his own example, and that with a resolution and intrepidity that are as creditable to his courage as to his humanity. It should also be stated that Messrs. William Laffan, Duncanstreet, Murphy, and Williams exerted themselves with most creditable activity. From an early hour yesterday morning, the North Mainstreet and Duncan-street were crowded by curious spectators, and the lane itself was rendered all but impassable by those anxious to get a view of the scene of the tragedy. The house itself presented an extraordinary appearance—the two floors in the front part of the building were brought down as completely as if nothing had ever existed but the four walls, not an inch of wood, or the slightest portion of brick or mortar projected from the walls, in the sides of which the fire-places only remained. It is equally strange that the back part of the house was scarcely in any degree affected by the destruction of the greater portion of the front; the stairs remained untouched, and it is owing to this fortunate circumstance that, in all probability, a much greater loss of life has not to be deplored.-Cork Examiner, 29th March, 1856. The last Morning Service attended by CHARLES WILLIAM GREGORY, at ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, LOTHBURY, (the resting-place of his ancestors) on the twentieth of April, the Sunday previous to his incarceration in the Bastile of the Inquisition. PSALM CXVII. (new version). 1 With cheerful notes let all the earth To heav'n their voices raise : Let all, inspir'd with godly mirth, Sing solemn hymns of praise. 2 God's tender mercy knows no bound, Then let the willing nations round GLORIA PATRI. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory; as it was, is now, And shall be evermore. THE COLLECT FOR THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER. O ALMIGHTY GOD, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord. The EPISTLE, St. James i. 17. Amen. The GOSPEL, St. John xvi. 5. PSALM CXLIII. (new version.) 1 Lord, hear my pray'r, and to my cry 2 Nor at thy strict tribunal bring 5 I call to mind the days of old, 6 To thee my hands in humble pray'r 7 Hear me with speed; my spirit fails; Lest I become forlorn, like them 8 Thy kindness early let me hear, Whose trust on thee depends; Teach me the way where I should go; My soul to thee ascends. PSALM 1 To God our never-failing strength, 2 Compose a hymn of praise, and touch 3 Let trumpets at the great new morn 4 For this a statute was of old, 3 The spiteful foe pursues my life, He drives me into caves as dark 4 My spirit therefore is o'erwhelm'd, 9 Do thou, O Lord, from all my foes My soul implores from thee. 10 Thou art my God, thy righteous will Let thy good Spirit lead and keep 11 O for the sake of thy great Name, For thy truth's sake, to me, distress'd, 12 In pity to my sufferings, Lord, 6 Your burden'd shoulders I reliev'd, (Thus seems our God to say,) Your servile hands by me were freed From lab'ring in the clay. 7 Your ancestors, with wrongs oppress'd, To me for aid did call; With pity I their suff'rings saw, And set them free from all. 8 They sought for me, and from the cloud At Meribah's contentious stream SERMON PREACHED BY THE REV. MR. SOUTH, Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' Hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship. him declare I unto you. AMBASSADORIAL MISCONDUCT AND TREACHERY! FALL OF KARS, AND OFFICIAL RESPONSIBILITY. PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, The Official Correspondence laid before Parliament, proves that the despatches of General Williams to Lord Stratford were not answered. Sixty-three despatches were neglected, General Williams was Cruel allowed to be insulted, thwarted, and opposed by incapable leet of Lord officers. General Williams struggled an entire year to obtain arms, ammunition, stores, provisions, clothing, and to re-organize and discipline the troops; no aid was given him; Lord Stratford neglected to obtain for him the acknowledgment at the Porte of his official position. The fortress was besieged; its brave defence won the admiration of the world. Ammunition was short! Food was short! Despatch after despatch was sent to Lord Stratford for aid-for a relieving force; there was no help sent--no answer sent to General Williams. Stratford. troops The hospitals were full; the carcases of dead horses were dug Bravo up and eaten in the agony of hunger by the sick and dying. Men wasted to skeletons died a hundred daily. The besieged held out, they repulsed the whole Russian Force, and left dead upon the field 6,000 of them. obliged to feed upo exhumed carcases of horses. After the victory, for a month, in all the horrors of famine, Unparalle the garrison still held out. ed bravery of troops There was still time to have saved them, still time to have under utterly defeated the Russians, and captured their entire force. Omar Pacha, when he could have been useful, was kept back; Generals Vivian and Beatson were kept back; General Williams was unaided, unnoticed. unanswered--was compelled to sur The Blue Book, so far as it goes, shows that Lord Stratford is responsible