a thrill through the -very soul , even of those among his auditors who are less familiar with the Italian language .

      The Reverend Mr . Harper , of the Proprietary Chapel , Pimlico , was last week received into the Itoman Catholic Church by the Reverend Dr . Whitty . The Reverend Ilenrj' Bedford , curate to Mr . Scott , of Hoxton , was likewise admitted a member of the same Churcli by the Reverend F . Oakley , at Islington . It is stated that several members of the congregation of the first-named seceder are about to follow the example of their pastor . On Saturday the Reverend R . A . Johnston , lately a beneficed clergyman in the Churcli of England , was received into the Romish Communion , at Prior-park , by the Reverend J . IK Morris , his former tutor at Exeter College .

      In consequence of the statements made by Lord Beaumont , Mr . Brotherton , and others , to the effect that the proceeding of the Papal see in creating a ltoman Catholic hierarchy in this country did not meet with the approval of the Catholic body in general , a public meeting of the Catholic laity of Clifton and Bristol was held at the Catholic school-room , adjoining the convent of St . Catherine of Sienna , at Clifton . A petition to the Hou . se of Commons waa adopted , declaring that the English ^ Catholic body long desired this change in their sp iritual

      government , and that they most gratefully receive it as « boon from the holy see . That the spiritual authority by which the hierarchy has been Introduced , is an essential feature in the Catholic religion , and that any interfe rence by the civil power with its free exercise will be , ^ ri " fore , in opposition to the express declaration of her Majesty in her recent speech from tho throne , that it is lu'i * ' firm determination to maintain unimpaired that religious liberty which is ho justly prized by the people oi this country . "

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      As a good of deal of discussion is likely to take place upon tho Ecclesiastical Titles Bill before it becomes law , wo have thought proper to insert i verbatim : — - Wheican by Hit ; Act of tho 10 th year of KlnK ( Jl ! l > r ^ ' . ' Jt . \ l chapter 7 , all . tr reciting that tin ; l ' r « itc » tiint K |) ln < i < i |>« » ^ of Kn ! , 'l ; iixl and Ireland , and tlie doelrino , discipline , and j \> n . >>( thereof . itiKl likewise Hit ; I ' rotc-rttiint , l ' r « ii < l , yteriiiii »<«¦ ( of S < ot . hu . d . mid 111 . ; doctrine , discipline , and ijovcriiinenl . i ii ^ ^ ulieiehy t . lin , r »| M-r . live urlri of union of Kimv-uhI anil - ><¦ ' ' ^^ and of ( iieat . liriUin ami Ireland , eaatilMi .-d pri """ " ' , ¦ > ll ' . jr inviolabl y , and that llio ri ^ 'lil and title «•» iutIiImh h >|) H l <> rouweotivc i > ruviiiccn . of bwlu » i >» to their taeu . iuid . ui < ica »»

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 22, 1851, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1871/page/6/