who are willing to subscribe to the foregoing resolutions, be admitted members of the club, on payment of a subscription not less than half-a-guinea, nor more than one guinea annually, in advance; and that all graduates who may hereafter wish to join the club shall be eligible on the recommendation of three members.

4th Resolution,-Proposed by the Rev. J. Stack, A. B., and F. T. C. D., seconded by William Kellock Tatam, Esq., A. B.—

That his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Chancellor of our University, and L.L.D., be requested to become patron of the club.

5th Resolution,-Proposed by Frederick de Butts, Esq., A. M., seconded by Richard Handcock, Esq., A. B., and M. P.—

That Francis Hodgkinson, Esq., L. L. D., and ViceProvost of our University, be requested to accept the office of President of the club, and that the following noblemen and gentlemen be requested to accept the office of Vice-Presidents of the club:

:

Rev. John Darley, A. B., and F. T.
C. D.

Venerable Archdeacon of Lismore
Rev. John Crostwaite, B. D.
Rev. H. Maxwell, A. B.
Sergeant Lefroy, L. L. D.
George Ogle Moore, Esq., L. L.D.,
and M. P.

Richard Handcock, Esq., A.B.,
and M. P.

Edward Synge Cooper, Esq., A. B.,
and M. P.
Colonel Irwin, A. B.
Colonel Blacker, A. B.
Lieutenant-Colonel M'Alpine, A.B.
Charles Lendrick, Esq., L. L. D.,

President of the College of
Physicians

That Henry Maxwell, Esq., A.B., and M.P., be appointed Secretary to the Club; and the Rev. H. Cottingham, A.M., Joseph Napier, Esq., A.M., W. K. Tatam,, Esq., A B., and F. De Butts, Esq., A.M., be appointed Assistant-Secretaries; and that Richard C. Martin, Esq., A. B., be appointed Treasurer; and that the following gentlemen, together with the officers of the club, do constitute the Committee of Manage

ment :

Rev. T. F. Knipe, A.M.

Rev. Marcus Beresford, A M.
Rev. Prince Crawford, A.M.
Rev. John Whitty, A.M.
Rev. Irvine Whitty, A.M.
Rev. R. Ryan, A.B.
Rev. W. H. Halpin, A.B.
Rev. H. Vaughan, A.B.
Rev. A. J. Preston, A.B.
Rev. J. H. Torrens, A.B.
Rev. D. Thompson, A.M.
Lees Gifford, Esq. L.L.D.
William Maginn, Esq. L.L.D.
Dixon Eccles, Esq. A.B.

J. C. Moutray, Esq. A.B.
James Saunderson, Esq. A.B.
Oliver Nugent, Esq. A.B.
St. George Gray, Esq. A.B.
R. Fox, Esq. A.B.
Andrew Bell, Esq. A.B.
Thomas Dixon, Esq. A.B.
Thomas Luby, Esq. A.M.
W. Beatty, Esq. A.M. M.B.
Richard Webb, Esq. A.B.
John Dunlevie, Esq. A.B.
Robert Kelly, Esq. A.B.
E. John Smith, Esq. A.B.

II.-Orangemen of Ireland.

At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, held at 19, Dawson Street, on the 5th November and following days, the Right Hon. the Earl of Enniskillen, Deputy Grand-Master, in the chair

The report of the committee having been read—

Resolved unanimously, That the following address to the Protestants of Great Britain and Ireland be adopted, and immediately circulated :

It is not less the interest than the duty of Protestants

to support, by every lawful means, the religious and civil establishments of their country. By these the honour of God and the happiness of man are most effectually secured. In the present era, our religion is menaced by the attacks of Popery and Infidelity, while our constitution is assailed by faction and sedition.

Against the double danger the Orange institution was formed, being so named in honour of King William the Third, Prince of Orange, the illustrious champion to whom Great Britain owes her deliverance from thraldom, spiritual and political, the establishment of the Protestant religion, and the inheritance of the Brunswick throne.

We lay no claim to exclusive loyalty, or exclusive Protestantism; but no man, unless his creed be Protestant, and his principles loyal, can associate with us. We recognise no other exclusions. Our institution receives, nay, solicits into its circle, every man whose religion and character can stand these tests.

We reject also an intolerant spirit. It is a previous qualification, without which the greatest and wealthiest man would in vain seek our brotherhood, that he shall be incapable of persecuting, injuring, or upbraiding any one for his religious opinions; but, on the contrary, that he shall be disposed to aid and assist loyal subjects of every religious persuasion, and to protect them from violence and oppression. Such, and such only, are the principles upon which the Orange institution was founded, and upon which it has uniformly acted. Yet our enemies have affected to consider our forms and arrangements contrary to statutes which were enacted

against treasonable and seditious societies. The spirit of such statutes could by no ingenuity of perversion be urged against the Orange institution; but where the most strained interpretation could question its legality, the institution promptly complied, and disdained to evade, even the letter of these statutes.

Our rules are open not only to the members of our institution, but to the whole community. We have no reserve whatsoever, except of the signs and symbols whereby Orangemen know each other, and these the law has not included in its prohibition. Our Association is general; it meets wherever Orangemen are to be found, and that we trust will soon be in every part of the empire.

There is not either oath, obligation, or test, which candidate or brother can take or offer in our society; the proposal of members, their admission, and their continuance among us, are wholly unfettered with pledge or promise; nevertheless we can truly tell the world, that no unqualified person can come into, and no unworthy brother remain in our fellowship.

The Orange institution cannot be suppressed, but by means which would subvert the constitution of Great Britain, and erase the name of the Prince of Orange from among her sovereigns. After that erasure, the Brunswick dynasty would soon follow. The liberty of these realms, our religion, and our monarchy, would again be placed under Papal darkness and despotic oppression.

By order,

HENRY MAXWELL, M.P.,

VOL. II.

Grand Secretary.
P

No. XXXI.

Declaration of the undersigned Protestants, in favour of a final and conciliatory adjustment of the Catholic question.*

We, the undersigned, being personally interested in the condition, and sincerely anxious for the happiness of Ireland, feel ourselves called upon, at the present juncture, to declare the conviction we entertain, that the disqualifying laws which affect his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, are productive of consequences prejudicial in the highest degree to the interests of Ireland, and the empire to which she is united. With respect to Ireland in particular, they are a primary cause of her poverty and wretchedness, and the source of those political discontents and religious animosities that distract the country, endanger the safety of its institutions, and are destructive alike of social happiness and national prosperity.

Whilst this important document was circulating, the last aggregate meeting of the Catholics of Ireland took place. The resolutions consisted of their usual declarations of their principles; and a determination to seek for total, unrestricted, unqualified, and unconditional emancipation by legal and constitutional means alone; the rejection of any plan of emancipation coupled with any species of interference with the tenets, doctrine, or discipline, of the Catholic church in Ireland; any attempt to deprive fortyshilling freeholders of their franchise, which they considered a direct violation of the constitution; and strongly recommended the adoption of the Liberal Club system—the appointment of Catholic Rent inspectors, and that two gentlemen from every county in Ireland should accompany Mr. O'Connell to London, on making his attempt to take his seat in parliament.