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    erned in the administration or execution of the laws of the United States , cause the foregoing offenders , and all such as have aided , abetted , or assisted them , or shall be found to have harboured or concealed such fugitive , contrary to law , to be immediately arrested and proceeded ¦ with according to law . <« Given under my hand and the seal of the United States , this 18 th day of February , 1851 . " MlIXARD FlIiLMOBB . „ " Daniel Webster , Secretrary of State . " In addition to this the President has sent a message to Congress , in -which he states the case at great length , and concludes with an expression , of his

    determination to execute the law , and suppress all forcible opposition . The message gave rise to a long and animated debate in the Senate . Mr . Rhett , of South Carolina , could see no necessity for the message . The States were bound to carry out the provisions of the constitution of theUnited States ; and the south would say to the north , " Your duty is a plain one ; execute it , jrwexiissolve the union . " Mr . Clay , in defending the course taken by the President , said : —" The question presented by the riot is , whether our laws framed by our own government of white men , are to be yielded , to a government of black men r " in Boston is l

    The popular feeling strongy against the Slave Bill . As an instance , it is stated in the Salem Gazette that , on the 16 th of February , while the Eeverend Theodore Parker was preaching in his church , at Boston , he exclaimed , in reference to Shadrach , the rescued slave , " I thank God that the fugitive has escaped ; " upon which the congregation gave three cheers . In the midst of all this excitement Mr . George Thompson ' s anti-slavery mission to the United States is not suffered to proceed very quietly . At Springfield , where he had announced his intention to deliver a lecture , a very inflammatory placard was

    posted on the walls , in which , he was accused of being the " paid emissary and spy of England . " The " physical force " of the community was called upon to rally to a man , and ' give the British emissary a reception that will teach a new lesson to English statesmen . " On the Sunday previous to the lecture George Thompson and John Bull were hung in effigy from a large tree in the centre of the town . Nothing daunted , however , Mr . Thompson made his appearance , nor did any disturbance take place , thanks to the sheriff and his assistants , who preserved order . After the meeting , stones were thrown through Mr . Thompson ' s window at his hotel , and he was hooted and pelted when he left the town next morning .

    The affair has led to some discussion in Congress . In the House of Representatives Mr . Giddings , of Ohio , asked leave to introduce a resolution that the President be requested to inform the House , if compatible with the public interests , whether Mr . Thompson , a subject of ihe British crown , and also a member of the British Parliament , has been recently grossly insulted in Springfield , and his personal liberty literally endangered by citizens of that state , in violation of certain treaty stipulations with the British Government . In the Senate , Mr . Cass and other members condemned the conduct of Mr . Thompson in very strong terms . Mr . Clay , in speaking of the Boston riot , said : —

    " Not only are these negroes made the catspaw of miserable and designing men , to bring odium on the laws and violate justice and its officers , but there has been introduced a man named Thompson , who was said to he a member of Parliament , to disturb and agitate the people ; and tliat police which could find timeand the means to attend and protect this foreign emissary in his di . sunion addresses , could not give their aid to execute a . law of the United States . lie little supposed that any member of Congress would he tolerated a moment in England who would go to Birmingham and Manchester , an there denounce the law of primogeniture—the aristocracy , and tin : Crown itself . Such a man would be justly denounced by every loyal British subject , and he would be put out of the country ; and here this Thompson is received with open arniH , encouraged , by men professing to be Americans , in preaching sedition and disunion . "

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    THP . REAL GOLD COAST . Another El Dorado has been discovered on the count of the Pacific , which , if true , would throw all former Californian stories into the shade . This now golden region is situated near the mouth of the Xaluinath river . The gold-bearing range of the interior juts out into the sea at that place , running down to a Hue of precipitous cliffs , from 100 to 000 feet high , which skirt the coast for nearly ten miles . These have been christened the ; Gold Muffs , and here , according to the Vncijic Nmcs , " Old Father Neptune carries on a gold washing operation on bin own

    account , precisely on the principle of the miner H gold washing , but on u colossal scale . Ah the waves ebb and ilovv they wash out the Bluff , carrying back into the ' sea all tho lighter wind , gravel , ike , and leaving behind on the beach the heavy black Hand , containing the gold . Occasionally , after a storm , tho black Hand in buried under a sort , of top dressing of grey Hand thrown up by the won , on removing whicli to » slight depth , the black , gold-bearing Hand is shown as before . The very richest portion of this deposit in confined to n Htrip of about two miles long ; although lor about woven inilctt more the Hand in ull more or

    less abounding in gold . We have been shown one sample , which we are assured has yielded upon analysis at the rate of six dollars to the pound , which we presume , of course , to be a very favourable specimen . " Another account says , the gold is not so easily discovered , when the surf is high , but in the spring , * ¦ ' after a succession of calms , the entire beach is covered with bright and yellow gold . " A joint-stock company has already " come unto those yellowsands , " and the secretary , who has measured a patch of the auriferous beach , estimates that , if it prove to be one-tenth as rich as it seems , it will yield to each shareholder the snug little sum of 43 , 000 , 000 dollars . " General Wilson , who has been at the G-old Bluffs , says that thousands of men will not be able to exhaust the gold in thousands of years .

