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The second " Protestant meeting" was held at Exeter Hall on Satur- day last. Lord Kenyon was in the chair ; supported by Lord Ashley, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. G. R. Dawson, Sir A. Agnew, Mr. Pringle, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Devonsber Jackson, Captain Gordon, Mr. Hodson Kearsley, Mr. O'Sullivan, Mr. Robert Daly, and Mr. APGhee. The proceedings were conducted on the same principle as at the former meeting—no Catholic being allowed to speak. There was, however, a good deal of uproar, occasioned by the interruptions of several Catholics, who attempted to be heard in defence of their faith against the calum- nies uttered by the reverend declaimers on the platform. Several of
the dissentients were for expelled from the room by the Police, acting under the direction of Mr. G. R. Dawson (Peel's brother-in- law) and Captain Gordon. The resolution, propesed by Mr. O'Sulli- van, that Dens' Theology was the Catholic standard of faith, was then carried.
The "Established Church Society," formed for the purpose of strengthening the United Church of England and Ireland, held their first anniversary meeting on Tuesday, in one of the rooms in Exeter Hull. The attendance was far from numerous ; and the only persons of note present were Lord Ashley, Sir O'elosley, Captain Alsager. Mr. Hardy, and Sir George Ruse. Resolutions in accordance NI. t h the objects of the Society having been agreed to, the niceties, (which seems to have been a very flat affair) was dissolved.
A meeting of the parishioners of St. Andrew's, Holborn, is to he held on Monday next, to petition Parliament in consequence of Mr. Gilbert Beresford, the Rector, having arrested nud imprisoned a respectable inhabitant for arrears of tithes, under circumstances similar to those of Mr. Childs at Bungay. Others arc threatened with like proceedings. Really these clerical gentlemen carry matters with a high hand. Have they entered into a conspiracy for:the overthrow of the Establishment? Their measures in all parts of the country have that direct tendency.
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