such city, town or place, or such territory or district,
be or be not the see or the province, or co-extensive
with the diocese, of any bishop, or the seat or place of
the church of any dean, or co-extensive with any
deanery of the said United Church, the person so
offending shall for every such offence forfeit and
pay the sum of 100l., to be recovered as penalties
imposed by the recited act which may be recovered
under the provisions thereof, or by action of debt
at the suit of any person in one of her Majesty's
superior courts of law, with the consent of her Majesty's
Attorney-General in England and Ireland, or her
Majesty's Advocate in Scotland, as the case may be.
[Sir F. Thesiger's]. 3. This act shall not extend or
apply to the assumption or use by any bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland exercising
episcopal functions within some district or place in
Scotland of any name, style, or title, in respect of such
district or place; but nothing herein contained shall be
taken to give any right to any such bishop to assume or
use any name, style, or title, which he is not now by
law entitled to assume or use. 4. Be it enacted, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to annul,
repeal, or in any manner affect any provision contained
in an act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her
present Majesty, intituled 'An Act for the more
effectual application of charitable donations and bequests
in Ireland.'" [Mr. Keogh's.]—Originally the words
were "The said brief, rescript, &c.;" on the amendment
of Sir Frederic Thesiger, the words "All such briefs,
rescripts, &c.," were substituted.

The Suffolk Agricultural Relief Association had a
meeting at Ipswich, on the 29th of July. This was
called mainly to fraternise with the financial reformers,
(of which body Mr. Charles Lattimore and Mr. Slack
officially attended,) to organise the association more
thoroughly, and to appeal to the public for support.
Mr. Welch of Yaxley, who took the chair, said the
meeting "showed the public dawn of a conviction on
the tenant-farmers' minds, that they had too long
allowed others to act for them"; that they were
"resolved to use every constitutional means to obtain fair
play in their agricultural operations"; and that
"farmers had been used as ladders on which others
climbed to the pinnacle of power, and when the object
was accomplished, the ladder was kicked down like sere
wood." On the important subject of tenant right, he
said—"If a man build a castle in a cabbage-garden, he
could not touch it at the end of his lease. All other
classes had remuneration for unexhausted improvements,
but the farmers had no provision of this kind in their
leases." One of the resolutions pledged the association
to support only those candidates for Parliament who
would further the objects of the association.

On Monday evening, the 4th inst., after dark,
Cardinal Wiseman preached in the open air to a crowd
of several thousand Irish, assembled in a court in
Orchard Street, Portman Square, a place almost entirely
inhabited by Irish labourers. The court was illuminated
and the cardinal preached from a platform. The chief
object of his discourse was to excite his hearers against
a Ragged School established in the neighbourhood. He
went in procession, attended by boys and men wearing
white surplices, and bearing lighted candles and an
immense crucifix. Many policemen were standing
round but none attempted to interfere with the
cardinal's proceedings.

The Aggregate Meeting of Roman Catholics, for the
inauguration of the "Catholic Defence Association" was
held in Dublin, on the 19th. Great excitement prevailed
in the city, and the streets in the neighbourhood of the
Rotunda were filled with vast crowds, many of whom
from the sticks they carried were evidently prepared for
strife; but from the precautions taken, by the muster of
police and military, no serious disturbance took place.
The Rev. Tresham Gregg, who had pledged himself to
appear at the meeting and confront the popish primate,
arrived, accordingly, and claimed admission; but this
being refused he retired quietly, protesting the meeting
was a packed assemblage of papists and not a catholic
meeting. In the Rotunda, a platform was elevated at a
considerable height for the speakers; and on the front
of this raised ground the prelates were marshalled in
prominent arm-chairs, a gilded chair being reserved for
the Roman Catholic Primate, Dr. Cullen. The Freeman's
Journal thus enumerates the Roman Catholic prelates,
English, Irish, Scottish, and foreign—''His grace the
Archbishop of Cashel, the lord bishop of Clogher, the
lord bishop of Birmingham, the lord bishop of
Edinburgh, the lord bishop of Elphin, the lord bishop of
Killaloe, the lord bishop of Clonfert, the lord bishop of
Savannah, the lord bishop of Cloyne, the lord bishop
of Hyderabad the lord bishop of Saldes."—The Irish
Roman Catholic aristocracy was represented by Lord
Gormanston only, and that of England by Sir Piers Mostyn.
The Earl of Arundel and Surrey was expected, but did not
attend. The following Irish members were present—Mr.
G. H. Moore, Mr. John Reynolds, Mr. William Keogh, Mr.
A. O'Flaherty. Mr. O. Higgins, Mr. Martin Joseph Blake,
Mr. John Sadleir, Mr. Francis Scully, and Mr. Robert
Keating. The attendance of Roman Catholic clergy was
very large, but the muster of the Roman Catholic laity
did not comprise so many distinguished names as had
been expected. The preliminaries being adjusted, Lord
Gormanston moved that "the most reverend Dr.
Cullen, archbishop of Armagh and primate of all
Ireland," be requested to take the chair. The voice of
Lord Gormanston not being strong, Mr. Reynolds, M.P.,
in seconding the motion, shouted out the main point of
it, that is to say, the title of "Archbishop of Armagh."
Immense applause was elicited by this feat of defiance,
and the motion was carried by acclamation. Primate
Cullen read a long address. He dwelt upon the alleged
grievances suffered by the catholics, who had been
forced into their present position. He stigmatised the
Dublin correspondence which (he said) excited the
dying embers of discord, and stirred up all that was base
and filthy in the depths of bigotry and intolerance. It
remained for them to do their duty as catholics, in co-
operating to redress these grievances. A great field
would be open for the operations of the association.
Their poor were to be protected from a heartless
proselytism; the faith of the children of the soldier and
the sailor to be preserved; the state of our workhouses
to be examined; a catholic education to be obtained.
In a catholic country like this there was a great and
perfectly organised system of protestant instruction.
Hundreds of thousands were expended in promoting a
purely protestant education, whilst the sums given to
catholic schools (with one exception) were given only
on the condition that the system of the schools which
were filled with catholic children should be suited to the
education of children of every sect who do not frequent
such schools; and they were left without any catholic
university." One of the important duties of the society
would be to have recourse to the press:—"It must in a
special manner make every effort to have the rights and
interests of their religion properly represented in
parliament." The primate then held up for imitation the
example of the great O'Connell, whose loss he described
as an irreparable calamity; and concluded with a prayer to
God for wisdom; to "the Most Holy Queen of Heaven"
for good counsel; and to "our great saints, St. Patrick, St.
Malachy, and St. Lawrence O'Toole," for direction and
a beneficial fructifying influence on the undertaking.—
Mr. Sadleir, M.P., one of the honorary secretaries then
read a letter from Cardinal Wiseman, expressing his
concurrence in the objects of the meeting, and his
readiness to co-operate with the proposed association, this
letter was signed "X N. Cardinal Wiseman." A string
of resolutions, in accordance with the objects of the
meeting, were then passed, after having been moved
and seconded, in speeches of considerable length by the
leading persons present. The first, to the effect that
the act lately passed was a violation of the catholic
relief act, and subversive of the principle of religious
liberty, was moved by Archbishop Slattery, and seconded
by Sir R. Mostyn, Bart., of Lancashire. The next
"that ministers had betrayed the cause of civil and
religious freedom, and forfeited the confidence of the
catholics of the united kingdom," was moved by
Archbishop M'Hale, and seconded by Mr. Keogh, M.P.
—Dr. M'Hale produced much cheering and laughter by
saying that he did not anticipate that there would be
any discrepancy of opinion regarding the adoption of
the resolution, though he confessed there might be