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    PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY . The Ministerial allegation that the Roman Catholic laity are favourable to the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill has been signally refuted this week . A numerous meeting of the Catholics in London was held on Monda ) r , at the Freemasons ' -hall , for the purpose of petitioning against the bill . Mr . P . Howard , M . P ., occupied the chair ; Lord Dormer , the Honourable Mr . Stonor , Mr . Reynolds , M . P . ; Mr . Moore , M . P . ; Mr . Sergeant Shee , Mr . Amherst , and other

    Catholic gentlemen were on the platform . Letters were read from Lord Petre , Lord Vaux , of Harrowden , and the Honourable C . Langdale , expressing a resolution to support the Pope in his freedom of action on the Church in England , as well as to oppose every attempt at interference with the civil or religious freedom of the Roman Catholic community . Mr . Sergeant Shee , in proposing the first resolution , paid a tribute of gratitude to the honesty and courage of Sir Robert Peel . The name of the lamented

    statesman called forth a burst of cheering from the meeting . Sergeant Shee congratulated the Irish Members on their having saved the name of Russell the ignominy of passing a law , which would doubtless have been called " Lord John Russell ' s Act for the religious persecution of the Catholics of England and Ireland , and the confiscation of their property . " " It had bpen cut down from a bill for the confiscation of Roman Catholic charities to a bill for the degradation and humiliation of their archbishops and bishops , as far as an act of Parliament could effect it . The pretence put forward for legislation was , that it was necessary , forsooth , to protect them from their own bishops ; but it

    was now seen by the whole empire to have been nothing but a false pretence . But because Lord John Russell had written a letter to the Bishop of Durham , which it was very desirable for the noble lord should not end in mere smoke , and because the Archbishop of Canterbury had thought proper to say that he did expect some legislation , and because the Bishop of London was of opinion that no ecclesiastical titles ouyht to be assumed by anybody , or permitted to anybody , except the Protestant bishops , of whom he was one , the Queen ' s Catholic subjects wore to be vexed and harassed with new penal laws against tlieir bishops and clergy , and the faith which was solemnly pledged to them in the year 18 ' 29 by the Crown and by Parliament was to be shamelessly broken . "

    lie went on to show that the preamble of the bill was utterly false . It affirmed that the assumption of the title of Archbishop or Bishop of a province or diocese was illegal . But there were no grounds for that assertion . Had it been illegal , surely there would have been steps taken to prevent it . In conclusion , he argued that the new bill would make it impossible to carry out the provisions of the Charitable Bequests Act , oflHH . The following resolutions were passed : —

    " That , our obedience and reverence to his Holiness the Pope and to our bishops are purely spiritual , and in no wise inteifere with our allegiance and duty to our Sovereign ; and that whilst , we yield to none in the aincerest loyalty to our Sovereign , we claim as an undoubted right , the free exercise of our religion , including therein the free appointment of our ministers , and the regular constitution of our Church according to its laws and customs . " That , we consider any penal or other enactments calculated to interfere with the free exercise of our religion , in respect to the appointment of our ministers or otherwise , as unjust and oppressive , and that we pledge ourselves earnestly and respectfully to petition Parliament agaiiiHt the measure now Ik ; fore the House of Commons , and to oppose the same in every constitutional

    manner . " That we return our grateful thanks to the Irish people , to the Irish clergy , to tho Irish press , and to the Irish representatives in Parliament , who have ho nobly identified then . selves with us in resisting the measures of contemplated persecutions , and by whose aid alone we hope successfully to resist , them . " That , the imputation which has been cast upon us , that , we wish for any interference between our revered prelates and ourselves , and that we require any protection for our rights and property against , them , and the powers conferred by the hierarchy , and that we regard the attempt , made to represent a penid law against our bishops an a measure passed for our Ixiuflt , and at our request , tn he :. n lit hide on our honour

    " That , we return «> ur grateful thanks to those Knglish and Scottish representatives , and that portion of the Knglish and . Scottish press which , amid such general intolerance and bigotry , have manfully ntood forward to express their honest convictions ami steadfast adherence to the principle *) of civil and rcligiouu liberty .