for the Fail of Kars. The Blue Book may not give the whole facts of the case. It is the duty of the Government to lay the entire facts he fore the people. It would be disgraceful to the Goverument, and disgraceful to the People of England, that, whoever may be guilty of the neglect of General Williams, the death by hunger of so many brave soldiers, and the fall into the hands of the enemy of so inportaut a fortress, should go unpunished. People of England! demand that the whole case be investigated before a Parliamentary Committee, and that whoever is guilty of the Fall of Kars shall be punished. (To be continued.) The English nation under strong ap of a Pap'stical Government. into JESUITS SURROUND THE THRONE. During that part of the reign of King Charles II., when the nation was under strong apprehensions of a Popish Government, and religious persons were the victims of Protestant persccution, prehensions it being expected that printed Bibles would become rare, or locked up in an unknown tongue, many honest people, struck with the alarm, employed themselves in copying the Bible into shorthand, that they might not be destitute of its consolations in the The sacred hour of calamity. To this task young De Foe also applied code copied himself, and he tells us "that he worked like a horse, till he short-hand. had written out the whole Pentateuch, when he grew so tired that he was willing to risk the rest. Yet his enemies in after life attacked him as "an illiterate person, without education." "The enemics of peace," says he, "are not a few; and he that preaches a doctrine men care not to follow, when they cannot object against the subject, they will against the man. He is no scholar, says one; that's true: he was an apprentice to a hosier, says another; that's false; and adds to the number of the intolerable liberties Dr. Browne and Mr. Observator give themselves; he having never been a hosier, nor an apprentice; but he has been a trader; that's true; and therefore, must know no Latin." Excellent logic this! Those gentlemen who reproach my learning to applaud their own, shall have it proved that I have more learning than either of them-because I have more manners. I have no concern to tell Dr. Browne I can read English; nor to tell Mr. Tutchin I understand Latin: Non ita 259 Latinus sum ut Latine loqui.* I easily acknowledge myself blockhead enough to have lost the fluency of expression in the Latin, and so far trade has been a prejudice to me; and yet I think I owe this justice to my ancient father, still living, and in whose behalf I freely testify that if I am a blockhead, it was nobody's fault but my own, he having spared nothing in my education that might qualify me to match the accurate Dr. Browne, or the learned Observator. unsafe in pistical Secret ties of the Civil liber people of and in danger. some of the best blood spilt. The causes that led to the diversion of De Foe's talents from Dissenting his original destination as a dissenting minister, into another ministers channel, are now unknown: it is certain that the times were very the streets unfavourable to the exercise of such a function, and occasioned when Pa numbers to abandon their pulpits, or withdraw from their native cons country. A competent witness observes that "For some time prevailed. before a Popish prince ascended the throne, Popish councils so Meetings. far prevailed, that it was not safe for a dissenting minister to be seen in the streets of London; many of them were thrown into common gaols; their meetings, which for some years they held by connivance, were everywhere suppressed; and they chose in some places to meet in the night in small numbers, rather than be wholly destitute of the worship of God in that way of administration which they thought most conformable to his word. The civil liberties of the people of England met with a violent faiso shock at the same time; some of the best blood that ever ran in English veins was then spilt as water upon the ground; juries judges the upon the were packed, false witnesses suborned, corrupt judges upon bench, and mercenary lawyers cucouraged at the bar with noisy Mercenary insolence to hunt down the true friends of the English constitu- bent tion." Perhaps De Foe was swayed by other considerations. His natural disposition might be unsuited to so grave a profession, at least with the view he had taken of it; or some circumstance, now unknown, might have rendered it inexpedient constion for him to follow it: Jurjes Suborning packed. witnesses Corrupt bench. 1.wyers bamisters hut of the Ench the friend tion. ardent love of Wherev abhorrence d ixed Upon De Foe's leaving college, after five years' residence there, Defoe's the events of the period, when viewed in connexion with the principles of his education, had a strong tendency to produce in him an ardent love of liberty, and a fixed abhorrence of tyranny, and he early embarked in au unceasing warfare against all, whether in high or low places, who sought to oppose his country and his creed; and he almost immediately enlisted himself upon La noting & Latinas y spek the Latin language. of tyranny, |