The counties of Somersetshire and Derbyshire raised their voices in
:p.ftt meetings against the Pope, yesterday. At the Somerset meeting, Mr. Sandford, M.P., warned his diocesan, that the Reverend Mr. G. A. Denison ought no longer to hold the office of his examining chaplain. Mr. W. Miles, M.P., praised the admirable energy displayed by the Prime Minister. Mr. Thomas Dyke Acland, M.P., defended some of the proceed- ings of the Tractarian party, but not their excesses ; and objected to any infringement on the principles of toleration acted on in this county of late years.
The Irish correspondence declares it likely that an agitation of country meetings will be got up "to protest against legislative measures to deprive the English Roman Catholics of any of the privileges they enjoy under the Emancipation Act."
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