    " That whilst we conscientiously resist enactments which we know to be injurious and unwarranted , we are at the same time perfectly willing to make large allowance for the adverse course of those who , either influenced by erroneous impressions , or suddenly excited by authoritative appeals , have unjustly assailed our sentiments , practices , and objects ; and we anxiously trust , as we also ardently desire , that the mutual interchange Of Christian charity , social confidence , and friendly neighbourhood , will . be ere long reestablished between us and our Protestant fellow-subjects of all denominations , we solemnly pledging ourselves that no effort on our part shall be wanting to effect that happy consummation . "

    Whether Irish Roman Catholic opposition to the Ministerial measure will be weakened by its last dilution , may be judged from the following , taken from last Saturday ' s Tablet : — " Sir George Grey , in postponing the second reading of the Penal Bill , announced his intention to strike out of it the second and third clauses , and to leave in it only the first , which subjects every bishop assuming episcopal titles to a penalty of £ 100 . This swindling evasion will not do ; and what remains of the bill cannot and must not be endured for a single moment Thank God , the Whigs , at last , are showing themselves to be what

    they are—bigoted , cowardly , persecutors , and swindlers all round , to all parties in turn . The constituencies that want to have their bishops fined and imprisoned will remain tranquil in the coming week . Those that desire to have their bishops free and unfined , will take measures , by public demonstration , to make known to theii representatives their fixed resolution of resistance , before the middle of next week . We must just add that the fourth clause , compelling every bishop , on a bill of discovery , to make public all the particulars of every violation of the law he may have committed , is still , as we are yet informed , retained in the amended bill . Need we say more ?"

    A crowded meeting of the Roman Catholics of Liverpool was held in the Amphitheatre , on Tuesday , to protest against the Bill . Resolutions were passed by the meeting claiming freedom in spiritual matters , asserting attachment to the constitution , and denouncing the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill as an insult to the Roman Catholics of the kingdom . The first public meeting against the mutilated Ecclesiastical Titles Bill was that of the parishioners of " Whitechapel , who assembled on Tuesday evening to

    protest against Lord John Russell ' s desertion of the cause of Protestantism . The speakers were the Reverend W . W . Champneys , Rector of Whitechapel , the Reverend Mr . Lyon , ot St . Mark ' s , the Reverend Hugh Allen , the Reverend C . Stovell , Baptist , and the Reverend Charles Gribble , all of whom thought it their duty to resist the progress of Popery to the utmost . TJie following resolutions were pa .-sed by the meeting , and it was resolved to petition Parliament against the removal of the effective clauses of the bill : — " That the public events of the last few weeks unequivocally demonstrate the necessity of increased vigilance and renewed exertion on the part of the Protestants of this kingdom , to convince our opponents and those who are faltering in defence of the truth , that our zeal has not abated , and that our determination to maintain the dignity of the crown , the independence ofGreat Britain , and the character of Protestantism , remains unshaken . " That the principles of the Papacy are not only opposed to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ , but also contain a deep laid conspiracy against the liberty , the property , and the lives uf all who refuse to join her communion ; the principle , therefore , of self-preservation , combined with a love ot truth , constrains us to use every legitimate means to protect , ourselves against the insidious encroachments of the Papal yoke of bondage . "

    A meeting of London clergymen was held in the ; great hall of Sion College on Thursday , to petition Parliament to adopt some effectual measure as speedily as possible "to resist Papal usurpation , " by prohibiting Cardinals or Jesuits from residing in England . The Reverend Doctor M'Caul , one of the . speakers , recommended that the Exhibition ( should be postponed till these measures were carried . ^ ^ At a meeting of the Common Council held on Thursday , it was resolved by a large majority to petition Parliament to take measures " to ' . suppress the use of territorial titles , and the exercise of territorial jurisdiction under delegation from any foreign prince or ecclesiastic , with hueh other provisions as shall he necessary to prevent any synodical notion on the part of the Komish clert'y . "

    Ihe eusc of Metairie v . Cardinal Wiseman and others , of -which we gave an outline , last week , from the opening speech of Mr . Bethell , and the affidavits read by him in support of the plaintiff's case , was continued in tho Vice Chancellor ' s Court , during the whole of this week . Mr . Roll , who appeared for Mr . Cooke , ono of the defendantH , complained of the way in which the case for the prosecution had be-eii conducted . The plaintiffs had not confined themselves

    to the legal question upon the validity or invalidity of the gift , but had filed the bill and affidavits with charges of the most scandalous kind against , the defendants . They had charged the defendants Cooke and Holdstock with conspiring to procure ( Jarre to execute , despite ; of his own expressed winli upon the subject , instruments disposing of his property in favour of Roman Catholic , charities , and with fraudulently representing to him , in fiirtheiance of their : object , thai , the papera Jio hud executed were of u totully different

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 15, 1851, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1874/page/5/